Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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"Anyone who obstructs the truth of the Empire, or the great divine halo of the Empire of Omnesia, will become an enemy of the Empire and will be ruthlessly abandoned by it."

The empire has never made sacrifices that were too great to bear!

To emphasize the seriousness of the matter, Guilliman stressed his words as he explained it to everyone.

The Guards, responsible for relaying Guilliman's orders, immediately passed them on to all the High Lords, instructing them to work overtime to pass the resolution.

The High Lord, who was originally dealing with all sorts of messy government affairs, immediately held this meeting and discussion under the urging of the Imperial Guard.

They passed the resolution in just a few seconds, and the Imperial Ministry of the Interior began operating at high speed, while the Ministry of Military Affairs started recruiting all sorts of people.

They began to study this light power armor ahead of time and tried to figure out how to use it in combat so that they could compile a booklet to give to the Imperial Guard.

As for the Empire's Foundry World, it was also quite excellent. After receiving this technology, they immediately took action. This was an order from Omnesia: anyone who dragged their feet would be disqualified from being the Foundry Director of the Foundry World.

The millions of Imperial Worlds of the Human Empire began to move in a grand manner, sending large amounts of resources to the forging worlds in various star sectors.

Meanwhile, the Forgeworld quickly produced a large number of light power armors within a mere four days and began supplying them to the Astrail Forces in this sector.

The Military Affairs Department displayed unprecedented efficiency, developing a training manual in just three days and compiling it into a booklet to be distributed to the Star Guardians in various locations.

The empire's efficiency increased by more than a hundredfold at this moment.

And Guilliman just watched this scene unfold.

He was deeply moved; the empire had finally come back to life.

With the Emperor and Warmaster at its helm, the human empire has finally regained its true vitality, and the Emperor's condition is improving. The empire seems to be thriving and on the path to revival, except for those insectoid creatures on the edge of the galaxy.

It's likely that the reason the Warmaster developed the power armor for the Astral Army was inextricably linked to those insects.

The thought of the overwhelming Zerg fleet and its ground units caused even Guilliman, who was usually busy with government affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, to frown.

The swarm was simply too large, exceeding any swarm fleet the Imperium had ever faced before. Although the Imperial Guard fleet was currently engaged in battle with the swarm, it seemed to be delaying their entry into the Limitless Starfield.

But this doesn't mean Guilliman can relax.

Where is the Limitless Starfield?

The Extreme Starfield is the core area of ​​the Ultramarines and cannot be lost. Therefore, although Guilliman was still handling these matters in the Ministry of the Interior, his attention to the Extreme Starfield did not diminish in the slightest.

As the Imperium's most reliable Space Marines, the Ultramarines also demonstrated exceptional responsiveness. While the Custodian Army was holding back the Zerg fleet's advance, the Ultramarines had already begun their operations.

They deployed numerous orbital defense facilities across various worlds and planets on the periphery, and formulated combat plans centered around a large number of mechanical cultists.

The most important thing to deal with these insect swarms is steel. Only steel can make them retreat. If there is a large amount of biomass, they will fight desperately.

This conclusion is the most useful one the Empire has come up with regarding the Zerg swarm: as long as they don't see any food along the way, they will naturally leave obediently instead of fighting all the way down the same path.

However, if the Ultramarines want to deter the Zerg swarm, they will likely suffer considerable casualties.

But now that the War Master has delivered this new power armor, there must be a turning point in this matter.

With these thoughts in mind, Guilliman turned back to his political duties. He needed to continue working diligently on the affairs of the empire and send reinforcements to the Limit Star Region, so that the Limit Star Region would be able to fight if war broke out.

The Imperial Regent once again began his forte: endless meetings and paperwork.

What was Zhou Qing doing at this time, having already completed the development of the power armor?

As a scientist, he certainly wouldn't be idle. He was currently educating the priests of the Mechanicus Church in the Empire, so that the great sages could acquire more knowledge and assist him in conducting some basic scientific research.

Everything in the Empire is proceeding at a rapid pace, except for the Imperial Guard, which is constantly clashing with the Zerg swarm on the outskirts of the Limitless Starfield, and a powerful army of Orcs marching towards the 108th World of the Hazy Starfield.

Chapter 220 The Rage of the Great Sage of the Cult of Machines

The arrival of the Greenskins is quite normal, after all, everyone knows how intense the war was before the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield.

That was practically no different from the War of Heaven, and the Greenskins, who yearned for war, would naturally be attracted to such a large-scale war.

Theoretically, the Greenskins should have been able to arrive during the war, but their navigation technology was really quite poor.

Therefore, it wasn't until the war in the 108th World of the Misty Starfield had ended that the Greenskins had amassed a large enough army to satisfy them and were heading in that direction.

However, it must be said that the time they chose was really good, as the fleets in the Misty Starfield had already launched attacks in all directions.

Human fleets are either on their way to hunt down the Eldar or fighting the Zerg swarm at the edge of the galaxy.

Now, the fleet that Zhou Qing can mobilize is no longer his own patrol fleet; instead, he only has a few Imperial warships left.

On this day, as Zhou Qing was continuing to teach the large group of great sages below him, a member of the Imperial Guard walked into Zhou Qing's classroom.

The "war commander" who walked in is a member of the Imperial Guard.

Otherwise, if others were stared at by a group of great sages with murderous eyes, even Astartes would probably feel some fear.

The Imperial Guard ignored the gazes of these great sages and strode up to Zhou Qing, presenting him with the current intelligence.

At the same time, he also gave Zhou Qing a brief report on the current situation.

"Commander, we have discovered a green-skinned fleet that has opened a subspace portal and appeared in an area about two light-years away from our location."

"According to the Ministry of Military Affairs' estimates, these green-skinned people will only need about 15 days to reach the 108th world of the Misty Star."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing, who was teaching these great sages, stopped teaching them and addressed all of them.

"That concludes today's class. I have military matters to attend to, so the classes for the following days will need to be cancelled as appropriate."

Zhou Qing then left, while the great sages stared at the departing imperial guards with murderous intent.

Only after the Imperial Guards left with Zhou Qing did they exchange a glance.

Almost all the great sages could see the burning rage in each other's eyes through their optical sensors, wishing they could tear those green-skinned creatures to pieces!

Knowledge is invaluable and priceless in the Cult of Mechanisms, and now, Omnesia is personally teaching them this knowledge—something all the great sages of the Cult of Mechanisms have dreamed of!

But now, halfway through the lesson, Omnisiah has been influenced by these green-skinned people and left them!!!

These great sages, who had been engaged in research all along, made up their minds almost instantly and chose to leave.

If Omnisiah isn't here anymore, then what are they still doing here?

Didn't you hear what the Imperial Guard said? These greens are coming in 15 days. The right thing to do is to gather your Ark Fleet and join forces with Omnisiah to wipe them out!

Hundreds of high sages from the Cult of Mechanism filed out, and the news quickly spread among them.

The number of Great Sages of the Mechanism Cult who received the first batch of instruction from Zhou Qing was 679.

These 679 people were to receive two months of instruction from Zhou Qing here, but the arrival of the swarm has forced Zhou Qing to postpone the subsequent courses.

This undoubtedly enraged the 679 great sages.

Therefore, when Zhou Qing left for the Ministry of Military Affairs to receive the intelligence from the Greenskins, the 679 Great Sages boarded their own warships and returned to their own forging worlds through various means such as the Network Stargate hyperspace travel.

Who are they? They are the Great Sages of the Cult of Machines!

Are the great sages of the Mechanism Church merely scholars?

No! That's wrong. Academic exchanges are dangerous, and at that time, it was up to the Defenders and their own Ark Fleet to handle the situation.

Almost all the great sages have their own mechanical ark fleets and apostolic armies.

After all, differing opinions can arise in academic matters, and in such situations, mutual criticism is inevitable.

The stronger a fleet or the more powerful a frigate is, the more correct its school of thought and doctrines are considered.

After the 679 Great Sages of the Cult of Mechanism returned to their respective Forge Worlds, they quickly began to assemble their Mechanized Ark Fleets to prepare for a decisive battle against the invading Greenskin army!

Furthermore, these 679 Great Sages of the Cult of Machines include a full 300 individuals whose planet is home to the Titan Legion!

The Titan legions of the Cult of Mechanism may have as few as 30-40 Warhound-class Titans in one legion, while others may have as many as 200!

Enraged, these great sages not only brought their own Ark fleet but also forged themselves and the Titan legions of the world, determined to teach these greenskins a lesson!

The Titan Machines are the will of Omnisiah, and now these greenskins are actually provoking Zhou Qing. It's time to let these Titan Machines spread Omnisiah's wrath!

The Imperial Guard and Zhou Qing witnessed the large-scale mobilization of the Mechanicus, and this was exactly what they wanted.

The reason the Imperial Guard went directly into the classroom to report this matter was that they intended to get the Mechanicus fleet to be deployed.

After all, Zhou Qing's side didn't have many Imperial warships, and the patrol fleet had already been fully engaged in the battle against the Zerg swarm.

If the Mechanicus fleet isn't allowed to fight at this point, the Empire will have nowhere to spare warships.

Moreover, how could Zhou Qing have only just discovered that these green-skinned fleets had appeared around the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield?

After these great sages began to act as Zhou Qing had predicted, the Imperial Guards submitted a detailed report on the developments to Zhou Qing.

"Well done. To be honest, I think it's a bit of a waste to treat you as ordinary soldiers, considering that a large number of planetary governors in this empire are practically useless!"

Who came up with this suggestion?

Since he has come up with such a good suggestion, let him go out and become a planetary governor to benefit the people.”

Heaven has mercy! Zhou Qing meant well by saying that he wanted the Imperial Guards to realize their full potential and create more benefits for the human empire. However, the Imperial Guards didn't interpret his words the same way.

Although the imperial guards accompanying him knew that Zhou Qing was rewarding them for doing this, but...

However, for the Imperial Guard, protecting the Emperor and the War General was their duty, and they were somewhat reluctant to go out and become planetary governors.

But this is the War Commander's order, and the War Commander's order is the Emperor's order. How can I refuse?

Therefore, the imperial guards following Zhou Qing spoke calmly.

"Understood, War General. I will pass on your instructions to that guard, appointing him as the planet's governor. He will certainly be very happy to do so."

Chapter 221 The Great Sage: For Omnisiah

When the massive green-skinned fleet, escorting a War Moon, appeared at the edge of the 108th world in the Misty Starfield, the techies had already assembled their Forging Ark.

The 376 casting arks lined up alongside the auxiliary fleet, bringing the total number of warships in this airspace to over ten thousand.

In addition to the fleets of these Forging Arks, some destroyers, frigates, and strike cruisers that had already been built in the Misty Starfield also lined up to meet the enemy alongside the Forging Arks.

However, unlike the Forging Ark, which foolishly stayed in place waiting for the enemy to get closer to its firing range, the escort ships, destroyers, and strike cruisers accompanying them had already opened fire on the orc fleet.

After all, one can strike the enemy at a distance of light-years, while the other can only strike when the enemy is close.

There was indeed a huge gap in the performance of the warships, but the Great Sages of the Cult of Machines were not bothered at all.

The great sages looked around them with great longing at the strike cruisers, destroyers, and frigates that were firing.

Some great sages even knelt down and proclaimed the miracle of Omnesia.

The mechanical priests and friars on the side were constantly chanting hymns praising the greatness of Omnesia.