Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Chapter 360: Prayer begins!

There is a faction among the Necrons that desires to replace the Star Gods and become gods of the physical universe, and the Astrologer Orikan is one of the representatives of this doctrine. For a long time, Orikan has been looking for a way to get rid of the metal body and become a Star God, and Russell is very clear about these things.

But what he didn't know was when Orikan actually succeeded.

According to the records of the Black Library, until the 42nd millennium, Orrikan's research progress on the Star Gods was still at the superficial level of "briefly sensing the Star Gods' hunger for life", which was not far from the grand goal of truly replacing the Star Gods. At least it can be said that the long journey has just begun to prepare dry food.

It is now the 40th year of the 39th millennium. In the original historical process, Ourrican, who had accomplished almost nothing in the next two thousand years, why did he suddenly succeed now?

"Perhaps, we can find the answer in Ourikan's memory." Russell glanced at the three extra-dimensional time loop cages displayed in front of him and asked: "Grey Wind, do you have a way to read Ourikan's memory? ?”

Gray Wind shook his head, "Orican has cut and pasted his consciousness and memories into the fragments of the Void Dragon's body. The life structure of the Star God is different from any life form we know. We are currently Without technical means that can interfere with the will of the Star God, it is naturally impossible to read Ourikan's memory, unless..."

Although the Order of Truth claims to have extracted the secret of the Black Stone from the Star God's will of the Void Dragon, only Gray Wind himself knows that the technological breakthrough for synthesizing the Black Stone was actually developed by dissecting the Void Dragon's living metal skin. .

The living metal skin of the Void Dragon has the same quantum inertia and subspace magnetic poles as the black stone material, but they are completely different materials. This shows that the black stone itself cannot suppress psychic energy and demons, and plays the role of suppressing/amplifying the subspace. It is a more primitive and pure force.

"Unless what? How can we successfully extract the memory of a star god?" Russell asked quickly.

Gray Wind spread his hands, "Unless we can master the 'Ascension Protocol'."

The Ascension Protocol is a high-energy protocol used by Oerikan to format the Star God's fragments and obliterate the Void Dragon's will. It is also the only currently known method that can interfere with the Star God's will and memory.

"So where is the Ascension Agreement...?"

"In Orican's memory." Gray Wind said helplessly: "Without extracting its memory, we will not be able to master the Ascension Protocol."

Well, the key is locked in the safe.

So the question goes back to the original place - how did Orican obtain the key? How could an astrologer who had been inactive for tens of thousands of years suddenly develop something as awesome as the Ascension Protocol?

"Who knows?" Grey Wind spread his hands again. The Astrologers and the Endless Ones were very clean and secretive in their actions. There was no place to investigate.

Russell thought for a while and said, "How about I tell your fortune?"

Gray Feng's face bulged, "It seems like this is the only way."

Under Gray Feng's gaze, Russell began to pray on the spot.

Sure enough, nothing came out of the prayer. This is not surprising. The history of the Necron's struggle with the warp and psychic energy spans hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. It is not easy for astrologers to try to block psychic divination.

"Is my fortune-telling posture wrong?" Russell began to reflect on himself. If he wanted to tell fortunes, Mortarion's numerology might be an option. Otherwise, he could try asking the Emperor and Tzeentch.

"If it doesn't work, let's go and destroy the Sotec dynasty, the unit that Ourikan works for, right?" Gray Wind suggested: "Although there are a lot of things to do now and everyone is busy, the Ascension Agreement is of great importance. I think we can put other work on hold first and give priority to searching for clues at the homes of the Astrologer and the Storm King."

"Well... this is the only way." Russell was really considering it seriously.

Just as the two were discussing the feasibility of this plan, suddenly, the time weapon - the Ring Principle, which was stored in another compartment inside the Gray Gu mothership, began to rotate on its own.

A soft voice with a hint of sorrow sounded in the subconscious of Russell and Gray Wind at the same time:

"Even if you are at your wits' end, aren't you willing to ask me for help?"

Russell and Gray Wind looked at each other, and both of them showed expressions of seeing a ghost.

This was the first time Russell had direct communication with the Time Worm since coming to this universe. He did not need the help of the Omega Synchronization Device, nor was he in the Nightmare Constellation Void affected by it. The Time Worm's thoughts were directly projected into Russell's subconscious. This was the purest communication between thoughts.

Russell suddenly remembered that when she first boarded the Gray Goo mothership, Gray Wind had told him that there were actually 4 fragments of the Star God she had captured, but the fragments of Commander Zahulash were stolen by Time. The worm ate it.

"The Ruler Zahurash holds the authority over time in this universe. Since we have eaten his fragments, the Time Worm can now communicate directly with us?"

"No, thinking about it the other way around, the Worm of Time has never communicated directly with me before. Maybe it's not that he doesn't want to, but that he can't, because the Worm of Time is not a native law creature of this universe, but after swallowing the fragments of Zahurash Finally, He absorbed part of the concept of time belonging to this universe, and the Worm of Time became slightly 'localized'..."

Russell's thoughts moved rapidly, and he soon figured out the causes and consequences of this series of events.

Then, the Time Worm's gentle voice, like a lover's whisper, once again appeared in Russell's ears:

"You are really smart, kid, and I love you more and more."

"Then my love for the marshal is, ×2!" Gray Wind muttered not to be outdone.

This is what and what.

Russell felt that something was wrong with the surrounding magnetic field, so he quickly changed the subject: "So, Ms. Worm of Time? You mean that you can provide us with clues about Ourrican and the 'Ascension Agreement'?"

"Ms., this title is too alienating. I hope you can use the words used to address female relatives in human society, such as sister? Mom? Or sister... anything is fine. I just want to be closer to you. In that case I'll be happy."

Russell looked at Grey Wind standing beside him and found that her head was a little deformed due to anger.

Literally transformed, the humanoid mimicry of the nanorobot cluster was somewhat unsustainable.

Russell didn't dare to respond to the Time Worm's suggestion, so he had to be vague.

The Insect of Time seemed to have known this result for a long time, and he didn't care.

The topic was back on track: "So, where did the Ascension Protocol in Ourrican's hands come from? Could it be that he had a sudden inspiration and unreasonably broke through the problem that had not been able to make any progress for thousands of years? Esoteric research?”

"Of course not." The voice of the Time Worm was soft and gentle: "There is an existence helping it and guiding it, so that the astrologer finally succeeded in occupying the magpie's nest and replaced the Star God-the god of the physical universe."

"Who is that existence?" Russell asked quickly.

"The God of All Opportunities."

The voice of the Worm of Time is still soft, but every word he speaks is extremely heavy.

"Is... the God of All Opportunities that I thought of?"

"Not a clay artist, kid, but the God of All Machines." The Insect of Time emphasized: "It is the God of All Machines who has always been worshiped by the Adeptus Mechanicus."

Chapter 361 Original Power

The Cult of Mechanicus is a religion founded by the Emperor of Mankind in the 'Old Night Age' after the end of the Golden Age.

When the Iron Man rebellion ended and subspace storms ravaged the galaxy and cut human civilization into pieces, the environment of Mars, humanity's first industrial world, became extremely harsh due to heavy industrial pollution and out-of-control equipment. The remaining humans on Mars could only Can eke out a living relying on filtration facilities and recycling equipment.

Knowing how to use and maintain these high-tech equipment has become the necessary and only condition for survival in this world.

The worship of 'technology' is beginning to take shape.

Later, scholars and sages of Mars found the original "Bible" deep in Mars. It recorded the teachings of the Mechanicus. He taught people to value science, to protect knowledge, to worship the omnipotent and almighty Mechanicus, and not to fall into the abyss of ignorance...

The Bible also says that in the future there will be a big golden man who will unify Terra and come to Mars. He will be the incarnation of the Almighty Mechanic God, the Ohm Messiah, and the followers of the Mechanicus will follow him.

Yes, that's right. This Bible was written by the Emperor himself, and was hidden by Him in the depths of Mars before being found. In the teachings of the Mechanicus, the Emperor boasted about the handsomeness, wisdom and bravery of the big golden guy, but most of the Mechanicus sages did not buy it.

In addition, the Emperor is suspected of using fragments of the 'Dragon of Mars' sealed deep in the depths of Mars to entrust dreams to the earliest batch of Mechanicus priests, thereby increasing his authority and the credibility of the Mechanical Bible.

In short, the Mechanicus is actually a religion forcibly created by the Emperor himself through fraud and deception, and it still carries many shadows of Terra's old religions in its bones.

For example, the Mechanicum's worship of the 'God of All Machines' is the same as the trinity of an unnamed religion on Terra in ancient times.

The Mechanicus worships: the Omnipotent Mechanical God, the Ohm Messiah, and the Primeval Mover.

The Almighty Mechanical God is the creator of all technology and the master of all knowledge. He is the highest embodiment of knowledge and divinity and the omnipotent Mechanical God.

The Ohm Messiah is the physical embodiment of the Almighty Mechanical God walking in the mortal world. He is considered to be the incarnation of the God of All Machines. The mainstream view of the Empire is that the Ohm Messiah is the Emperor - the Emperor himself thinks so, because the Machine The teachings taught by the emperor were made up blindly by the emperor.

Finally, there is the original driving force, or the 'first driving force'.

The Big Bang theory holds that the birth of the universe began with a primordial singularity, and it was a big bang that shaped the current universe. The force that pushed the primordial singularity to explode is called the first driving force.

The rotation of celestial bodies, the attraction of black holes, the pulsation of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the tides of the quantum sea, the flow of electrons... everything.

Visible and intangible, macroscopic and microscopic, all 'movements' in the universe start from the initial first driving force.

The Adeptus Mechanicus believes that at the very beginning, it was the God of All Machines who 'pushed' this, which was the cause of the universe, the starting point of creation, the ultimate goal of all things, and the initial cause of all movement.

"The original mechanical concept that includes all basic forces such as gravity, electromagnetic force, and interaction force, the first driving force, that is, the original power."

The whisper of the Worm of Time rang in Russell's mind: "The Ascension Protocol written by Orikan is a technology based on the use of 'primordial power', which is the power of creation that transcends the laws of physics and is the crystallization of the true 'grand unified theory'."

Even the Star God, the embodiment of the laws of the physical universe, is nothing more than a lamb to be slaughtered in the face of the original power that created this universe.

"No wonder the Ascension Protocol was able to format the Star God fragments and erase the will of the Void Dragon Magradros." Russell's doubts were mostly dispelled by the words of the Time Worm. The remaining half was, "But how did Orikan master the original power and the grand unified field theory?"

"It has never truly mastered the secret of the original power." The Time Worm said softly: "It is the original power that guides it, just like I cooperate with the scholars under your command in the study of time."

Oerikan cannot control the original power, it is the original power that controls it.

"You mean, the original power...is alive?" Russell was horrified.

"Hmm~" The Time Worm hummed happily: "According to the logic of this universe, he should also be classified as a 'Star God'."

A will born from the original power that drives everything, a star god so powerful that the universe itself is his divine body.

Putting aside the Emperor's blundering mechanical bible, if there is a god of all machines that drives everything, it is the original power.

"The Star God of the original power...what's his name?" Russell asked.

"There is no name because he has not been born yet." The Worm of Time said: "The original power began to be conceived from the initial singularity, and he will not be truly born until the end of the universe, so he is still in the quantum state between existence and non-existence. state."

Abbreviation, as in.

"The life cycle of the universe is the process of its conception. However, recently, the original power has discovered that it is about to be stillborn." The Worm of Time added: "Because the Star God was shattered, the laws that maintain the physical universe are 708. The erosion of the real universe by subspace is getting more and more intense. These are all unstable factors that will lead to the unnatural death of the universe."

Russell was a little confused: "But even in the original history of the universe, the erosion of reality by subspace was still serious, and the original power did not interfere with the historical process of the galaxy because of the rampant evil god of subspace."

It would be better to say that since he came to this universe, Chaos has become less and less independent. The four gods have been beaten from east to west all day long, and recently one of them was beaten to death.

"Because even if the four gods of Chaos combined, they pose no greater threat to the universe than you, my child." The Worm of Time said in a teasing tone: "If the universe itself is compared to a palace that is giving birth to a fetus, , the original driving force was the sleeping baby in the palace, and your arrival pierced the fetal wall and released the amniotic fluid that it relied on for survival."

Russell was stunned for a moment. The Lord of Changes, Tzeentch, seemed to have said the same thing to him, but he didn't pay attention, thinking that it was Tzeentch's deceptive rhetoric and a conspiracy.

"Have you remembered?" There was a smile in the voice of the Time Worm.

"It was my arrival that pierced the wall of the universe and awakened the original power..."

It is no wonder that the original force that has never existed interferes with reality, because the amniotic fluid in its womb is about to be drained.

Chapter 362 The steep fold line

"The original force that drives everything in the universe hates you.

"From the burning stars to the black holes that devour everything. From the chaotic dust in the universe to the eternally pulsating quantum sea. Everything in this universe will be your enemy...even every component that makes up your current body. Every atom will be driven by the original power to kill you in every possible way."

The Time Worm spoke softly, very slowly: "Are you scared, my dear child?"

Russell smiled: "Why should I be afraid of a god who has not yet been born?"

Then the Time Worm also laughed, "You are indeed very smart."