Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 957 The Era of Revival

"Your Highness, the Production Department has now officially commenced operations, and fifty-six worlds have been fully brought under its jurisdiction."

On Holy Terra, the newly appointed Minister of Production of the Empire was reporting the situation of the Production Department to Wang Ming. Under the current work of the Production Department, many casting worlds have been brought under its management. Although there are still many casting worlds that have not yet been brought under the management of the Production Department, it is only a matter of time. All those casting worlds have declared their allegiance to the Empire and the great Imperial Protector.

While pledging allegiance, they also expressed to Wang Ming that they could accept all of Wang Ming's fate, including his order to have their forging world join the production department. After all, when the Empire's Titan Legion trampled their new Titans on the land of their world, they had no bargaining chips with the Empire when faced with these terrifying divine machines. They could only submit to the Empire and obey its orders.

As the Production Department continued to bring those casting worlds under its control, on Anvil 9, an ancient casting world, countless mechanical priests were responding to the orders given to them by the Imperial Production Department. Under the Empire's orders, a large number of production lines were converted into Federation production lines. This process was actually not difficult; all that was needed was to blow up all the original production lines and then build a Federation production line on the ruins of those original production lines. The original production lines could even be used as production materials for the new production lines.

The Great Sage who oversaw the creation of this world looked at the mechanical priests who were constantly carrying out the imperial orders. He looked at the parchment scroll on his desk, at the orders written on it, and at the hopes that the Lord Protector of Holy Terra had for him.

He stared at the parchment as if he were seeing something that filled him with immense fear. He had already received news from Mars. In the Empire today, the speed of news transmission was extraordinary; the delay in receiving a message would not exceed one day. Any news within the Empire would not be delayed for more than one day, and it was almost like real-time communication.

After all, for the Empire now, there's no longer a need for the Star Language Choir to send the Star Messages into the subspace. And even if communication is done through Star Command, the Empire isn't too worried about the messages getting lost or tampered with in the subspace. Under Wang Ming's protection, these messages will be transmitted to every world in the galaxy in their most complete form. Given this situation, the Great Sage who still harbored some rebellious spirit towards the Empire has abandoned all his plans for resistance. In his view, if even Mars cannot resist the Empire's orders, then he, as the actual administrator of an ancient forging world, is even less capable of resisting the Empire.

He didn't believe he was capable of fighting the Empire. If even Mars couldn't fight the Empire, then he was even less likely to. He knew the strength of the Martian Mechanic Cult and how powerful the Martian machines were. He had no way to deal with this situation. The little bit of resistance that had risen within him was completely lost after the Empire forcibly conquered Mars.

In fact, the same situation occurred in several other forging worlds. The great sages of those forging worlds also had some intention to resist the Empire. However, after the news of the Empire's conquest of Mars reached their worlds, they gave up any resistance. After all, no forging world could compare itself to Mars. If even Mars could not resist the Empire, then it would be even more impossible for them, the forging worlds. They did not want to be conquered by the Empire as traitors.

Meanwhile, in other casting worlds, the great sages of casting design watched the war footage of the Empire's war against Mars. They watched the Empire's Titan Legion crush the Martian Titan Legion, watched Wang Ming's power descend from the sky and dismantle all of Mars's defenses, and watched the Martian casting general kneel before Wang Ming, only to be mercifully burned to ashes by Wang Ming.

For a moment, almost all the casting worlds fell into an eerie silence. They no longer showed any intention of resisting the envoys sent by the Empire, nor did they obstruct any of the Empire's transformation plans. They simply allowed the Empire's envoys to replace their original production equipment with the Federation's equipment, then laughed and shook hands with the Empire's envoys, while signing a contract to merge into the Empire's production department.

Who knew that the parchments representing the submission of those casting worlds would travel from those casting worlds to Holy Terra? Wang Ming was in his office, looking with satisfaction at the data on the holographic projection screen in front of him. As more and more casting worlds submitted to the Imperial Production Department on the holographic projection screen, and as the production capacity of those casting worlds was incorporated into the Production Department, Wang Ming breathed a long sigh of relief.

Wang Ming originally believed that his changes to the forging worlds would cause them to turn against the Empire and create considerable trouble, requiring him to use his fleet to resolve all of this. However, judging from the current situation, after making an example of Mars, the forging worlds within the Empire no longer dare to disobey his orders or express any opinions on his reforms. Now, they have only one choice: to obey Wang Ming's orders and reforms, integrate their production capacity into the Empire's production capacity, and wholeheartedly produce all kinds of resources for the Empire.

This was the situation Wang Ming wanted to see, but not the one the forging worlds wanted to see. However, given their current strength, they had no possibility of objecting. Under the Empire's terrifying power, their only choice was obedience and loyalty. While Wang Ming was carrying out sweeping reforms in the worlds within the Empire, the expeditionary fleet in the Milky Way continued its conquests across various worlds. Countless alien civilizations, both previously discovered and previously undiscovered, were destroyed by these fleets. These alien civilizations couldn't even last a month against the human Empire's fleet. Almost all discovered alien civilizations were destroyed by the Imperial fleet within days or half a month. Among these alien civilizations, the one that lasted the longest was a powerful alien civilization with a vast area spanning hundreds of star systems.

However, this alien civilization encountered the Revival Expeditionary Fleet led by Lemanrus. When facing the fleet led by this Primarch, the alien civilization had no power to resist. After their Void power was completely destroyed by the Empire's fleet, the brutal ground war almost brought the alien civilization to its knees. All the ground wars were like a living hell for the alien civilization, which descended upon their world.

They watched as the humans descended from the sky. They had been prepared to face these terrifying invaders, but when the humans arrived in their world, crushed their positions, and routed their strongest forces like children, they lost all desire to continue fighting.

They surrendered to this unprecedented human empire, believing it to be a power subordinate to the Human Federation. They hoped to negotiate with the Human Federation to revise the equal mutual assistance treaty and the draft of peaceful cooperation. They were even willing to relinquish all their armed forces and hand them over to the Human Federation for control. They were even willing to exhume the descendants of the war criminals who attacked the Human Federation's world ten thousand years ago, along with their ancestral graves, and hand them over to the Human Federation for trial.

However, when they sent these messages to the human fleet, they did not receive any response from the human fleet. The only response the human fleet gave them was the orbital landing pods that descended from the void and landed on this world, or orbital strikes that rushed down from the stars to this world.

This alien civilization held out for an incredibly long time. Under the full force of the entire Revival Expeditionary Fleet, they managed to withstand the attack for over twenty days thanks to their massive size and vast strategic depth. However, those twenty days were the limit of their endurance. Just as the orbital defenses of their last world were completely dismantled by the human fleet, and their ground forces were annihilated one by one by the human orbital attacks, this alien civilization was finally destroyed by the human empire.

Besides encountering these alien civilizations, the Revival Expeditionary Fleet also encountered numerous human worlds scattered across the galaxy. These worlds were either undiscovered at the edge of the galaxy or hidden by warp storms. The Empire adopted a gentler approach towards these worlds, first communicating with them, emphasizing the commonalities of human civilization, and stating that the Empire was the rightful heir to the Federation of Humanity and hoped to reclaim these worlds peacefully. Upon witnessing the sheer size of the Imperial fleet, some of these human worlds immediately pledged their allegiance to the Empire.

However, not all worlds were so easily conquered in this process. In some worlds, the Empire's fleet encountered resistance. The tyrants of those worlds lied to their people, praising the gods they worshipped that had vanished, claiming that the human Empire was a heretic from the heavens. In the name of their blasphemous gods, they incited the people of their worlds to resist the Empire's conquest.

In response to this situation, the Empire's fleet would show no mercy to these guys, especially after confirming that they bore traces of Chaos corruption. Those worlds ruled by those sorcerer tyrants all bore traces of worshiping the Chaos Gods to varying degrees. Although the Chaos Gods have now disappeared, the chaotic pollution they caused on this world still needs to be cleansed.

The Imperial Fleet will continuously launch orbital strikes against these worlds bearing traces of chaotic pollution, forcefully purifying them completely with flames.

As the empire reclaims more and more human worlds, all sorts of strange and wonderful human worlds are also brought under its control. Compared to the previous empire, the current empire is more inclusive and amicable. They will not turn peaceful reconquest into war because of some negotiation issues, but will continue to negotiate. Only when they are sure that negotiations are of no use will they turn peaceful reconquest into war.

Nowadays, even the Empire can tolerate some situations where aliens and humans live together in the world. Of course, it is necessary to determine whether the alien race poses a threat to humanity and whether it has considerable influence in the local world. However, although the Empire can tolerate aliens living together with humans, it will still carry out the elimination of those aliens, but relatively speaking, it is more moderate than before.

The empire now seems reborn, as if the glorious era of the Great Expedition has returned. Now, in all human worlds, those who can see the sky can look up at their own night sky and see shooting stars constantly streaking across it. These are not shooting stars, but imperial fleets constantly traversing the void. Countless fleets now shuttle through the galaxy, transporting news and resources from one world to another. In this era, the empire's revival is on track, and the light of its revival expedition will illuminate the entire galaxy.