Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

Are they trying to feign surrender? Or stall for time through negotiations? Both are possible.

The Eldar often do some incredible things, their weird logic and way of thinking are difficult for humans to understand. They often take advance measures based on certain prophecies to nip the crisis in the bud.

"Eldar, do you think we will believe your clumsy lies?"

"I am the son of Guilliman. Rationality and calmness are my instincts. Don't try to play with your damn prophecy in front of me."

A cold electronic sound rang out from the microphone on the helmet, and the sensors loaded onto the Space Marines transmitted the scene happening before their eyes back to the forward base at the rear.

After being processed by the intelligent brain, the scenes here turned into new projections and appeared in front of Luo Xi's eyes.

He folded his arms across his chest, wondering whether this was true or not.

"This Eldar seems to be different from those who claim to be from the Alaitok Craftworld. Their intricate patterns have extremely subtle differences."

Roxi knew that the Eldar had an extremely ancient and complex culture, and every rune and mark on their bodies had its own meaning, but most humans would not be interested in these.

"Listen to him continue." Luo Xi ordered remotely.

"Have the anti-psionic teams ready, and have our untouchables deal with him."

"I am not without ill intentions, otherwise I would not come here alone." Uslan stuck his staff into the ground and hung the blue Eldar helmet in his left hand on the staff.

He walked slowly towards a direction where the anti-psychic team was. Ten untouchables were lying in ambush in the bunker. They felt a wave of oppressive feelings, and the soulless stance seemed to be under pressure.

Uslan walked towards the human's trump card against psychics, and as the distance between him and the Untouchable shortened, a trace of pain flashed across the handsome face of the Eldar prophet.

But he still maintained his elegance and composure, speaking to Commander Hill while being enveloped by the soulless field that was enough to kill an ordinary psychic instantly.

"I think this is enough to prove my sincerity. I have good intentions and hope to gain your goodwill. If possible, please meet with me, ruler of mankind."

When he said this, his eyes were actually looking at the camera on Hill, and he was talking to Luo Xi.

"I didn't expect there are such bright and open people among the Eldar. I thought this race was full of riddlers who like to beat around the bush."

Uslan's sincerity moved Luo Xi. He hesitated for a few seconds and spoke into the communicator.

"Bring him over here, Hill, and have the anti-psychic team follow him. I want to have a good chat with this Eldar."

Hill wanted to speak out to dissuade him, but then he changed his mind and suppressed the idea.

He knew Luo Xi's character. Although he would usually listen to correct advice, he would not change his mind once he made up his mind.

He motioned for the Eldar Prophet to follow him, and for the Untouchables of the Anti-Psi Squad to follow him.

Under the dual protection of the Ultramarines Guard and the Anti-Psionic Squad, Uslan successfully entered Roshi's forward base on Pandora.

"This will be a great meeting. You don't know its significance yet, but if you live long enough you will understand that this will be a big event for our universe."

Uslan's incomprehensible words made Hill feel a little confused. It seemed that even the Eldar, who seemed to be relatively normal, liked to speak in some weird riddles.

Luo Xi was sitting in his seat at this moment. He had been waiting for a long time.

The prophet of the Eldar has a very handsome face. Among all the people Roche has seen, only Guilliman and Lion, the two creations of the Emperor of Mankind, can surpass him.

The Primarch possessed a certain inexplicable divinity; this was the evaluation that Roche came to after observation.

Uslan had a faint smile on his face but remained solemn. His face, which was extremely similar to that of a human, made people feel good about him.

Sharokin emerged from the darkness, and the Star God Phase Sword in his hand, which was shining with a faint green luster, caught Uslando's attention for two seconds.

"Eric Nightspear said he suffered a terrible loss at the hands of a human warrior wielding a C'tan phase sword."

"It seems that you have already dealt with those Necrons, respected human." said the Eldar.

"You are different from those Eldar. You seem willing to contact us."

Uslan smiled shyly, shrugged and replied, "Yes, this is the characteristic of our race. The Creator added these things when he created us. Of course, I am different from them. I have no prejudice against any race."

"The reason I want to meet you is to calm the conflict between our two races. There were indeed some unpleasantness before, but that is not important. What is important is what happens in the future."

Uslan's words made Luo Xi raise his eyebrows. He had not expected that these self-proclaimed noble elves would be willing to bow their heads first.

"I admire your courage. Under the protection of ten untouchables, are you still able to use your psychic power?"

Hearing Luo Xi's question, Uslan snapped his fingers, used his psychic power to pinch a green laurel crown in front of everyone, and then sent it in front of Luo Xi.

"The Crown of Aisha, the crown bestowed by the goddess of life in our Eldar mythology. I made a fake imitating that thing. I hope you like it."

Luo Xi was silent for a second, then asked the untouchables to leave.

He realized that the other party's psychic power was strong enough to break through the suppression of the soulless stance, so there was no point in letting these untouchables stay here.

It would be better for both parties to be open and natural and talk things out clearly.

Roxie doesn't like being a riddler.

Uslan nodded, pleased with how this meeting was going.

"I propose a truce. You can take the Black Stone on Pandora. Those things are no longer useful to us. It would be good to give them to you to defend against the threat of the warp."

"Chaos is the common enemy of all life in the universe. Humans and Eldar should not be hostile to each other."

Luo Xi became more and more curious about Uslan. This Eldar who didn't like to tell riddles handed over the black stone with both hands and showed obvious intention to cooperate. This was really rare.

"How much do you know about the Black Stone? Isn't this thing a creation of the Necrons?"

The use of the black stone was taught by Trazyn when he first met him. Roxi was deeply impressed by that alternative collector among the Necrons.

"Necrons? No, no, the Black Stone is not something that belongs to those Necrontyr, and they are not qualified to say such arrogant words that they are the creators of the Black Stone."

Uslan seemed to have heard a joke and showed a somewhat exaggerated smile. The emotions of the elves were always fluctuating violently, so that they always behaved very neurotically.

"The origin of the Black Stone is very complicated. It is difficult for me to sort it out in simple words in a short time."

Before Uslan could finish his explanation, he was interrupted by Luo Xi.

"Then let's make a long story short."

The Eldar was a little embarrassed, but continued with what he had just said.

"The Black Stone was not created by the Necrons. One theory holds that its creator was a being called a Star God in ancient times."

"That was a long time ago, so long ago that even we, the Eldar, can no longer fully record what happened at that time, but I still found some clues."

Uslan seemed to show off his knowledge, and then continued: "Star God Mag Ladros, or the Void Dragon, is the ruler of the material world and the embodiment of all technology and machinery. It is rumored to be the creator of the Black Stone."

"Star God?"

This was not the first time that Luo Xi had heard this name. He first learned this name from the Necron Overlord Trazyn, but the other party was vague about it and seemed unwilling to mention it in too much detail.

"Go on, how much do you Eldar know about the Star God?"

Chapter 267: The Master of Matter, the God of Stars

Seeing Luo Xi's half-understood look, Uslan immediately guessed that the other party might have known the name of Star God before, but his understanding of it was very superficial.

This might be an opportunity. Roxi had already had contact with the Necrons. The C'tan Phase Sword in the hands of the Raven Guard was irrefutable evidence. He could try to pull the other party into the camp of the Eldar.

Uslan believed that the biggest enemy of the real universe was the malicious entities from the warp, but he also disliked the Necrons. Although he didn't know why the Necrons, who regarded all organic beings as enemies, would have anything to do with a human, any chance to make things difficult for them would be great.

"I think your understanding of the Star Gods comes from those dormant Necrons, but their intelligence and information are definitely not as objective and fair as ours."

Uslan acted very confident, and his look aroused Luo Xi's curiosity even more.

"How do you say this?"

The Eldar prophet began to recount the past in an exaggerated tone, as if he were chanting an epic poem. Even a grand orchestral music played by psionic energy began to sound in the room.

The magnificent music of the Eldar far exceeds the limits of human perception, and the emotional excitement is so strong that it makes people feel as if they are witnessing an epic.

Luo Xi immediately complained in his heart, this Eldar prophet is really a show-off, he even added background music for himself at the critical moment.

"A long time ago, so long ago that the Necrons were still flesh and blood, they were called the Dead. They were the first race born among the stars, but unfortunately this race was born with misfortune. The life span of the individuals in the race was abnormally short, and almost every individual would develop an incurable disease."

Death worship is common among Necrons' creations, and their tomb worlds are the best evidence of this.

"Until a certain coincidence later, the Necrontyr discovered the Star Gods, or Katans, who were still in a state of ignorance. They were born from the huge unconscious energy of the Big Bang. Long before the first planets formed and cooled, the Star Gods became the first truly self-aware life."

"They are the embodiment of rules and control the essence of rules. Each star god represents a certain rule, and the scary thing is that these things have their own consciousness and emotions."

"Newly born Star Gods do not have fixed bodies. They feed on the life of stars and constantly drift to new stars for feeding grounds with the electromagnetic radiation of the universe. The Death-Fearers discovered them and provided them with living metal as a body to accommodate them."

Star gods were born together with the universe. They are the darlings of the universe and the existence closest to the essence.

Luo Xi grasped some key points from Uslan's chanting, that is, what exactly this so-called star god is.

If the description of the Eldar is objective and fair enough, then this conceptual existence is indeed terrifying enough.

Even with beings like the Necrons who have almost reached the top of materialistic technology, humans dare not say that they can keep up with them in technology, but at least they can see the gap between the two sides and make up for it through other means.

What about the Star Gods? They are the rules themselves. How can humans fight against the rules?

“The Star Gods showed their extraordinary abilities. In order to save the fate of their own race, the Deathly Hate decided to worship these Star Gods who had just gained real bodies as gods.

They chose to become slaves of those beings, and it was with the help of the Star Gods that the technology of the Necrontyr developed more rapidly, achieving achievements that were unimaginable in the past. "

Roshi shuddered, remembering the complexity and confusion he had felt when he saw the Necron technology.

At that time, he relied on his intuition and subconsciously felt that there was something very wrong with the technology of the Necrons, as if he had obtained a reference answer that was standard and concise.

If the answer given by the Necrons was given by the Star God, then everything would have an answer and explanation.

"No wonder Trazyn was so hesitant at the time. From his perspective, it is impossible for him to admit that the majority of his race's progress came from the gifts of the gods in the real universe. That would undoubtedly be a denial of himself."

He thought again of the Necron warriors he had seen before, those cold bodies deprived of their souls.

The Necrontyr underwent the so-called biotransformation, and indeed escaped the curse of short life and disease, but they also lost their souls forever, trapped in the cold living metal and unable to be freed forever.

Uslan continued, "After acquiring bodies made of living metal, the Star Gods began to become more like gods in the cognition of life. They found something more delicious than stars - the souls of living things. They tricked the Deathly Haunted into transforming their bodies and ate all the souls of this race."

"The Necrontyr actually died the moment he entered the bioconverter. What remained was just a husk made of living metal, a copy of his original memories, and a Necron imitating his old habits."

All the information told by the Eldar prophet was only half-understood by Roxi. When he put everything together, Roxi suddenly understood the true situation of the Necrons.

"If this is the price we have to pay to gain power from the Star God, then we don't have to. We can rely on our own hands and brains to gain knowledge. No one can bear the consequences of taking shortcuts."

Luo Xi originally envied the Necrons for being able to copy the answers directly, but after seeing the price they paid, he began to feel fortunate. If a race loses even its soul, then what is the meaning of it all?

"By the way, you have been talking for a long time but still haven't mentioned how the Black Stone came from and why the Star God called the Void Dragon created the Black Stone. Prophet, I am not here to listen to your stories about the ancient Eldar."

Luo Xi said unhappily that even though Uslan had been very restrained, once he was allowed to speak freely, he would probably be led astray by the habits and instincts of the elves.

"Hehe, don't be impatient, I'll get to it soon." Uslan's old face turned red. He actually hated being interrupted when he was telling a story, but at this moment he had no choice but to endure it.