Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Boom boom boom--!

The moment Perturabo escaped, a large number of missiles, explosive bombs and light beams poured down, instantly engulfing a large area nearby in artillery fire.

At the same time, Vashtor used the limited strength he had to act on Perturabo, manipulating a large amount of black metal fragments around him to fly towards him again, repairing the broken parts of his power armor and making it even stronger.

"MD! Let's take a gamble!"

The mark on Zhang Yi's arm symbolizing Tzeentch lit up, and a broken, mirror-like space appeared, then flew towards Perturabo.

Seeing this, Perturabo swung the hammer in his hand and smashed it hard at the thing that looked like a broken mirror.

Snap--!

With a shattering sound, Perturabo seemed to have successfully smashed Zhang Yi's attack, but the next second he found that the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

[Oh~ I thought you had forgotten about me~ Is this my new test subject? ]

[He does not belong to you, foreign god! ]

374. The Blacksmith and the Plague (VIII)

Perturabo was rescued.

Although Zhang Yi finally succeeded in dragging him into the [Mirror Space], as mentioned before, the [Mirror Space] opened by Zhang Yi at his level is not stable, especially in the 40K universe.

In addition, Vashtor's attention was always on him. Almost at the moment Perturabo was dragged into the [Mirror Space], he descended into this temporary world and connected it with the subspace.

Although Zhang Yi also successfully opened a portal leading to [The Thinker] Onir, the two did have a brief fight over Perturabo.

However, due to fighting outside his native land and the weakening of his power in different worlds, Onir was unable to capture Perturabo, causing him to be rescued by Vashtor - he was somewhat dissatisfied with this.

"...I'll ask Luo Jia to come back and stay with you for a few days?"

(Lorgar: MMP)

Before more Imperial troops arrived, the Chaos Dwarves and Iron Warriors evacuated the area, taking with them the abducted human craftsmen and a few scientific researchers.

But during the post-war cleanup and statistics, it was discovered that a small group of dwarf craftsmen who were supposed to stay safely in the residential area had disappeared.

Yes, they were gone. The door of the room where they were hiding was violently broken open. There were traces of fighting around it, and there was even a charred human corpse, but those dwarves were gone.

At this time, the area was patrolled regularly by Space Marines and monitored everywhere. The only entrance here was the heavy door inlaid with a large number of dwarven runes - and the records showed that no enemy had ever entered.

But even so, those dwarf craftsmen disappeared - they seemed to have evaporated, disappearing in this place that was supposed to be safe.

Upon learning of this, the White Dwarf was furious. He attributed the incident to the Chaos Dwarves and the Iron Warriors Chapter, and recorded the incident in the Dwarfs' Book of Hatred, vowing to make Perturabo and the others pay the price.

However, subsequent investigations and questioning of prisoners of war revealed that the Chaos Dwarves and the Iron Warriors did plan an invasion of the Forge Star's defense facilities, but their targets were only the spaceport and some ground defense facilities - they had no orders to invade the Forge Area.

Likewise, they also explained that they just wanted to use the large number of metal demons they had accumulated, in cooperation with the Space Marines of the Iron Warriors, to forcibly abduct the slaves they needed, and did not try to sneak in - they were not suitable for infiltration, and had no way to break through the rune gate.

The question is, who and how did they get into this tightly guarded inner area and abduct those dwarves?

"Commissar Tass, are you sure no one has gotten through your lines?"

"I can guarantee with my life that when I was in charge of the last line of defense outside the gate, we did encounter several waves of enemies, but without exception, we repelled them all, but..."

"But what?"

"There are some retreating enemies. They look a little strange. They don't seem to be in the same group as those people?"

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subspace

Somewhere, a large number of Tzeentch demons gathered, and they were noisily surrounding a circle made of metal, stone, and flesh.

[Dwarves... A medieval world protected by the power of the ancient saints, a pure world... Temporarily...]

[I found it, that world is very good...]

[My theory is correct, another special coordinate]

[Interrogate them and dig out all the knowledge in their brains. We will use it to analyze how to break the cage! ]

【Everything for the Lord of Change! 】

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The territory of the Tau, a corrupted Tau planet

Bang bang bang－－!

The flames brought out by the bullets flickered in the darkness, and the creatures corrupted by the Nurgle virus were turned into fragments on the ground by the bullets fired from the bolters.

Bear--!

The scorching flame of promethium appeared in the darkness, and a Chaos Egg formed by a large number of Titanium people was ignited by the flame and gradually turned into ashes.

After a few minutes, all the Nurgle zombies and Nurgle demons in the area were wiped out, and a technical sergeant of the Blood Angels began to report on the battle situation.

They have penetrated deep into the interior of the planet and have come to an area with obvious subspace energy fluctuations, ready to blast.

And when they really arrived at that area, the first thing they encountered was a large number of Nurgle zombies and demons.

After a hard battle, they cleared out the enemies, but then they saw another unusual scene - a large bamboo forest.

The Techmarine immediately contacted their own ship in orbit around the planet and reported what their team had seen.

Afterwards, several [Blood Angels] Space Marines holding promethium flamethrowers rushed towards the bamboo forest to clean up, and the scorching flames almost instantly ignited the green bamboo forest.

However, they soon discovered a problem - the scorching promethium flame did ignite these seemingly ordinary bamboos, but only ignited them.

"Something is wrong!"

The leading Blood Angels Space Marines immediately ordered their brothers nearby to keep a distance from the bamboo forest, and soon after they gave the order, the ground began to shake violently.

The roots of bamboos underground are intertwined with each other, with several bamboos growing out of one main root - the same is true for this untimely bamboo forest.

A large number of emerald green bamboos began to shake, and a huge existence rushed out of the soil and appeared in front of many Space Marines. It was made up of countless bamboos crossed and mixed, like a bamboo man and a cage (refer to the magician's treasure/Wicker Man).

The promethium flame spread abnormally quickly throughout its body, and in the belly of that huge body a portal leading to the subspace was emitting light.

. . . . . .

Tau Star Region

Biubiubiu－－!

A Tau cruiser's railgun array opened fire on the Chaos ship, and several shells similar to Imperial torpedoes exploded on the ship that had lost its [Void Shield] and eventually sank it.

But soon, another Chaos ship attacked at full speed, and the ramming horns on the ship directly broke through its [Gravity Field Shield] (another shield similar to the [Void Shield]), and also penetrated its already limited armor.

The Tau fleet was engaged in a fierce battle with the Chaos. Even though the Ethereal Clan had already recalled almost all of their fleets to defend their home planet, they were still at a disadvantage facing the unreasonable Chaos fleet that relied on 'brushing'.

The situation for the Tau would be even worse if it weren't for the multiple different Chaos factions fighting each other.

But their good luck ended there.

The flagship of the Death Guard, the Glorious Queen-class battleship Endurance, led a fleet through the chaotic star field and arrived near the Titanium Star.

The Tau fleet had never seen such a huge human ship. Its powerful firepower swept away all Tau fleets that dared to block it, and also made these blue-skinned aliens once again aware of their existence.

Relying on the large number of orbital defense facilities possessed by Titanium, they can still resist the attack of this fleet for the time being, but if they don't find a solution, defeat is only a matter of time.

Just when the top leaders of the Titanium Clan were in a state of panic, another piece of bad news came.

A Chaos landing fleet successfully reached the surface of Titan.

. . . . . .

On Titanium, a large number of high-altitude defense weapons were pouring fire on the landing capsules that were falling from the sky. One after another, the airdrop capsules with the "Death Guard" logo were destroyed in the air, but more were falling.

Like a replica of the Great Crusade era, airdrop pods fell from the sky. The first to land were those equipped with various automatic weapons. As soon as they landed, they unleashed deadly firepower on the surrounding enemies.

After a safe zone was identified, the airdrop pods loaded with Astartes began to be delivered, followed by various vehicles and heavy weapons.

A group of Titanium soldiers successfully found an airdrop pod that had just landed, and when the hatch of the airdrop pod opened, a black and white afterimage rushed out.

Even with the aid of their battle suits, most of the Tau soldiers could only see a shadow, and then they saw the dismembered comrades around them.

The pulse gun began to fire randomly, but not a single shot hit the target. In just a few tens of seconds, only one person was left alive in this Tau team.

Snap—tear!

The huge black and white figure in front of him tore another Tau soldier into two, then slowly turned its head.

roar--!

A few minutes later, a Death Guard team arrived at the scene of the battle, and saw the bodies of the Tau and... the oversized panda in armor.

"Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"

"...You are right."

375. The Blacksmith and the Plague (IX)

After Mortarion was transformed into a panda by Zhang Yi, he spent a long time trying to transform back.

The first person he thought of was the master he was now loyal to, Father Nurgle, but as the all-embracing evil god of the Warp, he did not want to lift the curse on Mortarion just like that.

On the one hand, from the father's point of view, there is no difference between the current Mortarion and the previous Mortarion. It tolerates any life form, no matter what it looks like.

On the other hand, what Mortarion has transformed into now is a rare and extinct creature that does not exist in this world now, which makes this god who loves all things very fond of it.

So even though it was very easy for the kind father Nurgle to exorcise the curse from the other world on Mortarion, he did not do so. He hoped that his child could remain in this state until he thoroughly studied this creature.

To this end, Nurgle also created a bamboo-related demon for him to provide him with food.

Mortarion had no choice but to accept his master's actions and decision. Then the four evil gods were imprisoned in the solar system by the Emperor and cut off from the warp.

For Zhang Yi, he knew very well how to change back temporarily after being soaked in the water of the Cursed Spring, but for Mortarion, he never thought that he could turn back to human form by pouring a pot of hot water - and Nurgle's believers would not take a bath under normal circumstances, let alone a hot bath.

After so long, Mortarion has basically gotten used to issuing orders in this state, and turning into a panda has also enhanced his combat effectiveness to a certain extent.

And its offspring have also become familiar with the black and white giant panda, pointing and talking to them - calling him "dad".

But for everyone else, watching a panda dismantle a tank... it was a once-in-a-millennium sight.

(Panda! Panda! It's a panda! -- a Tau commander who was traumatized by Mortarion)

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"Bamboo came back to life and copied a wave of Brother Gou's treasures to hit people. Is that okay..."

The Blood Angels' action report was submitted to the Hope. They successfully destroyed the subspace portal inside the planet, but because of the bamboo-like demon that appeared at the end, they suffered heavy losses.

But on the other hand, they also successfully eliminated possible threats and found out some of the enemy's situations - they were sure that Motanian would bring his offspring to attack the Titanium Star.

The fleet led by the Hope successfully reunited with the Imperial fleet represented by Speyer, which had entered the vicinity of the Tau Star region earlier. Further battle developments were also known to Zhang Yi and his team.

The Ether Clan, which had a certain degree of dominance and prestige, ordered the Tau people from almost all the nearby home worlds to gather near the Tau planet and assemble all their forces to resist the invasion of Chaos.

The Tau people on those remote home worlds were abandoned, and the Ethereal Clans could only pray for them, hoping that they could survive the Chaos invasion - in this situation, there was nothing they could do.

This decision did buy time for the Tau to a certain extent, allowing them to resist the Chaos offensive for a longer time, but in fact it was more because of the Chaos attacks on each other that allowed them to resist for so long.

The Tau, who had almost no experience in large-scale battles with Chaos, often had only just defeated one Chaos fleet before more fleets appeared before them.

Relying on the fleet they had accumulated before, the Tau can now barely contend with Chaos, but facing the Chaos forces that are constantly replenishing their troops, how long can they hold out?

Good luck favored them, which prevented the Tau from being exposed to the truth of this cruel universe before, allowing them to develop to this day. But now, everything they gained because of luck will be taken back.

Before meeting up with Zhang Yi and his men, Spyder had already encountered several waves of Chaos attacks. In order to weaken Chaos' power, he took the initiative to implement the [Extinction Order] on several T'au planets that had been completely occupied or were about to be completely occupied by Chaos, turning the entire planet into scorched earth or completely destroying it.

This action also caused some Tau forces to regard this human fleet that originally came to aid them as an enemy.

At the same time, this also reflects a problem: Although Zhang Yi and his team need to prevent the Chaos Party from killing all the Titans to allow the new subspace evil god originally condensed by the "Greater Good" to appear, but...

Most of the Tau people are basically unaware of the Warp and the existence within it. In addition, a group of evil gods of the Warp, led by Tzeentch, may have deployed a series of means in the Tau society in the past. It is almost impossible to get the current Tau to cooperate with the actions of the Human Empire.

And even if they cooperate, where should the Human Empire place such a large number of Tau people?

Some people suggested sending these Tau people to other worlds and then "dealing with" them together - as long as the Tau people do not die in the world of Warhammer 40K, the new god cannot be born.

The reason for this very Warhammer-esque proposal is that the Tau are of almost no use to the entire human empire - they do not have the heritage of the Eldar and Lizardmen, are not humans or humanoids, their social structure and ideas are 'unique' in the entire Warhammer universe, and finally their population is neither too much nor too little.

This puts the Tau in a very awkward position within the human empire.

They don't have the technology the empire needs (and there are a lot of technologies that are prone to problems), their ideology is very troublesome, not to mention that there may be problems as slaves, and their population is also very embarrassing (not many people can be saved).

Looking at it this way, it seems that the only appropriate solution to the problem of the Titanium Clan is to simply "deal with" them all in another world.

Fortunately, the current leader of the Lizardmen, Master Kroka, is willing to take in the Tau refugees. After all, the entire medieval world was already in chaos enough before, so this is not a big problem.