"...I often dream recently, dreaming that I am sitting on the back of a huge golden phoenix, which takes me soaring among billions of stars, through many worlds, those beautiful, spectacular, mysterious, cruel,
Twisted, terrifying... so bizarre... Finally, it fell under a big tree. This tree was so big, and it looked very strange, as if... like a body with only all the nerves left and the head facing down.
, there is a person who cannot see clearly sitting under the tree... It should be a human, pointing one finger to the sky and the other to the ground..."
Leaning on Soshyan's chest, Veronica murmured softly in her sleep with her eyes closed.
After listening for a while, Soshyan gently held her shoulders and said softly:
"Are you feeling well?"
"It's not that...it's just boring. I meet those nagging envoys, representatives, prophets...I don't even want to go to the parliament every day. I come and go all about those topics, always for the sake of 'possibility'
Arguing with such a meaningless argument is not as interesting as watching the Arrakhan girls weave a tapestry of the void. How about I join you in the next battle?"
"Hey, your health is so important, how can you run around?"
As he spoke, Soshyan's hand touched Veronica's already slightly bulging belly.
"...I don't know when the little guy will be born."
"The visionaries can't judge. I can only wait now, but pregnancy does not affect my actions. I even feel that my psychic power has become stronger... Now if I meet that stinky dog again, I will definitely
You can hang him up and then send four howling banshee bishops to humiliate him severely!"
"Ha, if he dares to come close to you again, I will deal with him first. By the way, when fighting the Necrontyr this time, Occam got a cage made by Szarak. I swallowed a fragment of the Skinner and obtained
Control of the Skinned Temple..."
After listening to Soshiyan's account of his experience in the Skinning Temple and the process of regaining Drazak, the Kingdom of Bones, Veronica opened her eyes, looked at him curiously, and stretched out her delicate hand to touch
Touch his face.
"My Soshyan, you won't really become a star god, will you?"
"Well...I can't say for sure, but now I am still a flesh and blood body...well, a relatively solid flesh and blood body. My physiological functions are still an organic body, not an energy body."
"Then this is a good thing. By enslaving these skinners, you can easily deal with enemies who are far away. You don't have to worry about what will happen to other people in the royal court when they find out. Being able to enslave ancient enemies is a big deal.
It’s something to be proud of, but it’s too late for them to be happy. Ada is not as rigid as humans, and using enemies to fight enemies is exactly the guiding ideology of most Arks.”
"I'm just wondering, is the power I've accumulated now...enough to attack Nurgle's realm?"
Veronica heard this and shook her head.
"I'm afraid it's not enough. Let alone the domain of the God of Corruption, it's not even powerful enough to challenge the entire Comoros."
"Oh, yes, the Hope has disappeared so far. The power here in the Royal Court seems to have expanded to a bottleneck. Unless a large-scale Ark World can be leveraged, it will be difficult to achieve a rapid increase in hard power.
opportunity, even if they vassal a few more barbarian kingdoms, they won’t help much. There are already seventeen barbarian kingdoms that have joined the Royal Court, right? Not to mention providing help, they even took away a considerable number of the Royal Court’s troops.
It’s difficult to protect them.”
"Husband, have you ever considered recruiting those pirates? I seem to have mentioned it to you before?"
Hearing what Veronica said in advance, Soshyan couldn't help but be silent.
Doral has actually mentioned the Ada pirate force many times, and also strongly suggested that the royal court put forward appropriate conditions to "recruit" these space prodigals and interstellar heroes.
Most of the Eldar pirates are Ark Eldar youths who are tired of the strict dogma of the Tao and have just come of age. They are passionate about the galaxy and adventure, and cannot sit in shrines all day long to receive Tao training, because some people often choose to leave their homes and go out for adventure. Ark
In principle, the world does not encourage its young people to venture out recklessly. After all, the fertility rate in Ark society is extremely low. Young people risking death and running out to seek excitement will only make Ark's unhealthy population structure worse. But at the same time, Ark
In some aspects, especially in terms of personal choice, it is a place of extreme freedom. The prophets believe that everyone's destiny is already fixed and cannot be changed. Since they have chosen this path, they will not deliberately obstruct it.
When the young Eldar formed various small groups and set off on adventures on warships gifted from their hometown (there is really no shortage of ships in Douya, just give them as you like...), each Eldar pirate group was formed, and many people in many places
They will not return to their hometown of Ark World for many years. Some of their descendants were even born in deep space battleships and never set foot on their hometown Ark. Since they are pirates, their daily life is to raid and plunder.
fleets of other species (mainly humans), and subsisted on plundered supplies, or brought to Comoros for trade.
Yes, although most of the Eldar pirates come from the Craft World, most pirate fleets can keep their feet on both sides of the law and maintain good relations with the Craft World and Commorragh. Some pirates are even willing to fight with their own dinosaur-obsessed people.
The savage kinsmen farmed together to gain a safe haven on the savage Eldar planet.
This determines that their ingredients are very complex, which is why Soshyan always has concerns.
Doral told Soshiyan that the mental state of the Eldar pirates may be closer to the Eldar during the Empire. They are neither as highly self-disciplined as the Ark Eldar nor as perverted and indulgent as the Comorian Eldar. These pirates are
The culture and habits are actually quite consistent with the Royal Court. The Royal Court also has neither strict discipline nor indulgence in the "middle zone". The key point is that these Eldar pirates are all good at naval battles and are good at dealing with various naval battle situations.
, among them there are many top captains and fleet commanders who have commanded thousands of naval battles. This kind of excellent naval combat talents is very lacking and urgently needed by the Royal Court.
Perhaps aware of the hidden message in Soshyan's silence, Veronica whispered:
"Are you worried about...Comoros and humans?"
Soshiyang nodded slightly.
"Well, the composition of the pirates is too complex, and they involve too many forces from all sides. They are a group of unpredictable and capricious forces. And although I have not come into contact with them, there are too many records of the empire's contact with them.
..Even if they are willing to be recruited by the Royal Court, will they give up plundering and become the Imperial Navy safely? I don’t think so, or most of them won’t. They will only belong to the Royal Court in name and use the Royal Court as a safe haven.
, or even going around under the banner of the Royal Court to cause trouble, that would be really troublesome."