Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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The Eldar must be wiped out, but so will these four Warp Gods. None of them will escape; they must pay the price for what they have done today.

This war with the Chaos Gods not only caused huge losses to the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield, but also gave Zhou Qing some inspiration.

Admittedly, with our current power and the rules represented by the four Chaos Gods, eliminating them would inevitably result in enormous losses, and could even cause irreversible damage to the universe.

However, this does not mean that Zhou Qing cannot retaliate against them.

This war indeed caused Zhou Qing heavy losses, but it also allowed him to see the origin and essence of these warp gods.

Based on their origins and nature, Zhou Qing decided to develop a psionic virus bomb.

This war allowed Zhou Qing to ascertain the true nature of the four evil gods of the subspace. Although the psionic virus bombs he developed could not harm these four evil gods, they could make them suffer for a while.

Since our old man Huang can only sit on the golden throne and has to endure painful punishments, why should they be allowed to freely cause trouble outside?

Let's all be punished together!

Zhou Qing began to devote himself to his research work, determined to let these four guys experience what it means for a scientist's revenge to last from morning till night.

At the same time, let that Plague Lord Nurgle experience what a real virus is.

Playing with viruses, what is he anyway?

When a Level 10 scientist is provoked and decides to take revenge on certain beings, then no one can escape this retribution.

The other party had better pray that they were part of the universe's rules, just like the four evil gods, because forcibly eliminating them would affect the universe.

Zhou Qing began his research in his laboratory, while the Crow King stood frozen in place after leaving the laboratory with his brothers.

What Leon and Angron did was something they had done before: taking their armies out to fight.

Guilliman's job was to govern and stabilize the empire. He was previously the ruler of Altramor, and he did this very well, one could say with great skill. Only he…

King Corax the Raven was the liberator of the Empire. He liberated countless worlds during the Great Crusade, but he only did so much. The subsequent administration was handled by Imperial officials, specifically by the Ministry of the Interior.

This resulted in the fact that he, the so-called liberator, did not actually liberate or implement the ideal society he envisioned.

Zhou Qing has given him this opportunity to realize his ideals and ambitions, but what should he do?

Corax stood there, unsure of what to do.

Fortunately, Zhou Qing's Hazy Starfield, World 108, is highly efficient; he has already completed a complete leadership team and administrative structure for Corax.

So even though the Raven King did not issue his own orders at this time, the remaining worlds in the 108 worlds of the Hazy Starfield began to operate efficiently.

People began to resume their daily production and work, while the wounded were continuously transported to hospitals for treatment.

In addition, they needed more resources to rebuild their home as much as possible, so even without Corax's permission or opinion, they began to salvage warships in space on their own.

The war was so large that the Empire suffered such heavy losses that the entire space was littered with wrecked Imperial ships.

If these wrecked ships can be brought back to the planet's surface, they would be a valuable resource that could be used to rebuild their home.

Countless imperial warships began salvaging wrecked ships in space.

As soon as Corax stood still, he saw countless streaks of light take off from beside him and head towards the Milky Way.

Of course, Corax was, after all, the governor of the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield appointed by Zhou Qing. Therefore, when he stood there and the various worlds began to recover in an orderly manner, officials from the governor's government still came to him.

"Governor, please come with us to the Governor's Mansion. There you can easily observe the situation across the entire star sector and adjust your plans accordingly, which is much simpler than simply standing here."

Several Interior Ministry officials gave Corax a Skyhawk salute and invited him to the Sector Governor's residence first.

Corax turned to look at the Ministry of the Interior officials who had come to see him. He stared at them quietly for a long time before speaking.

"Thank you all for your hard work. Please lead the way."

Although he didn't know exactly what to do or how to build the society he envisioned, Corax's greatest strength was his ability to learn.

It's okay if he doesn't know. He can first find out how the Ministry of the Interior of the 108 World New District operates, learn from it, summarize it, and then ask Zhou Qing if this is feasible.

He is good at learning.

"You're too kind. We have prepared a flying vehicle for you. We expect to arrive at the Sector Governor's Mansion in 10 minutes at Terra Standard Time. Please be prepared."

"As your deputy, there is something I feel I should explain to you first."

"When you arrive at the Governor's Mansion, there may not be a traditional Imperial welcoming ceremony, because the sector is currently in dire need of reconstruction. The reason we two are here is because we are both officials directly under the Governor."

Chapter 197 A brief silence followed by the swarm invasion.

The lack of a welcoming ceremony didn't bother Corax, as he wasn't particularly fond of them anyway.

After his adjutant took him to the sector governor’s mansion, Corax began to work.

The losses to the 108 worlds are enormous. Vast amounts of resources are being continuously transported from the core 28 worlds and other parts of the empire, but…

Resources alone are not enough; the whole world is now devastated.

Although a large number of robots are shouldering the heavy responsibility of rebuilding homes, the factory has completely shut down, leaving Corax in a state of chaos.

Faced with such a dilapidated scene, Corax quickly got into the swing of things. With the knowledge imparted to him by his adjutant and the series of things he had learned before, he began to handle the reconstruction work of the 108th world with ease.

First, the lost planets in the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield need to be temporarily set aside. Apart from that, the first step is to restore the production capacity of the Ideal City world, and then use the Ideal City world as the core to radiate to other worlds.

This is what Corax is thinking right now; he is currently working on restoring the capital planet of this sector.

Zhou Qing appreciated Corax's handling of the situation, and was very satisfied with his series of actions.

After watching Corax handle the work for over 10 days, Zhou Qing finally regained his focus and began to create things on his own to take revenge on the Chaos God.

While the human empire was frantically licking its wounds and recovering, it also began its counterattack against the Chaos God.

The empire entered a rare period of rest during this time, but rest is never long. This toilet-like world is destined to bring all sorts of troubles to the human empire, given its enormous size.

Just as Zhou Qing was resting with his fleet, the Zerg swarm arrived!

The massive battle successfully inflicted heavy losses on the human empire's army, so why would the Great Devourer give up such a perfect opportunity?

Although the main body of the Great Devourer is still far from the Milky Way, and the main force of the Zerg swarm is also far from the Milky Way, with the cessation of the war in the Misty Starfield, a new Zerg hive fleet has entered the Milky Way.

Six months later, as Zhou Qing was testing the effectiveness of his newly developed equipment against Chaos Demons, Trajan approached him once again.

"Commander! We're probably in big trouble again." Just like the previous plot by the Eldar, Trajan's expression was extremely grim this time, even more so than during the war with the Chaos God.

"What's wrong? Has something happened to Tulaj again?" Zhou Qing asked, putting down a small bomb he had been holding in his hand.

Don't underestimate this thing. It's a virus bomb that Zhou Qing developed over the past six months, targeting the subspace En.

Demons in the warp are born from emotions, and the viral bomb Zhou Qing uses also feeds on emotions. Once it is deployed into the warp, it can devour a large amount of negative energy from the warp.

The demons suffered heavy losses in the war in the Misty Starfield, which cleared up the warp and eliminated a great deal of negative energy. This is enough to explain what these chaotic demons are all about.

This is Zhou Qing's revenge; he will use these bombs to destroy some of the negative energy within the subspace, while simultaneously allowing the virus bombs to extend further.

These things either devour negative energy on a large scale in the subspace, and then naturally degrade after 560 generations of decomposition and differentiation.

Either the evil gods themselves take action to eliminate these beings that devour the negative origins of the subspace.

Zhou Qing believed that these evil gods wouldn't be waiting there for their bombs to disappear.

What he had to do was force those evil gods to take action themselves, thus delaying them from causing further trouble for humanity.

All he lacked was time, and it was precisely because of his appearance that time became the most scarce resource, the one that was originally abundant in 40k.

Trajan glanced at the bomb Zhou Qing had just placed; he could sense the destructive power it contained, but he quickly turned his attention back to the matter at hand.

"The Tyranids have invaded. We have detected a massive Tyranid fleet on the edge of the galaxy. They only need four months to reach the borders of the Earth Empire."

"Their attack came from the extreme star field."

"Moreover, their attack methods should be similar to those of the Leviathan swarm fleet. They may be able to bypass the heavily fortified border regions of the Empire and directly penetrate into the Extreme Starfield, Otram 500."

Trajan gave Zhou Qing a detailed report of this intelligence, and to ensure Zhou Qing was sufficiently vigilant, he also explained in detail the size of the Zerg fleet that the Empire had detected.

"Since this fleet was discovered in the Apophis Forging World, we named this swarm fleet Apophis."

The fundamental terror of the Apophis swarm lies in its galaxy-scale physical size. Upon detecting the swarm, the Imperial Guard had already dispatched a fleet to attack and reconnoiter it.

The Imperial scholars there were horrified to discover that the Leviathan swarm's despairing trillions of bio-warships might just be the vanguard of one of Apophis's main tentacles.

Compared to the original Leviathan swarm, this dispatched Hive fleet looks like the true vanguard of the swarm, unlike the Leviathan, which is merely a reconnaissance squad.

Its main force was detected to have gravitational anomalies covering a range of thousands of light-years, as if a moving nebula were devouring starlight along its path.

Even more fatal is that its fractal network structure is different from the traditional fleet's reliance on a single hive's will. Apophis is composed of countless highly autonomous "hive units".

Each unit possesses its own Hive Queen and a complete biomass recycling system, making the entire fleet extremely difficult to completely destroy.

Although they were still under the leadership of the Great Devourer, the Great Devourer seemed to have delegated its thinking to the lower levels, giving this powerful Zerg fleet some autonomy.

In the battle outside the galaxy, the Imperial Guard has deployed two patrol fleets and a large number of Imperial Guard soldiers as the main force for the attack. However, even if the Empire pays a huge price to cut off one or two of its tentacles, the other units can not only continue to fight, but also quickly analyze battlefield data and evolve more targeted biological weapons.

Trajan is now reporting to Zhou Qing, so it's impossible that he ever sent the Imperial Guard into battle. It's precisely because he did send the Imperial Guard into battle against the insect swarm that the Imperial Guard knows how large this fleet is.

Of the two patrol fleets that Zhou Qing assigned to the Imperial Guards, one Titan was even destroyed by the Zerg swarm fleet during the battle.

Unlike those warp demons, this swarm attack poses a far greater threat.

Chapter 198 The Imperial Guards Launch an Attack to Buy Time

After listening to Trajan's report, even Zhou Qing was a little unsettled.

A massive fleet, whose sheer number and size have created a silent zone spanning thousands of light-years, is heading towards the Milky Way.

Such an opponent...

Even someone as knowledgeable as Zhou Qing rarely saw such a large-scale Zerg swarm during his time serving in the Federation.

If he were in the Federation, he wouldn't be afraid of these swarms of insects, because the Federation had even mass-produced light-year astronomical warships like the Eternal Sky Tower. But here, he was all alone.

"Have the Imperial Guard fleet been able to determine the exact number of these insect swarms?"

Although Zhou Qing didn't think the Imperial Guards could get detailed data, he still asked hopefully what the actual size of the swarm was.

Trajan looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, Warmaster, we haven't confirmed the exact size of this swarm fleet. All we can detect is that the massive devourer field it creates can cover thousands of light-years, rendering warp methods ineffective."

"As for the exact number and size of the enemy, although our fleet has engaged them in battle, the scan by the Titan Sword alone is not enough to fully ascertain the size of these guys."

"During the battle, we have discovered at least a thousand Leviathan-class warships, each the size of a planet, that are advancing forward."

"The patrol fleet's Titans have attacked the enemy, but even in a patrol fleet, the main guns of a Titan can easily destroy a planet. When they hit an enemy warship, they can only create a large hole in it, rendering it incapable of fighting."

"But the swarm's vitality is so tenacious. When we break a big hole, their warships will at most float in the void. Once a large number of swarms fill the gap, the warships will move again."