Perdita and Aeros are probably tens of trillions of kilometers apart in a straight line, so there's no need for a grand display, and even less need to bring the family's flagship.
Because of the secrecy of this trip, and the involvement of alien technology, it wasn't suitable for too many people to know. So, Emrys left the Holy Sanguinary Guard behind and only brought the Necron Lord and lady.
After several hours, they arrived at this "Death world," located on the edge of the Underworld Star System, shrouded in massive dust, making the world's surface almost invisible, with an extremely harsh climate.
According to Thorzak, in the ancient era when the Necrons were active, this was once a battlefield between the Necrons and the Old Ones.
But after the war, the Necrons learned the truth about being deceived by the C'tan, so they built many Super-Dimensional Tesseracts to imprison the fragments of the C'tan, and this was one of them.
"At least a million years have passed since my era," Thorzak said from the spaceship, looking out the viewport. Two faint green ghostly fires flickered in his hollow metal pupils, as if reminiscing about past glory.
He finally sighed.
"Even though I have great confidence in Necron technology, a million years is still too long. I cannot guarantee whether the C'tan fragment imprisoned in this Super-Dimensional Tesseract is still there after such a long time."
"Then — what if it's not there?" Emrys asked curiously.
"You'd best pray to your gods that it's still there," Thorzak warned him with an unspeakable solemnity in his gaze. "If it's not — then we'll have to be a bit more careful."
"What do you mean?"
Emrys frowned, not quite understanding.
"If it's not there, why do we still need to be careful? Even if the C'tan fragment escaped, it would have fled this world long ago, right?"
"Hmph…"
Thorzak sneered and turned his gaze back to the harsh atmospheric conditions of Perdita, saying meaningfully.
"Human, you don't understand the C'tan at all. You are still very young in this universe — the C'tan are very 'vengeful'!
Saying this, the Necron Lord turned his head, two faint green ghostly fires flickering with unsettling agitation in his dark metallic eye sockets.
"Believe me, if he has escaped his cage, the first thing he would do is definitely not leave — but stay here and wait for our arrival."
Hearing this, Emrys couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.
"You mean, we might very well be walking into a trap set by the C'tan?!"
"Nothing to be surprised about, is there?" Thorzak said calmly.
"The C'tan severed the future of our race; we shattered their bodies and imprisoned them in cages as energy. Anything can happen."
That's true — Emrys' mood tightened quite a bit. After all, these were the gods of the material universe, each possessing power capable of destroying the Heavens and Earth!
In his understanding, the C'tan were the most ancient and powerful beings born during the Big Bang, living by devouring the energy of stars. They were originally pure energy bodies, but after plundering and consuming a large number of lives, they all gained physical forms.
It's worth noting that the C'tan are Warp-insulators; they are pure material beings, their power derived entirely from the real universe. Therefore, every C'tan can be considered the strongest non-psychic entity in the universe, and the true gods of the present world!
Of course, this didn't prevent them from being backstabbed by the Necrons, one by one shattered into fragments and imprisoned in Super-Dimensional Tesseracts, becoming "Super power banks."
"I hope nothing goes wrong —" Emrys could only pray silently in his heart that the damned C'tan was still in its cage, otherwise there would be trouble.
While they were chatting, the small spaceship had already entered the atmosphere. In the violent storm clouds, lightning flickered, each flash erupting with terrifying, Earth-shattering power!
In an instant!
Just as the dazzling light flashed, Emrys' peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a ferocious and angry face interwoven by violent lightning in the thick, dark cumulonimbus clouds!
At that moment, Emrys inexplicably felt a chill all over his body, his pupils suddenly trembled, and he turned his head to stare intently out the window.
"Did you guys see — a face just now?!"
"No," Hilda shook her head. Seeing Emrys' serious expression, not like he was joking, she reiterated.
"I've been watching outside the whole time and haven't noticed anything. Are you too nervous and mistook something?"
"…"
Emrys' face was grim, his eyes flickering. He was absolutely certain that he hadn't been mistaken just now!
In those thick, dark cumulonimbus clouds, though very brief, possibly less than a thousandth of a second, there was indeed a face interwoven with lightning, full of anger!
Could it be the C'tan?!
"Calm down," Thorzak was also observing outside. He said calmly.
"I didn't see it either. If it really were a C'tan, there's no way I wouldn't have noticed."
"I hope — it was just my imagination." Although Emrys said this, his heart was filled with extreme vigilance. He trusted his eyes, and he trusted his intuition!
Just now, in the lightning, there really was a human face, angry and distorted — besides a C'tan, Emrys couldn't imagine what else it could be.
"Great Necron Lord, there's a question I'd like to ask you." Just in case, Emrys turned to Thorzak.
"If the C'tan has escaped its cage, do you have a way to re-seal it?"
"That depends on the situation."
Thorzak considered for a few seconds and replied.
"If it's in the initial stages of revival and hasn't recovered its strength, I might barely be able to seal a fragment. But if it's a collective of more than one C'tan fragment —
I suggest we run. That level of revival is beyond what an ordinary dynasty can handle; it must be reported to the Pharaoh!"
"Sorry, I need to interrupt you both."
Suddenly, Hilda's eyes widened, staring intently outside as if she had seen something terrifying.
"Emrys, was what you saw just now — this thing?!"
Emrys was stunned, then followed Hilda's gaze. He saw, in the thick, dark cloud mass, an extremely angry and distorted face, seemingly between virtual and real, constantly shifting its form.
Occasionally, pixel-level spots filled in the gaps in its outline!
"Oh no!!!"
Upon seeing that image, Thorzak suddenly let out a loud cry, his voice filled with urgency and regret.
"Go, get out of here quickly, it's — Magladroth!"
"What the heck?!" Emrys looked utterly bewildered.
"It's the 'Void Dragon,' please try to read more next time, okay?!" Hilda said, her face pale.
The… Void Dragon?!
Emrys' brain crashed, but before he could react, he felt the entire spaceship suddenly shake violently!
Immediately after, the spaceship seemed to be bound by a powerful gravitational force. All instruments failed, engines flamed out, and it began to plummet towards the world's surface at an extremely high speed!
Damn it, he knew something was going to happen!
The last thought that flashed through Emrys' mind before the crash was that he should have brought Morgana. Wasn't this right up her alley?!