After the War of the Immaterium ended, although the Chaos Gods were all beating Tzeentch, they still came to their senses and issued commands to their respective chaos daemon Legions.
"Retreat!"
Ultimately, these chaos daemon Legions were their own power. Recalling them would allow them to recover properly. They couldn't fight anymore; continuing would be too much for them.
This was the collective command of the Chaos Daemon Gods, even Khorne issued this order, which seemed impossible to outsiders, as how could Khorne ever order a retreat?
However, he did issue that command. He truly no longer had any desire to continue fighting, and seeing the losses of his chaos legions, he felt there was no need to fight on.
Ultimately, the main reason they sent troops to attack Cadia, leveraging the 13th Black Crusade to wage a major war there, was to use Zeke's parents to draw Zeke completely into the Immaterium and become a god.
Just like the grand birthday celebration they had prepared on Terra before, they wanted the Emperor to become the true God of Darkness and Vengeance.
This time, besides wanting to deplete Zeke's energy, he also wanted to prevent this new human god from freely moving in the real universe. He wanted Zeke to become a new god.
Preferably, like them, he would stay in the Immaterium and not move freely in the real universe.
Otherwise, if the Imperium gained another Emperor to guide them on a Great Crusade beyond the galaxy, wouldn't that be ridiculous?
However, it was clear now that they didn't dare to continue doing so. Who knew what madness Zeke would unleash if they killed his parents?
They had already experienced Zeke's power, and deeply so. He fought four opponents without falling behind, breaking their limbs while only getting a few bruises himself. What if he targeted them?
No, no, no, no! Absolutely not!
Among these beings, even Khorne, who was theoretically the least intelligent, shook his head frantically. He wanted to fight, but he didn't want to be targeted by such a madman; that would be a pure beating.
In any case, although they didn't succeed in making Zeke ascend this time, they at least depleted most of his energy. Presumably, Zeke wouldn't constantly stab them like before.
Achieving this much was enough.
Tzeentch, the God of Schemes and Deception, also didn't want to be constantly targeted and beaten by Zeke. That would mean he accomplished nothing.
If he truly did that, he wouldn't be the God of Schemes and Deception; he would be a reckless idiot like Khorne.
After the chaos daemon Legions began to retreat, the battle on the surface of Cadia finally ended.
To ensure secrecy and Zeke's desire not to appear in the Imperium's sight, Zeke's forces were also quickly teleported away from the surface of Cadia using space-time jump technology.
Just a few minutes later, there were no more forces from either the Human Alliance or chaos on the surface of Cadia.
Zeke's forces and the chaos forces had almost all withdrawn, leaving only some residual ork forces.
After all, for the two orks, the orks could still continue their Waaagh!
The battlefield instantly transformed from an apocalyptic-level conflict into a regular extermination campaign against the orks.
This sudden change left the Imperial side stunned.
In fact, because both sides' forces withdrew so quickly, some Imperial commanders even felt they might have been hallucinating.
If the battle hadn't lasted for a considerable time, they wouldn't have dared to trust their own memories.
One moment, chaos daemon and chaos Princes had poured out in full force.
And on their side, millions of Space Marines and Custodes Shield-Hosts had appeared, but within minutes, these armies vanished instantly.
If it weren't for the ravaged landscape, still proclaiming the existence of the previous apocalyptic battle, they would have questioned whether their memories were mistaken.
Of course, no matter what, at this moment, in the eyes of the Imperial army, they had won the 13th Black Crusade.
They had won.
All the Imperial forces began to cheer. Even with orks still on the planet's surface, they started to cheer. They had won!
Zeke also emerged from the Immaterium and arrived beside his Astropathic Warframe.
Upon seeing Zeke's arrival, Lissa also emerged from BT003.
"Your Highness, I have fulfilled my mission," Lissa said with a beaming smile.
To be honest, piloting such a super-titan felt incredibly exhilarating, far more enjoyable than piloting the family's knight titans.
Zeke looked at Lissa's excited expression and couldn't help but smile.
"Well fought, even better than I expected." He patted the Astropathic Warframe's armor. To be honest, chaos's combat power was truly not that great; they hadn't even managed to break through the dark energy shields of these giant warframes.
After fighting for so long, the Astropathic Warframes were still completely intact; only their shields had consumed some energy, and that energy was no problem at all for the dark energy core.
To put it bluntly, if chaos wanted to engage Zeke's army, they could only rely on overwhelming numbers.
Once Zeke deployed his original army, chaos would have no chance of winning.
These armies with dark energy shields or psychic shields would hardly suffer any losses. As for the Space Marines' losses, it was mainly because there were simply too many enemies.
After all, Zeke's planet hadn't given them a complete set of brand new equipment, so some losses were understandable.
Of course, because they ultimately died for Zeke, their souls did not go to the Immaterium but were collected by Zeke.
Souls return to the Golden Throne.
This phrase was a reality on Zeke's side.
He would truly directly gather these people back under his throne, protecting them from the erosion of Immaterium energy and the corruption of chaos.
The Terran Dominion had opened up its own Terran Dominion Immaterium within the Immaterium, where all deceased human souls could continue to live.
They could live until they no longer wished to.
As for how large the Dominion's Immaterium was, Zeke could simply state that it was infinitely large.
You could put as many as you wanted; it had completely overturned all laws.
Of course, Zeke currently had no way to send these souls in.
However, temporarily storing them under his throne was fine; they could be put in once the Dominion arrived.
As an Emperor, he truly did what an Emperor should do.
Protecting the souls of deceased humans.
This was also the main reason why Zeke did not completely expend his energy.
He needed to retain a portion of his energy to maintain the existence of this Immaterium that could protect human souls from chaos corruption.