Warhammer: Empire Reboot

He even began to reverse the process of imprisonment.

They deliberately revealed some half-true, half-false information to make the interrogators think they had found the entrance.

The judge identified several traps.

Swarm intelligence also helps in deconstruction.

But Harken held firm to defend the core.

Time passed second by second.

Harken's mental state was on the verge of collapse several times, but he was forcibly pulled back.

The prison is preparing to strengthen its measures.

He raised his hand, preparing to initiate a deeper process of soul stripping.

Lawson waved his hand.

"There's no need to go through all that trouble."

Haken looked up.

His face had lost all color, but a hint of mockery resurfaced in his eyes.

"Give up?"

"The one who holds the seal."

"It seems... your so-called new thing... is nothing special."

He was a little smug because he had survived the mental entropy reversal.

They kept the secrets of the Black Legion.

This allowed him to grasp a part of himself from the fear brought about by absolute clarity.

He is still Haken, Haken the Starslayer!

Even after being shattered, humiliated, and having his subspace connection severed, he still did not reveal the secret.

Lawson looked at him and shook his head indifferently.

You've misunderstood.

"Interrogating you was just an experiment."

"I want to see what extent mental entropy can be combined with conventional interrogation for a Chaos Lord like you who specializes in fear, torture, and psychological warfare."

"The experiment failed."

Harken hadn't yet grasped the true meaning of that statement.

A shadow blade flashed past.

The head of Harken the Starslayer flew off.

The last vestiges of victory lingered on his face, a sense of accomplishment from keeping the secret.

His head hit the ground.

The next moment, a system notification popped up.

[Target to be eliminated: Star Stealer Harken.]

[Identity Confirmed: Chaos Lord of the Black Legion, Herald of Abaddon, Messenger of the Apocalypse, Destroyer of Destruction.]

[Warspace energy acquisition in progress...]

[Swarm intelligence intercepts the target's remnants of soul and memory structure.]

[WARNING: The target's memories contain numerous fear symbols, chaotic contaminated logic, false memory traps, Nostramo-style psychological tactics, and Black Legion campaign coded language.]

[Purification in progress.]

[Disassembling in progress.]

[Extracting...]

Harken's soul did not return to the warp.

The system intercepted him.

The Emperor's Golden Fire and the Spiritual Entropy Reversal pressed down simultaneously, burning away the polluting symbols that were trying to backfire on the swarm network, layer by layer.

Swarm intelligence began reading Haken's Ten Thousand Years.

Fear tactics.

Methods of torture.

Mass collapse guidance.

The dissemination path of midnight lord-style public executions.

The Black Legion's vanguard launches a surprise attack.

The tactical habits of the Chaos Raptor Flock.

Subspace evil magic is eroding key nodes of the old communication system.

The psychological warfare framework available in Nostramo's Blood Code.

The application of the cycle of hatred and pain in The Blood Scroll.

The fragments of the Book of Magnus contain passages involving prophecy, symbolism, and allusions to crowds.

A large amount of knowledge was purified, compressed, categorized, and re-encoded.

The useful parts are extracted using swarm intelligence.

Duan Yu suddenly stopped, and a new stream of data entered his consciousness.

Structure of the interrogation room.

Pain rhythm.

Fear constructs.

Language trap identification.

Judgment of a false surrender.

How to make the target believe that they have kept the core secret, but expose the real defenses through their reactions on the periphery.

How to use bystanders, time, silence, and the hope of error to cooperate with torture.

How to transform the fear from "pain" to "waiting".

How to interrogate someone who is familiar with interrogation.

Once stripped of its chaotic contamination, this knowledge becomes a usable tool and enters the judgment system of the Bi'an Warband.

The judge bowed his head.

"grown ups."

Lawson looked at him.

"How was the harvest?"

The prison guards remained silent for a moment.

"a lot of."

Harken looked down on his "unprofessionalism".

Now, Haken's most useful expertise has been dismantled by swarm intelligence and put into his mind.

That's fair.

Loot isn't necessarily power armor.

It could also be the ten thousand years of experience of a master of fear.

Lawson didn't dwell on the gains from the prison break for long.

Swarm Intelligence quickly sent him another separate message.

That was what Harken most wanted to protect.

The memories of Harken the Starseer are not a coherent battle report.

It was more like a graveyard repeatedly stirred up by evil magic, fear, pain, and self-worship.

It contains truth.

There are lies.

There are deliberately set memory traps.

It contains the Night Lord-style fear symbol.

There are coded messages from the Black Legion.

There is contempt, suspicion, scheming, and obedience among the various warbands under Abaddon's command.

There are also a large number of meaningless death scenes.

A certain city that was completely wiped out.

A governor kneeling in front of the broadcasting tower.

A child who, in despair, shouted the emperor's name.

Harken keeps these things as a collection.

He likes to categorize his fears.

He even documented the ways in which different civilizations, social classes, and armies collapsed.

Swarm intelligence breaks these things down, filters them, incinerates them, and compresses them.

Keep what's useful.

Burn the polluted stuff.

Meaningless, throw it in the trash.