In the game "Super God": 800 Astartes at the start!

Listening to Saint Gilles' description of Astartes, Old Huang was somewhat intrigued.

But Saint Gilles's next words made the other party hesitate.

"Although it can mass-produce troops, the Astartes modification surgery has 19 steps, and the original casting adds three more. However, the best age for modification surgery is 10 to 16 years old, and the older the age, the greater the mortality rate."

At this point, Saint Gilles paused for a moment, giving the other party some time to think.

He then continued, "The success rate for ordinary Space Marines, such as Blood Angels, is about 40%. However, if you want to perform a Primal Forged Astartes upgrade, that is, a stronger Astartes, there is a 60% chance of failure."

When Saint-Gilles mentioned the success rate of the surgery, Mr. Huang fell silent.

"How many people were in your legion back then?" Lena asked curiously.

"How many people? Taking the Holy Blood Angels as an example, there were 180,000 people and 26 million mortal auxiliary troops. At that time, the total number of Astartes was between two million and four million."

"Wow, so many third-generation warriors?!" Lena was shocked on the spot; she hadn't expected them to be able to produce so many soldiers at once.

Based on the proficiency of the third-generation super soldiers, they completely overwhelmed the Lieyang Civilization they belonged to.

"Yes, just a few million Astartes. The Emperor doesn't want these superhumans to dominate the mortal population, so he hasn't been rampant with military buildup."

Saint Gilles gave one of the reasons, but remained silent about the rest.

"Theoretically speaking, the Empire could easily amass hundreds of billions of troops in Astartes, and the population of just one of the Empire's hive worlds starts at hundreds of billions."

"In my time, life was the currency of emperors, everything was for humanity, there were no sacrifices too great to bear, and no betrayals too small to forgive."

Hearing Saint Geres's words, everyone present was completely silenced this time.

After a long silence, Old Huang raised his head and asked Saint Gilles, "If the surgical procedure is reduced in size, will it also be strengthened?"

Upon hearing this, Saint Gilles thought for a moment, then changed his mind and said, "Yes, but the increase will be very small. In my time, many people who did not complete all the Astartes modifications joined the auxiliary army to fight for humanity."

"However, the Astartes modification surgery normally takes four to six years. Now we can test the compatibility with the gene seed first, and then complete the gene seed implantation."

After the gene seed is implanted, it will gradually strengthen that person's body, undergoing surgical modifications step by step. If the modifications fail, every effort will be made to preserve their life. Even if the surgery is not fully completed, they will still be stronger than an ordinary person.

After Saint Gilles finished speaking, there was a long pause before Elder Huang slowly said, "I will also report on the Astartes modification surgery and the expansion of the Holy Blood Angels Legion that you mentioned."

"After the application is approved, I hope you will take good care of our planet."

Hearing Huang Lao's words, Saint Gilles nodded and said with certainty, "Earth is also my home, my mother planet, the place where I was born. I will definitely protect it."

Upon hearing Saint Gilles' reply, Old Huang nodded and left the meeting room.

Afterwards, everyone in the conference room left and dispersed.

Just as Saint Gilles was about to go directly to his genetic offspring to extract blood to make genetic seeds, Lena suddenly spoke up.

"Speaking of which, being treated as a tool by the emperor, don't you ever harbor any rebellious thoughts?"

Saint Gilles remained silent as he listened to Lena's curious words.

This arrogant and conceited goddess is being far too blunt.

High emotional intelligence, speaks frankly.

Low emotional intelligence, and speaks without thinking.

In other words, this wasn't said in the Warhammer world. But if this question were asked in the Warhammer world, the Blood Angels beside Saint Gilles would have to take action without the Inquisition even needing to intervene.

However, Saint Gilles still answered the question: "I was created for humanity and for the Great Crusade. Although I have thought about running away, seeing those mortals tortured by the alien leaders and killed by demons has strengthened my resolve."

"I cannot bear to watch those innocent lives perish before my eyes. By the way, I have these two sayings."

"Which two sentences?" Saint Gilles's question piqued Lena's curiosity.

Looking at Lena's curious little eyes, Saint Gilles slowly said, "These two sentences are: Loyalty needs no reward; loyalty itself is the best reward."

Another saying is: "Loyalty that is not absolute is absolute disloyalty."

After speaking, Saint Gilles left the meeting room and headed to the camp where his offspring were located.

Lena was left standing there alone, and these words had a significant impact on this naive and inexperienced goddess.

"What exactly happened during his time? He sounds so heavy," Lena murmured.

She had heard Saint Gilles say more than once that they were all tools, that they were the emperor's currency, and that death and sacrifice were the cornerstones of the empire.

According to Saint Gilles' description, his empire seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

Lena's guess was largely correct this time; the empire was indeed teetering on the brink of collapse. However, the empire that people described as crumbling had already survived millennia.

Saint Gilles returned to the camp, and upon arriving at his legion, issued new orders.

First, we need to train more pharmacists in the future. Second, the upcoming battles should focus on psionic energy, so we need to hone our own psionic abilities.

Thirdly, they started drawing blood to create gene seeds.

Saint Gilles did not integrate the spacetime gene extracted from the sign-in system this time. The strength of his offspring is sufficient for the current situation. When an upgrade is needed later, he will replace the gene seeds and fuse them again for the upgrade.

The creation of the gene seed does not require much of the gene progenitor's blood. The blood drawn by Saint Gilles on these two occasions is conservatively estimated to be enough to spawn millions of Holy Blood Angels at once.

After all, blood extracted directly from the original body only requires a trace amount of genetic material to be made into a gene seed.

Sure enough, with the original entity present, creating the gene seed was a breeze.

This time, instead of training his psionic abilities, Saint Gilles had an idea.

In the Super God Academy, the resurrection of demons relies on dark information resurrection technology. Now, after crossing over to the Super God World Universe, the dark data of Saint Gilles and his offspring has also been born.

Saint Gilles can now use dark data preservation technology just like the demons to preserve the dark data information of his offspring.

Unfortunately, Saint Gilles does not currently possess this technology, but they can research it themselves, though it will take some time.

Moreover, the situation in the dark dimension of the gene seed was exactly as Saint Gilles had predicted.