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Afterward, Inquisitor Thraxol discussed their strategy for Blue Water Star with his staff.

Their main priorities were assessing how deeply the T'au had infiltrated the humans of Blue Water Star and watching out for their own people shooting them in the back.

At best, this operation would involve a limited purge of Xenos and the suppression of a small rebellion.

At worst, they would face the T'au's main colonial forces, along with a rebellion by the entire human population!

Once the meeting ended, everyone dispersed to make preparations for departure.

Inquisitor Thraxol bid farewell to the Daemon Inquisitor, and his fleet left the planet, heading for the Mandeville Point.

The people on the planet pointed and talked as they watched the city in the sky depart.

On a street in Kyoto, an opera singer carrying an erhu sat down by the roadside and sang as he played:

"Have you heard the tale of a gentleman?

In Bamboo Forest County of the Eastern Rising Dynasty lived a farming household whose head was named Genpei.

Genpei was a gentleman, a descendant of a great general, who had honed his martial skills for more than thirty years.

It was winter. The emperor was a fool, the feudal lords sowed chaos, and the people's resentment gave birth to demons known as Big Monsters.

The Big Monsters were savage, their bodies red as blood, and they delighted in eating people. The weaker stood nine feet tall, the stronger eighteen, and ordinary mortals could scarcely withstand them.

Winter drew near, bringing bitter cold and frozen earth. This unnatural omen heralded the birth of a demon king!

The demon king was built like a mountain, spoke in a human tongue, and relished human heads,