Warhammer 40 A New Hope

The blue light cut through the dark universe, destroying several fragile Eldar ships on the spot, followed by hundreds of torpedoes fired at the same time.

Exploding flames appeared one after another in the universe. The support of the [Blood Angels] Legion was very immediate. They successfully intercepted the enemy's first attack and determined the direction of the enemy's attack.

But the real game has just begun.

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The attack of Nurgle's main fleet was tied down, but that didn't mean he was without a solution.

As Nurgle's benevolent father's orders were further issued, the Nurgle believers, who were already agitated by the previous events, began to take more radical actions. Some of them even dared to appear in public, forcing or semi-forcing people around them to preach, and "sharing" the so-called gifts of the benevolent father in their hands with others.

Although Zhang Yi and others were prepared for this situation and informed the governors or other managers of nearby planets in advance so that they could be prepared at any time, the situation in some places was still not very good.

Some of them were because the planetary governor was optimistic that nothing had happened before and nothing would happen this time, so he did not make any preparations. Some other things could not be handled because the situation on the planet did not allow it, resulting in the sudden outbreak of chaos.

As the Chaos God most suitable for the poor people at the bottom of the Human Empire, with Nurgle's philosophy of tolerance for almost all existence, as long as you can endure having a rotten stomach, pus all over your body, and sores on your eyes, then you really don't have to worry about food, clothing, illness, and death, because the loving father will love everyone equally. This also leads to the fact that there are usually many sects that believe in Nurgle, and the number of people is usually large.

At this time, the Primarch of the White Scars Legion, Chagatai, who had come to support earlier, and his descendants and a number of sub-legions should come forward. As a Primarch, he likes to "speed against the rules". The White Scars Legion and most of its sub-legions have extremely fast support speeds, which is just right in this situation.

The Space Marines can easily deal with the mortal believers who believe in evil gods, and for those planets with worse conditions, they can just go to Chagatai and clean them up.

Therefore, Zhang Yi and Aisha stayed on the fortress planet called Aduk, guarding the rear while being ready to use his teleportation ability to support other places at any time.

On the other hand, because Sanguinius went to the front line to stop Nurgle's attack, the documents that were originally supposed to be handled by him fell on Zhang Yi's head.

"You tell me this is the quantity you have screened?" Zhang Yi asked the imperial official, looking at the paper documents piled up higher than him.

"This... this is the most necessary document that we have selected based on the highest standards."

“I thought this was an easy job…”

No matter how much he complained, Zhang Yi still had to deal with these documents.

The first is the problem of Aisha and the Eldar. They were placed in an extremely safe underground fortress. The Eldar in the coalition, the infected as samples, and Aisha were all there to prevent problems. The whole area was isolated, and there was a whole incineration force with complete equipment and sufficient fuel nearby to ensure that anything that was not allowed to exist would be rendered harmless - if necessary, the area could be completely destroyed by the ships docked above.

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The defensive measures at this stage should be fine, and then... What is this?" Zhang Yi pulled out one of the documents and asked. "Another carnival? What time is it? Are these people in crowdfunding group 456127940 still playing?"

"This is the strange part, Your Majesty." The high-ranking official of the empire said. "According to the information we have, the governor of that planet should not be a person who seeks pleasure, but the fact is that according to the news we have received, there have been several carnivals held there, and the scale of each one is getting bigger and bigger."

"We suspect this is related to another Chaos enemy, but the Inquisitors who went there have not responded yet..."

"In fact, we have lost contact with the Governor there for some time, but that planet is quite far from here. If we go there normally, it may affect the current war situation."

"But we didn't do nothing about it. We have designated all ships that flew out of that planet as enemy targets and prohibited other planets from trading with it, isolating the planet from any possible impact to the greatest extent possible." The senior imperial official continued. "After the follow-up naval fleet arrives, we also plan to send out a small fleet to blockade it, or simply destroy it."

"According to our estimates, even in the worst case scenario, this would only cause the Empire to lose one planet."

"Is there information about the Plague of Nurgle?"

"According to the latest information we have, there were indeed reports of an outbreak of plague in the lower city, but it was quickly suppressed and cleared."

Looking at the report in his hand, Zhang Yi pondered. Under the current circumstances, he couldn't leave here. His role could not be replaced by anyone else.

Zhang Yi originally planned to ask O'Neill to come over to take charge, but he and Carl were over there looking after a batch of newly created [Pathfinders] and other Space Marines and could not leave.

"Dorn is further building and strengthening the defense facilities of the Shining World of [Broken Star], while Vulkan is in charge of the construction and expansion of the fleet in the Ring World..."

"Guilliman is working overtime; Lorgar is busy with the Ecclesiarchy; the magical pony is preparing for something big; Lion and Fulgrim are on another expedition..."

"Corax, Curze, and Omega are free, but they are not suitable to testify here on my behalf. I can ask them to go and see what happened there, but..."

"It's a bit of a waste to send a Primarch there without knowing what happened and how serious it is..."

"I'll get a few teams of Raven Guard or Night Lords Space Marines to take a look..."

"It should be no problem?"

694. Gifts

On a cosmic scale, not only is travel across galaxies slowing down, but so is communication.

Even for light, it may take tens of minutes or even hours to travel to some planets on the edge of a galaxy.

This means that even if two places are in the same galaxy, there may be a delay of several hours when communicating with each other using radio at the speed of light.

Traditional communication methods have too much delay, so what about metaphysical ones? The Empire's main communication personnel now - Astropaths, can communicate with distant star regions in real time through the subspace. A more famous example is our classmate Xiao Ma, who was far away in Prospero and was able to break through the webway that was being built on Holy Terra with a psychic phone call.

This method of ultra-long-distance communication through metaphysics seems to be very convenient. All you need to do is find an astropath. But first of all, astropaths are very precious. The birth of each astropath can be said to be a life-and-death struggle.

Furthermore, this communication method is extremely dependent on the subspace. As long as the current subspace is unstable, this ultra-long-distance communication method will not be able to accurately transmit the desired information. Sometimes, it can't even transmit any information at all.

As the four greatest enemies of humanity, the Chaos Gods can make the subspace of a star region unstable with just anything they do, making it impossible for any information to be transmitted (in fact, not only Chaos, but also the Tyranids can do this).

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Yi cannot leave. His portal can be said to be one of the few means at this stage that can communicate and transfer regardless of distance without any side effects and almost unaffected. Others cannot do this.

On Sanguinius' side, the fleet he led successfully withstood the enemy's first wave of attack, and the two sides entered a strategic stalemate. Because of Zhang Yi and their small actions, Nurgle's army did not gather much this time. On the other hand, the human empire was well prepared for this.

Sanguinius, holding a flaming halberd, had just retreated from the front line. He originally wanted to find Mortarion for a fight (and look at his panda look by the way), but the other party was very cautious and did not come out to fight him.

A new batch of Imperial support fleets arrived, and they were filling the gaps left by the previous battles. On the other side, the enemy's fleet support seemed to have stopped.

This was not normal, because in Sanguinius's estimation, even the inadequately prepared Mushroom Fleet should have outnumbered them, but now this was...

Sanguinius did not remain in doubt for long, for the enemy's reinforcements arrived.

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It was an Eldar Ark wrapped in green flesh and blood tentacles!

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The Eldar Ark is the 'Ark of Doom' prepared in advance by the Eldar who heeded the warning before the [Fall of the Eldar].

This kind of huge multi-functional battleship is difficult to build even for the Eldar. During the [Fall of the Eldar], a considerable number of these battleships were destroyed by the Scream of Slaanesh because they failed to travel far enough.

The Eldar living on these giant ships are called Ark Eldar. They escaped the fate of destruction with the help of the Ark, but they need to drift with the Ark forever and have no fixed place to live.

And now, their mobile home can no longer protect them.

Sanguinius had no idea how the Eldar Ark had been infected in the first place, but all he knew for sure was that Nurgle's attack had only just begun.

In order to ensure the survival of the Ark Eldar in this dark and cruel universe, the Eldar Ark must have attack capabilities. Judging from the size of the Ark alone, it can be inferred that its firepower will not be weak.

Several thick beams of light pierced through the darkness, instantly destroying an Imperial cruiser. Then a large number of rot flies flew out from the infected ark, covering the sky and the sun and attacking the fleet of the Human Empire.

【Accept the gift from the loving Father! 】

Just like the Necron ships that released tomb beetles, the completed Rot Flies or other Nurgle flying units flew towards the human warships like locusts. The auspicious instruments of all the warships were covered with red dots symbolizing the enemy, and the shrill alarm sounded in everyone's ears.

The ship in the front has already grounded, just like when the Human Empire first came into contact with the Tyranid swarm coming from outside the Milky Way. The incalculable Warp creatures used their bodies to crash into and tear apart the ships in sight, looking for every gap they could get into, sharing the father's gift with everyone here.

Sanguinius ordered all ships to open fire with all their might in an attempt to defeat the enemy's offensive, but the firepower of the human ships was clearly not enough for the vast number of enemies.

In fact, the human ships also encountered this dilemma when facing the Necrons' swarm of scarab beetles, because normally it is impossible for the number of enemy secondary units to be so large that the entire ship is surrounded by three layers inside and outside, and the mainstream of cosmic warfare in the Warhammer world is not aircraft carrier warfare.

Besides, even if you want to build and install targeted weapons for the enemy's close-range attacks, what should you install? A flamethrower? Are you serious about using a flamethrower in a battleship battle on a cosmic scale?

However, it is not that there is no...

"Lord Sanguinius, we have detected the energy fluctuations of the curvature jump! Coming from behind us!"

"Ship signal detected, it's the Lizardmen!"

call out--!

Giant Flying Temple City——【Son of the Ancient Saint】

This giant ship, a combination of technology and magic, was of the same specifications as the [Glorious Queen-class] battleship. It appeared on the battlefield with two smaller battleships, and then the light of magic lit up on it.

Zila——!

In the dark universe, a flash of lightning appeared and shot at the swarms of Nurgle. A series of enemies were hit and shattered by the lightning, and then turned into charred limbs in the universe.

A lightning storm arose in outer space, and a large number of Nurgle carrier-based aircraft units were trapped in the storm, and could only be torn apart by the lightning.

At this moment, a small number of enemy carrier-based aircraft units broke out of the lightning storm surrounding them and rushed towards the Lizardman ship that was casting magic. Just when they were about to touch the target hull, scorching flames spurted out from it, instantly engulfing this small group of enemies.

It is indeed strange to install a flamethrower on a space battleship, but don't forget that in the Warhammer world, boarding and ramming are carried out on a cosmic scale. In comparison, a flamethrower, which is considered a long-range weapon, is not so strange, right?

"All ships, move closer to the Lizardmen's ships! Protect them!" Sanguinius ordered. "All ships begin to retreat, notify the fleet on the fortress planet, and prepare to fight!"

The appearance of the Lizardmen stabilized the battle situation, but as long as the infected Eldar Ark was on the field, the situation would be unfavorable to them.

What's more, what the enemy has shown now may not be all they have. Even if his plan against Nurgle is successful and his military strength is reduced, it may not be just that.

The subsequent appearance of more local ships confirmed Sanguinius's guess that this battle with Nurgle would not be over soon.

But this time it’s not the humans who are anxious.

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Aduk Fortress Planet

Under the command of Sanguinius, the Astra Militarum on the entire planet has been put into action. The auspex in orbit is fully powered, all artillery batteries are activated, and all ground forces are deployed according to wartime plans.

As the army of Nurgle approaches, related anomalies on other nearby planets are increasing further, and even some planets that have been dealt with before have relapsed.

It was also for this reason that the troops led by Chagatai could not rush back and could only continue to travel between different galaxies as planned, assisting the local planetary governors and PDF in dealing with these problems.

In other words, the defense of the planet Aduk Fortress can only rely on Zhang Yi, Sanguinius and Yuan

Some troops.

Now Zhang Yi is transporting the last batch of support troops to this planet at this last moment. Because after the Nurgle troops land, the existence of the plague will make it impossible to open the portal to their actual place at will, unless he wants the plague to spread further.

This can also be considered a way to prevent Zhang Yi from opening a portal. Although Nurgle cannot directly affect the portal opened by Zhang Yi, it can use other people as a threat to prevent him from opening the portal casually.

Several Ultramarines squads of Space Marines and Custodes came to the planet through the portal. These were the last idle troops that could be found recently.

"I bring greetings from my father (Guilliman), Your Majesty." The leading Space Marine Captain spoke. "My father asked me to remind you to put your own safety as the top priority. No planet in a galaxy is as important as you."

"In addition, Lord O'Neill asked me to pass on a message that you only need to wait for a while, and new Pathfinder Space Marines and more reinforcements will arrive."

"It's really hard for the old man to contact the demihumans..." Zhang Yi murmured, and signaled that the [Ultramarines] Space Marine could leave. "The nearby troops have gathered here, and the military deployment is also underway."

"The next step is to see who has more cards."

At this time, a Space Marine responsible for the protection of the Eldar research area pushed open the door and walked in, saying, "Emergency."

"What's wrong? Are the Eldar causing trouble again?" Zhang Yi said with a normal expression. "If all else fails, just blow it up. I'll give Guilliman a headache later."

"...The goddess has completed the analysis of the plague." The Space Marine automatically filtered out some of Zhang Yi's words and said, "The means of epidemic prevention have been researched."

695. Game with Nurgle (Part )

The flame of Asuryan dissipated in Aisha's hands, meaning that another treasure of the Eldar had disappeared.

Looking at the disappearing flames, many of the Eldar prophets who assisted Aisha in studying the plague felt a pang of pain. Only at this time could these people clearly feel the weakness of the Eldar.

Whether it is the [Fire of Asuryan], the Eldar Ark, or the planet of the Wild Eldar with the [Soul of the World], these are things that cannot be replenished. Once these things are lost, they are really gone.

They are no longer the Eldar Empire with its vast sphere of influence. Their gods have passed away, and now their race is just refugees in this dark universe.

Some of the older generation of Eldar who were far-sighted and had already accepted this realized this, and that's why they sat back and watched a series of events including Aisha's paying for him. Before this, they were also the few Eldar who were really working hard for the Eldar to rise again.

You say they are traitors for watching their gods lean towards humans? As the [Fire of Asuryan] is here, I won't ask him to revive and show his power on the spot. I will just turn the color of the flame green and I will take Aisha back immediately.

The remaining power of [The Fire of Asuryan] was absorbed by Aisha, and at that moment, the goddess seemed to see Asuryan again, the main god of the Eldar who sat on his throne in deep thought most of the time, and his face that seemed to be always covered by a mask.

"...You've never cared about us, right?" Aisha said to Asuryan in front of her. "You've never cared about anyone..."

Asuryan in the illusion did not speak, or even move at all because of Aisha's words. He remained in deep thought until the illusion disappeared.

Not long after, Aisha looked again at the isolated believers of the Laughing God who voluntarily became infected. Their god had protected them before, but it was impossible for him to protect them forever.

More green dots appeared on their bodies, ulcers appeared on their skin, and their spirits became extremely weak.

At this moment, Aisha walked into the isolation room, and a warm white flame appeared on her hand.

"I will heal you."

"In the name of Asuryan, I order you to leave here!"

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To be honest, Zhang Yi really didn't expect that Aisha could find a gentler way to solve the plague of Nurgle before they finished the war.

As mentioned before, the reason why this plague is so targeted and deadly to the Eldar is because the power of Nurgle has engulfed the souls of those infected Eldar. All these infected Eldar souls are helping to control the plague, further expanding the scope of infection and strengthening the plague's ability.

The characteristics of this plague also make it easier for the uninfected relatives of the infected elves to be infected. After all, your relatives often understand you better.

Simply put, the plague that Nurgle launched against the Eldar this time is to let the Eldar eat each other internally, just like the minions killed by the tiger. Those who die first will lure the living into death. As more people die, the "tiger's" "hunting speed" will become faster and faster.

The [Fire of Asuryan] is the symbol of the main god of the Eldar. He commands all the Eldar gods and the Eldar. His orders are absolute to the Eldar.

Even Cain, the god of war who had been clamoring to kill all the Eldar, stopped clamoring after Asuryan intervened. Asuryan's duty after the War in Heaven was to mediate.