Chapter 204: The Guidance of the Four Gods
The Four Gods almost simultaneously began to pour more of their power into the Black Legion led by Abaddon. Suddenly generous, the Four began to infuse individuals who would normally not have been worthy of their blessings with the power of Chaos. For a time, the Black Legion seemed to be caught in a frenzy of celebration.
More daemon legions were mustering in the respective domains of the Four. Once Abaddon expanded the warp's influence on realspace, once those traitors successfully completed their rituals, these daemons would pour out and tear apart all of humanity. Even the Daemon Primarchs, who were not supposed to appear in this war, began to be called upon by the Four Gods.
The Four Gods told them: Your former father has created a new tool, just as he created you.
The Chaos forces wandering in other regions also received promises from the Four Gods. They gathered their strength and passed through the warp storms that the Four had calmed, entering the Koronus Expanse to harass the Mongorte Dynasty, forcing Lucan to be unable to fully commit to the battlefield of Cadia. The hereteks of the Dark Mechanicum appeared with exceptional frequency. At the instigation of Vashtorr, they tried more than once to steal the technology that belonged to the Dynasty. For a time, in addition to the occasional appearance of the Dark Eldar and Orks, the Expanse also began to receive intelligence reports of various Chaos forces appearing.
And Abaddon also received a command from the Four Gods.
At this moment, Abaddon was on the Blackstone Fortress, the Will of Eternity. He felt the power that had suddenly surged into his body again, but he did not feel any joy. He knew that all gifts were secretly marked with a price. And for the Four Gods to so generously pour a large amount of divine power into his body at the same time, without him making any sacrifices or requests, meant that this price would be far greater than he had imagined.
Abaddon looked at the void before him, which was filled with the wreckage of Imperial warships. His fleet had already broken into the Cadian defensive zone. He heard the wails of the painful souls of these dead humans, but he did not feel a trace of the joy he should have from destroying another human fleet.
A Chaos Sorcerer, his body stooped, walked up to him.
"Great Despoiler, the Dark Gods have revealed their oracle to me."
"Speak. What do they need me to do?"
"The gods need you to accelerate your progress at all costs. They will give you more power. The future has changed. A peerlessly sharp weapon possessed by the Corpse-Emperor has already arrived near Cadia. He is of utmost importance to the Dark Gods. Once they break through the blockade of the Empyrean, the Four Gods need you to gather your forces and completely destroy him. His importance is even greater than that of Cadia."
Listening to the Chaos Sorcerer's words, Abaddon pondered in his heart. Although his fleet was unprecedentedly large compared to the Imperium's, the Imperium was not without the ability to fight back. The counterattacks from the countless Imperial Navy and Astartes Chapters that had come to reinforce them had never stopped. The resistance of the Cadians was more resolute and fierce than he had imagined. If he were to forcibly bypass these outer planets and head straight for Cadia, he would lose important forward positions. The resources on these planets could be used to build more war machines.
In Abaddon's eyes, the destruction of Cadia was even less important in the hearts of the Four Gods than that unknown entity. What kind of weapon could threaten the Four Gods? To the point that he might have to abandon Cadia at a critical moment and use all his strength to kill it instead.
And for the Four Gods, this was indeed the case. If Cadia could not be destroyed this time, they could patiently wait for the next. But Lucan's existence could shake their very foundation. If they had to choose between Cadia and Lucan, they would definitely choose Lucan.
Seeing Abaddon's hesitation, the Chaos Sorcerer's tone changed from the initial respect to an obvious threat.
"Despoiler, the Four Gods wish to tell you that they can grant you power, and they can also take it back from you."
Hearing the sorcerer's threatening words, a member of Abaddon's Terminator bodyguard grabbed the Chaos Sorcerer. The sound of bones cracking was exceptionally crisp.
Just as the bodyguard was about to kill him, Abaddon stopped him. His heart was filled with incomparable rage, but he had to admit the truth of what the Four Gods had said. The power of many in his massive Chaos fleet came from the blessings of the Four Gods. They also believed in different Chaos Gods, and he did not have absolute control over them. The Black Legion had been gathered together because of a common goal and the permission of the Four Gods, not just because of his own means. If the Four Gods truly refused to provide him with power, the entire Black Legion would fall apart.
For ten thousand years, he had planned twelve Black Crusades just for this thirteenth one. The sacrifices he had made in the past forced him to compromise now.
"Jump engine is normal. We have arrived in the Lorysia system within the Agripinaa Sector. By the Holy Machine, this is the first time we have attempted a continuous jump over such a long distance."
To save on Psy-crystals, Lucan had moved a considerable number of Barracks and Heavy Factories from the Agathos industrial zone. A million sets of brand-new combat suits, which had been gathering dust in the warehouses, were loaded onto the warships and transported here. Lucan had already thought of a destination for these ordinary combat suits piled up in the warehouses. The Cadians on Cadia, who were crying out for supplies, would definitely need this equipment. To destroy the shield systems on Cadia, Chaos would inevitably have to throw in a massive number of ground troops.
Looking at the Dynasty's warships in orbit, Lucan knew that this jump had been very smooth. The initial 60 warships, plus the Stellar Pioneer, had already arrived. The fleet was a mix of ten retrofitted light cruisers and fifty frigates and Gorgons. The transplantation of the jump engine was becoming more mature, allowing more of the Dynasty's non-StarCraft warships to perform jumps.
As soon as the fleet arrived, they began to act on Lucan's orders. Lucan prepared to reduce the pressure that the Agripinaa Sector was currently facing as much as possible. Reducing the corruption of Chaos in the nearby sectors would also reduce the impact of the warp storms on the area. The more suffering souls that were sent to the Sea of Souls, the thinner the veil between realspace and the warp would become.
Moreover, the fleet in the Agripinaa Sector was not small. As a fortress fleet, Agripinaa still had several heavy cruisers and battleships. Although these huge warships were average in mobile defensive patrols, in a head-on battle, their combat power was still very considerable. No faction could ignore the entry of heavy cruisers and battleships into a battle. Reducing the pressure in the sector would allow them to free up enough strength to go to Cadia and intercept Abaddon's invasion fleet.
And arriving with the warships were five corps of Raiders from within the Mongorte Dynasty and their attached logistical support troops. These were the most elite of the forces directly under Agathos. Each corps had one hundred thousand combat troops and attached logistical support units. They had independent armored and air wings. Each corps had 20 Thors as heavy ground combat support and also had the authority to request a Gorgon to jump directly into the battlefield. The corps also included tech-priests of the Cult of the Holy Machine and priests of the Ecclesiarchy. It could be said that such a corps already had the capability to independently conquer a planet and maintain its good governance and operation.
While meeting the defensive needs of the Dynasty's existing system, more troops were being transferred and integrated, waiting to enter the battlefield directly when needed. And the dispersed fleets also meant that an Imperial planet troubled by Chaos would receive the aid of what could be called the most elite Astra Militarum regiment in the Imperium.
News that one planet after another had been reinforced was sent back to the Departmento Munitorum on Agripinaa. Although the Munitorum couldn't figure out where this Mongorte Dynasty had pulled so much strength from—wasn't their reinforcement fleet just 20 regiments and a few warships? Where did these dozens of ships in this massive fleet come from?—Agripinaa was indeed in desperate need of the assistance of such a powerful reinforcement.
The reduction in defensive pressure allowed the Agripinaa Navy to immediately begin to transfer forces to Cadia. Contact was re-established with lost star systems and planets. Information and a large amount of resources began to be integrated once again.
And as the number of Nurgle Poxwalkers on Lorysia rapidly decreased, the Nurgle plague that had permeated the planet also began to weaken. The tech-priests began to move the industrial zones to the planet's surface and immediately began to use the existing resources on the planet to produce equipment.
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