Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 441 Gardinar, the Crown Jewel of Phenus Manus' Conquest
After trading all the Overlord heads with Mortarian, Ninglu spoke.

"You have liberated Barbaros and brought new life to this world."

"It's time to embrace a new challenge. You're coming with me to meet someone."

"Who is it?" Mortarian asked in a deep voice.

"Emperor, your gene weaver, he sent me to take you to see him."

"The Emperor? Who is he?" Mortarian exclaimed in surprise. Someone actually had the ability to command a powerful outsider.

Although he had never fought Ninglu, he possessed abilities no less than his own, and the existence called the Emperor could actually command him.

The name "Emperor" reminded him of a tyrant who enslaved humanity, and Mortarian had no liking for him whatsoever.

"You'll find out. Come with me."

Mortarian watched Ninglu's retreating figure and then followed.

The Stormbirds took to the skies, soaring through the toxic fog clouds, and landed on the deck of the Imperial flagship, the Busepharos.

The reporters, strongly supported by Makado, recorded this glorious moment with cameras, tablets, or paper.

"854.M30, the King of Vostoria, by order of the Emperor, traveled to the barbaric world of Barbarus in the Storm Sector to retrieve the Fourteenth Primarch, Mortalian, the fourteenth Primarch to return..."

Five days later, at the same moment the "Twilight Raiders" fleet arrived in Barbarus, Nimrod also ordered a voyage back to Vostonia.

The Shadow of Reigns, Primarch Office.

Ninglu listened to a report from Arsène Dunn.

"...After receiving new recruits three months ago, the Second Battle Group currently has 15,200 men..."

While listening to the Primarch's servants' reports, Nimrod pondered the war preparations for Gaddinar.

Although he knew that the entire society of Gadinal was based on the caste system, he decided to use the mortals and the extraordinary as the decisive force, but he still needed Astartes to intimidate them and buy time for the operation.

I remember that in the first phase of the Battle of Gadinar, the Thirteenth Legion lost nearly a thousand Ultramarines, and the 500,000 auxiliary troops, mainly composed of the Marnian Army and the Saannik Infantry Regiment, along with half of the "Flame-Patterned" Titan Legion, failed to achieve a decisive victory.

Afterwards, Fernus Manus led 70,000 Iron Hands, 6 million Imperial and Faith troops, and several Titan legions to a swift victory.

At least 100,000 Shadow Order soldiers, a million auxiliary troops, and at least one Titan legion would be needed to intimidate the ruling caste of Gadinar and buy time.
“Part of the First, Second, Third, Sixth, Eleventh and Twelfth War Legions were dispatched and assembled at Cariham Gate in the last Sun Month of 855.”

"..."

"The 'Tiger Eye' Titan Legion has been mobilized, and the Mordred Knights and the Veroni family have assembled."

After recording Ninglu's orders, the silver-haired Alsena asked curiously:
"My lord, do you have a powerful goal?"

The various chapters of "Shadow of Order" are distributed across the front lines of the Misty Starfield and the Extreme Starfield. Most of the time, the enemies they encounter do not require large-scale mobilization. The last time was in the war against the Space Dwarves.

"Yes."

"Travelers of the past called it the Astrid Necklace. Over five thousand years of development, the population of the entire galaxy has exceeded one hundred billion."

"Gardinar will be a new and important territory in the Legion's map, a dazzling world."

Nimrod silently thought to himself: [Gardinard is the most dazzling crown jewel among the many industrial worlds conquered by Manus.]
In December 855, Nimrod arrived in the "Land of Chaos" and confirmed that the prophecy dice were fully charged and ready for a new divination.

His mind raced through all the information he knew about Gardiner.

Gardiner, the eastern galaxy of the Milky Way.

The Gardiner system has eleven planets, ranging from the scorching fifth giant gas planet to the nitrogen-iceberg eleventh planet.

The galaxy also contains hundreds of satellites and thousands of large asteroids, making the entire galaxy extremely industrialized.

...]

Nimrod knew quite a lot about Gaddinal, its various castes, and the ruling high lords. After a few breaths, all the information flashed through his mind, and he silently recited it to himself: [The star map leading from Carrigham Gate to Gaddinal.]

A star map leading from the Carrigham Gate to Gardiner.

[…]
After reciting it silently eleven times, he stretched out his hand and threw the prophecy dice in his hand.

After tumbling several times in the air, the triangular cone fell downwards, landing in Ning Lu's outstretched hand. At that moment, a scene that looked like a holographic projection unfolded before him.

……

In the first Sun Month of 856, William Wood, dressed in colorful, patchwork leather armor, trekked through mountains piled with chemical waste.

Chemical waste comes from a variety of sources, but after reacting with each other, it turns brownish-brown overall.

William's boots were uneven, one too big for the other, and had been taken from the feet of different castes of slave laborers.

Fortunately, the two boots were originally for the left and right feet, and not both on the same side.

There aren't many creatures living in the wasteland, so William hunts dog-like creatures that have more meat.

William doesn't remember where he learned about dogs; there were no dogs in the factory where he was born.

An image of a red-furred, dog-like creature flashed through his mind, and he immediately began to hunt it, following the image in his mind.

William held a gun in one hand and a dagger in the other. He dodged the mud pits and nimbly moved through the pile of scrap metal, throwing out the dagger he had made from polished metal scrap.

He didn't fire the gun so as not to alert others.

The dagger whistled as it plunged into the red-haired dog's head.

William walked up to the red dog's carcass, drew his dagger, and skillfully began to dissect it.

He had just peeled off the fur when a scene suddenly flashed through his mind: bullets were being fired from behind.

[They're here to steal the loot again.]
Food is a scarce resource that everyone will fight tooth and nail for in the garbage mountain.

William rolled forward abruptly, raised his gun, and fired. The bullet struck the looter precisely in the left eye.

He strode toward the corpse and began searching for the spoils.

William suddenly stopped moving, his mind suddenly clouded over.

Just like the space around Gardiner that was shrouded in clouds of toxic exhaust fumes.

William trembled; he didn't know what it was.

At the same time, the Ramirez-class star fortress was launched into the Gadinal system by the Caligum Gate.

After the fourth pair of space stations is repaired, the time required to travel through the Caligum Gate will be further reduced.

In just five solar cycles, the Ramirez-class star fortress and the fleet of "Shadow of Order" were deployed from the northeastern part of the Misty Starfield to the eastern part of the Limit Starfield.

Numerous orbital defense facilities for dozens of satellites and hundreds of asteroids sounded piercing alarms.

The defenders remained calm. Over the course of five thousand years, they had repelled countless attacks by aliens and pirates, and in their long history, they had faced only one real threat.

The Gadinar people believe they can repel enemy attacks, just as they have in the past.

The forest of turrets turned around, aiming at the enormous object that suddenly appeared in the void.

The high lords warned the intruders to leave Gadinal immediately.

　PS: Chapter 2 will be scheduled for 23:23.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)