Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 312 Mechanicus Daily Life

Piloting the Psionic Warmaster back to the Imperial position, Chen Xi deactivated the fear field projected by this massive war machine.

In fact, he only realized at this moment that this thing was useless against the space necromancers, but had a great impact on his own side.

After all, the space necromancers are a group of soulless machines that are completely immune to psychological fear. On the contrary, friendly forces are unable to coordinate with the psionic commanders due to the influence of the fear field.

Otherwise, Chen Xi could have saved a Lightning Storm and expanded the victory with the help of his allies.

However, the current situation is not a problem. After all, having friendly forces charge together will inevitably result in some casualties. Now, by simply throwing out one more lightning storm, the enemy forces within a radius of fifty kilometers have been wiped out, while the friendly forces have only suffered a few cowardly Astral Army soldiers who were scared out of their wits. This is actually quite worthwhile.

Moreover, after shutting down the Fear Field, Chen Xi could clearly feel that the IG soldiers looked at the Psionic Warmaster as if he were a god.

In fact, for these big shots, a Warlord-class Titan is practically a god.

This strategic superweapon, capable of turning the entire battlefield upside down, is incredibly powerful. Its sheer destructive force is enough to make ordinary Star Force soldiers worship it as a god.

In the doctrines of both the State Religion and the Mechanicus, a Titan is the embodiment of divine power.

One view is that this is the wrath of the emperor, while the other view is that it is the great power of the god of all things.

Chen Xi didn't have any direct experience with the former, but the latter...

After he brought the enormous divine machine to a stop, the red-robed figures of the Mechanicus rushed to Chen Xi's feet at almost breakneck speed, and began to kowtow, chant scriptures, and hold a mass before the still-moving steel behemoth.

With the help of the psychic warrior's divination array and observation array, Chen Xi could clearly see that the people kneeling at the front and kowtowing were Kaul and a group of sages he knew.

Faced with a divine machine of this caliber, a mechanical priest of a slightly lower rank probably wouldn't even be qualified to kowtow.

Just as Chen Xi was wondering if he should switch his consciousness into the governor's body, the Psionic Warmaster's crew suddenly received a communication request from these tech enthusiasts.

The crew of this psionic warlord is basically just decoration and a battery; they don't have much autonomy. Therefore, this communication was actually received by Chen Xi.

He hesitated for a moment before answering the call.

“Praise be to the God of Machines! Praise be to the Messiah! God of Machines above, please allow this noble machine to move aside, for this place is not suitable for maintenance and prayer!” Kaul’s excited voice came through the communication, his attitude a mixture of excitement and respect.

Of course, this respect was not directed at the crew, but at the psionic warlord titan itself.

After all, this thing is really rare, so rare that it's the only one of its kind in the entire galaxy.

In response, Chen Xi simply performed a system self-check to confirm that there were no problems before saying, "The machine is intact and requires no maintenance. Prayer can remain here."

He didn't reply via communication, but directly used the broadcast system of the psionic warlord Titan. Titans all have this device, usually used for shouting or playing hymns, but using it to talk to others is fine except for being louder.

This almost caused the chips of the group of red-robed figures on the ground to overload with excitement, because they all realized that it was not the crew speaking, but the divine machine itself talking to them!

"Praise be to the God of Machines! Respected Divine Machine, is that you speaking?" Kaul sent the communication in an almost humble manner. The reason he didn't address the psychic war general Titan was mainly because Kaul felt it would be too impolite to shout at a rare and precious divine mechanical soul.

Furthermore, in the rituals of Mechanicus, simply transmitting information through air vibrations is a very inefficient and outdated practice. Mechanicus only does this when communicating with outsiders who do not understand binary language.

As for the Mechanicus? Everyone sends binary messages, who's going to yell at you? That would be seen as rude barbaric.

Chen Xi noticed this and replied in the communication channel: "It's me, I don't need maintenance."

This reply almost instantly caused the Cauldu chip to overheat, nearly overloading the logic module. Behind him, many lower-ranking mechanical priests actually passed out, their bodies emitting smoke.

"Is it ripe?" Chen Xi asked, feigning curiosity.

"No, they're just too excited! You can actually communicate with the great Divine Machine!" Kaul quickly explained, and sent a data packet to the Psionic Warmaster Titan, using data to explain in detail how precious and noble a Warmaster-level Titan is, how rare a Machine Soul that can communicate so clearly and directly is, and... just how rare a Psionic Titan is.

Seemingly afraid that the machine spirit of the divine machine in front of them wouldn't understand, they even "briefly" added a glossary of terms and information about the Mechanicus's reverence for the divine machines, as if afraid of leaving a bad impression on the machine spirit of the psychic warlord Titan.

Chen Xi quickly finished reading and couldn't help but laugh.

I have to say, these motor enthusiasts can be quite adorable at times.

However, this had no effect on him. He simply said through the broadcast system of the psionic warlord titan, "Governor, be blessed, I need to rest."

After saying that, he shut down the Titan's main reactor and reduced the output of the secondary reactor to standby mode, putting the entire machine into hibernation.

Chen Xi's consciousness had already shifted back to the governor.

Although Chen Xi changed his number, the tech enthusiasts who stayed behind didn't dare to slack off in the slightest. Seeing that this amazing machine was about to rest, the group of tech enthusiasts immediately started working.

The sages went into a frenzy, shouting at the fleet in orbit while simultaneously calling on their own forging ships to quickly transport resources down to build a hangar to shelter this incredibly precious, one-of-a-kind divine machine, unique in the entire Empire and the entire galaxy.

The level of importance they attached to this was unimaginable. Even Kaul and several sages personally got involved, installing all sorts of equipment, both familiar and unfamiliar, into the facility.

As for the divine machine that was shrouded in mist, they not only treated it with utmost respect, but also turned on all their detection and scanning equipment, seemingly wanting to get a clear look at this rare contraption.

(End of this chapter)