Your war hammer is too fake

Author's words: Reply to the reader's question "The Fun Man Deep Sea Submarine":

The Meko-class here refers to the Meko-class frigate in reality, a popular German warship.

Answer to reader "Reader1659590858":

The word "Knight Ji" originally used "I" and "home" interchangeably, and more serious content always refers to "I".

Answer to reader "Reader1647318749":

If you accept high-level elites, will you accept people from Li Biao's lineage?

Chapter 430: Your God’s Choice (Part 2)

There was a knock on the door and Shigeru Nishikori walked in with a newly received letter.

This interrupted An Jiyue's question, and the governor, who was full of surprise, could only take the note and read it quickly. "Let's talk about the machine soul first. This matter," An Jiyue shook the note in her hand, "we can discuss it later. What does it mean that Kaul awakened the machine soul in public? Is it the machine soul I know?"

Machine Soul, a classic setting in Warhammer 40K, is one of the core doctrines of the belief in the God of All Machines. It is a kind of animism variant with a prerequisite. According to the doctrine of the oil men, all machines have machine souls. In parentheses, this conclusion does not apply to alien creations, because Ohm Messiah only favors humans.

Simply put, from the flashlight in the hands of a soldier in the Astra Militarum to the magnificent warships sailing in the void, they all have machine souls. The existence of machine souls also leads to another concept, that is, machine souls need to be appeased, otherwise once the machine soul is unhappy, the operation of the machine will have problems, ranging from abnormal working conditions to strike on the spot.

"From Madam Melinda's description, it should be the machine soul we know," Evelyn replied. "Whether you believe in the killer whale god or not, as long as you have a certain degree of understanding of mechanical structure and principles, even if you are an empirical person like my fellow countryman from Peshawar who relies entirely on my own thinking, you can feel the existence of the machine soul when there is physical contact."

"Wait," An Jiyue frowned and asked, "Is that the only steam tank with an organic soul? Have you investigated the other machines that Caul has handled? Besides Caul, what about other tigers, cough, killer whale god believers?"

"We've checked everything. Coast Heavy Industries almost had the witch hunters and the light wizards turn it upside down... So far, only the steam tank that was consecrated by Cawl himself has a machine soul. None of the others have one."

"Consecration? You really are just a machine oil guy, right?" An Jiyue couldn't help but complain. "Let me guess. Before the steam tank was consecrated and the machine soul was born, this so-called mechanical order should have had little influence. How could the management of Coast Heavy Industry allow Kaul to conduct such a religious ceremony of unknown origin?"

"To be precise, the Adeptus Mechanicus only appeared after that. At that time, Cawl didn't mention the matter of the Killer Whale God to anyone else," Evelyn replied. "As for why Coast Heavy Industries allowed him to hold the consecration ceremony, after all, the improved steam engine used in the steam tank was invented by him. The workshop director agreed after much persuasion."

Knight Ji's words immediately reminded the Jiedushi of the dream. Li Biao tried to harm her, but ended up killing herself, and incidentally, An Jiyue gained a lot of benefits. At the end of the dream, the killer whale gave the gear man some enlightenment. Perhaps from that time on, the two sides established some kind of vague and mysterious connection.

"Then, the Mechanicus was established. No matter how the engineers of Coast Heavy Industries responded to the rumors, as long as they came into contact with the steam tank once, they would become believers of the killer whale god." At this point, Aiwen looked at her friend with a rather strange look in her eyes, "So you really don't know anything? Don't you have any strange feelings?"

"What good is there in lying to you? If Carl hadn't mentioned it suddenly, I wouldn't have known that I had a group of believers," An Jiyue said unhappily, "Come to think of it, didn't they try to create a second machine soul?"

"Someone in the Mechanicus asked a similar question," said Evelyn. "Kall's answer was that the machine soul is proof that the machine has been blessed by the Killer Whale God, and the blessed machines are all bathed in the endless glory of the Killer Whale God."

"speak English."

"Only the Killer Whale God can endow machines with machine souls. The mechanical monks are just the mediums for the gods to perform miracles," Knight Ji shrugged. "Anyway, since then, in addition to their main work, these people have been performing their own rituals on the newly launched products of Coast Heavy Industry all day long, trying to recreate the previous miracles."

"Has their faith not been shaken by the constant failures?"

"The mechanical boys in your family think that you are testing their piety," the knight princess glanced at the governor, "and the steam tank before...how should I put it, the bonus effect brought by the machine soul is really too exaggerated."

"How to say?"

"As long as this steam tank is successfully started, it has never had any problems, not even once. The only problem is that not everyone can get the approval of the machine spirit, and those who are not approved cannot start it at all. In addition, it has the ability to self-repair, and its performance indicators exceed the design in all aspects."

"...The Machine Soul is very happy, right?" An Jiyue held his forehead and said, "This is too much of an Ohm Messiah."

"Not only that, among all the engineers who joined the Mechanicus, although not all of them, more than half of them did perform better than before. Whether it was the tests organized by the Mechanicus itself or the tests arranged by Madam Melinda to be conducted by a third party, they all showed that these people's thinking speed became faster, their memory became better, and their logical thinking ability became stronger. Among them, the most outstanding ones, such as Cawl, were more likely to generate inspiration than before."

"It's a real blessing from the gods," An Jiyue nodded, "but the gods themselves know nothing about it."

"At least I have ruled out the possibility that the four vendors or someone else is causing trouble," said the Elector Count, who is also an Outer God, with a complicated expression, "As long as you offer your faith, you can get real benefits... How did the Lake God faith become a monotheistic religion in Bretonnia? If the Mechanicus had not temporarily only allowed engineers and apprentices to join the order, the bishop of the Church of Sigmar in Marienburg would have come here to report the cult long ago."

"I think the greater possibility is that the followers of the organization overthrew the Mechanicus," An Jiyue said, "Although the Sigmar Church seems to be gentler than the Ulric Church, they are essentially a group of militants."

After that, the two fell silent at the same time. "Why do things always come at once..." An Jiyue said, lying on the table, "This kind of thing obviously only requires me to go to Marienburg in person, but the problem is that I don't have the time right now. I'm already too busy with the mess in the South. I have a feeling that Morgan's fleet alone may not be able to handle the situation."

"So," Aiwen raised her head and pointed at the soap note on the table with her chin, "what is it about?"

"Palatis," the governor buried his head in his arms and said in a muffled voice, "After so much trouble, their expeditionary force finally landed near Sadenburg. Due to the lack of a person who can speak with authority, the fools in Sadenburg wasted too much time in quarrels, shirking and accusations, and finally watched the enhanced human army of Palatis land and missed the best opportunity to counterattack. The army of the Order is currently resting and building siege equipment."

"Compared to the Chaos Nest, Paradis can't even be considered a threat," Knight Princess thought for a moment and said, "I think Morgan probably doesn't have the time to take care of these things now... Anyway."

The Elector suddenly came closer. "Do you need me to give the Adeptus Mechanicus legal status?"

"Eh?" The Jiedushi looked up in confusion: "What do you mean?"

"This group of people is actually quite ostentatious, but because of their profession, their influence is limited to a specific circle and has not attracted widespread attention. Just like we said just now, if the affairs of the Adeptus Mechanicus are not handled properly, what will happen if there are sectarian conflicts? My God, although I knew that the white skins attached great importance to this when I traveled through the previous nest, it was only after I took office in Goose City that I truly understood how much trouble these people could cause for the matter of worshiping gods."

"It's up to you," An Jiyue waved her hand. "The religious beliefs in Marienburg are the most diverse in the entire Old World anyway, so having a bunch of oil men here won't be a big deal."

The girl propped herself up on the table with both hands and stood up shakily. "Forget it. I'd better hurry to Marienburg before the Electoral Meeting starts. Otherwise, I'll be worried. I'll trouble you to keep an eye on this place."

"Leave it to me with confidence!" Evelyn nodded vigorously.

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Author's Note: In response to more than one reader:

There is no need to worry about the issue of the Elf God. It is not the first or second time that GW has come up with self-contradictory settings. What's more, ET is a large-scale official OOC scene. Why worry so much about it?

Answer to "Always Glowing":

Machine soul means literally, the soul of a machine.

Chapter 431: Alliances

Somewhere in the northern Badlands.

The flying speed of the floating city was slowing down, and everyone was aware of it. It was no longer just moving forward, but turning and circling from time to time, and occasionally retreating a short distance, as if it was calibrating its position.

This seemed to be a signal, urging all competitors who came to fight for the floating city. The High Elf Expeditionary Force began to frequently come into contact with other forces. Sometimes such contacts were cautious and restrained, and both sides retreated after exchanging some intelligence; however, more often, the two sides would fight each other.

To describe it with something that the Lords of the Holy Scriptures are more familiar with, the current situation is like the final round of the chicken-eating game. The circle has shrunk so much that everyone has no room to maneuver and can only face those enemies who have not been eliminated.

It was not until then that Gustav, who was imprisoned, truly realized how many people were fighting for Fozrek's legacy: the Druzil Bloodscar, the Dread Lord, led his army and showed up with his Skaven allies. The two sides didn't know how they hooked up, but this ratman army that came out of nowhere reached an agreement with the dark elves, and the two sides would join forces to fight for the floating city. As for what would happen after the floating city was in hand...

In addition to Druzy and Shushu, there also appeared a sizable Arabi army, a mercenary army from Miragliano, and a group of border princes who claimed to be ordered by Karl Franz to confiscate the empire's property. No one knew why Karl did not send his own army, but instead brought these scumbags.

According to some sources, the forces that wanted to seize the floating city also included a large warband of Chaos Warriors who believed in Chaos without division, and a group of Estalia. Unfortunately, the former was beaten up on the way, and after finally breaking through the siege, they were ambushed by Druzy and Skaven, and the entire warband was annihilated; as for the Estalia, they were the first to run into those Chaos Warriors... It is said that there were no survivors of this group, not a single one.

Three days before the floating city landed, everyone confirmed its landing site through their own methods. It was a ruined city that, even though severely weathered, still showed the splendor and prosperity of its heyday. From all the traces, it was undoubtedly the territory of the ancient Strigoi Empire.

Next to the ruins of the city is the base of the floating city, which can be identified by its shape even though it has been mostly covered by sand. A thousand years ago, Fuzrek established his base here, built this magnificent wonder, and used a powerful spell he invented to raise it to the sky. Near this great ruin, the Arion Plunderers, Dark Riders, Desert Riders, Night Riders...Scouts from various countries and races are fully armed, alert to each other's every move, and report the location of the floating city base to their superiors.

The day before the floating city landed, several armies with great differences in equipment and clothing gathered silently beside the inverted cone-shaped base, looking up at the floating city slowly flying towards them in the distant sky.

The part-time messenger, Arion Plunderer, ran back and forth several times, and then, Soriak and Sir Rodrik, as well as the leaders of the other three forces, separated from the main force and gathered together under the protection of the most elite and loyal guards. For the sake of the Phoenix Court, both the Arabs and Boggio's men were willing to listen to Soriak's advice. As for the border princes? I'm afraid only the "princes" themselves would take themselves seriously.

"Whatever we think of each other, I believe we all share the same view of Druzil and the ratmen," the blind Archmage Asur said solemnly. "I can accept the floating city and its treasures as spoils of war for the Sultan or the besiegers, as long as you allow us to take the holy sword of the Asur clan and allow the Bretonnians to take one of their heritage. At the same time, I am sure that none of us can tolerate Druzil and the ratmen succeeding."

"Tell me your distribution plan, elf," said Saleh, the Grand Vizier of Haika, the commander of the Arabi army. "As long as your proposal is fair, I believe the Sultan will allow me to overstep my bounds a little."

"So do we," said the commander of the Tyrell Mercenary Corps, a mercenary general named Mortensen, glancing at the famous mercenary leader "Blackheart" Lightbird, who was elected by the border princes to take charge. "Prince Boggio wants wealth, and so do we."

Lightbird did not speak immediately. The bald man was very clear about the actual status of his people, and he knew that they could not decide anything. The reason why the group of people in front of him did not directly destroy him was purely because they were restrained by each other and no one dared to act rashly. After thinking for a while, he said to Mortensen: "Milmidon."

Mortensen looked puzzled: "...What?"

"As long as Prince Boggio is willing to use the hereditary rule of Mirmidon as a reward, I, my people, and other border princes will swear allegiance to the besiegers," Lightbird's eyes flashed with a certain light. "Dustan's army has been slowly but unremittingly expanding westward, and many border princes who refused to surrender have been killed by him. I believe it will not be long before it is our turn, so we are here."

The bald man with superb swordsmanship that didn't match his appearance said, "We never expect people like us to have things that we shouldn't have. We just want to make some money so that we can start over after leaving the Border Prince Territory."

"Before I agree to your terms," ​​Mortensen pondered, "Have you ever offended the self-exiled archmage?" Then the mercenary general turned his gaze to Soryak: "Master, how much do you know about your colleagues?"

"Dustan Falcon is an interesting man," Solyak said with a smile, "very interesting. In this day and age, it is rare to find an independent soul like him."

Lightbird first looked at Solyak who was talking nonsense, and then said to Mortensen: "If there is any hatred, it should be our unilateral hatred with the archmage." At this point, the expression on the bald face suddenly became ferocious: "Except for Gashnag (Note 1), Dustan never accepts allegiance or surrender. The princes either died on the battlefield or were thrown into the mines by him. <Border Prince Leads Swearing>! He is willing to accept a monster, but he doesn't even bother to look at us!"

"In that case," Mortensen nodded, "I can accept your request on behalf of the prince."

"Praise the besiegers, praise Miragliano!" Lightbird suppressed his anger and patted his chest to salute the mercenary general.

"I think the ownership of the floating city itself still needs further negotiations to be finalized," Solyak said after the tent became quiet again, "I have a suggestion. Since the Tirells came here for money--" The blind high elf "looked" at Saleh and said, "Why don't we give up our claim to the floating city, and then we and the Arabs will pay the Tirells a sum of money as compensation, how about that?"

"Fozrick's floating city is a priceless treasure!" Mortensen shouted immediately, "Its value is simply beyond measure..."

"One million gold crowns (Note 2)." The great wizard said lightly.

"W-what?!" The mercenary general was dumbfounded: "Mirmidia, did I hear it right?"

"One million gold crowns, half each from us and the Arabs," the Grand Mage repeated. "Grand Vizier, are you able to accept this condition?"

Hearing this, Saleh first looked at Mortensen, who was still immersed in the number, and then looked at Soryak, who was smiling. Based on his own experience and judgment, the Grand Vizier of Haika came to the conclusion that this was not a trap set up in advance to defraud the Sultan's property.

"This condition is acceptable," he said.

"As for the magical treasures in the floating city, they will be divided equally among the three of us. Of course, the White Sword and the holy relics of the Bretonnians will not be included in the distribution. As for the floating city itself, we will send envoys to Haika after everything is over to negotiate with your master to decide its ownership. If both of you think my conditions are acceptable."

Solyak paused here for a moment: "Then let us sign the agreement."

……

Note 1: A famous hero in the Border Princes, a ghoul king of the Strigg family. Note that "ghoul kings" are not ghouls, they are all vampires, but they are called that because they have a mysterious affinity with ghouls. In the Border Princes where humanoids are everywhere, Gashnag is an extremely rare ruler who treats the civilians under his rule well.

Note 2: About 25 tons of gold.

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Author's words: The landlord said that I used 877 kWh of electricity last month, and the total electricity bill exceeded a thousand... I was exhausted from arguing with the landlord...

Chapter 432: Deployment of Troops

Sanhe Prefecture, Xuanshui, Anxi Army Jiedushi.

Although she was very concerned about the so-called Mechanicus, An Jiyue was unable to reach Marienburg. She led Jin Zhishi from Altdorf and had just flown to the vicinity of Kalonburg when a new message reminder from the chat group, which required special settings to appear, forced her to stay where she was.

In the chat group, Morgan specifically @An Jiyue and posted four pictures and a short video. These pictures were obviously taken from a flying battleship. From the details of the ship, it was undoubtedly an Eclipse-class. The first picture was a rainforest. A large area of ​​the tropical forest that should have been lush and green suddenly disappeared. Only green pus, deformed growths that grew directly from the ground, Chaos Nests coming and going, and three circular ponds stuck together in the center of the clearing were left.

The three-eyed emblem of the Nurgle faction, the governor recognized it immediately. The second picture was still the same area, the three ponds were already filled with green thick slurry, the Nurgle spirits were happily fluttering in them, and the open space itself seemed to have expanded by almost twice, and rotten flowers grew on the corrupted earth.

The third and fourth pictures are of the same place. Taking the surrounding tropical trees as a reference, the corrupted area in the first picture is only half the size of a standard football field. By the fourth picture, it has expanded to seven times its original size, and the three "ponds" have also been enlarged in proportion... Most importantly, in the fourth picture, those ponds have begun to ooze out newly hatched Chaos Nests.

Even though they had been mentally prepared, the speed of the Chaos Clan's expansion still made the Lords of the Holy Scriptures shudder. What was even more terrifying was...

[Morgan Ringo: The above four pictures were all taken within one day.]

[Dustan o Falcon: ←_←How did the Faceless Men survive to this day? 】

[Group leader #An Jiyue: I have read some enemy analysis reports of the Faceless Ones. Although the Nest Clan's explosive force capability is strong, it is not so outrageous... This must be Nurgle's doing. That plague pig has met its end. ]

Using her mind to open the video that was sent to the group along with the picture, the first thing that came into An Jiyue's mind was the light blue trail left in the air when the light spear opened fire. In the sky, the overwhelming flying winged bees almost filled the entire field of vision. These mindless insects, while dripping with pus, rushed towards the Kaldorei warship one after another, crashing into the transparent and colorless shield, creating dense ripples like the surface of a lake in rain.

The weapon system of the Kaldorei warship in the video is already operating at overload. The cluster lightning continuously releases dancing silver snakes, which follow winding paths in the sea of ​​insects. The light spears switch to scattering mode, and each shot can blast out a trumpet-shaped gap, and broken chitinous shells fall down one after another.

However, compared with the seemingly endless enemy, the firepower of the two Eclipse-class ships was barely enough to protect themselves. They relied on the shields to isolate the enemy and avoid being doused with stinky water rich in countless pathogens by the plague bugs.

[Morgan Ringo: I was not there at the time. Nais, who was in charge of the on-site command, judged that the original mission could not be completed, so she ordered the fleet to retreat. For some reason, the bugs did not pursue.]

The prophetess who was once famous in Athel Loren was appointed Prime Minister by Morgan shortly after joining the King's Court of the Wood, taking full charge of the daily affairs of the court, while the King of the Evergreens himself became a hands-off manager. Naturally, when Nayes decided to join Tal O'Sullivan, she accepted the transformation and became a system character.

After receiving the relevant information about the Chaos Hive and the order from her friend and lord to immediately organize a search operation, Naisi mobilized troops to prepare for the expedition. On the other hand, the prophetess did not believe that humans could do anything good with magic. She was deeply suspicious of the Meko Vigilant that was teleported back with the two Eclipse-class ships, and did not believe that this thing could achieve the effect claimed by the human engineers on board.

Based on this distrust, when the fleet set sail again after a brief refit, Nais chose to lead the team herself: if the primitive witchcraft devices of the wild monkeys did not work, then the prophetess would use her own spells to solve the problem.

Fortunately, the Eye of Heaven was functioning normally, and this new type of equipment withstood the test. Shortly after the fleet set out, the Eye of Heaven captured an abnormal signal, and then what happened in the pictures and videos was what happened.

Nais was shocked by the incredible expansion of the Chaos Hive, especially when new Hive began to emerge from the three-eyed incubation pool. Nais decided to launch an attack immediately to destroy the facility.

However, the Chaos Hive had been prepared for this, and had deliberately stockpiled an extremely large number of flying units here. When the two Eclipse-class ships formed a formation and began to attack, the Chaos Hive made up for the lack of quality with quantity. The two sides were deadlocked in the air for a while, and the Chaos Hive suffered heavy casualties, but they finally held on and did not let the battle line collapse. In the end, when the shield capacity of the two Eclipse-class ships dropped below 10%, Nais had no choice but to order a retreat.

[Group leader #An Jiyue: Judging from this battle, first, the Chaos Nest clearly knew that they would encounter flying warships in the South, otherwise they would not have prepared so many flying troops in advance, and we cannot be predicted; second, just now I made a difficult decision, the fleet of Sanhe Prefecture will use roots to teleport to the South as soon as possible to support the Morgan Organization's second attack. As for the original mission to seize the floating city, sigh...]

【Atum: I don’t care.】

[Group leader #An Jiyue: Thank you for your understanding. We must race against time now. This base seems to be not far from the Forest Shadow Territory? If the plague insects gain a foothold, Morgan will probably enjoy the treatment of Kislev. ]

[Ewen de Richelieu: So why didn't Naise use magic to solve the problem? Wasn't she there? ]

[Group leader #An Jiyue: Naisi's specialty is prophecy spells, she is not good at lethal spells. I feel that you may have been with us for too long, so you have a misunderstanding of the abilities of mages. ]

[Morgan Ringo: I'm already mobilizing the army, but I don't think I can keep up.]

[Group leader #An Jiyue: By the time the army reaches the destination, the local nest tribe will probably be full of them, and then you can expect a terrible battle. Unless you are willing to shoot an anchor point nearby and recruit troops to create flying bugs. Tsk, the research and development of heavy transport ships must be advanced, only strategic air transport can solve the problem we are facing. ]

An Jiyue returned to Xuanshui exhausted. Her original plan to go to Marienburg to see the gear boys who worshipped her had to be postponed indefinitely. Afterwards, the Shenzhou Fleet and the Anxi Army's aviation received a series of mobilization orders. The girl's aviation forces began to be assembled to the maximum extent, and all the main forces of the Shenzhou Fleet would participate in this operation.

In the Tianhe Shipyard, the alchemists and engineers worked overtime to build more slipways. Whenever a new slipway was completed, the shipbuilders would work in three shifts to lay the keel. The four Eclipse-class ships commissioned by the Zhemu Royal Court received special attention. Even An Jiyue took time out to go to the Tianhe Shipyard to help debug the energy pipelines and magic circuits of the Eclipse-class ships.

Considering the time required for outfitting and flight testing, there was no way the newly built warships could catch up with the upcoming battles in the Badlands and the Southlands. However, the shipyard did not slack off in the slightest.

After all, in the world of Warhammer, there is always the next battle waiting for you.

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Author's words: In a perfect online conversation with the landlord