Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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Chapter 170 Left with no other choice, I sought Zhou Qing's help.

The number of Imperial Guard patrols doubled again that day, now consisting of four Imperial Guards and four Silent Sisters, making it even more difficult for the lord to move forward.

Even if these clowns are the elite and best members of the clown troupe, they would still find it difficult to gain any advantage against such a formidable lineup.

But will the Eldar just give up like that?

Of course not. They have successfully predicted that they would fail, so they cannot allow such a failure to occur; they must change the future.

The Eldar must not disappear.

Although the number of Imperial Guards had increased considerably, the clowns devised a new plan. They used a small number of clowns to move around the planet, drawing the attention of the Imperial Guards and the Silent Sisters' squad. This distracted the Imperial Guards and the Silent Sisters' squad, creating opportunities for other clown groups.

Thanks to the net-like path left behind by the ancient saints, the Spirit Race's plan was successful. The Imperial Guard's desire to make a good fight gave these clowns an opportunity.

They successfully deployed their subspace equipment in 107 out of 108 worlds.

Although these clowns also suffered considerable losses, in the continuous clashes, of the 107 clowns in the world, almost only a few of the 40 players in each world remained.

At first, the Imperial Guards intended to capture him alive, but later they and Sister Silent joined forces to kill him, regardless of whether he was captured alive or not; they just wanted to kill him.

However, since they had shown mercy at the beginning, they successfully achieved their goal, and there were still a total of 312 clowns left!

These 312 people arrived together in the last world of the 108 worlds of the Misty Realm.

They were preparing to use their numerical advantage to achieve a decisive victory, but Trajan was already overwhelmed by the situation in the Misty Starfield.

Although the Imperial Guard eliminated many of the Spirit Clan's villains, the enemy seemed to have already achieved their goal.

Based on this conjecture, Trajan was forced to come to the outside of Zhou Qing's laboratory and request a meeting with Zhou Qing.

[Creator, is Tula, the commander of the Imperial Guard, truly requesting an audience outside the laboratory?]

Zhou Qing, who was conducting experiments on how to strengthen the Imperial Guards and make them more powerful, received a report from his AI subordinates.

"Trajan? Why is he, the commander of the Imperial Guard, coming to me instead of being in charge of maintaining order and cracking down on the state religion?"

Zhou Qing was somewhat puzzled as to why Trajan would come to him, but he could ask directly, so he spoke up.

"Little Gray, let him in."

The heavy alloy door of the laboratory slid open silently, and Trajan, the commander of the Imperial Guard, strode in.

His signature golden royal guard armor gleamed in the soft laboratory light, but his steps were noticeably heavy.

Even his dignified face couldn't hide his solemnity and sense of defeat.

He walked up to Zhou Qing, slammed his right fist heavily against his breastplate, producing a dull but loyal thud, and then knelt on one knee.

"Commander!" His voice was still loud, but it carried a hint of apology.

Trajan... has failed your trust!

Zhou Qing put down the data panel in his hand, turned around, and looked at him curiously: "Get up and speak, Trajan. What happened that made you, the commander of the Imperial Guard, come here in person to apologize?"

Zhou Qing was quite interested in Trajan's personal visit to apologize. What could possibly make a commander of the Imperial Guard come to him?

"Commander, it's about the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield."

Trajan did not stand up to answer Zhou Qing's question; instead, he remained kneeling on the ground.

"Recently, the Eldar forces launched a large-scale, organized infiltration attack on my 108th world."

Although we fought valiantly, killing and capturing a large number of clowns, based on the latest intelligence analysis and battlefield feedback, we believe the enemy has likely successfully installed an unknown and extremely threatening Eldar device on 107 of these worlds.

"The reason we obtained this information is that almost all the clowns in the other 107 worlds have withdrawn, leaving only one world where a large number of clowns still exist, and the number is greater than usual."

"In order to figure out what the other party's purpose is, we gathered more than 30 Grey Knights and used psychic prophecy."

The prophecy foretold that if the Eldar succeeded, the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield would suffer an unprecedented blow.

At this point, Tula's tone became even more somber.

"The enemy employed extremely cunning tactics, using small groups of troops to feign movements to attract our main force, while the main force infiltrated using technologies such as the Eldar network."

We...we failed to completely stop them. Currently, only one world remains unconfirmed to have the device installed.”

"This time, our Imperial Guard, together with the Silent Sisters and the Grey Knights, fought a joint operation and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, but failed to completely thwart their strategic intentions."

This is my dereliction of duty; I beg the commander to punish me!

Trajan bowed his head again.

He originally intended to resolve the matter independently with the strength of the Imperial Guards and prove their value to the War Commander, but he did not expect the Spirit Clan's actions to be so unpredictable and difficult to guard against.

Now, only one planet in the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield remains uninfiltrated by the Eldar.

Although this led to the gathering of the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters' forces on the planet, and the rapid increase in defenses on the last planet, Tula dared not gamble.

No one can be sure whether having such a large army will be able to stop the behavior of these clowns.

At the same time, no one can be sure whether the other 107 worlds have really been completely infiltrated by others.

What if this is a diversionary tactic to lure the tiger away from the mountain?

These 108 worlds in the Misty Starfield were created by Zhou Qing. Tulajan didn't dare let these 108 worlds just disappear like that, so he chose to come and talk to Zhou Qing about it.

Zhou Qing listened quietly, and the anger Trajan had expected did not appear on his face; his eyes merely narrowed slightly.

"Are the Eldar you're referring to those stupid aliens we encountered on Macragge?"

"Yes, the aliens that appeared this time are the same long-eared ones you encountered on Macragge."

Trajan remained kneeling on the ground as he replied to Zhou Qing.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"These damned inferior races, I didn't have time to deal with them last time, I didn't expect them to dare to come knocking on my door again?"

Zhou Qing felt like he was about to laugh out loud. He was speechless. What kind of weird aliens dared to offend humans?

He first released a gentle spiritual energy, lifting Tu to the ground and allowing him to stand upright again before speaking.

"Since we're here, we might as well make the best of it. However, we must figure out the enemy's purpose. You just said you've captured prisoners. Send them to me, and I'll make them obediently tell me what they need to say."

Zhou Qing felt he needed to figure out what the other party was up to first, since psychic prophecy did have some significance.

But just as he had used psionic powers to search the brains of Krieg's Death Legion soldiers and obtain their memories when he first arrived in this universe, he now wanted to directly search the memories of those Eldar.

"Go and bring the survivors here!"

Trajan immediately went down to carry out the order, doing exactly as Zhou Qing instructed, since that was what the emperor said.

However, before leaving, he took one last look at the Imperial Guard volunteers who were assisting him in Zhou Qing's laboratory.

He could sense that this volunteer Imperial Guard was much stronger in combat, far more so than the ordinary Imperial Guards.

This shows that Zhou Qing's research has begun to make progress. Do their Imperial Guards, who performed so poorly, really deserve this enhancement?

Chapter 171 The Idea of ​​the Psionic Guard

Trajan, with a complex mix of emotions, quickly left to escort the captured jester.

Zhou Qing, on the other hand, continued to focus his attention on the experiment at hand.

The Imperial Guard soldier who volunteered for the enhancement was lying quietly inside the enhancement chamber, his body connected to countless intricate pipes. A deep blue energy liquid was slowly being injected into his body, and subtle runes flowed across the surface of his golden armor.

"How are you feeling?" Zhou Qing asked calmly while monitoring the data stream.

"Unprecedented...powerful, Commander." The Imperial Guard's voice came through the mask, filled with suppressed excitement and disbelief.

"Power is surging, perception has become incredibly clear, and I can even... faintly 'hear' the whispers of the warp, but I can easily shut them out. This feeling... is unbelievable!"

Zhou Qing is currently enhancing the spiritual energy of the Imperial Guards. Since the Super Strong ability cannot be directly loaded into the genetic modules of the Imperial Guards, he is considering adding spiritual energy into their bodies.

This was Zhou Qing's thought at the moment. After all, the Imperial Guard's combat power needed to be strengthened. Although they were still the top combat force of the human empire, in Zhou Qing's eyes, their strength was seriously insufficient.

Zhou Qing hasn't fully figured out why super strength or strength can't be added to the Imperial Guards yet, but since pure physical strength can't be further enhanced, then naturally he'll add some science fiction elements.

It was at this moment that psionic power emerged...

Given the Imperial Guard's superior physical abilities, strength, and unwavering conviction, they should be well-suited to psionic powers.

After all, the body is the foundation of everything. With such a powerful body, learning psionic abilities would definitely be twice as effective, since psionic abilities in Stellaris and psionic abilities in Warhammer are two different things.

In Warhammer, psionic power requires communication with and borrowing power from the High Gods in the High Heavens, which inevitably carries the risk of being corrupted by them.

However, the psychic energy within the Stellaris is different. The psychic energy within the Stellaris is generated by creating a mirror-like space within itself, storing powerful psychic energy that can be readily supplied and drawn upon.

This puts a great strain on the individual's physical condition and abilities. In the early stages, the psionicists on the Warhammer side are definitely stronger because they can access psionic power from the warp. However, as the game progresses, the psionicists on the Stellaris side will become more formidable.

Because they are strengthening their own power and transferring it to themselves, the difference between the top experts on both sides is generally not significant, since they are both drawing energy from the subspace or the virtual mirror, so the difference is not great.

The real difference between the two paths is not the strength of their powers, but whether they will be influenced by evil gods.

When psionic power is invoked in the warp, it will inevitably be subject to whispers from evil gods. Under the influence of the corrupting power of the warp, psionicists are very likely to fall.

However, drawing spiritual energy from one's own body is a different matter; the influence of the evil god will be severed.

What Zhou Qing is doing now is exactly that. He is adding a virtual realm to the Imperial Guards, allowing them to wield powerful spiritual energy to assist in their battles.

Most importantly, since spiritual energy is drawn from one's own illusory realm, the Silent Sister's forbidden domain will be of no use to the Guardians.

With the enemy's psionic abilities suppressed, the Imperial Guard can still use psionic abilities in combat and possesses powerful physical combat capabilities.

"This feeling is normal, but your situation is not right. You can actually hear someone whispering in your ear, which is abnormal. Stop the experiment."

"I need to re-examine my theories and situation. You can go and rest now. Remember to report any physical discomfort to me immediately. Don't try to solve it yourself, and don't think about committing suicide to atone for your sins."

"Understand?"

Most people in the human empire take pride in sacrifice. To prevent the Imperial Guard from feeling useless and committing suicide, Zhou Qing gave them this kind of preventative advice.

Upon hearing this, the Imperial Guard soldier immediately sat up from the enhancement chamber, his movements fluid and powerful, yet his eyes held a hint of solemnity and confusion. He carefully sensed the new power surging within him, and the lingering whispers that seemed to come from a distant void.

“Yes, Commander. I understand.” He nodded solemnly. “I will keep a close eye on any unusual activity and report to you immediately. I will never act without authorization or…make any foolish decisions.”

He knew that his current state was crucial to the research on the War Commander, and even more so to the future direction of strengthening the entire Imperial Guard. He could not allow any negligence or impulsiveness on his part to ruin everything.

Zhou Qing nodded in satisfaction, indicating that he could leave to rest in the special observation room and make detailed data records.

After the imperial guard left, Zhou Qing immediately pulled up all the data streams from the experiment, his brows furrowing slightly.

“I can hear whispers from the warp…this shouldn’t be happening.” He muttered to himself, his fingers flying across the virtual keyboard as he recalculated the energy injection formula and the psionic circuit construction model.