Onell gasped and sat up, feeling his neck, which was still aching. But, contrary to what he expected, the skin he touched and the flesh beneath it was intact.

He raised his head and looked at the living saint standing in front of him, with some doubts in his heart.

Oonell remembered that he had been beheaded by a living saint. Although the erection of the neck weakened, the slightest pain that still reminded him from time to time undoubtedly confirmed this fact.

The head is separated from the body and falls to the ground, and the soul is separated from the body and enters another world.

O'Neel's brow furrowed, he did seem to have gone through such a process. And he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have gone through a difficult journey to the side of the emperor's throne.

But......

"Oonell!"

The majestic voice of the living saint rang out, drawing Oonell's attention to her.

"The Emperor has given you a merciful death. And you have passed the Emperor's test of you. ”

"You have found your faith and your duty within you... Keep them in your heart! ”

After hearing the words of the living saint, the expression on Oonel's face changed from initial doubt to sudden realization, and then gradually became fanatical.

"It's going to be a miracle, right?" O'Neel's tone was distinctly restrained with excitement. "You have come to us and brought us salvation."

"You redeemed yourself." Debra corrected, "The Emperor helps the self-helpers." Remember, O'Neill! ”

"Now, take up your weapons and we'll head to other imperial worlds to slay the wicked with bombs, rage, and fire."

"Yes! Do your will! ”

············

After Debra expelled the forces of chaos from Raven, Raven, the capital of the planet, was hit hard, but still organized several troops to support other imperial worlds in the galaxy.

And now with the help of Xiaoluxing, the support force is even stronger. The invasion of the forces of chaos is no longer enough to threaten the rest of the imperial worlds.

Armies led by living saints have won victory after victory in several imperial worlds across the galaxy. Chaos is vulnerable to the might of the living saints.

However, chaos still wreaks havoc on many imperial worlds.

In the last imperial world that had just finished fighting, Eric swept his gaze over the ruins around him with a grim face, and then placed it on the living saint in front of him.

"It was a costly victory at best, but thanks to her, we didn't lose all of it." Eric thought to himself.

And even a saint can't help but show fatigue after a long battle.

Eric walked up to the saint and said respectfully, "You need to get some rest. ”

Debra smiled back, but she couldn't hide her sadness. While the Empire was ultimately victorious, the Empire lost too much in these battles.

The city was overshadowed by a cloud......

But Eric suddenly felt a warm sensation on the back of his neck without his helmet, and he looked back to see that it was the first rays of dawn shining through the clouds.

A ray of sunlight, emerging from the sky, pierced through the black clouds and shone on the saint's body, dispelling the darkness. It illuminates not only the city, but also the hearts of the people of the empire.

"Sage, you have led us to such a great victory with the light of faith." It turned out that more and more soldiers gathered and stood beside the living saints, there were astral troops, there were space marines, and even a few surviving confessors.

They were more or less bandaged, and some used laser guns as makeshift crutches. Their eyes were all focused on the saint.

Eric felt as if he had seen something similar in a book.

And when the dust settles, perhaps he may revisit the moment in the stained glass or tapestries of some churches in the Livingston system.

"I'm just fighting alongside you," Debra said in a hoarse voice. And that's all, it was your faith, strength, courage and determination that brought about today's victory. ”

Hearing the praise of the saint, the soldiers around them stood more straight, boundless love welled up in their hearts, and the fire of faith in their hearts burned more vigorously than ever.

"So what are we to do now, sage?" Eric asked, leaning down and facing Debra.

"The mission is over for the time being, but the battle is not over yet. The Empire's enemies are more than just the Chaos ......"

Debra looked up at the sky, where the clouds had completely dispersed, revealing an endless starry sky obscured by light.

"In this dark universe, there is only war ......"

············

After the appearance of the Great Rift in the Hazy Star Field, it undoubtedly caused a strong shock in subspace and reality, and the subspace storm caused by it was as powerful as the morning star.

The power and scope of this subspace storm was so great that the laws of physics began to waver, and the inconsistencies of time fluctuations, once confined to huge subspace storms such as the Eye of Fear, had now spread throughout the hazy star field.

Since the birth of the Great Rift, some worlds have felt like centuries have passed in just a moment, while others have been virtually frozen in time, and still others have undergone constant time shifts.

The Livingston galaxy is one of them. The reason why these imperial worlds in the galaxy are difficult to connect with the empire is that their time is not synchronized with the rest of the universe.

Sometimes a day has passed, and only a second has passed outside the galaxy. And sometimes a day has passed, and it is already a month away from the galaxy.

This incoherence in time makes it difficult to maintain the continuity of any means of communication.

Fortunately, the Living Saints have led the Imperial warriors to successfully repel the Chaos invasion, and they can keep trying without the threat of foreign enemies.

With the continuous attempts of various means of communication, coupled with the research of the Imperial scholars on time and subspace, although real-time communication cannot be achieved, the Livingston system has indeed restored contact with the Empire.

It's just that the "delays" of this kind of communication are really alarming, sometimes the replies are incredibly fast, and sometimes it takes months to wait for a reply.

Through these communications, the people in the Livingston system have finally learned about the current state of the Empire.

Worlds on the edge of the empire have struggled to survive Tyran's invasion, and most of the Empire's forces are concentrated here. However, those Chaos Evil Gods started from the Great Rift and drove their demon legions to launch an expedition towards the Imperial World.

Chaos Warlord Abaddon is also said to have led the Black Legion from the subspace to the real universe, and the Greenskins, who had long been wiped out by the Empire, seem to have reappeared in this chaos.

Some space necrons seem to have woken up from their slumber and joined the multi-sided battle.

If the other starfields that were invaded by Tyranid were ignited by war, then the Hazy Starfields were completely ignited by the flames of war.

The Reignston system's imperial higher-ups were immediately worried when they learned about the situation in the hazy star field, they had hoped to receive assistance from the Empire, but now the situation seemed to be that the Empire needed their assistance.

However, not to mention that the Imperial world in the Livingston system will need time to recover from the devastation of the Chaos Invasion, and the Imperial fleets will not be able to leave the system at all.

They are now trapped on this planet.

Although the Empire's ships currently use hyperspace engines, they do not rely on the dangerous subspace. But the intense subspace storm created by the birth of the Great Rift can even affect hyperspace navigation.

We all know that subspace is a parallel dimension of the strange darkness of the material universe, where there are no laws of physics, everything is made up of the emotions and thinking energy of intelligent beings in the real world.

Although subspace and real space may sound very different, they are actually closely connected.

A violent storm in subspace not only blocks the navigation of subspace, but also threatens to tear the "veil" between the two and bring destruction to reality.

We can think of subspace and the real universe as two balls, and these two balls are next to each other.

When the ball of subspace vibrates, if it vibrates strongly enough, then the ball of "real space" that is close to it will inevitably vibrate.

Hyperspace, on the other hand, has nothing to do with subspace, it is a space in a high-dimensional turbulence that is not affected by relativity and other physical principles.

If you think of it as a ball, it is not in direct contact with the ball in subspace.

But it is inseparable from real space.

Hyperspace is another dimension of space-time, similar to subspace or other spaces, which is consistent with real space: each point in real space is associated with a unique point in hyperspace.

Essentially, when a spaceship wants to pass through an area of real space, it will pass through the dimension of hyperspace after jumping into hyperspace.

Moreover, all kinds of objects and mass points in real space are adjacent to hyperspace, and every object in real space, such as stars or planets, also has a "projection" at the same location in hyperspace.

These special projection counterparts of celestial bodies and other irregular objects in real space in hyperspace are often referred to as "mass shadows". Therefore, hyperspace jumps require precise calculations to avoid collisions, which are often deadly.

The hyperspace drive causes the spacecraft to leap into hyperspace by emitting supermatter particles, while maintaining the mass and energy distribution of the hull, and then the spacecraft follows the calculated voyage until it jumps out of the destination in real space.

In this way, we can understand why subspace storms can affect hyperspace navigation.

Although hyperspace is not connected to subspace, it is inseparable from the real universe. When the ball of subspace vibrates strongly, causing the ball of the real universe to also vibrate, the hyperspace, which is closely related to the real universe, will inevitably be affected.

Ordinary subspace storms simply don't have enough power to affect the safety of hyperspace navigation, but the intensity of this subspace storm is rare in 10,000 years.

However, this effect has been weakened by the real universe, and it is much smaller than that of subspace.

If trying to sail through a subspace storm in subspace is a life and death, then passing through a subspace storm in a hyperspace channel is five deaths and five lives.

Although the survival rate has been greatly improved, this is still an unacceptable probability for the Livingston system at this time.

They didn't have much troops, and it was intolerable to lose half of their soldiers and ships before they could reach the support site.

As a result, the Imperial World in the Livingston system, led by the Living Saint, has chosen to gather strength.

However, the good news is that after many contacts with the outside world and the study of time itself, those scholars and researchers have found that although the time of the Livingston galaxy is faster and slower than that of the outside world, in general, the time of the Livingston galaxy is much fuller than that of the outside world.

In other words, it may be only a year since the Imperial World outside, and a hundred years have passed in the Livingston system.

This gives the Imperial world in the Livingston system enough time to recover from the devastation of Chaos, train enough soldiers and build enough ships to support the Imperial world threatened by the enemy.

They can likewise wait for the subspace storm to dissipate during this time, or to decrease in intensity enough to allow for safe hyperspace navigation.

But the Living Saint did not choose to put her hopes entirely on luck, she believed in her own strength.

She led some selected psionic masters to control the Psychic Dominator on the Raven Star, carefully eliminating the huge subspace storm that enveloped the entire hazy star field bit by bit.

And while these imperial worlds are working hard, the empires are also thinking of solutions.

Under the threat of a Tyranid invasion and the dire state of the Obscure Star Field, the Empire has decided to raise the technological level of another wave of the Empire.

In the past, many technologies that had been studied and used only in laboratories and laboratories were put into use in the name of the emperor.

One of them can effectively solve the problem that many imperial worlds in the Hazy Star Field are shrouded in subspace storms, and the Great Rift prevents the Sun Star Field from sending follow-up fleets to the edge of the Hazy Star Field to support.

It's called the Jump Engine, a groundbreaking scientific marvel.

The Jump Engine can shatter local space-time continuity and reassemble at the quantum level to be exactly the same as the target location. As a result, the ship completed the "jump" between galaxies almost instantaneously.

Not "crossing", but "jumping".

A wall blocked the way, so you didn't have to hit your head and bleed, but instead chose to "jump" behind it.

Whether the wall is made of paper or pure gold, it will not be able to stop the ship with the "jump engine" installed.