Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 517 06.0516: "The Thoughtless Battle"

“Imagine having your limbs removed and replaced with electric whips or cutting claws.

Your eyes are pulled out of your eye sockets and colored glass fills the empty holes.

Dope syringes and neurogenic glands have been implanted in your heart and organs.

Finally, be proud of your new body, and your stupid, drooling mind will be recycled for the benefit of the Empire.

As long as I give the order, you will willingly rush to the gate of hell, turn into a violent living machine, and embrace a long death. "

——Combat Sister Milia, leader of the Pure Angel Squad of the Order of Our Lady Martyrs.
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The punishment of the scourge was a form of capital punishment in the Empire.

It is not a simple flogging, but the transformation of people into whipping robot servants.

Usually a heretic deemed worthy of redemption by the state church or the Inquisition, it is most commonly used to punish those who express heretical views, speech, or perform heretical acts.

They will be transformed into living weapons by the Tech-Priests of the Mechanicus.

The purpose of such extravagant punishment is to cleanse the sins in the souls of heretics from the body, so that these pagans and traitors can atone for their past mistakes on the battlefield.

The operation was extremely horrifying.

In the process of being transformed into whipping servitors by Latti's technical team, these traitors underwent complex and cruel operations and endless mental baptism without any anesthesia.

They were tied to the assembly line, and their arms were first cut off by high-speed rotating saw blades, and replaced with mechanical interfaces into which a variety of weapons could be implanted. Here, Latti chose electric whips for them.

Next, they would do a lobotomy.

Their prefrontal cortexes were singed by irradiating them with high-temperature lasers, eliminating any possibility of retaining higher-level thinking. This step was not only necessary for the transformation of the servitors, but also to make them fully feel the pain of the operation as a punishment.

Amidst the heart-wrenching screams that echoed throughout the cabin, the criminals' skin, muscles, and nerve tissue were peeled off layer by layer, and the mechanical priests replaced the original organic tissue with reinforced bones, artificial fiber-bundled muscles, and neural control implants.

The victim can feel the excruciating pain of each insertion of a transplanted organ, each bolt piercing down into bone, and each exposed nerve being spliced ​​together.

Afterwards, the top of his skull was removed and sacred oil was dripped into his brain.

Every time it is applied, the mechanical priest will chant the names of 16 saints.

Mechanical blades gouged out his eyes, replaced by orbs with complex targeting arrays, spectral threat analyzers, and visual cognition.

The criminals' limbs were bound, unable to move, and they could only watch as their entire bodies were cut down and reshaped.

Finally, the Whip-Servant is implanted with a sealed mind-pulse device that controls the cyborg, which is shaped like a severed skull connected to the remaining frontal lobe and a set of chemical injectors implanted in the spine.

The Whip Servant, which is usually in standby mode, will be injected with drugs through a drug injection pump to keep it calm and unconscious, completely isolated from the outside world.

In this state, the invisible voice-generator in the Whip-Servant's mind will constantly repeat preaching, including sacred images, poetry and elements of Imperial worship, such as symbols of the state religion, images of saints, hymn cycles, prayers and sermons, etc., which will be instilled directly into the pagan's subconscious, allowing it to constantly sing the praises of the Emperor's greatness.

During this long and painful process, the criminal's mind will be completely wiped out, replaced by an uncontrollable urge to tear their prey into pieces.

"Your sins are unforgivable, your betrayal will be nailed to the pillar of shame forever, and your crimes will accompany you until your body perishes..."

"Operation Completed"

Three hours later.

"Ah! Ah!!!!" The final product of these operations is the 'people' commonly known as 'electric whips'. They wear pain atonement instruments on their heads, their original eyes are dug out and artificial eyes are implanted, painful nerve plugs are forcibly connected to the back of their brains, their arms are chopped off to leave only a small section of the upper arm, the broken section is based on mechanical prostheses, and connected to the 'whipper's flail', and they scream in agony without any consciousness.

Their entire bodies were restless and they couldn't stop at all. The artificial eyes that were dug out and replaced by the original ones, which were linked to the painful ritual of atonement, kept replaying the sufferings of the world and the glory of the holy images in a loop.

Horatio looked down at them, yes, them, and couldn't help but gasp. He didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

"Once activated, the Whip Servant is almost unstoppable. When the enemy is discovered, combat drugs and painkillers will be injected into their spines at the same time, giving the Whip Servant tremendous strength, speed and endurance, as well as a perception system that is immune to pain, so that they can fight even if they suffer huge damage.

Driven into an uncontrollable frenzy by a potent mixture of adrenaline stimulants and neural killing signals, they become bloodthirsty battle maniacs, swinging their whip-like limbs back and forth, using implanted electric whips to tear apart all enemies of the Empire in front of them until only a pile of mutilated corpses remain.

This is the power of Om Messiah, making things that the flesh cannot do possible. Ah, this is so wonderful~" Lati held her face with her hands covered with artificial skin, looking at her new creation with an intoxicated and doting look.

"Yeah, well... that's great." Horatio paused, then repeated without emotion.

"This unit of Whipping Servitors will be dedicated to Sister Arabella to fill the gap in combat power left by the casualties suffered by her squad."

"Very good. I think these extremely ferocious servitors will play a huge role in the boarding battle for the Empire. The enemies of the Empire will be shocked when they see these whip servitors rushing towards them."

"It's as scary as seeing a bunch of zombies in a zombie game with super high health and electric-type area damage." He complained silently in his mind.

Then, he turned his head to look at a strange and terrifying mecha next to him. The mecha looked like a person being nailed to a cross, but the difference was that this cross could move and was equipped with powerful weapons.

The person hanging above is the owner of this merchant ship.

It was naked, with its entire upper skull removed, and a larger-scale painful atonement instrument worn on top.

Saliva kept flowing from the gap in his teeth that was broken by Horatio's punch.

"This is the 'Redemption Mech'. The pain it brings is far greater than other punishments. The traitors sent to the rack will be tormented by the most painful memories all the time, and then they will be 'redeemed' time and time again, and then fall into the abyss again.

This is one of the harshest punishments imaginable in the Imperium. Multiple cables and chemical injectors are implanted into the heretic's spine and connected to the war machine.

When not in combat, the chemical injectors automatically adjust their composition to inject feelings of guilt and pain into the minds of the heretics to remind them of their sins.

The pilot desperately needs forgiveness, and death is the only way to obtain it, which drives the Penitent Mech to rush towards the enemy regardless of danger. Compared with the Whipping Mech, its armament is more powerful, and the destructive power that can burst out in the penance of penance will destroy almost any enemy of the Empire for the Empire and for you, the captain. "

Lati was tireless in praising her creation.

"Is this for me? Thank you very much. I believe this result of 'waste utilization' can bring us an advantage in close combat."

In Horatio's time, humans had already begun to use drones on a large scale on the battlefield to reduce casualties among officers and soldiers.

While the Imperium of Man, and the Adeptus Mechanicus in particular, is not allowed to use Abomination intelligence, these servitors, bred from criminals or wetware, are an alternative to human-operated drones.

The reason why it is called "unmanned" is because the frontal lobe of the robot's brain has undergone targeted resection and modification, so that it no longer has self-awareness.

Even when not supervised by the Tech-Priests, it would remain in a standby state, with harmless symptoms such as malfunctioning and babbling.

This is the terrifying "Mindless War", which deprives "people" of their spiritual and power existence, and makes them completely degenerate into replaceable consumable machines.

They will continue to shine for the empire on the battlefield or elsewhere, paying for their sins with their bodies through senseless service and endless labor until they perish.

(End of this chapter)