Chaos Domain, the Vengeful Spirit.
Inside the large conference room,'stars gathered' at this moment; it was truly a 'When Humanoid Stars Shine' moment. Li Feng and Sanguinius's arrival had changed many things.
The Imperium's second spring of technology and military might, coupled with the return of four Primarchs, prompted Ezekiel Abaddon, the Chaos Warmaster and 'Great Devourer,' to increase his investment in the planned Thirteenth Black Crusade.
Most other Traitor Legions initially didn't take him seriously, so Abaddon spent about a thousand years beating down all the insubordinate Chaos Space Marines and visited several renegade Primarchs to gain their support, until everyone believed he was worthy of the title Warmaster.
This process was only fully completed after the First Black Crusade, when he was still vying for leadership of the Chaos Crusade with Tagus Daravik. With the support of all the Traitor Legions, Abaddon launched the Black Crusade against the Imperium... To date, Abaddon has launched twelve consecutive evil versions of the Great Crusade against the Imperium, but all twelve ended in failure; they all crashed and burned.
(Although GW tried to portray Abaddon as indomitable, charismatic, surpassing his predecessor, and the Imperium's number one enemy... in everyone's eyes, he was depicted as a joke, becoming Chaos Arnie, the Changshu Warmaster.)
The most recent, the Twelfth Crusade, aimed to seize the mysterious and powerful Black Stone Fortress, a flying fortress. Abaddon successfully retreated to the Eye of Terror with two Black Stone Fortresses.
This time, Abaddon's strategy was based on the so-called 'Crimson Path':
He planned to overload the blackstone obelisks on Cadia that suppress the Warp by summoning a large number of demons to its surface. If Abaddon succeeded, the Eye of Terror would engulf Cadia, transforming it into a demon world.
Afterward, Abaddon would advance from the Segmentum Obscurus, planet by planet, until Holy Terra was also swallowed by the Eye of Terror.
Of course, all of this seemed wonderful from the start. However, plans are always subject to change, and this time... the sudden emergence of Li Feng, the so-called 'friend of the emperor' and 'Imperial Prince,' made Abaddon feel troublesome.
During the Great Crusade, he had naturally met the previous 'friend of the emperor,' Malcador, the'Seal Bearer' and Imperial chancellor, who had risen through the ranks with Horus from their home planet.
He knew how heavy that title was; he had personally seen Malcador, surrounded by Sisters of Silence, use his psychic powers alone to pin Horus down.
However, from the current intelligence, he knew that Li Feng was a 'military' and 'technological' enhanced version of Malcador, and even the Four Chaos Gods were secretive about him. The video of the Battle of Gravelax was circulated throughout the Imperium, and Abaddon naturally watched it. He now worried that Li Feng's Dark Age technology could directly crush him and the Black Legion within the Eye of Terror.
Moreover, with the return of Primarchs Jaghatai Khan, Leman Russ, Konrad Curze, and Rogal Dorn—four capable Primarchs—if he continued with his original plan, he might not even need Li Feng to act; those four uncles alone could pull out his topknot.
Since they invited external aid, Abaddon also invited external aid... So now in the conference room sat:
The Primarch of the Iron Warriors, the innate master of civil engineering, the worker among workers, the master of siege warfare: Perturabo!
The Primarch of the Emperor's Children, the noble Phoenix, the demon king of Chemos, the snake spirit empress: Fulgrim!
The Primarch of the Death Guard, the Death Lord, the green-robed, hooded stinky man, the First Captain of the Death Guard: Mortarion!
The Primarch of the Thousand Sons, the Crimson King, the one-eyed sunburned Ogryn, the magic pony: Magnus!
But... these four problem children... Abaddon was very curious if they were his uncles... At this moment, Fulgrim, the snake spirit whose mind was only filled with lewd thoughts, was holding a small mirror, applying makeup to himself, while occasionally asking his brothers next to him if they wanted to join him for a party.
"Come on, brothers... Ah~ brothers, you smell so good~"
Perturabo, meanwhile, was studying the models of Li Feng's creations that Abaddon had acquired. Due to Li Feng's 'Heavenly Machine Engineering,' Perturabo was completely unable to understand the principles of these things. He was currently fiddling with the operating terminal (phone) issued to each Soldier.
"This is truly novel... there are actually things I don't understand... But this extremely advanced 3.5mm headphone jack is definitely mysterious dark technology!"
Mortarion at this moment was exuding a foul-smelling green gas, with maggots, cockroaches, and flies all over the room. He sat disdainfully on the chair, with pus even oozing from the leg of his armor.
"Abaddon, why did you seek out my First Captain Typhus before inviting me? Do you look down on me?"
Magnus was currently engrossed in a book he had recently acquired from Tzeentch, filled with various mysterious dark knowledge. He came here purely because he heard Leman Russ had returned, and he was determined to break that dog's spine and avenge that broken back.
"Aren't we starting yet? I'm usually very busy! Time is money... Dammit! Mortarion! Can you please keep your flies away from my book!"
At this moment, Abaddon looked at the four uncles in front of him, coughed lightly, and then opened the holographic projection, displaying the terrain near the Eye of Terror to everyone.
He cleared his throat and began the operational meeting:
"The Eye of Terror, a place of countless large-scale wars throughout history, over fifty thousand times, right and wrong, difficult to articulate! But historians have always noted that it is on this ancient galactic battlefield that the rise and fall, the waxing and waning of countless civilizations have been decided, hence the ancient saying of 'contending for the galaxy.'"
"Back then! The former Warmaster led various Rebel Legions, converging on the Eye of Terror in three routes, marching on Terra. The day after Istvaan fell, the corpse emperor, seeing the tide had turned, sat upon the Golden Throne! In the middle of the second century of the 41st millennium! It was also in the Eye of Terror that I had the honor of personally leading millions of brave men to conquer the Gothic Fleet and the Cadian Host, achieving a great victory! (Fulgrim and Mortarion secretly chuckled)"
"I don't understand! Why is everyone talking about Horus being trapped on the vengeful spirit, as if this ancient galactic battlefield is destined to bring us ill fortune."
"Thousands of years ago, I embarked on my journey from the Eye of Terror, beginning the Twelfth Black Crusade! The entire Segmentum Obscurus was almost unified! Wherever my Warmaster and my Legion went, the populace became phantoms! It truly was a time of great fortune! That vibrant vitality, that realm where all things competed for growth—it is still vivid in my mind!"
"And merely thousands of years later, has this place become my burial ground? No matter what! The battle forces are five Primarchs against four Primarchs! The advantage is mine!"
Hearing 'five Primarchs,' Perturabo, Mortarion, and Magnus raised their eyes and looked at Abaddon.
"Five? But there are only four sitting here now?"
Abaddon waved his hand, indicating not to rush, not to rush yet:
"Lorgar, the Primarch of the Word Bearers, for well-known reasons, is still being blocked at his door by his nineteenth uncle and dares not come out. But! Twelfth Uncle, Angron, will join our Crusade, but for the sake of our current personal safety, we will wait until the war begins before summoning him."
Just then, the latest intelligence reached the Vengeful Spirit: Li Feng's naval construction was complete, and two more 'big toys' had been added to the Imperium of Man's military manual.
'Aircraft Carrier'
And... 'Juggernaut'
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