Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 110 Heading to Sosa
Sosa is a world very far away.

Compared to Macragge's location, Sotha is closer to the eastern edge of the galaxy.

This is the frontier of the empire, and it is very remote even from the perspective of the subspace routes.

The light of the Astronomican can still be observed here, but if you go further out, you will leave the Milky Way and enter a truly dead world.

There are no stars, no planets, and even very little cosmic dust. It is close to an absolute vacuum, and the extreme cold and scarcity of resources make it extremely dangerous to explore this star region.

Even the bravest wandering merchants rarely dare to step into this dark death star region.

Perhaps in the distant past, before the Age of Strife and the Age of Dark Technology, those brave and fearless ancestors of mankind once left the galaxy, but they all disappeared into the void.

No one knows what their fate will be, life or death.

Precisely because of its remoteness, Sousa has become a pearl in the Far East.

It is out of tune with the surrounding environment, and no one knows why there is a planet on the edge of the Extreme Star Region with an ecological environment that is extremely similar to that of humanity's home planet: Terra.

After several months of warp jumps, Roche piloted the Red Alert through the destructive storm and arrived at the distant edge of the galaxy.

"It was so dangerous. We almost lost our way and got stuck in the subspace."

Luo Xi also broke out in a cold sweat. Even though the Red Alert had an intelligent computer as its navigation system, it was extremely dangerous to travel through the storm of destruction.

If it was an Imperial warship, the surging waves of the Warp would probably tear apart the warship's Geller force field in a few seconds.

In addition, the monsters in the warp were also unusually active. During this period, he dealt with more than a dozen warp creatures. Nikonna, Hill, and veterans such as Weyland who came out of Isstvan V accompanied him.

The Red Alert jumped out of the warp from Mandeville Point, and the power of the curtain blocked the Sea of ​​Souls behind it, preventing those strange beings from chasing it.

The starship headed towards the beautiful planet, and for a moment Roche even thought that he had returned to the Earth tens of thousands of years ago.

Looking down from space, the blue ocean occupies most of the planet, while the land is dotted with high mountains and green vegetation covering the surface, like a fairyland.

"I remember you wanted to see Terra. What we see now is almost the same as the human home planet in the second millennium." Roxi turned and said to Nikona.

And this warrior, standing at the porthole, stared at Sousa in a daze for a long time.

This remote planet has no supporting orbital airport, not even a space elevator, revealing a primitive and wild beauty.

"According to the explorers' summary, Sosa only has some low-level animals, including some bird-like creatures and insects. We estimate that they are creatures left behind by some ancient explorers, otherwise it would be impossible for such similar life forms to exist at such a long distance."

Luo Xi scanned the contents on the data pad and kept in touch with the combatants on this trip.

"It's strange. This habitable world has no traces of human colonization. Even some nasty aliens have never been here."

He put the dataslate back, feeling a strange sense of danger.

Such a suitable planet has no colonists, and there is not even any trace of its rise and fall, which is completely worthy of suspicion.

"Maybe it has something to do with the thing on Mount Pharos." He guessed silently in his heart.

The thing called Pharos that Dantioch activated was actually named after Mount Pharos where he was.

Luo Xi knew in his heart that the thing could carry out zero-delay communication on an astronomical scale of thousands of light years, and its technological content was completely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

He even thought that in terms of communication, the civilization that created that thing was ahead of humanity at its peak. This also meant extreme danger, as the other party's potential technological level was ahead of humanity, even at its ascendant stage.

As usual, the Red Alert stopped in the planet's low-Earth orbit, and Luo Xi and others came to the ground in a fully armed Thunderhawk gunboat.

Before coming to Sotha, Guilliman had already informed Dantioch and others that a team would be sent to this planet. Therefore, when the Thunderhawk gunship entered the atmosphere, the 199th Company of the Ultramarines from the surface contacted them.

"Welcome to Sousa, we have been waiting for a long time."

The electronic voice of the Ultramarines came from the communicator, and an Ultramarines sergeant named Arkus made contact on behalf of the 199th Company.

He was accompanied by two young scouts who had only been in the service for a short time and lacked experience.

Roche noticed a special emblem on the shoulder armor of these Ultramarines. He knew that it was the symbol of the Space Marines stationed in Sosa. They called themselves the Shield Company and were the guardians of Sosa.

The war blacksmith arrived late. He was wearing heavy old-fashioned power armor, and his body was a little staggering and slow. Luo Xi seemed to hear him panting faintly.

Luo Xi is also full of respect for this veteran with outstanding achievements.

After the experiences of the past two years, he has discarded his previous condescending attitude. These warriors, like him, are fighting for the survival of mankind. He has no right to judge them.

Making casual comments is an extremely arrogant behavior. In the two years he has been with the Extreme Marines, Luo Xi often reflects on whether his conservative strategy of thinking of escaping as soon as things go wrong is a mistake.

Perhaps his original idea of ​​rebuilding human civilization in an uninhabited land was itself a naive, utopian fantasy.

"Roxi, nice to meet you." "Dantioch." The Iron Warrior didn't seem to want to say much, but his posture proved that he actually cared very much about these distant guests.

This time when he came to Sosa, Luo Xi also brought the new type of Star-type power armor. Because it was too remote, the warriors here were still wearing old-style power armor.

This action quickly won the favor of the soldiers of the 199th Company stationed here, and Luo Xi clearly felt that they had become much friendlier.

However, the war blacksmith refused to change the power armor. He said that he had already gotten used to the armor he was wearing and politely declined the good offer.

As instructed by the Primarch, Dantioch will take Roche and others to the primary location Alpha to closely study the devices left behind by this mysterious race.

Luo Xi changed into a fully enclosed power armor. The mountains in Sosa are very tall and steep, and there are often blizzards at this time. It is not easy to climb to the cave on the top of the mountain.

"There is abnormal electromagnetic interference near Sosa, so it is best not to get close to any flying vehicles."

The war blacksmith was not wearing a helmet. His iron mask was imprinted directly on his face, leaving only his eyes, mouth and nose exposed. His voice was a little low and hoarse, but he still patiently explained to the newcomers.

On the top of the mountains, through the high clouds, one can see traces of the destructive storms in space. The scars left by the subspace on the real universe are extremely ugly, like a scar left on space.

"That's the Warp storm caused by the traitors' ritual. We don't know if it's only in the Ultramarine, but at least the navigation and communication between the five hundred worlds have been almost cut off." Dantioch said in a muffled voice, breathing the biting and cold mountain air directly.

Luo Xi listened carefully. He walked to Dantioch's side and walked side by side with him.

The Warsmith's pace was more difficult than that of the Extreme Marine, and even Roche could feel that he was exhausted.

His breathing was also more rapid than others. In theory, a Space Marine's two hearts and three lungs would not be overloaded by this level of marching.

He was like a stubborn old horse, stubbornly walking at the front of the team. If any Extreme Warrior wanted to clear the way for him, he would become annoyed.

This was not only because he was hit by the Hrud's entropic weapons, but also because his heart was in agony.

Dantioch's iron mask was branded by himself. He had angrily rebuked Perturabo for his command errors and was ordered by the violent primarch to never show his true face. However, the Iron Warriors were much more cruel and directly replaced their true faces with iron masks.

To the Imperium, he was a member of the Traitor Legion, the Iron Warriors who followed the Wolf-God in their betrayal of the Emperor.

He was also a traitor to his own Legion, defying the orders of his Primarch and striking down the traitor.

There seemed to be no room for a warsmith on either side, and if Roboute Guilliman had not recognized him, even the vast galaxy would have seemed to have nowhere to go.

"Boy, have you noticed anything after looking at me for so long?"

Dantioch's voice came through the blizzard, like the roar of steel crushing.

In his eyes, Luo Xi was just an ordinary mortal, but he didn't know why he was trusted by the Lord of Macragge.

"I saw a piece of steel, steel that had been forged through the bone and became indestructible."

Luo Xi replied.

The Warsmith laughed loudly, his laugh so wild that it was still clearly visible in the blizzard.

"I never thought a mortal could understand me. You're right. Those bastards know what it means to be steel inside and out. The Fourth Legion doesn't understand, and neither does Perturabo!"

"I am the real Iron Warrior!"

When everyone climbed to the top of the mountain, the blizzard dissipated, and the golden sunlight penetrated the dense clouds and shone on the cliffs of Pharos.

The sunlight shines through the wide and winding entrance and enters the depths of the cave after thousands of complex refractions.

"I don't think anyone can figure out how the caves of Pharos were formed. They are like conch shells on ancient Terra, with complex and regular spirals inside."

The real Faros was right in front of him, and Luo Xi stood at the entrance of the cave and watched first.

The obsidian in the cave is smooth and soft, without any straight lines or edges, as if it had been finely polished by something.

He launched several drones into the cave, which could be used for field exploration according to basic procedures or for precise movement controlled by an intelligent computer.

The interior of Faros is huge beyond imagination, as if the entire mountain has been hollowed out by it. Numerous caves crisscross like capillaries in the human body. Caves of all sizes can almost make all explorers lost. Fortunately, the drone has a memory function and can return safely by the original route.

Roche noticed that the stone walls in the cave hardly reflected light. Only when the angle of sunlight reached the moment before sunset could the golden light illuminate Faros.

"These caves are actually connected to the foot of the mountain. This was discovered by explorers sent here more than a hundred years ago." said Sergeant Akus.

Since the Age of Conflict, the Five Hundred Worlds have become a concept found in books, and all aspiring people dream of restoring the wholeness of these five hundred worlds.

Guilliman's adoptive father, King Konor, once also wanted to restore Greater Ultramar, but the king died in a coup and did not live to see the day when Guilliman would regain his territory.

Roboute inherited his father's will and fulfilled King Konor's dream, making the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar the most prosperous and great political entity in the eastern part of the galaxy.

(End of this chapter)