Warhammer begins in 2026

Magnus, Sanguiles, Lane, and Peturabo, along with their respective legion commanders, stood quietly in the square of Terra's Imperial City.

The entire area was filled with imperial guards, their golden armor standing in neat rows, and the surroundings were quiet; no one spoke casually.

Perturabo leaned to one side, surveying the surrounding fortifications and habitually mentally strategizing the attack and defense layout; Magnus closed his eyes and concentrated, sensing the psionic energy flowing across the entire planet; Ryan stood alone to the side, his expression indifferent, constantly watching every shadow around him; only Sanguires remained calm and waited quietly, occasionally glancing at the peaceful civilians living their lives on the street.

All four knew that Huang Feng wanted to summon them, and they waited quietly for her to arrive. Before long, the roar of the ceremonial fleet echoed through the void, and a thousand imperial guards lined up on both sides to clear the way. Huang Feng slowly walked up to the high platform, and the four of them stepped forward together, standing in neat rows to await her words.

Huang Feng first walked up to Saint Gilles and handed him two items: a long spear with a holy design and a pocket watch similar to the one Guilliman wore. The pocket watch's function remained the same; it could be used multiple times in a lifetime, with a one-year cooldown period after each use. It could instantly heal all injuries and fatigue, restoring the body to its peak condition.

Huang Feng then handed him the Holy Blood Angel's exclusive eagle banner, whose core talent was "Quietly Guarding Blood".

First effect: Stabilizes and suppresses bloodlust. The bloodlust that angel warriors develop in daily life will not go out of control and will be stored up, to be released all at once during battle. During the burst phase, strength, speed, and recovery ability will increase dramatically, and a berserk killing aura will fill the sky, but the mind will remain clear and calm, and will not be consumed by the bloodlust and kill indiscriminately friend or foe.

The second talent, called Blood Shadow Clone, requires the entire legion to be mentally unified, and its full potential depends on Saint Gilles's own control. When the thirst for blood within his body reaches its limit, he can create a clone with the same combat power as his original body. All restless bloodlust and violent desires are transferred to the clone, while the original body retains its rationality and fights steadily, and the clone alone unleashes all its thirst for blood to charge and kill enemies.

Saint Gilles gripped his spear, his fingertips tracing the eagle banner's pattern, and bowed in salute: "What Mother has given me, I will use well, to discipline the entire army, and not let thirst for blood destroy the Angel Legion."

Then Huang Feng looked at the silent and cold Ryan beside him, handed him a heavy and sharp longsword, and then gave him the Dark Angel's exclusive eagle banner.

The first tier of this Eagle Banner talent is completely comparable to the Terra Imperial Guard, possessing multiple effects such as high damage reduction, willpower protection, shadow concealment, and evil-repelling slash.

The Eagle Banner comes with a second layer of enhanced ability for the entire army, but whether it can be successfully activated and used at will depends entirely on Ryan's own temperament and self-control; no one else can help him.

Ryan gripped the longsword with one hand, his chilling aura lessening slightly as he calmly lowered his head: "I will lead the Dark Angels to protect this power and cleanse all darkness from the star sea."

Huang Feng walked up to the platform and first went to Magnus.

The Eagle Banner talent of the 15th Legion's Thousand Sons can greatly enhance the psionic power of all members, while also granting everyone a high amount of psionic resistance, making them immune to enemy mental attacks and warp erosion.

Huang Feng handed him a psionic staff. The staff could further amplify all of the user's psionic energy, whether it was attack, defense or arcane runes, the effects could be enhanced to a higher level, which was suitable for the characteristics of the entire Qianzi group who were dedicated to studying psionic energy.

Magnus accepted the staff, its fingertips gleaming faintly, and bowed respectfully in thanks.

Then Huang Feng walked up to Peturabo.

The Eagle Banner talent of the Fourth Legion's Iron Warriors can enhance the strength of all military equipment forged and cast by the legion, increasing the durability and lethality of weapons, artillery, and armor.

Huang Feng handed a complete Golden Age STC template to Perturabo. The template contained a large number of mature basic weapon blueprints, and the equipment on the blueprints happened to be the main equipment of the current human army. In addition, it also contained many high-end military equipment blueprints that were currently not technologically advanced enough to be mass-produced on a large scale. All of them were given to Perturabo to study and replicate.

Peturab held the STC storage device with focused attention and solemnly accepted the gift.

After all the gifts were distributed, Huang Feng looked at the four original entities and spoke.

"Let's go to the council hall and discuss how to deal with the Ran Dan aliens."

The group silently followed Huang Feng into the main hall and took their seats. Magnus, Peturabo, Saint Gilles, and Ryan all sat quietly, none of them speaking, waiting for Huang Feng's instructions.

Huang Feng looked at the four men and spoke first, explaining the current situation: "Your respective legions have all set off for the designated war zone to assemble. You will have to wait until you arrive at the battlefield before you can meet and reunite with your soldiers. In this operation, in addition to your four legions, I have also conscripted a massive number of mortal auxiliary troops and mobilized a large-scale Mechanicus force to cooperate in the operation."

She spread out a star map of the entire Ran Dan star region on the table, her fingertips slowly sliding across the star trails and stronghold markers, analyzing the entire battle situation on her own.

"The Randan aliens rely on large-scale mental attacks to break down the will of the army, and ordinary mortal soldiers are easily driven to madness. We have four types of combat forces: psionic, positional, assault, and infiltration. Combined with massive ground and fleet firepower, we can completely cooperate to offset their unique mental advantage."

"The 19th and 20th Legions have already infiltrated the alien territory to conduct reconnaissance. The Twilight Guard of the 2nd Legion accompanied them and has now sent back a large amount of intelligence, clarifying the deployment of Ran Dan's main force and the weak points in their mental energy diffusion. Once we arrive at the front line and join forces with the other legions, we can use this intelligence to encircle them from multiple directions."

Huang Feng paused for a moment, then gave a complete explanation of the total number of troops he had prepared:

"The troop deployment for this expedition is as follows: 1,000 Imperial Guards and 1,000 Gray Knights, specifically for combat against the psychomorphs;

All six full Space Marine Legions participated in the war: the First Dark Angels, the Second Twilight Guard, the Fourth Iron Warriors, the Ninth Blood Angels, the Eleventh Fury Warriors, and the Fifteenth Thousand Sons, totaling nearly one million Space Marines; the Nineteenth and Twentieth Legions only deployed a portion of their forces for reconnaissance and infiltration.

The fleet was equipped with five thousand battleships, and countless other cruisers, frigates, and logistics ships.

Ground heavy combat units, nearly a thousand Titans of various types, including more than ten Imperial-class Titans; Knight family mechs totaling thirty thousand units.

The combined strength of the mortal auxiliary army, the mechanized combat forces, and the engineering units approaches one hundred billion.

After discussing troop strength, Huang Feng began assigning combat tasks to the four individuals one by one. The four Primarchs remained silent throughout, listening attentively without interrupting.

"Magnus, once you arrive at the battlefield and reunite with the Thousand Sons, lead all the psionic warriors to deploy a full-area psionic barrier to counteract Randan's mental erosion, hold the central line of the entire army, and use the Thousand Sons' psionic resistance to protect the mortal troops on both sides."

"Perturabo, once you reunite with the Iron Warriors, immediately work with the Mechanicus to build multi-layered permanent defensive fortifications. All Titans and Knight mechs will be under your command and coordination. Head-on confront the main alien offensive, advance steadily, and eliminate the strongholds along the way one by one."

"Saint Gilles, the Holy Blood Angels will serve as a mobile assault force. Once you reunite with the Legion, you will need to rehabilitate them. They've developed some issues and are starting to act like they're not even human anymore."

"Lian, the Dark Angels will be the main force, and together with the 11th Legion, they will form the central army and carry out breakthroughs. You will also command the 11th Legion's battles."

After assigning the four tasks, Huang Feng pointed his finger heavily at the alien main nest in the very center of the star map:

"Everyone remember your roles. Once you arrive at the battlefield and join forces with the legion, immediately execute the deployment. All units should support each other and work together to encircle and annihilate the main nest of Ran Dan, eradicating the spiritual threat to this star system in one fell swoop."

The four Primarchs remained silent, only gazing at the star map and silently memorizing all the battle plans arranged by Huang Feng.