Lox began openly cursing the Silent King to his face, and Trazyn and Orikan both froze awkwardly in place as if they had crashed.
Trazyn was fine, but Orikan genuinely regretted not leaving sooner.
Hearing a human insult their supreme Silent King, should he pretend not to have heard it, or immediately rebuke him harshly, perhaps even punish him?
If it was the latter, never mind whether he could defeat this human who had beaten the Void Dragon—the primarchs and the human Emperor were watching right in front of him.
Attack Lox in front of them?
Orikan did not need to think to know that would be an utterly idiotic idea.
This was an evil god capable of moving freely through the material universe. Unless the Necrons truly brought out their final hidden cards, they had no way to deal with the Emperor.
The only way they could threaten him was by holding the Empire's humans hostage.
No matter how powerful the Emperor was, he could not protect the safety of the millions of human worlds across the galaxy against a full-scale Necron assault.
But if he pretended not to hear it, what if that bastard Trazyn later whispered it into the Silent King's ear?
Oh, right. Trazyn had heard it too.
In his panic, Orikan had even forgotten that Trazyn was standing beside him and had heard the human's blasphemous words.
So why was he in such a hurry? If he alone had fallen into a pit, then of course he should panic. But if two people had fallen into the pit, then he ought to watch the show first.
He wanted to see what Trazyn would say. If Trazyn could not handle this properly, then he should not blame Orikan for tattling to the Silent King.
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