Warhammer begins in 2026

After the blood was drawn, Huang Feng buried her face in Su Jinyu's arms, looking for comfort with a pitiful expression. The blood loss brought waves of dizziness, her head was heavy, and her whole body was weak. The discomfort from having so much blood drawn lingered. She buried her face in Su Jinyu's shoulder, muttering complaints about Neos under her breath, full of resentment.

As Su Jinyu gently stroked Huang Feng's long hair, she glared coldly at Neos beside her, her eyes clearly showing her displeasure. Neos merely glanced at Su Jinyu, said nothing more, and turned to leave the council hall with Macardo, as a pile of pre-battle preparations awaited their attention.

Not long after, Erda came over, reached out and patted Huang Feng's hair reassuringly, and then hurriedly left. The various plans for the unification war were piling up, and she was also overwhelmed.

The war progressed rapidly. The Maulland Sen, a powerful alliance occupying vast swathes of Scandinavia, was the most formidable barbarian force surrounding Terra. The people of Maulland worshipped Chaos, sacrificing human and kin's flesh and blood to their evil god. They mass-produced mutated warriors and even created the first generation of Dreadnoughts to defend their fortresses. On the day of the final battle, entire units of Thunder Warriors were deployed. Neos personally executed the Chaos Priest King, who had bewitched the people. This brutal battle also exposed the Thunder Warriors' inherent fatal flaw—they were highly susceptible to violent mental rampages. Once enraged, they would completely lose their reason, indiscriminately slaughtering friend and foe alike.

As the great battle ended, Huang Feng stood alone before the resting ranks of the Thunder Warriors, retrieving the Eighth Legion's exclusive eagle banner from her storage space. This banner possessed a wide-ranging mental suppression ability, and she had a complete plan: since the Thunder Warriors were naturally prone to mental instability, she would use the eagle banner to complete a mental transformation, guiding and generating the surging, violent power within her body, turning it into a weapon that could impact the enemy's mind, causing the enemy army to suffer the same uncontrollable mental anguish.

Eagle Banner's energy supply relies entirely on Neos's inexhaustible primal spiritual energy, which he continuously supplies. Normally, Eagle Banner maintains a basic suppression field, restraining the Thunder Warriors' frenzy and making these burly men appear somewhat dull and wooden; once they step onto the battlefield, they can proactively deploy a full-area coverage, completely unleashing the Thunder Warriors' innate war instincts, hurling all their violent mental shocks towards the enemy camp.

After the war ends, the forces will be brought under control again, and the mental unrest that has arisen within the legion will dissipate on its own within a designated area. The only cost is that, in peacetime, the soldiers will appear somewhat dazed and slow.

After hearing the plan, Neos nodded in approval: "No problem, it's effective enough. At least they can fight to the death without me having to deal with any out-of-control soldiers afterwards."

Huang Feng handed the Eighth Legion's eagle flag to the Thunder Warrior Legion commander, solemnly explaining the rules: "This eagle flag is the foundation of the legion. Even if everyone dies in battle, the flag must be protected. If it is lost or captured by the enemy, the entire legion will be disbanded on the spot, and its designation will be permanently abolished."

The legion commander solemnly accepted the eagle flag with both hands, knelt on one knee before Huang Feng, and said with unwavering determination: "I hereby swear that as long as one member of the legion survives, the eagle flag will never fall into the hands of outsiders."

After dealing with the Thunder Warriors, Huang Feng turned to the Imperial Guard's encampment and called out, "Nios, Constantine Waldo, come here."

As the two approached, she took out an eagle flag engraved with the words "Imperial Guard" and handed it to Waldo: "Send a thousand Imperial Guards to the training ground to assemble. We'll test the flag's effectiveness."

"Yes, sir." Constantine Waldo accepted the eagle banner, his eyes filled with solemnity. In less than ten minutes, a full thousand Imperial Guards stood in neat formation on the wide training ground.

"Try to activate it." Huang Feng gestured to Waldo to activate his spirit.

Golden light suddenly rose from the flag, and a soft yet powerful wave of light instantly filled the entire area, enveloping all one thousand imperial guards.

Huang Feng asked, "How was the effect? ​​This flag was made according to the power you crave most, and it is specially adapted to the characteristics of the Imperial Guard."

Constantine Waldo carefully sensed the surging power within him and reported in a deep voice: "A deca-comprehensive enhancement. The core abilities are divided into four categories: simulation, transformation, smelting, and breaking through limits. It's not simply about piling up basic attributes. Strength, speed, armor defense, endurance, mental perception, self-healing, neural reflexes, machine manipulation, chaotic mental resistance, and all-terrain battlefield adaptation—all ten qualities are simultaneously and evenly enhanced, with no weaknesses."

He went on to explain that after long-term training under the Eagle Banner, this boost would become an instinct of the Imperial Guards. Unlike legions that specialize in a single direction, the Imperial Guards are well-rounded in frontal assaults, city defense, covert reconnaissance, long-range endurance, mental control, and rapid self-healing. They are not subject to specific countermeasures regardless of terrain or tactics.

"It's like having a large, well-rounded warrior with no weaknesses. The effect is indeed quite good." Huang Feng was in a great mood and raised his hand to pat Waldo's shoulder, but the height difference was too great, and he could only pat the other's thick thigh.

Constantine Waldo was very considerate and took the initiative to squat down, allowing Huang Feng to easily pat his shoulder.

"Neo, come here for a moment." Huang Feng raised the Imperial Guard's eagle banner. "You permanently bind the banner's psionic energy source to Constantine Waldo."

Neos raised his hand and drew out a wisp of spiritual energy. The illusory eagle banner flew out and went straight into Waldo's body, completing the exclusive binding.

In an instant, an even more intense golden tide of light swept over all the Imperial Guards present. Huang Feng began to explain this legion linkage mechanism: "This is an extra legion collective link I prepared. Only units with exceptionally strong mental will can activate it. It relies on collective spirit to distort reality and complete a secondary superposition enhancement."

"There cannot be any mentally deficient or weak-willed individuals in the team, otherwise the entire enhancement set cannot be fully unleashed."

Huang Feng had already mentally divided the suitable teams. Looking at the entire Terran forces, only the Custodian Army and the future Grey Knights could withstand this extreme collective enhancement. The other Space Marine Legions each had their own mental weaknesses, and it depended on whether their respective Primarchs could unify the will of the entire army to barely adapt.

Waldo carefully sensed it for a moment and reported the increase data: "A simple hard increase of 10% in all attributes, with strength, sprint impact, defense, reaction speed, and stamina all added together, resulting in an overall combat power increase of at least 50%."

"Don't stop yet. Try to deepen the transformation of muscle fibers, and simultaneously enhance every tissue, blood vessel, and nerve in the body. Don't just focus on surface combat power." Huang Feng turned to look at Neos. "Go and call the top biological scientists in the fortress to give Constantine Waldo a good lesson. Open your mind and boldly speculate on the direction of transformation."

Constantine Waldo was quickly taken away by researchers to discuss a plan for modifying the limits of human potential. Only Huang Feng and Neos remained in the training ground.

Neos looked at her and commented casually, "You certainly have a lot of ideas in your head."

Huang Feng glanced at him sideways, still harboring resentment, and muttered, "To be honest, I really want to punch you right now. You're such a nerdy guy who doesn't know how to be considerate of others."