Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 202 Lord Cipher
With his military might, Damon has completely taken over the planet's remaining and fragile military and administrative systems.

When Damon learned the specifics of the planet, he realized how terrible it was. Damon himself was clearly not good at administration, and now he was relying on absolute force to solve the planet's problems.

With the suppression of the orbital fleet and the Rangers' complete integrated land and air combat system, it's only a matter of time before the massive number of zombies are wiped out.

The only thing holding the Rangers back is their numbers; 20 regiments of Rangers isn't a large number if spread across the entire planet.

The Agrippina Empire's abandonment of the planet has plunged many cities into a state of anarchy.
Rangers were needed to defend and suppress almost every area.

A thousand-strong force, working in conjunction with the local planetary defense forces, barely managed to maintain the stability of a city and contain the further expansion of the Nurgle.

However, inside the fleet's transport ships were a group of special alien insects led by Zagara, whose bodies still retained the divine power of the God Emperor.

In the wilderness and the cities completely overrun by cultists and the Nurgle plague, Damon planned to send the Zerg to attack. Even the life support systems in his combat suits would find it difficult to completely isolate the plagues here, as these plagues carried some supernatural power.

However, apart from the seemingly endless Nurgle walkers, no particularly powerful enemies were found on the entire planet.

Without the arrival of the Rangers, the plague alone could have completely paralyzed the planet.

When the true main force of Chaos arrives, they can easily reap the rewards.

An entire planet can be acquired without expending any more military resources.

At this moment, Lorissa's situation was practically a breeding ground for chaos.

A soul consumed by despair and conservatism is practically offering itself to a god.

Even when chaos arrives, those humans who throw themselves into it will hand over the entire planet.

With the help of supplies, the Rangers also gained some trust from the survivors on the outskirts and extracted a lot of information from them.

Although this so-called "Imperial Voice" was strictly suppressed in cities still under imperial control, it was almost universally known in the chaotic and poorly managed outer areas.

People don't even have any aversion to it.

Nothing is more convincing than seeing it with one's own eyes. Those who followed him walked through the plague unharmed. What else could this be but a blessing from the emperor?

Ordinary people don't have many thoughts; all they want is to survive.

These people not only attack the State Church, but also lead the survivors to fight against the Nurgle walkers that appear from time to time.

The Emperor's voice held greater prestige among the people than one might imagine, and the number of believers, both openly and covertly, far exceeded what appeared to be their actual numbers.

However, it is clear that some Chaos cultists have also infiltrated the group, and their slogans have changed.

Lorisa's current predicament is entirely due to the fact that the current empire has betrayed the God Emperor, and all of this is a disaster brought down by the God Emperor.

Only by destroying this corrupt empire can humanity be reborn.

They advocate that people accept the disease and feel the pain it causes.

The plague was a test for them by the God-Emperor. Only those who could endure the pain and survive were the God-Emperor's steadfast believers, while those who became zombies were those whose faith was not firm enough.

The coexistence of Chaos cultists with the plague seems to confirm what they have said.

Two opposing viewpoints, with the same objective but completely opposite nature, permeated Lorissa.

These followers with differing beliefs even fought each other in the outer regions.

Compared to the wandering zombies, the guys hiding among these people are the most difficult to deal with.

It's already difficult enough to distinguish heretical beliefs from a crowd, but now this group of so-called followers of the Emperor's Voice has also been mixed in.

Under normal circumstances, the best approach is to rather kill a hundred innocent people than let one guilty person go free.

Fortunately, the Night Guards' sensitivity to the chaotic power inherent in their genes allows them to spot hidden cultists among the crowd.

The followers of the Emperor's Voice, upon discovering that the Astronauts were not targeting them, ceased their plans to attack them.

Whether the Emperor's Voice is a threat is still uncertain, but it's never wrong to wipe out those Chaos cultists.

Damon listened to reports from various squads in what was originally the governor's office. Gunshots rang out intermittently from the outer area as the Night Watchers cleared out the Chaos Cultists.

The distant roar of artillery fire echoed intermittently, and bursts of explosions illuminated the dark skyline. Armored forces and the air force were bombing the occupied territories.

In the city area, which has been completely overrun by zombies, alien insects that faintly emit a golden light are devouring all living things.

The alien insects were already highly resistant to the plague, and the remaining imperial divine power within them made them immune to all the negative effects of the plague.

The corruption that the state priests could not eradicate vanished wherever the swarm of alien insects passed.

Unfortunately, these special-state Zerg cannot replicate through hatching.

And in a medium-sized industrial settlement in northern Lorissa.

Zagara was commanding the queens to continuously spread fungal carpets on the ground.

The corpses of the filthy zombies are being decomposed by the fungal carpet.

These filthy zombies contain far more energy and biomass than ordinary humans, so we can't waste them.

With the arrival of the Zerg, once the creep has cleaned up the filth, it will be time for the Rangers to take over and restart the industrial facility.

However, Zagara, protected by a group of Zerg, entered a factory, where the Overlord discovered the anomaly.

She stroked the production line in front of her. The production line, which should have been shut down long ago, actually had some brand-new weapons. Zagara stroked an Agrippina-type automatic rifle on it, which still had a little warmth left.

Meanwhile, molten metal was still churning inside the boilers used for smelting ore.

"This doesn't make sense. The King Worm didn't detect any signals from ordinary humans, and these filthy corpses couldn't possibly be operating these facilities. What on earth happened here?"

Just as she was about to tell Damon about the situation, the creep covering every corner of the ground sent a signal to the Overlord, and this signal was transmitted to Zagara's mind through the swarm network.

Several creatures not belonging to the Zerg swarm were moving at an extremely fast speed across the creep, heading in the direction of Zagara's location.

Sensing the hostile intentions of the other party, Zagara immediately began hatching a large number of Banelings and summoned nearby Zerg reinforcements through the Zerg Swarm Network.

In an instant, all the alien insects in the city converged on this place.

"Where are they?! Who are they?!"

Suddenly the signal on the creep disappeared, and the Queen Beetles floating around it kept searching for the other party with their psionic energy, but still found nothing.

Just as Zagara thought the other party had left due to the massive swarm of insects.

A plasma shot, seemingly from nowhere, struck her massive body directly.

The carapace shattered, and the energy shock instantly blasted Zagara's back apart.

The pain in his mind almost caused Zagara to lose control and go berserk, losing his mind.

But she was quickly brought back to her senses by the Blade Queen's teachings in her mind.

As she turned her massive body to look back, a human wearing a white hood, whose features were obscured, carrying a longsword on his back, and wielding a plasma gun and a bomb pistol in his hands, appeared behind her at some point.

It's like they were suddenly teleported here!
Two Astartes were standing next to this man.

The jet-black power armor allowed Zagara to identify the other party as an Astartes among humans.

The several queens that were always by Zagara's side quickly repaired Zagara's body.

"Aliens! Why do you possess the Emperor's power within you?!"

A cold and puzzled voice came from the other party.

Zagara, whose rage was fueled by the pain, had no intention of answering his question. Even if the other party was human, she had no reason not to retaliate if he attacked her first.

A massive number of necrophos explosions rolled toward the Astartes in front of them, while the queens continued to fire their spikes.

Even Zagara himself controlled his massive body to crush the opponent.

(End of this chapter)