Chapter 1015, Meeting (Part 2)

Sitting in the hovercraft arranged by the imperial government, Leon overlooked the Holy Terra Palace.

This place feels familiar yet strange to Leon.

Familiar, of course, because the entire Terra Palace's shape, general layout, and style were not much different from ten thousand years ago. He had been here many times before, and he could recognize many places.

This makes people feel quite emotional, and also a little puzzled: Isn't it said that it has been 10,000 years? Why hasn't the palace changed much?

It's hard to say whether it was because the palace was built so well under the Emperor's personal supervision, or whether humanity really hasn't made much progress in the past ten thousand years...

Probably a bit of both.

As for the so-called strangeness, it is because among the rare changes in the palace, some places are particularly conspicuous.

For example, in addition to the Empire's double-headed eagle flag, there is also a blue shield and sword flag.

Is that the so-called flag of the alliance?

Can you even get into the palace?

There are also government officials busy in the palace, and their number is even greater than in the previous imperial era.

Looking at the guards on duty, the most important and common ones were undoubtedly the imperial guards in golden armor and red tassels. However, outside the gates of government agencies, there were some soldiers in blue helmets and silver armor standing sentry duty.

At first, Leon thought it was a specially approved Space Marine regiment.

Although that is not quite normal, after all, when the Golden Knights were a newly founded regiment and stationed in Holy Terra for a long time, they would not be sent into the palace by the Imperial Guards to serve as guards. So how could it be possible for a regiment that they had never seen before to be sent into the palace?

Leon still remembered how arrogant these guys who claimed to be the Emperor's personal army were.

Could it be that their tempers have improved now?

However, when he got closer and saw the specific appearance of the blue-helmeted and silver-armored warriors standing guard, he overturned his previous guess and was even more shocked.

Isn’t this the Imperial Guard?

Just because you changed the paint job, you think I don’t recognize you?

But the paint job is obviously a bigger problem, isn't it? Is this so unconventional? Can even the laws of our ancestors be changed?

These points all felt too unfamiliar to him.

But he still suppressed all his words and kept them in his heart.

It was because he had already experienced the incredible thing before.

After accepting the invitation from Gu Hang and Robert to meet, he originally thought that it would take a long time before he could meet his old brother and the current supreme leader of the imperial government.

After all, he knew that he was in a remote area in the southern border of the empire, and no matter what means of navigation he used, it would take at least a year to reach Holy Terra.

That's if everything goes smoothly.

However, Dante said, is interstellar travel so inconvenient?

He claimed that the new empire now possessed a more convenient and faster method of interstellar travel.

Although the cost of transporting a large army and the materials needed to transport the army is relatively high, it is necessary to first build a huge curtain spirit gate, and the transportation will consume a huge amount of energy. Unless it is absolutely necessary, this special method will not be used easily even if it is available.

But if it is used to transport an individual, a small unit of troops, or a small fleet, it is extremely fast and convenient.

To be honest, if Dante didn't look like the commander of a legitimate Blood Angels Chapter with a glorious history, Leon would never have believed it and would have regarded it as a crude scam and a trap.

But even so, he was still very vigilant.

He brought with him some of his guards, a group of Space Marines he claimed were the so-called 'Angels of Absolution', part of the Angels of Death Chapter, and some elite mortal soldiers, known as the 'Lion Guard'.

A group of thousands of people crossed the veil gate built on the surface of the planet.

They arrived in the Comoros.

Lion also had a deep understanding of the Dark Eldar. Ten thousand years ago, the Human Empire also had traces of its activities with the Dark Eldar, a group of space pirates and predators.

At that time, the Dark Eldar were a relatively low priority enemy for the Empire, primarily because the damage they caused was relatively insignificant compared to other xenos. Compared to the Empire's size, they were more like flies and mosquitoes—annoying, annoying, harmful, and potentially disease-inducing, but not fatal.

Of course, if this is the case, if you can kill the mosquito with a slap, you should definitely do it.

But the key point is that their strength isn't exactly that of a mosquito. They're just small in number, and don't have much desire to expand in the real universe. If a real fight breaks out, they can still be very powerful if they concentrate a large force in a single area. Furthermore, it's extremely difficult to track them down, making direct confrontation unrealistic.

In the few large-scale battles with the Dark Eldar, the Dark Eldar always took advantage of the opportunity to bully humans with their local superior forces; but rarely were they able to seize the opportunity to besiege them with superior forces.

It’s because of their mysterious nest, Comoros.

When the Lion was still active ten thousand years ago, he had envisioned many extermination plans for various enemies of humanity, including the Dark Eldar.

But unfortunately, even he could not find a way to eliminate this group of powerful descendants of the overlord.

However, I didn't expect that it would be conquered by the new empire?

It's not just a matter of capturing.

In Comoros, he saw a large number of dark elves.

They were clearly in some state of slavery.

Although the Empire's general policy is to exterminate all aliens, it's possible to be more flexible with those that possess special technologies or have special uses.

At least Leon was not as crazy as some conservatives in the empire.

He was only carefully evaluating the reliability of these technologies while using the Curtain Spirit Gate to quickly travel through space, and instinctively thinking about what effect these technologies would have when applied to war.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that the alliance's move is reliable.

Although he still couldn't figure out how Gu Hang had managed to capture Comoros, the result was already in front of him, making him even more curious about the upcoming meeting between Gu Hang and Robert.

The meeting happened much faster than expected.

When he arrived at Holy Terra and took a hovercraft into the reception room in a palace that was now used as the Prime Minister's Office, Robert and Gu Hang were already sitting there.

Gu Hang maintained his posture, with a smile on his face, and reservedly welcomed Leon to take a seat.

Leon's eyes were fixed on Robert.

"You... haven't changed at all."

"You've aged a lot," Robert responded.

(End of this chapter)