Zeke's thoughts also returned to his body. There was no concept of time in that space.
Although Zeke and the Emperor had teamed up to beat Nurgle, in reality, less than two hours had passed when Zeke returned.
In those two hours, Zeke and the Emperor had thoroughly thrashed Nurgle.
Nurgle's already bloated body became even more so at this moment.
However, Zeke didn't care about that; he refocused his attention on the orks in front, who were currently clashing with the forces of chaos.
As for his personal guard, they maintained their combat stance, weapons raised, ready to guard against the battle on both sides.
The knight house's knight titans were also battle-ready, but they hadn't started fighting yet, also observing the chaotic melee between the two armies in front.
Compared to other races, humanity's most important asset was their intelligence.
They would never interfere in a battle of this magnitude.
Let those two factions fight, let chaos and the orks battle it out; humanity only needed to reap the benefits.
The planetary defense forces on the planet also arrived near the knight house, and they too saw the vast number of Space Marines and knight titans, which eased their minds.
Alright, now with so many Space Marines and the knight house deploying their Thousand knights!
The chaos invasion was finally completely suppressed, after all, who had ever seen chaos still fighting at the entrance at this point?
Of course, their mood was still tense; who knew if chaos would suddenly resort to dirty tricks?
And after the planetary defense forces arrived, the Skitarii legions from the Forge world also arrived.
Who was Zeke?
Zeke was the teacher of the Fabricator-General!
The teacher of Fabricator-General Kolasis of the Aelphons Forge world!
For the Fabricator-General, he only had one teacher.
Moreover, whenever he encountered technical difficulties, Zeke was the only one willing to guide him. To him, Zeke was important.
Zeke absolutely could not be in danger, so the Adeptus Mechanicus, who usually never deployed troops for combat, sent out all of their Skitarii legions this time.
At the same time, the Mechanicus fleet also fully deployed to engage the chaos fleet in the sky.
The battlefield remained deadlocked. Except for the strike cruiser under Zeke's command, which could easily destroy a chaos warship, ordinary hive fleets and Mechanicus fleets could not easily deal with the enemy.
Of course, this was assuming the two battleships brought by the knight house were ignored.
In any case, the battle in space had already gained a decisive advantage, and the chaos invasion was suppressed before it could fully spread.
Abaddon had also noticed the situation on this planet. As the Warmaster of chaos, he could undoubtedly make a direct judgment.
This strategic objective had completely failed.
It was almost impossible for him to successfully destroy the knight house in this star system, and he had thoroughly angered them.
Tens of thousands of Space Marines, plus the Custodes, and so many knight titans. If he sent troops to fight to the death with the knight house here, it would be meaningless, and the Black Crusade would have no purpose.
"Retreat!" Abaddon calmly gave the order.
He had not sensed the large-scale god war erupting in the Warp, but this did not affect his continued execution of his plan. Since the Yaeger family couldn't be dealt with, then they wouldn't fight.
There was no point in sending more troops here, as those 10,000 Space Marines were somewhat excessive.
The Warp rift slowly began to stabilize, and the chaos forces stopped pouring out.
The chaos invasion—this should be considered the shortest chaos invasion, right?
From the start of the chaos invasion to the various factions reacting and repelling it, only four days had passed.
In the past, how could such a large-scale chaos invasion be resolved in just four days?
It's estimated that the entire star system would become a battlefield, and the Imperium would need to send other reinforcements to fight there for a month or two.
It was even as the planetary Governor had said: he might not live to see the day of victory.
The sudden change brought smiles of joy to everyone's faces, even causing them to somewhat overlook the lingering ork threat.
After slaughtering the last remaining chaos daemon, the orks turned their gaze back to the Imperial forces.
The ork warboss roared, looking towards the Imperial army.
"Waaagh!" The ork Warboss raised his power klaw, bits of chaos daemon flesh still clinging to his jagged teeth. "The red big 'uns are done! Now it's time to krump these tin cans!"
The remaining orks let out deafening war cries, brandishing their crude weapons as they charged towards the human defenses.
"Attention, everyone!" Zeke's voice echoed through the comms to the entire army. "Lasguns ready! Free fire!"
"Assault teams, charge into those orks and go berserk, kill them all!"
Under Zeke's command, the Space Marines began firing with full force, while the human assault teams also obeyed his order and began their assault.
Five hundred golden 'big cans' charged towards the orks. The assault team leader, at the very front, drew his power sword and effortlessly sliced through the leading ork Warboss.
Zeke also took action, his massive knight titan charging forward, and the 1,000 knight titans of the Yaeger knight house also moved, the colossal god-machines striding across the ground.
The Skitarii legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus were not idle either.
Those mechanically augmented warriors, armed with plasma weapons, continuously fired at the orks.
Combat robots roamed the battlefield, their laser cannons piercing through the orks' shoddy armor like paper.
These Skitarii legions had, to some extent, received the Fabricator-General's blessings.
And the Fabricator-General had received Zeke's teachings, therefore, the combat power of this Forge world's Skitarii legions surpassed that of any other Mechanicus world.
Of course, among these combat units, the most awe-inspiring were the "Giant king" type titans.
These fifty-meter-tall behemoths cleared a large area with every swing of their weapons. One of the "Giant kings" even directly grabbed an ork War Machine and tore it in half like paper.
The worst performers on the battlefield were probably the planetary Defense Forces; these ordinary PDFs simply lacked strong combat power.
Their weapons, while causing some damage to the orks, couldn't achieve the same one-shot kills as Zeke's lasgun.
For the orks, this was no longer a battle; it was a bloody slaughter, but they were just a bunch of fungi and didn't care.
They were determined to fight to the last moment.
This battle, which began with the extermination of orks, saw many changes but ultimately ended with the elimination of all orks.
It could be considered to have a proper beginning and end.