As the navigator expected, at Elaine's command, the ship rushed into the subspace storm in front of them without any fear.

To be honest, crossing the subspace storm wasn't much of a problem for Elaine at all.

In addition to her outrageous experience of fighting the subspace storm with her body, as early as when she rushed from the maelstrom into the Sadistic God Domain, the Twelve Legions already had a mature countermeasure to face the subspace storm.

After activating the ship's anti-psionic stance and successfully breaking through the subspace storm, they were able to return to the real universe from Mandeville Point in the Colchis system.

And as they slowly drove into Colchis' starport orbit, they were dumbfounded by the scene in front of them.

In the open space above the planet, the fleets of the two Astarte Legions were facing each other, and the high-energy signals of light spears and macro cannons were constantly fed back to the ornithroscope array, as if the slightest change in the other side would set off a major battle in this peaceful galaxy - even the children of the mountains who had just arrived in Colchis were shocked by this strange situation.

It is like a grim picture of imminent conflict.

"It's... What's going on? ”

Looking at the strange scene in front of him, the navigator who had not had time to feel the aftermath of his life from the subspace storm muttered.

And in the command room, Elaine also had a headache at the strange sight in front of her.

She clearly remembered that she should have dealt with the problem of chaos before she left.

So if the Dark Angel wants to do something to the Whisperer, it should be only the Iron Man problem.

“… Mother? ”

Even Karn, who had been in battle, was momentarily puzzled by the situation.

"The Dark Angel and the Bearer... Is this a preparation for war? ”

“… I think it might just be a misunderstanding. ”

Elaine shook her head slightly at Karn's question, she didn't think the two Astarte legions would go to war at this juncture.

While Johnson's extremes and ruthlessness are evident to all, the warriors of the Dark Angels are by no means completely obedient to his crazy whims.

Choosing to go to war with another Astarte legion before the Great Expedition was over and the Iron Man Crisis was cleared, an order that no Astarte of the Empire would fully obey.

Although each Astarte Legion is almost unconditionally obedient to the orders of their genetic protogen, to rebel against the Empire? I'm afraid no one would think about such a thing.

Even the great rebellion not far away, at the beginning, it was set off by the Imperial Warlord himself in the name of 'Astarte will be liquidated like a thunder warrior', and almost half of the genetic prototypes endorsed it, and even under the influence of the forces of Chaos, it was successfully started.

Despite this, tens of thousands of loyalist warriors in the major mutinous legions were initially reluctant to defect to the Human Empire, and even died in the battle of Istfan III.

It can be seen that even Astarte will not fully obey the orders of their genetic father on some important issues.

If Johnson insists on being an enemy of the Bearer, then his Primordial Guards should be able to hold back the lion's crazy thoughts in time.

Although Elaine does not yet know what the internal situation of the Dark Angels is now, judging from the future situation of the Caliban, which will fall apart due to civil war, the inside of this strongest army is probably not as flawless as it seems.

At the very least, Luthor, who would become the head of the fallen angels in the future, should have returned to Caliban under Johnson's arrangement, and devoted himself to logistics.

However, the resentment in his heart that longed to participate in the battle, and the anger of being treated like this by his adopted son, was probably not completely subdued.

After all... From a father, to a subordinate, or even a sudden change in the relationship between father and son, is not an easy topic.

A little upset at what had happened to Luther, Elaine's mind slowly pulled out of the forbidden knowledge and returned to the situation in front of her.

Now, what she saw before her eyes was the scene of a legion battle that would be triggered by just a few sparks.

If one of the cruisers' light spears and grand cannons 'accidentally' misfired, then the fate of these two legions will not only be saddled with the crime of [infighting], but also from the emperor's doubts about them, and compared to the small fleet of the speakers, the Dark Angel may have to bear more heavy charges and doubts.

After all, although the Great Expedition has entered its final stage, it is not completely over. Even after the end of the future Ulanor victory, the Great Expedition will continue under the command of the Imperial War Commander, until the chaotic forces carry out a comprehensive erosion of the real universe, and the expansion of human territory in the galaxy can be regarded as a temporary end, and the scope of the expedition is only limited to the illumination limit of the Star Torch.

And after the rebellion was put down, the weakened and crumbling human empire no longer had the energy to launch another great expedition.

Thanks to Elaine's efforts, she thinks she should have temporarily snuffed out the many windows of Chaos' invasion of reality—the maelstrom, the hand of fate, and if there are no surprises, the time for the mutiny to happen may be pushed back for a while, after all, a cosmic rotten person like Erebus is a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

Of course, Elaine didn't think that the Chaos Gods had any more pawns to fuel the outbreak of the Great Rebellion, whether it was Fogham's sword or the death guard's Typhonse, they all had the terrifying ability to drag an entire Astarte army into the water, not to mention the 'brilliant Magnus', who knew that the near-unbridled Brotherhood of psionic exploration had fallen into Tzeentch's web of intrigue in a thousand ways.

Even oneself may not be immune to the clutches of terror in the future.

While the Twelfth Legion had broken free from the fate of the World Eaters in that Chaos Crusade, the blessings of the Sadist still cut through the veils of reality and subspace, wrapping tightly around Elaine and her warriors wherever they passed.

It can be said that the severed arm she left behind in subspace may have turned into something akin to a contract, constantly tracing and peeking at Elaine's tracks and actions-

Elaine had a hunch that her decisive battle with the Blood God might not last until the distant forty-second millennium.

As for until then...

She still has a lot of things to deal with.

For example, regulate the relationship between the dark angel and the bearer.

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(End of chapter)