In fact, the end of every transmission inevitably turned into despair and resentment towards the entire Empire.
Because even after listening to this brief noise, whether it was Sith inside the hall or the others outside, almost everyone instantly understood one truth.
The region they were in seemed to have been systematically and completely abandoned by the Empire.
And this abandonment happened while a terrifying alien enemy existed in this sector!
Outside the door, the resentful governor looked at the shocked Sith and the others, and finally burst into a hearty laugh. He even laughed while shedding tears, as if he had seen something incredibly absurd.
"Didn't expect this, did you? Even the aliens would never abandon the people of an entire sector."
"But the Empire you speak of has done it!"
The governor's face was manic. Even after cursing the Empire, a sense of piety, desperate for salvation, reappeared on his face. His raised, bloated face was full of the madness of a collapsing worldview.
"Praise the Savior..."
Bang!
The governor's manic call was cut short by Bolter fire. Everyone looked at Sith, who had fired the shot. Sith's expression was completely somber, and he walked towards the Astropathic Choir's console with a blank face.
Accompanied by the ceaseless resentment and despair in his ears, Sith calmly turned off the communicator.
The sounds disappeared, and the entire Tower Top seemed to return to a calm and sunny state.
Yet, facing the eyes of his Black Watch subordinates, Sith's heart sank to the bottom.
Alert Star was indeed miserable, but in the 42nd millennium of humanity, there was no shortage of wars, each more miserable than the last.
There was no need to ask the governor anymore; Sith now knew where he was.
Omiya III was unknown, but the sector it was located in was world-famous!
Because this was 'Octarius', a place spanning an entire sector, possessing hundreds of star systems, no longer just tribes, scrap cities, or green tides, but an Ork empire crowned with the name of an empire.
It was also a place where, due to humanity's ridiculous maneuvers, they were pitted against the Tyranid Swarm, raising them like venomous insects in a jar.
Why call it raising venomous insects? Because Orks multiply the more they fight, and Tyranids also multiply the more they fight. Now, these two enemies, both growing in numbers with every battle, had been fighting each other in Octarius for who knows how many years.
Facing either of these terrifying enemies, the Empire's final choice was not to find a way to eliminate or contain them, but to abandon the entire region, leaving all the Imperial worlds here to fend for themselves!
They retreated to a cross-galactic defense line, which would be easily broken in the future, yet they insisted on naming it the 'Impenetrable Defense Line'.
And Omiya III, where Sith was currently located, was in the region abandoned by the Empire...
This meant that in the near future, if Sith didn't find a way to leave as soon as possible, what awaited him would be tens of billions of enemies, and the killing speed would never keep up with the speed at which Orks grew from the ground or the Tyranid Swarm was cultivated from spawning pools!
One had to know that the scale of Orks and the Tyranid Swarm in Octarius was simply not comparable to a single planet like Alert Star.
Because when the Tyranid bio-ships, capable of filling almost every void in a star system, arrived here, the Tyranids would make every confident enemy realize what true, endless despair was!
Especially since both the Orks and the Tyranids shared the common trait of growing stronger by consuming their opponents.
The mutual slaughter between the two sides not only failed to reduce their numbers but, like raising venomous insects, they were both constantly experiencing crazy development from their opponents.
And when the day finally came for them to decide a winner and break out of Octarius, it would no longer be a matter of just one planet, or even just one sector.
Even Guilliman would have to drop everything, lead all the forces he could muster, and throw everything he had at this terrifying alien threat that humanity had personally cultivated.
Sith finally understood why, even though the governor was frantically praying to the Dark Gods, not a single Warp Daemon had responded.
Because when facing the Tyranids' endless bio-weapons, Chaos faced a war where no matter how much they invested, it was a net loss, and even Khorne showed extreme indifference.
After all, all of Chaos's actions could ultimately be boiled down to torturing souls, but the Tyranid Swarm... had no souls!
Now that Sith understood all of this, whenever he thought about how the God-Emperor had seen him perform well and then immediately kicked him here, he felt nothing but infinite speechlessness.
So much so that even the roaring artillery in the distance of the Hive City could hardly draw his attention back.
It wasn't until Yuwa ran up in a panic, wanting to remind Sith that the heavy artillery army the governor had sent out had returned, that Sith finally ended his 'gratitude' towards the God-Emperor, took a deep breath, and turned to walk out of the hall.
"The enemy..."
Yuwa was anxious, but Sith simply raised his hand, not even bothering to pay attention to these small-time rebels.
He looked directly at the crashed frigate on the other side, and despite Yuwa's expression of helplessness, as if it were impossible, he took the initiative to speak:
"I don't care about power, firepower, or protection. I only require that this warship be sealed and repaired so that the engines, artillery, and other systems are functional. Can you do that, relying only on this Hive City?"
Yuwa was stunned. She listened blankly to this strange request from Sith. If he didn't care about those things, what was the use of it?
However, looking at Sith, who had led two thousand men to conquer the entire Hive City in a day without any casualties, Yuwa did not show any doubt. Instead, she thought about it seriously for a long time, and then nodded heavily:
"We can!"
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