95: Chapter 93 The Plan for the Eternal Existence of Chaos

Xia Xingchen finally remembered, didn't Katrus say he would come at the end of every year?

But it seems like he didn't come this year.

Never mind.

Perhaps the obstacles in the Warp delayed their arrival.

In a place like the Warp, anything can happen.

Xia Xingchen didn't pay too much attention to it, instead busy combining Vanad's 100,000 men with the troops on Lanshan Planet, pushing forward the formation process of the Ironclad Heavy Army and the Death Assault Army.

Segmentum Obscurus

Chaos Eternal led the chaos army to attack the Giant Bear Fortress World around Cadia.

The style here had changed significantly from the traditional style of warhammer 40k; it wasn't just massive warships fighting in space, but also countless mechs.

Those high-speed mechs continuously depleted the Imperial forces; although they couldn't pose enough of a threat to the Imperial's massive warships, they could attack those defenseless transport ships.

They could easily bypass the defenses organized by frigates and cruisers.

Although the defensive formations organized by the Imperial's torpedoes, frigates, and light cruisers could easily prevent chaos warship from approaching, they couldn't stop those mechs from getting close; they were simply too fast and too small, making it difficult for the Imperial's macro-cannons and torpedoes to hit them.

However, the Star Raiders also found it hard to cause damage to the Imperial's warships because the armor of the Imperial's warships themselves was the most powerful defensive force aside from the Void Shield.

Unless the attacks from those mechs hit specific spots or weak points of the warships, it was difficult to destroy an entire transport ship.

Originally, both sides were in a stalemate, neither able to cause substantial damage to the other, until a mastermind emerged in the Starry Sky Raiders.

"Why don't we just corrupt them?"

Someone proposed this idea: Since we cannot shatter the defenses of the Imperial's warships, we can bring Nurgle's virus onto the warships. The moment a mech touches the warship, Nurgle's virus will find a way to infiltrate the interior.

Takeda Fuichi was overjoyed; this was simply the best method.

As for manpower, the things they lacked the least under their command were mechs and followers.

Although the Transmigrators under his command were unwilling to pilot the mechs and charge at the Imperial's transport ships, those Chaos Cultists were willing!

Just teach them simply; wouldn't it be fine to let them act as kamikaze suicide pilots?

After communicating with Chaos Eternal, Takeda Fuichi concluded that the plan was feasible.

Takeda Fuichi provided a portion of the mechs; these mechs had their weapons removed and were fueled with one-time use fuel to achieve greater speed.

Then, a portion of Chaos Cultists were assigned to operate them.

Takeda Fuichi's men taught them how to pilot the mechs, and then they could go straight to the battlefield.

Before heading to the battlefield, the Chaos Lord of the Death Guard standing beside Chaos Eternal, Karuk, personally sprinkled Nurgle's blessings onto these mechs.

When the chaos warship was once again not far from the Imperial transport fleet, they directly released these mechs blessed by Nurgle.

Originally, the Imperial's warships didn't pay attention to these small things; the escort ships always kept their main focus on the chaos warship, believing that those stray mechs would find it hard to destroy a transport ship.

But this time it was different; several corrupted mechs pierced through the Void Shield's defenses and crashed directly into those transport ships.

The personnel on board hadn't reacted yet, only feeling a slight collision sound; subsequently, there was no major damage, and the transport ship continued to move forward.

The Imperial Navy thought this was just a meaningless suicide attack by Chaos, but they didn't notice that those terrible plagues had already begun to slowly seep into the interior along the armor of the Imperial's warships.

Originally, their plan was to bring these plagues onto the Giant Bear Fortress World planet, triggering a massive riot on the Giant Bear Fortress World, thereby causing the Giant Bear Fortress World to fall without a fight.

But in warhammer 40k, plans can never keep up with changes.

A loyal Political Commissar soon discovered something wrong within his warship and immediately reported the situation of the transport ship to the fleet Commander.

In the end, the Imperial Navy had no choice but to destroy that transport ship directly in space.

This news was quickly relayed to Cadia.

Now the transport route had become extremely dangerous.

Once corrupted soldiers or warships were transported to Cadia, the danger level of Cadia would increase drastically.

And the only order given by Cadia was:

"Continue the transport; someone will help you."

The new batch of transport officers simply couldn't believe it; the order given by Cadia was actually to continue the transport.

But there was no choice, so they had to accept the order.

When the new batch of Imperial transport fleets appeared in space, the chaos warship fleet was directly stunned; isn't the Imperial so bold now? Even after discovering our methods, they still dare to transport without any protection?

Just as the chaos warship fleet was preparing to deploy Nurgle's plague again according to the planned schedule, another fleet jumped out from the Imperial's Warp jump point.

This group of fleets had a significant difference in appearance from the Imperial's warships.

The leading fleet Commander thought it was an enemy attack, but the communications officer immediately relayed the order from the Lord of Cadia:

"They are allied forces. Your mission is only to transport the warships. Regardless of what offensive methods they implement, you need not be concerned."

Seeing this, the transport fleet Commander had to continue pressing forward, bracing themselves.

At this moment, those unknown warships quickly leaned against the left and right sides of the fleet; although they didn't join the fleet's escort ranks, they were secretly protecting the fleet.

Chaos Eternal saw this and didn't care much, directly continuing to deploy a large number of suicide mechs according to the original plan.

The moment a large number of small units were seen approaching on the bird divination device, the unknown escort fleet on the periphery of the fleet reacted quickly.

Their hangar doors opened, and a large number of horizontal H-shaped fighter jets rushed out.

The quantity and scale far exceeded the chaos suicide drone mechs.

The number was so great that even on the Imperial bird divination device's detection screen, all that could be displayed were dense clusters of small dots.

"Fellows of the Starship Alliance, let the chaos scum see what a torrent of fighter jets is!"

After the fighter Commander gave the order, hundreds of fighter jets quickly opened fire, and dense laser cannons quickly destroyed those suicide chaos mechs on the spot.

Some chaos mechs didn't even get close to the Imperial's transport fleet before becoming dust in space.

In the time that followed, Chaos also changed its strategy.

After discovering that relying solely on suicide attacks could not successfully approach the Imperial fleet, Chaos changed its strategy, with the Starry Sky Raiders leading the attack force, mixed with some suicide mechs, only then having a probability of being able to touch the Imperial's transport fleet.

Both sides had no better methods and could only remain in this stalemate.

Takeda Fuichi finally couldn't take it anymore; his own fleet was constantly being depleted in the quagmire of this war.

Takeda Fuichi, wearing specialized power armor, came before Chaos Eternal and sternly questioned:

"You said you would lead us to victory and would hand over everything on this planet for us to plunder; that is why I joined your coalition army. But now I cannot see any hope of victory. If we are fighting a war of attrition, we will not commit any more troops."

The Great General of the Star Raiders, Takeda Fuichi, still maintained the quick-victory doctrine and decisive-battle mindset of his homeland from before he transmuted.

In his thinking and understanding, the wars fought by the Starry Sky Raiders must end quickly, and there must be a few large-scale battles to decisively determine the outcome of the war.

In fact, this was also the greatest flaw of the Starry Sky Raiders.

Most of the bases and worlds of the Starry Sky Raiders were located deep in deep space, with weak resources and sparse populations, which is why they had to constantly plunder. For them, fighting a war of attrition meant they would only be finished in the long run.

At this moment, Chaos Eternal sat on the throne. Ever since he entered the Warp and accepted the power of the Chaos Gods, he had always draped a black robe over himself, not letting anyone see his true face.

Beside Chaos Eternal, Karuk, and the Death Guard warbands behind him, watched the struggle between mortals with great interest.

Chaos Eternal heard this without the slightest emotional fluctuation; he spoke of his plan calmly, as if he were the whispers of the Warp:

"Do not worry."

Chaos Eternal looked at Takeda Fuichi; although Takeda Fuichi could not see Chaos Eternal's eyes, he could feel that terrifying sense of being stared at.

"Xue Shatian has already prepared everything. As soon as he implements that plan, everything will be fine."

Takeda Fuichi just coldly left this sentence:

"Fine, I hope you do not disappoint me. My army can fight for you for at most another year."

The last sentence sounded more like a threat:

"If you cannot achieve all of this, then our army will withdraw from the combat sequence."

After Takeda Fuichi finished speaking, he withdrew from the command room inside the warship.

"Are you just going to tolerate his provocation of your authority?"

Karuk sat beside Chaos Eternal with great interest.

Rotting flesh and green pus, as well as pus from internal organs, slowly seeped out from his body; the foul odor was enough to make any mortal recoil in fear.

"What do you crave? Do you crave the blessings of the Chaos Gods? Or do you crave expanding your own warband?"

Karuk listened to Chaos Eternal's counter-question and pondered for a moment:

"Both, I suppose. The goals are about the same: expand my warband and become a Daemon Prince."

"So, if it were you, you would also compromise and concede to achieve your goals, right? Compromise and concession will allow you to better expand your warband and make it more likely for you to become a Daemon Prince."

Karuk could not refute this; if he were truly facing this situation, he would not hesitate to choose compromise or concession. As long as the goal could be achieved, everything that happened along the way was unimportant.

Chaos Eternal saw that Karuk already had an answer and did not discuss this issue further:

"Have you obtained the thing I asked you to get?"

"With the Death Guard taking action, rest assured. According to your instructions, we have retrieved that thing." Karuk paused here, "What is this thing for?"

"You do not need to know. You only need to know one thing: victory will be within this year or two."

Karuk did not press further; anyway, he just had to listen to him according to the will of the Chaos Gods.

"Xue Shatian, do not disappoint me!"

Ultima Segmentum

Xue Shatian was already on this transit world named Troy.

Xue Shatian came to the Astropath choir.

At this moment, that group of Astropaths had been distorted by Chaos beyond recognition, and the psychic energy in them had been amplified to the extreme.

But Xue Shatian did not pay attention to those Astropaths; instead, he cast his gaze on the huge choir engine in the middle.

This was a true creation from the Dark Age of Technology, a huge mechanical device that fused machinery with bodily organs.

Its main body consisted of several concentric rings made of pitch-black metal and glowing living alloy (similar to wraithbone), with a pulsating, semi-transparent crystal suspended in the core, resembling an artificial heart.

Around it, a steady stream of Warp energy was being drawn onto this huge heart. The entire heart began to burst with intense light, expanding, beating thump-thump, as if it would explode on the spot in the next second, releasing a terrifying psychic explosion.

"One and a half more years will be enough."

In Xue Shatian's eyes, the madness revealed was like that of a lunatic.