The Daemon army did not dare to continue rushing into the Webway like a tide to engage the Imperial Army, but Noah did not let go of this opportunity.
He mobilized a large number of Grey Knights Forces, Space Marine troops, and Titan Legions into the Webway.
As the number of these forces grew more and more.
Gradually, the four Chaos Gods in the Warp also became aware of the situation here.
Greater Daemons being directly annihilated and their essence and energy returning to their bodies was a feeling they could perceive.
However, at first, due to the small number, they did not pay attention.
But as Noah deployed more and more troops into the Webway, the psionic energy generated when 600,000 Grey Knights Forces stood together was a huge light bulb that could not be ignored.
This was as dazzling as a 100-watt light bulb in a dark room, and such a dazzling scene was naturally seen by all four Chaos Gods.
Deep in the Warp, four ancient gazes simultaneously turned towards the Webway.
Slaanesh lazily plucked the strings of a lyre: "Huh? Why are those golden corn cobs running into the Webway?"
Khorne also cast his gaze into the Webway, but his gaze carried excitement.
He was the god of war, and war was something that could ignite his interest.
In all the battles across the galaxy, was there any battle more essential than the Imperial Army currently gathered in the Webway?
No.
This would be a very beautiful battle!
Khorne began to get excited.
"Blood for the blood god!"
Behind this sentence, somehow in the Warp, another sentence still managed to pop out.
"I am Rogal Dorn!"
However, this voice was very light, only Khorne himself could hear it.
But it was visibly clear that Khorne's excitement at discovering an epic war diminished greatly at this moment.
Among everyone, Tzeentch was the calmest; he looked in the direction of the Webway and merely said a single sentence lightly.
"Everything is according to the plan."
As for Nurgle?
Nurgle was still Nurgle; he had no interest in the events happening in the Webway. He was busy brewing his grand soup.
However, after the other three had shifted their attention to the Webway, he was also forced to look in that direction.
And once he looked, he couldn't take his eyes off it. What high-quality troops!
If all these guys could be corrupted, what a beautiful scene that would be!
Nurgle also began to get excited.
The four Chaos Gods in Chaos did not even consult each other; they directly dispatched their respective Daemon armies.
As for the Greater Daemons that had already been annihilated?
Not important.
The Chaos Gods directly redistributed their authority and created new Greater Daemons.
"Charge!"
"Stab the Emperor in the ass!"
While the Chaos Gods finally began to mobilize their Daemon armies, preparing for another War of the Webway, Noah's side was still executing the operation.
Inside the Webway, a crushing advance was taking place.
Noah stood on the command platform, watching the constantly expanding blue area on the holographic map—representing the human controlled zone advancing at a speed of 5 kilometers per minute.
"Report! Left flank cleared!"
"Right flank has occupied the Daemon fortress!"
"Central forces have breached the third predetermined position!"
Victories flew in like snowflakes.
The psionics matrix formed by 600,000 Grey Knights was like a giant vacuum cleaner, forcibly purifying the Warp energy in its path.
Those Daemons who miraculously weren't killed by psionics lightning were blasted to smithereens by the main guns of the Titan Legions as soon as they appeared.
Even the small Daemons who miraculously survived the Titan Legions' attack were directly crushed into dust by the subsequent tide-like Space Marines army.
Noah, with his superhuman brain, commanded this operation of nearly 9 million people. Everyone received his clearest instructions; everyone received Noah's orders telling them what to do.
A scientist's brain is just that useful; Noah's brain was truly too powerful.
His super powerful brain gave him ample computing power; he could easily simulate the battlefield situation in advance.
At the same time, based on the battlefield situation, he could deduce countless operational plans and choose the optimal solution from them.
He didn't need to let grassroots officers command the troop advancement.
When he personally took charge of commanding the Webway operation, it meant that every soldier would receive Noah's most detailed command.
No Daemon could survive under such a command system; the Imperium of Man's army began to constantly advance towards the Webway's leakage points.
Noah wanted to use such means to force the Daemons, to make them unable to hold back any longer, and then mobilize their Daemon armies to engage him in the Webway.
In addition, a large number of Space Marine troops were also assembling, ready to support this battlefield.
From the current perspective, under Noah's command, his plan was successful.
The four Chaos Gods were successfully attracted by him and proactively dispatched their Daemon legions.
A tide-like Daemon army began to charge towards the human legions commanded by Noah, and the first wave of attack they faced came from the titans.
Massive numbers of Emperor-class Warmaster and titans stood in a line, actively firing to intercept the charging Daemons, while ordinary gauss rifles also fired continuously.
venomcrawlers and annihilator tanks continuously poured firepower onto those Daemons.
Didn't Khorne's Daemons directly negate the concept of firearms?
That's good, then just use Disintegration Cannons.
Whether you are a psionic entity or something else, in front of Disintegration Cannons, there is only one path: destruction.
The Daemon army failed; their best opportunity had passed. Noah had already thrown all of his first-echelon troops into the Webway.
At the same time, behind them, a large number of Space Marines were continuously entering.
Among these, the gauss rifles caused the least damage.
But even these gauss rifles could destroy several ordinary Daemons with one shot. The human wave tactics that Chaos Daemons had always enjoyed seemed to be ineffective against this force.
An endless stream of Daemons charged continuously, but they could not cross the firing line by even half a step.
However, on the Chaos side, there was no concern at all about all this; they continued to mobilize ordinary Daemons to assault the defense line.
Where was this?
This was the Warp.
Within the Warp, Daemons could appear endlessly; they were not afraid of such a war. Those ordinary small Daemons, if they died, they died.
An endless stream of ordinary Daemons charged towards the human legion's defense line, but doing so also caused the flow of Chaos energy from the Eye of Terror to weaken.
At the same time, due to the large number of troops mobilized by Noah, the consumption rate of ordinary Daemons also became extremely fast.
The Chaos Gods were forced to recall their Daemons from the real universe and deploy them into the War of the Webway.
No war anywhere in the galaxy was as important as the current war in the Webway.
Here, there were a full 600,000 Grey Knights, 8 million Space Marines, and a large number of Titan Legions.
The souls of those Grey Knights and Space Marines had long been coveted by the Chaos Gods.
They were eager to seize the souls of these guys into their hands and turn the Grey Knights into Greater Daemons under their command.
The Daemonic onslaught was It can be said yes It can be described as endless of, they continuously attacked the Imperium's defenses, but were directly repelled.
The Daemons coveted the souls of the psykers, so they were unwilling to give up such a large piece of meat.
They continued to dispatch ordinary Daemons to launch charges.
However, Noah wasn't afraid of anything related to souls.
Little did they know that among the civilizations destroyed by the Terran Federation were the Necron civilization and the Sinister Enterprise.
Within these two civilizations, they possessed a very miraculous device called the Post-Death Re-employment Center.
This device could directly contain the souls of living beings. And when the Sinister Enterprise was destroyed by the Terran Federation.
This technology was also delivered into the hands of various scientists, and Noah thoroughly mastered it at that time.
The Terran Federation didn't need something as inhumane as the Post-Death Re-employment Center.
However, the technology within it was somewhat useful. At that time, the federation was opening up a new world in the Immaterium to house human souls.
To allow everyone to transcend and become saints, to achieve the goal of eternal life for all—that was the Terran Federation's idea at the time.
Therefore, the Post-Death Re-employment Center, this technology, became a reference.
At that time, Noah served as the supervisor and head of this project.
Back then, Noah was only an eighth-level scientist, but he still thoroughly integrated this technology.
Therefore, after he arrived in the Warhammer world, facing the Daemons' manipulation of human souls, he brought out this technology.
With the Emperor's assistance, he successfully opened up a new area in the Immaterium of this world.
human souls, especially those annihilated by Daemons in war, could no longer be taken by Daemons; instead, they could return to this area.
Their souls would be protected by humanity and would not be tormented by those accursed Daemons.
Although this space is not yet large enough to cover the entire Imperium, it is currently sufficient to cover the entire solar system.
Because of this, Noah wasn't worried at all that his troops' souls would be desecrated by those accursed warp Daemons after death.
Their souls would all be protected by him.
"Soul to the Golden Throne" might have been just a fantasy before Noah introduced this technology.
But once Noah brought out this technology, this idea was no longer a fantasy; it was a real possibility to return to the Golden Throne and enter the Emperor's divine realm to receive the Emperor's protection.
The war in the Webway lasted for 8 days.
By the 8th day, the Chaos Daemons were still relentlessly charging, and the Imperial army was still relentlessly firing, annihilating the charging daemon hordes.
Even those with keen eyes could see the Imperium's army pushing forward, constantly putting enough pressure on the Daemons.
But the Daemons were helpless.
The Webway's space is actually only so large; the Imperium's army has already established a solid defensive line throughout the entire Webway.
Especially in some weaker areas, the Custodes were still there, patching up any gaps.
Even if some Daemons managed to break through the firing line by chance, they would essentially face the slaughter of the Custodes.
Besides, there were basically no ordinary people in this war; at the very least, they were Space Marines.
Even if ordinary Daemons charged through, what could they do?
Space Marines were very effective and powerful against individual Daemons.
Beyond that, and more importantly, the presence of Noah and the Emperor also conveniently eliminated the possibility of corruption.
Therefore, in 8 days, the Daemons achieved nothing except for endlessly charging and consuming a large number of their own kind.
This outcome was what Noah desired, but it was not what the Chaos Gods wanted.
However, Webway warfare is just that simple and unadorned; there are no schemes or stratagems involved.
This war is purely a clash of strength: either the Daemons can break through the Imperium's defenses, or they can only be brutally slaughtered.
This head-on conflict caused immense suffering to the Chaos Daemons.
And the most tormented should be the Greater Daemons.
When ordinary lesser Daemons charge, they actually have no real consciousness of their own.
If they die, they die, but Greater Daemons are different.
Greater Daemons possess their own consciousness. If they are annihilated by Titans or other weapons during a charge, they can still accept it.
Even being directly slain by the Custodes is acceptable.
What they found most unacceptable was being directly annihilated by the psionics lightning of the psionics Legion during their charge, followed by the complete eradication of their essence.
The newly resurrected Greater Daemon has no connection to their former self.
Perhaps the authority is still the same authority, and the energy is still the same energy, but the Greater Daemon is no longer the same Greater Daemon.
The Greater Daemons were somewhat fearful, but the Chaos Gods became even more fervent.
Why are these Chaos Gods so diligently launching attacks?
Besides the souls of the Space Marines and the Custodes, what they most desired and sought were the souls of the 400 members of the psionics Legion.
The psionic energy of these psionics Legionnaires was incredibly pure.
This was a purity that even the Chaos Gods coveted, and they also possessed powerful combat capabilities.
If they could obtain a soul and ascend it to daemonhood, they would gain a powerful combat unit.
Moreover, and more importantly, they could sense that if they could absorb the soul of a psionic Legion soldier, their power would also be partially enhanced.
This enhancement was not the kind that occurs when some cosmic event drastically increases a specific Chaos God's power, but rather a genuine, fundamental strengthening.
Even if the enhancement was insignificant, for these Chaos Gods, was there anything in the universe that could fundamentally strengthen them?
There was nothing left.
There was nothing that could fundamentally strengthen them, so even if absorbing the souls of these psionics Legion soldiers only brought them a negligible boost, they still flocked to it.
A fundamental strengthening, once the authority is strengthened, the resulting effect would undoubtedly be excellent.
And the cause of this effect was the Xylo that Noah brought with him before he transmigrated.
This item was not something that could exist in the Warhammer universe; its appearance was a coincidence, originally the corpse of a deceased race.
To create this in Warhammer would be equivalent to capturing the Old Ones or the C'tan, then burning them down into this substance.
Of course, if it were only this part, it wouldn't be able to strengthen the essence of these Chaos Gods.
But the Terran Federation, after acquiring these things, conducted in-depth research.
And they were refined and synthesized, which caused the essence of these things to change.
The Xylo that Noah brought could strengthen the essence of the Warp Gods, making them more powerful.
And the psionics Legion, forged by Noah using Xylo, naturally inherited this characteristic.
The Chaos Gods were now staring intently.
If the battlefield wasn't right under the Emperor's nose, these Chaos Gods would probably have been unable to resist personally intervening to snatch it.
Large numbers of Chaos Daemons were being mobilized, continuously sent into the Webway by the Chaos Gods like a tide.
By the end of the first month of the war, the Daemons finally began to break through the firepower blockade and possess some combat effectiveness and threat.
Though each soldier was a superhuman, they would eventually tire. A month of continuous combat naturally left them feeling somewhat fatigued.
As the second month of engagement began, some Daemons were already able to charge to the front of the Imperial Army.
However, it was basically useless; the Custodians could slice them into mincemeat with a swing of their weapons.
The Daemons were still being systematically eliminated under Noah's command, and at the same time, the Daemon invasion phenomenon in the real world began to decrease, as more Daemons were deployed into the Webway to fight there.
This action bought Guilliman time, giving him ample opportunity to handle internal affairs and begin mobilizing the Imperial Army to launch the Indomitus Crusade.
With the reduction in the number of Chaos forces, only the Black Legion troops remained to invade Imperial territory.
Guilliman's task was significantly simplified.
He could slowly and methodically gather the Imperial Army to reassemble on Terra.
Otherwise, without Noah's presence, he would have faced the withdrawal of most of the Imperial Army, leading to the direct fall of some Imperial Worlds.
He could completely draw upon the Astra Militarum and naval fleets from less urgent areas.
Guilliman began to gather forces on Terra; a continuous stream of warships started heading to Terra.
Under the guidance of the primarch, the Imperium of Man unleashed its potential and reserves.
The Imperium of Man is truly vast, with a scale encompassing millions of worlds across the galaxy. This immense size is enough to make anyone who wishes to destroy or protect it feel despair.
But this scale also grants this vast Imperium enormous war potential, as long as someone can mobilize them.
Then this seemingly neither great nor advanced Imperium of Man is capable of crushing any opponent within the galaxy with its immense size.
However, even so, every weapon in the Imperial armory could not fight independently.
They must be gathered and wielded in concert under the command of a Primarch or Noah to achieve maximum efficiency.
Through the re-ignited astronomican and re-established Astropathic communication, Guilliman successfully drew upon various armed forces within the Imperium of Man.
At the same time, to solve the current dilemma of having an army without weapons and a shortage of warships, he began to issue orders to resource-rich Forge Worlds, instructing them to produce more warships and various types of war machines.
Forge Worlds like Mars and Jupiter joined this plan. Of course, all of this was much simpler than when Guilliman returned to Terra alone.
With the powerful deterrent force formed by 28 million Space Marines and a large number of Titan Legions, the Forge Worlds of Mars and Jupiter, belonging to the Adeptus Mechanicus, immediately chose to obey the Primarch's orders.
No Forge World or Adeptus Mechanicus wanted to contend with so many Space Marines and Titan Legions; it would be tantamount to seeking their own demise.
They began to return to the efficiency of the Great Crusade era.
After issuing this series of orders, Guilliman proceeded with his most important second command: the Primaris Space Marines.
Indeed, Noah provided a large number of Space Marines, which truly supplied a significant amount of living force.
However, this did not mean that Primaris Space Marines technology was outdated.
The Imperium of Man also needed its own Space Marine troops, rather than relying entirely on Noah's.
Although Noah's forces were powerful, if they relied solely on him, would it not drive this powerful figure away?
To show Noah that the Imperium of Man was not merely a burden, Guilliman still sought out his attendant Cawl and pushed forward these plans.
Primaris Space Marines are far more powerful than the existing Space Marines in the current warhammer setting.
Because of Noah's arrival, new technologies were incorporated into these Space Marines, making their combat effectiveness even higher than that of Noah's PDF at this time.
Though the strength increase was limited, and there was a significant gap in weaponry and equipment, they still couldn't win in a shootout.
The gauss rifles equipped by the PDF were not something current Imperial weapons could compare with.
But even so, some Primaris Space Marines far surpassed the older generation of Space Marines in height, abilities, and many other aspects.
They were larger in stature, stronger in physique, and more agile in speed.
Especially after Noah intervened in the Primaris Space Marines project and further strengthened them, these Primaris Space Marines could even fight 2-3 of their former older Space Marines.
And besides the physical differences, Cawl also developed various new matching weapons and equipment for these Space Marines.
The power armor they wore was called Mark Tactical Armor. Cawl, when designing this new armor, referenced all past Space Marine power armor models and adopted a modular design.
This power armor was not a single model but a modular system with many variations.
Primaris Space Marines could choose the optimal armor type based on battlefield requirements.
It can be said that this power armor, apart from a slight difference in defensive capabilities, was theoretically almost on par with the power armor Noah equipped for his PDF in all other aspects.
This means that from this moment on, Primaris Space Marines became qualified PDF, and they would become a solid force to guard the Imperium of Man.
As for tanks, there's not much to say. Even Cawl's newly designed Space Marine tanks would still be one-shot by the Destroyers equipped by Noah.
The difference in these things was simply too vast, so there's no comparison.
Of course, Cawl not only developed these things, but he also developed something Noah had never thought of: the dreadnought.
Primaris Space Marines could be equipped with the newer Redemptor-class dreadnought, a more effective model than the Castraferrum-class dreadnought currently equipped by the Imperium of Man's Space Marines.
With a more powerful physique, defense, and firepower, all of this was thanks to Cawl's entirely new reactor design and complex power fiber bundles.
The output power also became very strong, capable of carrying multiple destructive weapons.
Moreover, due to the adoption of a more compact neural interface system, the crippled Space Marines buried within the Redemptor dreadnought could operate the machine more effectively from within their iron coffins.
It can be said that the Archmagos Cawl directly prepared a new Space Marine troops for Guilliman.
He even designed everything from the birth of a Space Marine to the weapons and equipment they used in combat, and even the coffins they would use after death.
His main focus was on being considerate.
In any case, over the past 10,000 years, Archmagos Cawl had, according to Guilliman's orders, prepared hundreds of thousands of Space Marines based on the gene sequences of the nine loyal Legions.
Many of these individuals were originally new recruits destined to join various Chapters, while others were potential candidates discovered by Cawl through data computation.
These individuals had been secretly taken by Cawl from their home worlds in the past and undergone physical modifications by Cawl during a long period of slumber.
They had also been subjected to repeated combat training while in a hypnotic state.
This army, now of Legion scale, had been awakened to prepare for the upcoming Great Crusade, even if it seemed such a small Legion's force wasn't truly needed.
However, Guilliman's attitude was clear: the Imperium of Man could not contribute nothing; this was their duty.
Even though Noah was now the Sun Lord of the Imperium of Man, Guilliman still felt this way.
He believed the Imperium of Man could not do nothing and simply watch Noah exert himself.
Guilliman was relatively fair-minded, perhaps because he had normal parents.
In the fifth month of continued combat against Chaos, Noah witnessed the true reserves of the Imperium of Man.
This empire, possessing over a million planets, displayed its unprecedented depth of resources.
Innumerable, countless battleships of the Imperium of Man gathered in the Solar System and even in the star systems surrounding it.
They were directly mobilized by Guilliman, assigned as combat units, and advanced towards other regions.
Just as mentioned before, the combat forces of the Imperium of Man include the Space Marines, who are among the top-tier combat forces of the Imperium of Man.
However, they do not represent the entirety of humanity's military combat power.
Even if all these special forces—Space Marines, Sisters of Silence, and Custodes—were annihilated, for the Imperium of Man, it would only amount to 1% of its combat power being destroyed.
The true combat power of the Imperium of Man lies in its countless Navy, its innumerable Astra Militarum, and its even more unquantifiable PDF.
The Departmento Munitorum cannot even tally how many battleships, how many Astra Militarum, or how many PDF the Imperium of Man possesses.
The Imperium of Man's speed in building battleships is indeed slow, but they have many places where they can build them, and a large number of battleships are constantly being produced, while a large number are also being destroyed.
No one can quantify this number.
Just as the Departmento Munitorum cannot count the number of Astra Militarum, it also cannot count the number of battleships.
Major warships like the Emperor-class battleship and Gloriana-class battleship might be partially tallied.
But destroyers and frigates—these smaller warships—are truly countless.
Thus, in Noah's eyes, the Imperium of Man was truly abstract.
Who would believe that an interstellar civilization couldn't even ascertain its own armed strength, or even how many warships it possessed?
In his spare time, while commanding his forces to eliminate Daemons, Noah also used his psionics to count the destroyers and cruisers gathered around the Solar System.
In just one Sol day, the number of Imperial destroyers and frigates appearing around the Solar System exceeded 100,000.
And on the second day, these 100,000 ships would directly depart for other parts of the Imperium of Man, followed by new warships appearing in the Solar System.
Noah's star-class cruiser also scanned the number of surrounding Imperium of Man warships it could detect, but the final conclusion was that this 'broken' empire was truly vast.
Their battleship numbers were simply impossible to count, at least not by a single cruiser; at least the Federal Sector Administration Department would be needed.
Noah felt a sense of speechlessness, but this feeling was quickly overshadowed by the even more frenzied offensive of the Daemons in the Warp's Webway.
They had been fighting for a full five months, yet the Chaos Daemons had not advanced an inch, and had even caused negligible casualties to the Imperium of Man.
Moreover, these were basically only minor injuries, and the injured were then taken away for treatment, usually able to return to the battlefield the next day.
Noah's command was simply too heaven-defying; the scientist's brain truly exceeded Tzeentch's expectations.
He could precisely direct the combat of every soldier, even predicting the next move of a common lesser Daemon under his command!
In other words, Noah, relying on his powerful computational ability, was able to foresee the short-term future, which was even more absurd than Tzeentch himself.
While Tzeentch could also manipulate the threads of fate, he couldn't simultaneously calculate the movement trajectories of so many people, or even a common enemy's lesser Daemon, as Noah could.
This was not psionics prophecy at all; it was simply the accumulation of data, simply the powerful command ability Daemonstrated by a powerful brain.
In battle, even Khorne felt surprised and incredulous at Noah's command.
This was purely beautiful numerical prowess.
Without any technical content, relying on his unparalleled computational ability and data, he could easily crush anyone.
The number of Chaos Daemons was indeed endless, but the problem was that the enemy's energy attacks also seemed endless.
The enemy's Grey Knights and Space Marines also seemed endless.
What was even more unacceptable to the Chaos Gods was that for five whole months, only a few people on the other side were injured, and not a single person was killed.
For the Chaos Gods, this was not just a humiliation; it was equivalent to them being ridden upon and slapped repeatedly in the face.
Among the Chaos Gods, Nurgle was the most displeased with this situation; he had been provoked by Noah.
In the war, after he discovered that Noah was commanding the battle, he immediately became enraged!
Contrary to his usual behavior, Nurgle committed the most Daemons to the War of the Webway, and of course, now it seemed his losses were also the greatest.
After five months of engagement, Nurgle no longer knew how many Nurglings or how many Daemons of his faction he had lost.
He only knew that he wanted to kill Noah, but it was like a dream.
Continuing to fight like this was meaningless; to break through the Webway, the Chaos Gods were devising new countermeasures.
They planned to combine the power of the four gods, using a portion of each of their authorities to create a powerful Chaos Daemon.
Khorne would grant this Daemon a strong immunity to ranged attacks, while the other three Chaos Gods would also bestow their best characteristics, thereby bringing forth this Daemon, second only to the four gods.
They would then use this hero unit to make a breakthrough in the Imperium of Man's defenses.
This was probably the most unscrupulous aspect of the Chaos Gods; they could arbitrarily create Greater Daemons by hand.
The combat power of these Greater Daemons essentially depended on the strength of their invested power.
The four Chaos Gods injected all their energy into a new Greater Daemon of the Warp, while also bestowing a small portion of their authority upon it.
Under their full cultivation, a powerful Greater Daemon was born.
It far surpassed the existing Greater Daemons, possessing the authority and power of the four Chaos Gods, and enjoying their combined blessings.
Khorne unreservedly gave it enough energy, so much so that this Greater Daemon could remain unharmed even if struck by a Titan's turbo-laser; only close combat could destroy it.
However, destroying it in close combat was not so easy, as Nurgle bestowed his authority and blessing, granting it powerful regenerative abilities.
This regenerative ability far exceeded anyone's imagination; unless it could be instantly atomized into molecular units,
otherwise, its body would continuously self-replicate and differentiate, restoring itself to its original state in just a matter of time.
Slaanesh's blessing was even more terrifying: it directly twisted pain and pleasure.
Damage inflicted upon this Greater Daemon in battle would become a source of its exhilaration.
In other words, the more you hit it, the more excited and pleasurable it would become, and the more capable it would be in combat.
As for Tzeentch, he bestowed wisdom upon this Greater Daemon, allowing it to skillfully utilize the daemon armies beneath it.
It commanded those daemon forces and ordinary Greater Daemons in battle, making it a commander jointly endorsed by the four Chaos Gods.
The Chaos Gods, working together, personally unveiled a Greater Daemon unit they had sculpted, all to achieve their desired outcome in the Webway War.
Normally, the Chaos Gods would not construct a unit of this caliber.
Because it held no meaning for them; such a powerful Greater Daemon appearing in reality would instantly be pulled back into the Warp from reality.
Even with the Eye of Terror now open, this Greater Daemon, upon entering the real universe, could at most only remain for a few hours.
Moreover, its own abilities would be infinitely weakened.
The Chaos Gods would ordinarily not create such a unit, but the Webway battlefield was different.
It was essentially within the Warp, thus there were no such concerns or troubles.
The four Chaos Gods collaborated to create this ultimate fighting force, far surpassing other Greater Daemons, and prepared to launch an attack.
Once this special Greater Daemon was created, the Chaos Gods bestowed a name upon it.
"The Four-Crowned Destroyer of Worlds"
"The Glorious Corrupted Blood Daemon"
—Khorne's crimson, Tzeentch's azure, Nurgle's verdigris, and Slaanesh's violet shimmered simultaneously on its body, making it appear like a walking "Blasphemous Aurora" from afar.
A daemon that simultaneously bore the true names of the four gods, its very existence was a final judgment upon 'reality'.
This terrifying Greater Daemon, its name represented everything about it.
It was a fearsome weapon of war jointly forged by the Chaos Gods, and it was also the weapon they had crafted to breach Noah's impregnable defensive line.
In the middle of the sixth month of the war, the forces of Chaos deployed this unit.
It was so colossal that, as it moved through the Webway, its height of dozens of meters was equivalent to a Titan.
An Emperor-class Titan!
Perhaps a creature being large enough doesn't necessarily mean it's powerful enough, but if a creature is large enough, it's generally not weak.
This daemon, equivalent to an Emperor-class Titan, appeared within the Webway; such a massive unit would be visible to anyone not blind.
Therefore, Noah also saw this colossal unit immediately, and at the same time, he felt the evil and terrifying psionics emanating from it.
The psionicss of the Chaos Gods were indeed formidable, and the combined power they unleashed by blessing a single Greater Daemon was not a simple matter of 1+1.
To test the combat strength of this Greater Daemon, Noah began to command his Emperor-class Titans.
Ten units, equivalent to the Imperium's Emperor-class Titans, activated their laser weapons, and a thick red-blue laser beam shot towards the daemon advancing towards them!
Although the Space Marines and Grey Knights continued to deal with the daemons,
they continued to fire relentlessly according to Noah's orders, but their gaze couldn't help but turn towards the Greater Daemon being attacked by the Titans.
The thick laser beam struck the Greater Daemon, but after a flurry of special effects, the Greater Daemon remained completely intact, still standing in the Webway!
Just that sight, even with the Space Marines' strong resistance to Chaos, caused their spirits to waver slightly.
What kind of powerful unit was this?
It could even withstand an attack from an Emperor-class Titan.
It should be known that the Emperor-class Titans created by Noah were even more potent than the Imperium's Emperor-class Titans.
And now, when such a powerful unit attacked the daemon, the daemon remained completely unharmed, showing no signs of damage whatsoever.
Everyone understood one thing: trouble was brewing, and something extraordinary seemed to have arrived.
Not only did the ordinary Imperial armies and Noah's PDFs feel this way, but even Noah himself had a bit of a headache.
This kind of unit was not easy to deal with.
At least his conventional combat units currently deployed here probably couldn't win; only unconventional combat units could be deployed.
For example, his combat robots and bodyguard robots; such units were absolutely invincible in ground combat.
Unleashing them, even a daemon of this caliber could be defeated.
Noah thought so, and he acted accordingly; he began to pull out his combat robots from his pocket, preparing to charge in directly and unleash a rampage.
However, such an operation also required time, and that time was already enough for the daemon to begin its charge.
The colossal daemon unit began to heavily assault the Imperial army's defensive line; the Emperor-class Titans naturally couldn't just watch as the opponent directly attacked their infantry.
The laser main cannon barrels of two Emperor-class Titans instantly transformed into five-fingered hands, and then a giant phase power sword was drawn.
These Emperor-class Titans crafted by Noah were not the rather bulky combat units of the Imperium; they were mechs.
Their most important characteristic was that they lacked the bulkiness of the Imperium's Titans.
They were like agile combat units, directly switching their weapons and charging towards the daemon.
The Emperor-class Titans, armed with weapons, prepared for a clash of titans, while at the same time, hive missiles from the launch bays were also fired, launching the first wave of attacks against the Chaos Daemon.
As the hum of the phase power sword and the shriek of the hive missiles simultaneously tore through the Webway air, the blasphemous aurora on the Four-Crowned Harbinger's body suddenly collapsed into a vortex.
The missiles detonated one after another thirty meters from their target, and the exploded shrapnel twisted into a swarm of purple-green butterflies, fluttering back to the seams of the Titan armor—
Slaanesh's blessing of "pain reversal" was transforming damage into replenishment.
The greatswords of the two Titans slashed down in a cross, but at the moment of contact with the Daemonic chitin, they encountered a triple blasphemous barrier.
Khorne's crimson barrier made the blades spark blindingly, Nurgle's putrid spores corroded the power field generators, and Tzeentch's woven warp runes crawled across the sword bodies in spiderweb-like cracks.
As one of the Titans staggered back due to weapon overload, the Daemon's six-fingered giant palm had already seized the head of the other, copper-green slime oozing between its fingers.
That was Nurgle's "Sevenfold Touch of Regeneration"; the eroded Titan armor was growing foul, proliferative tissue at a visible rate.
In just the first round of engagement, the two Emperor-class Titans were completely dismantled under the Daemon's assault.
At least, that's how it seemed to the Imperial forces; even the Custodes narrowed their pupils, watching the scene unfold before them with a hint of disbelief.
Two Emperor-class Titans attacked together, and the final result was that they were so easily crushed by this Great Daemon!?
The Custodes, Space Marines, and Grey Knights began to focus fire on the Great Daemon.
Although they had developed a wariness towards this Great Daemon in their hearts, some soldiers even showed a hint of fear.
But this feeling was instantly suppressed. They raised their weapons and unleashed a furious barrage of firepower.
Such a torrent of firepower directed at the Chaos Daemon, however, caused it no harm whatsoever.
This was a Great Daemon forged by the combined efforts of the Four Gods, representing an almost irresistible power.
A large amount of firepower struck the Great Daemon, but it was all blocked within a 10-meter radius of it, even energy attacks were nullified by an invisible shield.
Even attacks from heavy weapons often followed the law of "no damage with smoke."
The colossal "Ka' Bandha, the Four-Crowned Harbinger" paid no attention to the attacks directed at him, instead reaching out and lifting the two Emperor-class Titans he was carrying.
He could see that two PDF personnel were still alive inside the Titans, glaring at him as if making some small moves.
The Daemon, newly born in this segment of the warp, watched these fellows with great interest, not believing these little ants could cause him any harm.
But the next instant, a premonition from Tzeentch made him quickly try to throw the Emperor-class Titans from his grasp.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The pilots inside the two Emperor-class Titans manipulated their Titans to firmly grip the Chaos Great Daemon before them, and then the Titans emitted some unnatural red light.
"For humanity!"
The two pilots inside the Emperor-class Titans directly detonated these two Emperor-class Titans designed by Noah.
The internal super-energy engines began to overload, preparing for self-destruction.
Two massive mushroom clouds rose within the Webway.
The Great Daemon, who had been quite disdainful, had both arms blown off the moment the smoke cleared. The self-destruction of the Emperor-class Titans had indeed caused him significant damage.
This scene made the Imperial forces behind breathe a sigh of relief, and then more Emperor-class Titans prepared to emulate this action, but the next scene shocked their minds.
As the smoke cleared, the Four-Crowned Harbinger's arms writhed and reformed like boiling asphalt.
Nurgle's blessing allowed his flesh to regenerate in a way that defied the laws of physics.
Broken bones intertwined like vines, muscle fibers stitched themselves together like living things, and countless agonizing Daemonic faces emerged on the skin's surface, only to be quickly covered by new layers of chitin.
"Futile struggles," the Daemon's whisper echoed through the Webway, his voice a mixture of four distinct tones.
Khorne's roar, Tzeentch's cackle, Nurgle's phlegmy cough, and Slaanesh's moan.
At this moment, the Grey Knight Grand Master's psionics communication exploded in Noah's tactical network: "Warp contamination index detected skyrocketing! That thing's regeneration isn't a physiological phenomenon, it's a conceptual 'existence reconstruction'!"
As if to confirm his warning, a copper-green fungal growth suddenly spread from beneath the Daemon's feet, transforming any metal wreckage it touched into twitching lumps of flesh.
This was Nurgle's "Shrine of Corruption"—the destroyed Titan wreckage twisted into dozens of lesser Daemons, dragging tentacles mutated from pipelines, roaring as they lunged towards the human defense line.
"Switch to black ammunition!" The Custodes Captain's roar was transmitted through the tactical network to the surrounding warriors.
The Grey Knights immediately switched to bolt guns loaded with anti-psyker warheads, while the Space Marines set up their melta weapons.
However, Tzeentch's blessing had already anticipated all of this.
The Daemon suddenly opened its gaping maw and spewed out azure, arcane flames. These were no ordinary flames, but the "Flames of Paradoxical Fate," which instantly collapsed the future possibilities of anyone scorched by them into an inevitable death.
Three Terminator warriors had just raised their storm shields when their armor inexplicably disintegrated into fundamental particles!
Slaanesh's blessing, meanwhile, reached its peak. Whenever a shell exploded on the Daemon's body, iridescent purple light erupted from the wounds, and his roars gradually transformed into pleasurable trills.
A Whirlwind missile accurately struck its left eye, but instead of flesh, pearlescent mist gushed out.
The mist transformed into whip-blades, twisting five nearby Sentinel walkers into metallic knots.
Such was the power of one blessed by the Four Gods; this was a Daemon that gathered all the divine authority of the Chaos Gods, a combat crystallization forged by the combined efforts of the Four Chaos Gods.
The Four Chaos Gods succeeded; the damage caused by this Great Daemon's attack far surpassed the damage inflicted over several previous months.
A hundred PDF personnel died in this round of attacks, and even two Emperor-class Titans were lost.
However, the damage caused by this Great Daemon ended here.
Noah's military combat robots had already entered the curve, and their disintegration cannons on their arms had also opened fire.
A beam of light shot directly at the Great Daemon; even with the blessings of the Four Gods, it was as thin as a cicada's wing before the disintegration cannon and was directly pierced through.
All the blessings of the Four Gods were disintegrated, vanishing in a manner that the Four Gods themselves could not comprehend.
The light beam struck the opponent fiercely.
Had it not been for Tzeentch's blessing, which allowed him to foresee this event, the Great Daemon might have been directly obliterated in this round of attack.
But even though he narrowly escaped obliteration, he had already lost half of his body.
The battle officially entered its second round, with the Great Daemon forged by the Four Gods confronting the personal guard military robot of Noah, a Level 10 scientist from the Terran Federation.
This combat robot, enhanced by hundreds of cycles of Terran Federation technology, appeared before the Great Daemon jointly forged by the Four Chaos Gods.
The body of Kairn the Four-Crowned Scourge was continuously recovering. By the time the combat robot stood before him, his body had already fully regenerated.
However, this time he did not dare to charge like before; instead, he looked at the humanoid combat robot in front of him with a face full of dread.
The authority and prophecies from Tzeentch told him that if he dared to act rashly and charge head-on, he would very likely be completely banished by the attack he had just experienced.
This was a clear warning: if he moved recklessly, he would die. So, he dared not make any rash moves.
The combat robot also did not act immediately. It was in a standoff with the Greater Daemon of Chaos. In the Warp, simply obliterating such a Greater Daemon was meaningless; it had to be dealt with fundamentally to truly impede the Chaos Gods.
This entity was jointly created by the Four Chaos Gods. If it were merely killed, its essence would remain and it could revive in the same form.
Noah did not want to see that happen, so he was currently commanding his 600,000 Grey Knights Forces to activate the anti-daemon array.
The moment this array succeeded, as soon as the combat robot eliminated this Greater Daemon chosen by the four gods, the array would obliterate the very essence of this Greater Daemon.
At that time, the authority that originally belonged to the four gods would return to them, and the four gods would not be able to directly revive a Greater Daemon of this caliber.
They would need to recreate it.
This would give them at least another month, which would allow Noah to continue slaughtering the ordinary daemons.
The combat robot was about the height of an average person, merely 1.9 meters tall.
Such a height seemed insignificant compared to Kairn the Four-Crowned Scourge, as the latter was almost as large as an Emperor-class titan, yet no one would underestimate this combat robot.
Everyone had witnessed the attack it had just unleashed.
It had almost sent the daemon away entirely, so one should not assume a small size means a lack of combat power.
Its combat power was absolutely top-tier.
Time slowly passed in the standoff between the two combat units, but as time flowed on, Tzeentch's prophecies became increasingly accurate.
A very dangerous prophecy appeared in the mind of this Greater Daemon.
If he charged forward now, he would be directly killed by the opponent, but such a death would be temporary; he could return in just a few days.
However, if he waited any longer, his death would soon be permanent, and even the four gods would not be able to save him.
Although he had just been born and did not understand the exact difference, the wisdom from Tzeentch told him what he should and should not choose at this moment.
Complete death was not what he wanted; temporary death was still acceptable to the four gods.
"Blood for the Blood God!!!"
Kairn the Four-Crowned Scourge suddenly let out a deafening roar. Khorne's crimson energy instantly overwhelmed the blessings of the other three gods.
His body swelled to its limit; what flowed beneath his chitinous skin was no longer blood, but boiling Warp essence.
—He chose to charge.
The combat robot's optical sensors flickered slightly. After nanosecond calculations, its right arm's Disintegration Cannon recharged again.
But this time, the barrel was not aimed at the daemon's body, but at the Webway's dome.
"Tactical correction: Target locked—Warp anchor point."
The disintegration beam did not directly attack the daemon, but instead pierced through the Webway structure itself. In an instant, the entire battlefield twisted like a shattered mirror, and the boundary between reality and the Warp was briefly torn open.
"Grey Knights, now!"
The psionics of six hundred thousand Grey Knights resonated simultaneously. The anti-daemon array beneath their feet flared, and countless silver-white chains extended from the void, coiling around the daemon's limbs.
These chains were not physical, but rather weapons of rule, materialized from the concept of "negating Chaos."
The Four-Crowned Scourge let out a scream mixed with four different tones.
Khorne's fury, Tzeentch's confusion, Nurgle's wail, and Slaanesh's trill.
His body began to disintegrate, but not through physical destruction, but by "conceptual erasure."
"Warp essence stripping detected," the combat robot's logic core reported coldly.
The daemon's crimson part evaporated like lava;
Tzeentch's azure wisdom transformed into scattered pages of a spellbook, self-igniting in the void;
Nurgle's verdigris corruption withered into ash;
Slaanesh's violet glow shattered into millions of crystal fragments, falling into nothingness.
When the last wisp of Chaos energy was consumed by the array, the entire Webway fell into an eerie silence.
This Greater Daemon, personally forged by the Chaos Gods, was utterly obliterated under the concerted strike of a large army.
As for the Webway that had suddenly appeared in reality, immediately after its appearance, the Emperor's power intervened to send it back into the Warp, while Noah activated the repair protocol.
A large amount of energy instantly appeared on that dome, then converted into Warp energy, completing its repair to prevent more daemons from directly jumping down and disrupting the formation.
As a level 10 scientist, he possessed a brain that the people of this universe could not even imagine.
Therefore, his brain had already simulated all sorts of situations, including the current one.
During the operation, Noah had made ample preparations, having plans for various contingencies.
Even if the four gods themselves intervened, he had contingency plans to deal with them. He was not alone in the Warp as he had been before.
Moreover, after consuming so much zelo, his own psionics had also greatly increased. While not enough to contend with the Chaos Gods head-on, it was still much more powerful.
On Terra's side, no matter what, the Emperor was present. It was impossible for the Four Chaos Gods to personally intervene in this place.
Therefore, Noah had plenty of strength and means to wear down the daemon armies of the Four Chaos Gods.
Their own Greater Daemon, which had just appeared, was instantly annihilated, and its authority and essence once again returned to their hands. The Chaos Gods were stunned.
Even Tzeentch, Tzeentch, showed a change in his wise gaze.
He had never expected that the Greater Daemon they had jointly created would be destroyed less than a day after its appearance.
Although the opponent looked so delicious and tempting, these 'foods' had thorns.
The enemy's strength was somewhat beyond the Four Chaos Gods' expectations.
Their Greater Daemon, on which they had placed high hopes, had only managed to take out just over 100 Space Marines on the other side.
Look at the countless numbers of the enemy.
Although under the Emperor's interference, they could not directly survey the entire battlefield, they could sense that the number of Space Marines here was absolutely no less than a million.
100-plus deaths—was that loss equivalent to a cow losing a single hair?
The Chaos Gods fell into silence.
"So? Are we still fighting this war?" Khorne asked.
Although his authority was that of a God of War, and war would strengthen him, could the current conflict truly be called a war?
Ordinary Chaos Daemons charging forward were simply being slaughtered.
He wanted a war of face-to-face, blade-to-blade combat, not one where his forces were being butchered before they even had a chance to act.
Even the powerful Greater Daemons, crafted by all four of them working together, hadn't survived for more than an hour on this level of battlefield.
What name should be given to a war of this magnitude?
Apocalyptic?
More than that. The units committed to this single war were enough to fight countless apocalyptic conflicts.
Khorne was now hesitant about whether to continue fighting.
The God of War knew very well that this conflict, from the perspective of Chaos, wasn't a war at all, but a massacre. The enemy possessed an extremely powerful God of War, and their army, under his command, was more agile than his own hands.
No matter how many Chaos Daemons charged in, it would only be a slaughter. They would only die in vain, then be broken down into energy and have to be re-formed in the Warp.
While Khorne had no interest in these common Lesser Daemons—they could re-form as much as they liked—this feeling made him very uncomfortable.
There was only one way to break this stalemate: to be able to mass-produce Greater Daemons of the same caliber as the one they had just created.
Only sufficiently powerful units could break the stalemate on this battlefield. That was their hope when they first created that level of Greater Daemon.
But everyone saw the final result: the Greater Daemon they created, imbued with the blessings of the Four Gods, was annihilated in less than an hour.
This was somewhat uninteresting. Such Greater Daemons couldn't be mass-produced. It seemed they had lost the Webway War.
It seemed they wouldn't get to taste the delicious food, and they had also lost so many daemons. It would take a considerable amount of time for these daemons to naturally re-form in the Warp.
The Chaos Gods no longer knew how many daemons they had lost.
They only knew that this war had caused them heavy losses, yet they had gained nothing else of value.
The military strength of the Imperium of Man had not been significantly weakened either.
In response to Khorne's question, Tzeentch's two bird heads swiveled, and then he uttered a single sentence.
"All according to plan—"
Oh, for goodness sake.
Slaanesh rolled her eyes at Tzeentch. That guy only ever knew how to say that.
"All according to plan, all according to plan." Why didn't he just personally break through this defensive line?
Could it be that the Chaos Gods being unable to break the line was also part of the plan?
Nurgle also showed the exact same expression towards Tzeentch.
Among the Chaos Gods, he was the one who suffered the greatest losses, as he had truly committed a massive number of daemons.
He felt so much heartache for his Nurgle's Rot, which he had sent out only for them to die in vain, gaining nothing.
While the Chaos Gods were discussing whether to stop the war, the daemon hordes continued to launch relentless attacks.
The Greater Daemons also continued to charge, and of course, the outcome remained unchanged. Under Noah's assault, they were unable to inflict any significant losses on the armies.
Under Noah's command, the human armies could not only freely slaughter these daemons, but they could even rotate out for meal breaks.
They would then enjoy a delicious lunch before returning to the fight.
This was the so-called scientific way of life.
Fighting daemons had transformed from what everyone perceived as a terrifying war into something as simple as a picnic or a vacation.
However, the crisis facing the Imperium of Man at this time could not be resolved by military force alone. Even though Noah had mobilized powerful armies and engaged in a bloody slaughter of daemons in the Webway, tying up most of their main forces, it was not enough.
Both Roboute Guilliman and Noah could see that the current Imperium of Man was nothing short of a pile of garbage.
From Guilliman's perspective, the Imperium of Man had completely deviated from the future they had envisioned.
It had become a ruin where superstition overshadowed reason, and suffering and wailing were rampant.
For individuals, living in such an era was a disaster.
There was no future here, no ideals; people could only gather in despair, irrationally praying to the Emperor, who was revered as a god, for salvation.
The organization that gathered these billions of believers for worship was the Imperial cult.
It could be said that Guilliman utterly detested these religious fanatics who held the orthodox faith of the Emperor and used it as an excuse to burn those they defined as heretics.
If Guilliman held such views, Noah's opinion was naturally self-evident.
He was born in the Terran Federation and was an early member of it.
When the Terran Federation chose psionics ascension, a large number of sects also emerged. These sects also tried to manipulate the people of the federation through religious belief.
However, they were ultimately eradicated by the decisive action of the federation's Grand Marshal and its people.
There had once been powerful sects that proposed using theocracy to unite the federation, but they were ultimately destroyed by the federation's army.
All schools of thought within the Terran Federation strongly protested against the so-called rule of sects over the entire federation and utterly destroyed them.
And before Noah transmigrated, the Terran Federation had undergone a change.
The existence of gods, under the influence of the federation, was no longer lofty.
Instead, they became official entities, equivalent to civil servants who needed to serve the people of the federation.
If they did not serve the people of the Terran Federation, they would be removed from their positions.
If they dared to engage in so-called superstition after being removed, the federation's army would utterly destroy them.
In Noah's view, gods could exist, but the meaning and necessity of their existence had to be approved by the federation government and they had to serve the people.
If you do not serve the people, then you are a false god!
If a false god still dared to violate the federation's laws and regulations, and dared to spread their faith, then you were a criminal!
humanity took this level of crime very seriously, because superstition was ill-advised. Although the Terran Federation had embarked on psionics ascension,
what the federation needed was normal development, not engaging in so-called superstition.
The reason for choosing psionic abilities was simple: to transcend the mundane and achieve extraordinary power within oneself. If not for this, the federation would not have chosen it.
The core point of choosing this was that everyone could become like a dragon. If anyone engaged in superstition, or if, after becoming powerful, they did not serve the people, they would be eliminated!
It was precisely because of such religious views that when Noah observed the Imperium's frenzied religious superstition, he felt his scalp tingle and couldn't comprehend it.
Noah had actually considered whether to eliminate the Emperor, but he ultimately discovered that the Emperor bore the burden of his race's survival.
Superstition wasn't what he wanted either; he simply had no choice.
The Imperium of Man could not be fixed by military force, nor by ordinary internal affairs.
The greatest enemy of the Imperium of Man was superstition, though their greatest reliance for existing to this day was also superstition.
It was like a pile of rotten shit.