Chapter 1018, lonely
After the Cataclysm, Chaos became much more active than before. Among them, there were some special enemies, marked as mortal enemies by the Angels of Death. They never admitted to the outside world, but Gu Hang was already aware of their existence, and they appeared more frequently.
They are called "Fallen Angels" within the Angels of Death, and are said to be traitors among the Angels of Death.
Gu Hang knew about this matter very early on because of the rebellion of the Unforgotten Oath Regiment. He even communicated with the Angels of Death about it.
Hunting down fallen angels is the highest priority for the Angels of Death, and a large part of their energy is focused on this aspect.
Expand the occupied territory?
For the Angel of Death, it is far less important than hunting down the Fallen Angels.
To be honest, Gu Hang was dissatisfied with this. But in the past, he had no position and no ability to order the Angels of Death to do anything.
After the establishment of the new empire, there was a stance of righteousness, but in fact the Angels of Death were still quite independent and not very obedient.
If they had not accepted the addition of the Primaris Space Marines—a group of new recruits sent over in small ships at great risk using coordinates provided by the Angels of Death—Gu Hang would almost have suspected that something was wrong with this founding chapter.
At present, it seems they are not at risk of corruption. Even though they have been following orders but not propaganda for many years, it is not a stubborn problem that needs to be solved immediately. Moreover, the area they control, namely the Absolute Night Universe, is still far away from the Dark Side Expedition. Given the Alliance's relatively conservative Dark Side Expedition process, it may take decades to reach there. It is a long way off.
In this situation, the New Empire's policy is to continue to tolerate the situation of the Angels of Death, and even provide support as much as possible so that they can maintain control of the Night Realm.
Being able to stabilize one-third of the universe is also a good thing, so that more vitality can be preserved, and when the Jue Ye universe returns to peace, there is no need to spend so much effort on reconstruction.
However, when Gu Hang learned about the relationship between "weapons", "keys" and the Angels of Death, he became extremely worried about the current situation of the Angels of Death.
Unfortunately, these arrogant Space Marines of the First Legion, accustomed to independence, refused to give up the territory they had already conquered in the Nightless Realm, the more than 2,000 worlds they controlled, and even less the many clues they held regarding the hunt for the Fallen Angels.
In fact, it is not realistic to ask them to abandon the Ultimate Night Universe and drive the giant stone to the Alliance.
They had to drive the boulder through a long, occupied area, and the situation was completely unknown. Rather than being ambushed or attacked along the way, it would be better to stay in the Jueye Universe, where the situation had stabilized.
Unfortunately, it is not stable.
A powerful Calamity Fleet captured the constantly moving, and logically difficult to locate, Monolith Monastery. This Calamity Fleet put the Angels of Death fleet in a difficult position, and at one point they even boarded and deployed a considerable number of Chaos Space Marines into the Monolith Monastery, engaging the Angels of Death in fierce close combat.
The battle line was at a stalemate for a time.
And at the critical moment, it was the Alliance army that arrived, a fleet from the Blood Angels arrived at the battlefield and helped them.
The reason why the Alliance's army was able to arrive was because before that, an expedition fleet from the Alliance braved the threatening sailing method without the guidance of the Light of the Thunder Torch Tower and arrived at the Jue Ye Star Region despite huge losses.
The mission of this expedition fleet is to investigate the current situation in the Night Realm, establish substantive contact with the Angels of Death, and determine their true attitude towards the New Empire.
At the same time, they also brought with them some Primaris recruits bred using the gene-seed of the Angels of Death.
The gene seeds come from the gene seed bank on Mars.
Throughout history, every legitimate chapter had to pay gene-seed taxes to Holy Terra. These gene-seeds were stored in two vaults, one on Mars and the other on Holy Terra. While the quantity wasn't infinite, it was sufficient to build a large-scale, legion-level army.
The gene-seed of the Angel of Death was certainly among them.
The Death Angels Regiment accepted these new recruits, accepted the assignment from the Imperial Center, and recognized the rule of the new empire. These were all good news, and the expedition fleet's biggest mission was accomplished.
However, in addition to this biggest task, they have one more thing to do.
After greeting the Angel of Death, they stopped on an ordinary planet and used the equipment they brought with them to build a veil spirit portal.
This curtain spirit gate is not big, and its purpose is to transport more and larger curtain spirit gate equipment directly from Comoros.
This method was far superior to the expedition fleet directly bringing a large Curtain Spirit Gate device. For one thing, the equipment required to erect a large Curtain Spirit Gate was also enormous, significantly occupying the expedition fleet's warehouses. Furthermore, its value was high, and the expedition fleet's journey across the vast distance to the Absolute Night Realm was extremely risky, with numerous ships lost and even a high probability of total annihilation. Transporting large Curtain Spirit Gate equipment, which was costly, rare, and difficult to manufacture, on a ship was too risky.
It is a much more reliable method to have equipment that can operate small spiritual doors and then use the small doors to transport large doors.
Since then, the Alliance has had three veiled spiritual gates, two large and one small, in the Jue Ye Universe, within the area actually controlled by the Angel of Death.
The Angel of Death knew this, but did nothing about it.
This also indirectly shows their "loyalty".
When the Stone Monastery was under fierce attack from the Disaster Fleet and was caught in a tough battle, this Blood Angels group that was able to arrive in time came through the Veil Spirit Gate system.
Their arrival helped the Angels of Death stabilize the situation; then, Dante arrived at the battlefield with a main force of the Angel Expeditionary Force, directly breaking the balance of the war and helping the Angels of Death to completely defeat and eliminate the invading enemy.
They were thanked by the Angel of Death, but were also politely asked to leave.
The lonely Angels of Death don't want anyone to know their secrets, not even the friendly forces who saved their lives.
At that time, Gu Hang told them about the so-called "key" and the special features of the Stone Monastery, and especially warned them that Chaos would attack them again and again at all costs and relentlessly.
They appreciated the warning but continued to remain distant.
Until now.
The intelligence system established by the Alliance in the Jue Ye Universe discovered that the Angels of Death, without informing the central government of the New Empire, had gathered more than 30 sub-groups, a total of more than 20,000 troops, and a huge fleet, and sailed towards the other half of the Jue Ye Universe that was not under their control.
(End of this chapter)
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