Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 416 A Meeting Gift (asking for monthly tickets and follow-up subscription)
Sanguinius' heartfelt speech raised the morale of the expeditionary fleet to a peak.

Language has great power, and Sanguinius is particularly good at this. As long as he opens his mouth, as long as he appears in front of people, everyone will gain faith and strength from his holy face.

In this respect, no one can compare to him, not even other equally noble and extraordinary Primarchs.

Not to mention the Blood Angels whose morale had been raised to the extreme and who were eager to slaughter all the traitors right now, even the Astartes from other legions and the mortals in the fleet were putting all their efforts and concentrating on their work.

They understand that they may not be able to exert as great power as the Astartes, but no one is worthless. Even a small worker responsible for maintaining the battleship's engine or a chef working in the kitchen to provide nutritious food for his comrades has his own value and contribution.

“Although this is not the first time I’ve heard your speech, I still get excited. My brother, you are the most extraordinary one among us.”

"You have the noblest soul among us, and you are the only one who can still show mercy to those mortals."

Llane praised sincerely. During the Second Empire, he also supported Sanguinius to be the regent. This was not entirely out of checks and balances on Guilliman, but he really believed that if someone was really to be chosen to inherit the position of the Emperor, then that person would have to be Sanguinius.

Of course, with Chagatai present, both of them had to keep that period secret.

Sanguinius smiled and shook his head. "You are wrong, Lion. We can never be called noble in front of Vulkan. Only the brothers of Nocturne really put humanity in their hearts. He is the Primarch who is most like our father."

"Mercy, compassion, we lack qualities like Vulkan."

"Perhaps it is because of Vulkan's humanity that my father favors him so much," Sanguinius said to himself.

Mentioning the dead Vulkan, the mood of the Primarchs suddenly dropped. No one disliked Vulkan, even though many brothers did not understand his ideas, but this did not prevent him from gaining the respect of everyone.

After the warp storm dissipated, Captain Zaitos of the Salamanders carried Vulkan's body and the golden coffin, overcoming numerous obstacles and returning to Nocturne. But now they have lost any news of Vulkan.

Perhaps one day, Vulkan will return as he did in the past, holding his Dawnbringer, with shining white teeth on his dark face, and giving his brothers a loving hug.

After a brief mourning for Vulkan, the three Primarchs regained their sanity. They decided that it would not be too late to recall the past after victory, but the most important thing they should do now was to complete the strategic goals they had set.

Just as the primarchs had already discussed the strategy, the Imperial expeditionary force came to the Beta Garmon Cluster, not with the purpose of engaging in a decisive battle directly with Horus's rebels there.

What they have to do is to divide the enemy forces, constantly delay the enemy, and use time and space to bleed the rebels.

The real killer move that determines the outcome is Guilliman's army coming from the rear of the rebels. According to Lion's estimation, there may be more than 200,000 Ultramarines by then, plus the defeated Imperial troops who are constantly gathering together, and a total of nearly 300,000 Astartes arriving at the battlefield in warships from Five Hundred Worlds.

This is a decisive force and the dawn that the loyalists have been longing for.

As soon as Guilliman arrives on the battlefield, all will be well, and the balance of war will be completely tilted towards the loyalists.

Before setting off, Rogal Dorn even warned his brothers that Betagarmon must hold, but that their actions should not be driven by a personal desire for revenge against the traitor primarchs.

They must restrain themselves and must not make any unwise actions against Horus, because any mistake will be fatal in front of the wolf-god. Horus and his Sixteenth Legion are best at seizing fleeting opportunities and ending the war directly with unparalleled decapitation tactics.

"We have to give the traitors a big blow before we attract their attention and kill them in the Beta Garmon Cluster."

"I will give Horus a welcome gift, the demise of a Titan Legion."

"At present, the enemy is still unaware of our arrival. We are invisible in the chess game of war."

Ryan quickly enlarged the holographic projection in front of him, and the other two Primarchs could also clearly see the location marked by the Lion King.

It is a planet on the edge of the Beta Garmon cluster, Pullman 4.

It was located within easy reach of the expeditionary fleet, and an astropathic call for assistance from the local defenders indicated that a rebel force of the Emperor's Children Legion was besieging the planet. The Governor of Pullman 4 led the local people in a heroic defense, doing their utmost to hold out from the siege of the Emperor's Children traitors.

"A company of the Iron Hands Legion has responded to their call for assistance, and they have also brought the Mechanicus's Standing Titan Legion to fight against the Traitor's Tiger Eye Titan Legion."

Obviously, compared to other targets of lesser value, a second-level Traitor Titan Legion is a lucrative prey that cannot be lost.

The Lion King wants to hunt down the Tiger Eye Titan Legion that betrayed the Emperor and announce the coming of judgment to the traitors.

"I agree. Completely annihilating a Titan legion will be a huge loss even for the rebels," Sanguinius agreed.

Titan machines are always the protagonists on the ground battlefield. Perhaps these divine machines are not enough to fight against enemies in space, but on the battlefield, this is a problem that needs to be considered only after one side has gained absolute air superiority.

For Titans, the real threat is other Titans.

"The White Scars are ready for the void sea battle, and the Sky Eagles are thirsty." Chagatai Khan wiped his White Tiger Blade and responded to Ryan's plan.

He looked at the Tengu mechas standing on the battleship deck, revealing his clean and neat teeth.

The Chogorians couldn't wait to ride these violent and fast beasts to chop off the heads of their enemies.

After getting the support of his two primarch brothers, Ryan finally showed a satisfied smile.

"Let's get off to a good start. The Standing Ones may not be able to defeat the Tiger Eye Legion. They are the pride of the Forge World of Karadion and a very powerful Titan Legion."

There was a cruel look on the lion's mouth. To him, a strong enemy was not a bad thing.

The more powerful the Tiger Eye Titan Legion is, the greater the blow to the rebels will be if they lose it.

The Empire's expeditionary fleet was speeding along a stable subspace route towards the planet Pullman 4. They concealed their tracks and quietly entered the edge of the galaxy from the location of Mandeville Point.

The flames of war in the Beta-Garmon Cluster had never ceased since Istvaan's betrayal, and during this period they had experienced a galactic-scale destructive storm created by the Word Bearers, cutting off contact with the outside world.

Under the fierce attack of the rebels, the situation inside the star cluster has tilted towards the rebels.

The favorable situation blinded their eyes, and even this rebel force was so busy besieging the planet Pullman 4 that they relaxed the defense of Mandeville Point.

Most of the loyal forces of the Betagarmon Cluster were no longer able to launch an attack, and the local lords who surrendered to the Warmaster began to cause chaos behind the loyalists.

The powerful electromagnetic pulse bomb released by the New Caliban instantly destroyed several early warning ships near Mandeville Point, but under the influence of the powerful electromagnetic pulse, their battleships' Thinker systems were instantly burned out, making it completely impossible to warn the rebels inside the galaxy.

In front of the hundreds of kilometers long New Caliban, these early warning warships were as small as sampans in the void. The surviving traitors looked at their paralyzed warships in despair, and under the opponent's gravitational attraction, they uncontrollably crashed into the activated void shield.

"Warmaster, the Empire is coming!" the mortal captain of the enemy ship shouted in horror.

The enemy warship that lost power collided and tore into the void shield of the New Caliban. The former was like flesh and blood being sucked into a meat grinder, being completely chewed and crushed bit by bit. In the end, only a ball of explosion and fire flashed in the darkness.

Hundreds of thousands of enemies didn't even put up an effective resistance; their mortal slaves, under the frenzied whipping of their overseers, tried their best to load the macro cannons, but it was too late.

Under the obstruction of the Thundercloud-class planetary battleship, the flames produced by the explosion were unable to even penetrate the hull, using its own destruction to warn the Emperor's Children battleships in the galaxy.

The three Primarch flagships began to disperse. They were divided into three battle groups, forming a three-dimensional formation similar to a spire, and headed towards the planets inside the star system.

(End of this chapter)