The Bizarre Adventures of the Oil Man, but Starting with Warhammer 32K

This was not Li Ang's original intention, but his golden finger determined that if he wanted to make any breakthrough, he would have to take risks.

He gained a lot of knowledge from Maxim, which allowed him to create a basic siege tank and complete the first generation of Thor - but these were things he already had, and the current Maxim could no longer meet his demand for new knowledge.

He must take the opportunity to move on.

"I've already assigned Maxim's future development plans to Commander Hayes and Sage Lifar. Our next goal is to continue annihilating the remaining Orks on the planet, further expanding Maxim's production, and rebuilding the spaceport. During this period, Maxim's primary mission is to accumulate strength, which will become a crucial bargaining chip in our future battle for Terra."

"The Battle of Terra? You mean the Empire will lose at Covenant Harbor?"

Leon shrugged and didn't answer the question: "I have expanded Thor's production line to three. By then, I hope you and your Titan Legion can arrive on time."

"So I just have to wait here? I thought you were going to give me something more important."

"Your mission is to intimidate the Black Templars and Astra Militarum on the planet. This is far more important than any other mission."

This is a lie.

Hayes had risked dismissal and even the death penalty by dedicating himself to the defense of Maxim. This dedicated Astra Militarum commander no longer had a place in the Empire, so he didn't accompany Leon and his men to Port Covenant. Instead, he remained on Maxim to continue commanding the Astra Militarum. Leon was very confident in him.

As for the Black Templars, they would not participate in the mission to aid Terra. The Grand Marshal had already issued a rally order to the other Black Templars expeditionary forces through Maxim's Astronomicon. Once the army arrived, they would immediately depart from Maxim's resting place to attack the other battle moons.

Although their actions were contrary to Leon's ideas, Leon believed that these Templars would not rob Maxim after he left.

Keeping an eye on these troops was just his excuse to prevent Christina from participating in the Forge World.

Any technology of 30K is not rootless. The technology provided by Christina has some shadows of the Alpha Legion, so Leon can only think more in this direction.

Handing over the Thor mecha to the Titan Legion was his promise to stabilize the other party, but who the pilot of the mecha would be was the scope of his manipulation beyond the promise.

The driver of the first completed Thor mecha is temporarily served by the hunter in the sarcophagus. Although Thor is designed to be operated by mortals, Leon plans to select the subsequent driver from the seriously injured Space Marines.

Leon also left a Second Legion squad on Maxim, led by Adjutant Aibo, Lieutenant Vigan, and Sergeant Changyu. Although they didn't understand the operation of the Forge World very well, under their supervision, Leon believed that the risk of problems in this world would be minimized.

But it was no surprise.

Thinking about this problem gave Li Ang a headache.

Although he had taken advantage of the chaos to get a forging world, what Leon lacked now was reliable talent.

Christina's identity may be problematic. Lifar, who is temporarily serving as director, is a fence-sitter, and the other confidants do not understand the operation of the Forge World.

There is still a long way to go if he wants to develop his own power. Leon's current requirement for Maxim is that he will be considered successful if he can run.

"Anyway, this is the current layout."

Leon waved his hand, and as several Thunderhawk gunboats landed from the sky, his conversation with Christina ended.

Aside from the remaining squad, the rest of the Second Legion entered the gunboat with Leon. Notably, the caged orc, Xie Ri, was among them.

Standing at the hatch of the gunboat, Leon took one last look at Lifar. The guy tried to keep a straight face, but Leon could still see the joy that could not be hidden on his face.

"Good job, Lifar."

Li Ang put his knife hand to his neck and said: "Everything you have now is given by me. If you can't meet my requirements, I don't mind using some of my methods again."

Lifa suddenly fell silent, and Leon believed that this was enough to ensure that this coward would not have any bad thoughts in the short term.

The Thunderhawk's hatch closed, quickly sending Leon to the fleet in orbit. Inside the Excelsior, Kurland and Thorne waited for Leon's arrival.

Kurland and Thorne welcomed Leon's joining, but Kurland frowned when he saw Leon brought a greenskin with him.

"Where did you get this alien?"

His disgust for the greenskins was evident, but Xieri clearly didn't care about the irreconcilable blood feud between the greenskins and this yellow can. He even made a funny Sky Eagle salute to Kurland, his arms crossed in front of his chest, while trapped in a cage.

In order to please the great master Li Ang, Xie Ri has taken the initiative to imitate some human customs, but this kind of flattery has backfired.

"Beasts can imitate us..."

Kurland's frown deepened, and the black-armored Space Marine standing next to him even drew his chainsaw sword.

Li Ang reached out and stopped the soldier:

"That's why I want to bring him with me. Maybe I can learn some laws of orcs from him."

Kurland nodded, temporarily suppressing his hatred for the beast. The Black-Armored Astartes hesitated slightly, but still lowered his weapon. Leon looked at him and asked, "Who is this?"

"Brother Lancelot, from the Black Templars. Isaga asked for him from the Black Templars and asked him to be my personal guard."

Li Ang understood.

He no longer paid attention to the lone Black Templar, but went to the bridge with the others, where he would make a final confirmation of the status of the entire fleet.

A strike cruiser, a moon-class cruiser, and a light cruiser-sized forging ship—this was all the force Maxim could muster to march toward Covenant Harbor.

Leon left Horner and his battleships here, firstly because they were needed to clear out the orcs, and secondly because Port Saint-Covenant was a major naval base, and the admirals there were qualified to issue new orders to Hayes' expeditionary fleet.

Of course they could choose to disobey, but Leon had no intention of engaging in a fleet battle with the greenskins who came in a combat moon, so only mobilizing the necessary forces was the best option.

As for the foundry ship, Leon placed production lines for food, ammunition, promethium and small CMC power armor on it. As the logistics support for the Astartes Legion, it was obviously more than enough.

After confirming the status of the fleet, Leon cast an inquiring look at Kurland, who shook his head, indicating that he had not missed anything either.

"Then, let's go."

Li Ang gave the order.

The three ships ignited their engines and headed for Mandeville Point. There were sporadic orc gunboats along the way, but the biggest difficulty was how to completely eliminate them, and they clearly couldn't cause them any trouble.

The real trouble came when they tore the warp curtain. The psychic storm that suddenly blew out of the warp into the real universe made the navigators on the ship scream indescribably.

"It's a warp storm!"

Isaga, who was temporarily acting as an auxiliary navigator, warned: "The storm is very strong! If we rush in, we may not reach our desired destination before the storm subsides!"

Turning back is obviously the best strategy at this time, but Li Ang does not intend to do so.

"no need to worry."

He said without hesitation: "Keep going!"

The three warships plunged into the turbulent flow of the Warp and disappeared into the real universe. The evil power of the Warp destroyed the warships' Geller's position. The three five-kilometer-long warships looked like a small boat in the face of the treacherous storm.

The Warp was not humanity's home turf, and countless demons were atop these "borrowed" warships, attempting to enter and feast upon them. This caused the energy consumption of Geller's position to be more intense than anticipated.

Even the most experienced captain couldn't help but worry at this moment, but Leon turned his attention to Amidel. The flying dragon sword Hongye behind him was flashing a faint red light at this moment.

Although the subspace is not the human home ground, Leon has his own allies here.

Armidale's eyes had now transformed into lizard-like vertical pupils. He glanced around before coming to Leon's side: "It seems you've gathered a group of very interesting individuals."

"It's just taking advantage of the situation, it can't be considered as closing in."

Leon whispered back, "Can you mitigate the warp storm?"

"A little bit."

Invisible energy spread outward from Armidale, dispersing some of the turbulence outside of Geller's position. Although the storm continued, the navigator could barely see the road ahead.

"I'm in a hurry. Is this your limit?"

Li Ang was not satisfied with the result.

"I'm too far away from here. If I do anything more, I'll be discovered by that corpse or something else. I won't take that risk."

There was no point in saying more. Li Ang knew he couldn't persuade this old dragon who had already mastered the art of Gou. So he simply connected to the communication with Isaga.

"Brother Issaga, what is the current situation of the warp storm?"

"It suddenly weakened a lot. We can now barely identify the direction to move forward. Although it will take a little longer, at least we can reach the Covenant Port before the Geller Field is exhausted. Sage Leon, do you know what happened?"

"I think it must be the Emperor's blessing."

Leon hung up the call perfunctorily and looked back at Mirabelles: "Just keep this level."

"Aren't you in a hurry?"

"We can't count on you, let's wait and see, maybe something else will come to help us."

"Your new ally? Or that rotting corpse?"

The black dragon was very interested.

"Neither. I guess it's a group of aliens who are not really allies."

The three cruisers struggled through the waves of the Warp for several days. After the initial difficult days, their navigation in the Warp became smoother and easier, and the navigators on board regarded it as a miracle from the Emperor, but only Mirabreaas knew who was responsible for this.

"Ark Eldar..."

Looking at Douya, who was driving a stealth boat to clear the Warp channel and calm the Warp storm ahead, his voice was filled with undisguised disgust. "When did you become associated with them?"

"I just knew they were coming."

The Eldar were restless during the Beast Wars. Although the process had been drastic, Leon believed that they would still do big things like quelling the warp storm so that the human army could return to support them.

"You don't think they're genuinely helping you, do you? I think we should kill all those bean sprouts."

Mirabelles was eager to try.

"I won't do this until their usefulness is exhausted."

Leon denied him.

He knew, of course, that these bean sprouts liked to have humans serve as scapegoats for them. Now that waves of beasts were sweeping across the galaxy, their fundamental purpose in calming the warp storms was simply to push humans to the forefront of the fight against the greenskins, so that they could live in peace.

But at least they can help now.

Mirabelles shook his head regretfully, seeming rather bored. "Then it seems there's no point in me staying here."

"I have another question for you."

Leon left the black dragon behind when he wanted to leave. He took him to his laboratory and showed him the orc he had locked in a cage.

"How much do you know about the Greenskins, once allies of the Old Saints?"

Chapter 123: Mao’s past.

(The discussion involving Gomo and Ancient Orcs is private and has never been explicitly mentioned by the official)

"Greenskins? They're just pure combat weapons created by the Old Ones, but that's all. Even if you're interested, I don't have much to say."

"I heard that the orcs of the past were quite different from those of today. I heard that each orc was over ten meters tall and possessed technology more advanced than any civilization today."

"That's an exaggeration."

Mirabreas waved his hand. "But the most common Orcs back then were indeed about a meter taller than the current Astartes, and their combat power was also much stronger. As for technology, that's not the Orcs' strong point. During the War in Heaven, the ancient Orcs' equipment was provided by the Eldar, the race responsible for logistics."

"Don't they have a big mechanic?"

Leon asked.

"That branch developed later. The Old Ones didn't impose any restrictions on the Greenskins, hoping to maximize their combat effectiveness. But after the Old Ones' extinction, the unrestricted Greenskins quickly became a scourge that ravaged the universe. Not only did they become enemies of the Necrons, they also turned against the Eldar, who were originally responsible for providing them with logistics. To make up for the lack of equipment, the more resourceful among them developed a method of using their psionic energy to create weapons."

"And these clever orcs were dealt with by the Necrons?"

"Indeed, the Necrons have wiped out all the intelligent Orks, causing the Greenskins to regress to a barbaric state. The technology that once combined technology and psionics is now only psionically driven, making the Orks no longer a fundamental threat."

"According to the characteristics of orcs, they should be able to develop further."

The Black Dragon confirmed Li Ang's statement: "Of course, if there is another battle in heaven."

Leon pinched his chin. He realized that the level of development of the orcs really depended on the intensity of the war.

This theory would explain why an Ork warlord nearly stabbed the Emperor to death with a single blow during the Great Crusade. But this wasn't the Great Crusade, a war-torn time. Before the Beast Wars, the Imperium had entered a period of peace and prosperity. How could such a large group of beasts have emerged in such a peaceful environment?

"but……"

Li Ang was still thinking, but the Black Dragon had already set his sights on Xie Ri.

He looked at the orc with great interest and commented, "Although we've only scratched the surface, this one definitely has some of the flavor of an intelligent orc."

"Just a little?"

"Of course. Military, technology, even diplomacy. The Orks at that time were far more advanced than you can imagine. They weren't just beasts that knew how to fight; in many cases, they were capable of communication. But their ecological destructiveness was too severe, and they also had ambitions to become the overlord of the universe. That's why the Eldar and the Necrons joined forces to eliminate them first."

"Including the two brothers?"

Li Ang suddenly realized this problem.

The Eldar have many gods. Although these racial gods are almost extinct now, when the Eldar were at their peak, why didn't they eliminate the Orcs' racial gods as well?

"Ha, shit, I haven't heard that name in a while."

Mirabereas seemed to recall something amusing: "At the height of their powers, these two brothers dared to enter the Garden of Nurgle and give that fat man a good beating each."

"Is it because they were eliminated that I didn't hear it?"