The strongest astral army in Warhammer 40K

**Frontline Battlefield: Steel Fortress Landing Zone**

The hatch of the Thunderhawk gunboat roared open amidst the smoke, revealing Russell's figure standing against the light.

- **His armor**: no longer the standard Blood Angel armor of the past, but a **“Holy Remains” type Terminator** specially made by the Martian Mechanicus, with golden patterns flowing on its surface, the same as those of the Blood Drinkers.

**His appearance:** His left eye was completely transformed into a brilliant gold, while his right eye retained the shape of a human pupil, but with an additional ring of psionic runes around the edge of his iris.

**His weapon: The blade of the Blood Drinker's entrenching tool now extends into a half-meter-long psionic light blade, and the blood groove no longer boils with red light, but with liquid-like imperial psionic energy.

Guilliman and Caul stood atop the ruins of the Iron Fortress to greet him. The Regent's new **"Armor of Destiny"** gleamed amidst the gunfire, while the Great Sage's mechanical tentacles analyzed the battlefield data stream.

"My lord!" Russell knelt on one knee, his entrenching tool plunging into the scorched earth.

Guilliman reached out and helped him up, his touch as steady as it had been five years ago: "Your awakening is more worthy of celebration than thirty legions." He pointed to the distant horizon, "But I'm afraid there's no time for pleasantries—"

The tactical eyepiece projects the battlefield from three kilometers away in real time:

- **Terren orc hybrid** (codename "Green Plague"):

Standing approximately eight meters tall, its upper body is the scythe-like limbs of a Zergling Tyrant, while its lower body is the mechanical legs of an Orc Warlord.

- The head retains the orc's jaw, but the top of the head is split into four pieces, exposing the ganglia of the brain worm.

- Each roar simultaneously releases a **WAAAGH sonic wave** and a **psychic pulse**.

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The orcs' suicide squads have temporarily halted them with suicidal explosions, and the Ultramarines' tactical squads have lost 60% of their personnel just to barely destroy one. The fire salamanders' flamethrowers are ineffective against its carapace (a combination of Zerg fire resistance and orc ironclad armor).

Kaul's mechanical vocal cords hummed: "They can even briefly control lower-level swarms...like possessing the dual characteristics of both an orc warlord and a hive tyrant."

Russell's golden left eye suddenly flashed with intense light, and the Blood Drinker flew into his hand automatically.

"It's not control." He charged into the battlefield, his voice echoing in everyone's minds through psionic energy, "It's devouring! They've eaten the ganglia of the orc leader and the brain worm, and are now digesting their abilities!"

Carleon spread his wings and followed closely behind, and the super angels collectively activated the new **"Exorcising" psionic spear**—a weapon developed based on the energy properties of the entrenching tool during Russell's coma.

Guilliman drew his Imperial Sword: **"All fleets, heed my command! Clear a path for Russell's squad!"**

The first "green plague" was discovered by Russell.

The ganglia of the cerebrates in its four-lobed skull flickered wildly, simultaneously releasing: the Orc leader's **"Slash King" Gravity Field** (doubling the surrounding gravity), the Hive Tyrant's **Bone Blade Storm** (a 360-degree slash with no blind spots), and the cerebrates' residual **Psionic Scream** (enough to shatter the internal organs of an ordinary Space Marine).

Russell did not slow down at all.

Wielding the Blood Drinker, he cleaved through the gravity field, the light blade splitting the distorted space in two. His left eye blazed with golden light, the Bone Blade Storm disintegrated before it even touched him, and the entrenching tool pierced the hybrid's chest, the Emperor's psychic energy in the blood tank flowing into his body.

“Go back to the subspace.” He twisted the shovel handle.

The hybrid convulsed violently, and the orc and insectoid parts began to tear and devour each other, eventually exploding into a cloud of blood mist.

Upon witnessing this scene, the surviving orcs suddenly turned and charged at the remaining hybrids.

"Waaagh!!! Imitate that golden-eyed shrimp! Hit their belly buttons!"

Guilliman's tactical screen showed that Russell's kill of the hybrid released some kind of energy fluctuation at the moment of death, which reduced the coordination of other hybrids by 47%.

"He's not killing..." Kaul's mechanical eyes frantically focused, "He's severing the control link between the hive's will and the hybrid!"

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**The Battlefield Center, Atop the Green Plague Mountain of Corpses**

Russell stood atop the mountain of hybrid remains, the **Blood Drinker's** light blade dripping boiling insect blood and orc fat. His golden psionic energy swirled around him like a corona, its influence spreading wherever it passed—

The shells of the **Terran swarm** cracked on their own, as if crushed by an invisible force;

The orcs stopped their waaagh roars, stared blankly at him, then suddenly knelt down in unison, striking their chests with their rusty machetes and letting out a deafening battle cry:

**"The golden-eyed god! The golden-eyed god!"**

The **Space Marine's** gene seed resonated and vibrated when he approached, inexplicably increasing the destructive power of his bomb gun by 30%.

The mortal bodies of the **Astral Army** temporarily ignored their fear and charged forward against the psionic storm.

Killieman's tactical visor was frantically updating the data:

**[Unknown psionic field detected]**

**[Increases the combat effectiveness of friendly forces within range by 217%]**

**[Suggested Classification: Living Saint-Level Phenomenon]**

A towering 15-meter-tall **"Green Plague Tyrant"** (hybrid evolutionary form) blocked Russell's path. It possessed:

- The Hive Tyrant's **Psionic Bone Blade**

- Orc Warlord's **Gravity Gauntlets**

- The **subspace phase evasion ability** of the cerebrate

The battle lasted **4.3 seconds**.

1. **First second**: The Tyrant's gravity punch slammed down, Russell neither dodged nor evaded, the Blood Drinker slashed upwards, the gauntlet and half of his arm flew into the sky;

2. **The second second:** A psionic bone blade attacked from behind. Russell glared with his left eye, and the bone blade solidified out of thin air before shattering into dust.

3. **The Third Second:** The Tyrant attempted a phase shift, but golden psionic energy suddenly transformed into chains, forcefully pulling it back into the physical universe;

4. **Fourth second**: An entrenching tool pierced its skull, and psionic energy burned in reverse along the nerve cord, completely purifying the fragment of the insectoid will that controlled it.

When the tyrant fell, the hybrids across the entire battlefield collectively convulsed—they lost their central command node.

The orc warlord, wielding a machete enhanced by the aftershocks of Russell's psionic energy, cleaved a three-headed blade worm in two with a single strike, then turned and roared at the boys:

"Stay close to Golden-Eyed Guy! We're going to win!!!"

The soldiers of the Ultramarines Third Company discovered that their bombs had suddenly reached 100% accuracy, with every shot precisely hitting the Zerg ganglia.

The most astonishing was the **114th Regiment of the Astral Army**—this group of mortals, carrying molten bombs, miraculously survived by rushing into the heart of the swarm and detonating them under Russell's psionic protection.

Carlyon's wings fully unfurled, and the super-angels collectively hovered in mid-air, their psychic spears automatically tracking enemies after being thrown. He spoke to Guilliman on the communication channel:

"My lord, this is not a battle...this is a miracle."

Only the mechanical sage, **Kaul**, noticed the anomaly:

- Every time Russell kills a high-level hybrid, the golden light in his left eye intensifies, but the human pupil in his right eye contracts slightly.

- In the blood tank of the Blood Drinker, the liquid psionic energy is gradually darkening, as if some kind of impurity has been added;

- The blood of the fallen on the battlefield is flowing towards the entrenching tool at a slow rate invisible to the naked eye.

When Kaul attempted to scan Russell's heart, the instrument suddenly burst into sparks—there was no heartbeat, only a swirling golden vortex.