Illuminor Szeras stood inside a towering Necron communications spire, surrounded by energy conduits flickering with cold light. His metallic body trembled slightly as he initiated an ultra-long-range transmission to Silent King Szarekh.
After the Reaper Host's last raid with Iax had disrupted the Silent King's plans, he had been punished by the Silent King himself the moment he completed his reanimation protocols. Having to report that daemons had breached the Soulless Expanse again filled him with apprehension.
Amid a ripple of quantum signals, Szarekh's image appeared on the communications display.
Xerath tilted his head out of habit, the green crystal at its center gleaming.
"Great Silent King Szarekh, I report to you with profound grief and shock. Our technology..."
"Those vile monsters poured in like a tide, reeking of a nauseating stench. Wherever they passed, some of our monitoring equipment and basic defenses were utterly destroyed. However, I did detect an entity with an exceptionally powerful energy signature."
Light flickered across Szarekh's imposing metallic face.
"Xerath, if you insist on wasting so many words, I would not mind twisting your head off first when I arrive. The Soulless Expanse was meant to suppress the power of the warp, yet you tell me daemons and a warp rift have appeared within it?! Have you..."
Xerath raised his head, the light within his green crystal flickering erratically.
"My lord, I deployed everything according to your orders, but this daemonic invasion is deeply unusual. That warp power seemed to appear out of nowhere, and it completely breached the Anti-Material Node Matrix."
Szarekh fell silent for a moment, his intangible majesty weighing upon both ends of the transmission. He knew Xerath's ambitions all too well. Become a demigod?!
What a joke. Even physical gods like the C'tan have been reduced to our slaves.
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