Chapter 595: War Begins, Response to Mortarion

The troops are approaching, but they are not ready to attack;

The long-planned corruption has clearly penetrated into the core of the parish, but it has to wait until this moment to show its tracks.

Amid the repeated but belated alarms, the ancient Endurance, in the endless corruption, is poking out from the void with a terrifying body like a living thing.

The sores, the final manifestation, the death ghost, the reaper's sickle, the flagship of the demon primarch slowly emerged;

And countless large and small living warships crawling with indescribable things are like dense maggots. The moment they appear, they cross the boundary of the galaxy defense and fall like raindrops in the direction of the core settlement area!

Indiscriminate attack!

It is also a contempt for the entire Gothic human race after a long-planned preparation!

After witnessing the expensive fireworks with inhuman eyesight, Calvin carefully looked at the huge offensive in the void that seemed slow but was actually fast.

And until dozens of breaths later, the frightening red ray never appeared again, he slowly retracted his sight, and after reminding the Imperial Fists to keep an eye on it, he turned his head and said to the Forge Director:

"As you can see, it's Chaos..."

As the highest siege of Goth, the leader of the Forge World has the right and obligation to be told who their enemy is;

"That was the former Death Guard Legion..."

In the previous expanded meeting, Calvin wanted to keep the Forge Director several times, together with the Imperial Fists, so that he could tell the two most important forces about the real enemy Goth was facing;

But the former's reservations about his own power at the meeting and his unclear attitude towards Calvin eventually delayed the invitation until now.

"And, Mortarion..."

Seeing the huge and twisted blasphemous thing emerging from the void next to the battleship that destroyed the mechanical ark.

After the Primarch uttered more thrilling words than the other, the Forge Director finally heard the name that was deliberately forgotten by the Empire at the very end.

"God Emperor!" The cold logic chip in his brain finally couldn't maintain orderly thinking, and when the little humanity that was left emerged again, a feeling called panic occupied his heart.

"You should have told me earlier!" He tried to divert this strange emotion, but this complaint with struggle also ended in vain in the eye contact with the Primarch.

"You must go back!" Calvin said so.

The fall of the mechanical ark will inevitably cause the forging world to fall into great chaos. Regardless of whether the personal life signal of the forging director disappears, the defense mechanism of the forging world will be delayed.

And this is exactly what the enemy wants to see most.

Not only him, but also Mor of the Star Army, and Padilla who has already stepped onto the battleship.

They should all go to their own fronts to play their due value.

"Understood." Seeing the calmness of the Primarch, calmness once again dominated the forging director's heart.

Compared with the safety of the forging world, personal life is not worth mentioning. This is the most basic awareness of being a ruler. Only if he returns to Gothic smoothly, the reunited Forge World can provide sufficient support for the current war!

He bowed to the Primarch, then turned and walked towards his own team, and Calvin, at the moment of his departure, used a light-hearted remark to make him more confident:

"The fleet of the Inquisition has set off, rest assured, no warship will threaten you before all our people are dead."

The Forge Priest of Gothic left, taking with him the huge team he came with.

When the starport returned to silence again, the representative of the Lucius Forge World, Fermat, who had been avoiding him since the beginning of landing, finally appeared again.

Calvin remained in a state of contemplation, not paying any attention to the behavior of the priest.

And Fermat, the master of the forge from the original birthplace of the "Flame Blood Sect", did not show any respect for the Forge Director of Gothic, and stood in the position where the latter had just been.

Suppress... strike... ignore their own damage, and resolutely attack in waves.

In Calvin's perception, the Grey Knights who were sent to the Imperial Fists headquarters were broadcasting the situation inside the galaxy to him in real time.

Unmanned weapon platforms... small outposts at the edge of the galaxy... and small warships that were hit like fledglings and then fell in flames...

This is the Death Guard, the inherent fighting style of the 14th Legion, and it is also the first gift that Mortarion, who should be sitting on the flagship at this time, brought to him after a long absence.

The border of the galaxy defense system is being visibly destroyed from the perspective of the Imperial Fists' overall view, and then marked with the color of the Chaos Legion;

And in the orbits of several key planets in the central settlement area, the artillery fire on many weapon platforms is now roaring madly at the enemies in the void, turning those fearless invaders into space fireworks.

The war has begun, or it can be said that the war has never ended!

Although the enemy's offensive was powerful, it was only a warm-up before the main fleet arrived at the battlefield;

The resistance of the orbital defense system seemed fierce, but the real protagonists - those space-based weapons hidden on the surface of satellites and planets - had not yet spoken!

So, the real concert had not yet begun, and this seemingly lively performance was just a show before the real climax in the eyes of the commanders of both sides.

The Death Guard standing in the open, the Black Legion that never appeared after the stunning blow!

The calm and composed Imperial Fist, and the Astartes Coalition that had been tolerated by Calvin and had never appeared since landing in Gothic!

As the fog of war unfolded, layers of pressure were piled up in Calvin's brainstorm;

And as layers of information were gathered, the joy after the fog of war was lifted also appeared at the corners of his mouth!

Defense! Only defense!

The enemy is numerous and we are few, this is a clear fact;

The enemy attacks and we defend, and the strategic initiative is not in our hands!

But it must be a dynamic defense!

In Calvin's suddenly opened eyes, fragments of silver light flickered slightly, and he saw Mortarion's pride! But he also saw the other party's impatience hidden behind his arrogance!

Yes, he is indeed in a disadvantage now.

But from the perspective of time, Mortarion can obviously continue to hide, further expand the scope of corruption, and thus recruit more forces belonging to Nurgle from the warp!

But he didn't do that, instead he chose to give Calvin a head-on attack at this critical juncture!

Does it hurt? Of course!

The Gothic Defense War that started at this point in time undoubtedly interrupted Calvin's integration of the Gothic Sector's resources, and made his subsequent Great Crusade a bubble.

But doesn't this just show that time is on his side?

Calvin raised his head and looked at the distant starry sky in Fermat's puzzled eyes.

He was not only looking at the distant Terra, but also the instinctive rejection of the entire physical universe to the subspace!

They are outsiders after all! They are the people on the other side of the mirror after all!

Isn't it just a delay? Isn't it just a mobile operation? He is good at it!

The key regional defense can be handed over to the Imperial Fists, which is what they are best at;

And mobile and flexible operations, in the eyes of the Grey Knights Legion, which now has a complete system and is in its infancy, isn't it what they are best at?

Rapidly calculating the power comparison between the enemy and us, Calvin felt more and more confident and excited!

So what if it's just one Astartes Legion!

With him in charge, plus the other regiments that have been hidden in his hands, it's nonsense to say that they can defend a star zone, but it's not as difficult as imagined to defend a galaxy in a short period of time!

As for the long-term siege, let alone the continuous reinforcements from Lucius, just talking about the Terra direction, with Trajan and the Grand Master Council in charge, he doesn't believe that the follow-up forces will not be able to overwhelm the two legions of the guest army!

"My lord." Fermat couldn't help it. After all, it's not a big deal for him to stand like this.

His contempt for Goth is just a gesture, but if no one appreciates this gesture, then he will be the only one who is embarrassed.

"Well..." Calvin came back to his senses and his eyes passed over Fermat's slightly uneasy face.

And his next order made the war machine of the entire Gothic galaxy start to run at full speed!

"Notify Talos and let him and them start working!

Notify the Imperial Fists and Maul that all Astra Militarum garrisoned areas will implement the scorched earth combat plan from now on!"

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