Warhammer 40 A New Hope

But, it’s not impossible.

A high-speed mobile force of White Scars Space Marines led by Jaghatai, carrying a huge box, moved at high speed across the corrupt land.

They had left the area stabilized by the potion, and could see wriggling flowers and swaying green tentacles everywhere.

"Gene father, the position is almost there!"

At the reminder of this Space Marine, Chagatai Khan, who was in the lead, stopped at a relatively flat place, and the accompanying [Think Librarians] began to prepare for the ceremony from another world.

A violent roar came from a sturdy metal box guarded by several White Scars Space Marines.

Based on the ritual developed from the research data of the ancestor of the final boss of the Central Plains in [Darkest Dungeon], it is possible to integrate any life form into the body of another larger life form and try to gain a certain degree of control over the latter's body (not necessarily successful).

This is the method of delaying time that Zhang Yi and others came up with - using those existences that are unacceptable to Nurgle - Orcs, Tyranids, Demons from other factions, etc., and using this ritual to merge with this living planet, so as to make it fight with itself.

Perhaps even he himself did not expect that the ritual his ancestors once used to elevate themselves into gods is now being used to save the world. How ironic.

After the ceremony was ready, several Space Marines confirmed with each other and opened the large metal box.

The furious Genestealer leader rushed out, but was quickly controlled by the prepared White Scars Space Marines and dragged little by little to the center of the ceremony.

When the target was reached, the accompanying [Think Tank] initiated the ceremony, and the ground covered with patterns and soil began to wriggle, and then several dark green tentacles stretched out, grabbed the [Gene Stealer] leader, and dragged him underground.

"Successful?" asked a Space Marine as he watched the struggling Genestealer leader being dragged underground.

"I don't know. This ritual has not been tested much." Chagatai said. "Leave here immediately. The rest is no longer part of our mission."

Under the command of the Primarch, the group immediately got on the vehicles and began to retreat, and it turned out that Chagatai's decision was correct.

First, a large number of Nurgle troops went to that place to check the situation. Later, it seemed as if some violent geological activity had occurred there. It began to bulge, and finally, like a volcano, it spewed out a large amount of biological tissue.

The Genestealer leader who was targeted for fusion did not succeed in gaining control of the living Nurgle planet, but he did cause a strong rejection reaction, disrupting the activity of biological tissues in the area.

Although it did not have the expected effect, it was enough. The chaos in this area would keep Nurgle busy for a while.

. . . . . .

"I'm the strongest and greenest! WAAAAAAAGH!"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Get out of here!"

"Father of Genes, we should place bombs on his vital points!"

"There's no time to talk about that now, let's go!"

The orc WarBoss of an unknown clan, who had merged with the flesh and blood tissue beneath his feet, was now controlling this power he had never felt before and wreaking havoc at will.

"I was thinking, I want to have a super big fist!"

Green tentacles stretched out from the ground, entangled with each other, and turned into what the orc called a huge fist.

"That's WAAAGH!"

At this moment, Ryan and his Dark Angel team, who were evacuating quickly in the Rhino Armoured Vehicle, were watching the fused Orc War Boss having fun.

Fortunately, this huge vision attracted a large number of Nurgle troops, which prevented Ryan and others from becoming the target of the enemy's attack.

But the aftermath alone was enough for them to bear...

. . . . . .

Zhang Yi, who possesses the ability to create a portal, led his descendants, the Pathfinder Space Marines, and some members of the Inquisition to a target location farthest from the land.

After acquiring the image of the target location through the servo skull, Zhang Yi opened the door and went there directly, and immediately began to prepare for the ceremony, two ceremonies.

As an institution in the Empire specifically responsible for dealing with various heresies, the Inquisition has come into contact with a wide variety of heresies and witnessed a variety of evil rituals - of course, it has also collected these evil rituals "as research materials" for various reasons.

(As to whether it is only used for research, I don’t know. After all, it is not the first time that heresy has appeared in the Heretic Court...).

At the request of Zhang Yi and the Emperor, the members of the Inquisition were asked to select a suitable ritual to summon suitable non-Nurgle demons for their plan.

Blood and skulls, fire and weapons, these things were placed in the ritual array to summon demons. The target they summoned was a demon from the Khorne faction.

Tzeentch's demons are prone to getting into trouble, Slaanesh's demons are prone to getting out of control, and after much thought, it seems that a demon of Khorne is more stable and suitable.

The chosen person stood in the middle of the summoning circle and began to recite the spell required for summoning. His sacrifice would bring a considerable reward to his family (if no one else deducted it).

A burst of scorching flames rose up and instantly engulfed the man, and the blood that was splashed around also gathered at this moment.

roar--!

Khorne [Bloodthirster] holding a huge axe was summoned and let out a deafening roar.

"It's really easy to summon demons in a place like this." Zhang Yi, who was protected by a group of [Pathfinders], looked at the [Bloodthirster] who obviously didn't notice what happened and didn't want to know what happened and said. "After all, we can say that we are now on a huge Nurgle demon..."

Just as the [Bloodthirster] was about to attack the nearest Space Marine, another ritual was initiated, and several tentacles with folded pustules stretched out from the ground and coiled towards it.

Although it swung the giant axe in its hand to cut off several attacking tentacles, it was eventually caught by a large number of tentacles and dragged into the ground.

Then, there was no response...

"Failed?" Zhang Yi said, looking at the deep pit not far away. "Sure enough, in this Nurgle territory, the success rate of such a thing is still worrying..."

"Let's go back first. I hope the others can... Damn it?"

Zhang Yi, who thought that his ceremony had failed, suddenly discovered that a large amount of blood began to flow out of the ground and the temperature was constantly rising.

"Skull for the Skull Throne! Blood for the Blood God!"

295. Plague Prevention War (Twenty)

According to Zhang Yi's plan, a total of ten teams were sent out, including those led by three primarchs.

Among them, six teams completed the ceremony, and four teams were caught up and annihilated by Nurgle troops on the way, or they encountered accidents during the ceremony and were destroyed.

Among the six teams that completed the ceremony, only three teams' ceremonies were successful, while the other three teams' ceremonies only caused the area in which they were located to suffer from "diarrhea" for a while.

Among the three teams that succeeded in the ritual, one used Slaanesh Daemons as its target team. A large number of Nurgle troops responded quickly and annihilated this team along with the Slaanesh Daemons that had just merged with the living planet in the first place.

In other words, the only two teams that were truly successful were Llane and Zhang Yi's, one was the orcs and the other was the Great Daemon of Khorne.

The two withstood the resistance from Nurgle's living planets, successfully relied on the rituals of Zhang Yi and others to gain some control, and caused considerable chaos among Nurgle's troops.

Although these two, the only two successful ones in Nurgle's home turf, are unlikely to cause any major problems and will be annihilated after a period of time, this is enough. The plan itself is to buy time for Zhang Yi and others to destroy the planet.

A large portion of Nurgle's forces were pulled away to deal with these two major problems. Even so, the number of enemies that needed to be faced at the landing site was still huge.

The four Primarchs, Vulkan, Lion, Jaghatai and Dorn, led their descendants to defend the landing site and tried to hold on there as long as possible.

Zhang Yi and his Pathfinders were also stationed there to prevent Luke (the incarnation of Nurgle) or any other powerful being from attacking again.

In space, Guilliman commanded the mixed fleet, attempting to counterattack the Nurgle fleet, allowing at least a small fleet to provide certain air support to Zhang Yi and others, but the vast Nurgle fleet made it difficult for him to simply maintain the status quo.

The Nurgle forces, which already have a considerable size, are able to overwhelm the Imperial fleet simply by relying on numbers, not to mention the support of that living planet.

Sanguinius is still recovering, Wolf King Leman Russ is on the northern front guarding against attacks from Slaanesh and Khorne, and the Emperor himself needs to devote some of his energy to guarding against the Four Gods, Archaon who has intruded into the Empire, and Tzeentch who has never shown up.

As I said a long time ago, in terms of military strength, even though they have assembled a lot of troops, including the Lizardmen and Necrons, they are still at a disadvantage.

Another severely damaged Imperial ship retreated to a safe location. The Necron siege ships began to release [Ghost Beetles] to carry out emergency repairs on it. At the same time, the only three Lizardman ships also activated the [Shipborne Resurrection Crystals] to treat the personnel on board.

"The battle situation is not optimistic." Guilliman looked at the reports from all sides with a headache and said, "Although the personnel on the surface of the planet have been stabilized and are beginning to prepare to destroy the planet, but..."

"Whether it will succeed is still a question..."

"Nurgle's fleet is still advancing. Now our fleet can only retreat and fight back..."

"We are not far from the nearest planet with a large human population..."

The Lizardman Fleet Commander, the Kwa-Kwatl Eldar, and the Necrons [Overlord] Hadilak remained silent. They had no good solution to the current situation.

Because the Lizardmen had very few ships, Guilliman designated them as auxiliary ships. Although the Necrons' fleet had technological advantages, they did not have much advantage under the existence of that living planet.

The fleet of the [Shirak Dynasty] tried several times to split and weaken Nurgle's fleet together with the fleet of the [Nihilak Dynasty], but there were too many enemies.

Hadilak has reported the situation here to Chrispek [Emperor], who has begun preparing to start a [World Engine] to support here, but as mentioned before, it is still unclear how much time it will take.

"We need to find a way to charge again. Ryan and his men can't do it with just ground troops..."

"Your Excellency, Lord Regent, urgent information!"

A Space Marine from the White Scars rushed in at this moment and said.

"The frontline troops have observed that Mortarion is leading his fleet back to defend that planet!"

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Piles of corpses were burning and turned to ashes in the promethium flames.

Thanks to Zhang Yi's portal, the landing site does not need to worry about insufficient supplies for the time being. All necessary things will be concentrated on a safe planet and then sent here through the portal.

The two foreign objects attracted a large number of Nurgle troops in the surrounding area, which made the defense of the landing point slightly easier; although only slightly.

The resurrected Nurgle zombies, giant mutated mosquitoes, and twisted Nurgle chaos eggs.

Nurgle's army, Nurglings, Nurgle beasts...

The corpses on the battlefield were burned in piles, both enemy and own.

The people of the Mechanicus are using the collected samples to calculate the bomb equivalent needed to destroy the planet, while Zhang Yi and other Primarchs are also having another discussion.

"It is basically confirmed that even if we are lucky enough to reach the lower layer, this layer still belongs to the surface of this living Nurgle planet." Zhang Yi said. "This layer is not even its main body, it can only be considered its skin or hair..."

"That is to say, even if we destroy this layer with cyclone torpedoes or something, it would only be like shaving the head of this stinking planet."

"We need to go deeper to have a better chance of destroying it," said [Lion King] Ryan.

"But this is also the problem." Dorn said, "On this floor alone, the number of enemies is endless. We don't know what more powerful existences there will be below..."

"How about using our little brother's portal? As long as we can..."

"He needs video footage of the target location to open the door. It's unlikely that we can break through the layers of enemies, go deeper and confirm that it's a suitable place to blast." Chagatai interrupted Vulkan and said. "Besides, we can't confirm whether it's a trap or not...

"You know, we have just barely repelled Nurgle's spirits."

At this time, the four primarchs had reached an unsuccessful conclusion after discussion, so they turned their attention to Zhang Yi.

"I asked Enil here, and he said that even he couldn't completely destroy the planet in one go under the condition of world suppression. After all, this thing is too big." Zhang Yi said. "Destroying the core is no problem..."

"The Emperor (Little) also said so. It's not a big problem to seriously injure it..."

"By the way, haven't we told Guilliman about the little bacon yet?"

Although the Emperor asked others not to reveal his existence in order to reduce accidents, but... Now it seems that except for Guilliman, other Primarchs know that they have such a little daddy.

"Well... let father speak for himself."

At this moment, an urgent intelligence message informed everyone present of Mortarion's impending attack.

"I'll go reinforce the defenses, and have someone go stabilize the biological tissues here." Dorn stood up first and said, "Chagatai, you and your offspring go scout ahead and make sure you find the enemy as soon as possible."

"You continue to think of ways to destroy this planet, and leave the outside to us for now."

. . . . . .

Mortarion

As the former Primarch and leader of the Death Guard Chapter, his reason for rebellion was somewhat strange - he believed that the Emperor had taken away the honor that belonged to him.

Zhang Yi would rather believe that it was because the evil god had planted the seeds in his heart long ago and eventually induced his corruption, otherwise the reason for his rebellion would be too strange.

The Death Guard Chapter is famous for its calm and stable tactics. They are like a moving wall, sweeping away all enemies in front of them.

Mortarion, who returned to defend, first went to the area where an unknown greenskin WarBoss was integrated, and led other troops in that area to annihilate it.

Then he continued to lead these troops to attack the imperial positions.

Although there is another area occupied by Khorne, and many Khorne demons have appeared in that area, the living planet beneath their feet has suppressed its further expansion and used a sufficient number of Nurgle troops to attract their attention.

Zhang Yi is the most important, and this has never changed. As long as he can be captured and handed over to the benevolent father Nurgle, everything will come to an end.

Mortarion was not in a hurry. It would probably take a long time for Khorne to react. In four days, it would be the seventh day since the fatherly heroic spirit Luke left the real world. At that time, he would return here and bring despair to the believers of the Corpse.

"Everything is in my plan!"

296. Plague Prevention War (XXI)

Like the tide, wave after wave, continuous.

Mortarion used the most stable/sound tactics, and the most disgusting tactics for Zhang Yi and others, to attack the Empire's position.

One after another, Death Guard squads were sent to attack Imperial positions, and they immediately withdrew after achieving some small objectives, leaving the ground in ruins for the troops that arrived behind.