It goes without saying that the bridge was deathly silent.
Even the few pairs of eyes behind him, having realized what was happening, were uncharacteristically silent.
The Emperor held back for a long time, truly not knowing what to express.
The Chaos Gods / The Four Gods, on the other hand, watched with growing interest, satisfied with Sith for bringing new 'good material' to their 'Eternal Game'.
The goal of the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods was not to truly exterminate the Imperium of Man, otherwise Tzeentch would not have spent ten thousand years helping the Emperor deal with the shit-pit of imperial internal affairs.
What the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods pursued was the Eternal Game, the endless pain, despair, and the 'interesting' souls behind those emotions.
War was merely the most direct means of stimulating these souls.
So when the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods realized that Sith intended to drag out the former Chaos Traitors and take them to Terra once more—even though this time it was to save Terra—the mere thought of the loyalists on Terra seeing their own God-Emperor being saved by the former traitor Legions made the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods start to bloom with joy in their hearts.
They were even more impatient to see this scene as soon as possible.
Moreover, because they were fighting the Tyranids / Tyranid and saving Terra, while also avoiding the risk of the God-Emperor being pushed too far and actually standing up from his Golden Throne, causing everyone to be finished, the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods and the Emperor were, for once, in rare agreement!
Thus, at this moment, the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods and the Emperor were in rare agreement!
Could there be anything that made the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods happier than being able to mock the Emperor while achieving their own goals?
So when Sith said this, the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods behind him expressed no opposition at all. Although the Emperor truly couldn't get over it in his heart, thinking it over, this terrible situation seemed to be the only path that still had potential!
The gazes behind him reached a consensus at this moment. The people on the bridge stared blankly at Sith, and after confirming that their Lord was not joking, even Bruno put down his food, feeling the urge to try and persuade Sith.
No!
Is this reasonable, damn it?
After all that, our Lord is going to offer birthday greetings too?!
The purpose is no longer important. When Sith really appears on Terra with the Chaos Traitors from the Eye of Terror, they don't know how many people in the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperial Propaganda Department will have to pull out their hair after the war to proclaim it as another bright, righteous, and unprecedented victory for the Empire against the xenos!
They also don't know how to describe the troops under the command of the Saint of the two imperial religions who turned the tide in this crucial battle.
However, compared to the worries for the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperial Propaganda Department, after being stunned for a long time, everyone swallowed hard in unison, because they felt that if they didn't persuade him, they would become Chaos Traitors themselves!
"My Lord, I think the situation on Terra..."
"Actually, it's not that urgent."
Van Roth spoke up, biting the bullet, and even Daviello nodded quickly upon hearing this.
Sith, confirming that the few pairs of eyes behind him were not glaring and the God-Emperor's large hand had not appeared, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and then, with eyes shining brightly, looked up again.
"We cannot take everyone in. The Eye of Terror is complex; we will proceed with a single ship."
He didn't even pay attention to Van Roth's last bit of struggle. As long as those old things behind him had no objections, let alone Van Roth, even if Guilliman or Lorgar Aurelian were standing in front of him, he would dare to slap them twice!
"It just so happens that the fleet is in urgent need of repairs, and the troops also need refitting and training. During this time, we can choose a sector near the Eye of Terror, let the troops assemble in that sector, and accept other believer troops arriving later."
Sith continued, already starting to consider the movement and placement of the troops.
This efficiency of doing things as soon as they were said completely blocked any words Van Roth wanted to use to persuade him.
Afterward, Sith, the more he thought about it, the more promising it seemed, suddenly stood up from his chair and stood at the top of the high building of the Tau Empire.
Against the background of the daily life of the Empire, with the wailing of countless aliens behind him and the sky full of fire unleashed by humans, he clenched his fists tightly.
"Van Roth, lead the fleet to the sector government for repairs and continue to assemble the Imperial troops."
"After giving the orac triple supplies, the rest of you will board the orac."
"We will depart for the Eye of Terror immediately!"
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The Eye of Terror.
This is a nightmare that the Imperium of Man has spent its entire life facing.
Countless wars have been launched from within it, and countless nightmares have been born from it.
This is not only the largest rift where the Warp corrodes the reality of the universe, but also the final destination of the Chaos Traitors.
In reality, the Eye of Terror is not the Warp; essentially, it is still a piece of the real universe.
It is just that because a Warp rift appeared here, endless Warp energy has enveloped this star sector, turning it into a world between the material universe and the Warp.
Here, the laws of physics are almost invalid, and the laws of the Warp have begun to prevail.
And these ever-changing, peculiar laws have attracted countless Adeptus Mechanicus to conduct research.
Of course, these Adeptus Mechanicus eventually became the Dark Mechanicum and built one profane machine after another for the Chaos Host in the Eye of Terror.
And those rare ecological planets, after being occupied by the Chaos Traitors, were mutated into Daemon Worlds through various profane rituals.
And depending on the differences in the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods they venerated, these Daemon Worlds presented different'scenery'.
However, although the scenery is different, one point is very much the same: these Daemon Worlds are always filled with the endless wailing and despair of the plundered Mortals.
If outsiders think that this is the greatest terror, then they are underestimating the Eye of Terror.
Because in addition to the countless Chaos Traitors, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Warp Daemons in the Eye of Terror.
Under the long-term corrosion of the Warp's evil energy, even the planets themselves have begun to mutate.
Many planets have directly transformed into horrific entities in space; some have grown giant mouths, while others have turned into twisted balls of flesh, searching for any unfortunate person who accidentally wanders into them.
Especially with the fall of Cadia and the opening of The Great Rift, while Sith was frantically fortifying his recruitment world, the Alert Star, the Warp's evil energy from The Great Rift began to spread and rampage wildly.
This is also the reason why the Alert Star is important.
Because if the Alert Star also falls, then the Eye of Terror's The Great Rift, having completely lost its constraints, will completely sweep across the galaxy!
At this time, on the periphery of the Eye of Terror.
Thick Warp evil energy surged toward the reality of the universe wave after wave, and the surrounding world was no longer the dark silence of the ordinary void, but had turned into a bright red, eerie expanse.
A shattered world, where countless Chaos Traitors and the Dark Mechanicum have built a large number of fortresses and vicious factories on the split continents.
Warp energy firmly enveloped it, licking the planet that had once imprisoned it for countless years to its heart's content.
The space here was once a magnificent galaxy; the split continents were not only intact but also filled with Imperial fortresses, and there was an infinite army stationed within them.
Because this is Cadia, once the most important fortress world of the Empire.
And now, this has become a forward base for the Chaos Host and a frontier fortress to resist the Empire's attack on the Eye of Terror.
But in such a particularly dangerous place for the Empire, in orbit near Cadia, a huge ship that was completely transparent—not only invisible to the naked eye but also undetectable by scanners—was floating silently in mid-air.
Inside the ship, watching their own warship that remained undetected even when almost face-to-face, they could only sigh at how useful the Tau Commander's latest stealth technology was, while under the protection of the holy ship, they watched the former fortress, filled with countless profanities, beneath their feet without any scruples.
In Sith's office at the very top of the church, Sith was the most relaxed, facing his subordinates who were struggling with the problem of how to quickly pull out the Chaos Traitors.
Looking at the shattered Cadia beneath his feet, Sith stood straight with his back to the crowd:
"Send all the defecting traitor Legions back."
"Besides telling them that I can clear away their corruption, tell these Astartes of the traitor Legions."
"If they bring back ten people, I will make them squad leaders."
"If they bring back a hundred, I will make them company commanders."
"If they bring back a thousand, I will directly promote them to Chapter Master!"
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