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Chapter 240: It Takes a Farmer to Know a Farmer
🕑 Added 2025-08-23 12:41:15 +0000 UTCChapter 240: It Takes a Farmer to Know a Farmer
But compared to the Harlequins' desire to eliminate this variable, he was more practical. After careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons, he chose another way. He was trying to find a path out of a dead end.
It was unwise for the current Eldar to have a direct conflict with humanity. The existence of Lucan and the resurrection of Guilliman would certainly bring some vitality back to the corrupt Imperium, and the Imperium of Man would usher in a long-awaited period of ascendancy.
The appearance of xenos like the Protoss and the Zerg made Eldrad feel that humanity's cooperation with other races might open a door. If those xenos could, then the Eldar could as well. Even if they knew that there would be no complete trust between them, it did not matter. In the end, it was about interests. And the Eldar could also use this cooperation to ease the relationship between the two sides and slowly find a new breakthrough.
He was certain that as soon as these humans showed any sign of revival, they would be unable to suppress their greedy nature. At that time, they would inevitably have irreconcilable conflicts with other races. The Necrons were constantly awakening. The conflict between them was even more irreconcilable than that between the Eldar and humanity. Although he was unwilling to admit it, these Necrons were very powerful. At that time, they would wear down these humans for the Eldar.
Everything should be prioritized for the resurrection of Ynnead!
"When the curtain falls, the world will be destroyed, and only humans and those who submit to you will remain."
Lemire's riddle had actually revealed some of the truth. It was just that the Eldar would not make that choice.
In this day and age, which powerful race did not have a god as a backer? The Orks had Gork and Mork. The Tyranids had the Hive Mind. Humanity had the Emperor. Even the T'au had a so-called goddess T'au'va. Even the materialistic Necrons would use the shards of the C'tan, these gods of the material universe, as weapons and energy sources, which was also a way of using the power of the gods.
In this day and age, to make a name for yourself, you had to talk about your background and your power... In an idealistic world, if you didn't have a god as a backer, life would be quite difficult. Otherwise, no matter how you fought, it seemed you could not shake the foundation of the other party. They could even have a miracle descend from time to time.
The gods of the Eldar were once very strong, but these Eldar had played too much, causing a lack of faith in their gods, which had greatly reduced their power. They had been killed by the Chaos Gods or imprisoned. Now, the Eldar could only rely on themselves for everything. The Laughing God did not dare to appear directly, and the only remaining Eldar god who could directly descend with a miracle was the shard of the bloody-handed Khaine. Although many Eldar still revered this power, Eldrad sneered at it. A complete Khaine might be fine, but a fragmented one... forget it. Eldrad felt that he even had the ability to kill an avatar formed from a shard of Khaine. He had personally witnessed that human primarch, Fulgrim, strangle an Avatar of Khaine to death before he had even ascended. This power was not enough to save the Eldar. And Ynnead was the best choice for the Eldar to have a backer again.
This made him, who had always acted alone, rush to the place where Yvraine and the others were at the fastest speed. Fortunately, Yvraine still remembered her most important mission and had not been deceived by these Harlequins. Eldrad's appearance and words made Yvraine even more certain of her choice.
"Eldrad, what do you mean!"
"Lemire, prophecies cannot save the Eldar. Do not be so obsessed with them anymore. If prophecies were really all useful, the Eldar would not have become like this. The Ynnari will not help you attack those humans. Our strength is already small. The precious followers of the God of the Dead should not be sacrificed for this. You should help us find the Croneswords for free, to resurrect the great God of the Dead. We need more of our kin to join us. If you still want to continue to lobby here, I advise you to give up. With this time, you might as well go and persuade Vect. Their encirclement of us has never stopped. We not only have to face Chaos and humanity, but even these kin of ours do not intend to let us go. Is this the unity you speak of? I heard that there have been some changes in Commorragh as well. Perhaps it can give you a chance to persuade him!"
"Commorragh? What happened there?"
"They would not welcome me. How would I know? But I heard that it is very chaotic there now. Perhaps you can go and ask Vect."
From time to time, the Dark Eldar who had fled from Commorragh and joined the Ynnari would also bring news of the Dark City. And at this moment, Commorragh was suffering from the Zerg...
The Zerg, with their extremely strong reproductive ability, had, under the leadership of Abathur, already occupied a large area in the lower levels of Commorragh. From time to time, they would attack slave convoys, which also made the surviving humans there grow stronger. The combat suits had given them the ability to survive. Everything had happened too suddenly. By the time the Dark Eldar realized that the Zerg were not ordinary mutated creatures, it was already too late. It had even forced Vect to recall the forces that were originally out searching for the Ynnari to return to Commorragh to clean up these Zerg that had appeared from nowhere.
"Let's go, Yvraine. While the humans are attacking Cadia, perhaps we can go and help them, and at the same time, make contact with that human in the prophecy and the revived primarch. We can establish some friendship. At least, we Ynnari have not yet had a conflict with humanity."
Under Eldrad's leadership, the Ynnari once again entered the Webway.
At this time, Guilliman had also temporarily put aside Macragge, which was still cleaning up the remaining Chaos and xenos forces. The clean-up work was handed over to the two companies of Ultramarines left on Macragge, while all the other members of the Chapter, along with their primarch, embarked on the journey to Cadia. The captured Blackstone Fortress was left in the orbit of Macragge to be repaired by the SCVs. It could not be repaired to a combat-ready state in a short period of time.
Guilliman and Lucan were both on the Stellar Pioneer. Through the communication equipment left on Cadia, Guilliman had already begun to understand the situation there in real-time. And news from Terra had also reached him. He knew that the Custodes and the High Lords had also begun to act.
The non-warp-based travel technology, the long-range communication that did not require astropaths, and the various unseen technological equipment made Lucan more and more mysterious in Guilliman's eyes. He also knew what this technology represented. What had his father been doing during the time he had been asleep? Where did he find this monster... And his words and actions were completely unlike someone born in the Imperium. But he also knew the Imperium very well.
And everything he had learned now had also rekindled a fire in Guilliman's heart. With these things, he felt that he could really change the Imperium. It was just that the process would be incomparably difficult. He really wanted to return to Terra now, but he had to solve the problem of Cadia first. Lucan had already told him the importance of Cadia and the blackstone on it.
And for Lucan, he had also truly witnessed the troop-massing ability of the 500 Worlds led by a Guilliman. At this moment, outside the assembly point near the Webway gate, the forces from other sectors or Segmentums could not arrive in time, but the number of fleets from the 500 Worlds had already reached over a hundred. The number of elite auxiliary troops had also reached over two million. And these were not the planetary defense forces that were just there to make up the numbers. And this number was still continuously increasing.
The influence of Guilliman and the Ultramarines here was simply too great. Most of the planetary governors were willing to completely follow Guilliman's command.
And Lucan also handed over the command of the Raiders and the Dynasty's conventional fleet to Guilliman. Of course, except for the Protoss and the Zerg. He was not worried that Guilliman would usurp his power. These elite of the Dynasty were absolutely loyal to him, just as the forces of the Ultramarines and the 500 Worlds were loyal to Guilliman. But the Dynasty did indeed lack sufficiently outstanding command-type talents. These forces could display even greater strength in Guilliman's hands.
The ability to command in battle really depended on talent, and Lucan also knew that he clearly did not possess this ability.
