Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"I will let them leave here, but I hope that at an appropriate time, we can have a good talk about what happened today..."

"We can pay the corresponding price."

Looking at Evelyne's sincere face, Guilliman thought for a moment, then said: "I will consider it, but now..."

"Let them leave the territory of the human empire immediately! Immediately!"

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Medieval World

"This thing is actually still useful..." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the dull [Sword of Kane]. "I thought it was already a piece of scrap metal..."

Under the guidance of the magic toad priest and the fragments, Zhang Yi had people take out the [Sword of Cain] which had completely lost its power and looked like an ordinary weapon from the temple and kept it properly.

According to the fragment (Son of the Star), this elven artifact that seems to have no power at all is very likely to become a bargaining chip in their negotiations with the Eldar.

"It's one of the five swords that awaken the Eldar Death God, right? I remember the last one was in the possession of Se-ne... How tragic..." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the sword. "But, can a sword in this state be used? The Eldar Death God awakened by this sword won't be a fake, right?"

"Is this the effect you want? All of you who have lived long are corrupt..."

Now, the Astra Militarum and the Lizardmen have completely controlled the entire Ulthuan region and have driven out the large-scale Chaos forces there, and small-scale enemies are also being cleared out.

Even if the Lizardmen's several hatching pools were hatching Lizardmen day and night, it was still a bit stretched considering the current situation of the entire medieval world.

However, there is also good news, that is, the new generation of magic toad priests (the fifth generation) has appeared and begun to hatch after such a long period of silence. If they continue like this, the Lizardmen will sooner or later enter another peak period.

The medieval human empire and the people came under Zhang Yi's command. The dwarves and the Chinese also signed an alliance and began to jointly resist the attack of Chaos.

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Grim Brindel even personally led a team of dwarves and expressed his willingness to be the first group of dwarves to go to the outside world. After experiencing a battle with Cato Sicarius, he wanted to fight against the powerful enemies outside and establish a more glorious dwarf civilization in the outside world.

The old man is in really good spirits...

Then comes the most important thing, a technology that originally appeared in the medieval world - the Stormcast Eternals.

This special existence, originally proposed by Sigmar, the god of humans in the Middle Ages, and researched and forged by Granni, the god of the dwarves, brought a ray of hope to the medieval world, which was originally destined to a dark ending.

And now, this technology was proposed by Zhang Yi and told to Sigmar and Granni by Fragment (Son of the Star).

The souls of those mortals will be recast on the anvil of the dwarven god and reshaped by Sigmar's divine power to become a powerful warrior who fights for mankind and the world.

Once this technology is successfully developed, a large number of disabled veterans will have the opportunity to escape from the [Dreadnoughts] that cause them so much pain, and once again fight for the Emperor and humanity.

But this is not easy. On the one hand, Granni, who heard the fragment's idea, said that he would not follow the previous historical trajectory and study the manufacturing method of the so-called [Thundercast Eternals].

He believed that since he already knew what would happen in the future, he would theoretically be able to do better, and even make his goals recast so that they would not be limited to mortals.

At the same time, the fragment (Son of the Stars) in Zhang Yi's body also thought so. If he could really come up with such a technology, he would not only need to rely on some kind of divine power to complete the process. He would need to use machinery to complete the process so that such soldiers could be manufactured quickly and on a large scale.

Besides, Sigma is still in the whirlpool and he can’t get out at this time.

It is foreseeable that Zhang Yi will need to work overtime in the near future...

"...My head hurts..."

128. Seek allies

Outside Changyuan

Once again, the attack from the Chaos War Gang and the Demons was isolated outside Changheng, but at the same time, scars of varying sizes caused by magic or simple catapults also appeared on Changyuan.

The [Basic Lizard Cannon] placed on Changyuan slightly cooled down the already red-hot barrel. At the same time, a large number of Aurora soldiers took this opportunity to carry the soldiers on their hands to the other side of Changyuan for treatment.

Two Space Marines from the Imperial Fists cleared the Dreadnought with a damaged leg from a pile of Norscan Berserker corpses and lifted it onto a Rhino Troop Carrier so that it could be transported to the rear for repairs.

Later, they found the brother who had survived the disaster again.

"...You look like a porcupine, Luffy's brother."

"...After you stop laughing, please help me clean the javelin off my armor."

This [Imperial Fists] Space Marine, who had been targeted by many [Norscan Whalers] for a long time, had a large number of whale-hunting spears sticking lightly on his power armor.

These Norse pitchers, who were more or less strengthened by the power of chaos and further strengthened by the spells of their own mages, immediately focused their fire on this tall armored giant after discovering that he had left the team.

In the previous battles, the fighting power of these tall warriors in heavy armor was witnessed by all the Norse people, which made a large number of fearless Norse barbarians hope to kill such a powerful enemy warrior in order to gain the favor of the Chaos Gods.

Ordinary javelins naturally cannot damage the Space Marines' heavy armor, but with the blessing of magic and chaos power, it is not necessarily the case. Most javelins can leave a white scar on their thick and solid armor, and a very small number can even shallowly penetrate it.

As the battle became more intense, at the beginning Luffy could still find time to knock down the javelin stuck in his power armor from time to time, but as the distance with the enemy got closer and closer, the attacks became more and more frequent, and in the end he could only charge forward to kill the enemy like a porcupine, with the javelin stuck in his armor.

After pulling out a whole handful of javelins, Luffy was finally clean, but from the bumpy surface of his armor, it could be seen that he would need some time to repair it.

"I never thought that I would be pelted with spears by these barbarians of inferior civilization..."

"That's not surprising given the nature of our mission for so long."

"So you spend your free time watching those animations or movies from the ancient Terra period?"

"I recently found a series called...Marvel?"

As they chatted cautiously, the three Space Marines began to move towards Changyuan.

"How's Ximu (the pilot of the Dreadnought)?"

"The outer armor was severely damaged by the attacks of the Tzeentch fire demons, and the legs were severely damaged by the attacks of the violent [Norse Berserkers] blessed by Chaos," Captain Duke said. "However, the main body and important system devices did not suffer much damage."

"Harald's support was very timely."

"I dare not." Harald, who already had a golden service nail, said, "When I arrived at Brother Ximu's location, even though he was already sitting on the ground due to a broken leg, he still suppressed a large number of enemies."

"But your help is still undeniable."

In a fortress outside Changyuan, a large number of Zhendan [Jade Brave Shield Guards] were walking out of the city gate and began to clean up the battlefield. At the same time, a large number of people pulling ox carts were transporting the wounded or corpses into the city.

Even with the presence of the Astra Militarum and the support of long-range artillery, this battle still resulted in the loss of a considerable number of soldiers defending the city, although their number was much smaller.

In the city, the ogres who were mercenaries were yelling at a Zhendan official who looked like a general, as if complaining that the food was not good enough and the quantity was not large enough.

Even though, almost every time these burly ogre mercenaries went to the battlefield, they would grab a few corpses and leave the battlefield at an appropriate time, and come back after eating or fighting, but this did not allow them to shamelessly ask for more from the Zhendan party that hired them.

In the previous Bear God incident, due to the intervention of Zhang Yi and others, the Ogre King, Greysu Big Gold Tooth, was very unhappy because he could not eat the meat of the Bear God. However, these recent events made him forget the past unhappiness.

As the most intelligent among the ogres, he clearly pointed out to his subordinates the various problems that chaos would bring, including the fact that they would no longer have good food to eat, and asked his subordinates not to accept any employment from the chaos side - what would they eat if the world was gone?

At the same time, he was well-behaved and generous to the Zhendan side this time. He did not ask for too much and even sent out several relatively obedient ogre generals to restrain the hired subordinates - either eat a meal now and have nothing to eat later, or be obedient now and have good meals every day later.

Although these words were a bit too profound for most ogres, most of them still restrained their tempers.

With the help of many parties, the offensive of the demons outside Changyuan and their believers was repelled again and again. Longzi and Longdi also clearly pointed out that the chaotic power in this area was constantly decreasing.

It seems that at least on Aurora's side, everything is moving in a positive direction...

But recently, in the vicinity of [Bianlong] Zhaoming's territory - [Dimensional Stone Desert], the power of the Skaven has been stirring.

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"STM, there are traces of the missing Tzeentch warship appearing near Xieyue." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the report in his hand. "It seems that Xieyue must be blown up, right? Whether it's Rat or Tzeentch, they all want to blow it up."

Putting down the document in his hand, Zhang Yi picked up another one.

"Due to the movements of the various Norse troops and the Chaos army in the north, the Kislevites, including the bear god who was still hibernating, began to evacuate on a large scale. However, Katarin Boha and a large number of Kislev troops refused to evacuate, vowing to live and die with Kislev."

"...I don't want to comment..." Zhang Yi put down the document and said while covering his face. "I didn't expect that we are short of people now."

Although a large number of Astra Militarum and Space Marines participated in this mission, there were also a large number of equipment and vehicles.

But if you place such a large number of people in the entire medieval world, these hundreds of thousands of people are not enough.

"The medieval human empire can only provide a few troops. The same is true for the dwarves. Their population has always been a big problem..."

"Although Grimnir, the god of war and one of the dwarven gods, has said that he will help Kislev when necessary, a large group of [Dwarven Slayers] has also marched towards Kislev..."

"but..."

Zhang Yi looked at a picture that captured a corner of the huge chaotic army and felt a headache.

"This number is unreasonable. This is just the team of Norscan barbarians. The demon army has not been found for various reasons..."

"Although the Lizardmen can produce Lizardmen soldiers continuously, it takes time..."

"Master Kroka has also been taking a dip in the pool recently. I don't even have anyone to discuss this with..."

Zhang Yi laid his head on the table in front of him, muttering to himself.

"...I really wish I could rest my head on a girl's lap right now...what else can I say..."

"If you need, I can call a few battle sisters..."

"Shut up!" Zhang Yi interrupted the imperial guard who hadn't finished speaking. "You too, stop talking in my head."

"Even if there are good-looking ones, it's not negotiable."

It's not that Zhang Yi doesn't like the battle nuns on the Empire side, but when he thinks about how these girls might have been fighting in the battlefield a second ago, shouting "For the Emperor" while chopping the enemy's head with the chainsaw sword in their hands...

Resting my head on their thighs? I'm afraid that I'll be crushed to death by these nuns' thighs...

After lying down for a while, Zhang Yi raised his head and looked at the table full of documents.

"We need more allies, preferably allies with huge fighting power..."

"You can't be an enemy of the Order race. If you meet these conditions..."

"The elves are already destroyed. According to the investigation reports from the dwarves and the medieval human empire, the large forest near the Oak of Ages seems to have been burned. The wood elves should only have a few tree people left, and they can't even take care of themselves..."

"Bretonnia is in chaos now because of the disappearance of the goddess of the lake, Lilith, one of the elven gods. It won't be able to do anything in the short term..."

Speaking of Lilith, Zhang Yi thought about the series of shitty things Lilith had done as far as he knew.

"Damn."

"There's nothing to say about vampires. If we kill them all, there won't be many innocent people..."

"Some of the vampire pirates have a neutral attitude, but their numbers are a bit..."

"In this case, the only choice is..."

As he spoke, Zhang Yi looked at the area on the medieval map where there was a large desert.

"...pass my order to hunt down non-friendly high-level vampires on a large scale."

"I need their heads."

129. Setra, the Immortal King

Nagash, whether it is Archaon or Malekith, they all had a good side before, and there are certain reasons why they became villains.

Archaon became the Chosen One of the Four Gods because of the prophecy of "he will become the Chosen One of Chaos" and because he did not get Sigmar's response when he needed it most; Malekith was completely betrayed by Asuryan and his mother.

As for Nagash, who is also a villain, there is really no way he can be forgiven - he is bad from the beginning to the end.

He killed his father, brother, and a series of other compatriots to sit on the throne of king; he developed the elixir of life with human blood to prolong his life and rule; he used evil magic to write nine human skin books - "The Nine Books of Nagash"; and he devoured [Dimensional Stone] to gain strength and longevity.

Spreading plague, conducting human experiments, and exploiting the people...

He is powerful, he is a bad guy, he is a villain, there is no doubt about it and he cannot be redeemed.

But at the same time, he also built the [Black Pyramid] that even the Slanns would be amazed by, and used it to store huge amounts of energy.

He used a magic that swept across the entire medieval world, resurrecting the kings of all generations one by one and making them his subordinates, but he also created a father for himself - Emperor Settra.

He was destroyed? No!

His body is still in the [Black Pyramid], and his servant, Black Arkhan, is constantly trying to find a way to resurrect his master.

"There is no escape, no rest. I took your life like blowing out a candle. Before your body is cold, your soul is already in my hands. You will be a slave forever, but a laughing stock in my memory. This is the power of Nagash." - Nagash the Immortal

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What was the most abundant thing in the medieval world?

Is it the ratmen that keep running around underground? Or the beastmen that might be everywhere? Or the completely unscientific Oggermen?

neither

In the medieval world, the most common thing was... the dead...

Considering that there is a small war every three days and a big war every five days, and people want to destroy the world for no reason, the mortality rate is quite high.

Walking in the wild, you may die from attacks by wild beasts, beastmen, ogres, goblins/orcs, or even bandits of your own kind.

Even if you are in the city, you may be kidnapped by the ratmen who suddenly appear from underground.