Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 1619 - 917: The Dawn of the Phoenix Guard

"Close your eyes!" The channel burst with the Yulin Army’s unique bird-like warning.

Talasa’s visual sensors suddenly overloaded, the afterimage on the retina displaying a three-meter-tall dark green figure appearing out of thin air. The warrior’s faceplate eyes emitted a ghostly blue arc, sweeping through with a weapon similar to an ancient power glaive but covered in optical nodes— the Chaos Sect of Mechanics priest’s body disintegrated into elementary particles in the energy wave.

More dark green figures appeared amidst the quantum glow, traversing the battlefield along trajectories that defied the laws of physics. Talasa watched as one of them plunged a rhombus device into a coffin container, and the dark red energy seeping out was astonishingly withdrawn. When the first flame of resurrection fire tore through the ground, he realized the church ruins above had been cleared, with the Phoenix Battle Group’s blue-flame-burning banner standing on the scorched earth.

Martins’ Thunderhawk Gunship crashed directly into the square where the Chaos Lord was located. When the Primarch’s figure wrapped in spiritual energy lightning leaped out of the cabin, Chaos creations within a radius of a hundred meters simultaneously ignited. Talasa witnessed this Father of Genetics swinging the Titan’s Grip Warhammer, its head releasing silver-white ripples that shattered the Desecration Gunship into metallic dust in mid-air.

"Purification array, deploy." Along with the Yulin Army’s proclamation, twelve floating gun turrets surrounding the church ruins unfolded into a hexagonal force field. All the Chaos warriors trapped within began to rapidly weather, as if an invisible hand was wiping away erroneous existence.

However, the real killer move came from the Phoenix Battle Group. Twenty elite warriors with six-winged thrusters formed the Firestorm Formation, and the Nirvana Bombs they threw did not explode, but rather released swirling blue-purple vortices that devoured Chaos energy. When a fully charged Chaos Dreadnought Mech rushed into the vortex, its equipped subspace engine instead became a fatal weakness—this War Machine annihilated in the dimension-tearing fissures of its own making.

The final counterattack occurred the moment the coffin container was fully purified. The Yulin Army warriors suddenly collectively retreated, leaving the battlefield to Martins, who was shrouded in a quantum halo. The Primarch’s power hammer struck the ground, casting web-like spiritual energy cracks, from which countless glowing runes rose, forming a giant array that enveloped the entire battlefield.

"In the name of humanity." Martins’ electronic voice resonated with spiritual energy to form a double sonic boom, "Exile!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

In the pure white flash of the array’s eruption, all surviving Chaos units evaporated like dew under the scorching sun. Talasa knelt to the ground as the burning pain of the Genetic Seeds finally subsided. When his vision returned, the Yulin Army had vanished with the coffin container, leaving only hexagonal scorch marks on the ground as proof of their existence.

Three hours later, the Rong Lizard Battle Group regrouped at a temporary field hospital. Technical sergeants recovered the last data from the burned-out cogitator: the true target of the Chaos forces was the dark age star map sealed within the coffin container. Meanwhile, medics were surprised to discover that the Genetic Seeds of all surviving warriors had manifested new patterns—patterns identical to the optical nodes on the Yulin Army’s armor.

Martins’ encrypted communication came through at this moment: "What you all witnessed today will be the beginning of an era when humanity regains the Dark Technology Spark." The Primarch’s eyes in the holographic projection flickered with data streams, "And the bloodline of the Rong Lizard Battle Group has been marked with new honor."

Gazing at the mysteriously growing luminous vines on the battle flag, Talasa suddenly understood that this bloody battle was far more than just a defense. As the starlit sky illuminated with the lights of fleet assembly, a legacy spanning millennia was continuing amidst the flames of war.