Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 363 Machinery is great! Machinery has to listen to me!

Damon's attacks have not stopped.

The armor on the chest of the Extinction Relic is being continuously restored.

When he wanted to get up and continue the attack.

Damon grabbed his head and shoved him back into the ground.

Then, his fists rained down like raindrops, and the repair speed of the nano-living metal could no longer keep up with the rate of damage.

"Ola Ola Ola~"

The heavy punches kicked up dust, obscuring the surrounding area and making it impossible to see the details.

Damon wasn't unwilling to use weapons, but conventional weapons couldn't withstand the strain of his physical strength, so he might as well fight with his fists and physical power.

The idea of ​​using physical strength to defy the laws of physics, as described in Super Strong, is not just empty talk.

The alarms of the Extinction Ruins' combat system kept ringing, and even the powerful computing capabilities could not find a way to break through it.

Under repeated heavy blows, its internal systems began to break down, and the combat system and service system could no longer function properly.

After Damon struck the damaged area hundreds of times in a short period of two or three seconds, the entire Extinction Relic began to glow red in his eyes, indicating that the execution mechanism of the Archon Armor had been activated.

With a triumphant roar, the smoke and dust dissipated.

Damon, in full view of everyone, raised the Extinction Machine and then tore it to pieces as if it were paper.
Looking at the Extinction Remnant Machine reduced to a pile of parts, Damon couldn't help but marvel at the power of this physical body. The difference between real combat and testing in the experimental facility was still quite significant.

The remaining Night Guards had completely suppressed the Extinction Relic attacking Gao Yi, and it seemed that victory would only take some time.

Having confirmed his current strength, Damon looked at Fletcher, who had previously seemed confident of victory, as if to say to Fletcher, "Brother, you're finished."

Seeing the way Damon looked at him as if he wanted to devour him, Fletcher no longer dared to hold back.

"Olivia! Send over all the remaining Extinction Relics!"

Originally, Fletcher had intended to keep ten units as part of Comos's internal defenses, but after witnessing the Night Guard's combat prowess, he dared not hold back any longer.

If you can't win by strength alone, then make up for it with numbers.

The body is still just the body; if it gets hit by a nerve rupture, phosphorescence, or pulse, it will still die.

Soon, ten more Extinction Relic Machines joined the battle after their teleportation lights flashed.

After witnessing the Night Guard's close combat skills, the Extinction Relic also began to change its combat strategy.

They used their numerical advantage to create overwhelming firepower, blocking all paths of Damon and his men's advance and diminishing their speed advantage.

The energy engines on the Extinction Relic Machines are sufficient to support their high-intensity concentrated fire for a long time.

The light from pulse weapons and phosphide weapons almost destroyed everything in sight.

The entire palace began to collapse, and even other areas of the spire were affected.

Guilliman was forced to retreat and avoid the brunt of the attack; even a super-strong Night Guardian was hit on half of his body by the phosphorescent weapon.

Its healing properties prevented it from dying immediately, and its injuries are slowly recovering, but at this moment it has lost its ability to fight.

Seeing the Extinction Relics regain the upper hand once again, Fletcher's anxiety subsided somewhat.

But the next second, the few remnants of the Dark Guard that had been suppressed and exterminated by the Dark Guard suddenly lost their ability to move.

They, who should have broken free from the Night Guard's control and returned to Fletcher's side, all stood rooted to the spot, unable to move an inch.

In Fletcher's psionic vision, a massive psionic energy appeared beside the extinction remnants.

The magnitude of this psychic energy has exceeded the limits that an individual in the real universe can reach; even I cannot compare to it.

Some psionic tentacles, unlike anything Fletcher had ever seen before, wrapped around these extinct remnants. Although their armor had some anti-psionic properties and was constantly resisting the invasion of these tentacles, these strange tentacles continued to seep into their interiors.

These tentacles are the magic steel nerve plexus formed by Gao Yi's mechanical authority.

It has to be said that Vashtor's ability is really quite useful. Faced with these machines that have no machine soul but only artificial intelligence, Gao Yi cannot achieve his goal of controlling them by controlling the machine soul.

However, the Magic Steel plexus can.

The Extinction Relic is ultimately a machine, not a true Iron Man with perfect artificial intelligence. And as long as it is a machine, it will be subject to the control of Gao Yi's mechanical authority.

As times change, the Golden Age has its advantages. However, the ignorant 40k idealism remains the mainstream. Even these powerful extinction remnants cannot escape the forces that transcend the conventional laws of the real universe.

While possessing the ability to purify the corruption of chaos, the most important ability of the Gao Yi Mechanical Authority is to control the machinery of the real universe.

Gao Yi was now fully activating the mechanical power.

Numerous magic steel nerve plexuses entangled and restricted the movement of the surrounding extinction remnants.

The weapons on the mechanical arm of the Extinction Relic kept destroying the tentacles that were trying to invade it, but more tentacles would always climb up.

The Magic Steel Neural Plexus, relying on the suppression of the total amount of high-level psionic energy, began to break through the outer armor of these extinct remnants and began to invade their core.

The antivirus system built into the Extinction Relic Machine kept sounding alarms.

Gao Yi's authority is altering the orders to exterminate these remnants!
Just like the various mechanical creations that the Chaos Code invaded the Empire, Gao Yi was doing the same thing.

Even with the antivirus software running at full capacity, it was almost instantly bypassed by countless lines of code belonging to Gao Yi.

Without this last line of defense, the magic steel plexus began to take control of their bodies. Even though their central nervous system had not been completely taken over, the magic steel plexus, which was almost entirely distributed throughout their mechanical bodies, had begun to control their actions.

These five extinction remnants gradually lost ground in the struggle with Gao Yi for control of the body.

They struggled to turn around and face Fletcher and the rest of the Extinction Remnants, and slowly raised the weapons in their hands.

A series of pulse bubbles shot towards Fletcher. Although their accuracy was terrible due to the struggle for control, Gao Yi now possessed a long-range weapon powerful enough to threaten these extinction remnants.

This once again disrupted the battlefield situation.

The two sides began exchanging fire with their extermination aircraft. Damon and his men seized the opportunity to break out of their cover. Meanwhile, outside, a large number of troops, having learned of the attack on Gao Yi and Guilliman, had arrived.

The two Gorgons had even jumped to the top of the palace, and if Gao Yi and Guilliman hadn't been inside, they would have already started bombing it.

Fletcher's operation had only just begun, and the rollercoaster of emotions left him somewhat at a loss.

I thought it was going to be a brutal killing, but I ended up being the one being tortured and killed.

He has used all the ground forces he can currently employ, yet he still cannot kill Gao Yi and Guilliman.

If Gao Yi's previous display of Xel'Naga devouring power led Fletcher to believe it was a special genetic trait like that of an Untouchable...

What, then, is the immense power displayed by that mechanical authority?

He did not understand the nature of the Xel'Naga power; he only felt that two forces that should not coexist existed simultaneously in the same entity.

And isn't the mechanical divine authority that Gao Yi displayed precisely the ultimate goal pursued by these golden men? To ultimately ascend to godhood and transcend the mortal body through the control and understanding of spiritual energy.

The realm that the Golden Age masters had strived for but could not achieve has now appeared in Gao Yi's life.

Fletcher was furious when he saw this.

Meanwhile, more of the Magic Steel Neural Plexus bypassed the five Extinction Relic Machines and headed towards the remaining Extinction Relic Machines.

Gao Yi could tell that Fletcher had run out of options, and he wanted to capture Fletcher to find out what was going on!

The Extinction Relics began to retreat, protecting Fletcher behind them and avoiding being controlled by the Magic Steel Neural Plexus.

Fletcher gritted his teeth... Gao Yi had already achieved their ultimate goal... and now the other party was still his enemy.

He didn't think Gao Yi would tell him how to do it.

There's no point in staying here any longer; it would only hand over all the remaining resources to the enemy...

With Comos's current manufacturing capabilities, each Extinction Relic is an important combat weapon.

At this point, they no longer had the stone men to assist them, nor the endless army of iron men; all they could use were these remnants of extinction.

Without them, given Comos's current internal situation, it's uncertain whether they can cope with an enemy invasion.

"Olivia! Teleport me and the Extinction Relic back! Quickly!"

Upon receiving the message, Olivia immediately activated the teleportation device.

However, before the teleportation was successful, a thought suddenly popped into Fletcher's mind... This thought compelled him to take Pasini, who was hiding nearby, with him as well...

Fletcher was puzzled by this sudden idea... but the current situation did not allow him to think too much about it, and taking Pasini away was indeed in their current interest.

Using his psionic powers, he also grabbed Pasini, who was hiding nearby.

Along with Pacini, Fletcher, and a group of Extinction Remnants, they were teleported back to Comos.

Since the usurper cannot be killed directly... the battle that follows may turn into a protracted war.

He doesn't have enough manpower right now... These navigators who openly follow these golden men are one of the few forces they can immediately utilize.

After a flash of light, all the remaining machines except the five controlled Extinction Remnant Machines returned to Comos with Fletcher.

The palace, now reduced to ruins, fell silent once more.

"Ran?"

Gao Yi secretly regretted it... The opponent's teleportation technology obviously did not rely solely on psionic energy, and he was unable to stop it.

Even now, after all this fighting, Gao Yi and Guilliman still haven't figured out each other's identities...

The other party doesn't seem to be a follower of the evil god at all, and now the only ones who might know the truth are the navigators.

The two of them looked at the navigators hiding among the ruins.

They had taken cover the moment the battle began, and the aftermath killed several people... but Fletcher killed the artificial untouchables while also unleashing their psionic powers.

They barely managed to survive using psionic energy.

After checking the number of people, it was found that apart from Pasini who was taken away, only a few small family patriarchs had died, which did not have a significant impact on Gao Yi's plan. The patriarchs of the other two major families were still alive.

Pasini, who was taken away, is obviously the most crucial one. Now Gao Yi can only get some relevant information from the others.

As Gao Yi and Guilliman walked towards them, they felt both helpless and afraid...

Guilliman no longer showed them any sympathy... His honor guard had suffered heavy casualties, and these were his most loyal sons!
Their act of letting the wolf into their house has sealed their fate.

Ovid looked utterly desperate... He never imagined things would turn out this way.

Seeing himself being brought before Gao Yi and Guilliman, he didn't even have the thought of explaining. He knew very well what he would face for his actions.

Damon, along with the remaining Rangers and Night Guards, roughly pulled them out of the ruins.

If Guilliman hadn't stopped them, the surviving members of the Honor Guard would have rushed up and torn them to pieces.

Gao Yi's devouring ability was activated again, leaving them without their last chance to resist.

Fortunately, one of the metal boxes carrying the infected insects remained undamaged on the transport plane.

Seeing the infected insects reappear before them, the navigator chieftains turned ashen-faced.

The Navigator Chieftains, pinned to the ground, watched helplessly as the infected worms released parasites that crawled up their necks.

"Lord Guilliman! You are the Regent! How could you do such a thing! This is blasphemy, heresy! The great Emperor will not allow you to do this!"

Ovid struggled and roared, his desire to live driving him to make a final effort.

Guilliman remained silent in the face of Ovid's words.

With time running out, Gao Yi and Guilliman both abandoned the interrogation, as using the infected insects was clearly a faster option.

Gao Yi gave the order without hesitation.

After a sharp pain, the parasite tore through the flesh behind their necks and climbed up their spines to attach itself to their central nervous system.

And the eyes of these navigator chieftains also became vacant.

But the dazed state was only temporary; a few seconds later, their will and soul were connected to the Zerg swarm network...

The navigators, who had been cursing Gao Yi and Guilliman, immediately knelt down in front of Gao Yi.

At this point, they had become part of the Zerg and would unconditionally obey Gao Yi's orders.

"These insects are amazing!"

From Ovid, who was being parasitized, Gao Yi and Guilliman learned the apparent details of the matter.

"Comos...Tyrant Star is controlled by the Otellius family and the Dakka family, who betrayed the Empire?"

Gao Yi simply couldn't believe that these guys could control such a powerful creation. The Chaos God was clearly the culprit.

However, they still didn't find out the other person's identity.

While Gao Yi and Guilliman were still pondering the identities of these people.

The Emperor's long-lost voice rang in Gao Yi and Guilliman's minds at the same time.

“Gao Yi…Guilliman…those people are from the Golden Age of humanity.”

(End of this chapter)