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Theirs are also legion-sized, and they possess a true legionary structure that is not destroyed by the Astartes Codex.
Although the Ultramarines did have a numerically superior sub-companies, unfortunately, the Codex Astartes split the Legion into chapters, and with Guilliman falling into a coma due to severe injuries, the various Ultramarines chapters could not achieve effective coordination.
Although there were indeed many people, each member of the subgroup did indeed obey the orders of the Ultra Warriors.
However, the numerous Space Marines, lacking experience in legion cooperation, fought like scattered soldiers, and their makeshift legions were quickly overwhelmed by the combined forces of the Death Guard, Nurgle demons, and cultists.
"Soldiers do not know their generals, and generals do not know their soldiers."
Kasgar was quite frustrated with the reports he had received of the Ultramarines suffering repeated defeats.
The bloated and inefficient Ultramarines and their sub-companies were no match for the Death Guard, who maintained their old structure and were even more powerful under the blessing of Nurgle.
To prevent legion commanders like Horus and Philus from launching another rebellion, the former Son of War has now become somewhat... useless.
However, the advantage lies in the fact that the Smurfs can reorganize their army countless times and put it back into battle with sufficient troops.
Despite being able to wipe out Ultramarines multiple times, a steady stream of new recruits seems to be returning to the battlefield from various star systems in the Ultramarines region to take over the fighting.
In this situation where the Smurfs were desperately resisting the Nurgle invasion with their own lives, a bizarre stalemate actually formed.
Your Nurgle army is constantly being depleted, while my Ultramarines are endless!
"It seems the situation is indeed still very serious..."
Seeing that none of the squadron leaders were willing to submit to each other, there was a lack of someone who could command the overall situation and fight against the overwhelming Nurgle army.
Faced with this dire situation, Casgar naturally needs to find someone with sufficient influence, whether it be Imperial Truth or the State Religion. He must first calm down all the Imperial citizens who are in a state of panic.
There is only one Ultramariner, Calgar, who is currently at the forefront of the battle against the endless Zerg hive fleet.
Even if he does manage to return in time, he will only be the leader of a newly formed team.
In terms of sheer strength, he is indeed quite good for a chapter leader, but if he wants to truly revitalize the empires suffering from the plague in the Extreme Starfield, a newly formed chapter leader is far from enough.
At least a loyal Primarch with enough influence is needed, or a miracle from the Empire itself, for people in despair to understand that the Emperor still protects them.
In any case, Casgar must find new beacons for mortals and Space Marines who lack faith and hope amidst the raging plague.
Compared to himself, an old hero from ten thousand years ago, Casgar had a better candidate.
According to the original novel of The Plague Wars, that person appears here.
On the battlefield of this planet Pamenio, a mortal girl with divine powers is about to appear.
—That being who, according to legend, could purify the well water contaminated by Nurgle, could bring miracles to the mortal world, and could rescue Guilliman from the clutches of Nurgle when he was besieged by them.
As for her true identity, only Casca knows it now.
That would far surpass the so-called living saint of the state religion—
Loli Empress!!!
Nothing could be more inspiring than this.
......
"what!!!"
"Why don't we leave here..."
"Casca, but I'm still so worried about you... What if you turn into one of those disgusting monsters too..."
"Casca...? Your target this time isn't that little girl with divine powers you mentioned, is it?"
"Could it be that you actually like that type?"
Fugrim leaned on Kasgar's shoulder as if she had suffered a great blow: "Is it that my body is no longer able to satisfy you...?"
"Of course! Look at yourself, you've looked exactly the same after ten thousand years. How could you possibly bring any novelty to Casca?"
As she spoke, she deliberately fiddled with her snake-like tail, striking a rather alluring pose.
"you!"
"You stoker! Get away from Casca!!!"
With another provocation from the left-hand Fugrim, the two Fugrim fighting on Kasgar clashed again.
"Ugh."
The moment the power boots touched the ground, he felt the two blades in his hands arguing... Kasgar truly felt that he had made it in his life.
As he slowly walked down, he saw that the Astragalus troops stationed on the city walls seemed to breathe a sigh of relief because of Casgar's arrival.
Unfortunately, these ordinary people didn't understand the principle that the more troops that came, the bigger the trouble would get.
In his view, the invincible Ultramarines Second Company Commander Cato Sicarius was leading tens of thousands of powerful Space Marines to the planet Pamenio to provide support.
With their reinforcements, it's unlikely that even a large number of Chaos Demons and traitors could defeat the powerful and loyal Space Marines!
"Great Ultramarines! Please, save us from our suffering!"
"By the Emperor! He has sent us angels!"
"Thank you, Emperor... Thank you, Guilliman... Thank you, Ultramarines..."
Amidst the enthusiastic and eager cheers of the crowd, numerous Space Marines entered the government hall in the center of town with a simple welcoming ceremony.
The attendees at the banquet, or rather the meeting, included not only the leaders of the various Ultramarines' sub-companies, but also generals from the Astral Army, grandmasters from the Titan Order, grandmasters from the Mechanicus Order, and various high-ranking officials from multiple Imperial Orders.
The content of the meeting is not difficult to understand: during previous intelligence gathering, it was discovered that the chief archmage of Nurgle, Kugarth, had apparently joined forces with Typhons, the legion commander of the Death Guard.
They are about to launch an attack on their governor's city from the battlefield of Pamenio, aiming to destroy all its defenses in one fell swoop.
"What was the situation like when we encountered them before?"
“That’s bad,” Sicarius said somewhat indignantly. “According to the intelligence I’ve received, that demon’s strength should not be underestimated.”
Kugas was already quite powerful, and on top of that, he possessed the Chaos Artifact Nurgle's Cauldron, bestowed upon him by Nurgle...
Not to mention that there are many other Great Unclean demons in Nurgle's army who are just as troublesome and have extremely strong regenerative abilities as him.
Unless the emperor possesses him, this battle will be extremely difficult.
"Everyone, if you have any better solutions, please feel free to discuss them."
Everyone fell silent, except for Charlotte, the chapter leader of the Phoenix Sons, who raised her hand in response.
“Wait, Sicarius.”
Just as the second company commander was about to arrange the garrison area without any objections, Kasga raised an objection.
“Our soldiers are now facing horrors they can hardly imagine – more than battle plans, I think they need a belief that can inspire everyone.”
Not long ago, the forces of chaos and demons were nothing more than heretical legends that could not possibly exist in the real world, in the eyes of the citizens of the Empire.
"After logging into Pamela, I heard some rumors..."
She was a girl blessed by the Emperor—she could unleash golden spiritual energy to defeat her enemies.
According to Casca, even if the little girl is not the incarnation of the Emperor, the arrival of such a powerful and infectious miracle will greatly boost the morale of the defenders.
Although most Ultramarines and their sub-groups are absolute supporters of the Empire's truth.
(In their view, the disgusting Nurgle demons were merely warp creatures, not gods or demons.)
"There is indeed a record of purifying polluted water sources, but as for defeating enemies... whether this rumor is true or not has not yet been confirmed."
An imperial bureaucrat answered Casca's question.
“The Imperial priest Mathieu, who is stationed here, has made contact with the girl and ordered the nuns to protect her from the frenzied crowd.”
......
"Quick! Find that little girl."
"Whether the other party is real or fake, the people of the Empire today need a beacon that gives them hope!"
Casca's suggestion was immediately adopted by Sicarius.
The imperial army and ordinary people today do indeed need a leader of faith.
But their actions seemed to lag behind those of the spontaneous citizens of the Empire.
Tens of thousands of people flocked to the scene. The weary human beings once again gathered fearlessly under the open sky.
The nuns led the saint to the golden throne and then to the city wall. The inhabitants on the other side shouted, and she was surrounded by shimmering light. The enemy halted and fled in disarray.
As for the girl sitting on that throne... her long golden hair obscured her face, making it impossible for Casca to see her clearly, and even psychic abilities couldn't detect her condition.
But there was always a very familiar feeling about it.
It was as if she had met Casca before.
"Tell Priest Mathieu and his nuns that the Ultramarines are willing to cooperate with the Imperial Cult."
“Let’s take her back to the church. In this difficult time of crisis, we need a living saint to protect all the people of the empire who are in despair.”
As they spoke, seemingly meeting each other's gazes, just as Casca was negotiating with the priests and nuns of the Imperial Church, the girl on the throne spoke.
"I want to meet with him alone."
She said this to the accompanying priest beside her.
......
"You recognized me?"
After the parade ended, Mathieu arranged for the little girl, who was considered the incarnation of the emperor, to go with him into the secret chamber of the church.
“I do not know your name, Saintess.”
"But now you are truly the incarnation of an emperor? If so, what do you want to tell me?"
"Or is it that the mysterious power you're currently experiencing isn't controlling your actions?"
The girl spoke up.
She helplessly tossed her long hair to one side, revealing her pale blue eyes filled with resignation.
"--No."
"I am Guilliman."
Chapter 256 Lobot Keelmann
At the same time that Kasgar led the Phoenix Sons to confront the Leviathan Hive fleet on Baal.
At the same time, another tentacle of the Great Devourer, the Kraken hive fleet, was intercepted by the Eldar's Ark world, Iyndon.
Their destination was precisely the main target of the Leviathan hive fleet—the Leviathan and Kraken hive fleets must not be allowed to merge under any circumstances.
If these two Zerg hive fleets were to learn each other's genetic evolution modules, the power of the Tyranids would increase exponentially.
Despite the Eldar on the Ark that Eyjafjallangi fought desperately against the invasion of the Zerg hive fleet, they were quickly driven to the brink of extinction by the enemy's almost endless swarm of Zerg.
In the moment of crisis, the Void Fleet from the Eldar pirates arrived just in time. With the help of the pirate princess Yrel, the Hive Fleet eventually fled in panic after being unable to withstand any more losses.
The Eldar and the Eldar pirates are cousins, and Princess Yrel, a pirate princess, was born in the Ark world of Iyndon.
After this battle, it was Yrel who ultimately saved Iyan from the Ark, a fact that even the most stubborn Eldar prophet had to admit.
Ultimately, she was reinstated as commander of the Iyanden fleet.
But the good times don't last long.
Compared to the victory, the losses at Iyndon Ark were far too heavy; almost no survivors on the ark were able to witness the arrival of dawn.
Iyanden is now a complete ruin made up of the graveyards of the dead Eldar. Its former glory has vanished, and the death of four-fifths of the Eldar has allowed the [Nether Constructs] to take their place.
Iyndon became the only Ark world where the dead outnumbered the living.
—It seemed as if they had seized the opportunity presented by the weakened state of the Yrel fleet during its fierce battle with the Zerg swarm, and the fact that one of the Nurgle plague legions, led by Nurgle Demon Prince Gala Gore, was preparing to spread corruption throughout the galaxy, to launch an attack on the Arkworld.
The battle was extremely intense—in the end, although Irelia successfully killed the Demon Prince, if it weren't for the timely arrival of Lyris and Evelynn with their Witch Spirit Cult to save Irelia, both sides would have perished together.
But after that, just when Lyris, Evelynn, and Yrel were at a loss, the mysterious Shadow Prophet Hilandri Veilwalker approached them.
The Shadow Prophet told Yrel that Kasgar had been reborn, but he wished to keep a low profile within the human empire for the time being.
Even if Yrel wanted to help them, her Eldar identity would only create more chaos in the current human empire.
The weakened human empire could not withstand another civil war—cooperating with the aliens would only make them appear as traitors to humanity.
(Unless you are Regent Guilliman)