Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Among the Space Marines who arrived at this planet, their team of [Raven Guard] Space Marines were the one who entered this planet with an open identity, while the [Alpha] Space Marines who were good at lurking, espionage and covert operations sneaked into this planet with a hidden identity.

But now, those [Alpha] Space Marines did not respond, which made the [Raven Guard] Space Marines feel uneasy.

You know, they had received news before that there was suspected Slaanesh contamination on this planet, and now it seems that the problem here may be bigger than they thought.

"Please allow me to entertain you well. You must be very tired after coming from such a long distance. You need to have a good rest."

"The rebellion has not been completely resolved yet, so it's not time to stop!" said the leading Space Marine. "I need you to gather enough soldiers. This battle against the rebellion is not as easy as you think!"

The words of this Raven Guard Space Marine frightened the Imperial a little.

He was a noble. He quickly took out a small bottle of liquid of unknown substance and took a sip. After calming down, he spoke.

"Oh, of course, Angel of the Empire, your request is very reasonable." He said. "The rebellion has not been completely resolved yet, and the unknown black giant has not been captured."

"I will prepare enough supplies and soldiers for you. This is what a loyal citizen of the Empire should do."

"This won't take long."

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Upper area, a tower somewhere

The sturdy and gorgeous round fish tank was placed intact in a corner of the room. Around it were bomb craters and broken corpses. There were also obvious marks of laser gun burns and craters left by automatic guns in other places in the room.

As the beautiful fish tail waved, a Space Marine helmet flew out and fell among the corpses on the ground.

Then, the mermaid, who mesmerized all mortals who saw her, grabbed the edge of the fish tank and broke away from the round fish tank, revealing her beautiful face and graceful figure to the room full of corpses.

The dreamy liquid in the fish tank that was like a galaxy also flowed out at this time, gathered under the mermaid's tail, and carried her forward.

She came to a pile of corpses, and the corpses in front of her flew to the side as she waved her hand, until a thin, well-dressed human appeared.

"Cough, cough, cough--!" After seeing the light of day again, the human examiner coughed violently, and then he saw the perfect face that he never tired of looking at. "Thank God, you are still alive..."

"Those damn fallen angels! I won't let them go!"

"I will call upon all my soldiers, I will ask my allies to help me! I will..."

The beautiful woman in front of him just looked at him, maintaining that sweet smile, and just watched him chattering.

And not long after, he finally said it and refocused his attention on the person in front of him.

"you're so beautiful...?"

Suddenly, he suddenly noticed that several unknown lines appeared on the face of the person in front of him, and they gradually began to expand.

The next second, the face that seemed perfect to him split open, and a spiral mouth with sharp teeth appeared in front of him, right in front of him!

He was unable to scream. It took only a moment for him to go from heaven to hell. His entire face was bitten. The sharp and tiny teeth began to tear the flesh on his face bit by bit.

It was like being tortured to death, but he couldn't scream. He waved his hands desperately, struggling to break free, but it was in vain.

This was not the end yet. The liquid that had fascinated countless nobles and imperial high-ranking officials on this planet now enveloped him, but it did not give him the dreamlike enjoyment as before. Instead, it intensified his pain and kept him awake.

The torture lasted for a long time until his skull was bitten through and his brain was sucked out by her.

Afterwards, the mermaid's face returned to normal. Her face was still as perfect as before, but her expression seemed a little distorted.

"I can't wait to 'enjoy' each other with my dear~"

"Come quickly~ Holy Son~"

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When Ella left the bottom level and came to other levels, she happened to encounter the rebels led by Archaon.

As mentioned before, even the scum at the bottom of society have faith, and most of the time they are very respectful of the countries where they come to preach, even if it is because of the help these members of the state religion give them during their missionary work, it is also because of the imperial truth they spread.

So the question is: If this is the case, why are there still so many cultists among the lower and lower classes?

The answer to this question is also very simple: many people at the bottom of society do not know what the correct belief is. They may be very firm, but they are not smart enough and are easily fooled.

For example, you are a low-level person on a planet whose ancestors have been miners for generations. Although you go every time when the empire's state religion priest comes to preach, you can only stand at the outside every time. You can't see what the priest looks like, nor can you hear clearly what he is saying.

Then, one day your co-worker and drinking buddy invites you to a place where there is a huge golden statue with four arms. Your co-worker tells you that this is the statue of the Emperor himself, and they went through a lot of trouble to get it. You no longer have to look at the back of other people’s heads when the state church priests come to preach. You can pray here to the statue of the Emperor himself and everyone else.

You feel something is wrong but you can't put your finger on it. After all, you have never seen the statue of the Emperor himself. So, under the preaching and persuasion of your co-workers, you begin to come here to pray from time to time, listen to the preaching of the bald priest here, and participate in some activities. During this process, you didn't feel anything was wrong until one day a lot of bugs appeared in the sky.

Back to the point, although Ella was once the chosen one of Slaanesh, she now doesn't want to go back to her old job, spreading the gospel of Slaanesh and gaining a large number of believers. She just wants to find Zhang Yi, to see what kind of person he is, who changed the human empire and is highly valued by the gods of the warp - she wants to love him.

But the first thing she needed to deal with was how to get through the chaotic war zone and find where Zhang Yi was.

to this end

He took the initiative to find Archaon, one of the former Four Gods who was bent on revenge against the gods.

"How dare you appear before me?!" Archaon, who had just failed in his attack, was obviously in a bad mood. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the Imperial Space Marines, he would have been even closer to the Chosen One of Slaanesh. "Do you really think I won't kill you?!"

"I want to make a deal with you..."

"Deal? You should be worrying about whether you can get out of this alive now!"

"I still want to see him." Ella was not frightened by Archaon's words. "Not because of my master, but because of my own will."

"I'll help you find your target, and you give me his intelligence."

The "he" refers to is of course Zhang Yi. Archaon has seen this man who changed the direction of the world up close, and it was also him who was tricked by the four gods into making a big deal out of him.

Now Archaon is no longer interested in Zhang Yi. His only goal now is to make the Four Gods pay the price.

However, looking at Ella in front of him, Archaon became a little interested, because she was a being like himself, abandoned and deceived by the four gods.

"You said that was your own will?" Archaon stood up and walked in front of Ella. "How do you know if your current thoughts are the influence of another evil god?"

Archaon lived longer than Ella, and had served the evil gods for a longer time. He was well aware of the power of their influence. Many people who were originally committed to fighting Chaos became their lackeys in the process of understanding and targeting Chaos.

So he didn't believe that Ella, the Chosen One of Slaanesh, could really get rid of the influence of Chaos. Didn't an old man holding the [Book of Destiny], after going through so much trouble, fail to get what he wanted in the end?

"...Then how can you guarantee that everything you are doing is not under their guidance?"

The giant sword in Archaon's hand was placed directly on Ella's neck. Although he was reluctant to admit it, Archaon now knew that the power and equipment he possessed now were inseparable from the four gods he once served. He has also been using the legacy they gave him to complete his revenge.

When facing Archaon who could kill her at any time, Aisha's eyes showed no fear but determination instead.

This surprised Archaon a little. He had seen this kind of look before, and he had crushed these determined people with absolute strength before, but this was the first time he saw this kind of look in a former Chosen of Slaanesh.

"Interesting." Archaon put down his sword and said, "Find out the purpose and main perpetrators of Chaos on this planet for me and my troops, and use it as bait to divert the Empire's troops when necessary..."

"And after that, I will give you the information you want and send you on a ship away from here, if you can still survive."

"Don't get me wrong, I still hate you, toy." Archaon's three eyes looked at Ella in front of him and said, "So I will exploit you to the greatest extent possible."

"But if you fulfill my mission, I will fulfill my promise."

"Try to survive, toy!"

703. Mermaid Dream

"Still no news?" The Raven Guard Space Marine who was tracking the rebels asked his battle brothers around him.

"According to the intelligence we have gathered so far, we have lost the trace of the Alpha Space Marines who arrived on this planet with us." The Raven Guardian who was asked answered. "It is possible that they have discovered something and are still investigating it, or..."

"They're all dead, aren't they?"

"But what is certain is that there is a problem with the imperial nobles in the upper regions of this planet. This rebellion could also be a fight between enemies of different factions."

"In the worst case, compared to the rebellion that we need to suppress, the entire upper-class nobles have been controlled by the influence of chaos."

"We need to report the situation here. It's difficult for us to handle the problems here alone."

"In addition, we also need to determine who can be trusted and who has been bewitched and controlled to prevent being stabbed in the back."

"Then should we continue to look for Alpha's brothers?"

"... continue to send people to look for them." said the leading Raven Guard. "I don't think they can be wiped out so easily."

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Upper Minaret Area, a certain transfer area

A huge amount of goods arrive here every day, and most of the city’s supplies are sent to the upper city for the noble imperial aristocrats to squander.

You have to know that many things in the Empire are ridiculously large, including big weapons, big ships, and big cities. Those giant hive cities that can extend from the ground all the way outside the atmosphere are unimaginable for most worlds that use technology as the main means of development.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the acquisition of supplies, the imperial nobles of this planet built this unloading area, and used huge elevators or transport planes to deliver the materials in their area here, and then other people or machines would deliver them to the vicinity of the brother nobles' homes.

This place has become one of the few places in the upper city that can hide people. Cargo boxes of all sizes are transported here from the lower level, and airships carrying cargo come and go, not to mention the many servitors and workers responsible for transporting the cargo.

A team of three Space Marines, two of whom were killed in the exploration mission, killed

After killing some bewitched noble servants and private soldiers, the Slaanesh demon disguised as a harmless subhuman killed two Alpha Space Marines on its own.

And now he is the only one left and his condition is not good. Although he was evacuated in advance, he still lost an arm and an eye. The system in the power armor is sending him warnings.

But he succeeded in obtaining important information: almost the entire aristocratic class of this planet was contaminated and controlled by the power of chaos!

According to the intelligence they obtained, the reason for the collective depravity of the nobles was the Slaanesh demon disguised as a sub-human, and it should be the culprit who corrupted another planet not long ago.

The bodies of the Inquisition members have also been found. The ships they took to this planet are still parked in the harbor, but all the self-aware people on board have fallen into a state of confusion.

The addictive liquid that has suddenly been circulating recently also comes from it. It is actually just ordinary "bath water", but because of its powerful subspace power, it has become something that everyone is flocking to.

With the injection of a standard concentration of [Regeneration Ampoule], the severed arm is growing back and the damaged eyeball is healing.

The decoy left behind before prevented those chasing him from finding him temporarily, but this would not last long. In some ways, as long as it wanted, most of the nobles on the entire planet would be willing to submit to it and let it control them - although these people might not realize that they had been controlled.

The box containing the information and evidence was stuffed into a narrow gap. The arm that had been torn off before has been restored, but that part of the armor could not be restored.

After doing all this, his already damaged divination instrument showed that there were people nearby. It should be the pursuers, and their numbers were increasing.

Seeing this, the only remaining [Alpha] Space Marine drew out the tactical dagger from his waist and walked out of his hiding place.

Soon after, the sounds of automatic gunfire and explosions were heard in the area.

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Aduk Fortress Planet

Nurgle was repelled, and the attacking Nurgle fleet left afterwards, but the human empire still had a lot of mess to deal with.

In addition to the huge Eldar Ark that still remained in the planet's orbit, there were also the remaining plant-like tissues that had not been completely burned, the Nurgle believers who had not had time to retreat to the Warp with Mortarion's troops, and a small number of fallen Space Marines and demons from other factions who appeared for various reasons.

Although there were not many enemies left because of the Emperor's previous help, and because of the previous divine manifestation, all the soldiers who witnessed the devastating blow to the Chaos enemy were now maintaining an unprecedented fanaticism and clearing out the remaining enemies according to the orders of their superiors.

Members of the state religion who heard about this soon came from all directions and began to preach among the fanatical crowd, praising the existence of the Emperor, and going to the place of thanksgiving for what they called the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, to touch and record it all.

Of course, their goal is to build more churches on this indestructible fortress planet. What could better demonstrate their loyalty than to build a huge and pious Imperial Cathedral on a planet where the Emperor has appeared and pray and sing praises in it day and night?

"Look at the bright side." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the increasing number of Anglican priests, missionaries and bishops who had come after hearing the news, and O'Neill, who was once again feeling a headache because of this. "Some of them really don't worship you and me as gods anymore."

"That's not much of a consolation..." O'Neill replied, maintaining the posture of Commander Ikari. "I should have emphasized this point before I sat on that 'golden toilet'..."

"Well... I personally think that will only make more people follow Lorgar."

At this time, a Space Marine wearing a badge with the word "Pathfinder" and the Roman numeral two came up to Zhang Yi and O'Neill with a team of Space Marines and saluted them.

"We have basically completed the cleanup and suppression of important areas nearby. Holy Emperor and..."

"Father."

The word "father" gave Zhang Yi goosebumps. You know, he was specifically told by the Pathfinder Space Marines not to call him "Dad" or any other similar names in front of him. Even though Zhang Yi could be called the Primarch of the Empire, he was not ready to be the father of a bunch of super soldiers who were taller than himself.

Regarding this point, Zhang Yi also specifically asked other Primarchs how they felt when they joined the Emperor's Great Crusade and knew that they had a bunch of 'sons' made with their own gene seeds.

Vulkan and the Wolf King accepted it naturally, and commanded, protected and trained them in their own way; Jaghatai and Magnus treated them as people with the same hobbies as themselves, and raced/researched with them; Guilliman and Sanguinius regarded their offspring as bricks and tiles of the empire, and while guiding them to contribute to the empire, they also taught them how to become qualified warriors.

Of course, there are also those that Zhang Yi knows who do not treat their own offspring as human beings, such as Perturabo, and there are also those who give the Primarch a headache, such as Ferrus and his offspring.

"Although you were born..., you should know that I don't like others to call me that in front of me.

Call me." Zhang Yi said, looking at the second-phase [Pathfinder] Space Marine in front of him.

"I will change the title later." said the Pathfinder Space Marine. "But I want you to know that I am very honored that you are our Primarch..."

"The savior of the empire, the key to the infinite world, the hope of mankind..."

Zhang Yi now had some understanding of how the Emperor felt when he saw what Lorgar had done. Can you believe that this second-phase [Pathfinder] Space Marine spoke to Zhang Yi for several minutes without repeating himself, giving Zhang Yi his title, which gave him goose bumps!

[Can you give me a Lorgar? ] Zhang Yi asked O'Neill through psychic power.

[Well... I just wanted them to be as normal as possible so I don't have to worry about them] O'Neill responded with psychic power. [But I really didn't know it would be like this...]

[How did you resist the urge to slap Lorgar to death? ]

[Letting Guilliman destroy [Perfect City] was the result of my inability to hold back. On the one hand, it was indeed because everything he did was not conducive to the Great Crusade. On the other hand... it was just too embarrassing...]

At this time, the Pathfinder Space Marine finally finished speaking. When he saw Zhang Yi's embarrassed expression, he immediately spoke again.