Barabas Dantioch Awakens

Just as Lox was preparing to return to X Academy and proceed with the next stage of his plan, the main cogitator sent him a top-priority communication.

Lox paused, then cast all his schemes and plans aside.

The tension between his brows instantly eased, and a smile he could not suppress appeared on his face.

Logan, the Space Wolves' new blood, who had been silently following beside him, raised an eyebrow in surprise, the wrinkles carved by time crowding together.

"I thought you would never be truly happy. You have never opened up your real heart."

"That is because we have not known each other long enough. Once you get to know me, you will find that I am actually a very easygoing person," Lox replied casually as he strode toward the most heavily secured underground sector of the Martian base.

His Red Alert was docked at the base's lowest level, while the two primarchs and the five hundred Astartes who had accompanied him were asleep within its cabins.

The moment the cogitator detected even the faintest life signal, he would receive an alert and rush to the awakened warriors' side at once.

In Lox's heart, only these warriors who had shared hardship and faced death with him were truly his own people.

Their loyalty had been tested through the Horus Heresy. They were Lox's strongest and most dependable support.

Perhaps Lox's most solid foundation seemed somewhat old-fashioned and outdated in the X-Men universe. They possessed no flashy mutant powers and could only kill enemies with bolters and chainswords.

Yet the simpler something was, the more practical and reliable it often became.

Setting aside the ten most outstanding Astartes Lox had brought with him, any one of the five hundred Astartes who had accompanied him could still kill more mutants