Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The subspace side is too strong.

The Emperor's Golden Flame, Isa's life divinity, the purified power of the Demon Primarch, the consciousness of the swarm of billions, and the three powers of domination, assimilation, and evolution all support his divinity.

In contrast, on the real universe side, the strongest fulcrum at present is still only the physical body of the New Human Overlord type.

His goal was never to be slightly stronger than the Primarch.

The eighth leap has been upgraded to use tens of billions of subspace energy as fuel, plus a material cosmic divine core as a foundation.

This means that it was not a normal upgrade but a leap forward in the form of life.

Once the Nightbringer fragment is integrated into the core of the reality side, what Lawson will gain first will not be any fancy new skills, but the most basic divineization of the physical body.

Once the fusion is successful, Lawson's defense and adaptability will transcend the scope of ordinary organisms, even with his normal physical body alone.

At that time, he will have to consider:

Could one withstand a direct hit from the main guns of a battleship with their bare body?

Is it possible to directly step into the interior of a star's corona and immerse oneself in the flames of nuclear fusion?

Is it possible to cross the extreme gravitational horizon of a black hole, which is capable of tearing apart all matter, in a vacuum environment with no protection?

Could it even be possible to absorb the high-energy radiation and electromagnetic storms released by stars as its own nutrients, just like the ancient star gods?

The star god once fed on stars.

Although the Night Messenger was shattered, the material life level of its fragments did not drop.

If Lawson were to assimilate and absorb this divine core, it would be equivalent to forging the most solid and absolute foundation in the universe for his physical body.

By then, stellar radiation may no longer be harmful; high temperatures, radiation, and electromagnetic storms may even become energy sources.

And this is only the physical body.

What made Lawson's eyes light up was the combination of the Night Messenger and the power of the black hole.

With the combination of the two, Lawson no longer needs to pursue any complicated moves.

By then, the so-called defense will gradually lose its traditional meaning.

If the attack itself targets the stability of your existence as a life form in the material universe, many things are simply not qualified to be included in the calculation.

Lawson narrowed his eyes slightly.

Even more terrifying is the dual-dominant godhood.

It could even be said that the Astral Gods and the Warp are not inherently part of the same system.

After fusing the fragments of the Nightbringer, Lawson's divinity will achieve balance on both sides for the first time.

On one side are the domination, assimilation, evolution, imperial golden flames, and swarm will within the subspace.

On the other side are the core of the celestial god, black holes, the power of matter destruction and death in the real universe.

He has his anchor in both worlds.

Do you want to drag him into the warp?

He himself possesses the divine nature of the subspace.

To sever the subspace and force him to fight only in the real universe?

That would actually make things more complicated.

Only after the eighth jump can the real universe become his domain.

While a Star God fragment is not the same as a complete Star God, Lawson does not intend to transform himself into another mechanical Grim Reaper.

He used the divinity of the Night Messenger as the ultimate base fuel, forcibly integrating it into his own New Human framework.

That is the supreme crown forged from the core of the real gods after they were shattered, belonging to the evolution of humankind itself.

The last set of data on the simulation screen has converged.

The green text “Perfect compatibility: 99.7%” remained frozen in the void.

Lawson let out a long breath.

Er Gou has already begun to gather his guards.

Static teleportation coordinates are synchronously locked in Novamagno.

Lawson glanced back at Isa and several guards who had followed him, a smile still playing on his lips.

"Let's go find Guilliman together."

……

As the static field unfolded at the Nova Magno front command center, Guilliman was readjusting the underground front.

Titus has just sent back the murals and necromancy records discovered in the deepest part of the Umbula site, and the true objective of Anmentar has been confirmed, thus changing the nature of the battlefield.

Previously, the Empire could steadily advance, dismantling the entire tomb bit by bit with its battle formations; now, neither side dares to give the other that time.

The words "Fragment of the Nightbringer" were enough for Guilliman to elevate Nova Magno's strategic importance by another level.

He was ordering the closure of all civilian air routes around the planet when a silvery-white light screen suddenly lit up from his side.

A golden combat boot crossed the static interface, followed by the familiar imperial golden armor.

Lawson came out.

Isa followed behind him, while Er Gou, Ao-04, and several guards passed through the light barrier one after another.

Guilliman paused for a moment while looking at the tactical data panel in his hand.

"I originally thought I could put these Iron Skeletons back in their coffins before you set off."

"I wasn't planning on coming anyway."

Lawson glanced at the layers of underground tombs in the sand table, a smile playing on his lips.

"However, I heard that you dug up an unexpected and generous gift for me from under the ground in your own backyard. I think it would be more appropriate for me to come and thank you in person."

Guilliman's lips twitched slightly; it was indeed a bit embarrassing to talk about this.

Evelyn was there too.

She had just returned from underground, and her armor was still covered in black dust from the undead ruins.

Upon seeing Isa, the words she was about to use to tease Guilliman immediately went back to her.

"Mother Goddess."

Evelyn's eyes lit up, and she immediately stepped forward, preparing to bow in greeting according to the oldest etiquette of the Ark Eldar.

But Isabella reached out and supported her arm beforehand.

"Here, we are all comrades fighting to restore peace to this sea of ​​stars. There's no need to be bound by the old rituals of the temple; you're doing a great job now."

Evelyn smiled.

After discovering the ruins of the Nightbringer underground, her tense nerves finally relaxed a little, and she naturally stood next to Isa.

Guilliman glanced at her, then looked at Lawson.

“Since you have come here in person, the highest battlefield authority here is handed over to you. Titus has confirmed that Anmental is moving towards the deepest sealed area, the surface battle line has been basically restored, and the battle order now controls more than 60% of the outer structure of the tomb.”

At this point, he added:

“There is another matter for which I should take responsibility. The underground historical archives of the Five Hundred Worlds have been investigated more than once, but the tomb of Novamagno is so large that I have never found anything unusual before.”

After hearing this, Lawson waved his hand dismissively.

"This is not your fault."

He zoomed in on the stratigraphic map of Nova Magno, revealing layers of burial structures thousands of kilometers deep, with many areas extending even into the vicinity of the mantle.

"This thing has been sleeping for tens of millions of years. Necromancer tombs are naturally good at hiding themselves. If every governor knew what was buried beneath their feet, space necromancers wouldn't crawl out from the underground of the Empire World every now and then."

Guilliman's expression softened slightly.

Lawson casually turned off some of the layers.

"Once this is over, I'll have the T-Sequence and Imperial Star Engineers conduct a deep census of the five hundred worlds, sifting through the mantle layers of every planet from top to bottom. If any planet still dares to harbor Iron Skulls who refuse to pay rent, we'll go knocking on their doors and taking their houses."

Guilliman's frustration immediately dissipated.

But he quickly became serious and pointed to the bottomless underground rift ahead:

"Jokes aside, the situation underground is tricky. That Destroyer madman, Ammental, is extremely cunning. Titus's squad confirmed that it is breaking the black stone seal deep within the Earth's core. I mobilized heavy artillery from three warbands to seal off all the main elevator shafts, but the Necromancer's dimensional folding and phase jump technology is difficult to completely seal off at the physical level."

"Once it takes that thing with it to initiate a hyperspace jump, catching it in the vast sea of ​​stars will be like finding a needle in a haystack."

"It can't escape."

Lawson smirked coldly: "On this planet, whoever I say can leave, can leave."

The words fell.

Lawson's psychic power spread outwards.

An ever-expanding, invisible network is rapidly extending from its center in Nova Magno.

Cities, mountains, oceans, the Earth's crust, underground tombs, orbits—the entire planet is included.

More than 20 years ago, Lawson's psionic range could easily extend thousands of kilometers, and now covering just one planet is a piece of cake for him.

Nova Magno seemed to be peeled away layer by layer in his consciousness.

The rock strata became transparent, and the dormant and awakening necromantic nodes lit up one cold spot after another in the darkness.

Soon, Lawson's gaze settled on a location nearly a thousand kilometers underground.

"found it."

And at the very moment Lawson locked onto the coordinates.

Anmental also discovered anomalies underground.

Inside a newly opened ancient sealed hall, hundreds of Destroyers formed a circle as Haskataef and corrupted high-ranking units of the Sothek Dynasty activated a phase teleportation device.

Ammental held a polyhedral sealed container that was less than two meters tall.

The container's surface is composed of living metal and an unknown black material, with dozens of control runes of the Sotek dynasty constantly changing around the main body, and at its deepest part lies an extremely unstable energy source.

Even though it is restricted by layers of sealing devices, the surrounding light will still be slightly deflected when it gets close.