Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Xiong Da did not turn around.

"Then don't be biased."

Lawson sat atop a broken brass pillar on the outer ring of the Temple of the Forge, with the battle axe "Angron" stuck in his hand.

The axe was still steaming.

The golden flames on the axe blade had subsided, leaving only a few thin lines of light.

The progress of battlefield cleanup is continuously summarized using swarm intelligence.

The first batch of brass skull fragments has been sent to the underground smelting chamber.

The Eightfold Skull King's psychic-resistant brass shell was cut into standard plates, ready to be handed over to the T-series assassins for research.

The severed arm of the Skull Mountain Walker was sealed separately as a sample of high-level Hell Brass and the flesh and blood structure of a Great Demon.

The mobile blood sacrifice tower contains more than 200,000 fragments, some of which still retain sacrificial patterns and can be disassembled into anti-blood sacrifice interference devices.

Due to the large number of Demon Engine wreckage, Xabi has shut down seventeen low-priority ammunition factories and converted them into temporary dismantling lines.

Lawson looked at these summaries.

On paper, this battle was brutal.

More than a billion machine servants died.

The Christian Guard continued to be decimated, with the remaining forces reduced to a scattered unit that needed to be reorganized.

Millions of the cornerstone units have been killed.

This loss upset him even more than he had anticipated.

We can continue to capture machine servants, but the Guardians of the Faith are an asset of the Cult of Mechanics, and the number of suicide soldiers will have to be replenished by spending life points.

Especially those cornerstone sequences distributed near the Thinker array, underground fire control nodes, energy gates, and black hole ventilation shafts.

They weren't killed by ordinary demons, but rather they deliberately stayed in positions where they were doomed in order to maintain the swarm nodes, seal off the contaminated area, and salvage the data link.

Such losses cannot be easily dismissed with the phrase "cannon fodder consumption."

Lawson doesn't like to waste his things.

He dislikes it even more when others disrupt his industrial nerves.

But he won this battle.

The tide of terrorism is receding.

Agrippina is still alive.

The Temple of the Grand Casting still stands.

The swarm mentality is still there.

Although the main planet's industrial, fire control, logistics, and fleet maintenance systems were damaged, the core structure remained intact.

More importantly, the price Khorne paid was far higher than what he paid.

In the swarm intelligence model, the system settlement finally reaches the last item.

The battle to defend Agrippina, the primary planet, has concluded.

[Intercepted subspace energy: 1.2 million.]

[Slayed high-level Khorne entities: Eight-Headed Eight-Headed King, Eighty-Eight-Headed Brass Skull Lords, numerous Brass Skull Breakers, and several other Khorne Demons and Demon Engines.]

[Seized limb of a high-ranking demon: the left arm of the Skull Mountain Walker.]

[Current subspace energy balance: satisfies the conditions for the sixth gene basement transition.]

This is exactly what Lawson was waiting for.

In the post-war ruins, Xerath was still directing the engineering team, Bear Guard was still dragging the Great Demon's severed arm, and the ship-breaking ring on the track was slowly turning.

"Xaxia".

"The defense of the main star will be handled by the swarm's regional deployment. The outer ring of the Grand Forging Temple will remain sealed off. Prioritize dismantling the shell of the Eightfold Skull King's remains, and seal the Skull Mountain Walker's severed arm separately. Don't let those old bastards from the Cult of Mechanics get close."

Lawson turned and walked into the Temple of the Grand Forge.

[Has the sixth basal transition of genes been confirmed?]

"confirm."

[Deduct 100 million points of subspace energy.]

[Leap begins.]

One hundred million points of subspace energy vanished instantly.

Lawson could clearly hear the sound of his bones compressing inside his body.

Unlike during the fifth leap, when the body felt like it had been reforged.

This time it's deeper.

His skeleton already resembled a modified structure of carbon nanotubes and plastic steel composites.

The sixth leap did not simply harden it, but instead created a more complex buffer layer inside the skeleton.

The outer layer is pressure-bearing.

Mid-level dispersed impact.

The inner layer protects the bone marrow and nerves.

This allows his body to withstand stronger close-quarters recoil, gravitational pull, and the instantaneous stress brought about by black hole tactics.

The muscle fibers continue to compress.

However, its size did not continue to increase.

In the system simulation, the optimal height that can be supported by six times the limit of the elite of the Catachan is far beyond the visual range that ordinary commanders can accept.

Lawson has no intention of becoming a five-meter-tall monster.

He needs to look Dante in the eye, to stand before the Astronautical generals, the Mechanicus sages, the Inquisitors, and the chapter commanders, and to seize power in the form of a “human.”

Therefore, the system compresses all the excess growth into density, toughness, and visceral strength.

The spiral-wound structure of the heart has further thickened.

Between the seven spiral layers, there is an additional layer of fine auxiliary pumping rings.

The lung structure expands to include more micro-air chambers.

Improved blood oxygen-carrying efficiency.

The liver, kidneys, spleen, and digestive system all gain a higher tolerance for the load.

Instead of increasing the number of neural cables, the interface began to be reconstructed.

Originally, there were four auxiliary nerve cords, which, together with the main nerve, formed five parallel processing channels.

This means that Lawson's brain is not just faster.

The way he connected with the assassin network also changed.

Previously, swarm intelligence was like a vast ocean.

Lawson stood in the center, all the waves rushed toward him, and he issued commands outwards.

This allows him to micromanage a battlefield.

It can enable a planetary-level defense system to respond in microseconds.

A finger that can turn shadow wheels, turrets, assassins, warships, and logistics lines into one body.

However, this model will reach its limits when the battlefield expands to multiple star systems.

No matter how strong Lawson is, he cannot prioritize every battlefield in his main consciousness.

The sixth leap truly changed this very point.

[Neural interface reconstruction complete.]

[Swarm intelligence access privileges upgraded.]

[Strategic-level feature unlocked: Theater-level swarm brain splitting.]

Lawson closed his eyes.

Deep within consciousness, the swarm mentality that was originally unified as a whole began to stratify.

Agrippina's main star is on the first layer.

Agrippina's satellite planet is one layer.

The Klein agricultural galaxy is a single layer.

The fleet anchor point is one layer.

The nodes for dispatching assassins in each Astartes company on the dark side are one layer.

Each layer can be cut out into a relatively independent war zone brain.

The division of the brain is not truly detached from Lawson.

They still originate from swarm intelligence and can still be taken over by him at any time.

However, a large number of low-level tactical judgments, logistical scheduling, fire control allocation, casualty replenishment, position repair, and handling of sudden enemy situations can be handled semi-independently by senior elite suicide squads.

Previously, Lawson's strength lay in his ability to micromanage a battlefield.

Now, he can simultaneously give multiple galaxy-level battlefields their own "shadows".

Each divisional brain is like a piece of tactical instinct that Lawson cut off.

The system notification continued to sound.

The sixth basal genetic leap has been completed.

[Current physical attributes: Equivalent to six times the limit of an elite jungler in Qatar.]

[Positioning Calibration: Enhanced Imperial Guard Qualifications.]

[Special Calibration for Main Body: Due to the fusion of fragments of the Primarch's divine essence, Imperial Flame, Black Hole Projection, and Swarm Mind Control, the individual's overall combat power has entered the first tier below the Primarch.]