When the Bastion Fleet's Astropathic communications and battle reports reached Segmentum Solar, Guilliman once again attempted to contact Iax.
However, the result was almost no different from his previous attempt.
Clearly, Iax had entered the Warp again and fallen out of contact.
Although Guilliman was pleased that Iax had struck at so many enemies of the Imperium,
But when he saw the twenty-thousand-kilometer-long Giant Ship mentioned in the battle report, he fell silent once more.
He knew very well that the ships of the Men of Iron tended to be large and possessed astonishing firepower.
But a length exceeding twenty thousand kilometers was simply far too immense.
Previously, he had considered that, since the Men of Iron could construct Gloriana-class battleships, the Imperium would have to impose further restrictions on their Minerals reserves. Now, however, it seemed that it was already too late.
Cawl also contacted Guilliman of his own accord and informed him that the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars had taken notice of Iax. No one could guarantee what those technologically obsessed priests might do. Everything was steadily slipping out of control.
Guilliman had no good solution to this situation either.
The Adeptus Mechanicus contained numerous factions, some radical, some conservative, with a large contingent of fence-sitters between them.
Faced with a Man of Iron with such terrifying capabilities, no one knew what decisions these technological fanatics might make.
Yet Guilliman's current circumstances were more complicated than that.
The Men of Iron were not the most immediate threat.
Ever since the Battle of Dreaming Stars, his brother Lion El'Jonson had been tracking information about the Daemon Forge Vashtorr and Abaddon's Balefleet.
Yet that Daemon Demigod seemed to have vanished without a trace.
Abaddon's Balefleet had disappeared along with him. No one knew what devastating damage or threats these daemons