My Legion Has Too Many People, I Need to Hide a Hundred Years Early

Strength

Arsena Dunn held the Data Slate in his arms and began his report in an orderly manner.

"My lord, I have compiled the Legion's status. As of now, the Legion has a total of 279,630 Shadows of Order."

"The Legion's total numbers are already close to its peak strength in 861, before the outbreak of the Second Rangdan War."

Nimrod nodded. In his memory, at this point in the original timeline, the largest Legion, the Ultramarines, numbered 166,000, including a portion of the Second Legion that they had received.

Now, the Ultramarines had not received the Astartes of the Second Legion, and had additionally taken part in the "Decisive Battle of Thramas," leaving them with fewer than 150,000.

[Mm. Among them are my Glenn Worsoto, and the Terran-born he influenced, who were not favored by Guilliman.

Of the more than twenty thousand, the thirty-five hundred with the "Corrosion" gene-seed have the highest loyalty.]

The Dark Angels, meanwhile, had not served as the main force in the Rangdan War, so they numbered roughly 180,000 to 190,000.

This figure came from Luther. Although he had been exiled, he was still nominally the Legion's deputy commander-in-chief.

This was not far from what Nimrod had expected. The Dark Angels had still participated in campaigns such as the Decisive Battle of Thramas, suffering more than fifty thousand deaths, and had also taken considerable casualties in subsequent campaigns against xenos.

[I have at least ninety thousand more than any other Legion. At the Great Birthday Celebration, I'll inevitably become a thorn in Horus's side.

He'll use the Warmaster's authority to forcibly order me into the pit he's ambushed.]

Nimrod thought of how Horus had told his close friend Sanguinius that the Nephilim had not gone extinct and could cure the Blood Angels' genetic flaw, digging