Warhammer: I don't want to become a stinky can!

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Initially, the Empire attempted to destroy the air defense system of this massive battle moon in order to directly impose an extermination order. However, it was subsequently discovered that the terrain of this battle moon changed more drastically and rapidly than that of the previous two battle moons.

A three-dimensional map that has just been discovered by the Mechanicus and the Astral Army through blood and sacrifice is often only reliable for an hour, because after an hour, the terrain here will change drastically again.

Ultimately, the three Primarchs decided to split into three groups, led by the Blood Angel Priest and the Space Wolf Rune Priest, and each group would head to the area on the Battle Moon where the waaagh field was most concentrated.

Guided by the Holy Blood Angel Priest, Angron, the Lord of Red Sand, arrived first at his battlefield, where five green-skinned wizards, who called themselves Imperial Archers, had gathered together.

Saint Gilles and the Holy Blood Angels found the Warlord's location deep underground and began fighting this Warlord who rode a giant motorcycle through various tunnels.

Vulcan and the Space Wolves were the last troops to arrive at their destination. Before them stood the green-skinned Great Techies who controlled the Battle Moon.

The first to finish the battle was Angron. Seeing that the green-skinned wizard was dead, the Lord of Red Sand immediately began to retreat.

Next came the archangel. After sacrificing all the Holy Blood Angel priests who accompanied him, Archangel Saint Gilles successfully beheaded the warlord. However, at the same time, Saint Gilles was seriously injured, and one of his wings was torn off.

Meanwhile, with the death of the Warlord, the tunnel where the Archangel was located began to collapse.

On the other hand, Vulcan and his group's battle against the Great Techies was particularly difficult. A Great Techie from a Greenskin clan often possessed combat power comparable to a Warlord, as well as countless combat technologies.

During the battle, the Great Techies, realizing that the Warlord was dead, tried to activate the self-destruct program of the Battle Moon, attempting to annihilate the entire human army on this Battle Moon.

However, its actions were stopped by a space wolf. During the ensuing struggle, the fighting moon began to drift within the solar system and then jumped directly into subspace near Mars.

On the surface of the moon, humanity was exposed to the warp, and a third of the Astral Army mutated on the spot, either committing suicide or being shot by their own comrades.

The ordinary people near the priest were spared.

Three minutes after entering the warp, Vulcan successfully killed the green-skinned Great Techies. Subsequently, the Primarch, relying on memory and intuition, forcibly moved the battle moon to the location where it had initially jumped into the warp, and then forcibly jumped again.

Within the solar system, from the disappearance of the battle moon until its reappearance above Uranus and the beginning of its disintegration, a total of three days and five hours elapsed.

During this time, apart from Belisarius Caul, who stayed by the Primarch's side and analyzed and cracked the Greenskin's teleportation technology, no one knew what kind of trials Robert Guilliman, who remained on Terra, had gone through.

Uranus, home to one of only two stargates in the solar system—the Elysian Gate—is an important defensive planet and logistics hub for the Empire.

Uranus possesses a powerful super-defense platform that ensures it will not suffer irreparable damage from the debris of the battle moon. However, now every piece of debris falling toward Uranus carries a surviving human army.

Under the command of Imperial Regent Guilliman, countless Space Marine fleets anchored on Uranus were mobilized to join the Imperial Navy within the Terran system in the "Great Evacuation Plan."

On the third battle moon, one-third of the Space Marines who survived the war were successfully evacuated, while those who were unable to evacuate, along with the Orks, were reduced to ashes falling towards Uranus under the fire of the Uranus super-defense platform and the torpedoes and lances of countless fleets.

Meanwhile, the ion waves from the explosion of the Battle Moon interfered with the stargate on Uranus, which is expected to be unable to function for thirty Terra years.

As the last piece of the battle moon's wreckage turned to ashes, the flames of war that had raged across the Terra star system finally began to die down.

But the Primarchs all knew that this was just the beginning.

Inside the hall where the archangels and greenskins were locked in fierce battle, six banners were hanging, and the warlord, who had been beheaded by Saint Gilles himself, sat under a crimson banner with a distorted sun painted on it.

There are five remaining warlords.

At the same time, the Greenskins' bizarre teleportation technology means that Terra could be exposed to enemy attacks again at any time.

After a brief discussion, the Primarchs unanimously agreed that, at this moment, only by taking the initiative to launch an attack could the Empire gain a slight advantage.

The greatest war cannot be allowed to continue to rage on Terra, otherwise the belligerent orcs will launch a continuous barrage of attacks on Terra.

While Sanguis, Vulcan, and Angron were locked in fierce combat over Terra, Guilliman was also analyzing and coordinating various information. Communications were restored, and according to the Astronomical Court, the entire Empire was suffering from an attack by the Greenskins, who had suddenly jumped out of the warp.

After consulting with Vincent of the Tribunal and the mortal officials of the Ministry of the Interior, Killieman concluded that Ulano was the "capital" established by this Greenskin Empire after it moved out of the Warp Treaty.

Without hesitation, the empire launched a great expedition towards Ulanno.

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The Great Expedition of Ulanno:

Under Guilliman's emergency orders, several chapters that had returned to Terra were reorganized into their parent chapters, while chapters with a history of glory were allowed to retain their original chapter insignia on their left shoulder armor.

The Blood Angels and Ultra Warriors once numbered 100,000, while the World Eaters and Fire Lizards numbered 60,000 and 80,000 respectively.

Led by Vulcan, the Lord of Fire Dragons, and Angron, the Lord of Red Sand, approximately 200,000 Space Marines, including the Salamanders, World Eaters, Imperial Fists, Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Ultramarines, and countless sub-units such as the Black Templars and the Crimson Fists, launched a great expedition towards Ulanor.

Some Ultramarines and Blood Angels, along with their Primarchs, guard Terra to prevent the Orks from suddenly teleporting again.

Countless imperial armies were deployed at key transportation hubs within the empire's territory, as well as in important world locations, to guard against Greenskin raids.

The Stargate on Pluto was heavily guarded. In order to maintain Imperial communications despite interference from the Greenskin Waaagh, countless outstanding psykers were sent to the Star Court, which had been neglected since the end of the Great Rebellion, at Robert Guilliman's behest.

The influence of the Star Language Court, the Navigator, and the Star Torch Court expanded during this period.

However, Terra still could not contact Storm Starfield. According to Star Language Court's observations, at least two Warlords appeared in Storm Starfield.

Due to route planning, the Storm Starfield is not on the route of the Ulanno Great Expedition.

The Empire believed that the Pale Lord, located in the Storm Starfield, was able to resolve the crisis on his own.

Meanwhile, Guilliman instructed Belisarius Caul and other mechanical sages to begin researching the Greenskins' teleportation technology.

On the other hand, this Terran expeditionary force saved dozens of sectors from being conquered by the Greenskins, and finally arrived near Ulanor at the end of 007.M32.

Before reaching Ulanor, the legion had already destroyed two more battle moons and killed a warlord. Vulcan died once during this period, but with the help of Angron, the Lord of the Dragons rose again.

Due to war losses and the need to support the stationed transport hubs and logistical worlds, the army still had more than 100,000 Space Marines when it arrived in Ulanor.

But as they fought against the human empire, the greenskins grew stronger rapidly. They began to evolve tactics and technologies specifically designed to counter the human empire, and at the same time, they became more cunning.

Compared to the early stages of the Ulanno Expedition, the Greenskins that people are facing now are generally 1.5 to 1.8 times larger.

Now, after countless battles, this expeditionary force has arrived above Ulanno—the planet where the War General was crowned.

However, the urgent situation did not allow the Primarchs to express their feelings. In order to end the war as soon as possible, the Imperial Expeditionary Force immediately launched multiple orbital bombardments toward Ulanor in preparation for the upcoming landing operation.

But—something unexpected happened.

Under the attack of the Imperial fleet, the massive planet Ulanor seemed to come alive. A very long fissure opened up from Ulanor's surface and grew larger and larger. Ulanor trembled violently like a coughing green giant, spewing out— from its enormous mouth filled with chaotic psionic energy.

Mountain Phalanx.

Yes, at 348.M31, the Mountain Array, along with Primarch Rogue Dorn and most of the Imperial Fists that had gone missing, appeared before people at this very moment.

Angron and Vulcan immediately realized that the Imperial Fist, which had disappeared in the Misty Starfield, had been caught up in a chaotic battle with the Ulanor Greenskins. Under the influence of the Waaaagh force field, the Imperial Fist, whose psionic communication was already unstable, had its connection with the Empire severed.

The message that Xingyuting received back then, once completed, became...

+WAAAAGH——ORK! ORK! ORK! WARNING! ! +

(WAAAAGH—Green skin! Green skin! Green skin! Warning!!)

However, due to the past grievances between the Celestial Court and the Imperial Fist, the message was not fully received by the Empire. The warning that Rogue Dorn and the Imperial Fist had given with sacrifices did not attract the attention of Terra.

Anglon and Vulcan immediately changed their target and led their troops to attack the mountain fortress, which was now covered with green-skinned soldiers.

The outer perimeter of the Mountain Array had been transformed into a fortress by the Greenskins, and the ground was littered with the corpses of Imperial Fists. The dull yellow armor buried beneath the wreckage served as a stark reminder to the Imperial soldiers who landed that the war had been incredibly brutal.

The green-skinned creatures here are even more troublesome—they have undergone significant evolution in their battles against the Imperial Fists.

The mother and daughter regiments developed from the remnants of the Imperial Fist that led the army to fight alongside Vulcan and Angron all unleashed astonishing fighting power at this moment.

The Sons of Dorne cried out, "Primarch above! For Dorne!" and tore a path to the depths of the Mountain Array with their lives.

Not all of Dorne's sons died. During the battle inside the Mountain Array, Angron discovered the Imperial Fist Kurand, who was still fighting.

Dorne himself did not die.

Beside the nuclear reactor pool of the Mountain Array, Angron and Vulcan saw Roger Dorn still fighting.

Rogue Dorn faced a green-skinned warboss whose size was comparable to that of the severely wounded Saint Gilles.

Angron and Vulcan immediately joined the battle, and ultimately, the three Primarchs joined forces and used a weightlifting machine to smash the Warboss into the nuclear reactor.

Almost at the same moment that Warboss's dying howl disappeared, the heavily wounded and desperate Dorn collapsed.

Angron immediately tried to treat Dorne, but the Primarch's injuries were too severe, and Angron judged that Rogue Dorne was about to die.

As he lay dying, Roger Dorn stared into Angron's eyes and uttered a few hoarse words.

[Not just... three... three...]

More than three? The Primarchs certainly knew that there were a total of six green-skinned warlords, and so far, three had been killed—while two remained in the Stormfield, meaning that only one warlord was left on this mission.

Angron nodded and immediately decided to retreat with Vulcan, placing Roger Dorn in a static field.

But it was only during the retreat that the two Primarchs realized what Dorn was talking about.

Due to the intense battles with the Imperial Fist, two new warbosses have evolved on the Mountain Array, in addition to the first warbosses to board the Mountain Array—two of whom are not among the original six.

These two new warbosses have been fighting on the Mountain Array ever since, never leaving it, and are unknown to the Greenskin Empire.

Normally, the three warbosses take turns engaging in a war of attrition with Roger Dorn, using Roger Dorn to make themselves even more powerful.

Seeing that the seemingly indestructible Minion and Lord Gark were dead, the Orks immediately surrounded the other two surviving Warbosses, Lord Tark and Lord Yak, and launched an attack on the retreating Primarchs.

Having already been injured in the previous battle and now tasked with protecting the dying Dorn, Angron and Vulcan were almost completely overwhelmed by the Greenskins' offensive.

Meanwhile, the fleet surrounding the army was attacked by an unidentified fleet, and countless Space Marine ships were swept into the warp.

The appearance and disappearance of this unidentified fleet were extremely rapid, as if it had deliberately avoided the two Primarchs.

Afterwards, the Empire confirmed that this was the work of the Traitorous Legion, led by Abaddon's Chaos army.

On the other side, during the battle, Vulcan died protecting Dorn. With no other choice, Angron, with the help of Kurland, led the remaining Imperial Fists, World Eaters, and Salamanders in a retreat while fighting, using the complex terrain of the Mountain Array to buy as much time as possible for reinforcements.

Angron knew that his remaining forces would not receive any reinforcements from Terra.

But with two brothers behind him who might already be "dead," the heavily wounded Lord of Red Sand must fight to the very last moment.

But—reinforcements arrived.

Near Ulanor, led by an unknown Eldar, the two-faced Vox, carrying mistletoe, emerged from the net tunnel with a team consisting of Silent Monks, Silent Sisters, the Hound Legion, and Death Guards (?), and quickly joined the battle on the Mountain Array.

(It should be noted that during the Stormstorm, the title of the Death Guard Mother Chapter was bestowed upon the Undead Karas Typhon by Mortalian himself. Therefore, from a political perspective, the Primarch himself should have led a Death Guard Chapter, and in this battle, it should have been an unnamed Death Guard Chapter that participated in the fighting.)

The moment this silent army arrived on the battlefield, the situation was instantly reversed.

This army possesses the ability to suppress the waaagh field of the Orks. The Soulless Ones, clad in black armor slightly thinner than the Space Marines, slaughter enemies among the Orks. Even the mortal Hellhounds have the ability to resist suppressing the waaagh field of the Orks.

The Soulless and the Hounds, together with the Imperial forces and Space Marines surrounding the Mountain Array, began to purge the Greenskins.

Meanwhile, in the main hall of the Mountain Array, which was wide enough for the Titans to pass through, Two-Face Vox, along with the Death Guards, began summoning their Primarchs aboard the Mountain Array.

Amidst the deathly silence, white mist descended upon the Mountain Array and rapidly expanded, to some extent resisting the Greenskins' waaagh stance.

Inside the Mountain Fortress, Angron, who was struggling to hold on, sensed the mist of the Pale Lord and immediately led the remaining warriors in a breakout attempt.

The two sides finally met, and in the face of the deaths of Vulcan and Roger Dorn, Mortarion, the Pale Lord, was finally summoned in the warp and revealed his physical form.

The two Primarchs teamed up and successfully killed two Warbosses.

Later, on the battlefield, Mortarion refused to accept Rog Dorn's death and ordered the remaining Fists of the Empire to pray to the Lord of Man as soon as possible. At the same time, Mortarion and Angron awakened the dead Vulcan.

Vulcan stood up again.

Roger Dorn remains unconscious, but Mortarion claims he is unharmed.

Soon, with the help of the Death Guard reinforcements, the Empire successfully occupied the Mountain Array and regained leadership of it.

On the battlefield, the three Primarchs who were still conscious immediately gathered the remaining, still-living Fist of the Empire and returned the Mountain Array to the Sons of Dorne.

Led by Kurland, all the Sons of Dorne present swore that they would remember the help of the three Primarchs.

While clearing out the corners of the Mountain Array, the Primarchs held a brief meeting, mainly to inquire about various matters concerning Mortalian.

It turns out that after the Great Rebellion, the almost completely wiped-out Order of Silence did not truly disband. Everyone had already accepted their destruction, but Mortarion found all the remaining members of the Order of Silence and rebuilt and expanded them in the Storm Starfield.

After the Dark Day, Mortarion himself did not receive any orders from the Empire. At the same time, the Pale Lord himself had to deal with the Greenskins that suddenly appeared in the far south of the Storm Starfield.

After slaying two warbosses and ordering the psionic titans to guard key worlds, the Pale Lord received news of Vulcan's death.

Then, Mortarian watched helplessly as Vulcan's death was brought back to the fore.

Realizing something was wrong, the Pale Lord immediately went to the state church in the northern part of Storm Starfield and, with the help of the priests, contacted Saint Gilles.

Through Saint Gilles, Mortarian learned of the expeditionary force that was marching toward Ulanor.

The Pale Lord knew his brothers well and the state of the Imperial army, so without hesitation, Mortarion immediately dispatched his forces.

Mortarian remained absolutely silent about how this army arrived in Ulanor amidst the chaos of the warp.

Vulcan and Anglon were not Robert Guilliman, nor were they Primarchs like Saint Gilles or Corax; therefore, the two Primarchs accepted Mortalian's silence and his strange state.

At this moment, the Lord of Death does not seem to be as powerful as Saint Gilles.

Mortalian had become weak—not as powerful as the two Primarchs remembered him to be.

After a brief rest on the Mountain Array, the three Primarchs, having rallied their forces, launched their final attack on Ulanno.

Faced with the powerful wizarding army of the Greenskins, the three strongest Silent Warriors among the Soulless sacrificed themselves, summoning an absolute domain—the Underworld—to break through the Greenskins' extremely powerful psionic attacks.