Chapter Summaries

Liu Zhipeng warned the Emperor that the Tyranids were approaching and arranged a division of responsibilities to unite the galaxy against them. After they joined hands, Liu returned to his battle with the Chaos Gods and broadcast a provocative surge of psychic power throughout the Warp.

• Liu Zhipeng showed the Emperor and Malcador the Tyranids beyond the Milky Way and warned that they threatened every life in the galaxy.
• Liu Zhipeng tasked the Emperor with rebuilding and uniting humanity while he took responsibility for containing Chaos and bringing useful xenos into an alliance.
• The Emperor and Liu Zhipeng clasped hands, sending a pulse across the galaxy that stirred hope in human worlds and shook the Three Gods in the Warp.
• Liu Zhipeng turned back to his battle against Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch and unleashed a vast, taunting psychic broadcast across the Warp.

Liu Zhipeng drew Gork and Mork into the Warp battle, then traveled to Solemnace to awaken an ancient Krork for the coming Tyranid calamity. The Krork woke in combat readiness and fixed its gaze on Liu Zhipeng.

• Gork and Mork heard Liu Zhipeng’s psychic surge, tore open the Warp, and attacked Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch.
• Liu Zhipeng left the Chaos Gods occupied and sent an avatar into realspace to seek a powerful biological weapon against the Tyranid Swarm.
• Liu Zhipeng’s avatar bypassed Trazyn’s defenses and reached a stasis display containing an ancient Krork on Solemnace.
• Liu Zhipeng shattered the Krork’s stasis field, and the awakened warrior immediately entered combat readiness and locked its gaze on him.

Liu Zhipeng defeated Ghazghkull in a brutal fight and made him accept Liu as the strongest boss. He showed Ghazghkull the approaching Tyranid swarm and began warning him that it threatened the Orks’ worlds.

• Ghazghkull attacked Liu Zhipeng, but Liu met his punch and sent him crashing through the Museum.
• Ghazghkull charged with his Chainaxe, but Liu dodged, struck him, threw him to the ground, and battered him until he could no longer fight.
• Ghazghkull knelt before Liu and swore to obey him as the stronger boss.
• Liu projected a star map showing the Tyranid swarm approaching the galaxy and told Ghazghkull that it meant to devour all life.
• Liu pointed out the green dots marking modern-day Ork planets.

Liu Zhipeng sent Ghazghkull to unite the Orks and prepare them for war against the devouring bugs. Ghazghkull crashed onto Scrap World, where angry Orks gathered around the crater to confront him.

• Liu Zhipeng urged Ghazghkull to unite the Orks and forge them into a Krork army to fight the bugs.
• Ghazghkull accepted the coming war, roared his battle cry, and followed Liu Zhipeng through a portal to an Ork planet.
• Trazyn the Infinite arrived at his ruined exhibition hall and found his prized exhibit missing and a middle-finger graffiti painted in Krork blood.
• Liu Zhipeng left Ghazghkull suspended above Scrap World, and Ghazghkull plunged into the planet's scrap fields.
• Orks emerged from the wreckage and converged on Ghazghkull's crater, threatening to kill him and strip his armor.

Ghazghkull emerged from the crater and judged the modern Orks to be grotesquely degenerated, while the Broken Tooth Tribe's warlord Iron Skull challenged him from atop a Gargant. Ghazghkull leapt straight toward the machine, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Ghazghkull rose from the molten iron and silenced the modern Orks with his presence.
• Ghazghkull condemned the Orks' degenerated bodies, limited intelligence, and crude weapons, and resolved to reshape them through violence.
• Iron Skull arrived in a scrap-built Gargant and demanded Ghazghkull's armor and submission.
• Ghazghkull leapt across the crater and appeared in front of Iron Skull's Gargant.

Ghazghkull seized control of the Orks by tearing apart a Gargant and killing Warlord Iron Skull, then forbade worship of Gork and Mork. Seeing how far the Orks had degenerated, he concluded that only a violent forced reboot could save them.

• Ghazghkull ripped the Gargant in half and crushed Iron Skull’s head with his bare hand.
• A Boy declared Ghazghkull the Orks’ new boss, and hundreds of thousands of Orks knelt before him.
• Ghazghkull silenced the Orks with a psychic roar and vaporized their idol of Gork and Mork.
• Ghazghkull declared that all Orks under his command were forbidden to worship gods and ordered them to rely on their strength and weapons.
• Ghazghkull recognized that reason could not save the degenerate Orks and decided they needed a violent forced reboot.

Ghazghkull’s Krork spores transformed hundreds of thousands of Orks into intelligent, coordinated Krork and restored their WAAAGH! network as a tactical link. He ordered them to build an automated arsenal and train for war, intending to seize the world in one week.

• Ghazghkull released concentrated Krork spores across the Scrapyard, triggering the Orks’ painful genetic restoration.
• The reborn Krork developed greater strength and intelligence, severed their connection to the Gork and Mork faith channel, and linked through a precise WAAAGH! Tactical Network.
• Gear used controlled psychic power and scientific knowledge to turn scrap iron into a high-density composite armor plate.
• Ghazghkull ordered the engineers to build an automated arsenal and the warriors to train in coordinated formations, including a Crossfire Network.
• Hundreds of thousands of Krork acknowledged Ghazghkull’s command and prepared to take control of the world within a week.

Ghazghkull completed a disciplined Krork army on a Scrap World and threatened the other Ork tribes into submission as he prepared a Great Crusade. At Ullanor, Overlord Urrak Ugg learned that a strange fleet bearing Ork signals had entered the area, though its ships were unnaturally smooth and clean.

• Ghazghkull oversaw seven days of industrial production and tactical training that equipped hundreds of thousands of Krork warriors with power armour and Super Plasma Rifles.
• Ghazghkull broadcast an ultimatum to the planet’s Ork tribes, demanding they submit to genetic completion within three hours or face annihilation.
• Ghazghkull declared his intention to unite the Orks across the galaxy and lead them toward the Great Devourer.
• A Mekboy warned Urrak Ugg that an approaching fleet carried Ork signals but had smooth, clean ships unlike any he had seen.
• Urrak Ugg and the gathered Ork Boyz fell silent in disbelief at the Mekboy’s report.

Urrak led Ullanor’s Savage Orks into battle against Ghazghkull’s technologically advanced Krork fleet. After the Krork fleet effortlessly neutralized the Orks’ opening barrage, Ghazghkull ordered a precision strike, and the chapter ended as its blue beams reached Urrak’s fleet.

• Urrak ordered Ullanor’s Boyz, Gargants, and warships to mobilize against the Krork fleet.
• Ghazghkull and Gear assessed the disorganized, technologically inferior enemy fleet and prepared their weapons.
• Urrak’s fleet fired a massive barrage, but the Krork fleet’s Deflector Fields neutralized nearly all of it.
• Ghazghkull ordered a precision attack on the enemy flagship’s reactor clusters, gravitational anchors, and command centre.
• The Krork ships fired thousands of blue beams toward Urrak’s fleet, and Urrak insisted his ship’s armor would withstand them.

Ghazghkull’s Krork fleet shattered Urrak Ugg’s psychic shield and annihilated the Ullanor fleet, leaving Urrak’s flagship to crash onto Ullanor. Urrak rallied the survivors, but hundreds of black Drop Pods then landed nearby.

• Urrak’s confidence stirred billions of Orks to form a green psychic shield that initially resisted the Krork fleet’s plasma volley.
• Ghazghkull ordered Gear to analyze the shield and strengthen the Krork WAAAGH! network, allowing a second volley to shatter it.
• The Krork fleet’s precise plasma beams destroyed the Ullanor fleet in less than three hours.
• Three beams disabled Urrak’s flagship, which crashed onto Ullanor and left Urrak alive amid the wreckage.
• Urrak rallied the surviving Savage Orks to fight the Krork ships, then hundreds of black Drop Pods landed nearby.

Urrak’s Ullanor Orks charged the Krork army, but the black-armoured warriors grew stronger and larger as they fought. Ghazghkull arrived to answer Urrak’s challenge, and the Overlord’s body began to submit to the Ancient War God’s overwhelming presence.

• Urrak ordered the Ullanor Orks to attack the Krork army, and the Krork answered with precise volleys of plasma fire.
• Urrak rampaged through the battlefield, killing Krork warriors and destroying a Light Mech as his army pressed the attack.
• Urrak realized the Krork were growing taller and stronger through combat, turning the tide against the Ullanor Orks.
• Urrak called for the Krork leader to face him, and the Krork warriors halted their fighting and opened a path.
• Ghazghkull emerged at fifteen metres tall, and Urrak’s legs trembled as his instincts urged him to submit.

Ghazghkull defeated Urrak Ugg and used concentrated Krork spores to awaken his dormant genetic potential, transforming him into a rational, powerful Krork. Urrak pledged himself to Ghazghkull, who appointed him commander of the Ork First Legion and revealed that a Tyranid Swarm Catastrophe was approaching.

• Urrak Ugg launched a final attack, but Ghazghkull crushed his Power Claw and knocked him down.
• Ghazghkull pinned Urrak and blasted him with concentrated Krork primeval spores.
• Urrak endured a painful transformation as his body strengthened and his mind regained ancient Krork knowledge.
• Urrak rose transformed, thanked Ghazghkull, and pledged his body and soul to him.
• Ghazghkull warned Urrak about the approaching Tyranid Swarm Catastrophe and appointed him Ork First Legion Commander.

Gork and Mork fought the Chaos gods in a brutal brawl in the Warp until both Ork gods suddenly felt their power weakening. The Chaos gods noticed their vulnerability and prepared to take advantage of it.

• Khorne hurled his Brass Throne at Gork, who caught it and swung it into Nurgle, bursting the Plague Father's belly.
• Tzeentch fashioned a whip from Nurgle's plague broth and struck at Mork, but Mork dodged and kicked half of Tzeentch's face into fragments.
• Khorne attacked Gork with an axe while Nurgle threw a potent plague at the Ork gods.
• Mork and Gork felt unexpectedly weak, and Gork realized their power was diminishing.
• The Chaos gods noticed Gork and Mork's weakness and taunted them as they considered their next attacks.

Gork and Mork discovered that Ghazghkull was transforming Orks across the galaxy into disciplined, scientifically minded Krork who had severed their connection to the Warp. As Ghazghkull’s forces spread this transformation, the gods’ supply of faith dwindled and their existence came under threat.

• Gork and Mork sent their perceptions into the material universe and found Ork worlds eerily silent, with their inhabitants no longer fighting.
• Gork and Mork saw Orks working in precise factories and attending disciplined lectures on science and engineering.
• Gork and Mork traced the transformation to Ghazghkull and witnessed him forcibly awakening Orks with primordial Krork spores.
• The newly awakened Krork cut off their faith conduits to Gork and Mork and turned to science, physical laws, and their own weapons.
• Ghazghkull’s black fleet spread across the galaxy as more Orks awakened and severed their faith, leaving Gork and Mork’s power rapidly declining.

Gork and Mork tore open a rift to the material universe to attack the thief who had stolen their boyz and faith, but Liu Zhipeng seized the moment to drain their essences. The Three Gods of Chaos rushed to claim the power as Gork and Mork were being erased.

• Gork and Mork tore open a rift from the Warp to the black Krork fleet’s star region and charged through to find the thief.
• Liu Zhipeng matched the WAAAGH! energy and sent golden arms from the Golden Star through Gork and Mork’s bodies.
• Liu Zhipeng drained Gork and Mork’s divine essences and began burning away their consciousnesses.
• Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch attacked Liu Zhipeng and the two gods to seize their power.

Liu Zhipeng absorbed Gork and Mork, gained overwhelming power, and drove Nurgle to flee while Tzeentch found no way to defeat him. Tzeentch began a desperate move to keep Liu Zhipeng from seizing his essence.

• Liu Zhipeng devoured Gork and Mork, then unleashed golden divine fire that destroyed Khorne's attack, burned Nurgle's entrail, and wrecked Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth.
• Liu Zhipeng emerged in a colossal golden form and taunted the three Chaos Gods.
• Nurgle fled to Nurgle's Garden, sealed its gates with locks and nails, and vowed not to leave.
• Tzeentch calculated countless battle outcomes and concluded that every path led to Liu Zhipeng defeating him.
• Tzeentch declared that Liu Zhipeng would never seize his essence and began radiating destructive light.

Liu Zhipeng defeated the Chaos Gods in the Warp, leaving Slaanesh and Khorne mindless, Nurgle in hiding, and Tzeentch scattered into fragments. The elven gods watched in terror as Asuryan realized their age of pride had ended.

• Tzeentch shattered his consciousness into fragments to escape permanent destruction and scattered them throughout the Warp.
• Khorne charged Liu Zhipeng, who shattered his greatsword and erased Khorne's independent consciousness with Golden Judgment.
• Liu Zhipeng stood victorious after the Four Gods' struggle for supremacy ended, with Slaanesh and Khorne mindless, Nurgle sealed away, and Tzeentch dispersed.
• Khaine, Isha, Cegorach, and Asuryan watched Liu Zhipeng's victory from a hidden dimension and trembled in fear.
• Asuryan recognized that the elven gods' age of pride had come to an end.

Silent King Szarekh returned to the Milky Way expecting to find it consumed by the Great Devourer, but discovered a powerful alliance holding the Tyranids back. He secretly investigated humanity and found a seemingly flawless, highly advanced society.

• Szarekh brought his Royal Guard fleet back from exile and saw a vast defensive line fighting the Tyranids at the galaxy's edge.
• He recognized the disciplined black-armored giants as Krork and saw Aeldari Craftworlds fighting beside them.
• Szarekh discovered that humans commanded golden warships and coordinated the allied forces, despite having been primitive apes when he left the galaxy.
• Wary that the alliance could destroy the Necrons, Szarekh concealed his fleet and entered the galaxy alone using phase-cloaking technology.
• Szarekh spent months observing an Imperium of Man fringe world and found that human society lacked religion and its people appeared genetically optimized, healthy, and long-lived.

Szarekh discovered that the Necrons had been devastated by humanity and corrupted by madness, and he considered destroying every Tomb World rather than let his people suffer. Before he could act, a young human casually entered the tomb and effortlessly neutralized Szarekh’s weapons.

• Szarekh intercepted humanity’s broadcasts and learned that the Grand Unification Alliance planned to invade the Tyranids’ realm beyond the galaxy.
• Szarekh surveyed Necron Tomb Worlds and found many destroyed by humanity and the Krork, while surviving Necrons had succumbed to the Flayer Curse and Destroyer madness.
• In a ruined Throne Room, Szarekh considered activating the Necrons’ ultimate self-destruct program.
• A young human man strolled into the forbidden tomb, and Szarekh attacked him with C’tan energy whips and a tachyon arrow.
• The young man casually waved away the attack; the energy whips vanished, the C’tan Shards cowered, and the arrow dropped harmlessly to the floor.

Liu Zhipeng offered Szarekh a cure for the Necrons’ madness and the chance to regain flesh and blood in exchange for joining the alliance against the Tyranids. Szarekh accepted, and after Liu healed the afflicted Necrons across the galaxy, he ordered a realm-wide awakening.

• Liu Zhipeng immobilized Szarekh and explained that the C'tan could not grant the Silent King's wish for redemption.
• Liu offered to cure the Necrons and grant Szarekh rebirth after the war if the Necrons joined the alliance against the Tyranids.
• Szarekh accepted Liu's proposal on behalf of the Necron race.
• Liu sent golden power through the Necron quantum network, curing the Flayed Ones and those afflicted by Destroyer madness.
• Szarekh activated the realm-wide awakening protocol and commanded the Necrons to crush the Tyranid Swarm.