The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Doral made it very clear to the leaders of the Raven Souls that even if the royal court ultimately decided to leave them a portion of the Ark to join the prestigious Biel-Tan Ark, it would already be a great act of generosity. After all, it would take effort to persuade the somewhat xenophobic Biel-Tan to accept a group of strangers.

But now, with this act of violence, they have lost even the qualification to stay on the Ark.

Doral could only tell them that the ownership of Lunasade would be entirely decided by the Phoenix King, and if they didn't accept it, they could go back to the void and continue being wanderers.

If they tried to resort to violence again, the royal court would no longer be lenient towards "rebels," and all the Raven Souls would be put on the wanted list.

Faced with the tough stance of the "Golden Feather Prime Minister," the Raven Souls, known for their toughness and ruthlessness, rarely softened. They probably realized that their strength was not enough to defy the established "court," so they turned to playing the victim card, constantly emphasizing the history of blood and tears experienced by their ancestors, as well as the hardships and dangers endured by these homeless wanderers in the dark void, and bluntly stated, which Ark Eldar could tolerate their homeland becoming the home of another group, and even familiar names being erased?

But Doral was so shrewd that he was not moved at all, only emphasizing that everything would be decided by the Phoenix King. If they wanted to impress the Phoenix King, then all the leaders should personally come to the royal court to explain the situation.

When Doral met with them, he used the information source from Kolor to obtain some intelligence about the Raven Souls. The Raven Souls organization is more like a pirate group. Their basic operating unit is the ship, and the leaders who lead their respective ships are called Ark Masters. The Ark Master has two chief advisors, one is called the Bloody Hand, they are deadly warriors and bodyguards, responsible for providing advice on all war affairs, and the other is called the Silent Hand, who is an expert in intelligence gathering, espionage, and diplomacy.

The highest leadership organization of the entire Raven Souls is the mysterious Raven Council. The council members are not only those Ark Masters who stand out among their colleagues, but also powerful seers and battle-witches.

Of course, the so-called powerful in their mouths is really not worth mentioning in Doral's opinion. For example, the so-called Seer Kaye who came to see him on behalf of the Raven Souls, Doral could tell at a glance that this guy's psychic level was at most a powerful Path Warrior, which shows the overall strength level of the Raven Souls.

In the end, the Raven Souls agreed to this request, and Doral presented the matter to Szohrhyan.

This is also one of the aspects that Szohrhyan likes most about Doral. He will never hand over all the unprocessed chores to him. Of course, Doral will not always make decisions on his own like this. He is very clear about the importance of things, and Szohrhyan never worries about the issue of power falling aside - he and Veronica possess more than just mundane power, this husband and wife shop is a thorough theocracy.

So after sending Veronica back to the bedroom to rest, Szohrhyan came to the hall of the Ice Feather Shrine.

Because he heard that the Raven Souls were very hostile to non-Aeldari races, and even often slaughtered passing human ships in the void for no reason, Szohrhyan did not even make any concealment for this meeting, simply wearing a robe, and sat on the throne in a very casual posture.

In the hall, there were three groups of people standing. In the middle was the Kolor delegation led by the female seer Aila Ashbel, on the right was the delegation led by the Biel-Tan seer, and on the left was a group of people wearing black armor, black helmets, and black robes, and also wearing helmets, there were five in total.

When they saw Szohrhyan, the representatives of Kolor and Biel-Tan took off their helmets, knelt on one knee, and bowed their heads in salute, but the Raven Souls seemed to not react for a moment.

"Alas."

Szohrhyan sighed softly, pressing his left elbow on the armrest of the throne, gently stroking his palms, with a playful expression.

"Seeing me, are you having thoughts of killing me?"

In the leftmost position of the hall closest to Szohrhyan, the commander of the Imperial Guard, Duran, slowly moved his hand towards the long sword on his waist, and a murderous silence enveloped the Ice Palace.

Seeming to wake up from a dream, the five people also took off their helmets, revealing pale faces with different expressions, and then knelt on one knee.

"The remnants of Lunasade, greetings, Phoenix King."

Szohrhyan did not respond, still just stroking his palms, with a faint smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes.

Finally, he restrained his smile and straightened up.

"Get up, it's a bit cold here."

When everyone stood up, Szohrhyan directly cut to the chase.

"Raven Souls, who is the representative?"

After looking at each other, finally a slender man with unique dark green eyes and a missing piece of his left ear came out.

"Representative of the Raven Council, Ash Jin, greetings, Your Highness."

"I'll just call you Ash, how many people are there in the Raven Souls now, how many ships are there?"

This question is very sensitive, especially for a 'secret organization' like the Raven Souls. Their own personnel and scale are top secrets. Apart from the members of the Raven Council, even the Ark Masters do not know.

It was also because of this reason that Ash Jin hesitated for a moment when faced with this question, but before Szohrhyan could speak, he immediately said:

"Your Highness, our kin have a total of 2715 people, and 16 ships."

"That's not a small number of people, then Seer Ash, answer me one question, if Lunasade is attacked by thousands of Word Bearers, and a notorious Chaos warlord, as well as the countless demons they summon, do you have the confidence to defend the Ark and defeat the invaders?"

Faced with this question, Ash was speechless for a moment and could not answer.

Szohrhyan smiled and continued:

"Okay, that seems difficult, then change the condition, if you replace it with a warband with three or four hundred Chaos Space Marines, and a leader with decent strength, plus some Hellhound-like Daemon Engines, do you have the confidence to defend the Ark?"

The expressions of several Raven Soul leaders became a little ugly, they all looked at Ash, and finally this Raven Lord sighed softly and shook his head.

"Your Highness, we are not sure."

The Biel-Tan seer not far away sneered and mocked:

"What do you mean not sure? Just say you can't do it directly, don't say a Chaos warband, you can't even handle a group of Ork bandits!"

Szohrhyan glanced at the Biel-Tan side, and Doral immediately raised his palm.

"Silence, let whoever His Highness tells to speak, speak."

After a while, Szohrhyan slowly said:

"I, am not unreasonable, the principle of the strong eating the weak should not be used within the same race, I intend to let Biel-Tan rebuild Lunasade, not because they are strong so they can get more, but because this Ark has obviously been targeted by the servants of the Ruinous Powers, although I severely hit them last time, but I could not uproot them, and the culprit also escaped due to the intervention of the Daemon Primarch, with the nature of those mongrels, they will definitely seek revenge in the future, if Lunasade wants to recover, there must be a strong force to defend it for a long time."