"The Imperium of Man will charge at the forefront, and we only need to hide behind them. Once Chaos and the Imperium of Man are both severely weakened, we will be able to seize the fruits of their labor and restore the Aeldari to their former glory."
The Aeldari prophet Kasareth, who had previously assisted Alex, was ecstatic upon learning that Alex had allocated a portion of safe planets to the Aeldari as thanks for their efforts in resurrecting Sanguinius.
Everything that was happening now was just as he had predicted.
The Aeldari would get a chance to recuperate, while the Imperium of Man, due to its own power, would go to war with the Chaos Gods.
In the end, both sides would suffer heavy losses, and the Aeldari could take the opportunity to rise.
The resurrected Sanguinius had sparked a new round of War in the Webway.
It was imaginable that in the not-too-distant future, the Imperium of Man and the Chaos Gods would inevitably erupt into unimaginable conflict.
At that time, the terrible war between the two sides would ignite the stars, causing countless massacres.
Whether humanity won or Chaos won, it didn't matter much to the Aeldari.
Because both sides would suffer heavy casualties, and in the end, they could only watch as the Aeldari rose, once again becoming the overlords of the galaxy.
Not only Kasareth, but also Aeldari prophets like Eldrad shared the same idea.
Humans would charge at the front, while they would develop well from behind.
Just like during the War in Heaven, they would be the ones to have the last laugh.
As for Alex's generosity, Trazyn and Orikan, although they had their own thoughts, also believed Alex's promise.
Since he allowed the Aeldari to become vassals of the Empire, there was no reason for him to refuse the Necron.
As long as he could find a way to help the Necron restore their former bodies and continue to reproduce, the Necron would still have a chance.
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As long as the Imperium of Man fell one day, they would be able to rise again and contend for dominance of the galaxy.
The Necron had existed for too long; they had been dormant for sixty million years.
They had enough patience to wait, to wait for the decline of the Imperium of Man, and to wait for the Aeldari to make mistakes.
Both races were playing their own games, wanting humanity to be at the forefront of the fight against Chaos, while they waited to reap the benefits.
Alex and Primarchs like Guilliman were not brainless; they could figure out the Necron' and Aeldari's little schemes with their toes, but they didn't care.
This was a challenge, and it was also an opportunity.
If humanity could successfully win the war with Chaos, then the Imperium of Man could flourish for a very long time.
Moreover, humanity had a certain chance to achieve the legendary sublimation, thereby completely escaping this dark universe.
After resurrecting Sanguinius and arranging for him to enter the Webway to carry out cleanup missions.
Alex did not stop; he wanted to acquire every bit of power in the galaxy to prepare for the upcoming final decisive battle.
At the same time, the Lighthouse Network underwent a new round of upgrades.
The new lighthouses had the ability to create spacetime vortices, allowing warships to reach the location of any lighthouse through these vortices.
The Star Gates were also optimized to ensure safer navigation.
Archmagos Cawl had his eyes on the T'au Empire's Star Strands Nexus.
The Star Strands Nexus was created during the T'au Empire's Fourth Sphere Expansion, when they attempted to achieve faster-than-light travel using AL-38 Slipstream Modules.
Due to a lack of necessary understanding of the Warp, the T'au Empire's fleet entered the Warp unprotected and was massacred by Warp demons.
With the help of the Auxiliaries' faith, the Greater Good gave birth to its own Warp avatar - the T'au'va Goddess.
This Warp entity first appeared and helped the Fourth Sphere Expansion fleet resolve their crisis, creating the Star Strands Nexus, a special spacetime node, for them.
Cawl planned to study the Star Strands Nexus to enhance humanity's Star Gate technology.
Currently, although the Imperium of Man could use the Webway, no one knew if the Webway would one day lose its effectiveness.
For this reason, the Imperium of Man needed sufficient backup methods to ensure that the Empire would not collapse due to the failure of a certain faster-than-light travel method.
The research fleet easily reached one end of the Star Strands Nexus.
This place had been invaded by the Plague Fleet, and thus had a complete void defense system in place.
However, facing the transformed Imperium of Man, the T'au Empire no longer had its former technological advantage.
It quickly collapsed under the vast scale of the Empire, losing control of the Star Strands Nexus.
However, this action angered the Warp entity - the T'au'va Goddess.
She stirred up a terrifying Warp Storm, attempting to capsize human ships entering the Warp.
However, the Imperium of Man had long been prepared for this; most of their voyages were conducted using the Webway.
Warp Storms could not affect the Webway.
In places without the Webway, the Imperium of Man would only undertake short-distance faster-than-light jumps, using Blackstone fields for protection.
When they realized danger, they would exit the Warp and enter the Reality, immediately activating anti-Warp Blackstone fields.
This practice would cause pain to the crew, but it caused greater harm to demons; often, their bodies would disintegrate instantly.
Even the power of the T'au'va Goddess would collapse under the influence of the Blackstone field.
For this reason, humanity seized the Star Strands Nexus; the T'au Empire and the T'au'va Goddess were furious but could do nothing against humanity.
Cawl conducted a detailed study of the Star Strands Nexus, and with the help of the two C'tan, Cortana and Void Dragon, he completely understood its operating mode.
He integrated this technology with Star Gate technology.
That way, the faster-than-light travel network formed by the Star Gates could become very safe.
Meanwhile, the The Sitting-and-Forgetting Dao Battle Group, after finishing the Sotha campaign, sold Longlin Star to the Imperium of Man at an exorbitant price.
According to some Players' calculations, the price might be more than the combined assets of Player organizations like Dora Workshop and the MC Dynasty.
After all, Longlin Star was very special, being the key to a treasure trove of Old One technology and also a Webway tunneling machine.
This rumor drove countless Players crazy.
They had always assumed that only business operations could make big money; now they realized that adventure was the god of this version.
No matter how much a Player managed, owning a dozen industrial planets was already the limit.
If there were more, it would truly be unmanageable.
A detailed organizational structure would have to be established, and such a structure often led to problems of bloat, inefficiency, and severe waste of resources.
For this reason, the wealth a Player gained through management had diminishing returns; the larger the organization, the slower the rate of wealth accumulation.
Now, the The Sitting-and-Forgetting Dao had opened up another path to acquiring wealth.
As long as they could obtain those valuable ancient creations, they could gain unimaginable wealth through the Empire.
For a time, the Players sparked an adventure craze.
"Do you want to gain endless wealth? Do you want to become a household hero of the Empire? Go, go to the vast starry sky, and search for those ancient ruins and treasure troves."
Cortana seized the hot topic and updated a promotional video, completely igniting the Players' enthusiasm for exploration, and countless people rushed into the depths of space, just to find mysterious treasure troves.
Alex expressed his support for this, and also had the Imperial Bank open up more loan quotas for Players, striving to make every Player indebted.
As the Players stirred up an adventure craze, Alex, Cortana, and Void Dragon went to the edge of the galaxy.
Here, they met another complete C'tan - Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod.
This was a mad C'tan; wherever his gaze fell, it would cause madness and despair.
Those with fragile minds, once stared at, would rather commit suicide than endure his hellish existence.
According to the Laughing God's description, during the War in Heaven, he used illusions to make Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod, see other smaller C'tan as himself, causing him to make a mistake and devour his own brethren.
But the consciousness of each devoured C'tan still existed within Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod's body, tormenting his mind and gradually driving him mad.
Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod realized his madness; he left the densely populated core regions of the galaxy and went to the vast void, building a prison and exiling himself.
That prison was 330,000 times larger than Earth and 100 times larger than the sun.
It could be said to be an extremely exaggerated celestial structure.
It was unknown how many stars were crushed to build such a celestial structure.
The accompanying mortal crew members were in agony just from witnessing the light emitted by the prison, forced to wait in the distance, unable to go deep into the prison with Alex and Cortana.
Void Dragon revealed his true form, then took Alex and Cortana deep into that magnificent celestial structure, where they saw Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod, whose body was comparable to a planet.
Countless chains bound his body, and he was constantly screaming and roaring; the consciousness of his kin remaining within him had driven him completely mad.
"Go ahead, separate the consciousness within him, assist them in reshaping their bodies, and then make them loyal to me."
Alex came here, of course, not to visit a prisoner.
But to subdue Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod, and make him participate in the final battle.
Cortana, who shared psychic talent with Alex, had an advantage that other C'tan did not: she could freely use the power of the Warp.
Using this power, along with Void Dragon's help, she could separate the remaining C'tan consciousness within Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod's body and reshape their bodies for them.
With Void Dragon's help, Cortana quickly completed this task.
But as the C'tan's consciousness was separated, Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod's sanity quickly recovered.
And those smaller C'tan gained new bodies.
Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod originally did not want to serve Alex; after all, he was a C'tan, the master of the Necron race.
If anyone was to serve, it should be humanity serving them.
However, facing Alex, who in an angry state could crush the entire celestial prison into fragments with his psychic power, and Void Dragon's persuasion, Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod finally agreed to pledge loyalty.
After all, Alex could save him, and he could also crush him, turning him completely into dust, with no chance of resurrection.
To ensure the loyalty of Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod and other C'tan, Alex used psychic power and technology to leave control protocols within their bodies.
Once they rebelled, they would self-destruct.
When Alex returned to the Imperium of Man with Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod and other C'tan,
Trazyn and Orikan, who learned the news, were filled with shock.
First Void Dragon, then Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod also chose to kneel before this Imperial Saint, which meant that the Imperium of Man's strength had another surge.
Frankly speaking, although it was also cooperation with C'tan, the Saint was clearly the dominant party, unlike how they used to revere C'tan as masters.
Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod joining the Imperium of Man plunged many Necrons Dynasties into panic.
First Cortana, Void Dragon, and now even the surviving C'tan led by Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod had joined the Imperium of Man.
They knew the true nature of the C'tan; this race possessed powerful strength and technology.
With the help of the C'tan, they were able to defeat the Old Ones.
Now, humanity subduing the C'tan meant that what they could achieve was even more terrifying than what the Necron and Old Ones did during the War in Heaven.
Some dynasties chose to surrender to Trazyn and Orikan, making their momentum even greater.
The hardliners, led by Imotekh the Stormlord, fell into a disadvantage.
After subduing Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod, Alex did not stop, but began to collect fragments one by one, resurrecting those C'tan and imposing control over them.
The first was Overlord Zahurash, who had been imprisoned in the Sotha Lighthouse.
He had been ambushed by the Necronss, shattered into fragments, and eventually imprisoned in Sotha's dungeon.
He was only released when Alex arrived at Sotha, seeking to acquire lighthouse technology.
He had a fierce conflict with Alex, and was eventually severely beaten by the awakened Cortana and re-imprisoned.
Since then, Alex had instructed the Players to diligently collect various C'tan fragments, including those of Overlord Zahurash.
Now, the supreme ruler of the Necronss - Silent King Szarekh - was captured,
Numerous dynasties successively defected to Trazyn and Orikan,
The C'tan fragments they held were also taken away.
Alex merged these fragments, bringing the C'tan back to life.
The resurrected Overlord Zahurash was very arrogant, believing that pledging allegiance to humans, these monkeys, was an insult to the C'tan.
The result was predictable; under the gaze of Szarekh, the Silent King Azagorod and Void Dragon,
This unruly C'tan was beaten by Alex and Cortana until he was disoriented, and in the end, he could only submit and have the control protocol etched into him.
Immediately after, other C'tan were resurrected one by one, and then the previous steps were repeated.
The Dominator watched each resurrected master, initially as unruly as himself, then beaten to their knees begging for mercy, and couldn't help but laugh.
Sometimes, seeing others as unlucky as oneself brings inexplicable joy, even for C'tan.
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All C'tan that had ever appeared were resurrected, then defeated by Alex and Cortana, and forced to have control protocols etched into them.
The reason this was so easy was that Alex only let them fuse half or less of their fragments before forcing the control protocols onto them.
C'tan who had not recovered to their peak state were naturally no match for Alex and Cortana,
Plus, the previously subdued C'tan also had to obey orders,
For this reason, the newly resurrected C'tan were outnumbered and outmatched; they either had to be shattered into fragments again and imprisoned forever, or they had to submit to Alex and participate in the final battle.
After most of the C'tan were controlled, Alex began to resurrect the most powerful C'tan, the C'tan representing death and despair, Night Bringer Azagorod.
This guy was the first C'tan to materialize, and also the strongest C'tan; he scared the Old Ones badly as soon as he appeared.
The Aeldari War God, Khaine, with a hundred helpers, barely managed to defeat him, but was also corrupted and driven mad in the process, while Night Bringer Azagorod only lost a metal body.
As soon as he was resurrected and learned the full story, Night Bringer Azagorod launched an attack on Alex.