Warhammer, but Emperor's Chosen

Noah knew him, though he had only met him a handful of times.

Noah glanced at the gold edge on his shoulder armor, frowned and asked:

"Sicarus, how is Captain Titus doing?"

Cato Sicarius was silent for a moment, then he said:

"Because of a failed mission, Titus is no longer the captain of the Second Company. He is currently serving in the Death Watch. Now I am the captain of the Second Company."

Noah was a little surprised, but not shocked.

normal.

The invincible second captain is going to be promoted, that's it.

The emperor had already sent someone to tell him that the trend could not be changed.

But these little details aren't a big deal, as long as the person isn't dead.

What more bike do you want?

"Lord Noah."

The second captain of the Soul Drinkers also took off his helmet and took the initiative to step forward to greet him.

Noah smiled and asked:

"Captain Luke, how is Sarpedon doing?"

"very good."

Luke also smiled, "The Chapter Master is currently on a mission on the Shrine World of Kata, and he has been awaiting your return."

Noah did not know the commander of the Blood Angels, and the two sides just greeted each other casually.

After the greetings, Noah looked at the others and asked:

"So, can anyone explain to me what kind of situation we are facing now?"

"Let me do it."

Amrad said, "Captain, bring up the galaxy hologram to the auditorium."

The holographic installation hung between incense burners on the ceiling, and as it unfolded, static lines of light flickered in the center of the room.

A holographic projection soon appeared in the room, showing the entire Valvi galaxy. It had eleven planets, and the Blue Guanyin representing the fleet was gathering at the seventh planet of the galaxy.

The outermost planet is a lifeless, cold planet filled with ammonia.

The next two planets have rich mineral resource reserves and a small number of immigrants.

Suddenly, a 'planet' flashing with silver arcs entered the galaxy from the periphery of the hologram. When it passed the two outermost planets, it mercilessly bombarded them with Gaussian rays, destroying all life on them.

"The World Drive has destroyed a dozen Imperial worlds and billions of Imperial citizens before reaching the Valve System. If we can't stop it,"

Amrad said as the hologram stretched to the fourth planet of the Valvi system.

It was a charcoal-black sphere covered with man-made canyons and its surface was divided by gray, scaly rock layers.

"Vavencaster, all 210 billion souls of this Imperial world will die! If we want to stop him, we have to do it now!"

On the hologram, the World Engine was still moving unwaveringly towards the core of the galaxy, and now it was bombarding the ninth planet. It would soon reach the eighth planet, then the seventh planet where they were, and finally land on Wavncaster!

Amrad's tone was extremely serious:

"We must destroy it!"

"But you should understand that we are powerless to destroy it,"

Sicarius said calmly:

"We have tried five times, and each attack ended in failure. This weapon is tearing our fleet apart wantonly. I still don't think there will be any results if we continue to try. This will only add to the unnecessary sacrifices."

Amrad asked:

"So what do you think should be done?"

"retreat,"

Sicarius remained calm, even to the point of being a little cold. "We must wait for reinforcements from the sector fleet and regroup the fleet. They will arrive within two months. If the Emperor's will permits, they will bring a survey team from the Adeptus Mechanicus to tell us what this so-called 'World Engine' is!"

"You mean to leave twenty-one billion people to die in Walvencaster?"

Sicarius accused mercilessly:

"If you continue to be stubborn, Vavencaster will be destroyed regardless, and you will be giving our enemies an entire fleet as an extra. So, yes, Chapter Master Amrad, I would rather leave them to die!"

Amrad looked at Sicarius without saying a word.

He knew that the Ultramarines' Second Captain could not be a coward, but this was part of the teaching of the Codex Astartes:

If you cannot win a battle, do not throw your life away in vain, nor run away like a coward. Instead, create a new battle, one that is fought on the conditions that are in your favor!

Amrad knew this was true, but human emotions sometimes overcome their rationality.

In any case, Amrad could not leave those 210 billion people to die!

“Gotta give it a try!”

Amrad said in a deep voice, "As you said, we still have a whole fleet and hope of victory!"

"Mr. Noah, what is your opinion?"

Sicarius stopped arguing with him and looked at Noah.

"Until then,"

Noah said, "First, I have to tell you what this is."

This statement stunned the others. They had fought against the World Engine several times but had not been able to do anything to damage it. And you just came here and you want to tell them what this thing is?

Is this reasonable?

Luke asked in shock:

"My Lord, is this the revelation given to you by the Emperor?"

Noah wanted to answer yes, but after thinking about it, he nodded solemnly:

"That's right!"

Hearing this, everyone's expressions became solemn and dignified.

Noah is the Emperor's living saint, and this is certified by the state religion.

Over the past hundreds of years, his deeds have become a well-known legend.

He had disappeared into the warp several times, but each time he was able to miraculously return to the real universe, and each time he was able to 'just right' save those who remained loyal to the Emperor in times of crisis!

All those who were saved believed that he was the incarnation of the Emperor.

And for those who have never seen him, they are not unfamiliar with Noah, the living saint.

Although others do not have as devout a belief in the Emperor and Noah as the Soul Drinkers, and many do not even believe that the Emperor is a god, they will never question the Emperor's power, and no one dares to question whether the survival of mankind to this day is due to the Emperor's credit.

Since Noah, the living saint, said it was the revelation of the Emperor, how could it be false?

Amid the serious expressions of the others, Noah spoke slowly:

"First, the World Engine is a superweapon developed by the Necrons."

"Mr. Noah."

Luke interrupted him and asked hesitantly:

"What are Necrons?"

"..."

Noah looked at him, and Luke looked at Noah, and then the two fell into a strange silence.

Although humans and the Necrons have had many encounters over the past ten thousand years, this threat has never been brought to the surface.

Because people who come into contact with the Necrons usually have two endings:

Either alive or dead.

Not to mention the dead, how can we realize the threat of the Necrons if they are dead?

The living ones only encountered weak Necron dynasties, or maybe even just a small part of them.

During the thousands of years of slumber, the defenses of many weak dynasties gradually became ineffective. Therefore, those who discovered them either thought that the Necrons were some strange aliens confined to the local star region, and did not think they posed enough of a threat.

Either they discovered their threat but deliberately hid it from the Empire in an attempt to gain greater benefits.

Or maybe they simply don't realize that their enemies are actually the Necrons.

Now is the third situation. Even though more than a dozen Imperial worlds have been destroyed, the Empire has no idea that its enemies are actually the Necrons.

It was not until the Battle of Orpheus in 991.M41 that the Imperium of Man truly realized the threat posed by the ancient race of Necrons.

Noah realized this from Luke's question, so he was thinking about how to explain it simply.

When Luke saw Noah's silence, he couldn't help feeling embarrassed. Was he asking a common sense question?

Luke looked at the others, but he couldn't see anything on the Star Marines' faces.

But when he looked at the mortal admiral, the mortal's face also showed an obvious look of confusion.

Noah pondered for a moment and explained:

"Sorry, it was my oversight and I forgot to introduce you.

“In short, the Necrons are an ancient race that dominated the galaxy tens of millions of years ago. They have been dormant for a long time in history, and have only gradually revived in the last few thousand years.

"The Necrons are widely distributed in the galaxy, and their threat is no less than any alien. Most importantly, the Necrons possess many incredibly powerful technologies, and the World Engine is one of them. And the purpose of their release of this destructive weapon is to..."

Noah paused for a moment, "It is to destroy Holy Terra."

Actually it is Mars. The Necrons' goal is to awaken the Void Dragon sleeping on Mars.

But going to Mars is no different from going to Holy Terra, and you can’t just expect the Necrons to just take a tour of the solar system and leave, right?

To the Necrons, the destruction of Terra was purely incidental.

Even if the Necrons don't do it, the awakened Void Dragon will probably be in a bad mood, so Holy Terra has to be saved anyway.

Amrad, Sicarius and others' expressions changed drastically when they heard this. How could it be Holy Terra?

They are clearly tens of thousands of light years away from Holy Terra, and clearly have nothing to do with the destroyed imperial worlds.

Why is it suddenly connected with Holy Terra?

and many more!

Amrad immediately ordered:

"Call up the Milky Way star map and connect the destroyed imperial worlds into a line extending to the edge of the galaxy!"

soon.

The overall projected image changed, and hundreds of billions of stars twinkled in front of them.

But soon, most of the stars disappeared.

Useless galaxies that would increase the amount of calculations were automatically filtered out, and the star map was reduced countless times.

But even so, it still took a long period of calculations to finally slowly connect the destroyed worlds into a line in the hologram, and finally slowly extend along the two ends of this line to the two ends of the Milky Way.

And on this line, the solar system where Holy Terra is located is clearly listed!

The reason they hadn't guessed such an obvious thing before was because humans navigated the galaxy via subspace routes.

Human star maps are also drawn based on subspace routes. Those galaxies without subspace routes are worthless because humans are destined to be unable to reach them.

Therefore, the thinking of the human race has long been limited by the subspace routes, and even the prediction of the enemy's actions relies on the subspace routes.

But in the galaxy, the majority of galaxies are not connected by subspace routes.

Apparently, the Necrons don't take the Warp route. They rampage across the galaxy, heading straight for Holy Terra!

Everyone's expressions became extremely solemn, because this was no longer just a trivial matter involving the lives of tens of billions of people, but a crisis involving the life and death of the entire human race!

If they cannot stop the World Engine from moving forward and allow this planet to continue moving towards Holy Terra, the consequences will be disastrous!

"We have no choice."