Obscure star field, Gothic star field.

At this time, this is a blazing unclaimed land. The Dawnbreaker army from the other side of the galaxy is mercilessly and cautiously ravaging hundreds of worlds in the sector until they are all inserted into the human empire.

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Since the Second Randan War about twelve Terran Standard Years ago, the Terran regime has never had such a large-scale military expansion in the Obscurus Segment. After all, in a sense, this place is still a war zone.

, and its own value is not unique, and it is not worth the deployment of already tense military forces.

Therefore, although this administrative division named [Gothic Sector] has been named in Holy Terra's War Council documents more than 20 years ago, until now, this area still does not belong to the empire.

Groups of alien nations, wandering pirates, and independent forging worlds like Goth, Mezoa, and Depanx are the actual owners here.

This situation lasted until the eighty-seventh year after the start of the Great Crusade, that is, the tenth year after the reunion of the Dawnbreaker Legion and their Primarch, before it improved: through some means unknown to the outside world,

Morgan, the Primarch of the Second Legion of the Astartes and the Queen of the Far Eastern Frontier, led a powerful expedition fleet under her command and suddenly appeared at the border of the chaotic country in the Gothic sector.

According to Dawnbreaker himself, this expedition fleet was originally intended to recapture the triple star sector in the east of the Milky Way, but while sailing in subspace, they were attacked by a sudden subspace storm.

Although the Spider Queen, as a top psyker, personally took action to calm the storm without causing too much damage, the expedition fleet still deviated from its original goal: so, they came to a small galaxy half a galaxy away from the Far Eastern Frontier.

The Gothic Sector.

Reasonable.

The imperial governors and mortal generals who stayed in the space near the Gothic sector listened to the Primarch's personal explanation and saw with their own eyes the hundreds of capital ships, ten thousand Dawnbreakers, and dozens of people behind the Spider Queen.

After the mighty army composed of the Wanreza Skitarii, two Titan legions and affiliated knight families, as well as at least five million elite mortal auxiliaries, they all expressed their deep belief in the fate of the Gene Queen and their willingness to expedition for Avalon.

All supplies were used for the fleet.

The Lord of the Far Eastern Frontier was quite touched by the generosity of these imperial officials, so he made a solemn oath on the spot: In order to repay the profound righteousness of these imperial worlds, the expedition fleet of the Dawnbreaker Legion will change its goal to regain the chaotic Brotherhood.

It is our duty to destroy all alien nations and pirate fleets in the Gothic Sector, and eliminate the serious security risks faced by these imperial worlds located on the edge of the Gothic Sector.

As soon as this was said, there was thunderous applause.

At the same time, Morgan's words also contained quite obvious hints: she is not interested in the land and resources of the Gothic Sector. After she regains this sector, how the ruling power here should be divided depends on the Holy Spirit.

Terra, and the Imperial Governors who provide supplies to the Dawnbreaker Legion.

Such wise words naturally made the local imperial rulers have no complaints. In just two or three months, supplies from dozens of imperial galaxies around the Gothic sector began to arrive one after another, and the Spider Queen also

To be generous: According to the amount of supplies, even though the imperial governors who provided supplies did not send a single soldier, they were still waved by her and became heroes in the Gothic Reconquest War, and recovered the world one by one.

[Acting Governor].

Anyway, Morgan really has no interest in these worlds: even if her Avalon Federation works hard to develop for another hundred years, it will not be able to extend its tentacles of power here. It is better to be a favor in the gray field to benefit her own legion.

The Spider Queen herself is concerned about another treasure in the Gothic Sector, a treasure that has not yet been discovered by the Human Empire: the six black stone fortresses hidden in the Sector.

She came just for them, but finding the treasures among the stars is not an easy task. In order to successfully activate these ancient military miracles, the Spider Queen also needs to first find out the information about the six black stone fortresses.

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From Tuchucha Engine, she learned that there are two starters: two ancient alien artifacts called [Hand of Darkness] and [Eye of Dark Night], which have extraordinary power in subspace and are also hidden.

Somewhere in the Gothic Sector.

The first moment he heard the news, Morgan just sighed softly.

Hand of darkness, eye of night...

Finally, she finally met a guy who couldn't name anything better than her: The Gene Queen had to wonder whether the ancient aliens who named these two alien artifacts were in the adolescence of their race.

After sighing with emotion, the Spider Queen casually made this plan: with the help of a subspace storm that may or may not exist, the Dawnbreaker Legion came to the Obscure Star Territory for a more reasonable reason, and borrowed

The machine launched a ruthless all-out offensive against the entire Gothic Sector.

Except for a few forging worlds that have long been flirting with the Human Empire, all the forces in the Gothic Sector are listed on the list of this purge. Anyway, as the former border territory of the Randan Empire, there is nothing in line with the Empire here.

Standard [human world].

In this way, the Dawnbreaker's army spread destruction from system to system, slaying countless alien nations and wandering pirates. Their territories were wiped clean to reward the imperial forces who provided supplies, and their souls were plundered.

, making the Spider Queen's spiritual reserves even richer, and even their memories were all imprisoned: because Morgan needed the memories of these natives to help her find the location of the alien artifact and the Blackstone Fortress.

Relying on the help of the Tuchucha engine, the Dawnbreaker expedition fleet moved so quickly and its tactics were so ruthless that even the local forces in the Gothic sector were easily separated and annihilated in batches before they could unite.

Morgan's flagship can even ignore all obstacles in the physical universe and subspace, and appear directly on the home planet of the alien nation: with this move, the strongest resisters have not even had time to exert half of their strength.

Turned into dust before the cavalry of the Dawnbreaker.

The Spider Queen, who witnessed all these victories, lamented the power and terror of the Tuchucha Engine. She knew that the existence of this subspace artifact was enough to make any naval battle mode a joke. With the participation of the Tuchucha Engine, The naval battle will no longer be a war, but a massacre on a relatively large scale: because in the eyes of the owner of the Tuchucha Engine, the subspace will no longer be a place where blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and there will be no relationship with the real universe. block.

Morgan knows this, she has always known this: after the Osiris Expedition and in the years before the Gothic Expedition, the Lord of the Second Legion relied on the power of the Tuchucha Engine to completely wipe out Avalon. Unstable factors within the Federation and continued conscription, stabilizing the number of the Dawnbreaker Legion at more than 25,000 people, and creating an iron-barrel-like Far Eastern border, did they dare to lead the army to the Obscurity Star Territory to carry out the This expedition.

What's more, when she first arrived in the Obscure Star Territory, she heard the name of the Far Eastern Frontier from some local rogue traders: Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Morgan's propaganda department, the prosperity and stability of the Far Eastern Frontier have already It spread throughout the empire, followed by a large number of immigrants and trade, which enabled Avalon to gain countless benefits.

At the same time, because there is a too "bejeweled" Five Hundred World around him, Avalon, who is slightly low-key in these fields of publicity, has not actually caused more suspicion and backlash within the empire: and the forces are moving towards Compared to Ultramar, which is expanding in the Maelstrom area, the Kingdom of Morgan, which is still quietly cultivating on the edge of the galaxy, is undoubtedly a "good boy" in the eyes of some Terran big shots.

Although this kind of result of getting benefits without paying a corresponding price sounds quite incredible, but Guilliman is so useful. His broad back not only dragged Ultramar, but also took the Getting rid of the infamy that belongs to the Far Eastern frontier: Morgan has always been generous in this regard.

But even so, the prosperity of Avalon could not completely calm the strange anger in the heart of the Primarch: especially when she thought that an artifact like the Tuchucha Engine would not be able to stay in her hands for more than a few years. It will be delivered to the Emperor's hands along with other artifacts.

In the hands of the Emperor...

Morgan frowned.

In comparison, she would rather these powerful existences... be destroyed.

"..."

The fingers protected by the silver-white metal tapped gently on the throne, making a rather pleasant tinkling sound, but with a hint of chilling danger.

"You seem a little unhappy, Morgan?"

【...No, not really.】

Morgan retorted calmly at first, then opened her eyes and looked at the huge sphere floating on the edge of her throne, looking at this creation that cast no shadow.

Among the entire Dawnbreaker Legion, probably only Tuchucha Engine, who still did not fully understand human etiquette, dared to speak so frankly to the Primarch.

"Don't lie to me, Morgan, like I never lied to you."

In the communication between souls, the Tuchucha engine is unyielding: it seems to be born with an aggressive arrogance, and will only briefly yield in the face of the most terrible threats. In the years of getting along with Morgan, it has always played a certain kind of straightforwardness.

Spokesperson and other roles.

"I can feel that just at that moment, you seem to have developed some kind of hostility towards me. This hostility is enough to make me fear and to be destroyed: What are you thinking about, Morgan?"

The Spider Queen was silent for a moment, she did not choose to continue to hide it.

【I'm just...somewhat dissatisfied.】

"Dissatisfied? Because I will leave you soon?"

[After witnessing your power, anyone will have greedy thoughts, Tuchucha, especially the thought that I will hand you and the Heart of Plague to my father, which makes me particularly unbearable.]

"Do you have a tense relationship with your genetic paternal counterpart, Morgan?"

[The possibility of being an enemy cannot be ruled out.]

"..."

"You humans are so interesting."

After getting the answer, the Tuchucha engine was silent for a while. Then, it made a sound similar to laughter, but it sounded too much metallic. This noise lasted for several seconds.

Only then, as an ancient witness, continued to tell Morgan its views.

"Obviously your power is still so weak, you can't even really rule the dry land under your feet: but at this time, as the top ruling class, you are actually worried about internal conflicts between each other.

The possibility of struggle?”

【Do you think this is strange?】

"No, it's not unusual: but what I can tell you is that a race that is obsessed with internal struggles cannot stand on the throne of the galaxy for a long time. No matter how prosperous they seem, it only takes one battle.

An uncontrolled, all-out civil war would destroy their empire like a flood breaking down a fragile riverbank."

"For cases like this, I have more than one knowledge reserve."

[Sounds like a wise saying indeed.]

The Spider Queen responded to Tuchucha Engine's words casually, with little intention of continuing the conversation. In the past few years of getting along, she had already passed countless insinuations and satisfied all her desire for knowledge about Tuchucha Engine.

, and the remaining questions cannot be answered by Tuchucha himself.

Thinking of this, the leader of the Second Legion couldn't help but snorted, and turned to look at the burning universe outside the porthole: right at the feet of the Dawn Goddess, there was an alien world that had sunk in the flames of war.

Hundreds of battleships from the Dawnbreaker Legion surrounded it, like hungry wolves tearing apart a dying old cow.

【Which number is this?】

Morgan asked as if talking to herself, and her question was immediately answered: Virgo, holding a data tablet, slowly walked out of the shadows behind the throne. She glanced at the Tuchucha engine without surprise, and then started.

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"This is the twenty-sixth alien nation we have destroyed in the Gothic Sector. Mother, in the five multi-terra standard months of recovery, your fleet has wiped out more than 90% of the Gothic Sector.

The resistance strength, the average safety factor of this sector is now even higher than most areas ruled by the empire."

[I don’t care about this, Aniya. What I care about is another thing: whether there is the thing I want in this world. I have searched the entire star area before I found one of them. It’s too much luck.
To be continued...