On Ganymede, Lox quietly returned to Terra under the protection of his guards.
He had already sent Barabas Dantioch to Belisarius Cawl's side to assist him in recovering the Genestealer Cult's original progenitor strain from the Moon. At present, only Iron Father Wayland, Tassa of the Salamanders, and a few others remained at his side.
These veterans who had followed him since Isstvan had always been the people Lox trusted most.
With Konrad's departure, Veronica, the Iron Man that had once served as Night Haunter's personal prison, had returned to her original duty. She continued to quietly protect Lox's safety from the shadows.
As the head sage of the High Technology Commonwealth, Lox's safety was no longer a matter concerning him alone. Countless people's interests were tied to his, especially the priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who were terrified that something might happen to him.
Omnissiah! The treasury of the Machine God had only just opened a crack to them, and they had already glimpsed countless treasures of knowledge within. That glittering knowledge had opened its arms to them. They absolutely could not allow those doors to close again.
This time, when Cawl went to the Moon, the Mechanicus orders that had retreated from Mars had truly spared no effort.
They dispatched a Titan Legion they had salvaged from Mars and cherished like a treasure, ordering it to accompany Cawl and properly renew old acquaintances with the Selene Genestealer Cult on the Moon.
Your Selene Genestealer Cult's bio-engineered weapons might be formidable, but Mars's god-machines were hardly dull.
Though the Mechanicus orders had currently been driven back to Terra, a starved camel was still larger than a horse. Dealing with a half-dead Genestealer Cult on the Moon would be effortless.
Even Malcador had stated that the Custodes wished to dispatch