Meanwhile, his "ghost signal" was staging a Hollywood-style car chase in Sector D-9, the Abandoned Smelter.
Warning: Target 'Leo' has used Phase Shift! He has escaped the encirclement of Faceless Ones Team A! Warning: Target 'Leo' has appeared in Grid B-7! He... he detonated a dormant Canoptek Scarab hatchery! Faceless Ones Team B reports: Target... extremely cunning! His combat methods... are unprecedented! He used a detached armor plate as a 'Frisbee' and decapitated three of our hunters!
Even Liu Zhipeng was dumbstruck.
"Holy shit, is my 'decoy'... a little too smart?"
He had only set up a simple program to "simulate phase jumps" and "cause random disturbances." God only knew what strange chemistry had developed between it and the Faceless Ones hunting teams in D-9's complex environment.
Go, Leo Number Two! Liu Zhipeng cheered inwardly. You're the real Overlord! You're a born master of guerrilla warfare!
Meanwhile, civil war raged along the Dynasty's main thoroughfares and at its energy nodes.
His Third Legion... was a bunch of absolute blockheads.
First Legion, the Phaeron's loyalists: "Surrender, traitors! By order of the Phaeron, relinquish the energy node!"
Third Legion, Leo's personal troops: "Denied. Our orders are to 'protect' the node and prevent 'corruption.' You... are 'corruption.'"
First Legion: "Your Overlord Leo is the corruption!"
Third Legion: "Logical error. Overlord Leo issued protocol KHET-4, Internal Purge. You issued edict VYLK-7, Shoot on Sight. Under Article 34, Clause B of the Dynastic Fundamental Law, 'Internal Purge,' which protects assets, takes precedence over 'Shoot on Sight,' which eliminates assets."
First Legion: "..."
Third Legion: "Open fire."
Green gauss beams crisscrossed like a torrential downpour.
Liu Zhipeng covered his nonexistent face.
"Fuck... these Necrons are better at exploiting loopholes than any Adeptus Arbites I've ever seen..."
He had casually invented an excuse about "purging