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Therefore, his brain has simulated all sorts of scenarios, including the one in front of him.
During the battle, Zhou Qing had made ample preparations, taking precautions for all possible scenarios.
Even if the four gods personally take action, he has a contingency plan to deal with it. He is no longer alone in the subspace.
Moreover, after consuming so much of Zeluo's energy, his own spiritual power was greatly enhanced. Although he was no longer able to directly confront the evil god, he was still much stronger.
No matter what, there is an Emperor in Terra, so it's impossible for the four Chaos Gods to personally intervene in this place.
Therefore, Zhou Qing had the strength and means to wear down the demon army of the four Chaos Gods.
Their great demon was annihilated almost immediately after its appearance, and its power and essence were once again returned to their hands, leaving the Chaos Gods bewildered.
Even the all-powerful Master of Change, Tzeentch's wise eyes showed a change.
He never expected that the great demon he and his companions had created together would be destroyed less than a day after its debut.
Although the food looks so delicious and appetizing, it has thorns.
The enemy was stronger than the four Chaos Gods had anticipated.
The great demon they had placed high hopes on had only managed to take down a little over 100 of the opposing star warriors.
Look at their boundless number of people.
Although the Emperor's intervention prevented them from directly surveying the entire battlefield, they could sense that the number of Space Marines here was no less than a million.
More than 100 people died. This kind of loss is equivalent to losing a single hair from a cow, right?
The evil gods fell silent.
Chapter 103 The human empire has survived to this day because of faith, but its greatest enemy is also faith.
"So? Are we still going to fight this war?" Khorne asked.
Although his authority is that of a war god and that war will strengthen his power, can he really call this war a war?
Ordinary Chaos Demons that launch an attack are simply slaughtered.
He wanted a bloody, face-to-face war, not the current situation where his troops were slaughtered before they could even do anything.
Even the powerful demon units created by the four of them together did not survive for more than an hour on a battlefield of this level.
What should be called about a war of this magnitude?
Is it an apocalyptic event?
More than that; the number of units deployed in this war is enough to fight several apocalyptic wars.
Khorne is now hesitant about whether to continue the fight.
The God of War knew very well that this war could not be called a war at all for the Chaos side, but a massacre. The enemy had an extremely powerful war god whose army was more agile than his own hands under his command.
No matter how many Chaos Demons rush in, they will only be slaughtered, they will only die in vain, and then be turned back into energy to be reborn in the Warp.
Although Khorne had no interest in these ordinary lesser demons—they could be reborn as they pleased—the feeling made him very uncomfortable.
There is only one way to break this deadlock: to mass-produce the kind of powerful demons they have just created.
Only sufficiently powerful units can break this stalemate on the battlefield, which was their original hope when they created that level of powerful magic.
But as everyone has seen, the great demon they created, which contained the blessings of the four gods, was destroyed in less than an hour.
This is somewhat pointless, as such powerful demons cannot be mass-produced. It seems they have lost the online war.
They seem unable to enjoy the delicious food, and at the same time, they have lost so many demons, which will take a considerable amount of time to naturally regenerate from the warp.
The four Chaos Gods had lost count of how many demons they had lost.
All they knew was that the war had caused them heavy losses, but they had gained nothing else of value.
The military strength of the human empire has not been weakened much.
When Khorne questioned him, Tzeentch's two bird-headed eyes darted around for a moment before he uttered a single sentence.
"Everything is going according to plan—"
Slaanesh rolled his eyes at Tzeentch; that was all the guy knew how to say.
If it's all within the plan, why doesn't he just take action and break down this defensive line?
Could it be that their Chaos Gods being unable to breach the defenses was also part of their plan?
Nurgle gave Tzeentch the exact same expression.
He suffered the greatest loss among the Chaos Gods, after all, he had deployed a truly massive number of demons.
He felt so sorry for those creatures he had sent out, only to die there in vain, without gaining anything from the Nurgle Spirits.
While the Chaos Gods were discussing whether to stop the war, the demon army continued to launch attacks.
The demons continued their charge, but the result remained unchanged. Under Zhou Qing's attacks, they were unable to inflict any damage on any army.
Under Zhou Qing's command, the human army could not only slaughter these demons at will, but they could also retreat in shifts after mealtimes.
Then go enjoy a nice lunch before coming back to fight.
This is what is called scientific living.
Fighting demons has transformed what everyone perceived as a terrifying war into something as simple as a picnic or vacation.
However, the crisis facing the human empire at this time could not be resolved by force. Even though Zhou Qing mobilized a powerful army and launched a bloody massacre against the demons in the net, which tied down most of their main force, it was not enough.
Both Guilliman and Zhou Qing could see that the human empire at this time was simply a pile of garbage.
From Guilliman's perspective, the current human empire has completely deviated from the future they envisioned in the past.
It became a ruin where superstition overwhelmed reason, filled with pain and wailing.
For individuals, living in such an era is a disaster.
There is no future here, no ideals. People can only gather together in despair, irrationally praying to the emperor who is revered as a god, begging for salvation.
The organization that brings together these hundreds of millions of believers for worship is the Imperial State Religion.
It can be said that Guilliman was quite disgusted by these religious fanatics who held the orthodoxy of the imperial faith and used this as a reason to burn what they defined as heretics.
Even Guilliman held this view, so Zhou Qing's opinion was self-evident.
He was born in the Federation of Humans and was an early member of the Federation.
When the Federation of Humans chose psychic ascension, a large number of sects emerged, and these sects attempted to manipulate the people of the Federation through religious beliefs.
However, it was ultimately annihilated by the decisive action of the Federal Grand Marshal and the Federal People.
There were once powerful religious sects that proposed using divine authority to unite the federation, but they were ultimately destroyed by the federation's army.
All factions within the Federation of Humanity strongly protested against the so-called sectarian rule over the entire Federation and utterly destroyed it.
Before Zhou Qing transmigrated here, the Human Federation underwent changes.
Under the influence of the Federation, the concept of God is no longer aloof and unattainable.
As a formally employed group, they are essentially civil servants who are required to serve the people of the federal government.
If they do not serve the people of the Federation of Humanity, they will be removed from the organization.
If they dare to engage in so-called superstition after being removed from the ranks, then the federal army will completely destroy them.
In Zhou Qing's view, gods can exist, but the meaning and necessity of their existence must be approved by the federal government and they must serve the people.
If you do not serve the people, then you are a false god!
If a false god dares to violate federal laws and regulations and dares to send messages, then you are a criminal!
Humanity takes this level of crime very seriously because superstition is unacceptable, even though the Human Federation has embarked on a path of psychic ascension.
But what the federal government needs is normal development, not some kind of superstition.
The reason for pursuing psionic energy is simple: the power to transcend the ordinary and attain sainthood originates from oneself. If it weren't for this, the Federation wouldn't have chosen this path.
The core idea behind choosing this thing is that everyone should be like a dragon. If someone becomes superstitious or even becomes a powerful figure but doesn't serve the people, then they should be eliminated!
It was precisely because of this religious belief that Zhou Qing felt his scalp tingle and could not understand when he saw the human empire's frenzied religious superstition.
Zhou Qing had considered whether to eliminate the Emperor, but he eventually realized that the Emperor bore the weight of the life and death of the race.
Superstition wasn't what he wanted; he just had no other choice.
The human empire cannot be repaired by force, nor by ordinary internal affairs.
The greatest enemy of the human empire is superstition, and of course, superstition is also their greatest source of strength for surviving to this day.
This is a pile of rotten shit.
Chapter 104 The Grey Knights have an additional mission: to oversee the State Religion.
Although both Zhou Qing and Guilliman felt dissatisfied with the current faith of the Human Empire.
However, they also realized that although these beliefs had poisoned the entire human empire, they could not simply reject them at this critical juncture.
Humanity's faith in emperors has become the foundation of the empire itself; it is this faith that has united the shattered galaxy and defined modern humanity.
On an astronomical scale of countless light-years, it is almost the only absolute consensus among human populations.
If Zhou Qing or Guilliman begin to shake this consensus, and if Zhou Qing wants to build the Human Empire into the same situation as the Human Federation, treating the gods as mere tools.
Then Zhou Qing or Guilliman would become the sinners who destroyed the foundation of human civilization.
Moreover, Guilliman also realized that he himself needed the blessing of the state religion in order to better unite the power within the empire.
Zhou Qing did indeed provide him with a large number of Space Marines. Apart from the Space Marines Zhou Qing had already mobilized for the Web War, there were still 2,000 million available for arbitrary deployment.
However, such a small number of Space Marines is simply not enough to deal with a galaxy as large as the Milky Way, and far from enough.
The primary army on a planet is not the Space Marines, but the Planetary Defense Force, followed by the Astronauts, and then the Space Marines.
Although the number of Space Marines in the Imperium has probably exceeded 3,000 million under Zhou Qing's guidance, these 3,000 million Space Marines still account for no more than 1% of the Imperium's total military strength.
The true foundation for this vast empire does not lie in top-tier military force like the Space Marines.
They relied on the Star Guardians, the Star Guardians that surged like a tide.
It is the Star Guardian Army, which is more numerous than grains of sand.