In the 39th year of the 40th millennium, Russell left the Eye of Fear with Mortarian and arrived at the Chaos Gate of Cadia.

He remembered that he had killed his loving father in the 40th year of the 40th millennium, but after connecting to the L Stargate network through the Cadia Stargate to calibrate the clock, Russell found that it was a year ago.

"Luckily, the error is only one year." Russell was happy, he was ready to step out of the Eye of Fear and find Horus attacking Terra.

It was subspace that made him like this, and it was subspace that harmed him.

Due to the influence of subspace and the objective time-curving effect brought about by massive celestial bodies, the time flow rate of various regions of the Milky Way is inconsistent, and human civilization has long used its home planet, Sacred Terra, as a time anchor to calculate time, so it is not surprising that the decree issued 500 years ago was implemented 2,000 years ago.

It wasn't until the Terra Expedition was launched, the expeditionary fleet sailed into the sea of stars, and the important node galaxies were networked through the L-Star Gate, that too many human colonies scattered throughout the galaxy were finally able to truly synchronize the clocks.

So far, about 1/8 of the major galaxies in the Extreme Star Domain have been connected to the stargate network, especially Badab, Klentarina, Fenris, Huangquan 8... and other planets.

Russell teleported to the starport in the near orbit of the Cadia Stargate, and looked up at the purple starry sky overhead.

The Eye of Fear is turbulent, tyrannical, and disorderly, and the two stargates in the Kadia system are crowded, one public and one private, and the starport is crowded with cargo ships and war fleets from the surrounding systems.

"The aftermath of my father's death is already beginning to be felt." Motarian's weak voice appeared to be out of breath, "In 1 year, all subspace routes will be cut off, and subspace storms will be raging in disorder......"

The long night is coming.

In the distant past, after the 21st millennium of human beings, it was a galactic subspace storm and Iron Man Rebellion that ended the golden age of humanity, bringing about a painful and desperate Old Night Havoc, and carving a deep hatred of Xenomorphs and AI into the soul of every human being, which can never be erased.

"But this time it's different." Russell said. With his left hand clenched into a fist, he pointed with his thumb at the giant structure behind him that shimmered with a faint green light, "Humanity is no longer trapped at the speed of light, and there is no need to rely on the faster-than-light stargate network of the Sea of Souls to link the dotted human colonies, order will be maintained, and ignorance and superstition will be expelled." ”

"I said the night won't come again, because I'm right here."

Motarian looked down at Russell, dark green rotten power armor peeling away from him, revealing pale but toned muscles.

"In that case, I'll go with you." Motarian said in a trembling voice.

Russell casually got a cloak for Motarian to put on, and used his biometric code to contact Lord Primus of Kadia directly in Starport, intending to ask him for access to the Stargate back to Falla.

It's not that Russell didn't dare to use his physical body to go to the subspace, the current sea conditions of the main soul sea are not good, he is afraid that when he returns to Faya, he will find that hundreds of years have passed.

Leaving Grey Wind waiting for him for hundreds of years, Russell felt like he was going to be treated horribly.

"Huh?" Motarian suddenly noticed that a look of surprise quickly flashed on Russell's face, who was communicating with the Cadia government.

"What's wrong?" Motarian asked.

"Not much, just a little surprised." Russell cut off the communication and replied, "I don't need to ask the Lord of Fort Cadia to borrow the way, a branch of the Order of Truth happens to be stationed here to do a project, and I will go directly to them." ”

"A branch of the Order of Truth, stationed in Kadia?" Motari was puzzled, as far as he knew, Kadia was the most important fortress planet of the Human Empire, perhaps not one of them.

How would this fortress planet, which is located at the gate of the Eye of Fear and guards the Gate of Chaos, and which has maintained a state of all-out war forever, tolerate the long-term presence of members of an organization that is in principle an illegitimate regime? What kind of project is it worth making such a compromise for the Empire?

"Just ask the person in charge of the project." Russell said as he took Motarian out of Starport and boarded a transport plane bound for Cadia.

On the surface of the planet Cadia, on the plains of Elysion, where countless blackstone obelisks stand tall, Russell meets the huge particle accelerator-like machines that are deployed on it, as well as the project's leader, Gustav.

Gustav is a sturdy old man with a height of nearly three meters, who looks bigger than the unarmored Motarian, but under his strong body is an aging life that is about to be extinguished, and the prosthetic transformation on his body looks exaggerated, but it is mostly auxiliary work, and it does not touch the fundamentals, especially the most critical 'consciousness formatting' and 'synthetic personality matrix' of mechanical ascension are sternly rejected by him.

The conservative elder, Russell thought to himself, and then he asked Gustav, "Did the Confederation make any pact with the Reich in my absence?" What do you do in Cadia? ”

"We are trying to awaken the Blackstone Obelisk array here in preparation for the closure of the Eye of Fear in the future." Gustav replied truthfully.

"Oh?" Russell suddenly became interested, and even Motarian, who was sitting silently on the side, couldn't help but prick up his ears.

Gustav explained to Russell a series of events that had occurred during his absence:

Destroy Solemnath, capture the Void Dragon, and decipher the Blackstone ...... And, Grey Wind's plan to put all the Realm Breakers in the Eye of Fear and close the doors.

"The Order has cracked the secret of the Blackstone, and we can now synthesize the Blackstone through equipment such as nanodeformers." "There are a large number of Truth Order project teams scattered across the galaxy to deploy Blackstone Obelisk arrays to close those small subspace rifts that are scattered and scattered," Gustav said. ”

"Unexpected progress, it seems that I have to go back and praise Gray Wind...... But now that we've been able to produce our own Blackstone artifacts, why are you trying to activate these Blackstone Obelisks left behind by space necrons on Cadia? Russell was puzzled.

"Because the cost of synthetic blackstone has been high, although the production is considerable, it is still in short supply compared to the whole galaxy." Gustav explained.

After all, in addition to supplying the plan conceived by Grey Wind to close all the subspace rifts in the galaxy, there is also a huge demand within the Human Federation and the Human Empire for Blackstone creations that can isolate subspace pollution, and the production is very large, but not enough.

"So the focus of my faction's work is still on the Blackstone Creation of Space Necrons." Gustav continued, "The galaxy is littered with vast amounts of blackstone artifacts left behind by space necrons, which we did not produce ourselves, so we have no control over them.

But after a long period of research and the assistance of curved acceleration instruments, I have successfully cracked about 7/10 of the instruction set encoding of the space necromancer, and we can directly hack into the system of the necromantic relics and forcibly snatch the control of these ready-made blackstones. This will greatly reduce the resource consumption of synthetic blackstone, and will also speed up the completion of the Graywind Secretary-General's plan. ”

In short, it's better to build than to rob.

Russell nodded: "I see...... With the help of the Void Dragon's fragments, it is not surprising to decipher the secrets of the synthesis of the Blackstone. It's surprising that you have forcibly cracked the technology of space necromancy without lifting the ban on strong artificial intelligence. ”

"It's just a clumsy trick of using time to accelerate hard-stacked computing power and computing time, and it's not worth mentioning." Gustav does not have a high opinion of his achievements.

Gustav didn't tell Russell about the astrologer Orikan and the Ascension Protocol, because he didn't know either.

From the very beginning, the Ascension Protocol has been classified as the top secret of the Order, and even those with a high level of seniority and status as Gustav are not qualified to know about it.

(End of chapter)