RWBY 40k – Salem, Mistress of Inquisition.

Ep 45: Corvus Corax.

On the moon of Lycaeus. The political prisoners and other exiled were working inside of the mines of the moon for the wealth of the world of Kiavahr.

The guards were violent and making the most despicable acts against prisoners who was just complaining. Breaking so much rules in the own laws of Kiavahr. Even the children who were born on this prison. Even if true criminals were still sent in this prison. The majority of the prisoners are innocents who has been submitted to arbitrary and/or political sanction.

Inside of one the fields of the breaking rocks, the convicted were breaking the rocks with pickaxes.

Guard: "Work more, you lazy convicts!"

He smashed his whip on some convicts who seem to work less. The children on their side were transporting some crates or anything else they could transport to a point A to a point B.

Around these children, a young girl with blonde hair was transporting a crate to a room. She was dressed in simple shirt and shorts with small gloves. She has a black Choker with a gold circle on it.

The girl in question was transporting the cases to a room along with other children.

It was cold outside because of the ice but she is bearing it despite of that.

Blonde girl: "Right there…"

Child: "Man, this is exhausting today…"

Child girl: "This day is worse with this cold…"

Guard: "Hey! No complaining!"

Child girl (sighed with exasperation): "Yes, mister guard…"

Guard: "I hope you brats you learn about your place like your parents…"

The children resumed their arrangement of the crates under the watch of the guards who were implacable.

After one moment, the children finished the arrangement of the crates. They were draw out by the guards in the huge courtyard, resembling more like a public yard due to the dimensions of this prison.

The blonde girl looks up to the sky at one moment and she could see something on it, a shining light like a star.

Child girl (thinking): "A shooting star… They say in the old legends of Terra that if I see one… My deepest wish comes true… If this legend is true then… I wish I would exit this prison one day and make Kiavahr pay their injustice."

She glances back to the guards and walk inside of the courtyard of the prison.

But as she walks to the wing part of the child prisoners. More and more prisoner and guards look at the sky, intrigued. The guards first urged these prisoners to go back to work but becomes increasingly nervous.

The blonde girl turns back to the sky and could that the shooting star is shinier and bigger in the sky. And then, the alarms began to ring in all over the prison.

Speaker: "At the whole prison! A meteor is heading toward us and will crash to the prison in a matter of seconds! Evacuate right now!"

And so, the guards assembled the prisoners or tried to because panic began to rise. Some prisoners fled in the underground, while some are brought by the guards in the prison central building. The Blonde girl on her side was confused and unable to know what to do. She decides to run to a nearby wall conducting to one of the wings of the prison.

And so, rumble is heard while the meteor becomes shinier and shinier. The blonde girl lies down on the ground behind a wall and protect her head with her hands. The sound becomes louder and louder and then a gigantic explosion happens. A near deafening sound of explosion accompanied by an earthquake and a blast of wind. And after that, the silence falls on the prison.

The blonde girl hesitates before standing up and exit her hiding. She could see that the prison was half ruined by the explosion. The central building of the prison has a huge hole on it and further away was a crater.

Among the prisoners, the blonde girl was the one who approaches the most of this capsule inside of this crater. It was a cylinder deformed by the impact and she could see a sign on it, a strange sign named "XIX". And inside of it, behind the glass was a teenager around the same age at her. An elegant one with dark hair and pale complexion. She turns to the other prisoners who has approached the capsule as her.

Blonde girl: "Help me to liberate him!"

Man: "Of course."

Ten of them take some metal rods from the ruined buildings and slammed on the glass but it was some kind of resistant one. But after each hit, the Plexiglas cracked further and further. And they managed to open an overture. The blonde girl reached her hand towards the boy and takes him in her arms before exiting him from the capsule.

This boy under her eyes was so beautiful to her. She couldn't imagine that this boy was completely perfect in his shape. And so, he opened his eyes and looks at her, complete black eyes, darker than the night. And in a surprisingly fluent language of her world.

Boy: "In what planet I landed? Who are you?"

Blonde girl: "Oh! Huh… My name is Nasturi Ephrenia. What is your name?"

The boy looks to the capsule and the sign on the capsule.

Boy: "Nineteen."

Nasturi: "Nineteen? Hm… okay…"

But at this moment, a wounded supervisor arrived with a whip.

Supervisor: "Go out from here! All of you! We have to take care of this! We will arrest this newcomer!"

Nasturi: "Wait! He is not…"

Supervisor: "Silence!"

He takes her by the hair and dragged away from Nineteen before tossing her to the arms of another supervisor.

Nasturi: "AAAAAH!"

Nineteen was infuriated and stand up in front of him.

Nineteen: "Stop now!"

The supervisor tries to grab the young Primarch but he manages to grab his wrist and breaking it.

Supervisor: "AAAGH! Miserable brat!"

He tries to clash his whip to Nineteen but he manages to grab it and takes it from the supervisor. This last falls to the ground because he was dragged by this impressive force of nature that is Nineteen. He clashes the other supervisor that he holds Nasturi in his arms, so powerful that the second supervisor released Nasturi by pain.

Nasturi: "Thanks…"

Nineteen: "See this."

He catches the head of the supervisor.

Supervisor: "Hey! Let me…"

His words are cut by Nineteen breaking his head at 180 degrees before taking it from the rest of the body with the spine. Blood flows on him on his face, pale skin and his hair.

Nasturi was supposed to be horrified but no, all of her attention was turned to this boy. She asked herself this hopeful question: This boy was her wish? Was it?

The other prisoners were horrified by this display of violence. The second supervisor free himself of his shock and was about to tase the Primarch but he was stopped by a crowbar on the head by a prisoner.

And so, the Primarch he extends his free hand to Nasturi. She accepts it and stand up.

Prisoner: "Young boy. Nasturi. I am pleased for this new love between you two. But we have to clean this mess."

Nineteen: "Of course… This prison is still in turmoil. Let's clean it."

He puts the head of the warrior inside of his body and then breaks his spine on the back before lying down and putting on his back a huge rock. He breaks the head of the second supervisor, tosses his body on the ground and put a rock on his head.

Nineteen: "Let's say that they are collateral victims of this disaster. We have nothing to do with this… Also, I need a new name. Just in case."

At this moment, a crow poses itself on the capsule and began to caw toward Nineteen, followed by eighteen other crows who poses themselves on the same capsule and began to caw.

Nasturi: "I have an idea… Corvus. What do you think?"

Corvus: "I love it."

Nasturi smiles.

Nasturi: "You welcome."

And so, Corvus began to live hidden from the implacable look of the guards, helped by a lot of prisoners. Constantly changing cells and rooms, accompanied by Nasturi who has decided to follow him.

The young Primarch has learned to better know Nasturi but the whole prison. His feat of comprehension and learning was astonishing. An absolute photographic memory of everything he has learned.

At one moment, he was inside of a cell with four mens and Nasturi.

Corvus: "So you are here for what reason?"

Man 1: "For telling to a Techno-mage he was corrupted."

Man 2: "For have not declared money to feed my family."

Man 3: "For fishing in forbidden beach."

The last said nothing.

Corvus: "Well. You are punished for what?"

Man 4: "For rape on two pregnant women."

Nasturi widened and take a few steps from the fourth prisoner. He turns to Nasturi.

Corvus: "You are not supposed to be here Nasturi."

Nasturi: "I haven't done anything. But my dad refused to sell his land to a Techno-guild. He was arrested and executed for treason. Me and my mom have been sent to Lycaeus when I was only 10 years old. And my died the last year for disease. I am all on my own."

Corvus: "I am sorry for you."

Nasturi: "Don't be. We are all in the same place."

She puts her hand on her choker.

Nasturi: "This… this is all I possess from my past. Mom loved my new appearance when she has given it to me."

Corvus: "I can understand why. Adding a bit of your appearance is good."

Nasturi: "Thanks…"

Man 1: "Yeah… you can say that…"

Corvus: "You are so bitter all of the sudden."

Man 1: "If you can see daughters of the lords of Kiavahr, they are the definition of narcissism."

Man 2: "Oh yeah… These girls… I hate them so much."

Nasturi: "I am not like them. I can assure you."

Man 3: "Fortunately, you are not or maybe not anymore."

Nasturi grunted in annoyance.

Corvus: "That is true?"

Nasturi: "… That's complicated. The Ephrenia were part of the Techno-guilds yes. But since we ended up in poverty, the other families were like wolves jumping on their weakest member to eat him in their endless hunger. And I lost a life, parents and everything except this choker. So, I understand your contempt against me but bullying me don't make you any better than these assholes of techno-guilds members."

The prisoners look at themselves and then at Nasturi were her eyes reflected all the contempt she has toward Kiavahr.

Man 1: "Okay. We tolerate you. But don't betray us."

Nasturi: "If I do that, I would throw my choker in the dust."

Corvus: "She is honest with you. But I can understand your wariness."

Nasturi: "Hm…"

Corvus: "Nasturi. Don't worry."

Nasturi: "Of course."

Man 4: "You know what. I have a few convicted that you might want to know and how unjust this system is…"

Nasturi: "Let me guess. Rapists and actual cannibals?"

Man 4: "Not quite. First, a former member of the techno-guilds like Nasturi named Manrus Colsais. He knows deeper than me the system of Kiavahr. The second is a guy named Requai, who is a former historian who tells more about the society and history of Kiavahr. If you need mentors, they are the ones you need the most, Corvus."

Corvus: "Thanks…"

Nasturi: "Can I accompany you?"

Corvus: "Yes, you can Nasturi."

Nasturi smiled.

For the next 2 years. Corvus and Nasturi meet secretly these two masters. Manrus Colsais and Requai. He learned everything he had to know from them.

Also, between these two years. Corvus and Nasturi bond only grew passing from friendship, to romance to full blown love. Corvus on his side has grown significantly despite having the same age as Nasturi making difficult to him to stay hidden.

The two masters are with Corvus and Nasturi.

Manrus: "Techno-guilds on Kiavahr have a very simple system. A cast of High Families, a cast of Techno-Mages for the science, their police force and the 95 % percent of the rest of population. Who are just submissive with almost no right."

Nasturi: "Remind me why. I have a pretty bad memory."

Requai sighed.

Requai: "Because since the discovery of the ores on Lycaeus. A lot of things have changed since. These prisons on it, several centuries ago were holding truly horrible criminals. But since this moon contain really rich veins full of different ores and seems endless. They began to use any excuse to sent prisoners and abuse the laws to have new slaves to mine these ores since we are not numerous enough on Kiavahr. And as the centuries passed, the laws have been warped and the democracy of our planet have completely disappeared. Now, we are all prisoners here."

Nasturi: "I hate them so much…"

Manrus: "And we do so. Now, we will introduce you on a case who is characteristic of this period of warping laws. This is the case of…"

Suddenly, the doors of the cells wing opened in the other side of the corridor.

Supervisor: "Surprise inspection! We are going to verify all cells right now!"

Nasturi: "Oh no… We are going to be busted! I am supposed to be dead!"

Manrus: "Quick! The hiding."

He opens a slab, revealing a hole under it. Corvus and Nasturi goes under it.

Nasturi: "This is so small…"

Corvus: "No I am too big… Go under me."

Nasturi: "Okay…"

She lies down first and Corvus lies on her, covering her body completely.

Nasturi: "So… heavy…"

Corvus: "Sorry. Please try to breath slowly."

Nasturi nodded.

The slab closed down and the two are plunged in the dark and silence, only cut by the muffled voices of the guards and prisoner. Slowly they are louder as they approached the cell of Manrus and Requai.

They hear the cell of their two friends opening.

Guard (muffled voice): "Inspection time. What have you hidden here?"

Manrus (muffled voice): "Nothing at all."

Requai (muffled voice): "Yeah. We are chilling out."

Natsuri could feel on her hand a kind of object made of wood. She takes it and she could see a small box with cards inside.

Natsuri (whispering): "They like playing apparently…"

Corvus (whispering): "You have to get yourself entertained…"

Guard (muffled voice): "Yeah. I am not trust you. I feel a foul smell inside of it."

Natsuri (whispering): "No… What's happening?"

Corvus (whispering): "It's my fault… I didn't wash myself… I am so sorry…"

Natsuri (whispering): "You have hardly the chance to do it in the first place…"

Guard (muffled voice): "This comes from here… You don't mind if open this."

The slab above them began to move.

Corvus: "I don't know what do we do now."

Natsuri: "Maybe the excuse of card games…?"

And then the slab open. Natsuri wait for the worst but suddenly, her body and the one of Corvus disappeared in the air. She could still feel it but she could see her own body. She asks thousands question inside her mind.

The two guards look inside the cavity and looks to the card box that Natsuri release from her hand. The guard takes it and turn back to the exterior of the cavity.

Guard: "You like playing games, aren't you?"

Requai: "Oh? Huh, yeah… We love doing that. To kill time…"

Guard: "Tch… I will confisquate it and I eyeing you from now on. Then, we put some concrete inside of this hole after your isolation. Take them away…"

And the two prisoners are taken from the cell, the slab is closed back and the cell is closed by the keys. The steps and the voices of the guards are slowly becoming silent.

Then Corvus and Natsuri becomes visible once again.

Natsuri: "How… How could you…"

Corvus: "I don't know… I wanted really hard to disappear and… it happened for both of us since I hold your hand."

The two slowly exits the cavity and enter the cell, now empty. Natsuri was sad.

Natsuri: "Our masters are now in isolation. We cannot see them ever again…"

Corvus: "I know… But they say in all of our lessons that our hour will come. And since, I have this new power of simply disappearing in view. I have a beginning of an idea in my head."

Natsuri: "What idea?"

Corvus: "You will see it soon…"

In the next year, Corvus began to take a plan to free his people of adoption. With Natsuri, he travelled in the gigantic prison of Lycaeus. With his newfound invisibility, he infiltrated and observed the guards of every room and every installation where they are along the installations of the millions of prisoners who are locked all around the planet. Every floor, every important room, nothing can be hidden from him.

And with this, he gattered a lot of followers and invented a system of secret mail boxes exploiting to almost perfection the flaws and weaknesses of the prison system. He has also directly assisted while using his invisibility security briefings, listening on commander giving details on newbies on the details of patrols and calendar of inspections.

Hidings and contrabands links solid like steel are been created where and when the guards don't search and doesn't suspect anything. Natsuri on her side becomes a messenger as silent as wind with the experience accumulated with the legendary stealth of the Primach.

One night, with twenty prisoners in a hidden room.

Prisoner 1: "So what is the plan, Corvus?"

Corvus: "We will take weapons in the armoury when the guards will be occupied on a planned riot. We have only ten days before the day of the surprise inspection. And so, at this moment, you will disguise yourself as guards to give munitions to the prisoners and small knifes."

He opens a chest next to him to reveal the uniforms.

Corvus: "Don't worry about your identity because as you know. The guards are masked to avoid any retaliation."

Prisoner 2: "Hm… When this will happen?"

Corvus: "Today. The signal will be the sirens."

Two repeated knocks are heard in the wall. Corvus opens the door and its Natsuri. She is now dressed in a dark Tank top and dark cargo shorts with boots. Her hair is tied in a braid. Her choker was still on her neck.

Natsuri: "I have returned. As I was returning the rioters have ignited a fire. It will be a question of time before the alarms goes up."

At she finishes, the alarms are heard from afar.

Corvus: "This is now or never."

Natsuri: "Yes. Now or never."

The prisoners take the clothes and dress-up themselves. Nasturi takes some clothes for herself. She puts above herself a small armour who is separated midriff.

Corvus: "Thank you. You won't be disappointed."

Natsuri nodded at them with a serious look.

Natsuri: "We will succeed even if the odds are against all of us."

Corvus: "Enough loss of time. Let's go."

The group exit the hiding and goes to the decayed corridors of the former prison and goes to the corridors leading to the current part of the prison. They advanced in small steps. The prisoners have shoes covered in sheets to prevent sounds and always looks everywhere. It was facilitated by the alarms ringing everywhere. Some moments they could see the guards running in the other side of the corridors towards the riot and so the group goes to the opposite direction.

After many detours, they arrived in front of the elevator going to the armoury. It was locked by a keycard that Corvus has unfortunately not in his possession because these guards are always keeping these on themselves.

Corvus: "Let's hijacking it."

The prisoners open with their tools the elevator device and began to hijacking it from the outside. After a few trials, they located the wire who calls the elevator and after a small energy hit. The elevator is called. They closed back device like it was before.

The elevator makes a sound of rolling and after a moment, it opened its doors. Everyone goes inside of it, fortunately, the elevator is large enough to welcome them with ease. He pushes the unique button of the setting and the doors closed.

After a long ride, the doors opened and reveal the armoury resembling more like warehouse with hundreds and hundreds of crates with weapons inside.

Corvus: "Quick! Grab as many weapons as you can. No, better takes crates inside the elevators."

Prisoner: "But these things are heavy and the riot could subside. Or if it's worsened, many guards could come here and discover us."

Natsuri: "We are guard ourselves with these clothes. We give them a dumb excuse and that's all!"

Corvus: "In any cases, we have to be quick and careful at the same time."

Each prisoners takes a crate before taking them in their back. The Primarch on his side take four crates with his force on his back.

He returns with all of his group to the elevator. After pushing the button again, the doors close once again and the elevator goes down.

Corvus: "Let's go quickly to our hiding as soon we exit."

Natsuri: "Yes."

As the doors opened. The group quickly exited the elevator. But they could hear footsteps coming from the corridors.

Natsuri: "What do we do? Hiding or the bluff?"

Corvus: "Hiding. We shouldn't discover ourselves."

Corvus gives the hand to the Natsuri and she gives it to the other prisoners, after forming a chain. Corvus use his power to make the group invisible along with the crates installed on their back.

And so, the group could see a group of soldiers arriving to the elevator leaded by a caporal.

Caporal: "We have to call the elevator quick!"

He pushes the button and the elevator is called. The group of guards is waiting.

Guard: "Wait. Can you see these stains on the wall? It is… oil."

He touches it and shows it to the Caporal. The group of rebels could guess it was because of the manipulation of the device and was starting getting nervous.

Caporal: "It means one thing…"

Corvus widened and was about to attack.

Caporal: "… the cleaners are lazy as dogs. I will report that to the director. How could neglect this detail?"

Corvus was reassured and so the elevator arrived and opened. The group of guards goes inside and the elevator closed.

Corvus: "Let's go now."

Corvus and his groups goes back to their hiding and deposed all of this inside of it.

Corvus: "We have to take all of this."

The crates are opened by the prisoners and plenty of weapons are discovered along with armours.

Corvus: "That's good. We will distribute all of this to our brothers and sisters."

Prisoner: "Okay… We will be free at last after so much time…"

Natsuri: "Yes… Finally."

Corvus: "With all of these crates. We will send them to special prisoners who can use it in ten days."

And ten days later. The rebels who have disguised themselves as guards have distributed the weapons to the prisoners of the prison in question. Corvus infiltrated within these ten days and beyond the armoury several times more to bring crates of weapons and armour before hiding them in the contrabands and hidden rooms.

Thirty-nine days have passed and it was the night before the revolt began.

He was inside of a private room with Natsuri.

Natsuri: "Tomorrow will be this day. I am impatient but also afraid… Everything could arrive and bad things also…"

Corvus: "I know. I am not reassured but my plan, as elaborated at it seems could fail. But we have to trust it."

Natsuri leans on Corvus.

Natsuri: "This is for this reason that I love you since the first glance…"

Corvus: "Me too… I think this is the right moment."

Natsuri raised her eyebrow.

Natsuri: "And what is it?"

Corvus takes out from his pocket a chocker that he extent to Natsuri.

Corvus: "Natsuri Ephrenia. Can you please stay with me until death separate us?"

Natsuri: "You want to… marry me?"

Corvus: "Exactly."

Natsuri was shocked but shed small tears.

Natsuri: "Yes I want."

She takes the choker; it was beautifully decorated with lines on the leather while the round ornament was decorated with designs of flowers. She puts in on her neck, above the chocker of her mother. She stands up and kiss deeply Corvus. She stops after a moment.

Natsuri: "Let me offer you something in exchange."

Corvus: "And what is it?"

Natsuri looks with sultry eyes and removes her tank top, cargo pants and boots. Leaving her naked. Since she has first encounter Corvus, she has become a very beautiful young woman. She removes the shoelace holding her braid and her blond hair goes loose.

Natsuri: "This."

Corvus: "In my arms."

And so, they kissed more passionately and let drown themselves in lust for the rest of the night.

Legends tells that in the wake the revolt. The atmosphere of the night was a bit euphoric.

The next day…

Corvus and Natsuri finish to dress themselves up. Natsuri sported a female armour separated midriffs and wears her braid. Corvus takes a black armour on his own.

He equipped a shotgun and a small knife; it was a sword from a colonel but he was so huge that it was a knife. Natsuri takes a machine gun on her part.

Corvus: "For freedom."

He takes the hand of Natsuri and she glances at him and smiled a little.

Natsuri: "For freedom."

They exited their hiding and goes to the corridors while hiding in the invisibility screen of the Primarch.

Corvus knows exactly where he goes, he goes underground many floors below the ground of the moon. And then, he arrived in front of the reactor of the prison filled with guards.

Natsuri: "What do we do?"

Corvus doesn't respond and aimed his shotgun to a wire linking to the reactor. And in a precise shot, he destroys the wire and then the whole underground base goes black.

Guard: "What's happening?!"

Guard 2: "An intruder! Activate the lights of emergency!"

They used the flashlights to search the intruders.

Guard 3: "Fast! Fast!"

Then the guards are killed in the dark by Corvus and Natsuri. And in a matter of minutes everyone is died.

Corvus: "It's done."

Natsuri: "Yes."

Corvus return to the surface and heard the cacophony of the fight. And when he exited. He could see the prisoners battling against the guards and storming everywhere and taking rapidly the control of their wings of the prison.

Prisoner: "Look! This is Corvus! Our saviour Corvus!"

Prisoner 2: "Let's free ourselves Corvus Corax!"

Corvus: "Corvus Corax. It means the Savior. I'll take it! Let's go brother and sisters!"

And then, the army leaded by the Primarch stormed to the garage where the vehicles are stocked inside. Despite the fierce resistance of the guards, they are overwhelmed quickly. And Corvus with Natsuri take the vehicles accessing the Dark Tower.

The Dark Tower is a gigantic tower of one kilometre of height. This is the principal citadel of the gigantic prison of Lycaeus. It was thousands of vehicles coming from the prison part of Lycaeus. They arrived inside of the Dark Tower by crushing the guards in the wheels.

They descended from the vehicles and began to battle the guards. But Corvus with his enormous force ends the guards with his knife and his shotgun. Natsuri with her speed kills the guards like an assassin. They were assisted by the armed prisoners of the Lycaeus who were much more numerous.

Floor after floor, the guards were purged and the tide falls more and more in favour of the rebels. The fight last for hours and hours. Each floor purged and taken over.

Corvus Corax finally arrive in the height of the tower. The lord who was leading the prison.

Lord: "Protect me!"

The prisoner killed them with the help of Corvus. Natsuri arrived in front of the lord and pointed her gun to him.

Natsuri: "For my father and mother."

She shots him in the head.

Corvus Corax takes the card from the lord and look at the controlling table of the prison. With his augmented senses and photographic he rapidly sees the button of full release.

He uses the card to activate the table and began to push different buttons.

Corvus Corax: "Activating the emergency reactor. Retouring the secondary wire to the rest of the prison. And full release of the prisoners."

All over the prison, the cells opened and the prisoners are completely liberated. The moms and children could finally reunite with their fathers. Everyone was celebrating their liberation.

But if the crowd was enjoying the feat. Corvus was not. Because he knows that after the moment of shock, Kiavahr would react sooner or later.

He reunited with Natsuri for the next decision to take.

Natsuri: "We have to nuke Kiavahr. We have thousands three hundreds thirty atomic charges on this planet we have to use them."

Corvus: "I am not sure. I don't want to kill millions of innocents. They are slaves like us under the Techno-guilds."

Natsuri: "You have to. They will respond with the most brutal and bloody repression they will ever do to us and for the rest of our people. I don't want to be associated with them ever again. I know this is a difficult decision to make. But we have no choice."

Corvus Corax was conflicted but he knows he has no choice. He sighed

Corvus: "Five will be sufficient enough. Five on the Five major cities of Kiavahr."

Natsuri: "Good. You won't regret it my dear."

In the next hours, Corvus has taken a ship and was going forward the planet of Kiavahr. He could already see under the sky the fleet of Kiavahr beginning to go in the sky.

Corvus with his spaceship launched one atomic bomb on the first city and after a few minutes of travels, a huge mushroom of smoke appeared. Then, he goes to the second city and dropped the second. Then, the third, the fourth and the fifth. The sky was black and red. He gives a last glance to the planet before going back to the moon of Lycaeus.

The Primarch renamed the moon Deliverance and he forces himself to recreate a true society inside of this former prison. He expanded the crops and the mines of the planet and make sure to build sections of the former prison to welcome the population. Also, he makes a truly just judiciary society to judge the fools' actions of citizens who attacks or stole from the others.

On a personal level, he settles down a little with Natsuri to fully dedicate himself to her. Their loves only grew after that along with their maturity. Natsuri becomes a truly beautiful and attractive woman when the Primarch becomes a giant of fairness and pragmatism.

And after three years of trial. Natsuri was now on seven months of pregnancy.

Delivrance has well changed after three years. It was a thriving new civilisation. Corvus has received several times from the Techno-guild a call for a treaty of peace. Because Kiavahr was plunged under turmoil after the destruction of the five major cities. Between slave revolts and war between each faction. But Corvus has ignored them, saying that they deserved it.

And one day, inside of this beautiful city of Delivrance that something was spotted in the space. It was approaching with a huge fleet. A white vessel marked with the name INFINITE on the armour is seen with other vessels.

Corvus recognized it despite he has never seen some kind of vessel before.

The vessel stopped above the city and everyone was nervous. One shuttle exited it and was going to the main dock. Natsuri holds her arm. Now still dressed in her clothes since there is not other clothes to wear.

Natsuri: "What's happening?"

Corvus: "I don't know. But I don't think they want to invade us. Stay calm."

Nasturi: "Okay."

She rubs her belly while feeling the kick of her baby.

Natsuri: "Don't kick like it. Everything is fine… I hope."

A huge crowd is assembled around the shuttle who posed itself on the main dock. The door behind it opens and a downhill board exits it before going to the ground.

A shadow emerges from it followed by taller shadows. The soldiers of Delivrance talked themselves of this strange situation.

Then, the shadow fully exits it. It was a young woman. A blonde-haired woman with blue eyes. Her hair is attached on a bun. She is sporting a red and black dress, with a symbol of a two-headed eagle plastered on the chest. She has long sleeves going to her hands, a ruby below her neck and collar. The finishing touch was the simple point earrings on her hears.

She descended the downhill followed by huge warriors dressed in completely black armour who has a weird beak-shaped helmet. He could see that number on one of their shoulders. XIX, like his number.

And then, he has memories coming to him. The same woman who singing a music while he was inside of this same capsule. The XIXth capsule. He widened of this realisation. He knew that this woman was no other more than…

Natsuri: "Who are you?"

The woman looks back to Natsuri with a warm smile.

Woman: "You are the wife of the XIXth Primarch? That's good to know about it."

Natsuri: "What? XIXth Primarch? His name before naming himself Corvus Corax was Nineteen. How do you know about him?"

Corvus Corax put his hand on Natsuri, calming her down. She turns her head to Corvus.

Natsuri: "Dear?"

Corvus looks at the woman with a formal look.

Corvus: "This is… my mother."

In the next hours. The woman named Salem was served by water facing Corvus, Natsuri and a few of his advisors in a private room.

Salem: "You have no tea?"

Corvus: "No. It was a prison this place."

Salem: "It was? I can understand more why this place is eerie."

Corvus: "I can guess you are eager to know what happened here."

Salem: "Of course. Why I wouldn't?"

Corvus tell the story of what happened here on Delivrance. Salem was honestly astonished by all of this information in the next hours. Explaining with a pertinence and detail like anything she has heard before. Corvus finished after that with this question.

Corvus: "How I arrived here?"

Salem face frowned a bit by this question.

Salem: "It was because of the Chaos Gods. They ripped you like all of your brothers from my arms. Ever since then, with the expansion of the Imperium of Man on the whole Galaxy. Your father and me searched you and your brothers in all over the Galaxy. You are the eighteen to be found. There is still to be found and our big family will be finally reunited."

Corvus was surprised. He has brothers.

Corvus: "I have brothers?"

Salem smiled.

Salem: "And a lot of nieces. I am sure that the child you have conceived with your wife will be happy to see his cousins. (turn to Natsuri). What do you think my daughter in law?"

Natsuri was hesitant on the question. Salem giggled a little.

Salem: "Come on. You can respond to me."

Natsuri: "That would be okay…"

Salem: "Of course… You will be pleased to meet Kariady, Edelgard and Lacus."

Salem takes a much more serious expression.

Salem: "Corvus. You have to know that if you want to reunite with your family. You have also to take responsibilities as a Primarch of the XIXth Legion. After all, you have liberated with small things and intense preparation your people. But our whole race, in a lot of planets are enslaved by much more monstruous creatures than you can imagine. Your father, the Emperor of Mankind only want one thing: the return of Humanity's prosperity."

Natsuri frowned a little, quite wary about the whereabouts of this woman.

Natsuri: "Are you seriously mean it?"

Salem nodded.

Salem: "Of course. The Primarchs are warriors but they are also my dearests' sons that I gave my blood to be alive, well and loved. I wanted the Primarchs to fulfil the role of mother that I deserved to have. Like you, who has deserved to be a mother to. And having a new grandchild only makes me happier. Because, this is the ultimate consecration for me as a woman. (she turned back to Corvus). Are you ready to fulfil your role, Corvus Corax?"

Corvus only kneeled in front of her. Salem smiled.

Salem: "Then so be it. Now fight for the Imperium and the Humanity. Primarch of the XIXth Legion, the Raven Guard. And meet your family my son."

Corvus stands up again.

Salem: "A last thing: how are your intentions on Delivrance?"

Corvus: "I want to bring peace. On Kiavahr and on the moon. And making sure that the wounds of the past closes and the justice could be maintained."

Salem: "You have to know this. Peace is the hardest thing to obtain after reaching your objectives, having victory, ceasing the war and demilitarisation of your opponents are difficult and can be only brought by force. Like you have done here but peace is a very different thing."

Corvus slowly nodded.

Corvus: "I want to know more about your version of peace."

Salem smirked.

Salem: "You won't be disappointed from what I tell you…"

And after a long discussion and the next day. The Primarch leave Delivrance to lead the Great Crusade along with Natsuri.

Corvus: "Mother. I want to bring two warriors that they proved their bravery in the liberation of Delivrance."

He presented two brothers in front of Salem.

Salem: "Who are your names?"

Agapito: "My name is Agapito Nev and this is my little brother Brann Nev."

Salem: "You want to be Astartes?"

The two nodded.

Brann: "We will bring justice for Mankind."

Salem: "I can feel the flames of bravery in your bodies. You will be excellent Astartes…"

To be continued… Zorai, the Fire Lord.

On the world of Yitài. Wars is always happening. The Psykers are fighting mercilessly for the control of the world by their different discipline of the Warp. But their link to the warp is really safe compared to the other Psykers. But at the war continues and it's destructive, the capsule of the XIth Primarch crashed right to the palace of the Fire Lord Zoron. The Fire Lord seeing the potential of the child decided to adopt him. And so, Zorai will grow in force and ambition. Soon, the brutal conquest Yitài began and Zorai accompanied by his cruel daughter Asuka, will bring to his knees the world and makes them obey him.

Next episode… Salem against Activists.

After an Ork purge from a compliant human sector with the help of Horus Lupercal. Salem is requested on the Grüne Ebenen sector. A rich sector full of civilised and developed planets near the Sol System, this sector is the richest among the sectors that the Senatorum Imperialis has given to her since she has become a High Lord. A political conflict inside of the planet Grüne Ebenen Erste, the richest planet of this sector has risen up. Salem will be facing for the first time the moral decay when prosperous societies neglect their moral duty.