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

Chapter 819 Danteok? Star God!
"I never expected to see the Dark Angel and the Space Wolf, who are like oil and water, covering each other's retreat and even risking their lives to save each other."

"These two sworn enemies don't seem to be as hostile to each other as the rumors suggest."

"But if I had arrived any later, they would have really been going to live and die together."

The one who suddenly appeared on this chaotic battlefield was none other than Danteok, who had been hiding himself and waiting for the right moment to strike.

He concealed his Nirvana Steel Legion and Adam's Iron Legion within the Dimensional Space of the Overlord.

It can be said that apart from the warp, which he cannot access, he can open a rift even on the surface of the Ork's battle planet and throw his entire army into the battlefield.

There is no doubt that this is an extremely powerful transportation and delivery capability.

For the Empire to side with the Orcs on their battle planet, it needs the Necromancers' World Engine to break through the psionic shield, and then use drop pods, teleportation beacons, and other means to airdrop onto the surface.

Danteok's ability completely ignores all the complexities involved.

There is no need for fire suppression, to create safe landing points in advance, to deploy troops using a large number of vehicles, or to worry about being hit and destroyed by enemy air defenses during the airdrop.

If Luther had been given similar abilities, this war probably wouldn't have been so difficult.

All of this stemmed from Danteok's incredibly perilous possession adventure.

With the will of a human being, he successfully defeated the imprisoned and enslaved ruler, the star god Zahurash, and anchored his will within the fragments of the star god.

No one can say for sure whether the ruling star god possessed a human memory or whether Danteok possessed a star god's body.

But no matter what, Danteok is no longer the same person he used to be.

He has completed an alternative "ascension" and transformed into another life form.

Sometimes Danteok would even fantasize about whether his current form was the perfect human that the Emperor envisioned.

Apart from the original implanted gene seed, there was no trace of subspace on his body.

But it is clear that it is completely unrealistic to expect all of humanity to become like him.

The probability of defeating the Star God fragments with human willpower is infinitesimally small, almost zero. Even if Danteok were to try again, he might not succeed.

Danteok didn't know if the current empire would still accept him, nor did he know if he was still considered human according to the empire's definition.

Moreover, he reorganized the original Iron Warrior Legion, gathering all the Iron Warriors who were on a redemption expedition in the Extreme Starfield together.

Warsmith Kyle Valen, Zinon, and others have been given a new responsibility: they will lead the newly formed Steel Legion to silently protect humanity in unknown places and fight bravely against humanity's enemies.

At least until this war against the Ork ends, Dante Ork has no intention of revealing his current situation or telling the Empire the specific details of the Nirvana Steel.

He dared not gamble; if the Empire viewed them as rebellious traitors and placed them alongside the Ork as targets for conquest, it would be a huge blow to both sides.

Danteok's mind was racing; his multi-threaded computing and thinking abilities were far superior to what they used to be.

To put it bluntly, if Danteok were willing, he could completely transform himself into a supercomputer capable of calculating the changes in the Milky Way over the next tens of thousands of years.

This is not psychic power, but rather a pure prediction and control of the laws of physics, a rudimentary manifestation of a deep understanding of the universe.

Danteok slowly descended from the sky, stepping on the void as if walking on an invisible staircase imperceptible to the naked eye.

The beast warlord remained warily in place, his charred and carbonized skin, struck by lightning, rapidly peeling away, while the tenderer green skin beneath was regenerating at a visible speed.

These circumstances make the beast look more like some kind of cold-blooded reptile shedding its skin.

The enormous creature gripped its metal battle axe tightly, looking at the tiny human can in front of it with utter bewilderment.

Canned food is nothing special. No matter how good a canned food is, it's nothing more than a defeated foe that can be easily manipulated by a wild beast.

But this canned food gave the Beast Warlord a very strange feeling.

He doesn't look like he can fight at all; he's nothing like that black-canned guy with the severed hand—he's interesting and skilled in combat.

The beast knew that if its physical abilities were similar to those of the black canned food, it would be easily defeated and its head would be chopped off without much effort.

But that's hypothetical. He received the blessing of Brother Gao Mao and was promoted by Leader Kork, becoming a "Beast" level being.

If we must measure it by human standards, only the Primarch can rival it.

If we were to use the Orcish terminology, this would be called a Primal Beast.

However, this seemingly magical canned food can actually summon lightning to attack itself, and it's not even psionic lightning.

The beast is protected by Brother Gao Mao, and his soul is directly connected to the Great WAAAGH!, making most psionic attacks ineffective against him.

Even if it wasn't psionic lightning, the other party didn't seem to be equipped with any other weapons, so where did the lightning come from?
The beast's heart began to pound, and a nameless irritation and anger began to grow and spread from his veins.

The beast was furious, furious for no reason. He wanted to crush the Danteok in front of him and torture it with every cruel method imaginable.

He stared intently at Danteok, as if it were not a human canned food, but some formidable enemy etched into the genes of the Ork, a being both fearsome and hateful.

Orcs don't like to think; they prefer to rely on their instincts and let WAAAGH! make the choices for them.

Since this canned food disgusts him, then just kill it.

The Beast Warlords were filled with primal rage towards Danteok, and Danteok, in turn, harbored deep loathing for the enormous green beast.

That did not originate from Danteok, but from the emotional fluctuations of the ruler Zahurash.

When the Star God Fragment sensed the aura of a beast, it experienced unusual emotional fluctuations of anger and contempt, second only to its reaction upon encountering the undead of space.

"So you hate orcs that much? Then I'll help you fulfill your wish," Danteok thought to himself.

The beast warlord vanished in the blink of an eye, rushing towards Danteok at a speed comparable to teleportation.

His entire body surged with incredibly powerful Waaagh energy, and the dazzling green light shone like a small sun.

He was unleashing his primal rage when the battle axe that had severed Astram's power sword came hurtling towards him in an instant.

The battle axe, imbued with the power of my contemplation, fell from the sky, easily tearing the air apart before it, emitting a howling sound like the roar of a wild beast.

Even a knight mech would be shattered to pieces by this attack.

Extreme savagery and extreme power were unleashed from this monster whose muscles bulged like green rocks.

Danteok simply gave his hand a gentle push, and the beast warlord's battle axe, which swung down without any resistance, went straight for his helmet.

However, the beast's attacks, which started with thunderous force, gradually slowed down, as if its entire body was trapped in some kind of static force field and unable to move.

Anger blazed in the beast's eyes; he felt the space between himself and the strange can stretch infinitely.

His speed did not decrease; rather, the spatial distance between him and Danteok increased, naturally extending the time consumed.

If the curvature of space could be infinitely amplified, the speed of light within that range would approach zero, causing matter to fall into a state of absolute stillness.

Of course, Danteok cannot infinitely amplify curvature; altering the geometry of warped space comes at a price, and the fragment of the Overlord he possessed could not do that at all.

If Zahurash were to become whole again, perhaps he could further amplify the curvature of space.

Even an incomplete Star God wouldn't have much difficulty dealing with a beast-level orc warlord.

Danteok had no weapons in his hands, no Space Marine standard-issue explosive guns or chainsaw swords, but he no longer needed these specific weapons.

Because the rules have become an invisible weapon in his hands.

The war blacksmith clenched his fists, and the enlarged curvature caused the beast, which had been frozen in place, to tremble violently.

The advanced power armor he wore, crafted by the Great Tech Master, began to rapidly disintegrate under the influence of an invisible force.

The armor's materials suffered a deep microscopic attack, and the forces that were originally tightly connected between atoms were transformed into repulsive forces in a very short time.

Under such a distorted attack, even the hardest substance, whether it be refined gold or a material with strong interaction forces, will instantly become softer than lead.

The metal covering the beast disintegrated like quicksand, cascading down its massive body to reveal its muscular, rugged, and powerful physique, resembling green rock.

Danteok wanted to dismantle the battle axe in the opponent's hand, but the beast, realizing the situation was dire, wrapped its waaagh energy around the axe, stopping the terrible canned beast's advance.

“Psionic power… I hate psionic power.”

Danteok suddenly spoke up, saying that the Star God Fragment utterly despised psionic energy, a non-material form of energy.

He adjusted his power output, and the beast immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream.

The orc warlord's exposed skin was being torn apart as if by an industrial grinder, the skin being broken down and ripped apart at the atomic level, revealing the hard and powerful muscles beneath.

The beast's self-healing ability is extremely powerful. As it is being decomposed, its cells are rapidly healing, which brings a pain even more terrifying than being slowly sliced ​​to death.

The warlord's green light intensified, and he forcibly broke free from the distorted curvature space by relying on my mental power.

"you are not human!"

"You are...you are!"

The Beast Warlord stared incredulously at Danteok before him.

Although the other party looks like an ordinary can of food, the instincts from its bloodline tell the orc that this guy is incredibly similar to those stellar vampires.

The Star Gods, or as the Necromancers of space call them, are the Star Gods.

During the War of Heaven, the Old Ones were at a disadvantage in their battle against the combined forces of the Katan and the Necromancers, which is why they created the powerful Ancient Orcs as reinforcements.

The ancient orcs were never a match for Katan. Only the Creator himself, and those powerful Eldar gods, could possibly contend against the mighty physical universe god.

The ancient orcs mostly fought against the minions of the Katan, who were space undead whose souls had been devoured and who were left with only cold, metallic bodies.

There were too many of them. The Fear of Death race was already very large, and after completing the bio-transformation, they could transfer their data to other metallic bodies through the rebirth protocol to be reborn.

The Old Ones need an equally large race to fight against the massive number of Necromancers.

If the Katan intervene in a lower level of the battlefield, the ancient orcs can only use their numbers and their psionic power to buy as much time as possible.

If the ancient saints arrive to provide support, or if the spirit race gods descend, then the star god can be defeated.

The beast, who was usually fearless, was unusually overcome with fear as it watched Danteok approaching it step by step.

Why are there still Star Gods in this era who can walk freely?

Could it be that some star god seized the body of this canned food and walked the world as a human?
The more the beast pondered, the more he felt he had found the truth. Although he still appeared fierce and powerful on the surface, he no longer had the desire to continue fighting.

Me, fight the Star God? Are you kidding me!
In the Orcs' understanding, those once terrifying enemies had long been shattered by their servants' backstabbing and imprisoned in the form of fragments of the Star God.

After the Star Gods are shattered, their minds will also be split, turning them into insane beings comparable to mental illness.

But the star god in front of us clearly didn't have this problem; he even had the leisure to chat and talk with wild beasts.

“You are far too arrogant,” Danteok said. “You know there are no Primarchs on the Western Front, so you have nothing to fear.”

"I originally thought that you Ork people were really as warlike as the rumors said, and didn't know what fear was."

"But why do I smell fear coming from you?"

"A beast that feels fear?"

Danteok walked up to the beast, but the distorted curvature had no effect on him. The war blacksmith raised his right hand and then grabbed the beast by the throat.

Theoretically speaking, Danteok, who is only about 2.2 meters tall, could not possibly have grabbed the neck of a 12-meter-tall beast.

But for Danteok, who can warp spatial distances, none of these are problems.

The beast felt as if a giant, junk-like machine was gripping its throat tightly. It struggled with all its might, but under the pressure of this irresistible force, it was forced to kneel on one knee.

He desperately poured Waaagh energy into his battle axe, but his desperate strike didn't even graz the edge of Danteok.

The opponent instantly changed their spatial coordinates, dodged the attack, and then switched back to their original position.

Speed ​​was meaningless to Danteok; if he wanted, he could even twist the rules to force himself to exceed the speed of light. Danteok's overwhelming performance left Astram and Bjorn, who had narrowly escaped death, completely dumbfounded.

We're all Astartes, so why is this guy able to beat up a beast?
Why!
There were no traces of psychic energy fluctuations on the other party, and even the curator of the think tank did not realize that the other party was a psychic, but he was able to control incredible power.

"We must confirm the other party's identity. If this unfamiliar Space Marine is also an enemy, then we will face a much bigger problem than the beast."

"We can figure out how to deal with wild beasts, but what about this guy?"

Astran was certain that the other party had not revealed their identity, which meant there must be an unspeakable secret involved.

Once a secret exists, it's hard to say whether loyalty is absolute.

Loyalty that is not absolute is absolute disloyalty.

The beast was completely outmatched by Danteok.

His attacks couldn't hit enemies who could change their coordinates, and the lightning bolts that enemies casually unleashed were enough to cause him excruciating pain.

"Ancient Giant Legion, fire on me!"

The beast used its psionic powers to issue commands to the other Ork.

The orcish master was stunned. Their leader at home was still within range. Did they really have to obey orders?
"Attack!" the beast roared.

Subsequently, the ancient giants, who were fighting against the human titans, redeployed some of their forces, turning their weapons towards the nearby beasts and dantiok.

A muffled thunderous explosion followed, and various heavy artillery pieces, plasma, radiation beams, and laser cannons covered the beast.

The ground collapsed and cracked, and the metal scraps melted completely into magma. The dust that was raised mixed together and, pulled by the rising hot air currents, formed a pitch-black mushroom cloud.

The beast finally broke free from the confinement of the warp space with this attack, releasing a waaagh energy shield to protect himself from being blown up by the ancient giant army's firepower.

However, Danteok only took one step forward, and a dimensional rift immediately unfolded before his eyes.

The bombardment from the Orcish Giant Legion couldn't harm him in the slightest.

A blue energy storm enveloped the battlefield, and all the various forms of attacks released by the ancient giant were twisted and dissipated in the storm.

The intense heat rays were constantly refracted and weakened. Fusion weapons collapsed naturally after their atoms were completely disrupted. Ballistic weapons had all their kinetic energy consumed by the curvature, and even metal warheads were broken down into discrete atoms.

Once the shock wave and thermal radiation lost their propagation medium, they could only helplessly dissipate into the dust.

Danteok, who had escaped the bombing, reappeared, his silver and red armor completely unscathed.

The only thing that could cause him some trouble was the psionic attacks from those crazy kids; the power of the Star God could not exempt him from the bombardment of those psionic beams.

Danteok raised his right hand again, and the ancient giants that were striding toward him suddenly stopped in their tracks.

Their stacked metal armor quickly cracked and caved inward, then was compressed into a dense metal sphere only the size of a tank.

The orc pilot and the young technician inside didn't even have time to scream before they were crushed into blood and completely encased in the dense metal sphere.

Even the orcish Titans seemed to be nothing more than playthings that could be easily annihilated in front of Danteok.

The beast also discovered that this damned can had no physical weaknesses; the only thing that could be effective against it was psionic energy.

He ordered his ancient giants to continue to restrain Danteork, while the other Ork were to mobilize the power of the Blackstone Obelisks.

The Blackrock Rift region contains numerous Blackrock veins, and Blackrock towers capable of enhancing Waaagh energy are also deployed on the battle planets.

A large number of orc shamans and mad boys began to activate the Blackrock Spire, these ancient-looking behemoths with orc totems engraved on their surfaces releasing dazzling green lightning.

Psionic lightning struck from all directions simultaneously, forcing Danteok to muster the strength to cast a shield to block the attacks.

The beast wasted no opportunity; it pounced on the can in front of it and then fiercely hurled its battle axe at the human like a comet.

The blow cracked Danteok's helmet, and the air intake grille in front of him fell off, revealing half of his face.

Astram and his team, who were closely monitoring the battlefield, immediately uploaded the captured footage to the database of the main control AI.

"So, were you able to identify the other party's identity information?" Astram asked the technical sergeant beside him, unusually agitated.

"Querying... wait, results are in!"

The Dark Angels' technical sergeant operated the display screen on his right arm for a while, and then a bright green verification success symbol appeared.

"Facial recognition complete. The other party's identity is Barabbas Danteok, the former war blacksmith of the Fourth Army."

"Databases show that this war blacksmith launched an expedition against the Hrud aliens in the 999th year of the 30th millennium and was banished by Peturabo after the war."

"His last known location was on Sosa in the 500th world, and there is no further information about him."

"Dantiok?"

Astram and Bjorn exchanged bewildered glances; they genuinely had no idea such a person existed.

The Great Crusade was filled with the heroic deeds of countless loyalists, and Danteok was just one of them.

Moreover, his last known location was in the border region of the Extreme Starfield, and he was not present on the main battlefield at all during the height of the rebellion.

But none of this can explain why a mere war blacksmith could wield such extraordinary power.

Even the Primal Space Marines, equipped with the Infinite Engine and possessing the ability to evolve, appeared so weak and ordinary in front of this being.

When they saw Danteork fighting alone against the Beast Warlords, the Ork psionicists, and the Ancient Garbage Legion, the word "demigod" could only come to mind.

In most cases, however, demigods are used to describe those primal beings.

Astram's sense of frustration quickly vanished, replaced by a feeling of exhilaration.

Regardless of what Danteok went through, he did indeed accomplish many things that Primarchs could not, even in the form of an Astartes.

Even if you put that ill-tempered Perturabo in his current situation, he would still be chased by the Ork.

The Orcs had no intention of fighting one-on-one; the beasts only wanted to use the Blackrock Obelisk to amplify their psionic attacks and grind this damned canned food to dust.

The heavily armored leaders, skilled in close combat, charged fearlessly. Their greatest purpose was not to harm Danteok, but to buy time and opportunities for those crazy kids and the orc shamans by sacrificing their own lives.

Even the toughest orc warriors could only withstand the lightning and fire unleashed by Danteok for a fleeting moment before dying instantly.

These attacks are not physical attacks, but rather a kind of rule erasure.

The orc shamans huddled together, their fierce and menacing faces twisted and contorted, constantly roaring and chanting, gathering waaagh energy to form a psionic storm.

Meanwhile, many more eccentric and neurotic young men were also drawing pure spiritual energy from the other Ork people around them.

The resonance of waaagh's stance put these neurotic kids under immense pressure; their eyes sparkled with gold, arcs of electricity crackled on their foreheads, and even their mouths, ears, and nostrils spewed out dazzling sparks.

To avoid his head exploding, the neurotic boy had no choice but to transfer the pressure outwards.

As a result, the heads of the nearby Orcs that served as nodes kept exploding like watermelons.

The mad boy and the orc shaman worked together to create terrifying psionic lightning and raging storms, then recklessly unleashed this psionic catastrophe upon Danteok.

These Ork orcs are relying on their numbers and power. Unless Dante Ork can wipe them all out in one fell swoop, he will have to endure the psionic counterattack from the orcs.

However, Danteok showed no sign of panic. He even ignored the invitation from the Dark Angel and the Space Wolf to cooperate and continued to face the orc army head-on.

"Dantiok, come to us!" the dark angels roared, indicating that they knew Danteok's hidden identity.

Upon seeing this, the war blacksmith immediately removed his tattered helmet and opened his arms with his back to the human legion.

His body was lifted into the sky once more by an invisible force, and the Ork's psionic lightning and storm were brewing, instantly changing the landscape of the battlefield.

The terrifying psionic pressure continued to spread, and the psionic think tanks within the Astartes Legion immediately felt a terrifying threat from the orc psionicists.

Behind Danteok, hundreds and thousands of dimensional rifts suddenly appeared.

Squads of silent, black-armored Astartes emerged from the rift. They wore heavy armor similar to Terminator armor and held deadly weapons that exuded a dangerous aura. They were so uniform that they looked like identical copies.

Meanwhile, from the dimensional rift on the other side, an even greater number of Iron Men emerged.

At the very front of them, a tall, imposing iron figure, wielding a battle blade, led the Iron Legion into the war.

At the very back of the Iron Legion, there appeared even massive war-type Iron Men the size of Titans.

They have a similar shape to Titans, but they have a more minimalist, silky-smooth design.

The moment these reinforcements summoned by Danteork appeared, they began unleashing their rapid firepower before the Ork orcs could even react.

A storm of shells and laser beams intertwined to form a curtain of rain, and scorching energy explosions engulfed the neurotic boy and orc shaman who were creating a psionic storm behind them.

The Orks were caught off guard.

Their main force was drawn to Danteok, while another group of orcs kept an eye on the Astartes Legion, which was watching them closely.

However, they did not expect that in those few short seconds, a massive force capable of completely changing the course of the battle would appear on the battlefield.

This fresh force, composed of the steel of Nirvana and the Iron Legion, directly overwhelmed the Ork psionicists and destroyed the towering black stone obelisks.

Regardless of race, psionicists need to maintain a relatively calm environment when using their powers to avoid interference from external forces.

Now it's not just about interference; Danteok's trump card has struck at their vital point.

One by one, the neurotic boys suffered the backlash of waaagh energy. Their huge heads exploded with a bang, and their hard skulls, like fragmentation grenades, riddled the weaker orc shamans with holes.

The Greenskins, who were originally full of fighting spirit and excitement, were suddenly dealt a huge blow to their morale.

The beast stared at Danteok in disbelief, suddenly realizing that he had been tricked by this can of food all along.

This guy was never alone; he was always part of a well-organized and powerful mixed legion that obeyed orders without question.

Danteok and Adam stood side by side, with tens of thousands of war-type ironmen and the Nirvana Steel Legion behind them.

With the arrow already on the bowstring, Danteok no longer cared about revealing his presence; all he wanted now was to cut off the head of that damned beast.

The Ork, who originally had the numerical advantage and were even able to surround Astartes, are now the ones being surrounded.

On one side were the Space Marine Legion led by Astram and the Titan Legion, and on the other side were the Steel Legion and the Iron Legion.

The beast had abandoned any thought of fleeing; he knew that if he turned and left now, the morale of his Ork warriors would immediately collapse.

And can they really escape from a can that can manipulate the curvature of space?

Adam raised his longsword high, and the Star God Phase Sword resonated with Danteok beside him.

The Iron Man leader, filled with passion, wanted to present his father with a substantial gift, and the Beast was the best gift for him.

The two attacked the beast warlord from the left and right. Adam held the Star God Phase Sword, while Danteok condensed into a physical warhammer, mercilessly slamming it down on the giant orc.

The beast was also determined to fight to the death. He was naked at the moment, his armor had long been dismantled by Danteok, and he could only rely on his pure physical strength to fight.

Astram and Bjorn didn't stand idly by either. They had been fighting the Ork on this planet for so long, how could they allow their opponent to be stolen and harvested by someone else?

"For the Emperor!"

"For humanity!"

"Kill all these aliens!"

The Astartes Legion roared with fury as they charged alongside the Titan Legion, hastening the moment of victory.

The pilots of the Titan Machine temporarily classified the suddenly appearing giant iron-man battle machines as friendly forces to avoid friendly fire from area-of-effect weapons.

Danteok raised his warhammer, and a dazzling bolt of lightning crashed down.

A cold gaze appeared in his eyes, and he looked at the beast like a corpse.

(End of this chapter)