Iax paid no attention to where those Astartes went. The Imperium would naturally deal with these unidentified Space Marines.
In Realspace, only a few minutes had passed since the Sword of the Void pursued Longlin Star into the Webway.
The Engine of Discord had worsened the damage to the Webway, even directly affecting nearby passages, while the Sword of the Void's act of spinning with a grip on the Webway walls had caused immense destruction as well.
This had slowed the flow of time in that region by several hundredfold.
Shortly after those Astartes returned to Realspace, the Sword of the Void appeared at the edge of the Milky Way, north of Segmentum Obscurus.
Cracks covered its enormous hull, and countless arcs of energy flickered in the gaps.
The silver nano-swarm flowed across the planet-sized vessel, constantly carrying out repairs.
At the same time, the Spear of Titans immediately changed course, leading a group of ships toward the Sword of the Void.
After sending those Astartes away, the Sword of the Void had carried out its largest-ever extraction of psychic power.
More than ten million Drukhari were ruthlessly drained into corpses.
Their life force and psychic power were forcibly extracted within mere seconds.
Several newly constructed Psychic Compression Devices operated simultaneously.
Given the differences in energy that had appeared during the earlier construction of the Webway Gate, Iax's sub-consciousness had even taken special care to categorize the extracted psychic power.
Psychic power of the same color and type was compressed together.
But the psychic power still exceeded the calculations.
The Aeldari's psychic power already surpassed that of Imperial psykers. The corrupted psychic power of ten million Drukhari was vaster still.
The Drukhari knew full well that the more they used psychic power, the more easily Daemons would notice them, so