Chapter 223 - 223: Iron Bones

"Well, my lord Baron — ready to embrace the Omnissiah? To shed the weakness of flesh and take up something permanent?"

Antonius's tone carried the particular quality of a salesman who has identified genuine interest in a prospective customer.

Kian was genuinely interested — that much was true. In a universe built around violence at every scale, personal capability was the only reliable currency. He'd watched enough Warhammer lore play out around him to understand that the really decisive moments — campaigns involving hundreds of billions of soldiers, civilisations burning across star systems — still tended to come down to individuals at the critical juncture.

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