Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Lawson's psychic field covered the battlefield, which stretched for over a thousand kilometers.

Within the radius of the perception range, the location of every chaotic creature on the surface of Dragon Spirit Star is marked by the swarm mind.

Those who ran, hid, played dead, or tried to crawl into underground pipes were all locked down and suppressed.

The battle sequence advanced on the ground.

The entire ground battlefield was advancing at such a rapid pace that the chaotic command system was unable to react effectively in time.

Because chaos no longer has a command structure.

Huron is dead. Belaco is dead.

The Ominous Ark fleet has been captured.

The communication nodes of the Chaos Legion on the ground were severed by Lawson's psionic field.

An army that has lost its commander, its space superiority, its communications, and its most powerful demonic support is left with nothing but collapse.

The Lion King stood atop the ruins of a collapsed imperial fortress, looking down at Lawson in mid-air.

He had already sheathed his sword.

After Belaco was beheaded, he did not continue fighting.

Lawson has taken over the entire battlefield by himself.

The Lion King looked at the figure hovering above the ruins.

Terrifying, extremely powerful.

If he had used psionic powers in the last match, it probably would have ended right at the start.

This was the only judgment that came to the Lion King's mind.

He finally understood the look in Lawson's eyes when he said in the command room, "This is the efficiency of the dark side of the Empire."

That confidence is based on actual ability.

The Lion King recalled the blue skies, clean water, abundant food, and the sense of security on the faces of the common people he had seen on the planet he had reclaimed in Lawson.

It truly is the emperor's choice.

Lawson accomplished what twenty Primarchs couldn't maintain ten thousand years ago.

The battle is entering its final stages.

The organized resistance of the chaos has ended; all that remains are scattered soldiers being cleared out one by one by the battle order in the ruins.

Lawson descended from mid-air, and his psionic field shrank from battlefield level to a regular alert range.

The Unforgivable's dark angels watched him walk across the battlefield.

The way she looked at him was completely different from before.

They already knew that Lawson controlled the Empire's dark side navigation and communication networks, that his foundational sequences were spread across various star sectors, and that his combat sequences were incredibly efficient on the battlefield.

Today they witnessed his individual combat prowess firsthand.

Lawson walked up to the Lion King.

"The matter on Dragon Spirit Star is basically over. There are still some stragglers on the ground, which can be dealt with by the combat order. There's one more thing."

“Your megalithic monastery should contain a fragment of the key that Vashtor needs. That thing is the core component for Vashtor's godhood, and that's why he's targeting the Dark Angels. If it's not too difficult, find it and give it to me.”

Even the Lion King himself wasn't entirely sure how many ancient relics remained inside the shattered remains of Caliban.

But Lawson had already asked for it, and the Lion King glanced at him.

"It shouldn't be difficult."

"Then go ahead and do your thing. Your children have been waiting for too long."

After saying that, Lawson turned and left.

The Lion King looked to the other side of the battlefield.

More than 300 members of the Resurrected Chapter are assembling.

Zabril stood at the front of the group, his gray armor bearing several new combat scratches; he had also participated in ground combat.

The Lion King's next task is to return to the Stone Monastery.

Lawson is right, he just got back and has too much to deal with.

On the orbit of Dragon Spirit Star, the battlefield has entered the cleanup phase.

With Lawson's fleet merging with the Unforgiven fleet, the fate of the Chaos Remnant Fleet was sealed.

After Huron's death, the Ominous Ark fleet lost its unified command.

Lawson used a forged Huron order to lure three Arks into the ambush and capture them. The remaining Chaos escorts and transport ships, having lost the Ark's fire support, quickly fell into a state of fighting independently.

Some Chaos captains attempted to escape via warp jump.

The Candle Dragon Chapter's blockade blocked the warp drive, and the gravity net flattened the warp field.

The Chaos warship, unable to escape, was destroyed by concentrated fire from the Imperial fleet, and the exploding wreckage formed a cloud of metal fragments in orbit.

Lawson looked at the list of spoils compiled by the swarm intelligence.

Three ominous arks and eleven chaos warships of various types.

Large quantities of Chaos equipment, ammunition, and Dark Mechanicus parts.

The Huron also carried a collection of personal items that Huron had plundered from various battlefields, replacements for the things he hadn't had time to take when he looted and destroyed the Ghost.

The quality isn't as good as the original treasure trove, but it's still quite a lot.

Lawson looked out the window at the Chaos warships that were being locked down by the drag array.

He certainly doesn't need to scavenge for trash under the stars like he used to.

Sixty casting worlds are operating at full capacity, and the supply chain of materials has been stabilized, but the tradition of diligence and thrift must not be abandoned.

We shouldn't waste things that are usable.

On the orbit of Dragon Spirit Star, one after another Chaos warships were towed by the Empire, their hulls locked, their engines shut down, and they followed in long lines behind the Lawson fleet.

Those that were still resisting were pinned down by boarding torpedoes, and after the combat order had cleared out its personnel, they were also incorporated into the towing order.

The Dragon Spirit Star System gradually quieted down.

……

The Monastery of the Great Stone.

This mobile fortress, built on the largest fragment of the Kaliban, slowly rotates in the void.

The grey-green rock surface is covered with imperial architecture accumulated over thousands of years: fortifications, docks, monasteries, interrogation dungeons, and countless layers of encrypted chambers.

The moment the Lion King stepped through the main gate of the Stone Monastery, the Deathwing Terminator guarding the gate knelt down.

The message was spread using the highest encryption protocol of the Inner Circle Council.

Azrael personally drafted the contents of the notification.

The entire notice contained only four characters.

The Primarch has returned!!!

The notifications reached each Unforgiven Chapter at different times.

Some nearby sub-groups received the supplies within hours, while others located on the dark side of the Empire took days or even weeks.

But every battle group that received the notification reacted in the same way.

The Angels of Forgiveness are currently carrying out a cleanup mission on a Hive world.

When Chapter Leader Argos received the encrypted message from the inner ring, he was standing on the ruins of a cult altar on the seventh level of the hive, directing the last of his combat brothers to clear the remaining underground debris.

"All units of the Angel of Forgiveness, cease current missions, prioritize the transfer of the wounded, recover heavy equipment, and the entire warband shall assemble at the Great Stone Monastery."

The adjutant looked up at him: "Commander, the mopping-up operation hasn't started yet..."

"Leave the Astral Army to clean up the mess, let's go."

The Angels of Vengeance are escorting a convoy of transport ships along a warp channel.

The moment the warband commander received the notification, he ordered the transport fleet to dock at the nearest Imperial port and the entire fleet to turn around.

An Imperial administrator, who commissioned the escort mission, attempted to invoke contract terms to compel the chapter to fulfill its obligations.

The Avengers' communications officer ended the conversation with a single sentence: "We have more important things to do."

The Covenant Guardians are currently engaged in battle with an orcish warband.

The squadron leader received an encrypted message on the battlefield.

After reading it, he stuffed the data plate into his breastplate, raised his power sword, and led the charge into the last wave of orcs.

Twenty minutes later, the orcish battle group was defeated.

The Covenant Guardians did not clean up the battlefield; they boarded the ship and left immediately.

Similar scenes repeat themselves across the edges of the dark and holy sides of the empire.

One after another, the Dark Angels' successor chapters abandoned their missions, turned their ships around, and converged on the Stone Monastery.

Some battle groups were on emergency defensive missions; they completed the handover as quickly as possible and then left without hesitation.

Some warbands received the message while traveling in subspace and immediately changed course.

Commanders in various war zones of the Empire discovered within days that the Dark Angels chapters were withdrawing from the front lines on a large scale.

Nobody knows what happened.

…………

Inner Ring Council Chamber.

The existence of this room is not recorded in any Imperial archives.

It is located in the deepest part of the core rock mass of the Great Stone Monastery, surrounded by dozens of encrypted locks, psionic barriers, and passages permanently guarded by Deathwing Terminators.

All of the Dark Angels' most core secrets are discussed, decided, and sealed away here.

Azrael stood before the Lion King.