Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 124 The dust has settled
No longer listening to the angry curses of the servants around her, Sivir felt calmer than ever before.

He turned around and walked back to the room where the reactor was. Although Gao Yi's soldiers were also afraid of death, they now calmly accepted their fate.

Sivir slowly took off her power armor and sat on the ground.

"Gao Yi Mungat, you're an interesting fellow. I'd like to see the opportunity we've earned you. What a different world you can transform the Kronus Expanse into. I'll go to the Golden Throne and ask the great God-Emperor, are you truly worthy of His trust?"

Gao Yi could not hear what Xiweier said, but he saw Xiweier's calm look.

Gao Yi knew that Xiweier was a smart person, but his frankness was a little beyond Gao Yi's expectations.

"As expected of the Grand Inquisitor. He's a ruthless man!"

He had originally thought that Sivir was attacking his soldiers in a final struggle.

Gao Yi no longer paid attention to what was happening below. The interstellar soldiers who had warped here did not need any compensation. They had no family here, but they all had their own lives and their own names. They also gave their lives for Gao Yi.

After all, their deaths were due to Gao Yi's selfishness. Even if it was in the interests of the dynasty, Gao Yi did not intend to make his act of sending them to their deaths public.

The soldiers have begun to evacuate one after another on transport planes.

As the reactor's overload level continued to increase, the entire planet was experiencing some large-scale earthquakes.

"Pavian! How are the priests collecting the technological heritage?! You have at most one hour!"

"Sir! Give us a little more time! This is too much information!"

Pavian was reading a large amount of information from the Thinker, and he felt that his storage element was about to explode.

Even Pavian had to stick the Mark of Purity on his forehead in an attempt to increase the efficiency and capacity of the storage components.

If he were given enough time, he could back up all the data here.

But now he and his priests could only pick out the important ones.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the earthquakes on the entire planet became more and more severe.

Most of the soldiers have completed the evacuation, but the traitors who tried to take off and escape were ruthlessly attacked by the warships in orbit. The traitors who were unable to leave could only look at the sky in despair and accept death. The evil god they believed in would not come to save them.

The entire planet has been surrounded, and the angry loyalists will never give the traitors any chance to survive.

Gao Yi rushed into the mechanical sanctuary where Pavian was.

He rudely stopped Pavian and his priests from continuing to collect knowledge.

"It's too late! Pavian! Hurry! Soldiers, take all the priests with you!!"

"There's still a little left! I can collect more! Lord Gao Yi! There's still time!"

But no matter how Pavian called out, Gao Yi didn't give him any choice.

For these priests who regard technology and knowledge as their life, watching these technologies disappear is more painful than killing them.

Gao Yi directly carried Pavian and then boarded a shuttle.

If Pavian hadn't had his tear glands removed, Gao Yi estimated that Pavian would have burst into tears on the spot. The shuttle carried all the soldiers back to the warship in orbit.

Gao Yi immediately ordered the warships to move away from the planet that was about to collapse.

Most of the fleet in orbit has retreated.

What Gao Yi didn't expect was that some extremely loyal people of the Kulda Dynasty were still driving shuttles towards the surface of the planet. Their wandering merchants had not returned, and they were trying to make a final effort.

But their attempt was destined to result in a waste of lives.

But more people could see that the planet was about to collapse, so they increased the speed of their warships to the maximum. When the warships sailed a sufficient distance, the planet contaminated by chaos began to collapse.

Energy that seemed to have the power to destroy the world erupted from the core of the planet.

Gao Yi was looking at the planet from the bridge, when suddenly the bridge was enveloped by the dazzling light from the explosion at the core of the planet. The continental plates were folding and reorganizing in blasphemous geometric shapes, and the planet's atmosphere completely disappeared.

It seemed as if a black hole briefly appeared in the center of the planet and was rapidly swallowing the earth.

The enormous energy in the planet's core also destroyed the connection between the subspace and reality, and the subspace crack that was constantly devouring the planet was slowly closing.

Even though the fleet had moved far away, the shock wave caused by the explosion still affected the fleet.

"Lord! The entire planet has disappeared."

The boatswain said in a daze, and the people who witnessed the scene of the destruction of an entire planet were speechless for a long time.

Gao Yi also knew that everything was settled.

After a brief silence, countless communications were sent to Gao Yi's fleet. Both the warships of the Empire and the Kulda Dynasty came over.

None of the imperial high-ranking officials returned, and only Gao Yi came back, which made them all unacceptable.
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"Lord Gao Yi! Why are only you and your soldiers back? Where is Lady Asbais? Where did she go?" The people of the Kulda Dynasty questioned Gao Yi.

The people from the Imperial Inquisition also raised their own questions. Even the people from the Mechanicus came here. The loss of a sage was very serious for the Order.

Moreover, a large amount of the sacred assets of the Mechanicus were lost on that planet, and the Order also had a large investment in the capital of Winsterkel.

"God Emperor, what do you mean by 'Only me and my soldiers have returned'? My troops also brought back a large number of soldiers from other forces who were fighting on that planet. If it weren't for me, they would have been reduced to nothingness along with that planet.

I know what you're thinking! You must be thinking I deliberately killed Asbais and Grand Inquisitor Sivir? Why would I do that? They both sacrificed their lives for the great God-Emperor. They volunteered to go to the reactor that overloaded the Void Shield, a mission that meant certain death.

I stayed in the Upper Nest with my warriors to buy time for them, and the evil god even used a ritual to summon the great demon Skarbrand under his command!"

Everyone fell silent after hearing Gao Yi's words. Most people might not even know the existence of the Great Demon, let alone the name Skarbrand.

Only members of the Inquisition know what this name represents.

But they could never accept the belief that Gao Yi had solved the problem of Skarbrand. They knew very well how much damage would be brought to the empire whenever a demon of this level came to the real universe.

"Impossible! What are you relying on? Your army? Lies! Everything you said is a lie!"

"Lies. If you don't believe me, what about the Space Wolves Astartes? Or the surviving Death Watch?"

(End of this chapter)