"Don't panic. Do not observe the sights outside the warship with your naked eyes; that is not something you can look at. Observe using instruments only.
Everyone, continue to perform your duties and maintain control of our warships."
"Are they not just mere Chaos Gods? Can their petty blasphemous rituals truly pose any threat to us?"
"As long as I stand here, victory belongs to us!"
Using Psychic Power, Noah transmitted his words into the ears of everyone in the entire fleet.
The Imperium of Man crew members, who had been panicking due to the appearance of the Chaos Ritual and Chaos Daemons, regained their composure after hearing this.
This was the effect of prestige. Zhou Xing's prestige within the Imperial Army was simply too high; no one believed the Chaos Gods could achieve victory while the Warmaster was right beside them.
The morale of the Human forces, which had just begun to waver slightly, instantly became high and incomparably firm again.
After boosting morale, Noah glanced at the Warp Blasphemous Ritual outside and the concepts of time and space that had been completely distorted.
The cosmic void outside the warship was now steeped in kaleidoscopic colors. If an ordinary person were to look at it, they would be driven completely insane.
Only someone like Noah, who possessed formidable Psychic Power and his own Minor Void Realm, could witness such a sight without feeling anything.
To deal with the current situation, Noah's mind began to spin rapidly.
He was thinking about how to lead his fleet out of the entanglement of time and space.
One minute later, Noah's gaze focused on Kairos's location.
The influence of the Chaos Gods of the Warp was generated through the Chaos Blasphemous Ritual Kairos had just performed.
Furthermore, Kairos, as the vessel for the Four Chaos Gods of the Warp, was the most crucial element.
All the effects originated with Kairos, who had already appeared in the Real Universe, as the core.
As long as Kairos could be directly killed, the influence of the Chaos Gods would naturally be dealt with by more than half.
As for how to resolve the remaining half of the Warp influence, that would naturally involve dealing with the Orks.
The appearance of these Orks was certainly not meaningless; since they appeared here, they naturally held significance.
Having a clear objective, Noah began to assess the combat strength he possessed.
It must be said that Kairos, the most famous Greater Daemon under the Lord of Change, had made arrangements that were quite interesting.
He used 48 other planets among the 20 Star Systems to disperse Noah's forces.
Among those 48 planets, 970,000 Space Marines were dispersed from Noah's command.
Furthermore, the number of Astra Militarum troops tied up amounted to a full 3.94 billion people.
This left Noah with only the remaining 30,000 Space Marines and 60 million Astra Militarum troops.
As for the Titan Legion, only 100 War Lords, 70 War Lords, and 4 Imperators remained.
Although the main force of the Patrol Fleet was still by Noah's side, with the completion of the Warp Blasphemous Ritual, the naval warships could no longer play much of a role in this war.
The distorted time and space greatly weakened the attack power of the titan warships, while the powerful Ork Psychic Shield and the Psychic Shield jointly erected by the Four Chaos Gods could completely isolate all of Noah's attacks.
Noah's previous method of relying on his warships to directly destroy the enemy had completely failed at this moment.
The Four Chaos Gods had constructed a battle scenario they excelled at and one the Imperium of Man often had to fight.
Standard ground warfare.
This entire combination of factors forced Noah to admit that the Four Chaos Gods were indeed not to be underestimated.
After taking stock of the forces he held, Noah locked onto his first target.
"Warships cease attack and approach the Ork planet and the satellite where Kairos is located at low speed. Astra Militarum troops prepare to deploy onto the Ork planet to eliminate the Orks."
"Space Marine troops will also cooperate with the Astra Militarum in the operation. Your mission is to eliminate as many Orks on that planet as possible to reduce their energy."
"The Custodes will come with me; I will personally go and see that Greater Daemon of Chaos."
At this moment, Noah had no one available, so he could only act personally...
The Commander of the Custodes, Valdor, had been deployed by him to the border with Starfish, responsible for maintaining the situation there and striking the Eldar.
The Primarchs each had their own duties to attend to, and Roboute Guilliman was handling the Imperium's state affairs.
Looking around, Noah realized that he had to personally take action for this Expeditionary Fleet.
At this moment, Noah suddenly realized that he seemed to need to train some capable subordinates...
Relying on the military to run rampant, and having his Federation Combat Robot Bodyguards for protection, Noah had never needed to train any so-called subordinates.
Furthermore, relying on the technology of the Terran Dominion and the principles of Federation combat, Noah almost never engaged in ground warfare, always relying on his warships to dominate others.
This meant that even after coming to this universe for so many years, he had never cultivated a single capable Military Commander.
Now, with this maneuver by the Chaos Gods of the Warp, Noah suddenly realized the importance of this point.
It seemed that after this incident was over, upon returning to the Imperium of Man, he must select a few promising talents from the Custodes and train them well.
He also needed to select a few promising talents from the Grey Knights to train.
Otherwise, having to handle everything himself would truly be terrible.
While Noah was thinking this, the 1,000 Custodes who had accompanied him had already assembled and stood in the Bridge.
At this moment, the concepts of time and space in the Warp were already confused. If the trouble involving Kairos was not solved, the Human forces would be unable to approach the Ork planet.
Therefore, Noah had to deal with Kairos first before he could handle the Orks.
"Prepare to deal with that Daemon with me." Looking at the assembled Custodes behind him, Noah issued the command.
"Understood!" replied Varkato, the Tribune of this thousand-man Custodes unit.
"Warmaster, please focus on dealing with that damned Greater Daemon of Chaos. Leave the rest to us. Ordinary Greater Daemons and Daemons will certainly not escape from our hands."
The Custodes had sufficient confidence in dealing with ordinary Daemons and Greater Daemons.
Noah nodded: "Get ready, we are about to begin teleporting."
A transparent Psychic Power was released from Noah's hand, enveloping all the Custodes.
The next second, all the Custodes vanished inside the warship.
Time and space had been completely disrupted, so Warp Jumping and conventional navigation methods were impossible to breach; only through psychic means could they bypass the distortion directly.
A flash of white light later, the figures of 1,000 Custodians and Noah appeared on the satellite. The moment Noah and his group appeared, Kairos's two bird heads turned to look at Noah's location.
"You're finally here, human!"
"I can't wait to know how much knowledge is in your brain. Come on."
The Chaos Daemons of the Tzeentch faction simply could not resist the knowledge in Noah's brain; they could not resist the temptation of knowledge.
As a Level 10 Scientist of the Terran Dominion, his brain contained far too much knowledge, and all of this knowledge was unknown to Daemons like Tzeentch.
If the great Lord of Change had known what kind of existence the knowledge in Noah's brain was, he would not have been helpless against the weapons Noah deployed in the Warp, only able to barely resist.
Noah ignored Kairos. Under his control, powerful psychic energy directly enveloped the small satellite, exploring the situation on its surface.
After a ripple-like fluctuation, the Warp Greater Daemons leaped out one after another.
Hordes of Daemon legions appeared around Noah, completely surrounding the thousand-strong Custodian force.
"Protect the Warmaster!" Tribune Vacatus immediately raised his weapon, and the Custodians around him also took up combat stances.
The thousand-strong Custodian force showed no fear of these Greater Daemons that had jumped out.
Aren't they just Greater Daemons?
In the Webway War and World 108 of the Misty Star, the number of Greater Daemons they had killed was already not small.
Not to mention how many Greater Daemons they slayed daily in the most recent Webway War.
Even during the Webway War of the Great Crusade era, a Custodian Maniple would kill more than 30 Greater Daemons every day.
With only a few Greater Daemons appearing now, how could the Custodians be afraid in the slightest?
"Kill," Noah calmly gave the order.
Upon receiving the command, the Custodians immediately charged out, and hordes of Daemon legions were meticulously minced in their hands.
Even without any mortal auxiliary forces at this time, the numerically superior Daemons were like mere chickens and dogs before them.
Visibly, the Daemon forces surrounding the Custodians were mowed down like grass, while the Greater Daemons leading these Daemon armies dared not approach.
The Daemon Princes even fled madly backward, though they did not forget to command the Daemon armies to charge forward as they retreated, their fear clearly evident.
Once, in a war against the Tyranids, merely six Custodian warriors were enough to face an endless Tyranid Swarm attack.
What's more, there were now a thousand Custodian troops standing by Noah's side.
Chaos Daemons certainly wanted to stop Noah, and they certainly wanted to stop the Imperium of Man, but they did not want to face so many Custodian troops at once.
Even though the Imperium of Man now had a large number of Custodian units, Daemon forces rarely encountered full Custodian squads on ordinary planets.
When encountering such a full squad of Custodians, they had no choice but to deploy large numbers of Lesser Daemons to charge, without anyone needing to tell them.
"Vacatus, don't let those Greater Daemons and Daemon Princes escape. Kill them; their existence is not a good thing for us."
Noah glanced at the one-sided battlefield, then gave another order to the Tribune.
After giving the order, he himself stared intently at Kairos's body.
"You don't seem to be an ordinary Greater Daemon. Your aura is beyond what a Greater Daemon can achieve. Did those evil entities in the Warp give you something?"
Kairos exuded a powerful aura, so much so that even Noah couldn't resolve him in one go. Therefore, Noah didn't rush to act; instead, he prepared to inquire about Kairos's intelligence.
"Human, don't try to trick me here. Today is your death!" How could Kairos not know that Noah was trying to trick him? He chose not to waste words with Noah; instead, his two bird heads shrieked towards the sky.
Then, a huge bird claw swiped towards Noah's location.
"You seem to not have a good grasp of the power within your body?"
Noah still stood in place, but a giant palm appeared above his head, swatting Kairos away with a single blow, making him retreat several steps.
"This power doesn't seem to be yours, does it? It must be something those evil entities in the Warp gave you. Since it's delivered to my doorstep, then this thing should be mine."
"Treasures belong to the virtuous. An unworthy person like you shouldn't think about coveting these treasures anymore."
With that, Noah clasped his hands together. As his hands stretched out to both sides, a psychic longsword enveloped in lightning appeared in his palms.
"Come on, let me see your combat strength. Don't underestimate me just because I'm a Scientist, just a civil official."
"I've sparred with my old friend Cain quite a bit. While my combat strength isn't as strong as his, it's not too weak either."
Noah muttered as he slashed out with his sword, and Kairos naturally tried to block it.
However, as a Scientist, how could Noah fight in a regular, normal way?
When Kairos's claw hard-blocked Noah's attack, something unexpected happened.
The psychic longsword that had just been blocked was no longer a psychic longsword at that moment; instead, it had become something like a whip, wrapping around his entire body.
Immediately after, Noah pulled out another psychic longsword from his left hand and stabbed it directly into his head.
Even with Tzeentch's support, Kairos's combat strength in the material universe was no match for Noah. The psychic longsword easily pierced through one of his bird heads.
With Tzeentch's blessing, Kairos naturally wouldn't lose his life because of this, but extreme pain was indeed being generated.
As a Scientist, Noah's psychic energy wasn't too aggressive, but the raw Empyrean energy he carried was incredibly pure.
When this incredibly pure energy transformed into a weapon for attack, it would adhere to the wound like raging flames, burning fiercely and deeply into the bone marrow, agonizing the soul.
"Daemon! You are a Daemon!" Kairos roared in fury, but his voice was cut short by Noah's second sword strike.
Noah gave him no chance to breathe. The psychic sword in his left hand plunged into the joint of his other wing, and lightning exploded, instantly paralyzing Kairos's wing and sending him crashing violently to the ground!
"Bang—!"
The immense impact cracked the satellite's surface, sending debris flying. Kairos struggled to get up, but Noah's psychic longsword was already pressed against his throat.
Before he could react, Noah's longsword pierced his throat. Now, three areas of his body were burning fiercely.
"What made you think that a small conquest would allow you to fight me?"
"Theoretically, the so-called Lord of Change shouldn't be so foolish. Let me think, you should have a backup plan, right? What is it?"
Noah didn't pull out the three psychic longswords; they remained embedded in Kairos's body. He himself simply moved a distance away, to avoid being caught by any hidden tricks.
He didn't believe that Tzeentch, as the Lord of Change, would only have such limited means; it simply wasn't logical.
Just as Noah had predicted, Kairos, seeing Noah continuously retreating, angrily let out another bird cry.
Screech—
Noah's speed was simply too fast, and he widened the distance between them too quickly, leaving Kairos no chance to act.
A single page of the tome of all-knowing not only enhanced Kairos's combat power but also signified Tzeentch's personal arrival.
Originally, Kairos intended to smash the tome of all-knowing into Noah's face when Noah approached him, full of complacency, to make his god stand firm and end the battle.
However, a Scientist is a Scientist; their perception of danger far exceeds that of ordinary people.
Kairos's plan ultimately ended in failure.
The Custodes were continuously clearing the Warp Daemons in the area; even though a blasphemous Warp ritual had been performed, the ritual was now somewhat precarious. Each daemon was essentially a fulcrum for this Warp ritual.
If Noah wasn't defeated quickly, their devised plan would end in failure, which was absolutely unacceptable.
As Noah maintained some distance from Kairos, a large number of blue ripples began to appear on Kairos's body.
The Warp Daemons, who were originally fighting the Custodes, also vanished without a trace at this moment, transforming into streams of pure energy that flowed towards Kairos.
The Custodes, witnessing all of this, didn't quite understand what was happening, but they quickly moved to Noah's side, forming a protective array to shield him securely within their ranks.
Under the gaze of the Custodes and Noah, an even more powerful two-headed bird-man finally appeared.
The two-headed bird-man who spoke again was clearly no longer Kairos.
"Join me, or die!"
"Your arrival has brought too many changes, and these changes have strengthened my power.
Now it's your turn to make a choice, isn't it?"
"As long as you join me, you will be the strongest existence beneath us. Even if you wish, we can help you eliminate Odin and ascend to godhood!"
One who could promise ascension to godhood like this could naturally no longer be Kairos; it was the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods speaking to Noah.
All the absorbed Warp Daemons represented the power of the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods. Now, all Chaos Gods / The Four Gods had appeared on Kairos's body, with Tzeentch serving as the vessel and core of it all.
Tzeentch and the Chaos Gods did not lie; they were indeed prepared to offer Odin as their bargaining chip to help Noah ascend to godhood.
In front of a top Scientist like Noah, lies were useless; any lie they told would be easily exposed by him. Only genuine bargaining chips could move this Scientist before them.
"As long as you accept our goodwill, you will be the sixth god of the Warp; no one can stop you from becoming a true god!"
The whispers of the Chaos Gods of the Warp appeared in Noah's ears, but Noah dismissively waved his hand, shattering all these murmurs.
"Do I need your so-called ascension to godhood? Take a good look, is there a big gap between my power and yours?"
A bolt of pure Empyrean psychic energy materialized in Noah's hand, and this lightning bolt was far stronger than the one used to attack Kairos.
If Zhou Qing had used this kind of psychic lightning to form a psychic lightning bolt at that time, he could have severely wounded Kairos with just one strike.
Having already ascended once, Noah was fundamentally no weaker than the Four Chaos Gods.
The Four Chaos Gods fell silent... As Chaos Gods, they could sense whether there was any difference between the psychic lightning level in Noah's hand and their own.
The answer was obvious: the lightning in Noah's hand, purely in terms of energy level, was already at their Chaos God-tier energy level.
In other words, this Noah before them, aside from the total amount of energy which couldn't compare to theirs, was truly no different in quality.
So, in other words, Noah could become the sixth Chaos God of the Warp at any time.
He didn't need the help of the Chaos Gods; he just needed to find Vastorr, and then destroy him with a lightning bolt.
If Noah couldn't destroy him, the Emperor could step in and eliminate Odin, and then Zhou Xing would naturally become the sixth Chaos God of the Warp.
From this perspective, their bargaining chip was utterly worthless and offered no benefit.
The two bird heads slowly lowered, while the lightning in Noah's hand became even more solidified. The next moment, Kairos's two bird heads rose again.
"Since you are unwilling to cooperate, then don't blame us..."
"Ah!"
Before Tzeentch and the Chaos Gods could finish their words, Noah directly fed the lightning in his hand into Kairos's mouth.
As it was energy of the same level, under such an attack, the Chaos Gods naturally felt pain.
"Blah, blah, blah, where's all this nonsense coming from? If you want to fight, then fight; otherwise, get lost."
Noah's right hand, resting behind him, moved slightly, and a soul channel enveloped the Imperial Custodes around him. Finally, all these Custodes disappeared.
"Now the battlefield has been cleared, no need to worry about hurting anything else. It's time to settle scores; you four really deserve a beating!"
"Before, in the Warp, your power was too great, and I couldn't do anything to you, at most just annoy you."
"But now, since you've delivered yourselves to the Real Universe to be beaten, then don't blame me. It's time to let off some steam."
Noah rolled up his sleeves, and the next instant, the battle began!
A power gauntlet appeared on Noah's right hand. Combined with Noah's own terrifying and heaven-shattering power, he directly smashed Kairos into the ground of an asteroid.
The Real Universe and the Warp are different; in the latter, powerful physical strength cannot be effectively utilized. But in the Real Universe... although Tzeentch knew Noah was going to attack, Noah's speed was too fast, his strength too great, simply unrivaled.
This left Tzeentch and the others no time to react.
In an instant, Kairos's spirit body was battered and precarious, but this was only the beginning. Noah's left hand reached out again, pulled him out from below, and then subjected him to a merciless frenzy of abuse.
Muda Muda Muda Muda—
Countless fist shadows were thrown in a short time, heavily striking Kairos, dealing endless blows to the once high and mighty Chaos Gods. The next second, the Chaos Gods' energy disappeared.
Fight? Who can fight this bastard Noah in the Real Universe?!
With his current power, even without using psychic energy, even the Emperor could only be picked up and kicked around like a ball by him.
When the power of the Four Chaos Gods completely departed, Kairos's consciousness returned to his body. He looked at Noah, who was preparing to throw another punch at him.
A tear fell from the bird-like eye of the Lord of Change.
"Can you hit a little lighter?"
It was impossible to go easy; as Noah delivered his final blow, Kairos vanished from the Real Universe.
But then again, he was the Great Demon jointly chosen by the Four Chaos Gods to converse with Noah.
He ultimately received preferential treatment.
Noah originally wanted to utterly annihilate Kairos, scattering even his ashes.
However, there was still a certain difference between his power alone and the combined efforts of the Chaos Gods.
Noah failed to completely destroy him; instead, the Four Evil Gods of the Warp intervened and snatched him away.
The last trace of the Great Demon's true spirit was taken by the Four Chaos Gods themselves, and Noah could only watch as this happened.
His power was still insufficient.
He was still in recovery; his power had not yet reached its former peak, so there was no so-called 'getting stronger.'
Noah simply stood in place; after Kairos was eliminated, the Warp limit of this satellite was greatly reduced.
The battleship could now begin to move through space, and apart from attacks still being unable to directly hit the Greenskin planet, everything else could be done.
Noah took one last glance at this satellite; powerful Psychic Power began to emanate from his body, and then the entire satellite was utterly destroyed under his psychic attack.
And this was his current power; his power was rapidly increasing.
In the past, he could only destroy a mountain over 600 meters high with his Psychic Power, but now he could directly destroy a moon-sized satellite with his Psychic Power.
From only being able to destroy a mountain to now being able to destroy a moon-sized satellite, only a little over 10 years had passed, not even 20 years.
As the satellite was destroyed, Noah's figure reappeared inside the battleship, while the Imperial Guard force still stood before Noah. When Noah arrived, the Imperial Guard uniformly knelt on one knee.
"Warmaster," Tribune Varkato knelt on the ground, his face full of remorse.
"No need for this," Noah extended his hand, and with a mere upward flick, Varkato and the Imperial Guard behind him were all helped up by Noah.
"You have already done what you needed to do. As for me teleporting you away later, that was merely to avoid unnecessary casualties."
Noah offered an explanation, but the Imperial Guard clearly felt somewhat guilty; they were unwilling to accept such an explanation.
The Imperial Guard's duty was once to protect the Emperor, but they had not protected the Emperor well, and the Emperor had to sit upon the Golden Throne.
Later, when Noah appeared, they received the Emperor's command to protect Noah.
And now, they had clearly not fulfilled their duty well either.
As the great battle approached, Noah actually had to teleport them back to the battleship to protect their safety.
Leaving the Warmaster alone to face the enemy.
Tribune Varkato and the Imperial Guards were filled with remorse; it shouldn't have been like this.
If the Imperial Guard continued like this, they would never be able to fulfill their duties, so what was the meaning of their existence?
"No need to think so much, Varkato, you have already done very well."
"The Imperial Guard has done what they needed to do. As for the rest, that is my responsibility; you don't need to overthink it."
Noah saw what the Imperial Guard were thinking, so he spoke to comfort them, but clearly, the Imperial Guard would not feel comforted by just a few words like these.
"Warmaster, we want to become stronger. We want to be able to fulfill our duties, and not be like now, where you teleport us away as soon as the battle begins."
"We want to prove to you that we also possess powerful combat capabilities and can fulfill our duties, and are not like those who need protection."
The Imperial Guard wanted to prove their strength, and Noah looked at them.
Actually, it wasn't just looking at them; Noah's Psychic Power began to emanate from his hands, directly seeing through the Imperial Guard's composition.
The Imperial Guard were creations of psychic alchemy, further enhanced with a powerful gene technology system, and with its emergence, the Imperial Guard's combat power was further strengthened.
Because he personally improved the gene system.
These Imperial Guard were already like Great Demons; in a one-on-one duel with a Great Demon, the Imperial Guard could basically achieve victory, unlike before when they needed to cooperate to kill enemies.
Although gene technology could make the Imperial Guard even stronger, it had been experimented with before. The gene sequence developed in Stellaris previously was difficult to use on the Imperial Guard.
So if Noah wanted to make them stronger, he would need to research from scratch. But now, as the sole Scientist leader without enough Scientists to cooperate, Zhou Qing was in an era of genetic modification. But it was too troublesome.
Therefore, on the path of genes, Noah found it difficult to continue their growth, and naturally, he could only consider another path: Psychic Power.
However, the Imperial Guard were naturally immune to Psychic Power, so after some research, Noah helplessly said,
"I understand your concerns. I will help you think about how to solve this problem and make you stronger, but..."
"It won't be possible in the short term. I need to return to Terra and have some discussions with that fellow human, and conduct some experiments."
"Varkato, are you willing to represent the Imperial Guard and participate in the experiment? This might be dangerous, but if successful, the Imperial Guard's combat power can once again be significantly improved."
Varkato knelt on one knee without hesitation: "Warmaster, for the glory of the Imperial Guard, I am willing to accept any experiment!"
The other Imperial Guards also echoed in unison: "For the Imperium of Man!"
Noah nodded in satisfaction: "Very good. But before that, we must first deal with the matters here."
The strengthening of the Imperial Guard still needed to be done; he had stopped halfway through before mainly because he, Noah, was too busy, but now...
A powerful ground army was still necessary; Noah felt it was essential to make the Imperial Guard even stronger.
Noah refocused his attention and looked at O'Mighty. This Greenskin planet was now constantly circling in the void, and the influence of the Warp had still not disappeared.
All kinds of pollution, although no longer able to hinder the battleship's advance, still obstructed the battleship's detection; even Noah could only detect a small part.
Noah saw the Greenskins on this planet. These Greenskins were surrounded by various colored energies and had become extremely violent and powerful.
Now, from Noah's perspective, even the lowest-ranking Gretchin among the Ork Beastmen were as large as ordinary Greenskin boys outside.
As for the other Greenskins, they were incomprehensibly tall. The combat power of Greenskins is directly proportional to their size, and now that these Greenskins were so large, it also represented the strength of their power.