"Prisoner designation: Konrad Curze."
"Codename: Night Haunter."
"He has now been imprisoned in Macragge's Shadow Prison, a facility designed specifically for the most dangerous prisoners. Once someone enters, escape is no longer possible."
With Night Haunter sent into the prison Guilliman had specially designed, the sudden turmoil temporarily subsided.
"Based on a reconstruction of the situation at the time, after Konrad lured you over, the high-energy bombs placed on the colonnades would have blown the entire memorial hall into the sky. Even if you survived, you would have been gravely wounded."
"As for the Dark Angels present, they likely would not have withstood an explosion of that magnitude. They would all have been vaporized by the violent shockwave and extreme heat."
After examining the scene, Lox realized this had been another trap devised by Night Haunter.
From the moment he began slaughtering the Legionaries stationed at Hera Fortress, he had been planning for this moment.
"I admit that Auguston, Hoguin, and Pollux were exceptionally brave, but it would have been nearly impossible for them to hold Night Haunter back. Even if Curze could not kill them quickly, no one could have stopped him if he wanted to leave."
"You're right." Guilliman placed his palm against the sealed cogitator processor of the Shadow Prison. "Konrad had another objective."
"After I returned, I began to wonder whether it was not Auguston and the others who held Curze back, but Curze deliberately allowing them to hold him back."
After the palm-print scan came iris verification, voice verification, and genetic sequence verification.
They had learned from Night Haunter's deployment of the Dark Angels' drop pods. The Primarchs shared identical genes, and that was how Curze had found his opening.
The Shadow Prison lay a thousand meters underground. An enormous sealed prison forged from adamantium