Warhammer 40: My Fiancée Fulgrim.

Chapter 198 Blocking the Internet, Come

Netway.

Karata, the City of Miracles.

After acquiring the new spears and using them to gradually establish a foothold in the network branches outside the city, blocking all network entrances leading to the city, and achieving good results.

Khorne couldn't get close, Nurgle couldn't even move, and Slaanesh was incredibly fragile.

They could only stare at the spear formation of the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters, bewildered.

As for the other Chaos Undifferentiated Demons, apart from Draconion, who could single-handedly storm into the Netway and force the Imperial Guards to risk their lives to stop his advance, these ragtag troops could only be described as cannon fodder.

So, where are the people?
Why hasn't the Tzeentch army, which those demons have been waiting for so long, attacked the gates of the Net Path?
It was Tzeentch's primary concern from the very beginning that the plan to break the net was to be broken. After learning of the Cursed Ones' ridiculous plan, it was He who devised 999 countermeasures in the High Heavens with His infinite time and chose the most likely path of change to implement.

He himself was also delighted by all the changes in the world.

It's like a chess player who is already invincible, once again facing a game that can make Him think.

But where are the people?

Hey, you scoundrel!

Faced with the Imperial Guards who were almost pushed back to the net, the demon army was once again on the verge of infighting.

Tzeentch and his demonic army never arrived.

Without their magic, facing the monstrous numerical monsters of the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters with their unreasonable long-range attacks, plus the Mechanical Order with its constant stream of advanced technology, the demons were on the verge of being pushed back into the web.

Especially the second-in-command, who was good for nothing except close combat, and whose only weapon was a magic cannon that could shoot skulls, these warlike demons could only howl.

It's so frustrating.

Why haven't Tzeentch's demonic armies arrived yet?
That damn blue-feathered bird!
It may sound a little strange, but the battle really does seem to be moving in a positive direction.

Back then, with the help of the massive rift in the web opened by Magnus's all-out attack, the four dark gods attacked the web city together.
Although it sounds like they have a large army and plenty of personnel, and it seems like no one can stop them from invading the real world.

But it was precisely under Ra's leadership, and with the support of the Silent Sisters, the Mechanicus, the Titan Order, and many other legions and the Imperial Guard, that they managed to hold out in this City of Miracles for more than five years before the Emperor himself joined the battle.

By constructing defensive fortifications, behind the defensive zone, mechanical workers are repairing damaged sections of the tunnel and sealing cracks to prevent more demons from entering the Webway. Before the blockade line, the Guardians and nuns launched a lightning-fast counterattack to maintain the number of demons in the Webway, preventing them from truly gathering and storming Holy Terra together.

If things had proceeded as originally planned, the Imperial Guard would have been reduced by 90% during this five-year-long battle, and the Sisters of Silence would have suffered immense losses, never to recover. The Titan Legion would have been almost entirely wiped out. Two of the Imperial Guard's three commanders were killed, leaving only La Endymion to continue as commander.

Even so, they were able to hold on for five years.

Now, because the damage Luo Jia inflicted on the Web Path is far less than Magnus's full-force attack, the number of demons that can squeeze into the Web Path through the rifts will be greatly reduced.

With the loss of Tzeentch's demon army and the Custodian Army's significant upgrade in firepower, coupled with the Custodian Army's improved weaponry, the situation became much more challenging.
Due to a combination of factors, although the demons' offensive was fierce, the Imperial Guard and the Mechanicus were not entirely unable to cope.

With the new spears in hand, the Imperial Guards, having seized the initiative on the battlefield, actually pushed the battle line hard towards the enemy's position.

"My lord, if we can keep going, perhaps one day we will be able to drive the demon out!"

After the internet was shattered and the emperor was forced to sit on the golden throne, the royal guards and tribunals, Ra, once again felt a glimmer of hope.

At this time, Tzeentch's desire for Magnus forced him to devote a great deal of resources and energy to how to break Magnus out of prison, rather than to the most crucial matter, the Web War, which could determine the fate of humanity.

In other words, it doesn't matter how many Primarchs rebel outside, because the power of the Four Gods' blessing is limited and can only be applied to one.

But the outcome of cyber warfare can truly determine the future fate of humanity.

This only made the allied forces of the other three factions even more hostile to the absence of Tianqi.

Ra couldn't believe what she was seeing, and neither could the Emperor—after the Web rift shattered, almost everyone instinctively assumed it was the end of humanity, that an endless army of demons would invade the human world through the Web rift, and that Holy Terra would never know peace again.
But it seems that the valiant Emperor's Claws successfully resisted the demonic alliance that was about to fall into infighting, gradually driving them out of the rifts in the web, leaving none behind.

The alliance of the dark gods was already very weak.

Khorne is hostile to Slaanesh and Tengid, and Tengid's function is opposite to that of Nurgle; they also dislike each other.

Even demons eventually tire, but the Imperial Guard will never give up!
"Brothers and sisters! For the Emperor! We will use his blessed spear to drive the demons out of the Web!"

Although the Emperor himself emphasized that the retractable spear was not his design, Ra knew that this was certainly just the Emperor's humble statement.

Who, besides emperors, could possess such insightful wisdom?

"For the Emperor!"

"For the Emperor!"

"For the Emperor! For humanity!"

(Quiet and powerful nun's sign language)

The cries of the Imperial Guard echoed across this miraculous city that transcends time and space; hope is humanity's most powerful elixir.

With even greater momentum than when they first joined the Cyber ​​War, the Imperial Guards once again threw themselves into the defense of the Cyber ​​with unwavering fighting spirit.

They felt the Emperor's glory shining upon every combatant on the battlefield, and even the network maintenance workers were freed from their long-standing fatigue and were able to throw themselves back into the great cause.

They will succeed.

They must succeed!

This is humanity's last hope—there is only one path to victory in this war!
The road ahead may be winding and difficult, but the great Lord of mankind is with each and every one of them at this moment!

Amidst shouts of "Never give up!", the other two Imperial Guard commanders, Kade and Jasak, placed their hands on Ra's shoulders.

The three commanders and three guards exchanged glances, nodded slightly, and then rushed out of the City of Miracles in different directions.

Victory is at hand.

He encouraged himself, and on the Imperial Guard's troop carrier, he seemed to be able to see the glorious future of human victory.

They were so valiant that even the great human emperor marveled at the great feat they had accomplished—the demons were officially banished from the Webpath. As the restoration work progressed and was finally completed, the great human emperor stepped down from the golden throne and embraced the guards who had dedicated themselves to it for decades, hundreds, and even thousands of years, discussing philosophy and ideals.

Just like before.

This is the dream of the Imperial Guard, and also the dream designed by the Lord of Humanity at the beginning of the Network Project.

But that still seems out of reach.

Just as he was about to arrive at the front line of the network with a new batch of supplies, La saw something that he feared most at that moment.

A vast horde of Tzeentch demons, accompanied by their shrieks and burning psionic flames, arrived, carrying with them evil sorcery.

What made it even more despairing was the familiar figure standing behind all the Tzeentch demons.

Magnus, the Red Devils.

"Number 15! What are you doing here?!"

"Why did you betray humanity, betray the Emperor!"

In the end, Tzeentch succeeded in carrying out his plan.

Despite paying a heavy price with the minions of Chaos, reducing the number of pieces He could manipulate in the threads of His future and destiny by a significant amount, enough to cause Him heartache.

But that's alright, the gains from this trip are equally worth celebrating—

Persuaded by the traitorous Thousand Sons Legion and the Empire's Twin-Headed Eagle, and considering the overall interests.

After countless days and nights of contemplation within the tower of the other's crystal labyrinth, Magnus, ultimately drawn by the boundless knowledge, chose the other.

(Don't ask why there's only knowledge and no wisdom, because Tzeentch couldn't give Magnus wisdom.)
Magnus has chosen to join the cause of the Emperor of Change, and in retaliation for the False Emperor's imprisonment, dismantling, and prohibition of psionic research, he will lead the Thousand Sons, traitors who have escaped from various Legions, and countless Tzeentch Daedrics to launch an attack on the Emperor's Web.

Perhaps he felt a long time had passed, but in order to bring the magical little horse to fight in the cyber war, in the subspace where there is no concept of time, under the control of the Lord of Change, all his transformations and advancements would be completed at this moment.

There's no other way; if we don't hurry, royal elves might really emerge from under the brass throne!

Even though Tzeentch disliked Khorne, there wasn't much room for infighting at this point.

Now, with Magnus possessing psychic abilities, the tide of battle will turn back in favor of the demonic alliance, especially against the Imperial Guard, who are completely devoid of psychic power.

Just as He had predicted, after Magnus joined the battle, the Imperial Guard's original advantage of long reach was once again shattered by the enemy's psychic magic.

When confronted with Ra's questioning, Magnus did not answer, but instead continued to fire a barrage of psionic arrows.

On this vast battlefield of the net, every time Magnus unleashed a powerful spell, swathes of the Imperial Guard would fall or be reduced to dust before his near-infinite power.

The terrifying power of an Ascended Primarch is far beyond what the Imperial Guards stationed here can withstand.

Even with the Silent Sisters helping to weaken the opponent's psychic attacks, the Soulless Ones' ability to suppress psychic energy is never absolute.

Each shot of the Primarch's abundant psionic energy claimed the lives of more Silent Sisters.

Although the final damage was indeed reduced, it was only a difference in the number of kills.

They couldn't stop Magnus.

As Magnus watched his father's loyal servants fall before his power, a surge of vengeful pleasure welled up within him.

To guard against him, the Emperor initially restricted his research and controlled his power based on the assumption that only he would break through the network in the future.

Because of this Netway Project, Prospero was reduced to ashes and the Thousand Sons Legion was completely disbanded!

The results of it?
Didn't they all get wiped out by Luo Jia?
He himself could only remain motionless on the golden throne in agony, never able to step down.

Haha!

So you've finally met your match!

However, there is one thing he will never know.

In fact, part of the reason Tzeentch arranged for him to be involved in the Web Wars in advance was to see how the two sides would meet again when the Emperor came down in person.

On the other hand, Magnus's arrangement was also a way to lure the Emperor into personally engaging in battle, thus acknowledging the ultimate failure of his Webpath project while completing the withdrawal from the Webpath. As long as the Emperor's Webpath project remained unresolved, the Dark Gods could not truly find peace.

Especially with the sudden changes, humanity actually seems to have a tendency to overshadow His plans and complete this project under the intertwining of countless threads of fate!
That's right!

At this very moment, at this very juncture, another reinforcement of the cursed are about to arrive!

That is
Deep green ships, warships from humanity, appeared beyond these ancient, alien creations.

"That is..." Finally, someone recognized the shape of the warship that was beyond the reach of spatial perception in the distance, and the legion it belonged to. "That's a Salamander, it's the Vokhan, warship number eighteen!"

He brought with him an unharmed, fully armed army of over 100,000 Salamanders, along with the Burning Hand and the Seven Hammers Amulet.

The Lord of Fire Dragons has returned from the depths of the Net Path.

The plan for the great rebellion was too hasty.

Or rather, this was a forced rebellion that had to be carried out after the potential influence of the Chaos Gods in their legions was eliminated.

There's no time left for them to plan and operate.

Despite the ugly outcome, the dark gods had to at this point either elevate the Emperor to the Dark Lord or imprison him forever on the Golden Throne.

Otherwise, the entire Milky Way galaxy would fall under human domination.

This is their last chance.

In other words, if a major rebellion doesn't break out now, the Warhammer world could truly transform from a cesspool into a beautiful, harmonious, and loving world.

Therefore, even if the rebellion is somewhat forced, they still have to carry out their pre-arranged rebellion plan within this short period of time.

Time is tight and tasks are heavy.

With the online war and the legion civil war taking place simultaneously, it's inevitable that some areas will be overlooked.

The dark gods did not fail in their scheme.

But even if they buried themselves deep enough, they couldn't stop Casca from revealing the secrets from his mysterious power of revealing plot points from a higher dimension, since he had seen the script.

The only one who can rival him is the God of Deception.

The latter can use the vast and boundless spacetime dimensions of the subspace to force a portion of the Primarch within it to serve its purposes, even if the other party is a mortal (as it is at this time).

But what about all those loyal Primarchs, and the Primarch Legions who, while having some doubts about the Great Crusade, were only slightly shaken?
No solution.

They had no choice but to resort to the crudest and most foolish method, demanding that Luo Jia immediately use the souls sacrificed on Kos to summon a raging warp storm, separating the legions of several loyalists so that they could not support each other.

And that is why the tragedy on Istvan 5 was not repeated. Salamanders and Raven Guards were able to lead fully-organized legions to aid other regions under attack by traitors when the warp storms subsided.

As for Vokan
He also received a direct invitation from Eldrad, the Eldar prophet—who, through the web-based device on Nocturne, instructed his legions to return to Holy Terra via the web.

"Block the internet, come on!" (X)

Coss.

The final showdown for Cos did not turn out as everyone expected, with Guilliman and Luo Jia facing off in a battle between their brothers.

In the end, one Primarch lost the duel in disgrace, while the other, after seeing Alpha leave, slunk away with the Legion, showing absolutely no demeanor befitting a Primarch of the Legion.

After all, Alpha left and the Prince came. The previous situation of two against one between them has now become two against one between the Prince and the Ultra Warrior!

Can we fight this? No way!

Get away!
clown.

It's quite rare for two Primarchs to be able to embarrass themselves simultaneously during the battle between Guilliman and Loka, two such disgraceful individuals.

The Battle of Koss ended with both Primarchs losing face.

Most of the Word Bearers still on Kos were crushed by the Ultramarines, who were in a state of extreme rage. The remaining few Word Bearers, seeing the situation was not good, fled with Loka into the distant void. Many of them were also shot down by the Ultramarines and the Emperor's Sons' fleet.

After this one battle, the Ultramarines were indeed severely weakened, but the Word Bearers were not much better off.

Many of the Word Bearers' Space Marines followed the true Legion Commander Angertai and chose loyalty, and even fewer of the few Word Bearers under the Loka's command were able to escape in this battle.

Originally one of the largest legions, the Word Bearers will be unable to fight again during the Great Rebellion after this one battle.

And the flagship that the Word Bearers used to escape.
The Law of Faith was severely damaged by the Ultramarines' frenzied counterattack. Judging from the extent of the damage to the hull, it was no less severe than that of the Radiant Macragge, whose main bridge was blown off.

Without several years of repairs, it probably won't be able to be deployed in actual combat.

As for the other Glory Queen-class battleship, it was under the command of the Emperor's Son in Fugrim, who, together with the Ultramarines, boarded and ultimately captured the warship named Ashes of History.

"Thank you for your support, Great Imperial Warmaster Vograim."

"Without your help and the help of your loyal sons of the emperor, I cannot even imagine the final outcome of this battle."

"Alpha's actions are too bizarre and unpredictable. I did not expect that he would also stand with the forces of destruction."

After receiving treatment and rehabilitation from the apothecary and the sage of the Mechanicus, Guilliman struggled to his feet and bowed slowly to Fugrim in front of the airfield that Koss had just finished repairing.

Guilliman's complexion was still somewhat poor.

It's unclear whether it was because the losses suffered by the Ultra Warriors exceeded his expectations.

The Ultramarines suffered unpredictable losses; not only were numerous planets attacked by the Word Bearers, but civilian populations were also sacrificed through blasphemous rituals. In terms of war resources, the Radiance of Macragge suffered the most severe damage.

The casualties at Astartes numbered around 100,000.

Nevertheless, their current Astartes Legion will soon be able to replenish its numbers to over 200,000.

Although I don't know why, it's still 200,000.

“It’s a pleasure to see my brother during this storm that’s sweeping the world,” Fugrim exclaimed. “Guilliman, do you have any news of the others? Did they come here today?”

As for the Primarch, there isn't one.

However, because the Pharos Beacon will emit a light similar to a star torch in the warp, a large number of transport ships and caravans will be attracted to Macragge during the storm, including some people who know the current situation of the various legions.

"When the warp storm occurred, each legion was on its own expeditionary mission, and thus may have been divided into several small areas that could not communicate with each other."

"Especially people like Anglon."

As the Great Expedition was nearing its end, the remaining unrecovered territories were located in extremely remote parts of the Empire.

Like the Gulf of Damocles, those places are already difficult to reach, and the influence of warp storms will further exacerbate the Primarch's split-off mentality.

"It is very likely that many Primarchs who already harbored resentment towards the Empire will break away from it and choose to establish their own independent entities."

Very few were mixed in.

But there are many [Second Empires].

"Furthermore, according to news from merchant ships, Saint Gilles encountered—"

"The Signas system? We never asked her to go there!"

The game is in a state of anxiety.

How could we possibly send Saint Gilles to a place like that!
That's where the infamous pervert Caban Hah was, waiting to lure the angels into his trap!

"Star Language Communication. Something has tampered with our Star Language Communication, guiding the Holy Blood Angels to a location far from the core territory of the Empire, making it easier for them to strike and defeat them one by one."

Especially angels.

Given the scarcity of Primarchs, this SSR will definitely attract the attention of the Dark Gods.

"We must go immediately and rescue the angels!"

At this point, Fugrim was the Imperial Warmaster, and her words carried more weight than Kasgar's.

"That's right, but our Ultramarines army suffered heavy losses in this battle."

"Moreover, at this time, the Eastern Theater Command of the Galactic Empire is in turmoil, and perhaps salvation is possible."

"But to be on the safe side, I suggest you all stay in Macragge and wait for the other Primarch Legions."

"No, the situation is urgent, we can't delay any longer!"

"Saving more Primarchs is the priority; now is not the time to be thinking about the Second Reich!"

Kaska was in a panic.

"Forgrim, let's go!"

What time is it? You're still thinking about your Second Empire!
"The throne is above."

Guilliman hesitated as he watched the Emperor's sons hastily reorganize the fleet and leave Koss.

"I never said anything about a second empire."

Unjustly accused!

This is an absolute injustice.

Even though he might be willing at this moment, he maintained an extremely cautious attitude towards this matter.
But as the Primarch of the Legion, he dared not condone such a rebellious act.

If word gets out and it gives rise to a pretext for those Primarchs who are already wary of him to think even more that he is an ambitious guy, then things will get complicated.

Is Guilliman a really, really bad person?

However, this idea struck a chord with him.

Fortunately, someone was able to say those words for Guilliman today.
(End of this chapter)