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Chapter 1152 Ulano's investiture: Imperial War Marshal!

Earth's calendar years.

More than half of the Primarchs have returned, and during this time, the Imperium of Man's Great Expeditionary Force has encountered the greatest obstacle in its history...

A god.

Initially, Emperor Thanos was skeptical of the information after receiving the report from the expeditionary force.

Because the deity in the video file looks somewhat...different.

He had seen the real cosmic gods before, enormous deities with intense colors.

But what lies before us is composed only of pure black and white, and its power is even weaker...

However, Emperor Thanos did not let his guard down, but instead found his strongest support... the Elders.

As the leader of the Ancients, Cheng Fengniu immediately recognized the black and white figures in the video as genuine gods.

However, they are the opposite of the Cosmic Gods and are known as the "Aspiring Ones".

They possess power equivalent to that of the Celestials.

Their weakness was likely due to their war with the Celestials, which they barely managed to win, leaving them with almost no power.

But even if the ambitious are weak, they are still gods born from the beginning of the universe.

Thanos knew that he had to go all out in this battle.

He clenched his fist.

Two rings were visible on his fingers.

One is blood red, representing anger; the other is deep green, representing will.

The Blood Slaughter Bull and the Ion Shark, which often resided on the heads of the two ancient beings, leaped directly into the two rings.

This is the greatest guarantee that the ancients have given him.

On the planet "Urano", Thanos began a world-destroying battle with the Celestials known as "The Ambitious".

Thanos, the emperor who bore the mandate of heaven, activated the combined state of the two lamp rings and the two lamp beasts, allowing him to reach an unprecedented level of power...

Even so, he only managed to fight to a draw with the ambitious one, and was able to subtly suppress him.

The Primarchs observing the battle from outside the planet's orbit were all worried about their father.

But under the reassurance of the ancients, they had no choice but to abandon the reckless option of launching a full-scale attack.

Josh Brolin, the first son to return and the commander-in-chief of the Great Expedition, was tormented by endless worries when he heard a seductive melody coming from some strange place.

The voices questioned him...

Do you want to help your father?

Do you want to create immortal achievements for your father?

We can give you strength.

Josh Brolin was momentarily stunned, but still instinctively asked who they were.

Finally, he got the answer.

Red is the god of courage and war, blue is the god of wisdom and hope, green is the god of life and appetite, and purple is the god of love and art.

They admired Josh Brolin's courage, wisdom, vitality, and boundless love for his father, which attracted the attention of the gods.

Josh Brolin, who has always believed in the truth of the Empire, cannot understand what is happening before his eyes.

He absolutely believed in the Imperial Truth promulgated by his father... but at that moment, the voices of the four gods were essentially telling Josh Brolin that the Imperial Truth concealed the truth of this world.

But at that moment, the tide of battle turned.

The ambitious individual, whose offensive had been suppressed, suddenly erupted, and the surging cosmic energy temporarily dispersed the power of his rage and will.

Then those large, black and white hands gripped Thanos's neck tightly.

Thanos, whose skin tone was becoming increasingly similar to that of an ordinary human, had his face turn a deep purplish-red once again.

Josh Brolin had completely given up on thinking about any of that bullshit imperial truth... only one thought remained in his mind.

Save his father! Save the emperor of the human empire!

The hope to save humanity!

So he received the power of the four gods.

After receiving the power of the gods, he felt as if he had gained some enlightenment.

Then, he burst out of his flagship and charged toward the ground of Ulanno like a cannonball.

His body made a piercing sound due to the intense friction between it and the atmosphere.

The Ambitious One and Thanos instinctively focused their attention on the air.

Surrounded by raging flames, Josh Brolin's facial features twitched slightly from the pain, but his eyes gleamed with the golden light of an emperor.

The king descended from the sky, his face contorted with rage and ferocity.

After that, all observation methods were paralyzed, and no one knew what happened on Ulanno afterwards.

After the battle ended, the Elders led the other Primarchs to Ulanor, where they found only fragments of the Adversaries and Emperor Thanos holding his son to his chest.

"From today on..."

"Josh Brolin, my first son, is hereby granted the title of Imperial Warmaster."

Unbeknownst to everyone, a glint of light flashed in Josh Brolin's tightly closed eyes.

...It is composed of four colors.

Earth's calendar years.

The Great Expedition has been underway for 130 years.

With the return of all the Primarchs, the Great Crusade is progressing at an increasingly rapid pace.

The size of the human empire is also increasing exponentially.

They quickly established themselves throughout the entire Milky Way.

Empires such as the Kree, Shia, and Skrull were merely relatively large stumbling blocks on the road to the Great Expedition.

Thanos, who wasn't Emperor back then, wasn't afraid of these so-called "interstellar empires," so he's even less likely to be afraid now.

And that's exactly what happened.

Even if the Kree Empire and the Skrull Empire abandoned their long-standing feud and formed an alliance to jointly resist the human empire, they would ultimately be absorbed into the human empire.

However, these three empires did not suffer too many losses, after all, they had already lost sight of the possibility of victory before even inflicting massive casualties...

Since that's the case, we might as well just surrender.

This move greatly pleased the human empire.

In fact, the Great Expedition, though called an "expedition," primarily involved persuasion and annexation when encountering civilizations with whom communication was possible. If those civilizations were not cooperative, the expedition would first flex its muscles before attempting further persuasion and annexation.

If they still won't listen to reason by now...

What awaits them is the Death Angel of the Human Empire.

However, Josh Brolin would absolutely not do this unless absolutely necessary.

As a war commander, he was not a reckless man who only knew how to wage war. He knew that every resource was precious, so bringing like-minded civilizations into the human empire was definitely a win-win situation.

Therefore, after the three great empires surrendered, he immediately stopped the attacks and began the work of accepting their surrender.

Following this event, Emperor Thanos handed over complete control of the Great Crusade to Josh Brolin, allowing him to lead his brothers in continuing their expeditions against forces beyond the galaxy.

He returned to Earth, the capital of the human empire.

He knew that the plan he had discussed with the ancients could begin.