Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Everyone, including the Imperial Guards, knelt on one knee facing the glowing flag, and soon after, a voice sounded in Fulgrim's ears.

[You are back...] (Emperor)

【Why did you come back...】(Emperor)

[Why do you want to return to this crumbling empire...] (Emperor)

"For the Empire of Man." said Fulgrim (the clone). "To shed blood for humanity once again..."

"I know who I am, I know what I did, I know what happened to the Empire..."

"But, even so, I still choose to fight for the empire once again, and fight for you..."

"my father..."

【．．． Why do you have to do this．．．】(Emperor)

【．．． Do what you want to do, child．．】(Emperor)

The next moment, the golden light dissipated, leaving only the holy flag swaying in the wind.

"I will be with the Empire, Father..."

"This time, I won't embarrass you again..."

263. The 'Northern' Front (II)

Biubiubiu－－

Whoosh—BOOM!

"Why! Why was our plan discovered?!" an imperial noble questioned his subordinates in frustration. "Our plan should be perfect! And you promised that the plan would not be known to others!"

"Please calm down, my master." The person being questioned replied. "I can guarantee with my life that I have never told anyone other than you and me about our decision to betray the Empire..."

"Even those soldiers only know that they will be carrying out certain tasks at a certain time. I have definitely not told anyone else about our plan!"

"Then tell me! Why did that damn idiot from the Empire know our plan and bring a large number of soldiers to encircle and suppress us?!"

"He may have his own channels." The man responded. "Now that things have come to this, we can only start our plan in advance..."

"Although we still have a lot of things to prepare, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot now."

"...You'd better not make any more mistakes!"

． ． ． On the other side ． ． ．

"Attack! Attack! Kill all these fallen ones who betrayed the empire!"

A somewhat fat young man in imperial military uniform was commanding his soldiers to attack the mansion in front of them.

"Sir, we don't have enough troops and equipment, we should..."

"Are you teaching me how to do things?!" The 'officer' interrupted the soldier beside him. "This is a good opportunity! A good opportunity to prove myself!"

"As long as I can take this place and send that fool who tried to betray the empire and laughed at me to my father, I will definitely be rewarded!"

"I will even become a hero of our family and be worshipped by the people of the entire hive. I will even have the opportunity to enter the upper echelons of the Military Affairs Department, serve the Emperor, and prove myself to my father!"

"So, if I hear anyone questioning me, telling me to retreat or wait again, I will shoot you!"

"And I've called for support. They'll be here soon. The enemy is vulnerable. We need to expand our advantage before the follow-up troops arrive!"

"...as you wish."

. . . . . .

An imperial noble who was trying to start a rebellion and another imperial noble who had some grudge against him happened to discover something.

In the name of conquering traitors, the nobleman who was loyal to the empire launched an attack on another nobleman of the empire with whom he already had some grudge. The actions of him and his men were obvious, or it could be said that with his limited brain capacity, he simply did not think about ending the rebellion that had not yet begun as quickly and as little as possible during this important period - instead, he launched it and directly expanded it.

On the other hand, these two imperial nobles were not intellectually gifted. Although they were not stupid, they were definitely not smart either. So they did not think about one question: why was my plan leaked? Why did my subordinates happen to know the other party's conspiracy?

But as this small-scale battle intensified and gradually tended to involve families and other forces on both sides, no one noticed that the soldier in charge of planning and scaring/reporting the rebellion left their sphere of influence almost at the same time.

In a deserted corner, the two people appeared at the two ends of the alley almost at the same time and continued to walk towards each other until... they collided with each other.

However, when the two different people collided, they suddenly turned into two different pools of liquid and began to merge. Eventually, a new humanoid creature rose from the mixed liquid.

"It's really great to be able to walk around in the physical universe at will."

“An appetizer, but not enough.”

"More conspiracy~more betrayal~more plans~"

"Next time, how about I try to be a 'loyal' imperial commissar~"

"That must be very interesting~"

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[Vortex Fortress] Planet Frontline

Bang--!

In the silent universe, the ship with the Khorne logo accelerated and crashed directly into the Imperial Navy ship in front, and then a large number of landing capsules were launched.

"Blood and Blood God! Skull for the Skull Throne!"

As soon as the violent Khorne Space Marines boarded the enemy's ships, they could not wait to attack the enemy, using their blood-stained chain axes or other hideous weapons to chopped down the weak mortal soldiers without mercy.

The appearance of a large number of Khorne Space Marines and Daemons on the loyal ships basically means the fall of another ship. Although weak mortals may rely on terrain and numbers to eliminate a certain number of enemy Space Marines, the number of Khorne's believers who board each ship is absolutely astonishing - most of them don't have any detailed plans or the best use of personnel. They just charge at the enemy and then chop them down. Why think so much?

The flames of the ship explosion rose in the space, and the captain of another ship decided to detonate his own ship to take away the large number of enemies on his ship.

But even so, the number of enemy ships did not decrease.

There are simply too many enemies...

A steady stream of Khorne ships poured out from the Eye of Terror, heading towards the planet with the [Artificial Maelstrom Device] like ants, and launched attacks and massacres on all the Imperial planets along the way.

The nearby Imperial Navy, Mechanicus Ark and Space Marines had already rushed to support them as soon as possible, but...

Snap--!

Not far away, an Imperial ship was suddenly cut in half like a cucumber. Then a scarlet figure flew out from the wreckage of the ship and landed on another Imperial Navy ship.

[World Eaters] Primarch - Angron!

Angron, who had grown to a huge size due to his ascension to demon, was now like a scarlet god of death, shuttling through the Imperial Navy's fleet and turning one naval ship after another into garbage in the universe from time to time.

A squad of Space Marines piloting the Thunderhawk Gunship tried to destroy the blood-thirsty Angron, but even though the missiles on the vehicle were fired at him, successfully hitting him and exploding on his body, the fallen Primarch still did not suffer any damage, which made him even more furious!

Whoosh—BOOM!

The flaming giant sword thrown by Angron directly destroyed a [Thunder Hawk Gunship]. Then he suddenly jumped up and blocked the high-speed flying vehicles like a wall.

Several Thunderhawk gunboats that didn't have time to turn around slammed into Angron's solid body and exploded. Only two of them survived.

Even though Angron had sustained some damage from blocking the plane with his body, this did not make him lose his ability to fight - it would only make him more violent.

The only two remaining Thunderhawk gunships that attacked him had already flown far away, and it was not easy to catch up with them. In response, Angron, with red eyes, looked towards the Imperial Navy destroyer closest to him.

The next moment, a scarlet figure smashed into the ship like a meteorite. Not long after, another loyal ship was destroyed by a violent Primarch.

The war continues...

. . . . . .

Khorne Front - Decoy Planet No. 1

This planet is a bait. In order to protect the four fortress planets with [artificial vortex devices] to the greatest extent, the Empire plans to delay Khorne's large army with this planet as the center.

In order to make Khorne's large army fall into the trap as planned, a 'bait' that they absolutely cannot refuse has arrived on this planet.

Led by several Grey Knight Terminators, a large team walked into the completed command post, and the leading commander immediately saluted the visitors.

"Sir, we have already..."

Snap--!

The sound of a double-barreled shotgun being loaded interrupted the man's words. DOM, who was wearing the [Archon] armor, slowly raised his head, and a dull voice sounded.

"Tell me where the devil is."

(Where? Who to kill? How many?)

264. The 'Northern' Front (Part )

Khorne Front - Decoy Planet No. 1

The temporary small artillery space station was firing at a nearby enemy frigate, but the enemy ship did not dodge or evade and directly crashed into the attacking space station.

The frigate's bow rammed into the interior of the station, causing its entire structure to shift, and boarding began.

The mortal believers with the symbol of Khorne tattooed on their bodies shouted the title of the god they believed in and launched an attack on the defenders in the space station.

However, when they really set foot on this space station that was already on the verge of collapse, they found that what greeted them were not ordinary panicked defenders, but...

Grey Knights

Lightning flashed on the power halberd, and storm arrows were loaded. In front of this fully armed Grey Knight squad, the [Guardian Hammer] in DOM's hand emitted a red light, illuminating his helmet.

. . . . . .

Bang bang bang－－!

Squeak--Biubiubiu!

Under the suppressive firepower of storm arrows and rotary plasma machine guns, those mortals who had thrown themselves into the arms of Chaos for various reasons fell like wheat, and the occasional few who rushed nearby were killed by the Grey Knights wearing Terminator armor and holding melee weapons.

On the other side, the Khorne Space Marines and demons attracted by DOM were coming to him one by one like "the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather".

Buzz－－!

The high-speed spinning chainsaw axe chopped down, but DOM dodged it by leaning sideways, then stepped on the back of the axe to prevent the opponent from lifting it, and swung the [Guardian Hammer] in his hand from bottom to top.

Bang--!

The heavy blow from the hammer caused the Khorne Space Marine to fall on his back, and then the raised double-headed hammer smashed down.

The power armor's helmet and the head it protected were smashed like a watermelon. From then on, all the Local Marines who had boarded the space station were killed by DOM.

The Grey Knights have also killed all the fanatical Chaos believers, and the news of DOM's presence here has been successfully passed on. The Empire's reconnaissance troops reported that the enemy fleet was turning around.

"Sir Demon Slayer, we should leave now." The leader of the Grey Knights said to DOM. "We need to follow the plan."

"...Walk."

Without saying anything more, DOM led the Gray Knights squad on the strike cruiser that arrived later and left the damaged space station. They had accomplished the purpose of this operation.

but...

A ship with the mark of Tzeentch arrived near the space station soon after, and a humanoid creature with golden wings boarded the space station.

"Argent and... the breath of elemental ghosts..."

"I found you, DOM!"

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Just as planned, after receiving the news of DOM's whereabouts, Khorne's large army immediately changed its original target and rushed towards the bait planet.

And there, a large number of targeted fortifications will give them a huge surprise - although the people of Khorne should not care about these, most of them will only care about whether they can fight a good fight.

The vanguard of Khorne's forces had already run headfirst into this carefully designed trap and were being beaten up by the ambushed Imperial Navy forces - although as mentioned before, they didn't care much.

Although the current battle situation seems to be going smoothly, everyone knows that these are only a small part of the huge Khorne army. When Khorne's brigade arrives, any plan will hardly have the expected effect in the face of absolute numbers and strength.

But Zhang Yi and others were not unprepared for this.

. . . . . .

【Grand Temple of Time】

"Although Slaanesh's troops also came out of the Eye of Terror, they are not taking the same route as Khorne's troops. They seem to want to bypass the Empire from another route. At the same time, the multiple planets along the way can also slow down their progress..."

"Unless they can resist not opening impart all the way (which is not realistic)..."

"The Eldar troops and part of the Imperial Navy have already gone to block Slaanesh's possible route. It shouldn't be a big problem..."

"As for Nurgle, they can still be delayed for a certain period of time, so there is no need to worry for the time being, but..."

"The Imperial forces near the planet [Whirlpool Fortress] have confirmed Angron's existence, and then..." Zhang Yi rubbed his brows and said. "He has changed a lot now..."