Warhammer: Empire Reboot

It's just unknown what kind of assassins will emerge this time that we've reached this critical juncture.

I'm kind of looking forward to it.

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Chapter 182 New Abilities Emerging from the Node of One Hundred Million Death Squads

The next day.

Planet Obolos III, Spire.

The four battle nuns are still resting deep within the inner courtyard.

Last night's "lesson" lasted until the early hours of the morning.

The result was good.

Lawson's mental state has recovered very well.

He put on his casual clothes, walked to the window, and just as he picked up a cigar, a prompt suddenly came from the depths of the swarm's mind.

The total number of suicide soldiers has reached 100,000,000.

The next instant, the entire swarm's thought process seemed to be swept away by some invisible tide.

Countless nodes lit up in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Cornerstone sequence.

Combat sequence.

Starship suicide squad.

T-series technical suicide squad.

Lurker node.

Overseas deployment anchor point.

Chaodu administrative node.

Agricultural planet production node.

Mining planet maintenance node.

Fleet theater nodes.

The network of 100 million suicide soldiers achieved a profound resonance at the same moment.

Lawson's eyes gradually lit up; this was the moment he had been waiting for.

When the total number of assassins reached an integer node, special types began to emerge as expected.

This "emergence" is not a new type of soldier that the system simply throws at him out of thin air.

It's more like how, after the number of bees exceeds a certain limit, new organs appear in the colony structure.

A single ant can only carry things, forage for food, and fight.

However, when an ant colony becomes large enough, its division of labor, roads, nests, warfare, reproduction, and environmental modification will naturally combine to form a shape that closely resembles the collective will of the colony.

The assassin system is similar.

Ten thousand suicide soldiers—that's an army.

The million-strong army is the internet.

Tens of millions of suicide soldiers constitute a sector-level neural network.

One hundred million suicide soldiers means that this neural network has finally begun to grow new "sensors" and "organs".

These special types were not added from the outside.

Instead, they emerge spontaneously from the existing group of assassins.

They were originally part of the foundational ranks, the combat ranks, or ordinary suicide soldiers within a fleet node.

When the total scale of the swarm mind reaches 100 million, the potential of some assassins is activated and becomes a special ability.

Lawson actively immersed himself in the swarm mentality.

[A special emergence has begun.]

[First batch of emerging nodes: Cornerstone sequence.]

A large number of images were pushed in front of Lawson.

The first image is from a small agricultural satellite on the outer edge of the Klein agricultural system.

This satellite was previously contaminated by Nargoblin spores, but was subsequently purified repeatedly by the Suanni Warband and the Keystone Sequence. The topsoil is still recovering, with vast fields of algae and starch-root crops recently replanted.

A cornerstone sequence assassin stands between the ridges of the field.

Number: Cornerstone-Klein-7321.

He was originally only responsible for monitoring soil moisture, fertilizer ratios, purification solution concentrations, and harvester maintenance. For the past three months, he has been repeating the same work in this field every day.

In the early morning, he inspected planting area number 37 according to procedure.

Then he stopped.

According to the swarm intelligence report, he did not immediately call up the instruments, but instead squatted down and pressed his palm onto the soil.

A few seconds later, he spoke.

"Root system lack of oxygen."

The agricultural machinery next to it emitted a notification sound.

"The current soil oxygen content meets the standards."

Cornerstone-7321 did not refute this.

He walked to the other side of the ridge, dug away the topsoil, and exposed the tangled roots underneath.

The root system did indeed show signs of localized rot.

The problem is minor.

Even the small instruments haven't reported any errors.

But he had already sensed it.

He closed his eyes, his fingers gently tracing the roots. The swarm's perception detected an extremely low-intensity biofield fluctuation. It wasn't like psionic energy; it lacked warp echoes and dangerous peaks, and was closer to some kind of innate life perception.

He knows what plants need.

There's too much water.

I've gained weight.

The root system is damaged.

Spore residue.

Will the seedlings survive?

It can even predict the growth trend of a field over the next seven days.

The swarm intelligence approach immediately marked the data.

[A unique emergence of cornerstone sequences: plant affinity.]

[Ability Description: Possesses an intuitive level of perception of plant life states, enabling early detection of diseases, nutrient imbalances, soil abnormalities, and yield fluctuations.]

Risk: Low.

[It is recommended that this be incorporated into the agricultural planet reconstruction system.]

Lawson glanced at the assassin, his eyes flickering slightly.

This ability doesn't seem as dazzling as combat psionic power at first glance.

It can be placed during the reconstruction period of the Agrippina Sector and is extremely valuable.

Of the 318 planets, agricultural worlds and planets capable of being modified for food production make up a significant proportion.

The Klein, Fenrir, Albilon, and Scorched Earth agricultural systems all need to restore their food production capacity. Traditional agricultural monitoring relies on sergeants, instruments, guild farmers, and mechanized agricultural systems, but these have been severely damaged in the chaos following the Great Rift.

A cornerstone sequence that can detect plant problems in advance can reduce the mortality rate in a field by 30%.

A thousand of these suicide soldiers could stabilize an agricultural planet.

Ten thousand of them could advance the food supply recovery of the entire star sector by several years.

Lawson whispered, "Good stuff."

The next image is from the Azure Thunder Frontier Galaxy.

It was a semi-wild planet where the Empire had once established outposts and mining stations. The planet's surface was covered with vast red rock plains and acidic swamps, and the wildlife was enormous, many of them equipped with carapaces, poisonous hooks, and living in packs.

A cornerstone squad is repairing an old outpost communications tower.

At night, tremors were felt outside the swamp.

Three large, armored scorpion-like creatures emerged from the shadows, each over ten meters long, with stingers containing paralyzing venom powerful enough to pierce light armor.

According to standard procedure, the cornerstone sequence should activate the flamethrower.

But one of the assassins stepped forward.

Number: Cornerstone-Azure Thunder-119.

The swarm intelligence recorded that his heart rate remained stable, and biological fluctuations began to spread outwards.

The three giant scorpions stopped thirty meters away from the outpost.

The tail hook rose and then slowly fell back down.

The cornerstone emitted a series of low-frequency guttural sounds.

The sound was not in human language; it was like airflow brushing against a crevice in a rock, or like a signal produced by the friction of the legs of some large arthropod.

A few minutes later, the three-headed giant scorpion turned and left.