I am the magnetic field maniac

In other words, their bodies were locked in power armor, but the power armor betrayed the Astartes who controlled them...

They were trapped one by one in living coffins made from the things they trusted most, and forced to rebel.

The Logic Plague can corrupt the thinking and actions of any structure with a simple system, even humans themselves.

Because at its core, humans themselves are also a kind of "machine" that is highly dependent on neural signals and organic structure. The only difference between humans and machines made of steel is the material.

But what does such technology mean to the abominable intelligence that has endless means of warfare in the dark technological age?

The Machine Souls supervised and controlled by the Tech-Priests are, in most cases, actually an automated system that lacks self-upgrades. The Mechanicus believes that Machine Souls are affected by religious rituals and have animal-like characteristics, capable of expressing emotions such as hatred and stubbornness.

This also shows that, except for a few special cases of subspace projection, most of the machine souls themselves are just low-level artificial intelligence.

The suppression of these non-subspace machine souls by the hateful intelligence is almost overwhelming...

This resulted in a large number of warships with shorter service time in the expeditionary force being controlled by the enemy and suffering heavy losses before they even reached the battlefield.

The Mechanicus was outraged by this, and a large number of sages and priests began to perform Machine Soul rituals to appease and strengthen the Machine Souls, but to little avail.

For warships that have been in service long enough, or those war machines where Titan captains have become one with the Titans, their machine soul appeasement and strengthening rituals can play a significant role.

However, for warships that have been in service for too short a period of time, their ceremonies have almost no effect.

Even many Mechanicus monks were corrupted by the power of the Warp during the machine soul appeasement ceremony.

This is always the Eye of Terror, the place closest to the Warp. This place is not friendly to them at all.

Leon had no choice but to order the abandonment of these "infected" warships, ordering all warships with a service time of less than 500 years to be abandoned...

To a certain extent, some war machines, including Titans, were abandoned.

The Lion even ordered some Astartes regiments to fight "without armor"...

They were even forced to replace their advanced power armor with some force feedback armor that had no automated structure at all.

Before the war even began, the expeditionary force had already been forced to lose nearly 20% of its strength.

This cast a damn shadow over the entire expeditionary force.

But even in terms of tactics, the expeditionary force definitely did not have an advantage! With the complete defeat of information warfare and remote operations, they could not gain an advantage even if they used their best boarding warfare!

Even if the Astartes, who are unable to wear more advanced equipment, successfully jump into the enemy's warship, they will still face the threat of a large number of extremely troublesome and powerful Mecha Soldiers!

Except for the Astartes champions led by the Black Templars, their boarding battles mostly ended in failure.

Leon had long realized that the attack on Perturabo was bound to be like this...

His brother possessed talents that were exceptional even among the Primarchs - only a fool would be willing to attack the fortress built by Perturabo.

Perturabo himself led the Iron Warriors to overcome countless difficulties during the Great Crusade, and because of this, they are better than the Imperial Fists at creating a battle line that has no bottom line and is extremely cruel and dangerous in all aspects.

This war can undoubtedly be said to be a wrong war launched at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

Just like the Battle of the Iron Cage in which Dorn participated, they should not have offended Perturabo, but for their own reasons, they had to take the blame of the unhappy Perturabo.

But Leon had no choice. Not only that, after encountering such a crisis, he became extremely uneasy.

He knew that Perturabo must be planning something. His brother's extreme and cruel reaction must mean that what he was hiding was more dangerous than himself.

The fleet could only move forward. Even with the help of the Eldar reinforcements, they were able to avoid the logical plague spread by the ubiquitous abominable intelligence through the Webway to a certain extent, but the Webway could not lead directly to Midgard.

The Lords of Iron have clearly interfered with warp travel within the range, and even hyperspace travel is completely impossible - this place is too close to the warp, and hyperspace travel will be forced directly into the warp.

They can only reach the area near Midgard through the webway, and then attack the demon world controlled by the Lord of Steel head-on.

And the result of the war... is this.

There was no victory, not even for the entire expedition fleet... shamefully, they didn't even make it into the demon galaxy where Midgard was located.

The Lord of Steel brought in thirteen demon worlds to form a defense circle to protect Midgard... and what's even more crazy is that he also built all kinds of crazy defense facilities outside this inner defense circle.

A large number of creations from the Dark Age of Technology were created...

The various defense mechanisms that far surpassed the technological singularity of the human empire made it impossible for the expedition fleet to achieve any results.

The Human Empire has always liked to use its huge size to crush weak enemies...but facing the abominable intelligence that masters the technology of the Dark Age of Technology, the Human Empire has no advantage.

They know humans too well, or rather, the technology of the Human Empire is just the dregs picked up from their leftovers.

Their technology was easily cracked, and it might even be the leftovers of the abominable intelligence.

If the prepared extinction weapons cannot be deployed, they will be cracked midway and thrown back. Even if the ships are not protected by loyal machine spirits, they will be killed immediately.

You may ask, then why didn't the Magnetic Field God of War jump in?

Because not only the abomination intelligence, but also a large number of demon souls controlled by the Soul Forge Lord Vashtor were thrown into those Yafei...

These equally large numbers of demons, relying on their proximity to the subspace... overwhelmed the human empire's expeditionary fleet with their more powerful magnetic field force.

Even Leon himself was held back by the overly dangerous demon Yafei and had to focus on dealing with those terrible demon engines.

This is also because Leon himself did not choose to rush in directly... If he left here, I am afraid that Perturabo and Vashtor would immediately order those Yafei who possessed the souls of the great demons to completely destroy the entire fleet!

After fighting in this crazy meat grinder for an unknown amount of time, their greatest achievement was to carve out a path to Midgard's inner defense layer.

But that was all, and the price paid was that most of the expedition fleet was lost, and the reserve ammunition was almost completely consumed.

However, they simply cannot see the trend of Perturabo's resources being depleted... It is obvious that this bastard, with the support of the evil god, is constantly obtaining endless resources through the warp space to supply him with fuel for this meat grinder!

The passage of time cannot be felt in the Eye of Terror, but even so, most of the humans trapped in this battlefield have been driven mad by despair.

They are clearly the elite of the empire, but they are like piles of meaningless cannon fodder, being thrown into a mine with no end in sight.

The First Legion was defeated once again, and the other legions also suffered heavy losses. After paying such a huge price, these Astartes finally broke through this road.

Without seeing the result of victory, even Leon could only hear the wails of failure and screams of pain every moment.

The lion king could only close his eyes, knowing that this was a necessary sacrifice. If he wanted to break through Perturabo's fortress, he had to pay this painful price.

And now, it is time for the final sacrifice to complete his mission.

"Let's move." The lion king said softly.

Carrying the fleet's last hope, an Eclipse-class Star Destroyer advanced at full speed towards the gap!

Led by the Dark Angels' Chapter Master Azrael, almost all of the remaining Dark Angels were involved.

They are eager to prove their bravery and loyalty in front of the Primarch!

They overloaded the black hole engine of the Eclipse-class Star Destroyer. Their plan was very simple. They wanted to use this technology that did not belong to this world to detonate it in the inner ring of Midgard before those abominable intelligences could fully analyze it!

By creating a black hole, all of Midgard's defenses can be destroyed, and even the Lord of Steel can be killed directly!

This isn't a smart solution, but it may be the only one.

When the Chapter Master of the Dark Angels put his father's helmet on his head, his heart was filled with immense pride and loyalty!

Looking at the defensive loophole that was carved out by countless of his battle brothers with blood and fire...

Looking at the countless fallen loyal forces of the Empire and Perturabo's evil alliance on both sides, and the broken circular wall, Azrael's heart was filled with burning loyalty and anger!

"Charge! For the Dark Angel! For Lord Lion! For the Emperor! For - Humanity!!"

Roaring, following Azrael's orders, the huge Eclipse-class pushed forward with all its might and broke through the pierced defenses...

Countless tentacles extended from the terrifying Wall of Sighs on both sides, trying to inject countless malicious codes into the Eclipse-class Star Destroyer to control it!

But they couldn't do it because the specifications were not compatible. The completely different technology trees of the two worlds made it impossible for their codes and technologies to break through the firewall for the time being!

Perhaps it is only a matter of time for these abominable intelligences to break through... But this short period of time is enough for them to break through the circular high wall made of steel!

The Eclipse class rushed into the inner ring of Midgard at the fastest speed, and at the moment when it was about to be crushed by the thirteen mechanical demon planets, it detonated its engine!

First there was a flash of aurora, and then there was endless darkness.

An absolute darkness appeared there, warping and absorbing all the light... Then, the terrifying gravity instantly pulled in countless war debris behind it and crushed them into singularities.

After a brief silence, there were countless cheers and cries of ecstasy that broke out under extreme repression!

They won! The terrifying enemy was finally defeated... right?

“Hahahaha, hahaha!!”

Countless malicious laughs from the hateful intelligence instantly rang out throughout the universe, and the next moment, a "technology" that covered the entire Midgard battlefield was finally activated.

Everyone, even Leon, was a little stunned, because in front of them——

Time has gone backwards.

174. Desperate Technological Gap

How powerful is the technology of humanity's dark technological age?

Perhaps only the emperor understands the horror of this.

What is certain is that human technology can modify the law of causality and has even touched the essence of time. They can even truly play with time.

Although it is not as arbitrary as the Necrons, or even as exaggerated as applying time technology to individuals...but human time technology can achieve large-scale battlefield-level coverage.

It doesn't mean that humanity's peak technology is stronger than the Necrons...

Rather, it means that compared to the sky undead whose technology is limited to a few dynasties or even individuals, human technology is more "universal".

Besides, the technology of the Dark Age of Technology cannot be said to be human technology, but rather AI technology.

Whether it is an iron man or a stone man, the artificial intelligence and artificial life forms that serve humans have long monopolized human scientific and technological research, and the technological black box has almost formed a complete monopoly.

The reason why the technology of the human empire is so pathetic is not only because of the vigilance and prohibition of AI, but also because their technology has been broken from the root.

Even in the most prosperous era of human technology, the technological monopoly from academic cliques and various political entities, as well as the difficulty in understanding AI-created technology, has already created a huge technological gap.

Due to human laziness and the powerful performance of AI, many humans may not have acquired much knowledge from birth to death.

Even if the brain can store it, how much knowledge can their fragile brain neurons and hippocampus record?

Even if they used those alien genes to transform their own bodies without any bottom line...it would be extremely difficult for them to create a human evolution body as close to perfect as the Imperial Guard.

This is the limitation of human beings, and it is inevitable that after humans invent AI, they are destined to be surpassed step by step, or even replaced by them.

It was not so much humans who had fought against the fallen Eldar Empire, but rather AIs and their incompetent slave masters.

That huge ship took humans to heights they shouldn't have been at, and eventually capsized them.

There was a reason why the Eldar used to look down on humans. Perhaps in their eyes...

Humans are nothing more than a bunch of apes being kept by some "mini Necrons".

The Emperor longs to turn all of humanity into perfect humans like the Custodes for this very reason... because he knows clearly that the bottlenecks and limitations encountered by humans who once took the technological route are the inevitable prerequisites for the development of AI, and are also the culprits that lead to all these results.

They could not complete psychic ascension like the Eldar, but the results of mechanical ascension had already been presented to them by the Necrons, so the only thing left for them was biological ascension.

But now, they must face the test from the previous generation.

The first step is to crush them in terms of technology and knowledge.

For those AIs that participate in wars with humans, those technologies that humans cannot understand are never secrets in black boxes, but an open textbook. All the secrets of the human empire are not secrets at all.

However, even the everyday techniques used by AI may not be understood by the Mechanicus sages who add metaphysics to physics.

All AIs despise the Mechanicus monks and humans... these stupid idiots are not even one ten-millionth as smart as their predecessors.

Look, those idiotic monkeys treat a bunch of printers like treasures...

The STC technologies that are regarded as treasures by the Mechanicus are just simple module production devices in the eyes of AI. They know all the secrets contained therein, but humans may not be able to do so.

Even in the Dark Ages of Technology, humans already had many technologies that they could use but could not understand, let alone today.

The Mechanicus monks could not understand the AI's technology, and whether they were Sisters or Astartes, Inquisitors or Astra Militarum, they all felt panic and despair at the scene before them.

Everything was repeating itself like a videotape with the rewind button pressed.

Starting from the expansion of the black hole, the singularity is pushed back, the black hole is shrinking, and countless matter that was absorbed and crushed is directly spit out.

Then, the Eclipse-class Star Destroyers "recovered". They flew back in an extremely funny posture...

At the same time, Azriel's originally passionate battle cry became funny in everyone's ears.

"Humanoids - what! The emperor is what! The people's congress is what! Make the sky dark! Charge..."

After saying a bunch of incomprehensible words, Azriel was dazed to find that he was still alive, and then returned to the starting place.

They were literally stepping into the same river again.

“Hahahahahaha!!”

At this moment, in this changing universe, the synthesized laughter of countless hateful intelligences rang out...