Assemble.
Assemble.
Advance.
"This is a little bad."
Hades gave a succinct assessment. Beside him, Trazyn, clutching a wineglass, nodded in emphatic agreement.
Orikan had strongly advised the two "scrubs" not to confront the Silent King head-on again, so they had chosen to fight indirectly. The ships under the Underking and the Infinite One had split apart, lying in ambush as small forces that could rapidly regroup within nebulae as far from the Silent King's army as possible.
At the same time, the Silent King's fleet was frantically searching for them. The moment it detected even the slightest trace of the Underking or the Infinite One, the Silent King's forces would swarm forth—
At any cost, they would exterminate the Underking.
As the Eternal Sun shifted second by second, if they did not retreat soon, it would only be a matter of time before the Silent King's fleet found them. The various planes for Warp Jump had long since been detected and sealed off by the Silent King.
Even though Guilliman and the others were desperately delaying the Silent King's forces on another front, the Silent King's foremost bounty target would always be the Underking. Though the Silent King's army was currently shifting toward the other front—
Hades knew that the moment he showed himself, the Silent King would return to kill him at any cost.
But... if they retreated any farther.
"Do you think it would be better to face the Tyranids, or the Silent King?"
Hades covered his wineglass with one hand and posed that earthshaking question. According to their scans, this Tyranid swarm that had suddenly begun advancing toward the Eye of Silence was enormous—
Large enough to inflict a devastating blow upon the Imperium of Man.
"The Tyranids."
Trazyn answered without hesitation. Green light flickered