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

Chapter 291 All Civilizations Are Candidates (Please Subscribe)

In response to Luo Xi's question, Uslan first raised a philosophical question.

"What do you think is the ultimate demand that all civilizations will face at the end of their development?"

Ada's thoughts are very erratic. One second she was talking about the human civil war, and the next second she had shifted her focus to the so-called ultimate demands of civilization.

Luo Xi thought seriously for two minutes and found that there was no way to answer this question.

In the long history of the galaxy, humans are only a very young race, even including the primitive man period, it is only a few million years old.

Before the birth of humans, countless races had already sprouted and flourished. The Eldar and the Necrons were the continuation of those existences. However, most of the ancient races were not as tenacious as them and had long been destroyed in history.

These extremely large civilizations include many unbelievable races, carbon-based civilizations like humans, silicon-based civilizations that behave like robots, and even some energy civilizations that appear in the form of energy bodies. These races are completely beyond each other's cognition.

For example, humans need water and air to survive, but for some races, water may be highly toxic, and stellar light radiation is the key to survival. These races are like two parallel lines that never intersect, and it is difficult to find common ground.

What similar ultimate demands could these civilizations, which can't even find anything in common, have?

Uslan said slowly, at this moment he was able to regain the sense of superiority of the Eldar as pioneers, which made his vanity very comfortable.

It would be even better if there were a few Primarchs here to listen to him bragging. If he could make those demigods bow down to him, Uslan would be happy even if he died.

The Eldar looked down on humans, calling them monkeys, but they dared not despise the Primarchs at all. They were a special kind of life that was far nobler than the Eldar, and were the perfect fusion of the real universe and the warp.

"Ascension. I call that ultimate goal ascension. All civilizations, in the end, are no longer for technological advancement, territorial expansion, or enslavement of other races. These are all passing clouds. The most important thing is ascension."

"The so-called ascension is to transcend one's own constraints and achieve a transcendent state. The races that have completed ascension will no longer face the original troubles. They will reach a state where they can do whatever they want."

There was a kind of mystery in what the Prophet Aida said, which was unique to the elves. Luo Xi tried hard to understand it, but he felt a headache coming on.

"Take you humans as an example. In the past, during the so-called Dark Technology Age, your technology had already developed to a remarkable degree, and you were even able to rewrite the rules and manipulate the nature of our universe."

Luo Xi knew this. In the past, humans once had a weapon that could modify the hit rate, so that the weapon's hit rate reached 105%. This was a distortion and modification of the rules.

"Among the humans at that time, there even emerged a group of beings called Golden People. Their genes were almost perfect, but unfortunately they still had limitations. What they advocated was to continue on the genetic path, so as to achieve genetic ascension for all humans."

"Once they truly complete the so-called genetic ascension, all humans will have perfect genes. No one will be troubled by birth, aging, sickness and death. Ordinary enemies will no longer be able to threaten their existence. They will be completely transcendent and become a god-like existence."

All human beings will no longer be subject to birth, aging, sickness and death... and will be eternally immortal.

Hearing this, Luo Xi felt a little tempted, but also had a vague feeling that something was very wrong.

Is it really possible for such a civilized race that is above all things to exist?

Regardless of whether Luo Xi really listened or not, Uslan continued, "There is another group of people who believe in machines and metals more. They choose to take the path of mechanical ascension and try to transform themselves into mechanical bodies, or simply sublimate their consciousness into a string of data to achieve transcendence."

He gave an example.

"Among you humans, there should be something called Machine Soul. I think you must have doubted its authenticity, but I tell you, Machine Soul does exist. It is not an intelligent AI, but it really exists."

Luo Xi had always thought that the Machine Soul worshipped by the current Mechanicus was a nonsense, but with some of the things he had seen, he had indeed become more powerful after being blessed by the Mechanicus, and he had to accept that the Machine Soul might really exist.

Those machines also have souls.

Even some more complex machines had souls that were even richer and more varied, possessing emotions comparable to those of humans. Hearing that Uslan actually knew about machine souls, he immediately perked up and listened carefully.

"I can tell you that the creation of machine souls is related to humans in the Dark Age of Technology. Those humans who wanted to perform mechanical ascension tried to steal the power of the Creator and give mechanical dead objects souls."

"Although I don't know what they did, after an incredible experiment, they did it. They modified the rules. From then on, machines can also have souls, and are not just cold and dead objects."

Uslan’s words stunned Luo Xi. The birth of the machine soul was actually related to human’s ascension experiment.

They wanted to first try to give the machine a soul, and then upload their own consciousness into the machine, so as to achieve true immortality.

It sounds crazy, but they actually did it.

"What about the ending? What is the ending?" Luo Xi asked urgently.

Uslan shrugged, expressing his regret helplessly.

"I don't need to tell you about the ending. If humans really succeeded in ascending, they wouldn't be in such a miserable state now. Whether it's genetic ascension or mechanical ascension, their final result is failure."

"The consequence of genetic ascension is that it completely destroyed the human genetic sequence. Not only did they not obtain the so-called perfect genes, but they were also bitten back by them. As far as I know, the Golden People are completely finished."

"Although I don't know the final outcome of the mechanical ascension faction, according to my judgment, they also failed. After all, we haven't seen anyone who has successfully completed mechanical ascension."

Uslan mentioned the Necrons in a mocking tone: "By the way, don't think that those metal skeletons have already ascended mechanically. They are completely cheating. All civilizations in the entire universe are candidates. The ultimate test question is how to complete the ascension. The Necrons cheated, and the end result is naturally punishment."

"Their original race, the Necrontyr, has perished. The remaining ones are nothing more than soulless machines that think they are Necrontyr. They are deceiving themselves and others, thinking they are still the same beings they once were."

Civilization, candidates, ascension.

Luo Xi thought about the relationship between the three words, and suddenly he had many new insights.

"What about you elves? And your creator, the Ancient Saint?" Luo Xi thought for a long time, and suddenly remembered that Uslan did not mention him.

"Unfortunately, we failed too." Uslan sighed helplessly. He also hoped that his race could complete the ascension. Then the elves would be truly immortal, jump out of the confinement of the long river of time, and become a fish that walks ashore.

“We should be taking the path of psychic ascension. In the days of the ancient elves, each individual was a powerful psychic, far superior to what you would call an Alpha-class psychic. We can easily play with and extinguish stars.

But unfortunately, indulgence and depravity destroyed us, and the consequence of failing to ascend was the birth of Lady Thirst, which sounded the death knell for us. "

Uslan was very calm and did not show much subjective emotion when talking about his race.

He is a very special elf, and also the most communicative elf that Luo Xi has ever met. Perhaps it is precisely because he is not as arrogant and conceited as other elves that he reflects on the past instead of dwelling on it.

"As I said, all civilizations are candidates, and their ultimate goal is to complete the ascension. As poor students, we have no way to evaluate the Creator. I don't know whether they have completed the ascension path."

After listening to Uslan's explanation, Luo Xi suddenly found that many of the questions that had been bothering him had answers.

The Emperor reshaped humanity so that the race he loved could achieve ascension and transcendence, becoming a transcendent species no longer affected by any enemies, including the Warp.

And now, Horus' betrayal has destroyed the dream of revival. Does this mean that the human candidate has failed again?

(End of this chapter)