Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 326 Titan Opens Teleportation

Chen Xi, whose consciousness had been detached, quickly returned to reality. He took a deep breath and stared intently at the Emperor's military crate in front of him.

The double-headed eagle emblem on the surface of the box gleamed with a cold metallic luster under the light, as if responding to his gaze.

Without hesitation, he lifted the lid of the box, and golden energy floated inside like flowing water, reflecting the neatly arranged chess pieces on the chessboard.

These pieces are divided into three categories, each representing a different strategic value.

The first category is naturally represented by the Astartes, such as the Ash Knight, which make up the majority of the pieces in his hand.

The second category consists of combat nuns, inquisitors, and a squad of Kashezin assault team. Although they are few in number, they are key to Chen Xi's control over the other combat nuns on Rostov.

As for the third category, there is only one, but it accounts for all the points Chen Xi gained from upgrading his authority from Level III to Level V. And there is only one chess piece, which is the War General-level Psionic Titan.

Chen Xi's gaze swept quickly across the chess pieces, and a bold plan took shape in his mind.

He reached out and precisely picked up an Ash Knight chess piece.

The chess piece trembled slightly at his fingertips, as if one could feel the vitality contained within it.

This is an Ash Knight stationed at Rostov-IV base, who will now become the key to his experiment.

He gently picked up the chess piece and quickly placed it back on the platform of the military box, while adjusting the deployment coordinates to the locations of the three commanders on the Kharkiv front.

The moment the piece touched the platform, a golden light flashed, and in just a moment, the Astartes piece traversed the sea of ​​stars, arriving at another galaxy from one.

The price Chen Xi paid was merely the redeployment cost of this piece, equivalent to one-tenth of the point cost of deploying this piece.

This discovery means that he can flexibly deploy elite forces across different battlefields without being limited by traditional troop deployment methods.

"The Emperor allows this? That's great!" Overjoyed to see his plan come true, Chen Xi returned the piece to Rostov IV after paying another redeployment fee.

After confirming that the system was functioning correctly, his gaze turned to the Warlord-level psionic titan piece, his eyes flashing with a resolute light.
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Inside the forging workshop aboard the Rostov III, the busy figures of the Mechanicus sages appeared exceptionally devout under the dim lights.

32 stood beside the massive foot armor of the Warlord-class Psionic Titan, gazing up at this majestic war machine.

Sage Caul's mechanical tentacles slid rapidly across the data panel, recording every set of sacred data transmitted back from the Titan's external scanner.

“What an amazing construction,” 32 said softly, his gaze sweeping over the psionic runes on the Titan armor.

Although she knew the origin of the Titan, the awe-inspiring feeling of witnessing this behemoth standing in reality was far beyond that of a model chess piece.

The priests around were performing routine maintenance with the utmost reverence, their servo skulls swirling around the Titan's joints as they chanted binary hymns praising the divine machine.

Several low-ranking technical priests knelt at the Titan's feet, chanting binary prayers while using the most sophisticated scanners to record every detail of the armor.

Because this psionic titan is so rare that there is only one in the entire galaxy, the sages dared not disassemble or study it in any way, for fear of accidentally displeasing the soul of this divine machine.

Even if they didn't break it, if the paint on the Titan were scratched even slightly, these tech enthusiasts would act like their parents had died. The sages could only satisfy their thirst for knowledge through non-invasive scanning; otherwise, they could only kowtow to the Titan.

“Praise be to Omnissiah,” Kaul’s mechanical tentacles gently brushed across the outer shell of the psionic combustion chamber, data streams rapidly scrolling across his visual interface. “This energy transfer method shares 92.7% similarity with the Ominous Order technique recorded in the Martian Codex, but the psionic conversion efficiency is improved by at least…”

Before he could finish speaking, the entire Titan suddenly began to shake violently. 32 stumbled and nearly crashed into the protective shield of the combustion chamber.

Inside the maintenance corridor, all the lighting systems instantly switched to a blinding blood red, and alarms immediately blared throughout every corner of the Titan.

The servo skulls scattered in panic, two of them even colliding with each other.

The friars instinctively raised their weapons, then lowered them in terror upon realizing who their target was.

The most devout technical priests had already knelt down and begun reciting scriptures in binary code to soothe the machine's soul.

The entire research station instantly descended into chaos, as if someone had thrown a whirlwind torpedo into the motorist's temple.

"Warning! Divine Machine Activation in Progress! All Personnel Evacuate Immediately!" The machine spirit's electronic voice boomed in the auditory receivers of every mechanical priest, while their data panels were also flooded with emergency evacuation orders.

"This is impossible! We clearly didn't activate any startup program!" Kaul's mechanical eye flashed wildly, but his body had already instinctively begun to retreat.

The data cables attached to the surface of Titan writhed violently like living things, and several restraining steel cables snapped with a tooth-grinding metallic tearing sound.

Kaul's processor raced, its logic core instantly arriving at the optimal solution: "Evacuate immediately! Prioritize the preservation of research data!"

As it spoke, it activated the thrusters on its back, and mechanical tentacles grabbed the nearest data storage devices and propelled them outwards.

The group of mechanical priests were thrown into chaos, stumbling and rushing toward the exit.

Several low-ranking priests even activated emergency disengagement protocols, severing their mechanical arms from the Titan.

The pneumatic doors in the maintenance passage closed automatically one after another, terrifying the priests who lagged behind.

As the last mechanical priest tumbled and crawled out of the Titan, the hatch behind him slammed shut with a loud bang.

Immediately afterwards, all the inspection ports and maintenance passages on the entire surface of the Titan lit up with red indicator lights, signifying that it was completely locked.

"Omnisiah above," Christensen and Kaul and a host of other sages fell to the ground, their mechanical vocal cords distorting due to overload.

Under his horrified gaze, every rune on the surface of the Warlord-class psionic titan began to glow with a dazzling blue light, and the intricate psionic circuits gradually lit up like blood vessels, distorting the air in the entire forging hall due to psionic overload.

With a deafening explosion, blinding light engulfed the entire forging factory.

When the mechanical priests' visual sensors resumed functioning, the forty-meter-tall steel behemoth had vanished without a trace, leaving only a few traces of molten metal on the ground and a group of dumbfounded mechanical cult followers.

(End of this chapter)