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

Chapter 124: The Past of the Eldar

Luo Xi could see that the Undead Overlord was not very willing to tell the history before they fell into sleep.

It was silent for a moment, and simply summarized that terrible history with four words: "War in Heaven".

This is a very heavy topic, and even someone as eccentric as Trazyn doesn't want to talk about it.

"In other words, the abnormal astronomical phenomena we observed in the universe, as well as the traces of ancient battlefields, are all remnants of the war called the [War in Heaven]?"

Tarasim nodded, and Roshi suddenly felt a cold sweat on his back.

The stars that were destroyed one galaxy after another, the huge space anomaly belt that spanned the Milky Way, and the disordered time background constants were all traces of the war that had once happened.

What kind of race could fight like this with the Necrons, who have almost reached the ceiling of materialistic technology? The complexity of the matter is far beyond what can be explained in one meeting.

"The rest is not important. It is meaningless for humans to know this history. It is all over anyway. The war ended with the victory of the great Necrontyr." The Overlord of the Dead continued, "But the Eldar, these arrogant and self-indulgent bean sprouts are worth mentioning."

"After the War in Heaven, our power was weakened, while the Eldar and the Green Orcs grew stronger. We observed the future through time technology, and finally the Three Holy Council decided to avoid the Eldar's edge through the Great Sleep."

"We can use time to outlast the enemy and defeat them without bloodshed. This is a high-level fighting wisdom that you humans don't understand." Trazyn waved his hand. "Anyway, time is not important to us. As long as the living metal is not decayed, we can survive forever."

Luo Xi nodded. He had already figured out some of the clues. The predecessors of these Necrons were a race called the Necrontyr. The Necrontyr, troubled by short lifespan and disease, eventually chose mechanical ascension and replaced the bodies of all individuals with living metal.

Luo Xi wisely chose to keep silent about this rough solution.

If they had really ascended perfectly, they wouldn't be like this today.

He had just seen those civilians who were transformed into Necron warriors, as well as the more elite Immortals and Destroyers not long ago.

They have completely lost their emotions and even their biological instincts.

The lowest level of Necrons, they were no different from ruthless and bloodless machines, this was definitely not something a civilization with perfect mechanical ascension would do to its own people.

Obviously, this kind of biological transformation has disadvantages and huge flaws.

But Luo Xi was very interested in the elves mentioned by Taraxin.

Human civilization once had contact and friction with these races who called themselves Aida. Each of them was a powerful psychic, and each of them was capable of controlling psychic powers that were more magical than magic.

However, when humans rose, those elves were no longer visible in the world. Faced with the sharpness of humans, the elves also chose to hide themselves.

"After our race entered the Great Sleep, the Eldar Empire became the new ruler of the galaxy."

"Although this is because our people are unwilling to continue the war with these damned psychic bean sprouts, they are indeed very powerful beings."

Although Trazyn was still stubborn, emphasizing that it was not that the Necrons were inferior to the Eldar, but it was simply out of efficiency and cost considerations.

But it also had to acknowledge the excellence of the Eldar in terms of individual strength.

Every Eldar is a darling of psychic energy. They have a long lifespan. The powerful ones among them can manipulate psychic power to distort and extinguish stars in the universe at will.

"The Eldar are a race called the Ancients. They are distant cousins ​​of those damned greenskins. They are a race created by the Creator to fight against my race. Do you understand, little one?"

Luo Xi listened carefully. These information were secrets that very few humans could know. In the past wars and frictions, it was almost impossible to obtain complete and reliable information.

Humans once encountered the Eldar during their colonial expansion, but fortunately both sides exercised restraint.

Roshi had once believed that humanity's Golden Age strength was invincible to all aliens, but Trazyn hadn't expected that the Eldar would be the next dominant galactic power after the Necrontyr. "So, the Necrontyr's former enemy was a race called the Old Ones? Why is there no information about them left in the galaxy?"

But regarding the ancient saints who had created the Eldar and the green-skinned orcs, Trazyn just skipped over it vaguely, seemingly not wanting to mention this race.

"I once visited Earth, the home planet of your species." Trazyn fell into recollection. "That was quite a long time ago."

"I saw the first ape develop wisdom, gradually evolve into ape-man, and then evolve into primitive man."

Luo Xi was a little shocked. Before humans were born, there was actually an alien race secretly observing humans who were still in the primitive era.

According to this strange Necromancer Overlord, all Necrons have entered the Great Sleep under the command of their highest leadership, the Triumvirate, but Trazyn seems...

It seemed that it was not sleeping at all, but left its traces everywhere like a galaxy street skater.

"You know how shocked I was when I saw those monkeys that could only be called apes." Trazyn paused and continued, "Humans and Eldar are too similar. Whether it's your appearance or the intelligence you display, humans are like... a castrated version of some Eldar."

As Trazyn spoke, he pulled out a dissected Eldar body from a display case nearby.

It looked like a male Eldar, but it was difficult to identify because it was almost cut into countless slices by Trazyn.

The Eldar are extremely similar to humans in appearance alone. They may seem slender, but in fact they are far superior to humans in terms of heart, nervous system, muscle mass and sensory acuity.

"In the vast Milky Way, although some life forms may have convergent evolution, humans and the Eldar are really unrelated races. Therefore, I once even thought that the ancient saints were not killed, but were hiding in some corner of the Milky Way and created weakened versions of you humans."

When Luo Xi heard this, he was almost shocked. If the Necrons really believed that humans were another creation of their former enemy, the Old Ones, they would probably start a massacre and completely exterminate this newly born race.

However, based on the reverse logic of cause and effect, they did not do so.

"But according to my research, humans have no connection with the Ancient Saints. This may just be a coincidence."

It was this survey result that saved humanity from the brink of extinction.

"In fact, even if you are a weakened version of the Eldar, I will not kill you all. Because compared to the Eldar, you are too weak." Taraxin did not take into account Roxi's self-esteem at all, and gave a simple example.

"Even if you put aside the huge difference in your physical bodies, you are also very different in your souls. Every Eldar soul is a flickering beacon in the warp, while humans are at most a small spark."

The ancient elves and orcs used to be the most powerful war tribes in the hands of the Creator Ancient Saints. They relied on their psychic powers to help the Ancient Saints fight against the enemies.

"It's not like the ancient saints didn't create some garbage races, but many of them were exterminated by our race long ago."

After reminiscing about the past, Taraxin changed the subject.

The Eldar might have been glorious in the past, but now they have completely fallen to the bottom, which makes their old rivals somewhat gloating.

"The Eldar are finished. Our Great Sleep Plan was correct. These bean sprouts, who are extremely sensitive in senses and spirit, have begun to indulge in pleasure since the war ended."

"Ordinary stimulation can no longer cause fluctuations in their minds, so the conditions and difficulty required to please them are becoming more and more demanding, which also makes the behavior of the Eldar people more perverted and depraved."

Trazyn smiled with evil humor. All of their race had turned into living metal bodies, and only a few of the higher-ups could still simulate the fluctuations they once had called emotions.

As for the Eldar, they were extremely sensitive by nature, and after the Necromancer fell into sleep, they claimed to have gained new galactic hegemony. In this comfortable environment, the Eldar quickly became corrupt and degenerate at a speed that even their creators, the Ancient Ones, had not expected.

(End of this chapter)