Lox received his old acquaintance in an inner court office. As the mortal advisor to the Lord of Macragge, he naturally had a room of his own here.
Most of the time, however, he preferred to stay on Mustafar or in the Great Library of Ptolemy.
The door opened, but it was not Elina Vella, who had come all the way from Calth. Instead, Titus Praetor, Guilliman's Chief Librarian, entered with a staff in hand.
"Lord Lox, I have bad news to tell you."
The Chief Librarian always carried himself with elegance and composure, as though panic had never touched him.
"There is a problem with your guest. Or rather, there is a problem with her child."
Lox frowned, rose from his chair, and took two steps toward the Chief Librarian.
"What is it?"
Lox had not informed Titus. As the Primarch's psychic advisor, Titus usually remained at Guilliman's side, protecting the Primarch alongside Glord, leader of the Ever-Victorious Legion.
But since it was the Chief Librarian who had come, Elina's matter was clearly related to psychic powers or the Warp.
Titus used his psychic power to project an image of the mother and daughter before them. It was a live feed from over there, and Lox saw the familiar figure of Captain Dulles.
"Elina Vella's daughter is a Psyker, and not an ordinary one. From my observations, that two-year-old child is a powerful Psyker."
"A powerful Psyker?"
Lox's expression turned grave. He also knew the specific classifications of Psykers.
The Imperium used a system called the Psychic Assignment Chart to classify psychic grades, with twenty-six categories from the peak to the bottom.
Soulless ones like Dulles were, strictly speaking, the lowest Omega-7-grade Psykers. Their psychic talent was negative, and they devoured this supernatural force like black holes of psychic