The Silent King's will was conveyed to everyone. They listened carefully to the King's decree, while the Triarch Praetorians standing around them watched everyone but the Silent King.
Should anyone show the slightest disrespect toward the King, the Triarch Praetorians would send them into the interval between life and death, where they would suffer torment beyond death.
"The time of awakening is approaching."
"Our old enemies have already fallen apart."
"But in the depths, a great enemy is also approaching."
"To ensure that the Necrontyr's right to eternal dominion remains unshakable, the enemy beyond our domain must be destroyed."
With only a few words, the Silent King summarized the main purpose of the meeting. He waited for their reactions. Though his authority was beyond question, a great king would still humbly accept the counsel of his subjects.
"Glory to the dynasty's immortal rule!" A Phaeron stepped out from the flawless, perfectly ordered ranks and raised his question to the Silent King. "How should the lesser lifeforms of today be dealt with?"
"Exterminate all life. Preserve humans in captivity."
The statement surprised the Necrontyr. They could understand exterminating other lesser creatures such as Orks and Aeldari, but preserving humans—an even more inferior product of later generations—went against the judgment of their logic cores.
The Phaeron chose his words carefully, hoping to make the King understand what crude and inefficient creatures humans were without being judged by the watchful Triarch Praetorians as disrespectful toward the sovereign.
"Great Silent King, humans are unlikely to perceive truth as clearly as we do. Their simple, primitive brains regard themselves as the pinnacle of evolution, yet their bodily structure is utterly disgusting."
"The energy they absorb will ultimately kill them. Their digestive tracts are, in the literal sense, colonies of bacteria. Forgive my crudeness and presumption,