……

After filling his stomach with fruit, Ryan was taken back to his residence on Karis by Sutick and Haring.

The place of residence is a fortified city.

The city was surrounded by fortified fortress-shaped walls, and countless artillery fires were bombarding the beast tide that was pouring towards the walls.

Those beasts don't know what they're mad about......

Ryan watched as the tank-sized beasts slammed into the walls as if he were commanded by something.

The hunters told Ryan that they had been sent by the city to find the beast's lair, but they didn't find it, but it didn't matter, the beast wasn't about to enter the city anyway.

The hunter took out the communicator and said a few words.

Then a transport plane flew out of the city, and the heavy artillery and heavy explosives on it repelled the beasts that were gradually surrounding Ryan, and then flew back to the city with Ryan and the two hunters.

When the transport plane landed on the tarmac, the hatch opened.

A deep, disgruntled voice entered the hatch.

"Gunboat aircraft should be used defensively, including transport aircraft that have been converted into gunboats."

A man of close height to Ryan walked towards the tarmac and was surrounded by several City Defense Force personnel.

The moment he saw this person clearly, Ryan's brain thuded, and the whole person stayed in place, and more memory fragments emerged from his brain.

The hunters saluted the man who came as he approached.

The man was tall and muscular, dressed in rough black armor and adorned with a sword with wings on his chest and shoulders.

That's obviously a Space Marine.

At least before.

And after seeing Ryan clearly, the Space Marines were stunned for a moment, and then pulled out their two guns and fired.

Ryan's massive body moved as abruptly as the Space Marine's shots, and he dodged two explosive bombs in an instant and rushed in front of the Space Marine, slamming his fists into the sides of the terracotta steel helmet as the Space Marine's hands were just on the sword.

The terracotta helmet was smashed into cracks, but Ryan apparently relented.

The Space Marines felt as if their heads had been directly hit by Ryan, their brains shut down for two seconds, and their bodies fell to their knees weakly.

He was not dead, and after regaining consciousness, he still tried to shoot, but was pressed to the ground by Ryan with one hand and could not move.

"Let go of Commander Zabriel!"

"You beastly madman!"

Soldiers near the tarmac rushed at once, their bodies shrouded in power armor bowing slightly, raising rifles that could shoot atoms and molecules and aiming at Ryan's head.

The two hunters who had brought Ryan back were also targeted.

But no one fired, because it probably was not the enemy who was pressing the commander at this time, but ......

A genoplasm.

Ryan heard that the person he was pressing was called Zabriel, and he could see that Zabriel, whom he was pressing in the city, had a high status, but he still didn't let go, until someone scolded those hunters for being traitors who brought the enemy back, and he roared and refuted: "The one I pressed is a traitor!" ”

Lane's memory goes back to the eve of the destruction of the Caliban.

Zabriel wanted to kill him, whether it was 10,000 years ago or now, Ryan remembered it clearly.

"Liar!"

A muffled sound came from the Space Marine's helmet, and the words that followed stabbed Ryan in the heart like a knife.

"You're the traitor! You betrayed Caliban! You betrayed the Legion! You betray the Empire! ”

"!"

Ryan roared.

"Nonsense? So where have you been for 10,000 years? ”

"You ask me? I'd like to ask where you've been, what have you done, how can a Space Marine survive 10,000 years? Are you the same as me? ”

"Caliban! The subspace storm of that time! We only broke away from the subspace four hundred years ago, we were hunted down for the good you did, and if we are found, we will be punished with the most cruel punishment! ”

"Holy! 10,000 years ago I returned to Caliban from Terra, and you opened fire on me! ”

"It was you who ordered us to go to Caliban, and then the fleet was firing at us, and our brothers landed and prepared to go to war with us. The first time I caught a glimpse of you in all these years was when you killed a recruit from your own home planet! Wearing the armor of the First Legion, their first real battle turned out to be against their genetic protoplasm and his executioners! ”

No one could figure out what Ryan and Zabriel were talking about.

Only those who had studied the history of the empire knew that they were arguing about what happened 10,000 years ago when Caliban, the home planet of Gene No. 1, was destroyed.

After a few words with Zabriel, Ryan suddenly got up and let him go.

Relieving himself from the weight of the Father of Genes, Zabriel got up and took two steps back, shaking his shoulder armor to massage his crushed shoulder.

The two looked at each other.

After a long silence, Ryan looked at his heir in amazement: "What the are you talking about?" ”

……

A moment later.

In a tavern in the city, Ryan and Zabriel sat facing each other.

Both had a glass of wine in front of them.

Zabriel stared at Ryan fiercely.

Ryan looked blankly at his heir, who no longer recognized him.

Anyway, the two of them sat down and had a good talk.

The things that tend to cause two people to argue - Caliban's past, have not been brought up again, after all, neither Zabriel nor Ryan wants to smash this tavern because of a quarrel.

The two of them talked about recent events.

About this planet, about why Zabriel is here.

Ryan learns that Karis is a defense zone to the north of Tyrone's Gate, and that Tyrone's Gate is the gateway to Tyrone's Star Zone, which is equivalent to the Gate of Cadia.

The planet Karis is located on the border of Tyrone's Gate, a forest planet full of terrifying beasts, called the little Katachan.

The Tyrone Sector is extremely independent, and the Inquisition cannot place personnel into the Sector, and it is impossible for the Imperial Navy and the Space Marines to enter the Sector without permission.

Due to this trait, Karis has gathered quite a few weirdos.

This makes Karis a little special planet.

Some Elves who have committed mistakes in the world of Ark of Homes and have been exiled.

A small congregation of silent nuns who were persecuted decades ago and had no place to stay.

couldn't get along with other clans, and was slaughtered to the point that there were only a dozen boys left.

Some warbands were wiped out in the Crusade of Atonement, and the Space Marines who had nowhere to go and didn't want to join the crowd.

Even a fallen angel.

Originally, these monsters who had gathered together for a short period of time would have been eliminated directly, but during the previous period when the Red Pirates invaded the Tyrone Star Sector and Karis was isolated, these monsters helped the local civilians defend the planet.

Several Fallen Angels and Space Marines led by Zabriel, as well as Eldar and Greenskin, formed a team that assassinated many of the Red Pirates' high-ranking members, and even cooperated with the Tyrone Army to completely expel the enemy from Karris's system during the counteroffensive phase.

As a result of these exploits, they are allowed to remain in the sector while they are under surveillance and registered for archiving, but only on Karis.

Zabriel will work with the local defense team to deal with any anomalies that are spotted by the logistics machinery and have uncontrolled tendencies, including starmarines who have lost their warbands, maddened greenskins, and elves who want to make small moves...... Or it is an outsider who is suspected to be the work of the court.

"This place looks pretty good, and the standard of living should be considered the middle and lower reaches of many worlds in the empire."

Ryan grabbed a plate of meat and stuffed it into his mouth, looked left and right, his gaze swept over the elves and greenskins in the tavern who had just been removed from the city walls, and finally fixed on Zabriel: "Huh? ”

Zabriel kept a straight face and didn't say a word.

In Children of the Forest, Ryan wakes up on a planet called Karis, not on a boulder, and Karis is on the dark side of the Empire. Including those two hunter dragon sets, they are all dragon sets that saw the original body at the beginning of the game in the sons of the forest

(End of chapter)