Your war hammer is too fake

Chapter 451: God of All Things

You are a carefree killer whale.

You swim aimlessly in the sea because you love doing so. There are countless microscopic creatures in the sea water, but when you get close, they all disappear quickly, as if they are deliberately avoiding you. For some reason, you always feel as if something is secretly spying on you, but when you turn around, you can only see a mass of red, blue, green and purple, which quickly slips away from your peripheral vision.

Well, that's not quite accurate. Red was very excited when he saw you, and immediately wanted to come over, but Blue, Green, and Purple didn't give him any chance to talk, and they grabbed Red and dragged him away.

This was just an insignificant episode, so you didn't really care. You swam and swam, the sea was endless, no matter how hard you swam, you couldn't see the end. You didn't know why you kept swimming, and there was no need for any reason... That's what you thought, until you found that in this seemingly normal ocean, there suddenly appeared a field made up of all kinds of machines.

This area gives you a very strange sense of familiarity, as familiar as your own home. You swim in without thinking, and the mechanical area also accepts your arrival very naturally. After entering, you find that the internal space of the mechanical area is much larger than you imagined, and most of the areas are closed.

The mechanical realm contains literally endless machines, and each machine is unique. They are combined with each other in an extremely sophisticated way to form this cold and precise kingdom. However, when you come, even the ruthless machines burst into passionate enthusiasm, and every gear and nut cheers for you, just because you are their only master, the giver and protector of souls.

If you wish, you can give soul and corresponding intelligence to anything that is originally inanimate, but you will only ever do this with a portion of machinery - without any particular reason, just because you wish.

You swam around in the mechanical realm, but unfortunately there weren't many places to visit. Most of the areas were closed for some reason, and you had no intention of breaking in. Amid the meaningless joyous murmurs from countless machines, you swam to an open space. Unlike other places in the mechanical realm, this place was filled with a group of gear men, the largest of which you had seen once, with a complex body structure.

The gear people are surrounding a Gundam figure, seemingly performing a ritual? You have no idea what they are doing, even though they occasionally shout "Killer Whale God" while performing the ritual.

You are a little angry. You have a name, and you are not called "Killer Whale God". You want to correct their mistakes, you try to tell them that your name is -

Ishamara

Like a bomb exploding in your mind, countless streams of information wash over your soul, leaving you in a state of stagnation for a short time. Most of the information disappears in the depths of your soul in an instant, and you forget them; only a few are captured by your mind. You know it is important and you want to write it down, but now there is one thing you have not done.

You look at the Gundam figurine. You feel that there are many details on the figurine that need to be improved, and your instinct has been urging you to do something quickly since the first time you saw it.

You obeyed this instinct. A part of your power, a tiny bit that was insignificant to you, entered the body of the largest gear man. The red-robed gear man then moved, staggered to the figurine, stretched out his micro-mechanical hand and gently touched the latter.

The next moment, the Gundam figure stood up by itself. The fire of her soul was lit, and the new life looked at the world curiously. Of course, this little thing "saw" you. The closeness from the soul made her eager to get closer to you, and you felt this emotion, so you moved over and rubbed the killer whale's face against it.

She is happy and wants more. Unfortunately, you have a clear feeling that you are about to leave here, and you know that this is not the first family member you have given souls to.

You gave a portion of your power, still a tiny portion to you, to this newly born clan in two parts: one for her, and the other for the true Firstborn.

As she reluctantly watched you leave, you followed that feeling and relaxed your body and mind, your thoughts becoming increasingly blurred...

……

An Jiyue opened her eyes.

"What happened outside? Why is there so much noise?" The Outer God's Chief rubbed his sleepy eyes. His long silver hair became a little fluffy for some reason. "All my guesses have been verified, and I have gained a lot."

"While you were asleep, the 'Killer Whale God' appeared," Aiwen looked at An Jiuyue with a complicated expression, "a magic armor with its energy pack removed and no one operating it stood up in full view of everyone. Now everything outside is in chaos. Listen carefully, some people are shouting that this is a scam, and some are asking if it's too late to change careers and become engineers."

"I heard it. It seemed to be the voice of Bishop Sigma of Marienburg?" An Jiyue frowned. "It's really that serious. This can be explained as some kind of magic trick. They shouldn't have such a big reaction."

"After the magic armor got up, it first walked around, then was dazed for a while, and then it glowed with golden light all over. The religious people in the box next to it dare not say anything else, but they can still distinguish the authenticity of miracles," Evelyn replied, "What did you do? If that is your power, why does it feel so strange to me?"

An Jiyue did not answer immediately, but first looked out from the box. On the podium of the auditorium, countless people were pushing and shoving together. The members of the Mechanicus, led by Cawl, formed a human wall to block the magical armor, while below were visitors who were shouting all kinds of words in a mess, most of whom were clergy.

In the chaos, someone took out a glass bottle filled with holy water and threw it at the magic armor. As a result, the three-meter-tall steel creature stretched out its hand and caught the glass bottle with amazing speed and flexibility. It even came closer to take a look. The next moment, the mechanical palm of the magic armor exerted a little force, and the glass bottle made a crisp popping sound, and the holy water splashed on the torso of the magic armor.

The clergymen who were shoving and shoving the Mechanicus widened their eyes at the same time. Holy water and broken glass flowed down the angular armor plates, looking like ordinary water, as if nothing had happened.

The crowd suddenly fell silent.

"I can confirm it now," An Jiyue retracted her gaze and said to Aiwen seriously, "If it was just speculation before, now I can confirm that I am indeed one soul with two bodies." After a pause, she continued, "And the two bodies have different powers or priesthoods, and even the degree of completeness as gods is different. My half body, my killer whale form, is a complete Outer God. And in this state, I have another name-"

"You can call her Ishamara, the God of All Things."

The author says:

Author's note: This is the first update, there will be one more to come. There was no power outage today, or I would have complained.

Answer to the reader "Invincible pure and cute person":

Ogres also reproduce sexually, so of course there are females.

Answer to the reader "Tian Xing Dao Zhe":

Yes. If you inhale too much at once, you may even feel choked. Its effect directly acts on the soul and can perfectly simulate all the details of eating.

Chapter 452: Fuzrek's Arrangement

After leaving the auditorium, the two came to the garden of Ricker Island together.

In the history of Marienburg, after Westerland became part of the Empire, the first Elector chose Reiker Island to build his palace. The island is located at the westernmost part of the city, right in the middle of the river. It is independent of the North City and the South City, with the endless sea to the west and the rushing Reiker River to the east.

Due to the rise of the merchant class and the decline of the traditional nobility, this ancient palace also fell into disrepair. In the era of Magnus the Pious, merchants managed to obtain autonomy from the emperor, and the position of the Elector of Westerland remained vacant until the governor of Ai took office. So the "well-ventilated" castle was converted into a prison after some renovations. The warden was a fat Bretonnian nobleman who couldn't hold a lance at first glance.

After Egwene took control of the city, she ordered the prison to be moved outside the city and all the facilities to be completely demolished. The island was repeatedly checked by witch hunters, battle priests, and battle mages to ensure that nothing strange was left. Afterwards, the alchemists hired from Sanhe Prefecture used earthbending to reshape the island's topography and reinforced and hardened the rock base of Reiker Island as a whole. Finally, the construction team brought in fertile soil purchased from the Mute Territory and covered the island with it.

The entire project started even before Egwene became the Elector Count, and was only recently completed. A large number of trees and ornamental plants from the Crucified Wood Court were transplanted to the island, including semi-magical plants such as the Grace Tree. With the hard work of the Kaldorei gardeners, a Kaldorei-style garden was carved out to replace the original gloomy prison.

This wonder has been the hottest topic in the streets of Marienburg since its completion. Citizens talk about this beautiful garden with great interest and are surprised that their Elector never raised taxes and built the garden entirely out of his own pocket. After all, it is obvious that this garden cost a lot of money.

"It's not that bad actually. It probably only cost 10% of the Coopers family's fortune," Aiwen introduced the garden to An Jiyue who was walking side by side with her. "I mean, 10% of the fortune including all the real estate and so on."

Sir Bayar and Shigeru Nishikori followed the two in silence. As for Sir Almarik, since he was not suitable to be present at the next event, the Holy Grail Knight was temporarily sent to check the armory.

"The Kupers family is the richest human in the Old World. If it weren't for us, their patriarch, Yan van der Kupers, would have become a 'close friend' or the number one creditor of Kagaba, the empress, and Lauen, among other monarchs," An Jiyue strolled in the garden, with stone slabs embedded in the ground under her feet and the shadows of trees dancing in the breeze above her head. "One tenth of their wealth is already a very exaggerated figure."

"Well, at least there was no corruption when this garden was built. It cost a lot of money, and it was only because you and Morgan gave me an internal preferential price," Knight shrugged. "How is it?"

"If you're asking about the garden, I can only say it's average. Don't forget, I've been to Tal-o-Yu'r many times. Unfortunately, I didn't have the chance to enter Haotian City when I went to Weijing last time. According to the setting, the scenery of the Moon Queen's Paradise Garden is slightly inferior to that of the Eternal Queen's Eden Valley," the Jiedushi suddenly stopped, "Oh, they're here."

As soon as the voice fell, the ground in the circular open space in front of the two people, which was deliberately left, bulged, the grass broke, and roots covered with soil drilled out from the ground, entangled with each other, stretched out and supported an elliptical structure standing upright on the ground. The next second, a light blue glow appeared in the more than three-meter-high elliptical structure, and the magic power woven into a smooth mirror surface.

The mirror surface rippled, Xiao Yiyue held up the moonstone in his left hand and walked in front, and Fuzirek followed behind with his staff. The governor of the Shuofang Army put away the moonstone, and the magic mirror dissipated immediately, and the roots that had drilled out of the ground surged and retracted underground. If you don't look at the broken grass, everything that happened just now seems to be just an illusion.

"I have brought the person here," Xiao Yiyue nodded to his two friends, "I have accomplished my mission."

"Hello, two beautiful ladies," the ancient wizard, who was only a skeleton left, bowed politely to the two masters of the holy book, "and thank you very much, Ms. Xiao. Thank you for escorting me all the way here and letting me see such an amazing magical miracle. Root teleportation, what a wonderful thing."

Fuzrek spoke the Chinese language fluently. This ancient wizard who invented the folding castle and floating city was as knowledgeable as expected. He even spoke Khazarid, but God knows where he learned it from.

"Your invention is also amazing in my opinion, Mr. Fuzrek." Aiwen deliberately spoke in her real native language. She did this mainly to take care of Xiao Yiyue. The governor of the Shuofang Army only knew some Weixi dialect in addition to his native language.

"You must be Lady Egwene," the skeleton's jaw opened and closed. "Although they told me that you have no discrimination against many races in the world, even the undead, your reaction when you saw me still surprised me. This is incredible, even more incredible than 'root teleportation'."

"As long as you think about the fact that Atum is my ally, you won't have such unnecessary worries," the Knight said. "Of course, we only accept undead souls that can coexist with the living. There is only one way to deal with vampires and the mindless puppets enslaved by them. Okay, this is not the place to talk, follow me."

Several "people" came to a pavilion in the garden. After everyone was seated, Aiwen said, "Well, I sincerely hope you can accept my invitation. Even in this era where magicians have been legalized, I believe that apart from me, there is no other lord in the entire empire who is willing to hire an undead as his magic consultant."

"You have revealed so many secrets to me that I feel uneasy," Fuzrek rubbed his jaw with his bony hand. "I want to know, if I refuse, how will you treat me?"

"You will be imprisoned in an isolated place, guarded by a long-forgotten ancient race," the Knight Princess said in a particularly calm tone, "As long as you don't try to escape, we won't do anything more."

"Thank you for your honesty, Elector," the skeleton nodded, "I have one more question. How will you use my knowledge and inventions? This is very important to me."

"You will be engaged in technical work and lead various military projects. Unless there is no other choice, I will not let someone like you go to the battlefield. That would be a waste of your wisdom." Knight Princess replied.

"So," the skeleton paused, "my invention will be used for war instead of making people's lives safer and faster?"

The pavilion suddenly became quiet.

"There is only one way to make people's lives safer and faster," Evelyn stared into Fozzrick's pale eyes, "and that is to destroy those things that should not exist in this world."

Fuzrek was silent. Egwene's mood sank little by little, but just when she thought that this recruitment had failed, the ancient wizard stood up from his seat and bowed deeply to her: "I believe I have fully understood what kind of person you are, Elector. I am willing to hand over my soul to you, my lord, I know you are looking forward to this."

"...Some things don't need to be said." The Elector glared at the skeleton, then summoned his own war codex. There were no cool sound and light effects when the "locals" were transformed into system units. It only took a moment for Fuzrek to lose his freedom forever, but at the same time he also gained many benefits that the "locals" could never achieve.

"We will arrange a ceremony to turn you back into a living person as soon as possible. It's inconvenient to be a dead soul after all," An Jiuyue said. "Luckily, I still have a bottle of Day Spring Water, otherwise it wouldn't be easy to do this... To be honest, when I first got it (see Chapter 138), I never thought I would use it for this kind of thing."

"Daytime spring?" Fuzrek asked repeatedly, "The day and night spring of the Ugol people?"

"That's it. Two hundred years ago, the guardian of the Fountain of Day and Night was forced to destroy it himself to prevent it from falling into the hands of Nurgle's followers. What I hold in my hands is the last bottle of water from the Fountain of Day and Night in the world."

“Then I have one more reason to work hard,” Fzirek nodded, “to prevent more tragedies like this from happening in this world.”

"You can't show up until you are reborn," Evelyn nodded gratefully to An Jiyue, then looked at Fuzzrick, "I have arranged a place for you to stay. Sir Bayar will take you there."

The Holy Grail Knight standing behind the Elector turned sideways and made a "please" gesture to Gudai.

"Goodbye, powerful, wise and beautiful ladies." Fuzrik bowed to the three Lords of the Holy Scriptures, then left with Sir Bayar.

Without waiting for An Jiyue to speak, Jin Zhifan also saluted the three people in turn, and then left.

"This girl has always been so sensible that it makes people feel distressed," An Jiyue said, "Okay, now there are only three of us here, it's time to talk about my latest discovery."

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Author's words: Second update... Going to sleep, I'm so sleepy

Chapter 453: Troubles

Reiker Island Gardens, Marienburg.

"I am now in a state of one soul with two bodies, but I can't control both bodies at the same time. To be precise, I don't even know how to switch the 'account' to Ishamara's side," An Jiyue said in the pavilion, holding a finely carved wooden cup with cold black tea in both hands. "I fell asleep twice. The first time was when Lilith caused trouble and dragged my soul into the subspace. The second time, I fell asleep inexplicably... The number of times is too small, and I can't find a pattern."

"Although it's still me, we're all the same soul, when I woke up and recalled the dream, I could feel that controlling the killer whale half of my body was very difficult for me now. Well, this is also normal. The 'account' of Ishamara is a complete Outer God, and I, we, are still trying to figure out how to make ourselves complete."

"In this dream, I got some information while remembering the name of the killer whale's half. Most of it was forgotten because my soul was not strong enough to bear the full power of the Outer Gods. However, I still got some key information and verified my previous guesses. In general, these gear guys from the Mechanicus are indeed my believers, but they believe in Ishamara instead of An Jiyue. The blessings on them were also given by Ishamara."

Seeing that Xiao Yiyue and Aiwen both wanted to ask, An Jiyue raised her hand and motioned for them to listen to her first: "My default account is 'An Jiyue', and I usually use this body. When I don't switch accounts, 'Ishamara' won't take the initiative to do anything. After all, there is no soul in the body! But not taking the initiative does not mean that there is no reaction to the outside world. 'Ishamara' will follow some kind of original instinct and passively respond to external stimuli in a fixed way."

"So, this is why those engineers prayed to you every day and received the blessing of the killer whale god, but you knew nothing about it?" Evelyn concluded.

"It's 'God of All Machines'," An Jiyue rolled her eyes at Knight Ji, "I feel like I have to find a way to correct the wrong way these gear guys call me. 'Killer Whale God' sounds too weird."

"What about us?" Xiao Yiyue stared at An Jiyue's profile. Although they both had silver hair and red eyes, no one would mistake them for the two of them. "Are you the only one with two bodies, or are we all like this?"

"I should be a special case," An Jiyue replied, "You all have a strict correspondence between body and soul, and each person has an account. As for the Mechanicus, my feelings are actually a bit complicated. I should say that I am between wanting to manage it and not wanting to manage it. After thinking about it, I think it is better to just keep an eye on it like now and not directly interfere with its development."

"Caw's ability as an engineer is impeccable," Evelyn said, "but when it comes to establishing and maintaining a religious organization, I think he has obvious shortcomings. At least the current organizational structure of the Adeptus Mechanicus is completely a makeshift team, and there are almost no rules and regulations."

"I can't actively switch to the 'Ishamara' account. At least I haven't figured out the pattern yet," An Jiyue thought for a moment and said, "But I have spells and psychic powers, so it's not difficult to send a dream or something. Anyway, it's really me who issued the oracle, so it's not a lie. Tsk, that means I still have to think about how to organize the Mechanicus. By the way, do you have any powerful religious experts here? Can you lend them to me?"

"I don't have any religious experts, but I do have a lot of fanatics who pray to me all day long, right?"

"Forget it then," An Jiyue shook her head. "Where was I just now? Well, just leave 'Ishamara' alone. My killer whale half has a fixed reaction pattern, and it has all kinds of blessings. At least it is much more generous than Sigma who can't even get through on the phone (Note 1). It won't be a problem to support a new sect."

"At least in Westerland, I can protect the Mechanicus," Evelyn propped her chin with her left hand and gently stirred the teacup with a silver spoon in her right hand. "For my sake, we can also smooth things over in Aldorf. It's just that Nuln is really hard to deal with."

"Haven't you always wanted to expand Nunn?" An Jiyue asked in surprise, "Didn't you get closer to them?"

"I did, why not? It turns out that because Coast Heavy Industries got the technical license for the anti-gravity engine and the Nullen didn't, they thought I was deliberately doing something bad," the Elector threw down the spoon angrily, and some black tea splashed out of the Kaldorei-style wooden cup. "In addition to the system units, Coast Heavy Industries' engineers also have many 'locals' from all over the empire. The latter have already caught several spies who tried to steal the anti-gravity engine technology. They are all from Nullen."

"I will write to Carl and Ayman Lori to protest this behavior. After all, the technology of the anti-gravity engine comes from me, and stealing technology is not fair," An Jiuyue said helplessly. "To put it bluntly, the most valuable thing about Nunn's expansion is the White-winged Griffin Knight. The others are just so-so. Just forget about it."

"Should we send someone to teach them a lesson?" Xiao Yiyue asked.

"Don't be in a hurry to send anyone. Kagaba is a politician, so he's definitely not ignorant. Emmanloli is somewhere between a politician and a politician. She's one of the few rulers in Warhammer who relies entirely on political tactics to maintain her rule, and her own military strength is almost zero. I sincerely hope that she can behave decently. If she doesn't behave decently, I'll let her know that political tactics are just a side path after all."

"Let's put aside Kaga's old lover for now," Evelyn waved her hands as if to shoo away some small flying insect. "Laun wrote to me again, and I still didn't reply. After all, what else can I say?"

"Speaking of which, how far has the situation in Bretonnia developed?" An Jiuyue asked.

"Strictly speaking, Lawn is already mobilizing for war. There aren't many people who responded, but they are all Li's diehard supporters," Evelyn replied. "I told the inner circle not to rush into action, especially not to force others to take sides. The situation in Bartor is very chaotic right now, but generally speaking, most people are waiting to see which way the wind will blow."

"After all, Gilles hasn't played his trump card yet, which is normal," An Jiyue nodded. "By the way, where is Gilles now? Bastogne?"

"Drilling in the ravines of the Gray Mountains. Haven't I been busy clearing out bandits since I took office in Goose City? After the bandits were almost wiped out, I began to develop the land of Westerland on the south bank of the Reik River. I have to say that Westerland is really outrageous. There is no decent settlement except Marienburg. I have inspected those towns such as Arno and Horsel. Even by the standards of the Empire, these places are really small and shabby."

An Jiyue tapped the table with her fingertips: "Speak to the point."

"The point is that when I was filling the land on the south bank of the Reik River with people and building roads, some newly built villages close to the Grey Mountains were constantly attacked and suffered heavy losses. After investigation, I found that it was Drachenfels who was behind it, so I sent Gilles with a team to hunt down this old monster. Isn't it that Fuzrek is coming? So I sent Sir Almarik out as well, because his expertise in dealing with the Undead Aura is just right for him."

"Drakenfels... He is also a famous boss in Warhammer. Although his threat mainly comes from his immortality, which is just restrained by us. He thinks he is a great man, but for us, he is not even a topic of conversation. Anyway," An Jiyue finally picked up the cup and took a sip of the black tea in it, "How long do you think it will take for Laun to complete the war preparations?"

"At least there is no hope this year. Bretonnia is now full of rebellious greenskins, beastmen, bandits and robbers, and the undead of Musilon are also not very peaceful. Unless Laun does not care about the lives of his people at all, with his current slow efficiency that makes everything he does half the result with twice the effort, it is absolutely impossible for him to launch an attack this year." Evelyn replied.

"Well, the affairs of the Empire and Bartor are yours anyway. I believe you will handle this matter well," An Jiyue stood up from her chair, and Xiao Yiyue also stood up. "Let's leave the matter of the Mechanicus alone for now. Letting it go may be the right choice. The situation in the South is very bad. I need to go there as soon as possible."

"I can't say anything else, but we can still squeeze out one or two teams of Holy Grail Knights," Evelyn said, "If you need help, just ask."

"I will," An Jiyue waved at Aiwen, "Goodbye."

After saying that, An Jiyue and Xiao Yiyue left the pavilion together.

……

Note 1: In Warhammer, the God of Order rarely gives blessings. Lily has created so many Holy Grail Knights, which is considered a model worker for the God of Order. In contrast, the Four Peddlers can pull out a complete set of Chaos Warriors and even God's Chosen Cans. These people are all blessed by the evil god, and there are a lot of them.

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Author's words: My daily routine is becoming more and more like a fairy...

Answer to the reader "A galaxy in the middle of the water":

The place of house arrest mentioned here is actually the Dragon Islands, and the ancient race refers to the Faceless Men.