Lady Euten's invitation this time had been meant to test Lox's position.
"So, you want Guilliman to establish a political entity called the Second Imperium and use that symbol to better unite the people of the Five Hundred Worlds?"
His status as lord of the Five Hundred Worlds was no longer enough to command the power of so many Imperial territories. To mobilize those forces more effectively, he could only take another step forward.
As he spoke, Lox could not help but sigh inwardly. Lady Euten truly deserved to be called Guilliman's adoptive mother. Their thinking aligned to a remarkable extent, and Lady Euten's ideas were even more radical than the primarch's.
Guilliman had only formed a rough idea, while Lady Euten had already refined it into something that could be proposed immediately.
The primarch was still anxiously wondering whether his actions might amount to rebellion in some sense, while Lady Euten was already planning to fast-track her adopted son into the role of a second Emperor.
Lady Euten had always represented the local powers of the Five Hundred Worlds, led by Macragge. Many of these deeply rooted factions had endured since the Age of Strife.
Compared to the Imperial forces that had entered the region after the Emperor's arrival, their political positions had always been conservative. They had long balanced on a tightrope between drawing benefits from the Imperium and preserving their own independence.
And now Lox's eyes had been opened. Apparently, to these conservatives, Guilliman's radical faction was simply too conservative.
He caught the meaning behind Lady Euten's words. She did not actually hold much loyalty toward that lofty human Emperor. What she cared about more was her own son and the interests of the Five Hundred Worlds.
In her eyes, Guilliman was first her son, then the