As the mechanical body moved swiftly through the underground passages, its surroundings grew increasingly strange.
Peculiar force fields confined strange creations within the surrounding rooms like prison cells.
The Adeptus Custodes around it had also changed from golden armor to black.
They were even more taciturn than the others. Yet whenever the mechanical body reached a new location, it carefully examined the peculiar creations inside.
Following their orders, the Adeptus Custodes ignored everything the mechanical body did, allowing it to move freely through an area that even Primarchs could scarcely enter.
For the first time, Iax saw many of the peculiar experimental products recorded in its own archives.
Inside one force-field prison was a strange amulet with an unusual three-sided shape, floating within a containment device.
Iax recognized its origins at a glance.
The Federation's central laboratory, the Natural Disaster Research Institute.
It was a special device whose unusual energy could trigger powerful natural disasters.
The black-armored Custodian guarding the entrance noticed that the mechanical body seemed to have fallen silent and stepped forward to check its condition.
Rather than attack him, however, the mechanical body simply tossed him aside and reached for the strange amulet.
"That is the Three Calamities Amulet. Its owner can unleash world-destroying planetary disasters. You have no authority to take this dangerous creation."
The black-armored Custodian who had been tossed aside spoke up to stop it.
Although internal communications had already made the Emperor's instructions clear—not to obstruct its actions—as a veteran Custodian, he still could not help himself.
But the mechanical body's response left him astonished.
"What an interesting name. The Three Calamities Amulet. To think a natural disaster control core could have a name like that."
The mechanical body held the peculiar amulet-like creation and scanned it repeatedly for a while before putting