Eternal Night

Chapter 580 Your savior... has returned!

Warhammer Dreamworld, the Empire of Man, the Damacross Sector...

As a super interstellar civilization spanning most of the Milky Way, the Human Empire has far too many star sectors. Unless it involves the solar system, or a star sector similar to the front line of the Great Rift in the center of the Milky Way, even if a star sector has been destroyed by aliens or natural disasters for decades or centuries, the central government probably wouldn't even know, and naturally it would be almost impossible for them to send reinforcements.

However, the Damacross sector is different.

This sector was attacked by aliens more than 30 years ago. The aliens were a powerful force called the Space Necromancers. Even though a legion of Ultramarines stationed here put up a stubborn resistance, the entire sector gradually fell over the next 30 years. By a year ago, only two worlds were still holding on to the sector, but it was only a matter of time before it was completely overrun.

The turning point came a year ago when a large group of Space Marine veterans, captains, and members of the Inquisition, the Sisters, the Mechanicus, the Titan Order, and others arrived at one of the two entrenched planets.

Of course, along with them came a large number of various aliens, including Sprouts, well, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Greenskins... wait, why are the Greenskins lined up in an army? Two Tyrannosaurus Rex... wait, why aren't the Tyrannosaurus Rex attacking humans, but instead fighting for them? There were also some unknown and known aliens. In short, they were all mixed together, and surprisingly, instead of causing a bloodbath, they fought alongside the humans.

The Ultra Warriors stationed there were absolutely stunned!
Among the many original Space Marine legions, the Ultramarines have always had a good reputation. The only one that has drawn criticism is not the Ultramarines themselves, but rather their Primarch, Robert Guilliman. According to numerous rumors, this Primarch was "too nice" to the Xenomorphs.

The Ultramarines would never admit to this, and they wouldn't mind using bullets to shut anyone up. As for what they themselves were thinking, no one knows. But... but!
No matter how good Robert Guilliman is to the Xenomorphs, it shouldn't be like this, fighting alongside a hodgepodge of Xenomorphs of various races.

But before the Ultramarines stationed there could question or protest, these newly appeared humans and aliens went mad and began searching the entire planet. They were so insane that they even breached a space necromantic awakening tomb fortress and then searched it and every hidden spot on the planet.

"The Savior has disappeared! We came here with the Savior! It must have been a space necromancers who abducted him!"

This group told the Ultramarines this, and then they proved the truth of their words with their actions... This group and the Xenomorphs engaged in a frenzied battle against the Necromancers, completely driving them off the planet within a month. They then launched a massive attack on various lost planets, leaving the Ultramarines dumbfounded.

This was no longer a fighting stance, but a desperate stance. This valor inspired the Ultramarines to shout their loyalty, even to the Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Orks...

The captain of the Ultramarines stationed here felt like he was going crazy. He never thought that one day he would think the aliens were very "loyal".
Just as these Ultramarines were trying to figure out who this savior, whom the fanatics were talking about, was, something even more astonishing happened...

Reinforcements have arrived!?
And it wasn't just one or two, but a massive reinforcement force swarming in from the surrounding star sectors!
Within a year, a total of eighteen mixed legions of the Astral Army and the Pilgrim Army arrived, with a total number of over 20 billion!
Moreover, all eighteen legions are equipped with their own equipment, supplies, and transport ships, and are ready to begin combat immediately upon arrival in the star sector.

Then there are six Imperial Navy units, three of which are directly under the command of the High Lords of the Solar System and are part of the High Lords Council's direct combat force. The other three are from the Cult of Mechanics and a naval family, respectively.

Eight legions of nuns, more than twenty Space Marine chapters, six Inquisition legions, three squads of Grey Knights, five Titan Brotherhoods…

That's not all. The most significant force arrived more than half a year later, a squad-level combat unit from Terra...

Twenty Imperial Guards and their paired Sisters of Silence!

This is insane!

Is this the Damacross Sector?!
Are you sure this isn't some kind of Terra defense battle?

Or is the savior they speak of actually an emperor reincarnated?

And this was only the human reinforcements; even more non-human Xenomorphs came, including three Greenskins of unknown origin who had heard the call to war. They were then subdued by the Greenskins who had followed Wu Pifu to the Damocles Sector. Shouting the battle cry of God's Chosen, they always rushed to the planets where the fighting was most intense, their loyalty putting most humans to shame...

Then the Eldar came in the largest and most exaggerated way. Three Eldar Voidworlds were even moved to the Damaklos Sector. These Eldar were serious. They were no longer fighting as guerrillas or small teams, but as an entire clan. It was the kind of battle where if they were defeated, the entire clan would be completely wiped out!

Then, in just one year, six fallen worlds were recaptured. The strategic situation in the Damacross Sector indicated that the Necromancers' offensive had been contained, and they had lost their strategic initiative. Humanity was rapidly achieving final victory in the Damacross Sector.

But this was, after all, a war between the Necromancers of Space, and specifically, a war between the Sothek Dynasty, to which Storm King, one of the three giants of the Necromancers, belonged. After being quickly overwhelmed, Storm King realized the difference in their enemy. He activated a resurrection protocol with greater authority, awakening more slumbering Sothek Dynasty warriors. Various high-level Necromancer creations accompanied them, including a larger fleet of Necromancer spaceships, a larger folded space assault force, and a larger cluster of conventional and unconventional Necromancer tombs…

The intensity of the war in the entire Damacross sector increased more than tenfold in an instant. The entire sector was in chaos, and every planet was engulfed in gunfire. Whether it was a fallen planet, a recaptured planet, or even a previously insignificant asteroid belt and dead planets, they all became crucial points of contention for both sides.

Although the Necromancer had no idea what was going on from beginning to end, the Necromancer Storm King, Imotek Stormlord, was a martial arts expert among the Sky Necromancers and a renowned war commander even before becoming a Space Necromancer. It feared no challenge, only that the war wasn't intense enough. And now, just as it had wished, it was so excited that its soul almost floated out of its body... if souls really existed.

The only thing that made it unhappy was that the enemy side seemed to have no real warriors. In this war, it had challenged dozens of powerful enemies in the noble style of the undead race, but none of these enemies could match it, and some of them did not even have the spirit of a warrior.

However, Imotec itself was not particularly fond of the Necromancer's warrior spirit, and for it, these one-on-one duels were merely a diversion on the battlefield.

Its goal has always been simple: to win this war, expand its power, and make its name resound throughout the galaxy, thereby seizing control of the Necromancer race, especially to test its strength against its arch-enemy, the Silent King, the true supreme ruler of the Necromancer race!
At this moment, on planet Tetian III, a siege meticulously planned by the Storm King is underway.

The Necromancers possess technological prowess far surpassing that of almost all other races in the galaxy. Their weapons, armor, and vehicles are enough to overwhelm any other race. They also possess dark technology that manipulates space and time. Especially within a single star sector, they can directly deploy their troops to a target location through a method called phase shift. So even though the Necromancers are fewer in number now, under the strategic command of the Storm King, they can often form a localized force advantage to encircle and annihilate the Necromancers.

This is why, despite a year of combined human and Eldar efforts, the entire Damacross Sector has not been conquered, and has even turned it into a meat grinder.

Tetan III is one of the two Forge Worlds in the Damarchlos Sector, and it is currently the only Forge World that humanity has reclaimed and returned. It can repair warships, weapons, armor, and vehicles, and with its full production capacity, it can arm more than a million Astral Army soldiers in a single day.

Therefore, the planet Tetan III is a crucial battleground for the combined forces of the Necromancers and the Eldar.

Outside of space, the undead fleet is battling three human naval fleets and one Eldar space fleet. On the ground, millions of undead soldiers, along with six Awakened Tomb units, are besieging the main structure of the Forgeworld. Defending the Forgeworld are two Ultramarines, twelve Star Wars squadrons, over five million Ascendant soldiers, over one hundred thousand nun troops, and a Titan Order.

However, the firepower of the undead army was too strong, especially the Awakened Tomb, which was practically a firepower-enhanced version of the Titan. A single Gauss cannon shot could kill at least tens of thousands of Astronauts on the main structure of the Forged World.

In this battle, the human side did not have the advantage; on the contrary, they gradually fell into a disadvantageous position.

Frustrated, One-Eyed Catherine ripped off her blindfold and roared hysterically, "Right here! I can feel it, Savior, our Lord has descended, right here! I command you all, all of you, charge out with me!"

Before her stood a group of Space Marines, either commanders or Ultramarines, along with several State priests, Mechanicus sages, and a Custodian clad in golden armor who was two heads taller than the Space Marines.

They all looked at Katherine with helpless eyes. This woman, the former judge who now claimed to be an apostle of the savior, had gone mad, or at least was not far from it. This was the twentieth time she had shouted like this in the past year, and each time she led a large group of people to their deaths. But she alone seemed to be truly blessed by the gods. Apart from losing an eye, she was still alive and well.

If it weren't for the fact that the Imperial Guard and the Church of England priests had confirmed her purity, she would probably have been burned at the stake as a heretic long ago.

“…Ms. Katheria, we understand your feelings, but now…” the commander of the 9th Ultramarines said calmly.

Suddenly, at that moment, the massive Awakening Tomb closest to the Forging World exploded open with a deafening roar, and a blade of light pierced straight into the sky. At the same time, the thick clouds in the sky suddenly split open, and blood-red sunlight streamed down from the sky.

"I'm coming……"

Katherine was trembling all over. She rushed to the conference room window and screamed at the top of her lungs.

"Folks, rejoice! People, celebrate! All loyal people, the time has come to take up your weapons and offer your loyalty, for..."

"Your savior has returned!"

(End of this chapter)