[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night":3,"chapter-eternal-nightmare-of-the-long-night-eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-585":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Eternal Nightmare Night",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2222440,4052,"Chapter 585: Your Savior Has Returned!","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-585",585,"\u003Cp>Warhammer Dream World, Human Empire territory, Damocles Gulf sector...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a super interstellar civilization spanning most of the galaxy, the Human Empire has far too many sectors. Unless it involves the Solar System or a front-line sector like the Great Rift in the center of the galaxy, even if a sector has been destroyed by aliens or natural disasters for decades or a century, the central government likely wouldn't even know, and naturally, it would be almost impossible to send reinforcements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Damocles Gulf sector is different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thirty years ago, this sector was attacked by aliens—a powerful force known as the Necrons. Even with a chapter of Ultramarines stationed here resisting stubbornly, over the following thirty years, the entire sector gradually fell. By a year ago, only two worlds remained in the sector, and their total collapse was only a matter of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The turning point came a year ago, when a large number of Imperial Guard, veteran Space Marines from various chapters, Chapter Masters, as well as the Inquisition, Sisters of Battle, Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii, and Titan Legions arrived at one of the two remaining worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, accompanying them were large quantities of various aliens, including Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks... wait, why are the Orks marching in formation? Two Tyranid bio-titans... no, why are the Tyranid bio-titans not attacking humans, but fighting for them? And other unknown and known aliens—in short, they were all mixed together, and instead of killing each other, they were coordinating with humans to fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultramarines stationed here were simply stunned!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the many Space Marine founding legions, the Ultramarines have always had a good reputation. The only thing people criticize is not the Ultramarines themselves, but their Primarch, Roboute Guilliman. In many rumors, this Primarch is suspected of being \"too good\" to aliens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultramarines naturally cannot admit this, and they don't mind using bullets to make anyone who says so shut up. As for what they think in their hearts, no one knows, but... but!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how good Roboute Guilliman is to aliens, he wouldn't go as far as this—fighting alongside a hodgepodge of various alien races!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before the Ultramarines stationed here could question or protest, these newly arrived humans and aliens began searching the entire planet as if they were crazy. They were so insane that they directly breached a Necron awakening tomb fortress and searched every hidden spot on the planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Savior is missing! We followed the Savior here! It must be the Necrons who abducted the Savior!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group told the Ultramarines this, and then they proved the truth of their words with their actions... This group and the aliens launched a frantic slaughter against the Necrons, driving them completely off the planet within a month, and then launched a wild assault on all the fallen worlds. Their posture left the Ultramarines dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no longer a fighting posture, but a desperate one. This bravery made the Ultramarines shout \"Loyalty,\" and the objects of this loyalty even included Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Orks...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ultramarine Captain stationed here felt he was going crazy. He never thought there would be a day when he would think aliens were very \"loyal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as these Ultramarines were trying to understand who this \"Savior\" the fanatics spoke of was, something even more eye-popping happened...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reinforcements arrived!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And not just one or two, but a vast quantity of reinforcements swarming in from surrounding sectors!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a year, a total of eighteen mixed Imperial Guard and Pilgrim Legions arrived, with a total population exceeding twenty billion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these eighteen legions all brought their own equipment, supplies, and transport ships—current combat forces that could begin fighting the moment they arrived in the sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came six Imperial Navy fleets, three of which came directly from under the High Lords of the Solar System, belonging to the direct combat forces of the High Lords Council, while the other three came from the Adeptus Mechanicus and naval families.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight Sisters of Battle orders, over twenty Space Marine chapters, six Inquisition legions, three Grey Knight squads, five Titan legions...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And that wasn't all. The truly heavyweight arrival came more than half a year later—a squad-level force from Terra...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty Custodians and their paired Sisters of Silence!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this the Damocles Gulf sector!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Are you sure this isn't the defense of Terra!?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or is the Savior they speak of actually the reincarnation of the Emperor?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these were just the human reinforcements. There were even more non-human aliens, including three Ork warbands of unknown origin that heard the call of war and were then recruited by the Orks who followed Wu Pifu to the Damocles Gulf sector. They shouted the war cry of Gork and Mork and always charged toward the most intense battlefields. Their loyalty made most humans feel ashamed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the most numerous and exaggerated arrivals were the Eldar. Three Eldar Craftworlds were even moved into the Damocles Gulf sector. These Eldar were playing for real; they weren't fighting as guerrillas or small squads, but as entire clans. If they lost, the entire clan would be finished!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In just one year, six fallen worlds were recaptured. The multi-party strategic situation in the Damocles Gulf sector indicated that the Necron offensive had been contained, and they had lost their strategic initiative. The human side was rapidly achieving final victory in the Damocles Gulf sector.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these were Necrons, after all, and it was a war of the Sautekh Dynasty, belonging to one of the three Necron giants, the Stormlord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being caught off guard, the Stormlord realized the enemy was different. It activated higher-level awakening protocols, waking more slumbering Sautekh Dynasty warriors. Various high-level Necron constructs followed, including larger Necron space battleship fleets, larger-scale folded-space assault armies, and larger-scale conventional and unconventional Necron tomb complexes...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intensity of the war in the entire Damocles Gulf sector increased tenfold. The entire sector became a chaotic mess. Every planet was engulfed in gunfire, whether it was a fallen world, a recaptured world, or even asteroid belts that were originally completely irrelevant, and death worlds—at this moment, they all became nodes that both sides had to seize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Necrons had no idea what was happening from start to finish, the Necron Stormlord, Imotekh the Stormlord, was a militant among the Necrons. He was a famous war leader even before becoming a Necron. He feared no challenge and only worried that the war wouldn't be intense enough. Now, he got his wish, and it was enough to make his soul float out of excitement... if he actually had a soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing that didn't make him very happy was that there didn't seem to be any true warriors on the enemy side. In this war, he had challenged dozens of powerful enemies in the noble tradition of the Necron nobility, but none of them could rival him, and some didn't even possess the warrior spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Imotekh himself didn't like the Necron warrior spirit much, and these duels were just a distraction on the battlefield for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goal had always been simple: win this war, strengthen his power, and make his name resound throughout the galaxy, thereby seizing the right to speak for the Necron race, especially to compete with his nemesis, the true Supreme Lord of the Necrons, the Silent King!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, on the planet Tethan III, a siege battle carefully planned by the Stormlord was unfolding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Necrons possess technological strength far exceeding almost all current galactic races. Their weapons, armor, and vehicles are enough to crush any other race. They also possess dark technological means to manipulate space and time, especially in a single sector, where they can directly project troops to target locations through a means called phase shifting. Therefore, even though there are fewer Necrons, under the strategic command of the Stormlord, they can often form local superior forces to encircle and annihilate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the reason why the combined human and Eldar forces have not been able to conquer the entire Damocles Gulf sector in the past year, and it has even turned the Damocles Gulf sector into a meat-grinder battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tethan III is one of the two Forge Worlds in the Damocles Gulf sector and the only Forge World currently recaptured by the human side. It can repair warships, weapons, armor, and vehicles, and under conditions of full production capacity, it can arm over a million Imperial Guards in a single day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, Tethan III can be said to be a place that both the Necrons and the human-Eldar coalition must fight for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In space, the Necron fleet is fighting against three human naval fleets and one Eldar space fleet. On the ground, millions of Necron armies mixed with six awakening-level tomb complexes are besieging the main buildings of the Forge World. At the same time, the defenders of the Forge World include two Ultramarine companies, twelve Space Marine squads, over five million Imperial Guards, over one hundred thousand Sisters of Battle, and a Titan Legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Necron army’s firepower is too strong, especially the awakening-level tomb complexes, which are equivalent to firepower-enhanced Titans. A single Gauss cannon blast kills at least tens of thousands of Imperial Guards on the main building of the Forge World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, the human side does not have the advantage; instead, they are gradually falling into a disadvantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One-eyed Katheria tore off her eye patch in frustration, and she roared in a hysterical voice, \"It’s right here! I can feel it, the Savior, our Lord has descended, right here! I order you all, charge out with me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of her were a group of Space Marines, either Chapter Masters or Ultramarine Captains, as well as several Ecclesiarchy priests, Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priests, and a Custodian wearing gold armor who was two heads taller than the Space Marines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked at Katheria with helpless eyes. This former Inquisitor, now self-proclaimed Apostle of the Savior, had gone crazy—or at least, was not far from it. Because this was the twentieth time she had shouted like this in the past year, and every time she took a large group of people to their deaths. Yet, she seemed to be truly blessed by God; except for losing one eye, she was still alive and well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it weren't for the Custodian and the Ecclesiarchy priests confirming her purity, she would have likely been burned as a heretic long ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...Lady Katheria, we understand your feelings, but now...\" the Captain of the Ultramarines' 9th Company said steadily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, at this moment, the huge awakening tomb complex closest to the Forge World exploded, and a blade of light pierced the clouds. At the same time, the thick clouds in the sky suddenly split, and blood-red sunlight poured down from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s here, it’s here...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Katheria was trembling all over. She rushed to the window of the conference room and roared with all her might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mortals, rejoice! Citizens, be glad! All loyal people, pick up your weapons, the moment to offer your loyalty has arrived, because...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Savior has returned!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1868,"2026-06-17T19:10:57.806Z","2026-06-18T03:30:09.135Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e870bc26afb886c88b8bd46097e332be3ebe511e06e2c6f7b8ef64a5ff0b6d4b","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-586","eternal-nightmare-night-chapter-584",602,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Feternal-nightmare-night-cover.jpg"]