Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 494 The Unyielding Expedition: Veterans Fighting the Greenskins

The four fleets advanced in four directions, with the First Fleet, led by Rhodes, being the largest, containing over a million Space Marines.

Upon arriving at each planet, the fleet would confirm whether the planet's governor worshipped the Human Emperor and belonged to the Human Empire.

If they have been infected by the forces of Chaos, then Axis will not hesitate to eliminate all the Chaos forces and cultists, and then send in a large number of state religious personnel to begin reinforcing the faith of the local people.

During this time, the clone Luo Jia was a great help; he was very good at playing the religious game!

He made various improvements to the methods of proselytizing the state religion and spreading the faith, and even suggested to Rhodes that he infiltrate the state religion and secretly begin to transfer the emperor's faith, but Rhodes refused.

Are you kidding me? I'm letting you establish a sect, not seizing power from the state religion!

After seizing power from the state religion, Old Man Huang lost the power of humanity to suppress the Dark King. I am not confident that I can defeat the Dark King now. At least someone of the level of Greza or the Four Mysterious Ultras would be needed to suppress the Dark King.

Before this, the emperor must sit on the golden throne and properly suppress the Dark Lord to prevent his birth.

On planets not invaded by Chaos, if a planetary governor rebels, Rhodes will immediately eliminate that planetary governor.

Then, a new governor from the Empire was appointed, and all local administrative personnel were replaced. The garrison on the planet was directly incorporated into their expeditionary force, and a new batch of troops was stationed on the planet.

Many planetary governors in these imperial worlds were not good people, and Rhodes took the opportunity to purge a large portion of them. In any case, Guliman had also cultivated a large number of these political talents.

Replacing them would be more conducive to governance, and those planets loyal to the empire would have their armies parade around the planets to review the troops.

They dispatched a large number of Astartes Legion troops, numbering 10, to conduct an armed demonstration on the planet.

Use overwhelming force to tell the local nobles and the local planetary governor to get everything they are doing right now.

After completing everything, he drew a portion of the local mortal army to join his expeditionary force, and then left directly.

Some planets have been invaded by other alien forces; some are infested with Greenskins, some with the Dark Eldar, and some even with the Chicken Clan.

To be honest, Rhodes was quite surprised that these planets, which were in turmoil, had managed to hold out this long.

Rhodes knew all too well how fast the Greenskins evolved, after all, he had a super-beast-level orc warlord under his command.

These Imperial warriors, who had been in despair, burst into indescribable joy upon seeing the massive fleet appearing above the planet and the 3-meter-tall giants stepping out of the drop pods.

"It is the Emperor's angel of death!"
"The Emperor's death angels have arrived."

"Thank God, our staff has finally arrived! We are finally saved!"

"Homage to the great angels! We have never given up the fight, we have never given up our faith, and we stand steadfast in our protection," the Astral Army declared.

Although the Empire has carried out military reforms and has now officially restored the Imperial Army system, the Astral Army has been retained in many of the Empire's worlds.

After all, the speed of imperial administration is not that fast. Sometimes an order can take hundreds of years to spread, and this reorganization order has only been circulating for six or seven years, so naturally not all of them have been issued.

"Soldiers, you have faithfully completed the mission entrusted to you by the Emperor. Now you need not worry. The Imperial army has arrived, and these damned aliens will be completely wiped out," the leading Space Marine captain said.

He had said this many times over the years: these mortal auxiliary troops were the ones who were truly fighting on the front lines of the Empire; the Astartes had previously served more as assault troops.

The decapitation strike force rarely spends much time with these mortal armies, but it is they who truly hold off the aliens and the main force of the Chaos Demons.

These mortal armies didn't even use superhuman drugs, nor did they transform into the original Space Marines; they were still fighting with mortal bodies.

"Greetings, Emperor Death Angel. May I ask which chapter you belong to?" the Astronaut commander asked as he approached the unfamiliar Space Marine.

He had seen many Space Marines before, and these guys were between 2.2 and 2.3 meters tall. But the tallest Space Marine he had ever seen was only 2.5 meters tall. But the Space Marine in front of him was a terrifying 3 meters tall.

His physique was incredibly robust! The patterns engraved on the power armor he wore were unlike anything he had ever seen before, though the Empire's double-headed eagle emblem was very prominent.

The Emperor's Death Angels are worshipped by mortal armies, but it depends on which force comes. If it's one of the more extreme Space Marines, then sometimes it's better if they don't come at all!
For example, the Blood Knights, a sub-unit of the Holy Blood Angels, are a group that mortal troops find extremely repulsive because, in addition to killing aliens on the battlefield, they also grab any mortal soldiers they see and suck their blood.

There are even more terrifying Space Marine forces, who might slaughter them even more brutally than the Xenomorphs.

"The term 'Chapter' no longer exists. Now all Chapters belong to their respective Legions. The Primarch has returned. A lot has happened over the years," the Space Marine captain sighed.

These mortal armies were unaware that a massive change had occurred within the Empire, that more than ten Primarchs had returned, and that the Emperor had awakened from his golden throne and was now leading all of humanity.

"What! Are you kidding me? The Emperor, the Emperor!" Upon hearing the news, the mortal officer in front of him was incredulous.

This is as absurd as telling a modern person that Qin Shi Huang was resurrected.

"Take a good rest! You won't be needed for the next battle." After saying this, the Space Marine captain left without looking back.

Behind him, countless soldiers, each 3 meters tall, stepped onto the battlefield.

He charged toward the alien creature in front of him.

"My brothers, destroy these aliens!" With the roar of the Space Garrison commander, Rhodes' genetic descendants launched a charge, activating their berserk transformations and charging into the orc horde like human tanks.

A bloody massacre ensued.

At this moment, more airdrop pods landed on the ground, and a group of Imperial Army soldiers, about two meters tall, with incredibly muscular bodies and wearing armor, emerged from them.

In this Unyielding Expedition, all the mortal armies have been injected with Rhodes's Monster Potion, their origins being the Emperor's avatar. These mortal warriors are now physically comparable to the original Space Marines, but they lack the enhancements of 19 superhuman organs, instead wearing only armored shells.

The weapons in their hands have also been changed from basic laser guns to more powerful explosive assault rifles. The production specifications of these weapons are all based on the original Space Marines, and now these ordinary Imperial soldiers can fully withstand the recoil of these guns.

The standard Astral Army breastplates have been completely phased out, as have the old-fashioned laser guns. This mortal support army is now composed of entirely new warriors.

The Astronauts stationed in the area were stunned as they stared at the mortal army that was taller and better equipped than themselves.

"Are they... are they new recruits from Astartes?" one of the recruits asked.

He had never seen the Emperor's Death Angels before, but those three-meter-tall giants that descended from the sky seemed somewhat different from the descriptions.

On the contrary, these people who were a little over two meters tall were more similar to the death angels he had previously learned about.

"It doesn't seem so. They weren't even wearing power armor, and judging from their attire, they should be a mortal legion as well," a veteran said.

Even Astartes recruits wouldn't wear this kind of shell armor, and their numbers wouldn't be so terrifying.

Judging by appearances, the army forces that have landed on this planet number over 100,000. Over 100,000 Space Marines? Are you kidding me?
“It seems that while we were trapped on this planet, a great change occurred in the Empire,” the local Star Force commander said.

I wonder if they will have the opportunity to receive this new-era enhancement and become beings comparable to the original Space Marines.

After the main force of the expeditionary force arrived, the fighting on this planet was quickly brought to an end, and then the mortal auxiliary forces began to clean up the battlefield.

A special agent is sprayed on the ground to prevent the orcs' mushroom buns from growing back.

Over the years, Rhodes has conducted in-depth research on the orc race, and now the scientists under his command have developed a completely new potion.

This medicine, when sprayed on the ground, can effectively kill the fungal spores emitted by the beastmen in the air.

This will prevent these orcs from springing up again like mushrooms after rain, effectively curbing the number of Orcs.

After the battle, Rhodes ordered one of his chapter commanders to receive the local Astragalus commander.

"Your heroic performance has been witnessed by the War Commander, so now I am giving you an opportunity to join the Imperial Expeditionary Force and follow the War Commander to reclaim the lost territories of mankind."

"Imperial War Marshal? When did we...when did we get a War Marshal?" a mortal officer asked.

The term "warmaster" is not a good thing. Ever since that warmaster betrayed humanity ten thousand years ago, this position has never appeared in the human empire again. Instead, there was a Chaos warmaster named Abaddon who caused unimaginable damage to the human world.

Some of the more extreme mortal support troops even suspected that they had been rescued by the Chaos forces, who were now trying to lure them away. The warmaster in question was none other than the infamous Abaddon.

As mortal soldiers, they could not distinguish between Chaos and the Emperor's Angel of Death, because the Imperial Inquisition and the Grey Knights had previously blocked their way.

Mortals don't even understand Chaos; they only know that Abaddon was a traitor, but they have no idea that he was corrupted by Chaos.

"Is the new Imperial Warmaster a returnee? Lord Rhodes, the Primarch of the Empire, we are also his offspring. I am the commander of the 12th Warband of the 7th Brigade of the Space Garrison," Astartes said.

After the Space Marine Legion was reorganized, it was divided into deputy legion commanders, brigade commanders, battle commanders, as well as company commanders, adjutants, and sergeants.

"Praise the Emperor! I thought that war general was Abaddon!"

“That traitor is now in the shadows of the Empire, and we will go after him in the future. He won’t be arrogant for long,” the Space Marine chapter commander in front of him said.

“We agree. We’re willing to become an even more powerful superhuman force. But honestly, can our physical abilities really compare to the original Space Marines?” a Star Force commander asked.

To be honest, he was quite surprised when he learned that he could be compared to the former Angel of Death, even if it was only in terms of physical fitness.

“That’s right, this is the Emperor’s reward for loyal troops, and it is also War Marshal Rhodes’ reward for your valiant fighting.”

These elite mortal troops, who have fought for several years under the ravages of the green-skinned orcs, are extremely valuable; they are far superior to the new recruits.

He even wanted to recruit some of the talented people here into the Astartes group, if possible.

"Then we agree. Let us fight together for the Emperor and participate in this grand expedition." Fortunately, this war commander came from the Emperor and not the traitor Abaddon.

“In the future, I will consider recruiting any outstanding individuals from among you into my chapter and performing Astartes surgery on you,” said the chapter leader of the Space Garrison.

"Don't joke around, Your Excellency. We know about Astartes' youth. I also had this dream, but now I'm over 40." Becoming an Astarte is the dream of every young man in the Empire.

He had fantasized about it when he was a teenager, but now that he's in his forties, he no longer has any illusions about becoming an Astartes.

"As you said, that was in the past. Now, the Astartes' modification surgery has made a qualitative leap, and this great expedition..."

"Outstanding mortal warriors are eligible to be promoted to Astartes," the Chapter Master said.

This expedition is still in its early stages, and the casualties among the Space Marines are increasing every day. Although there are medical bays, some losses are inevitable on the battlefield, so these brave mortal troops can be brought in to supplement the ranks.

“In that case, we are willing to join your army. I also want to dream of the Astartes.”

"This is no dream, but welcome to the expeditionary force."

The same scene is playing out in other parts of the world.

(End of this chapter)