Sea of ​​Despair? But I have the Legiones Astartes

998 M1 of the Holy Terra Empire.

After 998 years of development, the population of Holy Terra has grown to an incredible level.

Six hundred billion.

From a population of only 100,000 when Li Jia just founded the Holy Terra Empire, it now has a population of 600 billion.

The reason for such a rapid increase is also thanks to the population tax implemented by Malcador and Caspar in recent years.

Every occupied planet, as long as it is inhabited by humans, must hand over a portion of its population every year.

Malcador and Caspar named it the population tax.

However, the number of humans consumed every year due to the recruitment of Space Marines and the Royal Guards is astronomical.

In particular, the formation of Li Jia's Royal Guards was a bottomless pit that consumed population.

As the transformation process of the Royal Guards became more and more perfect, the transformation process that originally took sixteen years has become forty years today.

And every year millions of people join the Royal Guards Reconstruction Program.

The extremely high mortality rate remained for a long time and was only stabilized in the last few hundred years.

Nearly a hundred royal guards are provided to Li Jia every year.

To this day, Li Jia has 90,000 Royal Guards, 80,000 of which are of lower quality and are only slightly stronger than ordinary Space Marines.

What really surprised Li Jia was that the quality of the Royal Guards that had been successfully transformed in recent years had improved a lot.

Taking into account the increase brought by a set of equipment, the strength of a Royal Guard is already infinitely close to that of the commanders of each sub-group.

Li Jia believed that as long as Holy Terra was given some time, he would be able to use his own strength to create a powerful Royal Guard whose strength was second only to the Primarch.

Another force in Holy Terra is the three major war regiments stationed in Holy Terra, the Astral Knights, the War Behemoths, and the Minotaur.

During these 998 years, tremendous changes have taken place.

It has grown from a group of 1,000 people to a group of 100,000 people today.

The Minotaurs' recruitment strategy shifted from producing Astra Militarum troops alongside the Chapter to recruiting prisoners of war captured by Space Marines fighting outside the Chapter.

They are all a group of unforgivable warmongers.

Most of them are gang leaders from human planets and some evil slave owners.

After being transformed into Space Marines, they atone for the sins of humanity in another way.

Since the Minotaur Legion expanded to 100,000 troops, their duties are no longer limited to upholding the laws of the Holy Terra Empire.

Li Jia also allowed the Minotaur Legion to participate in foreign expeditions.

However, it must be ensured that every time an expedition is launched, there must be a thousand Space Marines stationed on Holy Terra.

Moloch, the captain of the Minotaur Chapter, was overjoyed and wanted to show his loyalty to Li Jia.

This guy went on many expeditions during the first millennium of Holy Terra, and each time he arrived at the planet with the harshest environment and the most intense battlefield situation.

They will enter the battlefield in the most manic manner and kill all enemies that appear on the battlefield.

His style of doing things is very similar to that of the World Devourer.

But unlike the World Eaters, they become extremely calm after leaving the battlefield.

He will also accompany the regiment's first company commander and think tanks to analyze the most efficient offensive arrangements.

During the first millennium of Holy Terra, Li Jia did not establish any purely human governmental authority.

For example, the Assassin's Court and the Inquisition originally formed by Malcador in the Warhammer world.

The Assassin's Court is staffed by the Raven Guard Chapter Successor and the Night Lords Chapter Successor.

The Inquisition is chaired by the Word Bearers Successor Chapter and Malcador's Grey Knights Chapter.

There is no such thing as nobility in Holy Terra.

All of Holy Terra's leadership consists of Space Marines.

The chapter leaders of every chapter, whether it is a newly founded chapter or a split chapter, will join the Emperor's War Council established by Li Jia.

They have advisory authority in the empire's foreign expeditions.

And those major war groups and gangs that have been fighting outside for nearly a thousand years.

The interior expansion has also been completed.

Whether it is the recruitment of new Space Marines within the Chapter or the Astra Militarum Legions attached to the Chapter.

The number of Space Marines in all chapters also ranged from 80,000 to 100,000.

Even some Chaos Warbands have been augmented by corrupted gene-seed to equal the numbers of other Space Marine Chapters.

The major war gangs that once joined the Chaos had many ways of recruiting soldiers.

There are two most practical and fastest methods.

The first is to find a Chaos Space Marine warband of the same faction and annex them through a duel.

After annexing, kill the opponent's warband leader.

The second method is to capture Loyalist Space Marines and dig out their gene-seed.

Perform surgical modifications on new recruits through the Chaos Apothecaries within their own warband.

Sometimes this form of plunder is not limited to digging out the gene-seed of loyalist space marines.

Sometimes they would raid Loyalist gene banks, plundering and stealing all their gene-seed reserves.

And now all space warrior battalions are supplied with one hundred gene seeds per day.

Warbands no longer have to raid loyalist Space Marine chapters for plunder.

All warbands also have the ambition to continue expanding their military forces and begin to search for humans on the conquered planets.

After inserting the gene seed, the transformation begins.

Dig out the gene seeds of the dead and move on to the next one.

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On the other side, a great battle is still going on.

Wars had been fought in the Roman geographical sector for nearly a thousand years.

Under the siege of the Space Marines, the territory owned by the Roman geographical star zone star lords has been shrinking again and again.

The number of planets currently under our control is less than one percent of the original number.

A group of Space Marines are boarding a warship and heading towards the planet where the Lord of the Roman geographical sector is located.

Li Jia believes that it won't be long before he can completely conquer the first star region of the universe.

Just as Li Jia was listening to all the regiments reporting on the latest progress of the expedition, somewhere in the Roman geographical star zone.

A fleet is crossing the space rift.

Six battle barges, carrying countless Astra Militarum strike cruisers and frigates, charged towards the enemy without hesitation.

The Space Marine Chapter that came here was the Jagged Sun Chapter.

It was the Word Bearers regiment that came out of the barracks in Li Jia's mind.

The Jagged Sun Chapter is one of the few loyal factions of the Word Bearers.

At this time, they encountered another patrol fleet in the Roman geographical sector.

"There are enemies, prepare to fight."

A cry of surprise was heard from the bridge of the enemy battleship.

What followed was a series of combat arrangements.

But the enemy did not expect that the warships of the Jagged Sun Regiment were so fast.

Only a dozen minutes passed from the time the warship was discovered to the time it was attacked.

The Jagged Sun Regiment launched a boarding battle against the enemy with lightning speed.

Chapter Master Al personally led a commando team to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's flagship.

The fleet cleared the way for Al and blasted away any enemy warships that stood in their way.

The enemy's warships are numerous.

Al had no choice but to adopt this offensive method to reduce casualties in the war.

"squeak".