Nick entered the Nightmare's domain through the Fiend of Darkness.
He hadn't been there in a long while.
When he saw the Nightmare again, he was reminded of the Pure One and the other knowledge repositories.
As he looked at its features more closely, he could see the bones and atrophied muscles resembled the image of the old Emperor he had seen.
Nick was 99% sure that this was the old Emperor of the Empire.
He had raised the Pure One like a child, and he was the reason why humanity even had a slight chance to free themselves of the aliens.
Humanity would need millennia to progress to the technological level of the Empire.
But humanity didn't have millennia.
The era would most likely reset within less than a thousand years.
Without the Enlightened Ones, humanity wouldn't have even the tiniest chance.
Nick looked at the old Emperor with respect.
He had given his life for humanity.
