Upon receiving the distress call from that Mephrit Dynasty Necron Overlord, Anrakyr immediately rushed over.
At that time, the system he was in had been completely occupied by humans. Originally, per his plan, he would help that Necron Overlord deal with the humans and drive all humans away.
But the arrival of the Tyranids disrupted his original plan. The Necrons were forced to ally with the human Imperium, activating a peculiar device in the Baal System, the Magnovitrium, which detonated a gas giant planet in the system and destroyed the Tyranids.
The explosion of the massive gas giant also triggered a strong solar storm, nearly killing all Tyranid swarm forces in the system. The Leviathan tendril suffered heavy damage.
The Necrons repelled their enemies. Since these planets had no more value to absorb, the Tyranid swarm directly bypassed and headed to the Baal System.
The subsequent battles belonged to the humans themselves and had nothing to do with the Necrons, so they didn't participate. However, it was said that the humans ultimately defeated the Tyranids and drove them out of the Baal System.
"You actually interacted with those inferior races? Those hateful inferior races destroyed many of our worlds during our sleep, even capturing our kin, and we've had several wars with them." A Necron Overlord snorted coldly and said. Humans and Necrons represented a generational shift. Previously, the galaxy was dominated by Necrons, then the Aeldari, but the Aeldari were extremely few in number.
They couldn't occupy the entire galaxy, while the upstart humans, with their terrifying reproduction and migration abilities, occupied nearly all habitable planets in the galaxy.
So, upon awakening, Necrons—except for those in remote areas, protected by special tech, or in pocket universes—had to deal with humans first, and the results were predictable.
Some weak Necrons, upon awakening, couldn't even retain their sanity, wouldn't use any tactics, and didn't even know how to use weapons from their core armories.
They couldn't defeat humans at all. In most cases, the human Imperium won, exterminating the Necrons completely. Only a few large Necron dynasties that awakened intact or powerful Necron Overlords could drive out human forces from their territories.
Thus, Necrons didn't have a good impression of humans. Initially, some Overlords were willing to talk with humans.
For example, using phase shift technology to teleport a human planet's Imperial Governor to their necropolis, giving them a time limit to leave immediately or face consequences.
For the Necrons, the galactic overlord race, this was already a very mild approach. And humans' attitude toward other alien races went without saying.
Basically, it was discover and exterminate, perfectly following the dark forest law.
"The civilization level of those inferior beings is extremely low. How could they solve a problem we haven't conquered? I absolutely won't believe they have the ability to revive us.
If there really is a method in this universe to revive us, the ones mastering it definitely wouldn't be the human race." A Necron dynasty Phaeron snorted coldly and said.
Seeing this, Anrakyr the Traveller sighed helplessly.
After awakening from 60 million years of sleep, their minds had been affected to varying degrees.
They had lost their former glory. The Necrontyr race wasn't like this before; they were the galaxy's brilliant civilization, the top civilization.
But now, their kin had become cold steel skeleton monsters. Could he really revive the race?
Anrakyr couldn't help but doubt whether everything he had done since awakening had value or meaning.
He had fought alongside those human Blood Angels; those human Space Marines were proud warriors, not some low-end race.
Their civilization level wasn't weak; it had even declined compared to before, but the current human forces could still confront Necrons head-on.
They could even destroy mid-sized dynasties, and with full force, destroying large Necron dynasties wasn't too difficult!
Such a powerful force, before the overall Necrons awakened, it was best not to go to full war with them.
"Trazyn the Infinite must have used some special means. If we investigate, we should investigate this Necron Overlord, not look for answers from humans." Another Necron dynasty Phaeron said.
Most other Necron dynasty Phaerons and Necron Overlords nodded in agreement. How could weak humans have a way to save their race? That was absolutely impossible.
"I still stick to my view. Recently, I've been collecting human intelligence. In these few years, human technology has advanced rapidly. They've created very advanced weapons and a kind of miraculous life form." Anrakyr the Traveller said.
After cooperating with the Blood Angels Chapter, he became curious about the human race, so he secretly collected some intelligence on the human Imperium. And the human Imperium's intelligence seemed to change every so often. The name he heard most was a human Primarch named Rhodes.
"Enough, stop arguing. I've made my decision. We'll arrange some Necron Overlords to capture Trazyn the Infinite. Since he chose to release this message, whether true or false, he must pay the price.
We'll capture him, thoroughly scan his core data, and make him confess all secrets. Moreover, all the treasures he plundered from other Necron dynasties must be returned." The Silent King said.
"Agreed!"
"Agreed!"
"Seconded!"
All the Necron dynasty Phaerons and Overlords looked at each other and nodded, unanimously approving the Silent King's approach.
They didn't really care about revival; some Necrons wanted to restore their former shells, but others felt the current metal bodies were the truly perfect form.
What they really wanted was to punish this shameful thief.
"At the same time, Anrakyr the Traveller, I appoint you as the Necron envoy to negotiate with the human Imperium and probe their intelligence." The Silent King looked at Anrakyr the Traveller and said.
He had observed the human race for a long time. This race had great potential. To put it bluntly, if they abandoned those ancient conservative traditions
And fully developed new technology, their achievements wouldn't be inferior to the Necrons. Even with their innate psychic powers, catching up to the Old Ones race wasn't impossible.
Although Necrons didn't like the human race, they didn't hate them to the point of disgust. As long as you weren't created by the Old Ones, it was fine.
If you were created by the Old Ones, then sorry, you all had to be exterminated.
"Great Silent King, why should we interact with the foolish and weak humans? Why ally with them? It's completely unnecessary."
"This is my decision. No more discussion. This matter is entrusted to Anrakyr." In the end, the Silent King overruled the objections and decided on two things.
Deal with Necron Overlord Trazyn the Infinite, and send Anrakyr the Traveller to contact the human Imperium.
Upon receiving the Silent King's order, Anrakyr the Traveller immediately led his tomb fleet to depart.
The Necrons' conference wasn't attended in person but through data exchange in the Silent King's tomb world, activating bodies as temporary shells.
Streaks of green light flashed, and all Necron Phaerons and Overlords left one after another.
"Anrakyr, you are one of the few Necrons who awakened with self-will intact. I hope you remember our former glory."
"I understand, great Silent King. I will never forget the pride of the Necrontyr." Anrakyr bowed to the Silent King last and turned into a streak of green light, leaving the throne world.
Upon returning to his tomb world ship, Anrakyr immediately changed his travel trajectory toward the Blood Angels' headquarters in the Baal System.
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A month later, his fleet arrived at the outskirts of the Baal System. At this time, the Blood Angels Primarch Sanguinius had only just returned to his homeworld a few months ago.
Anrakyr the Traveller didn't rashly enter the Baal System but first politely sent a friendly communication request to the Blood Angels.
Requesting to meet the Blood Angels' supreme commander, claiming he had once fought alongside the Blood Angels' supreme commander. Unfortunately, Anrakyr didn't know that the Blood Angels' supreme commander was no longer Dante.
After Sanguinius' return, the Blood Angels' supreme commander would forever be Sanguinius alone.
"You say a Necron is visiting, claiming to be my old friend, and wants to communicate with me?" Sanguinius sat in his Angel's Fortress, frowning as he asked.
When did I ever know a Necron? Even during the Great Crusade, he had never seen these steel skeletons.
"Great Gene-Father, he might not be referring to you, but to me. A few years ago, I fought alongside these Necrons." Dante, standing nearby, said somewhat awkwardly.