Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Ilancia looked up, her voice trembling slightly.

How far do you intend to humiliate us?

Lawson offered no explanation.

He simply touched it lightly with his fingertip.

The mental entropy reversal unfolds.

An unseen order emanated from Lawson's fingertips, enveloping the Soul Stone.

The corrupted soul stone trembled in the air.

The black threads inside began to twitch.

The filth, like living creatures, burrowed into the depths of the Soul Stone, trying to seize the remnant soul and drag it deeper into corruption.

The mental entropy was suppressed.

The black stockings broke off inch by inch.

An order so cold and rigid forcibly stripped the chaos from within the Soul Stone.

The black stockings were gradually removed.

A faint light rekindled inside the Soul Stone.

The light was very faint.

Like someone who has walked through a long night, finally seeing a sliver of light through a crack in the door in the distance.

The warlock suddenly looked up.

"His breathing has returned to normal..."

Ilancia sensed it too.

The remnant souls of their kind within the Soul Stone were still weak, but they had already broken free from the chaos and pollution.

The piercing wail of the soul stone disappeared.

Instead, there were intermittent fluctuations of lucidity.

It is still broken.

But they are no longer devoured by filth.

Ilancia's eyes changed completely.

She looked at Lawson, speechless for a moment.

The other Eldar also fell silent.

The Ark Eldar can certainly purify Soul Stones.

The cost varies depending on the degree of pollution, the source of pollution, and the duration of pollution.

Some soulstones that have been eroded by chaos for a long time even require the joint participation of sorcerers, spirit bone singers, prophets, and endless circuits to have a chance of being salvaged.

There is only one line.

The human warlord before them simply raised his hand and pulled a Chaos-Contaminated Soul Stone back from the filth.

What's even more terrifying is that his power didn't devour the soul inside.

Nor did they erase the remnants of their own kind from their fate.

He brought it back to its senses.

This is completely different from the prophecy given by the prophet.

At least, it's incomplete.

Lawson looked at Ilancia and asked:

“Your prophet saw that I can make the soul perish completely.”

"Did he see that I can also protect the soul from being devoured by Slaanesh?"

Ilancia didn't know how to answer.

The prophet told her that the golden fire in Lawson's hand would sever the destiny of souls.

The prophet told her that the Soul Stone must be retrieved.

The prophet told her that if this human continued to grow, he would become a huge shadow over the future of the Eldar.

But the prophet never said that he could purify soul stones corrupted by chaos.

He never said that he could possibly free Eldar souls from the threat of Slaanesh.

What does this ability mean for the Eldar?

Ilancia dared not think too deeply about it.

If this is true, then the Eldar of the Ark should not have treated Lawson with assassination.

It's a transaction.

Even cooperation.

She suddenly understood why Lawson had fed a Soul Stone to Ash earlier.

That was telling her that he could both save and destroy.

It was also telling her that if the Ark Eldar attacked him, they would have to bear the consequences of turning the hand of salvation into a weapon of slaughter.

Lawson gently placed the restored Soul Stone on the tactical table and sealed it away temporarily.

Ash looked at the soul stone, a hint of dissatisfaction flashing in her eyes.

"Master, you're being wasteful."

Lawson glanced at her.

"You're not even worthy to lick the plate now."

Ash narrowed his eyes, then smiled.

"And what happens after the war starts?"

"It depends on your performance."

"I will do very well."

Ilancia felt a tightness in her chest upon hearing this.

She could no longer tell whether the person before her was a redeemer or a tyrant who knew even better than Slaanesh how to manipulate the Eldar's weaknesses.

Lawson didn't give her any time to adjust.

He raised his hand and opened another layer of projection.

A distorted image appeared above the hall.

That's not a complete map.

More like the cross-section of many broken channels.

Narrow and deep.

The lines exhibit a non-Euclidean geometric misalignment structure.

At certain nodes, there are remnants of Dark Eldar-style markings and alien material samples fixed in place by living metal.

Ilancia's pupils suddenly contracted.

The warlock suddenly stood up halfway.

"The Internet..."

The faces of several Eldar warriors turned pale at the same time.

Lawson tapped the armrest lightly with his fingertips.

"One of the things the Eldar of the Ark are most proud of."

"The deeper you hide, the faster you run."

"Once the door is closed, the human fleet won't be able to touch it at all."

"So you think you can come and go as you please."

"Assassinate if you want."

"Withdraw if you want."

"If you don't want to admit it, then don't admit it."

The fragments in the projection are constantly rotating.

Some were from the Dark Eldar who were hunted down during the Battle of Agrippina.

Some came from the wreckage of Comorian slave ships.

There are also some traces of network fissures captured near the vigilant star.

This information is not enough for Lawson to truly grasp the net.

But the Ark Eldar in the hall didn't know.

They only saw that a human warlord already possessed enough fragments of the network and was able to piece these fragments together into some kind of preliminary projection diagram.

This is scary.

For the Eldar, the Webpath is more than just a means of transportation.

That was their core reliance for escaping galactic catastrophes, avoiding warp storms, and maintaining Ark operations and war mobility.

If a human with a large military force were to begin tracking the Webgateway, the Ark Eldar's sense of security would be shattered.

Ilancia finally couldn't help but speak up.

"You can't truly understand the way of the internet."

Lawson smiled.

"temporary."