Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 340
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Amidst the shrill siren, the light in the entire laboratory switched between red and white.

Hundreds of areas on the Unremitting Jihad are under emergency blockade, and the temporary passages between various important areas are also closed, leaving only the main road garrisoned by the Gray Knights.

The psychic choir is already in place, and amidst their chants, the psychic arrays all over the Indefatigable Jihad are flickering.

The nearby real space Ria space was forcibly stabilized, without any fluctuations.

At this time, the Unremitting Jihad is like a hedgehog that has contracted all the gaps in its muscles, patrolling around with the most dangerous eyes.

Once there is any trouble around, it will inevitably be greeted with a devastating blow from the spear array on its body!
Seeing that the surrounding windows were closed by the gradually lowering armor, the entire test area was about to be completely isolated.

In the psychic channel, Calvin gave the last order to the astropath before entering silence:

"Get in touch with Terra directions now!

Report to the Order of the Holy Hammer and file in the Antarctic Archives!
Authorization code α6960013, key *****, order with my highest authority:
Immediately go to Mars to thoroughly investigate the background and past experience of Sage Stovan, the third-level foundry of the Mechanicus!

Yes, don't want their results!
Send a team directly to Mars! "

This is where Calvin's vigilance lies.

He didn't believe that fate was always so generous, especially in front of this unexpected gift.

Before ruling out the possibility of the chaos gods' conspiracy to intervene, he will not, and will never be able to fully believe Stowan's one-sided statement.

He just stood there quietly, no one dared to disturb his thinking.

Calvin didn't turn his attention from the Warp back to reality until he saw the astropath projected the message with his own eyes and fainted from the emergency announcement.

Calvin narrowed his eyes slightly to prevent the thunder from spilling over from frightening the mortals in front of him. He said to Stowan, who was still remembering:

"You, you can talk now."

"say what?"

Stowan subconsciously replied, and under the anxious eyes of everyone, he finally understood his situation.

"Its final form is a huge clock, but the timing method is a reverse countdown.

It is a technology that uses the technology of an older civilization to observe the impact of certain events in advance through the folding of the timeline;

Then use the stability of the physical rules of the real universe as a yardstick to infer the activity of the subspace and the remaining life of the real universe.

All in all, when its pointer comes to an end, that is when this universe comes to an end. "

Observation in advance, rules, stability, activity, lifespan...

Stowan's words echoed in the laboratory, and several key words in his words aroused the thinking of everyone present.

Countdown?
Be forewarned?

Can it be considered that the complete form of this artifact has similar functions to the prophets in the battle group?
And the performance of this artifact is even more powerful!
Whether it is the scope of observation or the continuity of observation!
Whether it is the depth or accuracy of the impact assessment of the event!
The ability of this artifact is far beyond the perception of any psionic prophecy?
Its power may not be as direct as a weapon's STC to an individual or a certain battle.

But for a race, what a powerful artifact this is!

"Why have we never heard of its existence, and if it did exist, how could it be unknown in human history?" Lyric questioned.

"Heh~ If you were "them", would you allow this kind of thing to exist?" Stowan laughed nervously.

"It was just a concept and plan from beginning to end, and when it was about to be born, did you see that space hulk? This is its fate..."

As if afraid that others would not believe it, Stowan raised his head and looked at Calvin:

"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Trinity Elfanio. I am currently the master of the high-level forge and the master of the first-level covenant.

And before my body was activated and assigned to the Primordial Order, I had another identity——the last member of the Kress School famous for textual research and restoration. "

"No!" Priest Lyric obviously had some understanding of the "Cress School", and he subconsciously read out the information in his database:

"As far as I know, the Chris School has died out. The last pure Kress School member disappeared at the end of the Great Crusade and was declared dead within the next 100 years. His name..."

"It's called Trinity El Fagno, isn't it?"

Facing the shocked eyes of his colleagues from the Order of Ominous Order, the mechanical priest in the "Stovan" vest said to Calvin:

"Someone didn't want this artifact to exist, so we were an eyesore.

Unlike you, my mentor and I first came into contact with another part of this artifact.

And since then, the number of members of our school has been inexplicably reduced.Experimental accidents, missing explorations, peer struggles, self-destruction...

We have shrunk silently from a huge school of nearly a thousand to less than a hundred without participating in any major battles.

And all of this happened in less than a hundred years. "

The words of "Stowan" made everyone present shudder.

They are naturally not afraid of war or sacrifice, but just thinking about such a desperate situation where the enemy can't even find them and can only disappear without a sound, they feel shuddering to the bone just thinking about it.

"How did you survive?"

Calvin asked in a low voice.At this time, most of his doubts about Stowan have disappeared. This sentence is not so much a question, but a response and encouragement to Stowan's narration.

"A seed that was accidentally lost, bears the unexpected fruit of 'I'."

Stowan blinked and explained his reason with a symbolic description.

"The real El Fagno is dead, whether in the physical sense or otherwise.

And I was just a product of a mistake in his apprenticeship. "Stowan said mockingly.

When "El Fagno" was still an apprentice, in a "batch artificial consciousness" authorization for mechanical prosthetics, he mistakenly released part of his code authority.

After these mechanical prosthetic bodies were assigned to the Primordial Society, they were limited by the online presence of the data subject, and their consciousness had been in a backup dormant state.

The story after that has no twists and turns.

When Elfanio "disappeared" during a certain exploration operation, and internally confirmed that there was no data backup, he was officially declared dead by the Mechanic Order.

In the war reserve of the Primordial Order, Stowan, who received the message that the main body is permanently offline, finally got a chance to inherit his personality and wake up.

After waking up again, "El Fanio" did not know the final fate of its main body, nor did he know why he participated in that expedition.

He didn't dare to know.

In order to protect himself, he didn't even dare to download the backup of his own data stored in the common database.Just in case those people follow the download record and find him out of the hidden dormant state.

He didn't even dare to drive this body, for fear that he who had become a "black householder" would leave any traces of instructions on this body.

He consciously limited himself, limiting the current carrying his consciousness to a few tiny parts.

Up until this mission, a mechanical priest of the Priestess of Origin had activated this body and used it as a copy of consciousness to go out to perform missions.

Stowan took advantage of the opportunity to stay away from the subject, and took over the underlying control authority of the body in order to escape.

And if he hadn't seen the wreckage of this artifact here, this guy would probably continue to lurk until he had a chance to escape from the Mechanic Cult's vision.

"So how complete is it, or what is it missing?"

After hearing the story of "Stowan", Calvin knew that the people he sent to Mars to investigate were destined to return empty-handed.

Right now, the identity of the mechanical priest is no longer important, what is important is what parts are missing in this incomplete artifact in his mouth.

"Of course it's the 'pointer'." Stowan replied bluntly.

"We found a total of three pointers that year. One is a finished product, which is the sacred object you have seen - the Bell of Gerstal. The other two were packaged by ourselves, but they have been changed along with those The members of the school disappeared."

"Where is it? I mean the finished product." Calvin asked Stowan while typing the name of the holy object into the power armor's data terminal.

However, Stowan's answer and the database of the court gave an answer that he never thought of in the next second:
"Storm Star Field, Ophelia Star 7!"

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