The devastation of the Mechanicum cast a shadow across the Imperium, but this was quickly overshadowed by even greater news, making the Imperium rejoice.
Ancient myth was reviving—the Emperor's children, once mere legend, were returning to the Imperium.
Not just legendary primarchs, but newly born ones too: the Emperor's will, the future war god Khaine, was also revealed.
Khaine's identity was known only to the Emperor and the mid-tier primarchs; others thought he was a new creation.
Mankind entered a new golden age, with over ten primarchs—the most since the Great Crusade.
The news of new primarchs quickly outshone the disaster on Mars.
In fact, other forge worlds were glad Mars had suffered, as it gave them more power.
The Ecclesiarchy, prompted by Rhodes, Elena, and the Emperor, began spreading the doctrine that the Emperor is the Omnissiah, and the Omnissiah is merely an avatar of the Emperor.
With the Mars Mechanicum purged, all that remained was to gradually erase the old faith—a matter of decades or centuries. The Emperor had awakened from the Golden Throne.
Next, even more major announcements!
Vulkan returned to Nocturne and began massive recruitment and rebuilding his legion, calling all youths to join the Space Marines.
The Blood Angels' primarch returned to Baal, welcomed by the people, and began reforms: increasing numbers, solving the Black Rage and Red Thirst,
pushing the Primaris upgrade, and adding a fourth superhuman organ made from living metal.
Lion El'Jonson led the Dark Angels and some Deathwatch, using the webway to address the Imperium's dark side.
It took a full year for this news to spread across the Imperium.
In that year, Rhodes's gene sons swelled to 800,000, just on Terra.
In his own star systems, Huron and Mefilas developed at least 300,000 more, and Rhodes controlled over ten star systems.
Each system was packed with planets—each with dozens of habitable worlds, making each of Rhodes's systems as populous as an entire sector.
With income from the Octarius region and demon harvests, Rhodes's system coins climbed again, now over 17 million.
Previously, he had reached 10 million, but spent it all—now he'd saved up again.
He spent 5 million on five Inpelaizer units, each producing 5,000 tons of regenerative metal monthly.
With six units, that's 30,000 tons per month—vital for making new Astartes organs.
He saved 2 million for emergencies, and the remaining 10 million coins—
Rhodes chose to do a hundred-pull draw, since upgrading to the advanced system store over two years ago, he'd never used the advanced lottery.
Now, for 1 million coins, one could buy any monster from the previous intermediate pool.
There were more options: Dark Giants, Spheres, Alien Beasts, Fusion Monsters, etc.
This time, Rhodes chose Dark Giants, as he needed one to absorb the negative energy left by the C'tan.
After the draw, he received 55 normal Dark Giant fragments and 60 advanced monster fragments.
He also got a mysterious gift box from the system for his first advanced hundred-pull.
The advanced monster fragments were from movie bosses or notable TV monsters, like Gatanothor and Angel Zog—both planet-destroying level.
With enough Gatanothor fragments, he could absorb the negative energy better than even a Dark Giant.
Such a monster would be a galactic-level disaster.
Angel Zog's first form, a female angel, was like a goddess, able to manipulate light and recharge giants.
Her second dragon form, though huge, Rhodes didn't care for.
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The Dark Giant fragments included Darrgon, Hitora, Evil Tiga, Dark Faust, Dark Mephisto, Dark Original, and Dark Grigio.
Dark Grigio, Rhodes recalled, was a female Dark Giant made by the Ultra Killer, briefly appearing in Galaxy Fight: Destiny. Her power matched Grigio's normal form.
Rhodes remembered in one stage play, Dark Grigio appeared with Dark Geed and Dark X.
So, the first female giant he drew wasn't Camearra?
Grigio was just a little dark loli, and not too strong—mainly a support, the weakest Dark Giant.
The others were mid-tier.
Looking at the fragment numbers, none of the Dark Giants reached the eight needed for synthesis.
Rhodes was a bit frustrated, but decided to use another 3 million coins for three more ten-pulls, again choosing Dark Giants.
Now was the time—if he didn't get one, he'd explode from frustration.
This time, he got 17 more Dark Giant fragments and 16 normal monster fragments, including three Gatanothor and four Angel Zog.
At last, two Dark Giants reached synthesis level: Dark Faust and Dark Grigio. Dark Faust was the first Dark Giant in the Nexus TV series, a main antagonist.
She could match Nexus Ultraman's red youth form, release a dark field, interfere with his Meta field,
and control Alien Beasts—a true threat.
Her abilities included Dark Aura, Dark Swarm, Dark Particle Feathers, Dark Flash,
plus Dark Shield, spatial intrusion, teleportation, and light absorption.
After consideration, Rhodes selected 20 monster fragments, fused eight Dark Faust fragments, and summoned this Dark Giant!
[Dark Faust: Height 48 meters, weight 32,000 tons.]