Victor: ???
What the hell is wrong with you? You punched me, then told the Drukhari they did it?
Fabius Bile finally understood why the Drukhari had inexplicably joined his operation.
The veteran of countless battles before them looked nothing like Evan remembered. His clothing instead resembled that of an Imperial Fists Successor Chapter—the Hospitaller Chapter—with white surgical robes and crimson crosses. He wore strange Power Armour that matched no known pattern.
His body was completely unlike an Astartes'. It looked more like... that of an Adeptus Custodes.
Reportedly, he had long been making clones of himself, repeatedly using a Mind Transfer Array to transfer his consciousness into them to prolong his life and resurrect himself. But this time was clearly different.
He had supposedly been busy experimenting with his New Men, preparing to create an entirely new human race through "science." Shortly after Guilliman's resurrection, he had attacked a Torchbearer Fleet and successfully captured a Custodian.
It seemed this traitor, who called himself the "Gene-Primarch," had successfully produced experimental subjects possessing some of the Custodians' strength, and had tentatively transferred his consciousness into a Custodian-enhanced duplicate.
This gave these expensive "New Men" combat prowess comparable to the first generation of Possessed. Although they lacked the Custodians' lavish armour and Guardian Spears, their fighting ability still could not be underestimated.
A Wizard with a ruined body had offered him a drop of a Custodian's blood, which could be used to trace its owner's whereabouts through an altar made from tens of thousands of screaming souls. Fabius Bile had promised him surgery to treat his body's decay and mutations.
As for that Wizard now... he had just been used as a Psyker Bomb to blow apart a whole line of Drukhari.
The reason these Drukhari had come here was rather strange.