Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Just when Mortarion and others thought that the battle would proceed as they expected, a dull explosion was heard from a distance, followed by news from the communication channel that they were being attacked by a large Eldar force.

The Eldar are raiding the airport they control!

Upon hearing the news, Mortarion and others immediately rushed to the attacked area, and then they saw a large number of wraith bone constructs and Eldar soldiers who were rarely seen before.

As mentioned before, the Iyangden Craftworld had suffered a large number of deaths due to the Leviathan Hive Fleet.

As a result, their main fighting force is various constructs, there are very few living people to be seen, and most of the combatants are soul bone constructs embedded with soul stones.

Visage used this point to convince Iyanden's Ark World. He promised that they would not only be able to become one of the best in the entire Eldar race in the future, but also be able to add a large number of population.

It is unknown how they did it, and there may have been some tricks involved, but now the entire Iyangden Ark World has to pay for their decision.

Now, a large number of Eldar constructs are breaking through Nurgle's defenses, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is their last attack, and whether a few people can escape and save the Ark's fire depends on this time.

Among them, there is a huge statue that looks like the [Incarnation of Kane], but upon closer inspection, its appearance does not look like the [Incarnation of Kane].

He wore something like a metal mask and did not carry any weapons, but every time he waved his hand, he could stir up a scorching flame and destroy the enemy in front of him.

This huge unknown psychic being was the main force of this attack. He led the construct army and a small number of survivors to push forward the Nurgle troops who tried to stop them. Every time he swung his arm, the flames he brought up could kill a large number of weak Nurgle demons. Unlike Cain's flames, his flames also ignited the corrupt plants around him.

Seeing this, Mortarion immediately changed his strategy. He ordered the defense force to retreat slowly, and at the same time asked his descendants to carry heavy weapons to form interception teams to intercept different enemies in this team, thereby stretching the Eldar army and eventually making them disconnected as a whole, so that the originally large team was divided into small teams.

No matter how powerful the Eldar's attack is this time, the fact that Nurgle's troops have an advantage in numbers cannot be changed. Not only that, the entire Ark World has been basically occupied by them, and the Eldar no longer have the home advantage. The current wave of attack is nothing more than a dying struggle.

On the other hand, although that huge psychic being might not be the [Avatar of Cain], Mortarion and his men could be sure of one thing: it, like the [Avatar of Cain], was getting weaker with the passage of time.

So under the command of Mortarion, this Eldar force from the Iyanden Ark World Airport that seemed to want to raid all the way to the airport inevitably fell into a disadvantage after achieving initial results. They were divided and eaten away piece by piece just as Mortarion had planned.

The residents of Iyanden Craftworld, who once had to turn to the dead for help, now find that the dead can no longer help them. They can only watch as the souls they summoned from the infinite circuit fall one after another and are entangled and covered by the tentacles of Nurgle. Just like the result of their arrogance and contempt for the Zerg fleet, they now need to bear the consequences of their choice once again.

His body was obviously larger than before, and his whole body was covered in power armor. Mortarion smashed onto the head of the huge psychic being that was separated like a meteorite. The blazing flame on his body was about to go out at this time.

Afterwards, a Great Unclean One splashed a large pool of green soup at him. The sound of liquid evaporating when it came into contact with the flame was heard. The surrounding Nurgle Space Marines kept firing at him, and Nurglings and Nurgler Plaguebearers were trying to climb onto his body. All this made it weaker.

Just when Mortarion and others thought they could quickly defeat the unknown psychic being in front of them, the flame that had been extinguished on its body suddenly ignited again, instantly burning all the enemies around it, and the scorching temperature even melted the ground beneath their feet.

As it moved away from its dying target, Mortarion suddenly realized that something was wrong. The power it was showing now should not be limited to this level of lethality. Even if it was dying, it should be able to burn most of the friendly forces nearby. How could it be limited to this range? !

"Stop him! He wants to..."

The huge being burning with flames informed the surrounding enemies with practical actions what he wanted to do. His hands, which had been burned white, smashed to the ground with scorching flames. Then a huge force burst out, and white light covered the vision of everyone present.

boom--!

A huge explosion sounded, and the entire Ark World could hear the deafening explosion, and a white light lit up in the universe.

This army never wanted to go to the airport. They just wanted to go to the center of the Ark and let the huge psychic being blow up the entire infected Ark.

Something went wrong with the Eldar's final plan, and they failed to blow up the entire Craft World. However, the power of the final explosion still severely damaged the entire Iyanden Craft World. The entire Eldar Ark broke in the middle, and a large number of Nurgle troops were destroyed.

Mortarion survived, and he finally knew what the psychic corpse was - it was an Eldar bishop who voluntarily threw himself into the [Fire of Asuryan] and absorbed the [Avatar of Asuryan] formed by the flames.

The empty temple hall also proved its idea. The place where the [Fire of Asuryan] was originally placed was now empty.

But Mortarion did not realize that just as he was gathering his troops to stop the assault force, a group of Harlequins broke out from the opposite direction and successfully escaped from the Craft World that had been infected by Nurgle.

And in their ship, a

A weak flame is burning.

692. Farewell to the Past

The Lizardmen's words made the Eldar feel ashamed, because from any perspective, the Lizardmen had the right to lecture the Eldar about their actions.

Although there were also Eldar who wanted to use the vast territory they once owned to argue with the Lizardmen who had just left their planet, the result of doing so was that they were scolded even more miserably.

"Where is your territory? Do you mean the destroyed Commorragh? Or the ruins under the influence of the warp? Or the arks wandering blindly in the cold space?"

"Tell me, Eldar, where is your territory, your [Eldar Empire] now?!"

So, why did you open your mouth? Master Kwa Kuat was about to stop there, but the Eldar's words forced him to continue cursing for several more hours.

In the end, the meeting ended with the Eldar being scolded unilaterally in the back, and the Eldar remained quite quiet for a long time afterwards.

This situation continued until a ship of believers of the Laughing God arrived nearby.

When the ship appeared, Aisha, who was silently analyzing the plague of Nurgle, suddenly stopped and looked in the direction of the ship through the thick concrete layer.

"Asuyan?"

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The followers of the Laughing God brought bad news to humans and the Eldar. The Eldar's long-standing arrogance once again led to the fall of an ark.

Visage, once a member of the Death Army and a staunch supporter and friend of Evelyne, allowed another Eldar Ark to fall into the hands of Nurgle because of his emotions and arrogance, but in the end, Visage used his own life to destroy the infected Ark and prevent the emergence of a new source of infection.

The members of the Harlequins witnessed and recorded all of this, and later took away the only remaining [Fire of Asuryan] and... fresh infected samples.

"The Laughing God said: This is the birth pangs of entering a new era, and we are ready." The leading Shadow Prophet said, holding a container containing the flame of [Asuryan's Fire]. "Are you ready?"

This question was asked to Aisha who came after hearing the news, and the Shadow Prophet handed the container in his hand to her.

As mentioned before, Asuryan and Aisha don't have a good relationship. Even though one of them is the father god of the Eldar and the other is the mother goddess of the Eldar, it can be seen from Asuryan's attitude towards her that this arrogant god may not take Aisha seriously at all.

Compared to Aisha's mediocre record, Asuryan's deeds are much more brilliant. This powerful Eldar god once dragged a star and changed the orbits of the planets in the entire galaxy, turning that galaxy into a place suitable for the Eldar to survive. He also made a star burst out with powerful force to attack the Eldar's enemy at the time, the Nightbringers.

Although the chief god of the Eldar spends most of his time sitting on his throne in deep thought, his power is unquestionable. He possesses great strength and also symbolizes the former glory and arrogance of the Eldar.

But he still did not survive the hands of Slaanesh. The Fire of Asuryan that was rescued in advance was the only proof of his existence, and now...

Although she was a little hesitant, Aisha still took the flame and the symbol of the Eldar's former glory.

Many of the Eldar who saw this scene and heard what the Night Prophet said were a little hesitant. If the flame was not in Aisha's hands, they might have tried to snatch it away.

"It's very weak, but... I can use it to speed up the progress." Aisha glanced at Zhang Yi on the other side while speaking. "But if that happens, this last flame will be consumed."

As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding elves were immediately in an uproar. You know, this flame symbolizes the elves' main god, Asuryan, and now there is no second one.

Although it has become very weak now, it is not impossible to reignite it with some means. Now Aisha actually said that she wants to consume it?

Immediately, an elf raised an objection, hoping that Aisha could think about it more, after all, this was the flame of Asuryan.

Anyway, there are humans in the front now, so there is no need to be so anxious. They can take this fire to another world and let it help the elves to open up the wasteland. Wouldn’t that be better?

"Foolish and short-sighted, you are as selfish as ever." The Shadow Prophet said. "Danger is approaching, but you are content with the status quo."

"The destruction of Iyanden Craftworld is just the beginning. The Plague Lord is about to begin his real attack."

"And we all know who his targets are and who will be targeted."

As he spoke, the Shadow Prophet lifted the cloth on his arm, revealing small green dots on it.

"!"

"Even if we go to another world, we cannot escape this plague."

When the arm with the green dot appeared in front of the elves present, they were all obviously frightened. Some people even drew their weapons on the spot and wanted to execute the infected prophet on the spot.

The human soldiers present also behaved in the same way, but Zhang Yi signaled them not to panic. The power of the Laughing God temporarily suppressed the plague, and coupled with the shielding of the planet by the Lizardmen, the plague on these Laughing God believers was still in a relatively safe state. That was why they were now very good research materials.

material.

"You brought the plague here!"

"Only those who have fought on the front lines will know that as more and more of our compatriots are infected and controlled by the plague, it will become stronger and stronger, and we will become more vulnerable to it..."

"Until the end, there is no escape!"

Saying wow, the shadow prophet walked up to Aisha, the mask on his face preventing others from knowing his current expression.

"Please decide my life or death, goddess."

"This will determine your future."

Hearing this, Aisha once again looked at the weak [Fire of Asuryan] in her hand, and then looked at Zhang Yi again.

"I don't know what the future holds." Elsa said. "But I will heal you."

"Will!"

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The arrival of the Eldar Harlequin Regiment ship was a signal. Soon after it arrived in this star region, plagues of varying degrees broke out on nearby human planets almost at the same time.

Zhang Yi and others, who had been prepared for a long time, suppressed the plague as quickly as possible, as well as the Chaos cultists and a small number of Warp creatures that appeared with the plague. As Zhang Yi had said before, they had no intention of relying on Aisha to solve this problem, even though Aisha did have the potential to solve this problem.

However, Zhang Yi and his team were unsure about the chaos that had arisen within the spirit race because of this.

You have to know that among the elves who came to deal with the plague this time, not all of them came voluntarily, because the previous failure of rescuing the wild elves and the scolding from the lizardmen had made these people want to leave.

The plague that is so close at hand makes these people want to run away immediately.

Although the elves seem extremely noble, if you really look into it, these pointy-eared creatures may not be as "noble" as they say, nor are they necessarily better than humans.

You don't even look at who created Slaanesh, and you don't even ask how extravagant and perverted their tricks were back then.

Not to mention the ones that happened far and near, there are countless betrayals, deceptions, blackmails and similar incidents among the Dark Eldar. The ugly behaviors they display after being schemed against or successfully plotting against others are similar to those of ordinary humans.

Fortunately, the leading priest was a steadfast person and did not fall into fear because of the problems that arose. Under his leadership, there were no major problems within the elves for the time being.

The arrival of the [Fire of Asuryan] greatly accelerated Aisha's speed in analyzing the plague, but as her research became more and more in-depth, the gaze from Nurgle became more and more obvious.

Finally, not long after, when Aisha was healing a lightly infected Eldar who should have been almost certain to be cured, the symptoms of infection suddenly and rapidly flared up on him. He was fine one second, but in the next second, he turned into a humanoid figure entangled by an unknown vine-like substance in front of everyone's eyes.

"Finally... we meet again... my Aisha..." the Eldar who was controlled by the infection murmured. "I will... take you back..."

"I don't belong to you!"

To the surprise of everyone present, Elsa, who had always been cowardly and easily burst into tears, actually took the initiative to reject Nurgle this time (although she had never agreed to it).

Her behavior also stunned Nurgle. He never expected that Aisha would change so much in such a short period of time.

Then, this good-natured worker in the subspace became unusually angry.

"You! Changed?!" Along with those words that were clearly filled with anger, the Eldar that was entangled by the vine-like flesh and blood was being further entangled. "You actually changed?!"

Nurgle is the god of life, immutability and despair, so he hates Tzeentch and things that change. That is why he was so angry when he saw Aisha, who was still very scared and had tears in her eyes but could firmly reject him in front of him.

"But, not much... I will correct this mistake." Nurgle's tone suddenly softened. It's not without reason that he is called a kind father. "No, it won't take too long..."

The scorching flames enveloped it, and began to burn the body and the plague on it. At this time, Zhang Yi walked over following the news.

Looking at the Eldar who were being engulfed by flames and infected and controlled by Nurgle, Zhang walked directly to Aisha and picked her up in front of her.

"?!"

"You'd better hurry up, otherwise..." The mark of Tzeentch on Zhang Yi's left arm was flashing. "Someone will catch this and laugh at you for ten thousand years~"

"How dare you..."

Before Nurgle could finish his words, the flames completely burned the body to ashes, but Zhang Yi could clearly hear the roar coming from Nurgle.

Then, he threw Aisha down without any hesitation, even though Aisha was a little slow to react.

"Inform Sanguinius that Nurgle's massive attack is imminent." Zhang Yi gave orders to the others as if nothing had happened. "Allow nearby planets to prepare as well."

"As for you..." Zhang Yi said, looking at Aisha who was blushing. "You did a good job."

"Keep it up."

693.Start

Ignoring Aisha who was obviously very happy about Zhang Yi's praise, Zhang Yi began to prepare for the wrath of Nurgle with Sanguinius and Jaghatai.

The first thing they had to deal with was the ships infected with the plague.

Eldar ship.

There are survivors from Comoros, or just wandering Eldar pirates, or an escort fleet from a certain Craft World, but now they all have only one identity - Nurgle's 'new family'.

A large number of these Eldar beings who were disturbed and controlled by the Nurgle plague still maintained their own selves. They could feel that Nurgle was controlling their contaminated bodies to achieve his goals.

The soul stones that protected their souls have now become cages that imprison their souls. Their souls have been twisted and polluted beyond recognition in the hands of Nurgle.

These infected Eldar ships changed their previous flexible combat style and sailed towards the Imperial Navy fleet at full speed just like the Orks. At the same time, the light spear weapons in front of the ships fired at full speed until the target was destroyed or hit.

The Eldar took the initiative to engage in boarding warfare. Although as the main race in the Warhammer world, they have done so before, but this is the first time they have used such a 'rough' boarding method.

The fleet commander who was sent over first was stunned by the opponent's attack, and soon he learned the opponent's intention from the known intelligence - the enemy wanted to expand the scale of infection!

As mentioned before, the plague brewed against the Eldar is also effective against other races, and Nurgle is best at snowballing through plague.

This is what they are doing now. Now that the target's location has been found, most of the Eldar infected and controlled by the plague will be of little use. Their final role will be to contribute part of their strength to the Father's goal (of course, after the success, their souls will have a place in Nurgle's Garden).

The infected Eldar, acting as the vanguard and cannon fodder, successfully disrupted the defending fleet. A large number of infected Eldar came directly into the ships of the Imperial Navy fleet and began to bring the father's gift to more people. After that, other ships released by Nurgle appeared nearby.

Just as Nurgle began to devour this defensive fleet, the battle barges of several Space Marine Chapters, led by the Blood Angels, leaped out of the Warp and launched an artillery attack on enemy ships not far away the moment they broke away.