It turns out that Angron can't expel anything other than blood, saliva, and fragments of brain tissue... something Hades would rather he vomit up.
After repeated attempts, Hades decided not to force Angron anymore and waited for news from the Emperor in the Maelstrom star region.
In the vast star field of the Empire, even using the warp navigation, long-distance travel is an extremely time-consuming task, and patience is obviously necessary at this time.
Although Hades also had the bad idea that he was unable to enter the warp and was forced to be trapped in the Maelstrom and watch the rebellion.
But even for the Four Gods, it would be difficult to create a storm in the Milky Way. Hades carefully reviewed the overall situation of the empire when he left the Perfect City and believed that the scene that Hades least wanted to see should not occur.
However, the finger bone has been lost, and it is useless to worry about it. It is better to take the opportunity to develop. Both the Forge World of Salem and the World Eaters have been severely damaged after the battle with Khorne and the Star God, and are in urgent need of recovery.
Hades first personally commanded the sages of Salem to clean up the ruins left after the battle with the Star God. The originally bright red planet had now withered and turned rusty red. In the center of the war, a thin layer of metal was poured on the vast wasteland.
It was a metal forged by Hades using the roar of the Nightbringer at its last moments, and most of its raw materials came from the skeletons of undead.
Hades first carefully confirmed that there were no remaining Necrons underground on the planet, and then checked again to make sure there was no residual interference from Chaos on the planet.
Hades stood in the cold wind, the biting wind blew on his armor, making crackling sounds, but what was carried in it was not blood foam, but instead fine metal particles.
In the distance, the dim outlines of countless Titans are vaguely visible.
This debris is the corpse of the machine.
He slowly turned around and looked at Haisen and his group who were waiting behind him.
"Sareem can forge this planet into your Forge World."
He watched the great sage Heisen salute with pretended calmness, and in the whistling wind, Hades saw the waiting people farther away begin to cheer.
As Hades inspected the planet, he could feel the expectations of these "low-level" people towards him.
The skitarii's cautious gazes, the sage's self-proclaimed covert tracking, people following him as if all they had to do was follow him.
A sudden shout came from the crowd in the distance.
"God! Please give this land a name!"
This voice was an offense from a "low-level" sage. Hades saw Heisen tremble violently and was about to apologize to Hades.
Hades raised his hand, signaling Heisen to stop. He asked softly,
"Haisen... Are you willing to fulfill the sage's wish?"
Hades watched with amusement as Heisen's indicator light flashed wildly, and the final answer was naturally yes.
Hades smiled, and he raised his voice over the wind,
"My brave warriors who seek the truth!"
Hades shouted, his voice cutting through the cold wind,
"You have shown me your determination and will. In this chaotic vortex star field, you are the light. Let the light of human rationality shine again on this land - Faos, this planet is called Faos!"
"Fauos!!!"
The crowd erupted in thunderous cheers.
Faos, the first day of Genesis, that day, the gods brought light, that day, the believers' beams of rescue light tore through the dark clouds.
Hades smiled. He would never forget the day when he looked up and saw the first Titan drawing a beam of light across the sky.
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After obtaining permission from Hades, Salem Forge World began to transform the entire planet with extremely high efficiency.
Half of the sages returned to the main forge world of Salem to mobilize large-scale construction machinery, while the other half followed Hades to plan the future of Faos.
The first thing they needed to consider was the cage that bound the Nightbringer.
Between the four pillars of black stone, arcs of electricity crackled like human screams. Hades pondered over how to deal with this star god. Finally, he decided to give the fragment to Phaos for safekeeping.
The prerequisite is that the Emperor and Malcador do not ask him for this Star God fragment.
Hades' reason for doing this was quite simple. If he decided to take the Star God fragment with him and place it on the ship, it would be difficult for Hades to say whether the warp jump would have an impact on these buildings which were mainly made of black stone - not to mention that the ship's state was not stable.
And Hades had no need to take this fragment away. There are currently only two relatively stable uses for the Necrons' hyperdimensional cube maze. One is to release the Nightbringers to fight, and the other is to sustainably transport energy outward.
Considering that this maze suffered some damage during the battle between Hades and the Nightbringer... Hades has no plans to release this entity again in the short term.
It would be better to stay here to provide energy to the sages of Salem and provide them with a more stable physical space.
At the same time, Hades was sure that the overall chaotic state of the Maelstrom was just enough to cover up the trace of this fragment, but if he took it out... he would probably attract the attention of other Necrons.
Although he himself is a Necron trap.
Hades pondered as he casually rubbed his index finger and thumb together, and a faint, barely noticeable emerald green static light appeared.
The first thing to revive was the burning green lightning that could be wrapped around the black armor for show.
So far, Hades' main application of this is to open a black area to darken the entire field while flashing lightning to create a sense of coolness.
No one could help but be amazed at Hades's coolness in such a scene. With the emperor's red electric eyes, and the black domain and lightning special effects, Hades was the most pretentious one in the whole process.
Hades thought boredly that he now had one more flashing special effect than Mortarion, who also had the field transformation special effect.
… Ahem, if we delve deeper into its actual combat value, Hades thought about it and found that he could control lightning to appear on any mechanical, metal, or black stone product around him.
He could destroy or briefly control these machines. The arcs would also enchant the weapons, and the effect was... similar to high-temperature burning? The metal began to slowly melt under the arcs.
Hades poked his face with his fingertips (after all, this was the only place not covered with armor), and green lightning flashed by like static electricity. Unlike the high temperature effect, these lush flashes gave people a cold feeling.
Hades called a few other people over for this, and their feedback was cold, not hot.
After a long period of lightning, the metal will completely melt into liquid, and Hades can manipulate the liquid metal and shape it into the shape he wants.
But after trying several times, Hades decisively chose to give up for the time being. A relatively regular rectangle was his limit, and he could only make something like a brick.
Hades held the brick in his hand and fell into deep thought.
... not really... no
These liquid metals can also automatically wrap metal wounds. Hades found a few old cars for experiments. Specifically, they automatically connected broken wires, performed simple soldering on chips, and wrapped thickened armored shields.
In addition, Hades can automatically sense the level and status of all machinery within his sight.
It is worth mentioning that the machines with organic souls have two attitudes towards Hades.
Hades could feel that some machine souls would completely submit to him, while others would try to escape, and at this time Hades' control over them would decrease.
Hades deduced that, although the God of All Machines was a subspace-like existence, Hades himself possessed fragments of the physical Void Dragon, so the subspace machine soul in essence might be hostile to him
Those who surrendered to Hades chose to believe the God of All Things' side.
Hades didn’t know what those machine spirits were thinking, but it didn’t matter. It wasn’t a problem to pass through the black domain.
But... if the machine soul has the potential to resist Hades' ability, then is it only the machine soul that can do this, or can any machine with self-awareness do it
Hades is not sure about this for the time being because he can't find the experimental subject.
Hades suddenly remembered the hot-tempered old car he had met on Mars, but he didn't know what the old car would think of Hades treating its kind like this.
In other words, Hades' currently awakened Void Dragon ability can greatly enhance his own mechanical forces on the battlefield, while interfering with the enemy's mechanical forces.
He can use lightning to command and interfere, and he can also use liquid metal to replenish his own blood.
In summary, it's a supporting position, but when the liquid metal accumulates to a certain amount on the field... Hades believes that he can reproduce the glory of fighting Nightbringer before, although he was also hiding between Angron and Titan at that time, and only stabbed Nightbringer with a knife at the last moment.
But... that blow seemed to have given Hades something.
Hades recalled the scene at that time. When he was trapped in the state of the Void Dragon fragment, Hades was completely [unable to sense] life. He could only judge the battle situation through the machinery around the warriors.
And after this blow, Hades could feel [life].
No, that's not a very compromising description.
The correct statement should be that Hades can feel the existence that is not yet [dead].
What he sensed was [death], not [life].
Apart from that there was nothing else, and Hades didn't notice that the darkness around him had grown a little darker.
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The Warp whispers that the existence of the physical side is slowly rising.
That is not simply [Anti-Subspace], but the real [Physical Side].
The dark path comes to an abrupt end, and the arrogant ones destroy their own path.
No need to be kind.
He must bear the consequences of his own actions alone.
No more… 3k!
(End of this chapter)