This is our Warhammer journey

Chapter 78 The Arrival of the Insect Swarm (3k)

'Chaos pollution.'

The dark knight stood silently among the crowd like a statue, staring at the young man named Cornwall.

The blade is stopping him from moving
Arthur frowned, gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, the sharp blade in his hand ready to cut off the head at any time, and a scene of an ongoing meeting emerged in his mind.

[Gravity anomaly detected, unknown biological warships detected, estimated number: 360 million]

The servo skull played cold data, and a solemn atmosphere filled the air.

Everyone sat in the council hall, looking at the dense red dots in the holographic image that had already entered the outer reaches of the galaxy.

These red dots pierce through the outermost asteroid belt of the Pierre de Selva Galaxy, and their dense appearance even overlaps with each other without magnification.

An extremely exaggerated number.

"Tyranid Swarm."

Romulus murmured softly, never expecting the Great Devourer to arrive so quickly.

"Do their combat individuals adopt this posture?"

Caul quickly retrieved an image that included various basic Tyranid combat units, including knife worms.

"Yes, but only the most basic individuals. I will share the specific biological atlas, but don't believe it too strongly. Each individual in the hive fleet is slightly different."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone felt more confident, but at the same time they were puzzled as to how they knew so much about the aliens outside the galaxy.

At the same time, Romulus was also surprised that Tyranids had appeared on this planet?
"During a recent breakthrough mission, the Skitarii discovered a biomass nest that hatches these aliens."

Caul then listed the number of Genestealers under his surveillance and said, "It has been confirmed that this is related to the sharp drop in the number of Genestealers."

"They are preparing for the arrival of the swarm."

Romulus said with certainty, and then ordered: "Prepare the air defense array, and the fleet and the transport fleet away from Pierre's orbit. These aliens are targeting biomass. According to the results of the investigation of the Forge World, we are not the aliens' primary target."

The Forge World is now full of human flesh. The population of most of the star region has been gathered into a group and filled into the gaps between the machines in an unknown way.

If a Tyranid swarm were to land, their first target would undoubtedly be these readily available foods.

"Is it necessary to preserve this planet?"

Aglaia asked everyone seriously, and did not intend to dwell on his teacher's question anymore.

"If you all agree, I can issue the extermination order."

She directly expressed her willingness to take the blame.

According to the Empire's regulations, if she fails to properly handle the teacher's problem, she, as an inquisitor, will be doomed to die.

"veto!"

The clone sent by Cawl immediately spoke up, "This planet is of great value to the Empire, and even to its future."

Everyone's eyes fell on him, waiting for an explanation as to whether it was worth it for them to face another enemy.

Cawl quickly pulled up a holographic image of the planet.

The plates of the forging world area were split apart, and a device that covered most of the planet and even had its main body deeply embedded in the planet's core appeared in front of everyone.

"This planet possesses a geothermal computer left over from the Dark Age of Technology. I need this device to complete my calculations, which concern the future of the entire empire."

"The blasphemous scene of the Forgeable World remains. We have confirmed that the populations from countless planets have been stuffed into the cracks of those machines. Great Sage, how can you be sure that the answers you seek will not be corrupted under such circumstances?"

Aglaia questioned.

"Chaos has no power to corrupt this machine, because it is an AI, a unique creation of its time. Chaos has no ability, and no qualifications, to break its algorithm, which is constantly updated with the pulse of the planet."

Kaur replied without hesitation.

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Aglaia rarely felt that her brain was not enough. She was thinking too hard and finally covered her hot forehead with her hands.

She felt that if she were a qualified inquisitor, she should have dropped a bipolar torpedo on the planet right now.

The bishop and the head nun already regretted why they came to attend this meeting that had nothing to do with them.

"Great Sage, do you know what your actions mean?"

It is no exaggeration to say that the destructive power of AI on a civilization is even more exaggerated than that of chaos. At least chaos did not destroy the thriving human civilization into countless human branches scattered across the galaxy.

This dangerous existence should be destroyed and never allowed to appear in the human world again.

"Everything is merely a tool. Om Messiah forbids humanity from interfering with the power of the Warp and AI because the vast majority of human individuals are unqualified to be the masters of these things."

Kaur replied meaningfully.

"If you were to complete the calculation, how long would it take, Great Sage?"

Romulus asked calmly.

The time travelers were not surprised by this. The oil guys had done so many unorthodox operations, and it was no big deal that Kohl was just using the power of AI.

"If the entire machine's computing power were to serve me, it would only take three Terran moons."

Romulus continued to listen.

If nothing unexpected happens, there are additional conditions.

"But the blasphemous Chaos Ritual has taken up the vast majority of the computing power. Although the Chaos Ritual cannot distort this machine, it can snatch those precious resources from me who has mastered the main control code." Kaul sighed. Even though he was a machine controlled remotely, everyone could feel the visible fatigue from him.

The closer you get to success, the more resistance threatens to crush you.

The technological heresy is here to criticize the religious heresy.

"So now the mission objective has returned to the core of finding the old Inquisitor."

Romulus calmly analyzed: "The current progress is still limited."

All the Demon Vision can do is classification. Non-psychic races cannot lock onto the core by relying on the number of samples. They can only search slowly. What's more, the Forge World today is a densely packed area, and every gap is filled with countless human souls.

Yet they haven't even found the Word Bearers yet.

Ramses has recently been researching the idea of 'taking advantage of the misalignment between the subspace and the real universe to deploy demonic hosts for long-distance reconnaissance'.

If it succeeds, the investigation progress should be much faster.

Anyway, there are no living people in the forging world except for lumps of meat squeezed together by mechanical physics, thieves who pluck biomass, and colorful demons, so there is no need to worry about the demon host being accidentally injured.

Normally this is the worst possible news, but considering their needs it becomes good news.

"I'm sorry, my lord."

Aglaia looked ashamed.

After half a month of investigation, even with the assistance of Ramses, who was extremely sensitive to Chaos pollution, they still couldn't find the old Inquisitor except for destroying a series of Chaos dens.

"Do not worry."

Romulus comforted everyone, his tone still relaxed.

"We have completely controlled the upper nest's void shield launch area, anti-aircraft fire area, and land-based heavy artillery area. We have connected them together to build a defense line that can transmit information at any time. Even if attacked by aliens, we can hold out for a long time."

"What's more, the Tyranids' nature is also to seek benefits and avoid harm, just like when we fought the Genestealers before. As long as we show enough force, we can also make the two poisonous insects attack each other."

Human forces have regained control of the Upper Hive's military facilities, forcing the Genestealers to resume their conflict with the Lower Hive's cultists.

This is one of the few good news that everyone has received in the past half month since they came to Pierre.

But when everyone heard this, they felt even more ashamed.

Because this was achieved through the efforts of ancient warriors.

It was they who provided sufficient material support to the state religion, pointed out the location of various communities to the rescue teams, and gathered such a large number of people that they were able to complete the control of these areas with sufficient manpower support.
The original intention of the time travelers to do this was actually to subconsciously save more people.

The intention was good, but the execution could have been better.

"The Great Crusade lasted over two hundred years and conquered millions of planets for the Empire."

Kaul spoke without reason, and it was unclear whether he was making fun of himself or being sarcastic.

He shook his head and turned the subject back to the main topic.

"The Prospector Fleet will not leave. I will regard any attempt to destroy this planet as an enemy."

He seemed to have made up his mind, and then he dropped a bombshell.

"If necessary, I will use the Titan Legion and will not care about the losses. If you are willing to stay, as long as my calculations are successful, I can make a forging planet serve you alone for a hundred years."

Everyone's breath was held.

A forging world usually bears the production of several surrounding star regions. When these production capacities are concentrated in certain organizations, it will become an exaggerated and unimaginable wealth.

And everyone present did not doubt the truthfulness of the great sage's words, because most of them could cause countless troubles to Kahl even if they died.

"What if it fails?"

Tiberus asked.

"If you fail, I will be responsible for making up for all your losses, including the Chapter's gene-seed."

Kaur replied.

"The White Shark is here to stay."

Tiberus agreed with this answer. Their seeds remained outside the domain and could afford the cost of a complete annihilation.

Then everyone turned their gazes and looked at the host of the meeting.

"We'll stay, too."

Romulus had no intention of leaving.

With their continued interference with fate and the cleansing of cultists, they have snowballed and are able to forcibly exchange with the Zerg and Chaos when necessary.

As long as the planet is not forcibly dragged into the warp by a sacrificial ritual.

Ramses' recent torture of the demons has made the time travelers aware that a sacrificial ritual of this magnitude is enough to tear a subspace rift in Pierre that is comparable to the Great Whirlpool.

Therefore, if they want to make the situation develop in a direction that is favorable to them, they must prevent the success of the ceremony.

So the topic turned to how to find the core goal of the ritual.

They urgently need an opportunity to break the deadlock.

(End of this chapter)