Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 238 Death Army

"Hilandri, is this the success you're talking about?"

Lemiel could no longer suppress his emotions.

The Eldar didn't even need the Prophet's divination abilities to learn of Guilliman's awakening.

A large amount of Star Language spread throughout the Empire, but some of it was inevitably intercepted and became known to many Chaos forces, including the Eldar.

Now, Hillandri tells them that his so-called successful deal has suddenly become a joke.

Seeing the enraged Lemir, Hilandri remained silent, wanting to refute him but unable to find any words to say.

This was her first failure.

Not long after meeting Caul, everything indicated that Caul already knew everything when they made the deal, and the whole transaction was nothing short of a scam.

The final result left Hilandri both ashamed and angry.

Caul's behavior was nothing short of mocking her. In the past, only clowns schemed against others; when did it become their turn to scheme against them?

Since the emergence of Gao Yi, this special individual, the clowns' original plan to guide and interfere with the major galactic events has taken an uncontrollable turn, or even failed.

The clowns tried to gain new revelation from the God of Laughter, but received no response.

No one in this world can truly see Gao Yi's future; they can only speculate about his potential impact on the world based on other events.

Treachery is no match for him, let alone the God of Laughter.

Hilandri realized that the terms she had proposed were utterly insignificant in the eyes of the other party, who had already found a way to resurrect Guilliman.

He had once proudly told his companions that his plan had been accomplished, but what happened?
"Humanity has gained another bargaining chip. Once they can truly resolve the crisis in Kadia, allowing the Primarch and the traveling merchant to have the resources to reorganize the Empire, do you think they won't take action against the Eldar?"
This time, no matter what, our plan has completely failed. Win or lose, our Spirit Race will gain nothing. We really need to consider how to deal with the impending crisis, as it will affect the future and fate of the Spirit Race!

After a long silence, Hilandri spoke again.

"At least our losses aren't too great. Humans know the function of the Black Stone, but they don't know how to activate it. And the rune stone that opened the Web Path is only a one-time use item. The Web Path is still our greatest asset!"

But as soon as she finished speaking, a sense of unease rose in Hilandri's heart.

She had a bad feeling that they knew about the Black Stone's purpose beforehand and had obtained the method to awaken Guilliman in a way she didn't know. Could it be that they also knew how to open the Web Path?
Even if there's only a one in a billion chance, even though Hilandri kept denying it in her heart, according to Lemir, the other party was previously in the northernmost part of the empire's territory, and then appeared in the easternmost part of the empire.

The speed of this journey far exceeded the normal interstellar travel speed for humans, and the more Hilandri thought about it, the more panicked she became.

Even Kaul was like that. It would take at least several dozen days to travel from the planet he traded with to the Macuragian space, but he inexplicably arrived in Macuragian.

Everything that happened seemed to confirm my suspicions.

However, Hilandri only guessed half of it correctly.

If the Eldar loses the Netway, they will lose their most important means of survival.

Just as Hilandri was about to express her thoughts, Lemir interrupted her.

"So what? Hilandri, we inherited the legacy of the ancient saints. Only we know the route and how to open the Net Path."

However, we do not know how to repair or expand the network. Over countless years, the network has become riddled with holes, and the safe areas are shrinking every day. Aren't there enough alien races wandering in the network? Not to mention the demons that have appeared in the network due to the gaps...
Those monkeys who believe in chaos, those chaos wizards!

Those filthy orcs have even begun to take root and multiply in some of the netpaths, and there's that Primarch, whom humans call the Khan, and his group of guys who ride hovercrafts recklessly through the netpaths—we still haven't been able to drive them out or kill them.

He hunted down every alien he saw in the web.

And then there's that giant wolf, the genetic prototype that humans call the Wolf King. He and his pack even use the damaged web tunnels as temporary resting places. Sometimes I can't even tell whether the web tunnels belong to us or to other alien races.

We know better than those monkeys that their Primarchs are still alive! They only left the monkeys out of disappointment or some other Primarch, and once they return to the human empire, do you know what that means?!
The internet is no longer as safe as we thought.

We can't hide in the internet forever; sooner or later we'll have to return to the real universe, that's where we truly belong.

Lemir's words confirmed that Harald's search for Lemanrus was in the right direction; the other party had indeed appeared in the Webway, and Lemanrus, who rushed into the warp, had used the Webway as a place to rest.

Lemir sighed. What's done is done, and they have no power to change it. As he spoke, he looked at some Eldar not far away.

Among these spirit races are the Ark Spirits, Dark Spirit Warriors, Witch Spirits, and even the Savage Spirits.

Spirit races belonging to different factions are gathering together, seemingly without any barriers between them. Spirit races that should be clashing in Japan are now sitting together harmoniously.

Their faith has changed; they now worship the great god of death, Aeneid, and under Aeneid's protection, they have abandoned their original methods of protecting their souls.

The Dark Eldar no longer need to torment others to compensate for their own souls, and the Ark Eldar and Wild Eldar no longer need to utilize the Infinite Circuit.

The half-awakened Eldar Death God protects them, and even after they die, their souls will no longer be taken away by Slaanesh, but will return to Aeneid.

The group of clowns approached the Ark Spirits and addressed the female Spirit who was waiting for them.

She exuded the power of Inierd, while the red-armored spirits around her were known as the Thousand-Faced Beings.

They each held an old woman's sword in their hands.

“Everene… Could they possibly have a way to harness the power of Aeneid? As far as I know, there is no other power in the galaxy capable of reversing the life or death of a Primarch.”

The power of death is indeed miraculous; it can even transform a red-letter warrior who has become a handful of dust back into flesh and blood.

In his understanding of life and death, Death God Aeneid has a unique perspective.

It was Lemir who found Evelynn's army of Death, who were originally scheduled to go to help Kohl resurrect Guilliman, and stopped their mission.

But before the next step of the plan could begin, Guilliman himself came back to life.

When faced with a group of clowns who helped her evade the Comoros overlord Victor's encirclement, Evelyn did not refuse, knowing that these clowns had been secretly assisting her all along.

But unexpectedly, upon arriving here, I witnessed a quarrel between clowns.

This lowered his opinion of the clowns even further, realizing that the clowns weren't actually in control of everything as they claimed.

“Lemir, this is impossible. Aeneid would not favor humans. He entrusted me with the power to exercise his divine authority in the mortal world. Humans must be using methods we do not know. Even I must use the Old Woman's Sword to accomplish all this. Four of the five Old Woman's Swords are in our hands, and humans could not possibly know their true purpose.”

(End of this chapter)