The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3239: Ryan's Cataclysm

When Soryan rushed back to the Natesan System, a flood of information overwhelmed him. Some were psychic signals, others were delivered by hand. Many of them gave him a headache.

From the Archdiocese, Ustade sent nearly nine months of battle reports. Casualty figures showed a monthly increasing trend, and another star system was lost. Several company commanders, after discussing it, believed that a new Tyranid Hive Fleet might have entered the galaxy. The Archdiocese is now under tremendous pressure, and Ustade hopes to receive more ships, troops, and equipment support.

Although Soryan had been psychologically prepared for the increase in the number of Tyranid Hive Fleets, he couldn't help but curse when he saw the casualty figures.

The Tyranid are truly disgusting enemies. Although the enemies in the Warp are also inexhaustible, there are ways to limit their scale and power. Moreover, Warp power is not so easy to enter the material universe. But the Tyranids seem to appear out of thin air outside the galaxy and then rush over in one go. Humanity has no way to deal with this, and can only clumsily engage them in defensive attrition warfare, and it seems like there is no end in sight.

Helpless, Soryan could only increase his investment, sending all the newly trained recruits to the Archdiocese's battlefield, along with a large amount of weapons and equipment. But he also asked people to tell Ustade to try to "think of more ways" himself, and to solve the problems locally as much as possible, striving to tap and develop the Archdiocese's war potential.

The battle situation in Ryza has also deteriorated. Although the Greenskins that invaded in the early stage were not strong, their battles seemed to have attracted real trouble. A Greenskin warboss, marked by the Imperium as 'Gras,' launched an attack on the sector, breaking through the Imperial Navy's defense line three times and invading the Ryza System. Now, a large number of Astra Militarum, including famous regiments like the Catachan Jungle Fighters, have been dispatched to the Ryza war zone. The battle may continue to escalate, and the companies sent there before may not be able to be withdrawn in a short time, and may even require new support. But Soryan can no longer send a single person to Ryza.

He even considered whether to withdraw the companies sent to Ryza, but considering that Ryza had supported him a lot in the past, he couldn't bring himself to make that decision.

The Griffeon Forge World sent another message, this time in an even lower tone than before. The Eight Domains of Griffeon are now in complete chaos. Perhaps the Forge Adepts themselves didn't expect that there would be so many Genestealers in their territory, and there were even entire industrial cities that had fallen into the hands of Genestealer Cults. The Crimson Sabres are already exhausted and unable to meet the sector's defense needs. Moreover, what worries the Adepts even more is whether such a large-scale Genestealer uprising also means that an unprecedented Tyranid invasion is imminent for the Forge World?

For this reason, they had been constantly sending psychic messages to the Natesan System for over a year, constantly requesting Soryan to send companies to help them eliminate the growing Genestealer Cults as soon as possible.

Soryan had a headache. He was already short on troops, but if he didn't send someone, and something really happened to Griffeon IV, it would be a major event that would affect the safety and stability of the entire Storm Sector.

After thinking about it, he still sent Lucullus and his Saberne forces out, partly to support Griffeon, and partly because the Saberne forces also needed training. Only a small squad of personnel needed to be left on the homeworld to continue recruiting new soldiers. In addition, Lucullus was a good hand at intelligence and diplomacy, and he was also more convenient to deal with the Adepts of Griffeon.

At first, Soryan thought that all of this was bad enough, but when he went to the Royal Court to discuss the movements on Orpheus, he learned an unbelievable piece of news.

"What? The Crimson Fists are really going to be destroyed?"

When he heard Dorale's report, Soryan was so surprised that he stood up from his seat. Because it was an informal meeting, the location was chosen in a small garden, and only his close aides were around, including Veronica.

Dorale took out a golden sphere and let it fly into the air. Then, many images were projected.

Against the backdrop of a blue star, the orbit was full of the wreckage of ships, including crude Greenskin warships and ships bearing the insignia of Astartes Chapters.

In the ruined city ruins, soldiers covered in dust were holding guns and shooting forward. Then, violent beasts rushed into the fortifications and began to slaughter with huge battleaxes and choppers. Humans also fought back with various weapons, and the battle between the two sides was extremely fierce.

In the dense forest, Space Marines wearing recruit armor were all wounded and running desperately, occasionally stopping to shoot backwards. Suddenly, a bullet hit a recruit's shoulder, tearing his entire arm off his torso. He immediately gripped his chainsword and roared, rushing towards a certain target.

Finally, the picture froze on a huge ruin. It seemed to be built on a towering mountain, and it was like a scene from an orbital bombardment. The huge rock structure disintegrated and turned into countless large stones scattered around. The terrifying impact crater was visibly hundreds of meters deep. This was still on a rock base. Various metal wrecks, statue wrecks, etc. were distributed around the entire mountain in a diffusive pattern. One can imagine how terrible the explosion was at that time.

"This is…"

"Your Highness, this is the Crimson Fists' Chapter Monastery."

"What exactly happened?"

Dorale clapped his hands gently, and soon a male Ranger walked in, took off his mask, and knelt on one knee on the ground.

"Goldwing Guard Third Class Officer O'Lenny, greetings, Your Majesty, Your Highness."

"Get up, what exactly happened?"

"Your Highness, after arriving in the Ryan System, we found that the Human Empire's space defenses had been completely defeated, leaving only a small number of ships still engaging in guerrilla warfare with the Greenskin fleet. After using stealth reconnaissance ships to arrive at Ryan Prime, we immediately began to investigate and found that the Greenskins had occupied more than 80% of the main continent of the planet. The other, slightly smaller continent only had some small towns and countless small villages, large areas of farmland and farms. The main force of the Greenskins was concentrated on the main continent, besieging the planet's capital, which is also the only relatively large city on the planet."

"What about the Crimson Fists?"

"Through rescuing some human refugees, we have collected some intelligence. The Crimson Fists Chapter Monastery Fortress was destroyed by a terrible explosion, and the vast majority of Chapter personnel died in this explosion. According to the information we collected from interviews, the number of Space Marines killed may have reached six companies, because before the Battle of Ryan broke out, the Crimson Fists had transferred all companies back to their homeworld, but now only two hundred or so people and their Chapter Master are conducting defensive operations in the capital."