Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

"Perhaps I need to unblock some things, some technological creations that I was concerned about before."

"Stone Man, and Iron Man, now that you know what happened in the past and have the Necrons' Blackstone technology that can fight against the Warp, there is no need to hesitate any longer."

He had no interest in power and status. Today, the Human Empire was in turmoil. Although the situation seemed to have improved with the arrival of reinforcements from the Five Hundred Worlds on Terra, as long as the threat from the rebels was not resolved, no one knew whether the enemy would come up with something to reverse the situation.

The traitors rely on the Warp and the ancient gods, which themselves contain infinite possibilities.

In order to counter this possibility, Roche can only recruit every bit of power, and he will start by recruiting the Mechanicus.

Chapter 386: Rand the Great Sage and Kaul (Please Subscribe)

Just as Roche and Sharokin were discussing how to subdue the loyalists of the Mechanicus and unite this important force, a huge mechanical ark had already entered the territory of the star ring.

Mechanical Ark is one of the largest ships in the Empire. These ships are either inherited from the ancient Dark Ages or built by some Forging Worlds with all their efforts. They vary in size, and some are so exaggerated that they can even be as big as a small satellite.

There are factories, refineries, power stations and laboratories inside its hull, and even test sites and gene cabins. Its powerful industrial capabilities can even rival those of some small forging worlds.

For example, the mechanical ark that now appears in the orbit of Ganymede is even larger than the Dark Angels' original flagship, the Indomitable Truth.

When calculating the number of warships, the Empire often does not include the Mechanical Ark. These giant ships belonging to the Mechanicus have transcendent independence, but it does not mean that they are weaker than the Empire's warships.

The Nova Cannon mounted on the bow of the Ark has terrifying destructive power. The four light spear arrays and two conventional weapon arrays are enough to make these giant ships that usually do not intervene in wars become the most terrifying opponents in naval battles when necessary.

"It looks like an important person is coming, I wonder who it is?" Luo Xi said lightly as he looked at the approaching mechanical ark on the screen.

If one had not seen the majesty of the Thundercloud-class planetary battleship, perhaps this mechanical ark would still be shocking, but now it seems to Luo Xi to be nothing more than that.

As if they had received a signal, after the mechanical ark arrived, other small warships in this area of ​​the universe also swarmed up, looking for a suitable place to anchor.

The hatch of the Mechanical Ark opened wide, and white mist gushed out. The sound of the gears turning was crisp and pleasant, and a Mechanicus sage with an electronic monkey standing on his shoulder emerged from his Mechanical Ark.

Similar to most of the mechanics who like to show off their differences, this mechanical sage rides a modified Land Raider. A large number of special ancient high-tech weapons and electronic equipment make the sage's vehicle unique. In addition, this is a Land Raider that can float.

The Grand Sage of the Mechanicus, Arkan Rand, brought his assistants to this technological city that was built right under their noses, and more of the mechanics followed Grand Sage Rand tacitly, letting this highly prestigious sage take the lead.

These cunning guys are well aware of the principle that the first bird to stick its head out gets shot. When the situation is unclear, it is better to let the big boss test the other party's bottom line.

"There is no doubt that the birth of the Ganymede miracle is closely related to the STC master we have been pursuing. Look at everything here, it all comes from the power of the STC."

"It's not the old antiques from Mars, but the taste of brand new technology, which is the same as those strange creations from the Extreme Star Region."

"Those three creations named Thundercloud-class planetary battleships in the database were created from STC templates we have never seen before. This is such a delightful discovery."

Acanland glanced at the oil men behind him who were acting furtively with his naked eyes, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

He knew very well that his colleagues were reluctant to part with the possible treasures of the God of All Machines on Ganymede, but also did not want to take risks. They just wanted to follow behind this old guy and wait to get something for free.

However, it is impossible to find good things by picking up bargains. Even if there are, they will have been snatched away by more adventurous pioneers.

So useless.

Although Sage Rand did not agree with the radicalism and madness of Kyber Hal and other high-ranking Mechanicus leaders, they had no awe of unknown knowledge and were greedy for the gifts of the Warp and Horus, which would sooner or later backfire on themselves.

The knowledge of the Warp is poisonous. When they drink the poison, it can indeed alleviate their desire for the pursuit of truth, but Kyberhar, what is the price?

Putting aside the above, their pursuit of the truth of the God of All Things is what Akan Rand admires.

As for the mechanical priests who followed him and the new Forge General Kane back to Terra, their loyalty was indeed impeccable, but their abilities were not reassuring, which made Rand feel relieved but also a little worried.

"Well, let me explore the way for these younger generations. The future of the empire is uncertain, and the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot continue to decline like this."

Rand's eyes swept over the mechanical priests following him. Many of them did not dare to look directly into the eyes of the great sage, and some of them had ignorant greed and possessive desire in their eyes. Rand's disappointment suddenly became stronger.

However, among the crowd, there was only one person who gave Rand a sense of surprise.

He was a very young mechanical priest. His body was similar to Rand's, without a lot of biochemical mechanical modifications. He looked clean and tidy, like a newly arrived mechanical apprentice.

Rand liked the other person's eyes very much. They were as ambitious as he was when he was young, but also humble and cautious.

"That little guy... I remember his name was Belisarius Cawl?" Great Sage Rand patted his head and thought for less than a second, and immediately remembered the information about the other party.

This great sage of the Mechanicus did not perform any cyber modification on his brain. Even though he is now a sage, he still firmly believes that the original brain is better than the constantly added external parts.

In the eyes of many of his colleagues in the Mechanicus, Rand was undoubtedly extremely arrogant.

"Belisariukor was born in the training facility managed by the Xanthi geological zone where the Martian biological sage Hamares is located. He served as a technology assistant on the forge world Trisolian A4. I remember his teacher was... the sage of soul synthesis, Hester Aspetia Σ-Σ."

In his original flesh-and-blood brain, Rand easily found the initial information of a young mechanical priest whom he had only met once. Sage Hester defected to the Horus rebels who were at the gates of the city, and was later killed by Cawl. He remembered that Cawl disappeared in the subsequent war.

Not long ago, Wolf Lord Leman Russ returned to Terra with his Space Wolves Legion, among them was Cawl, the clever guy who survived the chaos.

Rand liked him very much. His discerning eyes saw something different in Cawl from the other mediocre mechanical priests.

Although this is just a hunch and there is no definite evidence to prove it, Rand believes so.

Many times, there is no need for evidence to support it, and liking each other determines everything.

At that time, he led the largest expedition team on Mars, deep into the ruins of the Encyclopedia Library on Mars, and spent three years searching for the still working STC database in this abandoned maze building. Although he did not achieve his ultimate pursuit, he discovered two revolutionary STCs along the way.

One of the almost complete STCs was the Land Raider series of vehicles that was later equipped in large quantities by the Empire. It was named after Arkan Land. Secondly, Land discovered valuable information about anti-gravity plates, developed and perfected the research on the theory of anti-gravity engines, and thus created the Land Speeder.

"Great explorers need perseverance, courage and carefulness, and most importantly, a little bit of luck."

Rand saw what was called luck in Kaur.

"Well, let me meet you, my distinguished guest from Macragge." Rand smiled. It had been a long time since he had laughed heartily since the Horus Heresy broke out and the civil war on Mars split.

As one of the few remaining loyal high-ranking members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, he must shoulder some responsibilities that he is unwilling to take.

And now, at the thought of meeting the creator of all these miracles: Sage Roshi from Macragge, Rand felt his heart begin to surge with blood he had not felt for a long time.

He hoped that these loyalists from Mars would be able to show a bit of the style of their Martian ancestors under the stimulation of Macragge's fresh blood.

This may be a historic meeting.

Chapter 387 We call it efficiency (seeking follow-up subscription)

A delegation of the Adeptus Mechanicus, led by Archmagos Arkan Rand, landed on the "Star Ring" that was emitting beautiful aurora colors.

With their arrival, countless eyeball-shaped intelligent machines floating in the universe suddenly gathered around.

"They are watching us."

Rand could feel that these things were not stupid and low-intelligence creations, they were likely to have their own intelligence.

After the eyeball-shaped intelligent machine discovered them, other intelligent machines on the star ring quickly rushed to the group's surroundings.

They were some non-humanoid intelligent machines with a very simple and efficient triangular frame. Rand did not see any processing marks or engine openings on their silver-white shells, which meant that their casting process had reached a level of perfection.

"Beautiful, so beautiful, the beauty of simplicity, these little things."

The simpler the technological creation, the higher the technological content it contains. Rand was amazed by the beauty of these little things.

Rand praised, and even the animatronic monkey on his shoulder was dissatisfied with his joy and grabbed the fancy wig on top of the Great Sage's head.

In a sense, this extremely intelligent sage is really "extremely intelligent". Perhaps it is because his overdeveloped brain absorbs most of the nutrients. Since his teenage years, Akan Rand has had a shiny bald head.

"Ganymede uses a large number of omnics. Doesn't Sage Roshi of Macragge know about the Scarlet Accords? Or, does he not even want to act?"

Rand felt a little uneasy. Everything here was indeed very intelligent, but it was a little too much.

Even those Mechanicus sages who secretly crossed the line and studied abominable intelligence and iron men would often use various names and reasons to explain their research.

He had never seen anyone as open and honest as Luo Xi.

+Carbon-based life detected: Database query complete - Welcome, Sage Arkan Rand+

+Welcome to Ganymede+

A group of triangular robots floated in the air, linking together to form a combined shape similar to a human face.

+Sage Roshi is waiting for you at the planet's control center, please follow me+

Everyone followed the triangular robot towards the area that was suspected to be the space elevator. In the face of many strange-looking robots, a mechanical priest could not resist his curiosity and activated the plasma gear cutter on the mechanical arm behind him, trying to catch a triangular robot for research.

There are so many robots on this star ring, and if I sneak one away, no one should notice, right?

Once they arrived at the unfamiliar and novel venue, these mechanics became restless again. These unprecedented triangular structure robots on Ganymede were most likely the product of some unknown STC template.

+Warning! Danger detected+

The mechanical robots that noticed the abnormality immediately emitted red light from their bodies. They combined tightly together to form a closed wall similar to an eggshell, and enclosed the mechanical priest who was about to take action.

The Oil Man, who was frightened by the sudden rise of the intelligent machine, panicked immediately. He started his plasma gear cutter with all his strength. At the same time, he took out various weapons with amazing firepower from under his Martian red robe and began to bombard the intelligent machine barrier that bound him.

+Energy weapons, medium threat level+

+Allow execution of control protocols+

Under the gaze of Great Sage Rand, a golden beam of light suddenly began to flash from the surface of the surrounding star rings. It hit the intelligent machines, and then the extremely smooth surfaces of the intelligent machines added a variety of tactical modules as if they were printed with hard light.

An electromagnetic pulse weapon appeared on the surface of the intelligent machine. The triangular-structured robot cracked a gap and simultaneously created an energy field and an electromagnetic field to shield the range damage of the electromagnetic pulse weapon. A series of electromagnetic pulses instantly paralyzed the oil man with dishonest hands and feet.

He had already performed a lot of mechanical modifications on himself. Under the targeted attack of the intelligent machines, his external processor immediately began to smoke and overload, and the modifications on his body also twitched and became paralyzed.

Rand was worried about his colleagues. Being dishonest was a common problem among all mechanical priests, but these people obviously did not realize that they were now on someone else's territory.

"Ahem, listen to me, everyone should be more cautious. If you make a scene, it will embarrass us."

"Stop bringing shame to our Adeptus Mechanicus. There's not much left."

He did not try to save the mechanical priest who was the first to speak out. Anyway, it seemed that the other party was not in danger of life, otherwise those intelligent machines would not have just paralyzed him with electromagnetic pulses.

After this unpleasant episode, the delegation of the Mechanicus immediately became much more obedient. They realized that they were the technologically backward party here, and they were just like primitive people entering the Grand View Garden, full of curiosity about everything around them.

In the space elevator made of transparent high-strength materials, the delegations traveled at high speed from the surface of the star ring directly to the planetary control center at the target location.

Until someone was surprised by an unusual phenomenon in the sky.

"Oh, Oh Messiah, that thing is, it is devouring the mass of Jupiter?" a mechanical priest screamed, his voice mixed with the hissing sound of leaking oil.

Through the walls of the space elevator, everyone can clearly see the rows of steel buildings below. The original ice layer on the surface of Ganymede has been completely covered by metal, and most of these materials come from Jupiter.

The only difference from what they imagined is that Ganymede does not obtain resources by collecting materials via spacecraft and then transporting them to refining centers for processing.

At the focal point covered by the star ring, there seemed to be some kind of powerful mass reaction. The detection equipment brought by Great Sage Rand could sense that terrifying energy was surging there.

It’s just that they were originally on the star ring, so their perception of this thing was blocked a lot.

As the saying goes, one cannot see the true face of Mount Lu because one is already inside the mountain. When the delegation of the Mechanicus was on the surface of a celestial-level megastructure system, they were instead shrouded in a fog.

"This is... a gravity well?!"