Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 355 The Third Ascension Talent

The divine power infused into it by the four gods, coupled with the unpredictable flow of time in the warp, has caused the entire Comos to undergo warp erosion for countless years, resulting in a change in its original material composition.

The Golden Man, who was on the path of psionic ascension, also had a profound understanding of psionic energy and the warp.

Collins, who was standing nearby, seemed to have noticed their concerns and took the initiative to walk over to them.

“Master… Comos has been exposed to subspace energy for a long time, which has caused some changes. However, we have been monitoring it, and its performance has even improved under these changes.”

Collins' words finally dispelled their concerns. After checking the system, it was found that Comosne's engines and weapons that utilized subspace energy had indeed increased in power.

"The Dakar family will pave the way for you! Under your leadership, we will reclaim the world that belongs to you!"

"It seems you're all prepared, right? Where are the others? I recall there should be more than just the two of us asleep, right?"

"The other adults have already awakened, and with the help of their other followers, they will simultaneously launch attacks on the different worlds of those usurpers!"

We've already scouted your target! It's an important industrial planet in the hands of those usurpers, and most importantly, it's also home to two key leaders of those seizing power!
If we can kill them, these usurpers will surely descend into chaos!

We will once again guide Comos and you to that planet, just as we have before!

Collins kept urging the two of them on.

Who exactly is the current ruler?

"The nominal ruler is someone whom the current usurper calls 'Excuse me, Master, I cannot call him by his name,' as he would sense those who do. However, he is known to us as the Cursed One, and as far as I know, he also comes from your time. He is powerful, but he is no longer able to walk the earth."

The actual ruler is an offspring he created using biotechnology, and besides his offspring, you also need to worry about a man named Gao Yi.

Collins has already begun to point the way for the two golden statuettes.

"People of my generation"

Fletcher suddenly thought of someone, someone who could be considered incredibly mysterious even during the Golden Age. He was indeed one of the Golden Men. A figure immediately appeared in Fletcher's mind. He superimposed this person's appearance on the golden figure in his previous memory. The two looked almost identical. Fletcher's eyes no longer held arrogance but instead turned into fear.

"Olivia, is it really him?"

"If this navigator isn't lying to us, then it's him."

The emperors of that era were also members of the Jurchen people, and even among the Jurchens, they were among the most outstanding and powerful.

Recalling Collins' earlier words, their faces showed disgust.

"He clearly possesses such powerful psychic abilities and talent, yet he opposes psychic powers. What a hypocrite!"

Considering the Emperor's actions during that period, the two felt that the empire under the Emperor's rule would indeed resist psionic powers and send people to attack them! Collins's statement that he was unable to walk in the world also relieved them.

"I can understand offspring created by biotechnology, but what abilities does this Gao Yi you're talking about have?"

"He also possesses powerful psychic abilities, but we speculate that he not only masters psychic abilities but also many lost physical and biological technologies! His and his army's combat power is arguably among the strongest in the outside world. If you can kill him, it will undoubtedly cripple those usurpers!"

"I understand... but I need to see the situation outside with my own eyes first..."

Fletcher remained cautious, and Collins, in turn, said that he wanted to confirm it with his own eyes no matter what!
"As you wish, my master, I will arrange a ship!"

Fletcher turned to look at Olivia.

"Olivia, I'll go out and check on the situation in the outside world. You stay in Comos and try to repair some of the automatons using the remaining functional equipment! We servants are too weak."

"I will do my best, Fletcher."

Some of the equipment within Comos still retains some operational capabilities thanks to the demons attached to it.

Fletcher looked down on Collins and his men; their psionic abilities were too weak. Although the servants had undergone some genetic modifications, they were still too inferior in his eyes.

If they really want to start a war, they will still need these killing machines.
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At this moment, Gao Yi and Guilliman had just learned that the three major families had accepted their invitation, and that the relatively weaker navigator families would also participate.

Gao Yi wasn't surprised by the suggestion to hold the meeting in Sintira instead of Agathos, since Sintira was still an important world within the Empire and remained under his jurisdiction as governor.

Gao Yi could understand the fear these navigator families had of coming to Agathos.

He would also feel scared if he were in his shoes, and he wouldn't choose to go to someone else's stronghold. Wouldn't that be like handing yourself over to be slaughtered? In Sintira, it only provides those navigator families with a false sense of security.

Therefore, Gao Yi did not refuse.

Once Cintira's meeting place was selected, the relevant matters were also submitted to Rebecca.

Ground security needs to be arranged, and the accompanying troops also need to be selected. The agents and spies who went ahead have already gone to Sintira to ensure that there will be no ambush or accidents.

As these agents began their intelligence-gathering work, information about the increasing violence in Cintira was also brought to Rebecca's desk.

However, upon seeing this intelligence, Rebecca unusually did not consider it to be of great importance.

This is because after Gao Yi became the ruler of this sector, the Montgomery dynasty had been carrying out reforms in the Calithis sector.

Reforms inevitably attract opposition. Overthrowing and altering the existing system affects the interests of too many people. If it weren't for Regent Guilliman demanding the cooperation of the Imperial departments, the opposition would have been even stronger.

Gao Yi had always hoped to transform all worlds into something like the world of Agasos, where the vast majority of people could live a life that could be called human. However, the worlds within the original empire's territory were ultimately not the worlds belonging to his dynasty. Thousands of years of management had given him supreme authority, and all the powerful families were derived from their own clans. The political ecology and distribution of interests on these planets within the empire's territory were far more complex than those on the planets within the expanded region ruled by traveling merchants and wanderers.

Sintira's population and planetary size far exceed those of the original Agathos. As the capital of the sector, the planet's network of interests covers almost all the prominent forces in the entire Calicus sector. Therefore, even though Sintira's transformation has achieved some results through force, power, and countless resources, it is still a long way from being truly completed.

Unless Gao Yi is ruthless and completely wipes out all opponents, but doing so would mean another war that would take a long time to quell.

Many innocent people would also die as a result, and the relatively stable and positive development of the empire ultimately led Gao Yi to choose to carry out slow and orderly reforms.

However, since this reform has affected the interests of all parties involved, those who oppose it dare not confront it directly due to the difference in strength, but they have never stopped their sabotage behind the scenes.

Incitement, sabotage, and even more egregious assassinations occurred from time to time, but they were all ultimately crushed by the dynasty's swift counterattack, and the overall situation remained under control.

This led Rebecca to view it merely as another counterattack by the old forces.

Before officially setting off, Gao Yi had one more thing to do.

The existence of the trading system and internet platform caused Gao Yi's monthly cohesion income to skyrocket, after all, the benefits that could be obtained by relying on him were too considerable.

Whether they are truly loyal to the Montgomery dynasty or not, as long as they support the existence of the Montgomery dynasty, they can turn it into a cohesive force.

Just like converting consumer goods into cohesion in a game, if the dynasty's existing resources were converted into consumer goods, the consumer goods resources would be overflowing.

After saving the Hades Galaxy, the hundreds of billions of people in the Hades Galaxy also regarded the Montgomery Dynasty as their savior, which brought Gao Yi a lot of short-term cohesion.

Relying on the cohesion accumulated over the past two years, Gao Yi's current cohesion has reached a level where he can unlock the third ascension talent.

Gao Yi opened the system and began to examine the Ascension System.

After unlocking the previous two ascension talents, the four talents—Gene Reshaping, Flesh and Blood Weakness, Synthetic Evolution, and Mind Over Matter—also showed as selectable options. Gao Yi had already decided which path of ascension to choose: Genetic Ascension.

This is the only one of the four ascension talents that can, while preserving human identity, remove negative human traits and add more useful traits within the required scope.

The only thing that Gao Yi was a little conflicted about was the order in which the Ascension talents were unlocked. Should he choose the talent that enhances racial abilities first, or directly choose the Ether Engine to start drawing water from the subspace?

After all, the latter can truly destroy the subspace!

However, considering that upgrading the Ether Engine would require a large amount of dark matter needed to destroy stars, Gao Yi chose to put it on hold for the time being.

Now is the time to pursue and strengthen ourselves. Destroying stars to obtain dark matter is not a wise move. A star is equivalent to the living space of an entire galaxy. Destroying it is equivalent to reducing our own resources and the land we can live on. Most importantly, our technological level has not yet reached the point where we can be an enemy of the entire galaxy.

Especially the space necromancers; those guys will definitely not stand idly by while they do what they did.

The act of destroying a star will be immediately displayed on the absurd artifact in the hands of the space necromancer, the dazzling star map.

The Brilliant Star Chart is an installation located at the center of Thanatos, the Crown World of the Necromancer's Empire, and is considered one of the greatest treasures in the galaxy.

It was created by artisans of the Olusca dynasty before the War of Heaven, and is priceless in terms of artistic value alone.

This machine consists of holographic images and a deathly outer shell. Various tiny, suspended, luminous dots of light represent every star in the Milky Way galaxy.

These stars are stored in a complex record matrix that also contains the location of every star in the universe.

Any act of extinguishing these points of light would cause their corresponding physical entities to explode as supernovas thousands of years earlier, destroying all surrounding planets.
The undead of the Thanatos dynasty consider themselves the gardeners of this world. They never get involved in any disputes in the galaxy; at most, they only carry out some micro-adjustments to maintain a certain special balance in this world.

However, once Gao Yi destroys stars on a large scale to obtain dark matter to upgrade the subspace engine, they will definitely not join forces with other undead to intervene.

The brilliant star map can also reveal the flow of energy in the subspace of the world.

Once the Ether Engine is activated, its powerful suction will inevitably capture it. At that point, it will be useless no matter where Gao Yi hides the Ether Engine. Even if he places it next to El and Charles, it will be attacked at all costs. In that case, the Ether Engine will be lost, and the Synapse Condensation Machine will also be destroyed.

And it's definitely not just the Necromancers in space who will take action; the evil gods will also be involved, and orcs from other places might also rush over because of this unprecedented Great War. Gao Yi needs to continue to improve his technology and thoroughly strengthen the combat power of humanity in this world in order to have the confidence to fight against all other races in this world.

Moreover, his conversations with the emperor revealed that his enemies were not only overt; he stated that the Golden Men and Iron Men were not all exterminated.

Iron Man Gao Yi knew that there were still a few scattered individuals secretly hiding within human empires, but he had absolutely no clue about the Golden Man.
The existence of both always cast a shadow over Gao Yi's heart. He was not afraid of enemies in the open, but he was afraid of these guys who were hiding in the dark.

The navigator problem has not been fully resolved, the empire has not been fully integrated, and it is not yet time to start a full-scale war.

In the end, Gao Yi still chose gene remodeling!
The moment he confirmed the loaded gene remodeling, humanity truly embarked on the path of genetic ascension.

[Whether to choose the Ascension Talent: Gene Reshaping]

Gao Yi clicked "confirm"!
[You now control evolution: We no longer need to worry about the survival of our species. The days when humanity was dominated by nature and genetic evolution was left to chance are finally over. By mastering advanced genetic modification technology, we can guarantee a bright future for our race!]

Seeing the prompt, Gao Yi couldn't help but get excited.

The power of gene remodeling is not only to give Blood Raven and others some recovery and combat abilities as in the previous modifications, but it can also greatly enhance human beings' survival adaptability and work ability.

For example, adding traits such as natural physicist, natural biologist, natural engineer, and skilled craftsman to the genes of priests and technicians who are responsible for scientific research.

These qualities can greatly increase the number of research points generated by research positions, further improving the speed of scientific research and development, while also bringing stronger manufacturing and hands-on capabilities.

Simply put, it means raising the research capabilities of these researchers by one or two levels and then transforming them into well-rounded talents in research, development, and manufacturing.

(End of this chapter)