Warhammer 40 A New Hope

For the elves with long life span, that was a long time ago, but she still remembered it clearly. After all, it was one of the few good times in her long and boring primitive life.

Most importantly, the Emperor who had gritted his teeth and transformed himself into an Eldar in order to obtain the Webway technology was no match for her.

He was so handsome that the Emperor, who had not been on that planet for long, left a deep impression on the "old aunt".

This was not good news for the current Emperor O'Neill. He thought that the planet had been flattened by Slaanesh or some other race. Even if we take a step back, this Eldar should have died - how come you are still alive? !

If others knew about this, my bright and dignified image would be ruined! How could I educate that kid and Guilliman? !

Seeing that Guilliman had realized something was wrong and left on his own, the Emperor finally recovered from her shock, but at this moment she had already walked in front of O'Neill.

"I heard from them that you were dead," she said. "I thought another old friend had passed away."

"Glad to see you're still alive."

"．．．．．．．" Looking at the affectionate Eldar 'old aunt' in front of him, the Emperor had a strong urge to kill all the Eldar for the first time after humans and the Eldar formed an alliance - this was really too embarrassing!

After hearing the conversation, Evelyne realized why Guilliman walked out without saying a word just now. After thinking for a while, she also walked out silently with the others.

Guilliman was standing outside, facing Evelyne as she came out.

"...you knew that a long time ago?"

“...I don’t know.” Guilliman replied after a pause.

Although in fact, according to the fragments revealed by Zhang Yi several times before being interrupted by O'Neill, the Emperor should have had some relationship with some Eldar for some reason a long time ago, but... In order not to be hung up at the highest point of Macragge again, Guilliman chose to "keep himself ignorant".

"Let's discuss your problem somewhere else."

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Somewhere in the Empire

A Grey Knights strike cruiser received a request from a nearby Rogue Trader to investigate the Eldar Ark that appeared in this star region.

Because the Human Empire has formed an alliance with the Eldar, any Eldar arks or fleets that appear within the Empire can no longer be dealt with as they did before.

Generally speaking, when most planetary governors or Rogue Traders encounter such a situation, as long as the other party does not provoke them, they will choose to turn a blind eye. After all, if they really want to deal with this matter or communicate with the other party, it will be a huge trouble.

The reason why the Imperial authorities were notified to handle the matter this time was because there were bad speculations based on the recent detection images of this unidentified Eldar Ark.

This small Eldar ark seemed to have lost power not long ago and began to drift aimlessly, and the Eldar on it seemed to have problems as well. Most importantly, members of the Ecclesiarchy discovered that there seemed to be signs of Nurgle infection on it.

If the target wasn't too large and the nearby Imperial Navy wasn't aware of the situation and wasn't sure it could be rendered harmless, the Rogue Merchants in charge of this area would have destroyed it directly. After several days of discussion and further observation, they decided to report it to the Imperial higher-ups and let them deal with the matter.

There happened to be a Grey Knight strike cruiser patrolling nearby. After receiving the news, the Empire directly asked the other party to handle the matter.

As an expert in dealing with chaos, the Grey Knights did not immediately check on the ship. Instead, they met with the Rogue Merchant who reported the incident, then isolated all personnel who had seen the ship and asked the subsequent monitoring ship personnel not to look directly at the target.

Because some Nurgle plagues are not simple, they are transmitted through air, body fluids, organisms, speech, images, and even down to a certain word or action, which may be ways for the Nurgle virus to spread and break out.

[Grey Knight] has tested those who have witnessed the target, and it seems that they have no signs of infection, but for the sake of safety, they still need to be isolated.

Afterwards, this team of [Grey Knights] rushed to the target location and saw the target ark, which was not small but was considered small among the Eldar arks.

Several detection instruments were released to approach the unknown Eldar Ark, and shocking and disgusting images were transmitted back.

Although it has been blurred for safety reasons, everyone can still clearly see the several root-like entities with pustules and pus flowing that are wrapped around the entire Eldar Ark, and are already in the center of the entire ship, beating like a heart.

The speculation of the state religion member was correct. An unknown Nurgle virus infected the entire Eldar Ark. Now this Ark is a moving giant virus matrix!

But another problem arises: for the Grey Knights who often fight against the existence of Chaos, it is not surprising that in this situation, several surrounding galaxies or even the entire star field are plagued by plague because of this infected Eldar Ark. The spread of Nurgle virus is often difficult to prevent and extremely outrageous.

The fact is that apart from this Eldar Ark, no obvious signs of plague spread were found in the surrounding galaxies, as if it did not exist.

This is not in line with common sense, or it is not in line with the characteristics of that plague. You must know that each new plague is created by Nurgle himself.

They were carefully bred and selected. There had been records of several star fields being destroyed by a Nurgle plague. Even if it was a weaker plague, there would be no problem in affecting an entire galaxy. However, the current situation obviously did not match the plague they knew.

There is something wrong with this Eldar Ark, or rather, there is something wrong with this uncertain Nurgle virus. Nurgle may have a plan that they don't know about.

The Grey Knights need to figure out what is going on. They need to know the cause of the anomaly.

Even if this means that they need to go to the Eldar Ark that has been infected for who knows how long, even if this means that they need to go deep into the abyss that has been infected for who knows how long!

649. Preparation

Sizzle－－!

Along with the lightning of teleportation, a team of five Grey Knights appeared in a relatively clean place in a corner of the Eldar Ark.

"Scan the surroundings and check the power armor and weapons." The leader of the Grey Knights said to the team members. "Report any abnormalities at any time and stay alert!"

According to the design drawings of the Eldar Ark given by the Eldar, this team of Grey Knights quickly approached the core location along the fastest route, and as they advanced, the scene of the plague began to appear.

There were green unknown mist, twisting green plant-like entities, and light green entities that attached to the ground and walls like ringworm.

These are scenes that can often be seen after the emergence of Nurgle's plague. Nurgle's believers believe that this is "a piece of life" and a gift from the God of Life.

Although in a broad sense, there is nothing wrong with this. Wherever Nurgle goes, all "life" will be nourished and flourish.

But, this applies to all 'life'.

The light blue psychic flames burned all the mutated plants that blocked the way, opening a passage. The moment the Grey Knights walked in, a flower bud suddenly popped out, revealing its big mouth full of sharp teeth inside the bud to them.

Nurgle treats every life equally, no matter it is a human being, a parasite in that person's body, or a bacterium on his body, he will give them equal love. It is possible that Nurgle will bestow a blessing, and the person receiving the blessing will be overtaken by the bacteria or parasites in his body, and he will become a parasite.

The psionic-wrapped bomb exploded on the attacking man-eating plants, shattering them into pieces, but the Grey Knights felt no relief at all as they looked at the burning debris.

"Report to the ship, we are close to the core of the Ark, but we have not encountered any enemies along the way, let alone any corpses."

【What? 】

Before setting foot on this infected Eldar Ark, they were prepared to face hordes of infected Eldar zombies, large groups of Nurgle demons and the unpredictable Warp rifts everywhere, but until now, they had not encountered any enemies along the way.

This is not good news. Both the Grey Knights team members who are carrying out the mission and the Grey Knights Grand Master who is on the cruiser and coordinating the overall situation think so.

The plague of Nurgle will not be so gentle. Since there are no enemies here, the enemies will definitely gather in one place - the core of this Ark.

Even taking into account the Eldar's painful reproduction method and fertility, there are at least ten thousand people on an Eldar Ark. If we count those who have lost their bodies and only have soul stones left, the number will be even higher.

This also means that there should be this number of corpses infected and controlled by the Nurgle plague, so the number of enemies encountered by this Grey Knights team now is completely abnormal.

The Grand Master who heard this fell into deep thought. Even in the most common scenario they could think of, that is, all enemies would gather at the core of the Ark, such a large number of enemies would be enough to overwhelm the Grey Knights.

And this is just what they can predict. Who knows what the situation of the Nurgle plague here is!

[I have received your report. Your role has been changed to reconnaissance and sample collection. If you encounter a situation that you cannot handle, retreat immediately.]

[I will report the situation here to the Supreme Grand Master, and organize other brothers on the ship to be ready to support you at any time]

May the Emperor bless you, brothers.

． ． ． A few hours later ． ． ．

This team of Grey Knights successfully arrived near the core of the Eldar Ark, and the strange phenomena here became more and more obvious.

And just as they expected, they encountered a large number of Nurgle demons in the core area. From Nurglings to Nurgle Vanguards, to Nurgle Chaos Spawns and Nurgle Space Marines, all gathered in this area and prevented them from approaching.

After several unsuccessful attempts, the Grey Knights had no choice but to give up entering the core area. But before that, a Grey Knight who was good at perception and prophecy suddenly said that he seemed to hear a voice begging for his help.

Although this was most likely a conspiracy of Chaos, considering that they had not obtained any useful intelligence so far, the team leader, the [Arbitrator], decided to go and take a look.

When they went to the location where the sound was heard, they discovered that it was originally the place where the Eldar constructs were stored. Now those constructs had been covered and polluted by corrupt tree root-like entities.

The Nurgle demons guarding here were destroyed by this team of Grey Knights, and the blue psychic flames set them free.

They were driven back into the Warp, but because of their previous actions, the Nurgle guards on the Eldar Ark had already discovered them.

"You better hurry up."

At the urging of the leading Grey Knight, the Grey Knight who said he heard the voice walked up to a group of tangled roots and cut them open with the psychic-powered sword in his hand, revealing a [Ghost Guardian] wrapped inside.

At this moment, the Nether Bone Armor plate used to protect the core soul stone of this [Nether Guardian] automatically unfolded, revealing a red soul stone which could be said to be its core.

Seeing this, the Grey Knight took down the soul stone and put it away.

After doing all this, the Grey Knights squad requested evacuation from the cruiser, and shortly after they returned to their strike cruiser, several Chaos ships filled with Nurgle power appeared on the Auspicious Observatory.

In this situation, they had no choice but to evacuate and join up with the nearby Imperial Navy to prepare to fight against the suddenly appearing Chaos fleet.

But to their surprise, after a while, several Chaos ships that suddenly appeared, carrying the severely infected Eldar Ark, disappeared from their augury.

"The only thing that can be confirmed is that Nurgle's target this time is not humans." Looking at the empty auspicious instrument, the Grey Knights' Grand Master said, "I just don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing."

After saying this, the Grey Knight Grand Master looked at the Eldar soul stone placed in the [Current Status Preservation Box] and fell into deep thought.

"...it's not like we got nothing."

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Macragge

"The Imperium of Man has never forgotten its promise to the Eldar, but..."

"Are you really ready to take over?"

This is the second day of Everenee and Guilliman's discussion of planets that don't have to worry about warp threats.

By the way, O'Neill disappeared shortly after meeting the old Eldar the day before, and the old Eldar lady said, "He is still the same."

Guilliman pretended not to see the possible scumbag behavior of the Emperor in the past. It was not his concern. The problems of the older generation should be left to them to solve themselves.

This time, he did not laugh off Evelene's question or change the subject. Instead, somewhat to her surprise, he discussed the matter with her formally.

Just as Guilliman said, the current Eldar may not be really ready to take over a planet without having to worry about the threat of the Warp, and they may not be able to live better on that planet.

Everyone knows the reasons for the fall of the [Eldar Empire] and the birth of Slaanesh, and now the Eldar have shown signs of "coming back to life".

Moreover, although it seems that these elves of different origins, the dark elves, and the wild elves all obey Evelyne's command and orders at this stage, there are still many people who have ulterior motives.

Some want to restore the [Eldar Empire], some want to gain more benefits from humans through war, and some want to kidnap Zhang Yi and pair him with Aisha to become their own god.

The Dark Eldar wanted their distant relatives to accept their so-called "orthodox Eldar" lifestyle, and many Wild Eldar wanted everyone to learn to be "primitive" like them.

Evelene is indeed the leader of all the elves in Nuwenus at this stage, and they do listen to her, but... those different ideas have never disappeared, and those people have never given up replacing her.

You say this is your business and we don't need to worry about it? Well, let's talk about something else: the world without the threat of the Warp also does not have the Warp, and the Eldar are good at creating things by channeling the power of the Warp - what would you do in a world without the Warp?

"If you Eldar really show signs of 'restoration' after going to the New World," Guilliman said word by word, "we will deal with you without hesitation."

"We will not allow you to pollute other worlds, either for our own sake or for the original inhabitants of that world."

"So, I'll ask you again."

"Are you Eldar really ready to let go of the past and live a good life in another world?"

650. The Beginning of the Mechanicus's Betrayal

Are the Eldar really ready?

Evelyne wanted to reply to Guilliman in an affirmative tone, but when she thought of the current situation of the Eldar, she couldn't say it.

Just like I said before, the elves seem normal now, but all kinds of demons and monsters in secret have shown signs of emerging, although she has suppressed them and they dare not come out to cause trouble.

But Evelyne couldn't guarantee whether they would be as restrained as they are now when they really go to other worlds.

As for Guilliman's final threat, she thought it was normal: let alone humans, even if it was the Eldar, someone was messing around in the safe world they had finally obtained, so Evelyne chopped him off with her own hands!

"Obviously you are not sure." Looking at the somewhat confused Evelyne, Guilliman said, "The Human Empire is well aware of the current problems of the Eldar. The internal division of the Eldar has not been a matter of one or two days. It cannot be resolved in such a short time."

"The Eldar need to be cleaned up now." Guilliman said, looking at Evelyne in front of him. "It may be a bit distracting to say this, but it is true and it is a problem that you must deal with..."

"If the Eldar really want to live a better life

Good words. "

As he spoke, Guilliman handed a stack of paper documents to Evelyne. On it was a plan titled "An Attempt to Adapt the Eldar to Another World". On the surface, this document was about a plan to allow the Eldar to adapt to life in another world without the Warp before a large number of Eldar were transferred to other worlds. A small number of Eldar would be sent to that world as pioneers to live with the Human Empire and native creatures.

But in fact, this plan also has the function of using the problem of information transmission between different worlds to eliminate the troublemakers among the Eldar, just like the human empire cleaned up the disobedient members of the Mechanicus.

"This plan will not only let you know what life without the warp is like in advance, but also allow you to choose a planet that suits you." Guilliman said. "Most importantly, you can also take this opportunity to clear out those discordant voices among the Eldar and consolidate your position."

"Looking at the plan in his hand, Evelyne remained silent. He admitted that everything Guilliman said made sense, but..."

"If you can't do it, we can do it for you."

"I need to think about this," she said. "That's enough for today."

Evelyne stood up and turned to walk out, while Guilliman watched her leave.

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After returning to the residence that Guilliman had arranged for Evelyne and the others, she locked herself in her room, which was unusual for her, causing the other Eldar compatriots who had come with her to discuss the matter to be confused for a moment.

Guilliman was right. The current situation of the Eldar was obvious to all, and the Human Empire would obviously not engage in deep cooperation with such a race with serious hidden dangers.

Evelyne knew that even without mentioning the Human Empire, if she wanted the Eldar to rise again, then it was essential that at least the majority of the Eldar had a unified ideology and goal.