Chapter 380

Soon, the jump exit emitting a cyan-blue flash finally calmed down; this also signifies that the main force of the human expeditionary army has arrived within the Dianka star system.

Now we only await the Supreme Commander, the Lord of Humanity, Father of the OriginalBody, the chairman who has served nearly a hundred years, and with his many titles, Sui Bian's single order will have us directly pass through the vortex Space Gate and rush to the universe where the traitors reside.

This expeditionary fleet can truly be described as unprecedented and unmatched; in scale, number, and technological content it is sufficient to be recorded in human history.

However, it should be said that each human expedition is truly 'one of a kind,' for humanity as a whole is like a high-speed bullet train running smoothly and without obstruction, constantly innovating and changing every year, every quarter, every day.

Looking out.

Discarding the three extremely conspicuous large devices (Halos) and five homeworlds, the number of warships gathered before the vortex Space Gate is approximately…

170,000 ships.

Among them, there are at least 150,000 escort vessels ranging from 500 meters to 2 kilometers, accounting for 88% of the expeditionary fleet's total.

But large numbers do not mean they are the main force.

Nine thousand destroyers and cruisers, four thousand Gorgon-class battleships reaching four kilometers, over one thousand Zeus-class ships of five to seven kilometers, four hundred Olympus-class carriers (about 20 kilometers), and over a hundred Titan-class battleships (30-50 kilometers) constitute this expeditionary force's absolute firepower output.

Of course, the most indispensable part of the expeditionary force is the Phoenix-class support vessels responsible for immediate construction, repair, and providing rescue and medical services; also the supply ships dedicated to transporting materiel; and the Achilles-class carriers tasked with transporting ground troops and ground vehicles, almost unarmed, numbering about eleven thousand or more.

Such is the general picture of this expeditionary force.

And the total number of warships possessed by humanity as a whole has even reached a terrifying six million, for the Space Wild Wolves, over forty years ago, 'plundered' the Zero-Two Universe with its population of forty-five trillion.

With the Zero-Two Universe as its backing, and with Robert, who excels at operations and management, serving as interim governor, this is why humanity can build various warships as easily as making dumplings.

Furthermore, the number of reserve Astartes has reached three million, enough to make the traitors feel collapse and despair.

Know that the Zero-Two Universe's domain is the entire galaxy, and Robert possesses a terrifying 'conscription' ability, so three million is still conservative; if Robert wishes, and Sui Bian permits, the number certainly would not be just three million.

However, the Astartes numbers of the ten legions have hardly continued to grow, because Umbrella adheres to an 'elite troops' strategy, thus the conditions for the current reserves to successfully advance to a legion have become more stringent.

At this moment, the expeditionary force, having fully assembled, remains on standby, as if waiting for something.

Not long after, dozens of spindle-shaped, crystal-like rhomboid warships concluded an alternative jump transit, weaving through the expeditionary fleet, and docked directly near the polar entrance of the Never-Fallen on the homeworld of Glory's Iron Fist.

Immediately thereafter, a flight formation of over a dozen transport and carrier aircraft belonging to the Malar people detached from these crystal vessels, passed through the polar entrance, and flew into the inner world of the Never-Fallen.

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Beside the main control room in the inner world of the Never-Fallen, there is a reception area called the Reception Hall.

Here there are marble tiles and stone columns; the soft light of an artificial star pours through the top's golden-yellow glazed glass, scattering upon the crimson and also upon the sound-dampening carpet.

If viewed from above outside, its shape and scale resemble those of a solemn, majestic giant temple.

At this moment, twenty guards with black-gold white plumes stand at the forefront of the Reception Hall.

As for those being protected by this group of giants, they are Sui Bian wearing black-gold armor, and the White Empress, who is perpetually in secretary attire.

At this moment, dozens of Astartes wearing Spartan reserve training uniforms, yet standing only 2.3 to 2.5 meters tall, entered the Reception Hall escorted by four guards.

When this group of 'short' Astartes reached the center of the Reception Hall, they involuntarily performed a half-kneeling salute; mainly, they could not hide their excitement, and some even wept with joy, as if they had witnessed something they could hardly believe.

Just from this scene, it's not hard to infer that these 'short' Astartes regard someone as their father, or rather, as their 'grandfather'.

Clearly, this 'someone' is Sui Bian.

The reason these 'short' Astartes feel familiar and affectionate is due to Sui Bian's faint yet pure spiritual energy, which closely resembles that of the Human Emperor they once swore allegiance to.

Speaking of which, John single-handedly blew up Abaddon, and while letting the Warrior Guard annihilate the traitors aboard the entire enemy ship, he also rescued these loyalist Astartes who were faithful to the Human Emperor.

Afterward, John arranged the exclusive apothecary of the Spartan Warrior Guard to treat these 'cousins' from another world, combined with Umbrella's highly developed nanotechnology and the Astartes' powerful self-healing ability, they were finally restored to a state of 'limbs intact'.

Furthermore, after they recovered, John personally interrogated these loyalists to obtain more information about the parallel universe's past.

Thus, Sui Bian, the OriginalBodies, and some senior officials finally came to know what the Human Empire had actually encountered.

The universe on the other side of the vortex Space Gate is largely similar to what Sui Bian knows of Warhammer 30,40k; humanity once experienced the peak of technological prosperity and flourishing, vaguely being the galactic hegemon's golden age, then suffered the betrayal of artificial intelligence and various sudden events, plunging into a dark age.

It was also at this time that the colonies lost contact, and humanity scattered across the galaxy suffered oppression, abuse, and suppression by aliens; even the Solar System where Terra lies was a scene of warlord fragmentation and mutant rampage, and then that 'person'… the Human Emperor appeared.

The Emperor, with thunderous force, relied on the first generation of strong but unstable super-warriors to unify Terra; shortly after, those first super-warriors were eliminated due to various factors.

In their place, the Emperor created twenty OriginalBodies using himself as a template, and then prepared to forge twenty Astartes legions from those OriginalBodies as prototypes.

However, due to unknown factors, the twenty OriginalBodies all vanished simultaneously, scattering to various corners of the galaxy.

Even though the loyalists interrogated by John claimed to be a group of earth-born Terrans, veterans of the Shadow Moon Grey Wolf (Son of Helusi), they could not know that it was the Chaos Evil Gods who had snatched the still-developing OriginalBodies and scattered them across the galaxy.

This is the 'great similarity'; the 'minor difference' is that in the universe on the other side of the vortex Space Gate, the Emperor from the outset established the 'Battle Sisters' to uphold the 'Imperial Truth', which is completely opposite to what Sui Bian had expected.

The Battle Sisters are female orphans without parents or support, sought by the Emperor's guard within the Solar System; he then personally instructed and trained the first batch of Battle Sisters, making them firmly believe that the Imperial Truth is humanity's future.

Moreover, because the Emperor personally taught and trained them, the first Battle Sisters even called themselves 'Daughters of the Emperor', aspiring to spread the creeds 'Loyal to the Emperor!' and 'Believe in the Imperial Truth!' throughout the galaxy.

Thus, all Battle Sisters maintain absolute loyalty to the Emperor, and they are also at odds with the Mechanicus of Mars, maintaining mutual checks and balances.

From Sui Bian's perspective, the intelligence John sent about the Battle Sisters is actually just another version of the 'Battle Nuns', except that the Battle Nuns only appeared after the great Heresy of Helusi.

In the accounts of these veterans who insist on calling themselves Shadow Moon Grey Wolf, they also mention that besides the Mechanicus, those who worship and venerate the Emperor as a god include the Seventeenth Legion, the Word Bearers Legion, and the Word Bearers' gene-seed, Luòjiā·Àoruìliàn.

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor repeatedly admonished Luòjiā and his Word Bearers Legion not to regard him as a deity, and frequently rebuked Luòjiā for not focusing his energy on spreading faith, urging him to seize the time to conquer the entire galaxy.

However, Luòjiā and the Word Bearers' obstinate independence, and their unrepentant conduct, ultimately provoked the Emperor, who then personally led the Battle Sisters and the Terminator Legion to destroy the 'Perfect City' that worshipped the Emperor as a god, regarded the OriginalBodies as demigods, and saw the Astartes as angels.

While destroying the Perfect City, the Emperor also used his own overbearing and unreasonable spiritual energy to force Luòjiā and the entire Word Bearers Legion to kneel in repentance; most heartbreakingly, he made them kneel before the mortal Battle Sisters, as well as the Terminator Legion's OriginalBody Luóbótè Jǐlǐmàn, and the Terminator warriors.

To the Emperor, this was meant to have Luòjiā and the Word Bearers fully absorb the lesson and increase the efficiency of the Great Crusade.

But for Luòjiā and the Word Bearers, this was endless humiliation, and it produced an irreparable rift between them and the Battle Sisters and the Terminator Legion.

Hatred and confusion quickly spread within the Word Bearers Legion, planting the seeds of future rebellion.

Seizing the moment when OriginalBody Luòjiā fell into confusion, the already-degenerate traitors immediately undertook subversion, successfully causing one OriginalBody to stand against the Empire and turn to serve the Chaos Gods.

Next, amidst the secret scheming of the many traitors and one OriginalBody, the great undertaking of humanity's Great Crusade was about to end, while the Emperor returned to the Terra Palace, focusing on researching ways to bypass warp travel; meanwhile, half of the legions' OriginalBodies, whether voluntarily or forced, chose to rebel against the Empire, preparing to overthrow the 'false Emperor's' 'tyranny' and 'liberate' all mankind.

These half of the legions and their OriginalBodies are respectively…

Third Legion, Sons of the Emperor, Fúgéruìmù,

Fourth Legion, Steel Warrior, Pèitūlābó,

Eighth Legion, Midnight Lord, Kānglādé Kēzī,

Twelfth Legion World Eaters, Angelong,

Fourteenth Legion Death Guard, Motarian,

Fifteenth Legion Thousand Sons, Magnus,

Sixteenth Legion Sons of Helusi, Helusi Lupekaer,

Seventeenth Legion Word Bearers, Luojia Aoruilian,

Twentieth Legion Alpha, A'erfaruisi and twin brothers Oumiqie,

The OriginalBodies that first chose rebellion first purged dissenters, then slaughtered the loyalist brothers within the legions, then imprisoned and humiliated them, for example, this group of old soldiers who provided intelligence to John,

Moreover, the loyalists among the rebel legions, the vast majority were those who first followed the Emperor in the crusades, possessing rich experience, with a combat style brave and forward, of Terran descent.

Before this, the OriginalBody of the Thousand Sons, Magnus, discovered that his 'elder brother' Helusi was being whispered to by the Chaos Gods; in his haste and anxiety, he prepared to launch a large-scale Spiritual Energy ritual, wishing to directly warn the Emperor.

Who would have thought, this action coincidentally fell into the Chaos Gods' scheme; Magnus not only failed to successfully warn the Emperor, but instead destroyed all of the Emperor's painstaking work, and beneath the Terran Imperial Palace opened a 'gate' linking the real universe and another dimension, allowing endless demons to directly invade humanity's core world.

The furious Emperor ordered the Space Wild Wolves and their OriginalBody LimanLusi to bring Magnus to Terra for trial, but the already traitorous Helusi, using his position as Warmaster, issued a false edict, causing the Space Wild Wolves and the Thousand Sons to massacre each other.

In the end, Magnus, having accidentally killed his brother LimanLusi, filled with grief and regret, was seized upon by the Chaos Gods; his consciousness was imprisoned, and his body was taken over by Chaos.

At the same time, Helusi took advantage of the Emperor being occupied with suppressing demons, and declared to the Empire that the Word Bearers and Death Guard had rebelled; he then gathered the Sons of Helusi, Dark Crow Guard, Fist of Iron, Steel Warrior, Sons of the Emperor, White Scar, and Alpha Legion, a total of seven legions, heading to the barren planet named Istavaan VII to crush the rebels.

But when the loyal legions' morale was high, no one expected Helusi to completely tear off his façade of hypocrisy and false loyalty……

As it turned out, among the alliance of seven legions, four were actually traitors?!

Three loyal legions, facing six traitor legions that held the advantage of time and place, could only suffer defeat and disbandment.

The White Scar led by OriginalBody Chahatai Khan had long been infiltrated jointly by the Sons of Helusi and the Alpha Legion; furthermore, Helusi even followed the advice of A'erfa ruisi and Oumige, personally capturing Chahatai Khan.

The OriginalBody of the Emperor's Children, Fugerimu, due to a daemon residing in his weapon, was 'forced' to betray; and under the joint deception of the daemon and Luojia, he accidentally killed his closest, dear brother, severing the head of the OriginalBody of the Iron Hand, Feilusimanusi.

Holding his brother's head, the grief-stricken Fugerimu suffered the same fate as Magnus: his consciousness was imprisoned by demons, and his body was further possessed and controlled.

Thus, the loyal side had left only the Dark Crow Guard legion, and the OriginalBody of the Dark Crows, Kelakesi.

The Dark Crows, adept at stealth and guerrilla tactics, fought fiercely against the enemy; astonishingly, in a frontal clash they briefly suppressed all the traitors.

Kelakesi not only tore off Luojia's both arms, severely wounded the Alpha Legion twin OriginalBodies Oumige and A'erfa ruisi, and repulsed Motlian and Peturabo.

Even so, the Dark Crow Guard was still annihilated by the six newly regrouped traitor legions, and Kelakesi was killed by his own brother Helusi.

Thus, the Empire side had already consecutively lost four loyal legions.

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The third fan title event is now open; you can participate in the comments section.

The Shadow Moon Grey Wolf's Terran veterans, why they know all sorts of details will be revealed tomorrow.

Moreover, this Warhammer timeline is the author's own creation; the OriginalBodies' experiences are similar but different, and many readers also don't know the timeline and content of Warhammer 30k/40k, so it's essentially a sorting out.

Furthermore, the author did not deliberately mention the Silent Sisters unit.

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