Lox looked at Samus, trapped upon the Blackstone altar before him, and felt much of his deep-seated wariness toward Warp daemons fade.
So long as favorable conditions were created, even these bizarre creatures had to bow their heads.
Humanity had previously been utterly unprepared for daemons because of the natural barriers in information, and thus had suffered setback after setback.
But as their understanding of daemons deepened, they would realize that these were merely another kind of Warp lifeform. Great daemons of Undivided Chaos such as Samus, in particular, had no sufficiently powerful patron behind them, making them far less threatening than the great daemons of the Four Gods.
Out in the world, it was not all about fighting and killing—it was about connections. Great daemons of Undivided Chaos seemed free and unfettered, but in truth, they had no powerful backer behind them.
Lox had never let down his guard against the Four Chaos Gods, who repeatedly appeared in the intelligence reports. At the very least, they were not enemies he should be facing yet.
How to contend with the Four Gods was something the Lord of Humanity needed to consider.
"Samus, as a great daemon of Undivided Chaos, you should have your own understanding of the Warp."
Lox increasingly felt that the Hermit had chosen wisely. The boundless Warp also had its own distribution of powers. If the one summoned this time had been a great daemon of the Four Chaos Gods, no one could guarantee that their actions would not have been directly interfered with by those conceptual entities.
What if they personally intervened to retrieve their pawn?
Take Khorne, the Blood God. Back on Nuceria, merely displaying a trace of his power had forced Guilliman and the Ultramarines into a desperate battle.
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