The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 2794: The Fourth Blackstone Fortress!

Of course, Beytan admitted that Veronica was more of a symbolic figure. The Royal Court did not exert actual power over them. Beytan hadn't truly decided to pledge allegiance to the Royal Court. Veronica also believed there was no need to rush this matter. After all, while the Royal Court was indeed much stronger now, it still lacked something.

Only when the opportunity to truly establish dominance arrived could the Royal Court genuinely unite the scattered Eldar in fact and gain the heartfelt recognition and allegiance of all Craftworlds.

Moreover, Beytan hadn't given nothing in return. Acknowledging Veronica also meant that if any force dared to attack or provoke the Eternal Queen, Beytan's Swordwinds would strike out to punish those insignificant beings with slaughter. This was equivalent to an additional layer of security.

Similarly, Sorshan also personally received Beytan's emissaries. It had to be said that Beytan was indeed a Craftworld of warriors. One delegation actually had two Warhosts, one named Merlinio and the other Aroik, both well-known Eldar commanders. Their arrival was clearly not just to pay respects to the Eternal Queen and the Phoenix Lord, but also to understand the scale and strength of the Royal Court's armed forces. Sorshan didn't hide anything, allowing them to observe freely.

Beytan's Warhosts marveled at the reappearance of the Phoenix Guard. Aroik Sun-Spear, from a noble family of the ancient empire, even requested a friendly sparring match with Duran Saint-Flame, the leader of the Guard. Sorshan agreed to this. As a result, Aroik Sun-Spear was defeated in less than ten rounds, and he marveled that Duran's martial skill was already that of a supreme expert among the current Eldar. Then they visited the Drukhari's menageries and marveled at the second-generation Behemoths cultivated by the Drukhari. These Behemoths were smarter and more powerful than the first generation, able to establish a psychic link with the Drukhari to control their wild bestiality. Their power had also reached an unprecedented terrifying level. Their claws could easily dig through the hardest rock, and they could tear apart a mountain in seconds. The Phoenix Legion, organized by Sorshan, also received high praise from the Warhosts.

Finally, while visiting the two Vaul's Wards, Beytan's representatives informed Sorshan of a piece of news: besides the two owned by the Royal Court and the one in the hands of the Black Legion, there was actually a fourth Blackstone Fortress in the galaxy.

That Blackstone Fortress was located on the western fringes of the galaxy, which was the edge of the Imperium's so-called Pacific region. Beytan had discovered this Blackstone Fortress thousands of years ago. It was located in a desolate and silent space, surrounded by a nebula belt composed of countless wrecks and fragments of celestial bodies. Moreover, there were no known warp routes or webway entrances around it. Beytan's Rangers called the area the Exclusion Zone, and that Blackstone Fortress was located alone in the Exclusion Zone.

So that place had not been discovered by humans yet. Only Beytan had marked it, but the Craftworld didn't have any ideas about it either. After all, it couldn't be carried around, so they could only let this supreme legacy of the ancient empire continue to slumber.

After confirming that the Royal Court's armed forces were sufficient to protect and use this imperial legacy, Beytan's representatives revealed this matter, meaning they would hand over the matter to the Royal Court. In any case, it could not fall into the hands of Chaos or humans again. Beytan believed that the Eldar suffered the greatest losses in the Imperium's so-called Gothic War. Four of the six Vaul's Wards were destroyed. If Sorshan hadn't snatched one back from Huron, it would have been as if all six were gone.

Upon learning of this situation, Sorshan was overjoyed, because according to the Vaul's artisans of Iyanden, three Vaul's Wards gathered together could unleash an extremely terrifying attack, powerful enough to destroy a galaxy.

However, considering that there was no webway nearby, they could only send a reconnaissance team to find the Blackstone Fortress with Beytan's people, then activate the internal webway gate of the Blackstone Fortress, and then find a way to transport it over.

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Aside from the official interests of the Royal Court, Sorshan was actually more concerned about another group of people. In a sense, they were the reason he had made a special trip back to the Royal Court this time—

Sitting in a side hall of the Phoenix Palace, Sorshan wore an elaborate and gorgeous robe, sitting on a phoenix-shaped throne. In the small side hall, besides dozens of Phoenix Guards, were his close retainers, such as Dorlar and Starbane.

Soon, he heard heavy breathing and sensed an anxious heart beating rapidly, which made Sorshan's lips curve into a slight smile.

In the sound of footsteps, Duran passed through the gauze curtain of the palace gate, bringing a person into the scene.

This was a high-ranking member of the Kabal, Dehgella, Duran's former identity. He wore armor full of spikes and blades, had a thin face and cunning eyes, wore earrings on both ears, and his black hair was tied behind his head. The decorations on his body jingled as he walked, seeming to try to give people a casual impression, and his weapons had also been taken away.

"Charonte, pays respects to the great Phoenix Lord."

Charonte, from the Iron Thorn Lord's Kabal, bowed slightly, his big eyes staring at Sorshan, with a hint of mockery in his eyes, as if some of his guesses had been confirmed.

"I represent Lord Caddis Abrahak and express my sincerest respect to you, and thank you for granting Lord Caddis the rights and positions. Commorragh has been tainted by shameless slaves for too long, he hopes—"

However, before he could finish speaking, Starbane, standing on Sorshan's left, suddenly made an elegant gesture. A miniature teleportation gate opened like a flower in front of the Sunstone Officer. Starbane reached out, and a soul trap crystal gently fell into his hand from the rift. The multifaceted surface of the crystal was engraved with jagged imprisonment runes.

Charonte involuntarily took a few steps back, his black eyes flashing with fear.

"Your Highness, what is this—"

But soon a hand pressed on his shoulder from behind, and Charonte was immediately unable to move. Starbane chuckled and waved his hand gently. The opaque crystal shot towards Charonte like a bullet, sinking into his body amidst Dehgella's screams.

Then Sorshan smiled, reached out from a tray on the side and picked up an opaque, slender crystal bottle, while staring at the dense fog in the crystal bottle, as if there were faces screaming in it, and joked:

"You've wanted to say the word 'ape' for a long time, haven't you? It doesn't matter, I am a generous person, and I have been called that a lot in Commorragh."

When Duran let go, Charonte's legs went weak and he immediately knelt on the ground, trembling as if his bones had been removed, and then pleaded:

"I dare not! Little man dares not! Please, Your Highness, have mercy!"

The reason he was so terrified was because his soul had been sealed in that bottle. This special method was rarely used in Commorragh, where psychic powers were prohibited, and the Craftworld Eldar, due to tradition, were not good at using this "evil" necromancy. In this case, as long as the soul was not released, the Haemonculus could not rebuild him, and he would suffer forever.

"Now you're willing to kneel?"

Sorshan just continued to examine the bottle, and Charonte immediately began to kowtow forcefully, making a thumping sound in the side hall.

"Little man was wrong! Little man was wrong! Please forgive me, Your Highness!"