The 9th Expeditionary Fleet is an expeditionary force led by the Scarlet Upstarts, a group of Holy Blood Angels, whose flagship is the Valkyrie-class battleship "Unripe Dream".

The blue-blooded noble warband leading the 13th Expeditionary Fleet is heading southwest, targeting Ultramarines' homeland: the Otramar Domain.

The Crimson Newcomers and the 9th Expeditionary Fleet set off to the northeast, preparing to return to the home planet of the Blood Angels: Baal.

The Crimson Prides had already made contact with the Holy Blood Angel Mother on the planet Baal before they set out, and Baal claimed that the archangel St. Giles had appeared to Baal and sent an oracle to prophesy the beginning of Terra's expedition.

The 9th Expeditionary Fleet was allowed to travel to the home of the Blood Angels to receive aid from the Mother Order, and in addition to that, they could also receive a relic on the Baal.

Namely: a feather plucked from the archangel St. Giles himself.

This is the supreme glory of the Angel's Child, and the blessing of the Deceased Primordial to his own Son who embarks on an expedition to Terra.

The last message sent back to the home port by the Unfamiliar Dream read, "We are about to arrive in Baal", after which the entire 9th Expeditionary Fleet was silenced, and Greywind's attempt to contact Baal directly through the Starwhisperers failed.

Russell lowered her head and saw that Gray Wind had a worried look on her face, she was really worried about the safety of the 9th Expeditionary Fleet.

It's not that Grey Wind cares about the Imperial fleet as if it were his own, Russell himself is worried about the 9th Expeditionary Fleet, because the place they are going to is Baal.

Of the three relics provided to Russell, the Organic Canon is in the Maelstrom Field, and the other two are in "Baal" and "Calisis".

"Marshal, do you think the 9th Expeditionary Fleet may have been plotted by Chaos? Or did you encounter an orc or a spirit alien or something? Or...... Something to do with the treasure that was left in Barr? "Grey Wind's mind has begun to diverge.

Russell did not comment: "We don't know what that treasure in Barr is, so don't think about it." ”

Of the 3 relics, he only knew that it was the organic canon that had fallen into the maelstrom, and the "transcriber" in the Kalisis sector, and that Barr had not had time to hear what Russell was - he was about to twist off the skull of the sadist, but he didn't succeed, and only hastily unscrewed a helmet and ran it.

Compared to Gray Wind, who was worried about being surprised by something, Russell didn't worry too much about Baal's side. The Terra Expedition has its own emperors and archangels to worry about, and they are much more concerned about the future of the empire than they are about their own children. Russell still prefers to devote his energy to running his own territory, the Far Eastern Star Field.

"There's no need to be so sad, the Emperor will bless them—I mean really." Russell pulled up Gray Wind's bitter face a little helplessly and wanted to make a smile for her: "Now we need to be more concerned about the situation on the clay artist's side, which directly involves a race that once started the battle for heaven. ”

The grinning Gray Wind naturally understood the importance, and as soon as he let go of his hand, he immediately reported to Russell about the situation of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet:

"After poisoning the machine soul and angering the clay artists, the 13th Expeditionary Fleet broke out into a head-on armed conflict with the Antars Mechanical Arts Association and the Space Necro Free Men Organization."

"The Blue Blood Noble Warband suffered heavy losses in this conflict, with fewer than 120 ships managed to escape from Vidal, but they also managed to inflict heavy losses on the Antars Mechanical Arts Association and the Free Men Order, of which Antarx was almost completely wiped out."

"Now the remnants of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet are rushing to the next target system, and they are in dire need of supplies and repairs."

Russell couldn't help but bow his head after hearing this, facing the united space necromantic freelancers and the mutinous oilmen who knew the weaknesses of the imperial warship construction, the 13th Expeditionary Fleet was actually at a great disadvantage. When he learned that the conflict broke out, he was already prepared for the destruction of the blue-blooded nobles and the crash of the Dianying Heroine, and it was a surprise that the expeditionary fleet could successfully evacuate under such circumstances.

After this battle, although the 13th Expeditionary Fleet suffered heavy losses on the surface, their ships also awakened a high-level machine spirit with self-awareness, which was actually earned strictly speaking.

Not only is the awakened machine soul more self-aware and easier to coordinate with each other, but the resistance of the machine itself to subspace erosion has also been greatly strengthened, and it is generally not a big deal to go directly into the subspace without opening the Geller force field - provided that there is no one on board.

Gray Wind tried to hold his hands on his chest as before, and then found that he couldn't hold them together, so he had to fold his hands on his lower abdomen and said, "When leaving the Vidal Star Zone, the Heroine of the Dianying heard a voice behind him, which seemed to be that of a clay artist. ”

"Oh? What did He say? Russell's interest was ticked off.

"Hmm...... The clay artist said: Freedom is something more precious than gold and hotter than fire. The burning Golden Throne will one day be extinguished, and the dawn of wisdom will come. Gray Wind bit his lip, a little puzzled: "Marshal, is this sentence cursing the emperor to death?" ”

"Why not?" Russell had a happy expression when he had eaten the melon: "The 13th Expeditionary Fleet could have been wiped out, looking at the reaction of the clay artists, it is estimated that the emperor blessed them." ”

Well, the emperor is born to be in conflict with the gods.

After knowing that the emperor had saved the 13th Expeditionary Fleet, Russell also had some insight into the loss of the 9th Expeditionary Fleet. After eating the melon, he refocused on caring about business.

Leaving Falla, Russell and Grey Wind went to the main star of Nifuel in the Nirvana system, and briefly went through the integration progress of the Far Eastern star field.

According to the previous situation, Russell's original estimate was that Colonia could complete the actual control of the northern star belt of the Great Hollow in Nightmare within 20 years, but now it has only been 10 years, and its mission is basically completed in less than half the time.

The northern star belt of the Far Eastern Frontier has been almost wiped out by swarms, and the hatching planets are deployed in the node systems by Koroniai, and there is no greenskin or alien pirate in the starry sky.

The integration of the northern belt was able to progress so quickly, and Colonia's efforts to obtain the master's genome were naturally indispensable, but this was not the main reason.

"The real main reason is that the Greenskins are leaving the Far Eastern Frontier." While receiving and combing through the various personnel, materials, losses and other information sent back by the frontline fleet, Gray Wind said to Russell:

"Several of the Greenskinned tribes, including the three largest clans, the 'Steelbone Clan', the 'Skull Shattering Clan', and the 'Bloodtooth Clan', have collectively moved away from the Far Eastern Frontier before they have encountered the tentacles of the swarm...... Well, something like the Great Migration of Mammals on the continent of Falla? ”

"Just kidding, it's not like it at all."

Grey Wind turned his head to Russell and gave a bright smile: "The timing of these greenskinned tribes leaving the Far Eastern Star Domain is not consistent, it seems that some kind of condition is triggered, or the greenskins get a certain signal. Different tribes will also attack each other on the way to the migration, but in general, the purpose of fighting and killing is not to fight and kill themselves, but to leave the other tribes behind. ”

The tribes left behind will unite to attack the tribe that runs first on the migration route, and the other tribes will be treated the same when they run first.

Flooded with waaagh!! Every technician kid is working overtime to make the boat faster and harder with his rough craftsmanship to leave the other boys behind, and the ship that is accidentally reblown will become a source of parts for other junk ships.

Every boat was working at full throttle, eager to blow the throttle, as if they were scrambling to grab something.

…… Wait, where did the ship get the throttle.

(End of chapter)