Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 501 The Unyielding Expedition, Phase One Ends
Rhodes's subsequent battles were remarkably successful, with each planet he reached receiving an envoy who would be sent to investigate.

First, ask the other party whether they are still loyal to the Emperor and the Empire, and the other party answers yes.

So they sent out a survey team to investigate the other side's planet. This survey team was formed by Guilliman.

Rhodes' expeditionary force included a large number of these investigation teams, tasked with checking planets for signs of chaotic corruption, alien infection, and betrayal of the Empire.
Once the planet is confirmed to be safe and loyal to the Empire, Rhodes will leave behind an investigation team that will be transformed into administrative personnel to assist the planet's governor.

If a planetary governor commits wrongdoing, abuses his power, or even oppresses the local people, the investigation team will request the use of force from Rhodes.

They dispatched mortal auxiliary troops, cooperating with Space Marine forces, to crush the enemy, dismiss the local planetary governor, and execute all the local nobles.

Then select a new planetary governor, leave various administrative personnel to manage the planet, and maintain contact with Holy Terra.

As for planets occupied by aliens or corrupted by chaos, Rhodes showed no mercy and directly dispatched his army to wipe out all the alien or chaos forces on them.

The armies led by Saint Gilles, Rogdorn, and Vulcan also acted in the same way, but Rogdorn's methods were more stringent, while the fire legions were more merciful.

As for the archangel Saint Gilles, he was even more popular. Basically, whenever he appeared on that planet, he would immediately be greeted with cheers from the people.

A pair of golden wings, more captivating and attractive than the previous white wings.

On the darker side of the Empire, Lion King Leon, leading his First Legion and working with Horus's Sixteenth Legion, the Shadowmoon Wolves, gradually consolidated the Empire's power.

With the help of the Eldar's Web, the technology of the new Astartes also spread to Horus, and with the help of the power of the Cosmic Beasts, it was even possible to purify some of the Chaos Space Marines of the Celestial Empire.

Horus allowed them to return to normal human form. As for those who were too corrupted, Horus did not take them in, but granted them the greatest mercy and allowed them to die heroically in chaos!
Their souls returned to the Golden Throne, and their souls were redeemed—that was the best ending for them.

The lands of the Imperial Holy Frontier, and all the star systems belonging to the Empire, were conquered one by one by Rhodes' army!

The Unyielding Expedition achieved unprecedented success. Whether it was the Tyranids, the Orks, or even the Necromancers, anyone who stood in their way was basically crushed by the Empire's forces.

For a full 10 years, Rhodes lived on the spaceship, launching massive expeditions. His and Elena's second child was also born on the ship, a healthy boy, and Luo Tianfeng now had his own brother.

Rhodes even joked that the child was a child of the void, because he was born on a spaceship, just not in compressed space.

Like his brother, this child also has a cosmic beast guarding him. After birth, this child also has a cosmic beast, a giant bird, gestating within him.

This child did not inherit either ice or fire attributes, but instead inherited Rhodes' fire attribute entirely.

Possessing the fire of rebirth and the flame of destruction, Rhode named the child Luo Tianxing, representing a child born while walking in the universe.

After this child was born, he was just like his older brother in terms of aptitude, a naturally born super life form with extremely high potential. Similarly, his gene seed could also be used to create an Astartes.

The birth of this child also filled the entire expeditionary fleet of the region with excitement, and these mortal soldiers cheered wildly.

They witnessed history; they participated in an expedition comparable to the Great Crusade ten thousand years ago; they witnessed the birth of a Primarch.

The priests of the state church, along with the battle nuns and other nuns, issued proclamations to all the planets conquered by Rhodes.

All the worlds conquered by Rhodes, or by other Primarchs, along with all the worlds of the other Empires, sent their congratulations to Rhodes. Even the Emperor of Holy Terra and Guilliman sent their congratulations.

Rhodes responded to all these congratulations, even to ordinary planetary governors, by having his secretary send a message in spirit language on his behalf!

During this conquest, Rhodes bestowed some worlds with very good resources upon the chapters of his legion.

As the recruiting homeworld of these chapters, it was unrealistic to rely solely on recruiting from his own territory, so Rhodes also distributed the chapters from his legion.

These warbands are to be stationed on planets. If they receive a call to arms, they are to come and fight immediately. If they do not receive a call to arms, they are to remain on their local planets.

Every 10 planetary chapters will form a brigade, led by a brigade commander, who in turn is Rhodes's deputy legion commander. Rhodes's gene offspring now exceed 150 million, surpassing Robert Guilliman's previous record in numbers. (Even without the addition of the original Space Marines, Rhodes's entire army's gene offspring combined exceed one million; 75% of the Imperium's chapter geneseeds originate from Rhodes.)
Luo Tianfeng, Rhodes' first child, finally turned 18 in the 12th year of the Unyielding Expedition, growing into a young man two meters tall.

When combined with its own cosmic beast, it can directly transform into a 4-meter-tall genetic prototype or a gigantic super life form with a height of 60 meters.

After this child came of age, the first phase of the Unyielding Expedition was officially completed, and the Imperial Generals had been completely subjugated by Rhodes and the other Primarchs.

All the planets and all the worlds have returned to the embrace of the Empire and are now connected by the starlight of Holy Terra.

On the Imperial Holy Frontier, all alien forces, chaotic forces, and all planets at war have received support. As for those planets where wars have recently broken out, the warbands stationed in various locations will go to deal with them.

A number of Space Marines still need to be stationed throughout the Empire, as these planets are easily vulnerable to attack by the forces of Chaos without assistance.

In fact, if all efforts are put into cultivating them, even a single habitable planet within a star system can support a warband.

After the first phase of the Unyielding Expedition ended, Rhodes took some time to return to Holy Terra with his son!
Because the Emperor will be bestowing titles upon three new Primarchs, two of whom are Rhodes' sons.

The second son grew up on the spaceship and is now 13 years old. Rhodes fought for a full fourteen years during the first phase of the Unyielding Expedition.

"Father! Is that the Holy Terra?" Luo Tianxing, only 13 years old, asked as he sat down next to Rhodes.

He was born standing in the galaxy with his father, and his childhood was spent on spaceships or in other imperial worlds.

Upon arriving at each planet, his father and mother would take him on a tour of the Star Planet. During this time, he witnessed numerous imperial planets, agricultural worlds, industrial worlds, hive worlds, shrine worlds, and even death worlds.

They also witnessed many alien life forms, those despicable enemies of humanity, all of whom were wiped out by their father's genetic descendants.

“That’s right. This time, the two of you will travel to Holy Terra together. You will be commissioned by the new Primarch, and your brother will receive his own Astartes Legion,” Rhodes said, patting his second son.

The primary purpose of this Primarch's investiture was to establish an Astartes Legion for his son.

His eldest son, Luo Tianfeng, has fully matured and stabilized genetically, and his genetic seed can be extracted immediately to build his own Astartes Legion.

Guilliman has already begun preparing a batch of young boy soldiers aged 10 to 15 for his son.

"When will I be able to have my own Astartes and step onto the battlefield like my brother?" Luo Tianxing asked.

“It won’t be long! You’re already 13 years old! In another 5 years, you will be able to obtain your own Astartes Legion, and by then your genes will be completely stable,” said Luo Tianfeng, the eldest son, who was standing to the side.

When his younger brother turns 18, he can create his own Astartes Legion!
Having followed his father in battle for several years, he was 16 years old two years ago when he was ordered by his father to wear power armor.

They also cooperated in battles with their father's genetic offspring, and were active on various battlefields.

Back then, I was also eagerly anticipating the day when I could lead my genetic offspring to fight for the human empire and make my father proud!
The day has finally arrived; he is about to obtain his own Astartes on the Holy Terra.

"Father, besides my brother and me, are there any other Primarchs who have just come of age? I heard that there are three Primarchs being appointed this time," Luo Tianxing asked.

"This matter is a secret of the Empire, and you cannot know too much about it right now. You only need to know that it will happen two years after your brother is born."

"The Emperor has created a new Primarch, who is now 16 years old and will also form his own Astartes," Rhodes said.

The person who received the Emperor's new gene principal along with his two sons was none other than the Eldar God of War.

Under the emperor's tutelage, this Eldar war god has grown up and can now reveal himself as a Primarch.

It's quite funny, really. The Emperor poached a member of the Eldar, having their God of War taken him as his son, and he even became the Empire's new Primarch.

(End of this chapter)