Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monster Horde

What kind of godly logic was this?

Rhodes looked at Isha speechlessly. Was she really a mysterious goddess? Wasn't she a goddess of war?

"Don't look at me like that. We're Eldar gods, and have ties to the Old Ones. Who wiped out the Old Ones? The Necrons and C'tan did, together. Eldar and Necrons are mortal enemies—whenever we meet, it's kill or be killed. What do you expect from the goddess of life of the Eldar?" Isha said.

She wasn't lying. As the Old Ones' perfect creation, Eldar and Necrons were mortal enemies; the gods born from the Eldar faith were at war with Necrons too.

Eldar gods might feel guilty about slaughtering other species, but never with Necrons. If they hadn't hidden in their tomb worlds with anti-Warp tech, the gods would have dug them all up and wiped them out.

But now things had changed—her body had been empowered dozens of times by the beast; she could use more of her strength!

She now had a body to walk the real universe, able to use much of her power.

In the real universe, unless the Emperor rose or the Great Devourer itself came to the galaxy, she was invincible.

And that was with some power reserved to nurture the child!

"Fine! If you're set on it, let's do it. But can you get into their tomb world?" Rhodes asked.

To deal with Necrons, you had to get into their tomb world. When they went dormant, they preserved their tombs in pocket universes—breaking in was hard.

Rhodes could get into the Overlord Trazyn's tomb, since there were two Emperor avatars and a Pedan ship, but for a strange dynasty, he had no way. Only Yapool had spatial skills, but Rhodes didn't want to summon him yet.

Yapool were a trump card, vital for the future, so he had to stay hidden.

As long as Yapool played the scientist, his extradimensional powers wouldn't be exposed.

"Relax—not all Necron tombs are pocket universes. Some just have special tech barriers. Humans have even dug them up before. Pocket universes are a big deal," Isha said.

"Alright, then let's use the Dark Portal to open a Warp rift and send Chaos daemons to attack the Necron dynasty as a distraction?" Rhodes said, stroking his chin.

He hadn't tested the Dark Portal yet—this was the chance. Open a gate near the Necrons.

If it was a small dynasty, he and Isha, with their monsters, could take it. Letting Chaos daemons be cannon fodder first sounded good.

"That's a good idea! But how will you control the low-level daemons?" Isha asked, stroking her chin.

If you just opened a rift, with no benefit, the daemons wouldn't attack the Necrons—their souls were eaten by the C'tan.

But she could command her daemon army—or maybe Rhodes had a way!

"Did you forget how I rescued you? That zombie beast absorbed Nurgle's divine power—it's at the level of a Nurgle daemon prince or greater daemon. If I open a Warp gate and summon Nurgle daemons, it can command them as cannon fodder."

His zombie beast had Nurgle's power; commanding daemons wasn't a stretch.

"Smart move! Did you do this before?" Isha asked.

Now she understood why Khorne's daemons had fought hers recently—it was because of Rhodes' creation wielding her Chaos power. That thing outclassed most greater daemons and princes; of course her daemons obeyed.

Her daemons hated Khorne's, so fighting made sense. Even among her daemons, no one debated it—greater daemons and princes all agreed it was reasonable.

"Let's go, then. How far is this Necron tomb?" Rhodes asked.

"Not far, just a few light-years away, in the next star system," Isha replied.

As a Chaos god, her mind could cover huge areas in the Warp and several systems in realspace.

"We'll take a small ship; with mine, it'll take a few days. Let's try to finish in two days," Rhodes said.

….

At hundreds of times lightspeed, it took only a few days for Rhodes and Isha to reach a desolate system.

The star was a red giant, at the end of its life—not fit for humans. Humans preferred yellow dwarfs for colonization; some red dwarfs were okay, but not red giants, since they could go supernova.

"The universe is over 13 billion years old. The War in Heaven happened 60 million years ago—how many civilizations had risen before that?" Rhodes mused, looking at the red giant.

The red giant was about to go supernova, and a few light-years away was the homeworld of the Space Wolves. Humans could shield from a supernova's aftershocks as long as they weren't in the same system.

"The Necrons have ancient tech—they can trigger supernovas across the galaxy, even on red dwarfs that live hundreds of billions of years," Isha said.

She knew what Rhodes was getting at, most of their power was in the galaxy.

"I know that weapon—it's called the Celestial Orrery, the Necrons' ultimate weapon. The dynasty guarding it isn't allowed to use it; only the Silent King and other high rulers can approve it," Rhodes said.

The Orrery was a Necron trump card, only used in extinction-level events.

"The Necrons can manipulate stellar energy. They have a technology called the Stellar Compressor—they can compress nebulae to make new main-sequence stars. They're reviving on a large scale, so this red supergiant is no problem; they could turn it back into a yellow dwarf," Isha explained.

These boneheads could even seal the Warp; their Blackstone arrays could lock Warp life in the Warp.

"I didn't know that, but their tech is terrifying," Rhodes said.

Necrons could use black-hole-class weapons; compressing a red giant into a main-sequence star wasn't hard.

Black-hole weapons were the peak of sci-fi—only the highest civilizations had them.

If you reasoned from that, even if the Imperium was ten times bigger, they couldn't beat the Necrons! No wonder humanity was always on the brink of extinction in canon.

Rhodes and Isha landed on a barren, airless planet—a tomb world.

"This is it—the Necron tomb world. They sleep deep underground, hidden by high-tech shields," Isha said.

They nodded, and Isha started breaking the Necron tech barrier. With a true Warp god handling it, the Necron defenses were no problem.

In moments, she'd broken through the barrier without even triggering alarms.

Within the planet, a giant green pyramid floated near the core. Countless Necron skeletons slept in special chambers.

Rhodes activated the Dark Portal, pouring his Warp power into the enormous gate.

He summoned the zombie beast to channel Nurgle power into the portal, and locked onto a batch of Nurgle daemons.

A great light burst out—the Dark Portal expanded from 20 to 40 meters tall and 20 meters wide.

A green beam appeared, and endless daemons poured out.

This time, Rhodes summoned only Nurgle daemons. They looked around in confusion, then saw the familiar zombie beast and the fatherly power on it.

"My daemons, attack! Destroy the Necrons!" the zombie beast commanded, leading the daemons against the Necron dynasty.

As the endless daemon army invaded, the long-sleeping Necron skeletons woke up—first the scarabs and some lower-tier units.

Countless Necron warriors with Gauss rifles charged out, fighting the daemons fiercely. The Gauss weapons could destroy daemon bodies, but not their souls.

"Massive Warp incursion detected; waking the Phaeron, initiating awakening protocol," the AI's urgent voice rang out.

In the deepest part of the pyramid, a tall Necron skeleton awoke amid green light.

"Who am I? Where am I?" the just-awakened Phaeron asked in confusion.

"Great Phaeron of the Valris Dynasty! I am the tomb's AI. Our tomb is under attack by Warp entities."

"You're right—I am the Phaeron. Why are Warp entities invading? Who opened the Warp gate? Why didn't our Blackstone array work?" the Phaeron demanded.

With the Blackstone array, they should have been immune to Warp incursions.