strokinit Chapter 117: Seeking New Power!
Chapter 117: Seeking New Power!
Chapter 117: Chapter 117: Seeking New Power!Now that the Genestealer Patriarch's location was confirmed, things could proceed more smoothly.
Eden planned to dispatch an elite force through the underground tunnels to strike directly at the heart of the Genestealers' lair and execute the Patriarch.
The secret route through the tunnels capable of accommodating the strike team was already being calculated by the psychic network.
Using the data transmitted by his clone, Eden supplemented the incomplete schematics of the King's Court's tunnel system.
Currently, Webby was analyzing this residual data, using logical computation to fill in the missing pieces of the map.
According to its projections, there was an 80% chance it could pinpoint a suitable route.
That was more than promising.
Eden hoped it would succeed.
While determining the attack route was one challenge, the bigger issue was the manpower for the elite force.
The King's Court simply didn't have enough elite troops available.
The only true elites were the 200 or so Guards.
Under normal circumstances, these Guards were more than enough to dominate any adversaries on the planet.
But now, they faced terrifying heretics and xenos.
Against such monstrous threats, the Guards were far from sufficient.
Moreover, this mission targeted a fully mature Genestealer brood.
The 200 Guards wouldn't even make it past the swarming hordes on the outskirts of the lair, let alone reach its core.
Thus, Eden had to seek new power. His sights were set on the void-dwelling survivors aboard the derelict space vessel.
He looked up at the tribal settlement clinging to the mountains of wreckage.
That was the place.
During his exploration of the derelict vessel with the Little Sun, Eden had discovered these void survivors.
Their bodies were incredibly strong, capable of slaying Chaos creatures with their bare hands.
They were natural-born warriors.
"Damn, the Chaos creatures here are endless. How many more do I have to kill?"
Eden grumbled, tossing aside the remains of a Chaos beast as he made his way toward the void survivors' settlement.
He had uncovered their secrets, giving him hope of recruiting these powerful warriors.
At the tribe's outskirts:
Tia stood anxiously at the settlement's entrance, awaiting the return of the foraging party.
Her father had joined the foragers in their
Picking up the fallen wooden figurine, Eden examined it closely.
It was unmistakably a crude depiction of the Emperor.
Realization dawned.
These void survivors worshipped the Emperor, and they had mistaken him for their deity.
"Well, might as well go along with it..."
After all, as a minor Warp deity himself, he could loosely claim divine status.
When Tia informed the tribe, the entire settlement erupted in excitement.
The elderly shaman, trembling with age, led the people in welcoming Eden, their "deity," into the heart of the settlement.
Eden's presentation of wheat-based food solidified their belief in his divinity.
To them, such delicious food could only come from the paradise foretold in the prophecy.
The long-awaited savior had arrived, offering them salvation from their endless hunger.
They knelt and begged Eden to lead them to the paradise.
Faced with their eager and hopeful faces, Eden felt a twinge of awkwardness.
Paradise? More like a world crawling with Genestealers.
How could he tell them their deity's plan was to march them into the heart of a xenos hive?
(End of Chapter)
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