Eight months later, Gisnaros declared the purge a failure. The ever-escalating purge had turned into senseless slaughter.
Yet he believed every problem had been caused by the Space Wolves' naivety.
So he led the punitive fleet to Fenris. The Inquisition, Imperial Navy, Grey Knights, and the entire Red Hunters Chapter assembled in high orbit over Fenris.
Their macro-cannons were aimed at the Space Wolves' fortress-monastery—the Fang Fortress.
At this critical moment of life and death, the Inquisition demanded that the Space Wolves send representatives to negotiate.
This time, they had prepared to humiliate the Space Wolves. They would make the Space Wolves swear an oath, submit to the Imperium, and begin a penitent crusade to atone for their attack on forces under the Inquisition's command. In return, the Inquisitor Lord would not destroy the Space Wolves.
But how could Biyue, the "Little Wolf" who bore witness to the Space Wolves' history and was respected and trusted by the Chapter, agree to such unreasonable demands from the Inquisition?
Even within a Dreadnought, this legend who had fought beside The Emperor and the Wolf King Leman Russ in the age of legends commanded everyone's respect.
The immortal monument conveyed the Space Wolves' stance to the Inquisition in his wise and gentle voice.
"We have served The Emperor for ten thousand years, and now we are supposed to kneel before Imperial bureaucrats like you, who know nothing of the glories of the past?"
"We have never broken any promise made to our gene-father, The Emperor, or His people. What peace can there be behind the black muzzles of your guns?"
"Magnus, who once fully embraced the power of filth, tried to destroy us. But he failed."
As Biyue's words fell, the Space Wolves fleet translated out of the Warp.
The Rune Priests had