Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 251 Vashtor, the Great Rift
Damn!

That chaos!

These people have realized what the Highlords Council wants to do.

However, they did not expect that the High Lords would actually do such a thing, to destroy Cardia, which would be a betrayal of the Empire, unless they could completely destroy all the evidence.

Did they not realize that doing so would further tear the entire empire apart?

Or is their goal to further tear the empire apart?

Those mortals are ultimately untrustworthy.

Knowing all this fueled the Astartes' fury towards those mortals within the chapter.

Within the Empire, there are numerous warbands with varying loyalty. Some are pirate warbands who trust the Emperor but distrust humanity and have scattered abroad. Others are loyalists who uphold humanity and do not agree with other warbands. Some have joined Chaos because they believe they are the future of the Empire, while still others have not joined Chaos but believe the Empire has no future.

However, the Highlord Council's decisions exacerbated the Loyalists' distrust of humanity.

The whispers on the warship gradually intensified, and some of the compiled machines began to twist and rebel. The weapons in their hands even began to undergo bizarre changes, growing terrifying fangs and sharp spikes. Only the most loyal machine spirits could barely resist this mutation.

What benefits would they gain from doing this?
A thin, bony creature appeared on the Empire's fleet.

His body was covered with bizarre gears that constantly spun, defying physical technology. His scarlet eyes seemed to pierce through the mechanical structure of his body and into the Space Marine's power armor.

Vashtor was born at the moment when all mechanical devices in the universe were desecrated.

Essentially, it is the embodiment of technological corruption and taboo knowledge.

He is a demigod who roams the "protocol loopholes" between the four realms of the gods, and can borrow both the Khorne Engine and the Nugget Corruption Algorithm through the warp patent contract.

He can instantly reverse engineer and corrupt any technological creation.

The chaotic code he can create can rewrite the laws of physics.

He has implanted 1317 backdoor protocols into Abaddon's fleet by providing the Black Legion with a customized chaos engine.

He is even collecting lost technologies from various civilizations (including the Bone Core and the Green-skinned WAAAGH! Energy Core) in an attempt to forge a chaotic version of the Golden Throne.

After he hacked into the leaky warship, he corrupted several loyal Space Marines.

The organic soul within the Space Marine's body is merging with his power armor, transforming into a demonic engine similar to a hellish dragon. The modified Space Marine is growing a living piston heart and titanium nerve bundles, and barbed mechanical tentacles are spontaneously growing all over his body.

And worst of all, their thought processes have been distorted.

Vashtor is the arms dealer of Chaos, a neutral entity that provides them with a powerful arsenal.

In Vashtor's hands, he forged countless weapons that even the Four Gods admired. Some chaotic demons, in order to enter the real universe and obtain souls more quickly, had to make a deal with Vashtor.

Vashtor, on the other hand, exploited loopholes in the contract to set up traps.

Most of these demons were filled with rage and extreme arrogance. They offered the souls they had collected to Vashtor, and then used Vashtor's power to fuse themselves with their weapons. Some were even forged in Vashtor's hands into powerful demonic engines that constantly spewed out scorching and boiling blood to hunt souls.

The demons used for the trade often become so arrogant and disregardful that they are unable to repay their debts, thus violating the original contract. If the demons who are supposed to repay their debts fail to do so in their future work or allow the debts to accumulate, then Vashtor will immediately devour them.

It is precisely the diverse and chaotic forces that create demand for Vashtor weapons.

No party wants to be hostile to Vashtor.

As Vashtor's power continued to expand, his strength increased, allowing him to pilot the corrupted Dragon Forest Star and tear through the barrier between the warp and the real universe at any time to enter the real universe.

There are four evil gods in the warp.

However, there can also be five.

In his quest for godhood, Vashtor corrupted the energy towers of the Necromancers and Eldar, and he was even willing to cooperate with Abaddon in his desire to become the fifth god.

Abaddon's incompetent behavior forced him to take matters into his own hands.

He has now collected almost all of the Webway Keys. There are two remaining partial keys in the hands of the Gamma World, which he must seize from the Gamma World before the other keys are locked.

However, the Gamma World is filled with black stone obelisks, which are black stones that suppress magic. Even he has to deal with them carefully, because if he is not careful, he will be banished back to the subspace by the forces of the real universe.

Therefore, he needs to plunge the Gamma world into crisis.

Vashtor's power to distort reality and technology is so great that even the relics of the Necromancers in space have been desecrated and corrupted by his warp-based demonic equations.

Corrupting a fleet is not a difficult task for Vashtor.

Seeing that some people wanted to resist, he didn't care. He had even corrupted the technology of the Necromancers in space. As for the mechanical church members in this warship, he only gave them some secret knowledge. Those so-called believers in the knowledge of Om Messiah believed that he was the so-called Om Messiah.

Vashtor connects his power to the constellation Sfrik, the ancient creation of the Sage of Helver, and the corrupted warp network engine at the center of Dragonlin.

Its power is so great that it can even bypass the weak magic-suppressing domain in the space necromancy exorcism dead zone.

The church monks, whom he controlled, used light spears to strike the warships of his allies who were pursuing the Black Legion on the battlefield.

In their utter disbelief and incredulity.

The clerics of the Mechanical Order pressed the button to issue the extermination order.

It fired towards Cardia.

The warships controlled by Vashtor were completely out of the Empire's control, even though the crew tried their best to destroy the power terminals and energy reactors. The sheer number of demonic engines on the warships was beyond their wildest imagination.

Some of them are even despair-inducing.

"Company commander, it's launched."

If they could have stopped that whirlwind fish with their bodies, they certainly would have. But they could only watch helplessly as the enemy used the Empire's warships to destroy the Empire's loyal warriors.
Above Cardia.

When the information has already been received.

Their evacuation was too late.

The Cyclone Fish can burn up all the air in Cardia.

It's something that directly melts Cartier into glass.

This weapon is one that their planetary-level force field shield cannot block.

The command staff below, who were full of hope one second, were filled with anger and despair the next when they learned of the extermination order.

They are still fighting on the front lines; they still have a chance to win.

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But why did the empire issue an extermination order to destroy them?

They had no idea what had happened to the warship, but in their view, it was as if, just when they were about to win, the Empire suddenly dropped an extermination bomb on Cardia, intending to destroy the entire planet's power.

But they were on the verge of victory, on the verge of regaining control of Cardia.
Some people realized that there was a conspiracy behind this.

The people of the Empire do not want the Empire's former regent to return.

They did this for this purpose.

They were even willing to let the empire's most loyal soldiers die.

Within the empire, there are limits to internal strife.

You can fight amongst yourselves for power, you can sacrifice billions of lives to fight for profits, you can pocket all the tax revenue of the entire planet, but there is one absolute bottom line: you cannot affect the empire's war situation.

But now, this is no longer a matter of affecting the empire's war situation, but rather a key factor that directly determines the empire's victory or defeat in a war, the foundation of the empire's triumph or defeat.

"High Lord Council!"

The Chaos faction is searching for cover and avoiding the extermination order, which has slowed down their attacks on humans.

The demons that came down are also effectively withdrawing.

Chaos can be evacuated.

However, the people of Cardia cannot evacuate.

The loyal Cardians still believed that the scales of victory had tipped in their favor.

Therefore, chaos is retreating.

But what they didn't know was that Chaos was avoiding an impending devastating blow.

"How would these poor guys feel if they knew that it was their own people who were destroying them?"

"It doesn't matter anymore, the battle is already over!"

"After destroying them, fire the psionic cannon and destroy the entire Cadia."

The chaotic retreat gave the warriors of Kadia a brief moment of respite.

They looked up at the sky above Kadia.

The chaotic warship is flying upwards backwards.

Their ground-based bullets continued to fire at the fleeing Chaos warships, preparing to shoot down those stray dogs as the final chapter of their victory.

They watched the chaotic departure, basking in the atmosphere of final victory.

soon.

Something fell onto this planet.

In the distance, the entire sky was burned crimson, as if the whole world had turned into a blood-red hue. This raging red was hurtling toward them relentlessly, and the powerful shockwaves, emanating from the epicenter of the explosion, were engulfing everything in sight at a visible speed.

Those who witnessed the extermination order realized what it was.

"Extermination order!"

"But we won!!"

On the tragic plain of corpses, everything was instantly engulfed by the blazing flames. Even the humans who had taken refuge in the war fortresses were instantly charred into silicon carbon. Their eyes, filled with resentment, melted into water in the scorching flames. Before the water could flow from their dry eye sockets, it was evaporated again.

The furious roar caused the body to split open like a rift in hell, from which scarlet light burst forth and assimilated.

(End of this chapter)