Seeing the Burning One shard enter the tesseract labyrinth Lox carried with him, Leman Russ finally let his tightly coiled muscles relax slightly.
As a primarch who had liberated his essence, he could clearly sense the extreme danger posed by the C'tan shard.
Though his own life was likely not at risk, the same could not be said for the Space Wolves he had brought with him.
Before a rampaging C'tan shard, elite troops like the Astartes were not much different from ordinary mortals.
"Is it dealt with?" he rumbled.
"Temporarily contained." Lox nodded and spoke in a voice only Russ could hear, his gaze returning to the ruins. "But our questions have yet to be answered."
He picked up the miniature labyrinth containing the Burning One shard and questioned the C'tan fragment within directly through his thoughts.
"Nyadraza, what happened here? What destroyed the tomb world that imprisoned you? Where did all those Necrons go?"
An exceedingly faint voice emerged from the miniature labyrinth, full of unwillingness yet forced to answer.
More than a thousand planetary orbital cycles ago... My memories are confused. In my fragmented state, my sense of time is vague...
I was imprisoned here, sleeping most of the time. My perception was extremely limited.
I only remembered that one day, the entire tomb world was suddenly struck by unprecedentedly violent tremors, far more furious than the normal geological activity of this frozen world.
The ground split open in enormous fissures. Many of the Necrons still sleeping within stasis fields, along with their hibernation chambers and maintenance systems, were shattered outright, crushed and warped, or even swallowed by lava flooding up from beneath the ground. Many automated defense systems and constructs were destroyed before they could even activate.
I was awakened then, but I could only sense