While the Fortress of Enlightenment continued to restructure itself, the situation inside the Webway was rather complicated.
Vashtorr drove Longlin Star recklessly through the Webway. Rumors had long circulated throughout the Milky Way that the Old Ones had sealed their power deep within it.
But the Engine of Discord was not a key to that seal in any true sense.
It was essentially a Webway tunnel-boring machine and tunnel weaver.
Although the Daemon Demigod firmly believed that the Old Ones had sealed away their power, he did not know exactly where they had stored it.
The Webway network spanned the entire Milky Way, and its internal structure was labyrinthine.
Finding the Old Ones' storage chamber somewhere in the Milky Way, with no idea where it was, was no simple task.
Especially with an enormous warship pursuing him.
Vashtorr could not even stop to work out his position. He simply darted blindly through the layer between reality and the Warp.
To the Iax sub-consciousness aboard the Sword of the Void, however, escape was virtually impossible for this Daemon Demigod.
Other ships or troops might lose their way within the Webway.
But for the Sword of the Void, there was only one possible route.
Nowhere else in the Webway could accommodate a ship of this size. Only the passage freshly excavated by the Engine of Discord could possibly hold the Sword of the Void.
It was effectively a one-way road.
After several hours of pursuit, Vashtorr finally shook off the effects of the despair-infused psychic power. The Warp spell the Thousand Sons Sorcerer had cast using Tzeentch's power had inflicted severe damage on his soul, which was why it had taken him so long to barely escape the negative effects of that despair-infused psychic power.
The psychic power extracted from over a