Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 309 Grudge Depression
The information marked as top secret was delivered to Guilliman, who was still in Terra, immediately.

I saw the message Gao Yi mentioned.

Guilliman fell silent again; each time Gao Yi shocked him, it was more intense than the last.

"If the panacea is really as Gao Yi says, then wouldn't the plague of Nurgle no longer be a deadly threat? The solution and production method are provided for free, but gene therapy and other treatments will have to be charged separately?"

Just as Gao Yi had thought, Guilliman immediately recognized its value.

Guilliman's orders were immediately relayed to the reorganized Ministry of the Interior.

The widespread adoption of the new government system increased the efficiency of Terra's Ministry of the Interior countless times. However, Guilliman did not only release the records and samples of plagues and various diseases recorded by the Empire, as Gao Yi had mentioned.

He also released records of genetic defects discovered by the Mechanicus in the genetic seeds collected from various warbands.

While genetic defects have become almost a defining characteristic of many warbands, even relatively benign mutations still pose significant challenges to the warbands.

It's not about those truly deadly mutations, but rather about repairing the minor mutations in Gabriel's genes caused by his long-term battle with chaos.

Some loyal chapters have also undergone mutations at the genetic level due to prolonged exposure to various entities in the warp or other unknown reasons.

Just as the psionic outbursts that plagued the Blood Ravens will also cause great trouble for these mutated chapters.

If this unsolvable genetic mutation reaches a certain level and cannot be concealed from the Inquisition and the Mechanicus, the person may be identified as a traitor or heretic, or even have the entire warband disbanded.

The Imperial Guard's efforts to promote the original gene seeds to various warbands were not so smooth.

Not everyone is willing to accept them, and not all chapters are willing to accept recruits who have already been forged.

Many of the original recruits were ostracized.

If Guilliman can help some of the chapters resolve these malignant genetic mutations, he can advance the process more quickly and gain their support.

Most importantly, when Guilliman returned and reviewed the Imperial history he had left behind, he came across the record of the Yom Kippur expedition during the M37 period.

Thirty loyal Astartes Chapters were corrupted by Chaos's conspiracy and their genetic seed bank was contaminated, ultimately leading the Empire to deem them corrupt.

They were given the choice: either die or enter the warp and fight to the death.

Almost all of the thirty warbands chose to enter the warp, either to die in battle or to surrender to the Chaos. This was practically giving Chaos a huge number of troops for free!
If a panacea had existed back then, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.
The Empire's suppression of Chaos has reached an unprecedented level, and Guilliman does not want such a tragedy to repeat itself.

Faced with requests beyond these, Gao Yi did not refuse, wanting to see things through to the end, and asked Pavian to prioritize these genetic seed issues.
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Within the Nurgle Demon Realm.

Nagoro was at that moment preparing his new plague in front of the cauldron.

Faced with the revival of the empire, He did not share the anxiety and worry of the other three evil gods.

Wars can be quelled, desires can be suppressed, and changes can be stopped, but plagues and diseases will always accompany almost all intelligent beings on this earth.

His power may not have the strongest impact on the real universe, but it is certainly the most widespread.

Almost no planet in the Empire is free from disease and plague.

And these are the sources of Nurgle's power.

The Nurgle fleet, which Gao Yi banned directly in Cardia, was also the best preserved.

He is creating a new kind of plague for this fleet. He doesn't need to confront humanity head-on; he just needs to spread the plague, and he won't lose out.

The power projection of the other three gods in the real universe was greatly reduced during the Battle of Qardia.

Nurgle planned to take advantage of this lull to spread his plague and corruption as much as possible in order to gain more power.

The empire had no effective means to deal with this plague created by His divine power.

Before obtaining the elixir, Gao Yi also had no effective way to contain the plague on the entire planet. Sensing that the plague was ready, Nurgle slowly ladled out a bowl of thick soup from it.

The stench emanating from the bowl of thick soup seemed to satisfy Naju.

This was one of the most satisfying plagues he had recently developed. Through the Cardia, his demon army killed the Zerg and brought back some of their corpses.

This plague is even effective against alien insects.

Countless Nurgles cheered and leaped on its body, as if celebrating that the great Father had invented a new plague.

Carrying the bowl of thick soup that constantly emitted a foul stench and deadly poison, Naruto shuffled his massive body toward a cell in his castle.

Within the impregnable cage lies Elsa, one of the only two Eldar gods still alive in this galaxy, the goddess of life, fertility, and healing.

When Slaanesh was born, Nurgle took the opportunity to kidnap Elsa while the Eldar gods were fighting against him.

Elsa's divine authority made her the best test subject for Nurgle's experiments on plagues. Often, when a new plague was created, it would be fed to Elsa first so that she could test its effects.

Seeing Nurgle's arrival, the weakened Elsa knew what she was about to face.
She knew she had no room to resist.

When the bowl of soup was placed in front of Elsa, she could only pick it up helplessly.

Elsa is not simply resigned to her fate. When she drinks the poisonous soup, the plague will torment her body and soul, but at the same time, she will use her authority to find a cure for the plague.

During her years of imprisonment, she had accumulated a large number of treatment plans for the plague, but she was unable to send them out.

But just as Elsa was about to swallow the soup despite feeling nauseous, as usual...

A deafening cracking sound, echoing throughout the entire Demon Realm, reached their ears.

This sudden change caused Elsa's bowl of soup to fall to the ground, spilling the soup and beginning to corrode the floor.

Elsa looked at Nurgle, and this was the first time she had seen a worried expression on his face.

Meanwhile, Nurgle couldn't care less about Elsa rushing towards his Plague Cauldron.

The cracking sound seemed to be tormenting the Nurgle demons throughout the entire Demon Realm, causing even the usually cheerful and optimistic Nurgle spirits to show expressions of terror.

They stood around the cauldron of plague, looking at their loving father with fear.

When Nurgle returned to the cauldron, a noticeable crack appeared in the cauldron that had bred countless plagues and was almost a manifestation of his divine power.

Although the cauldron was not destroyed, the broth of plague, accumulated over countless years, was slowly leaking through the crack.
Even Grimm was encountering this situation for the first time.
He immediately sensed the changes coming from the real universe.

The countless plagues He unleashed upon the galaxy have begun to change... and this change signifies that humanity has found a way to break free from them.

Divine power is a conceptual force, powerful yet constrained by conceptual limitations.

At this time, Caul and Pavian were using the panacea to find solutions to one deadly plague after another.

As humanity discovers a way to cure a plague, the impact of that plague on the real universe begins to decrease.

The effects will also immediately impact dirt.

This radical move shook the very foundations of the scourge.

The ever-present smile on Nurgle's face disappeared. It turns out that smiles don't disappear; they just shift.

He was unaware that humans had mastered the panacea... but the four gods had almost reached a consensus that if anything defied common sense, it was definitely related to Gao Yi.

He has no other way but to continue to breed a more powerful plague to spread across the galaxy and make up for his losses. At the same time, he has also begun to have his followers gather information.

(End of this chapter)