The flames of candles and braziers flickered around the strategy room.
The light emanating from it illuminates the statues on the wall and the shadows left by the staff walking around.
The flickering statue looked somewhat gloomy.
They watched the emperor's servants working diligently, and used their eyes to urge them to work in this great cause.
Cherubim flew through the air holding incense burners, the sounds of prayers emanated from built-in brass speakers, and hundreds of different hymns were chanted in a variety of beautiful melodies.
The fragrant smoke was stirred by the air currents created by their flight, forming whirlpools.
The staff walked around the holographic projections.
The pale or light green light reflected on their pale faces embedded with various mechanical prostheses.
From time to time, the sound of discussion could be heard, or a few orders were given to the waiting robot servants to complete.
The Lord of Macragge sits on the throne once held by his Primarch father.
The throne is located in the center of the strategy room, highlighting its transcendent status.
Many parts of Calgar's body have undergone mechanical transformation.
The mechanical prosthetic eye, forged with the empire's most advanced technology, radiated a red glow.
His strong and powerful body conceals infinite strength, and no one would doubt that he can destroy a world with ease.
The light of the candle shone on his granite-like face.
The members of his War Council stood around the strategic table in front of the throne, discussing strategic arrangements and troop deployments on multiple battlefields.
Representatives of the Sisters of Battle, Astra Militarum generals, emissaries of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the Librarians stood at the end of the table.
This is a war involving billions of lives and many dimensions of time and space.
A vast world with rich resources is just one of the nodes.
The fate of the individual is infinitely minimized, or even not worth mentioning.
Those powerful lives felt despair because their supreme power, which was displayed with all its might, seemed extremely weak in the face of an unimaginable war.
Those idiots are like praying mantises in front of rolling traffic. They have developed muscles with clear lines and terrifying contours, but they will still be ruthlessly crushed.
Calgar took over Anville's data report.
As the Empire's cross-universe war began, the cooperation between the Eldar and humans became increasingly close.
The Eldar are a psionic technological race.
Although humans are powerful at present, from the perspective of spiritual evolution alone, they are actually not as powerful as the elves.
The Empire has a systematic understanding of the Warp, but it is still lacking in practice. It is not like the Eldar, who can manipulate psychic energy at will to do things for them.
Psionics is just a name for the use of warp energy.
It can also be called psionic energy, Taoist rhyme, Qi, aura, magic and so on.
No matter what it is called, it will not change its idealistic nature.
The power of psychic powers depends on the amount of warp energy, also known as the ether, that an individual can call upon.
As we all know, there is a veil between reality and the warp.
The Veil is the boundary that separates reality from the Warp.
If the veil did not exist, the real universe would be mixed with the subspace from the moment it was born.
It is precisely because of the existence of the curtain that the real universe can exist in the true sense.
All supernatural means, including witchcraft, magic, and spiritual practice.
They all have to wear down the veil to allow the energy of the warp to flow into reality so that those extraordinary abilities can take effect.
When this veil becomes strong, the laws of physics will be perfected and it will become difficult for people to call upon the energy of the subspace.
The influence of subspace energy on the real universe will be weakened.
In the heavens, some civilized races call this world the Dharma Ending Age.
When the veil is weakened, the laws of physics are distorted by the Warp, and it becomes easy for people to call upon the energy of the Warp.
The influence of subspace energy on the real universe will be strengthened.
Some races call it mythical revival.
When Abaddon destroyed Cadia and caused the Great Rift to run through the galaxy, it could actually be said to be a mythical era to some extent.
As the number of psychics increases, anyone can awaken their psychic talents.
Releasing a few bolts of lightning and fire is as easy as eating and drinking water.
The immortal non-living beings can walk in the real world at no cost.
To those ignorant people, isn’t this era still a mythical era
If you are a little more ambitious, you can just shout "My destiny is in my own hands", find those witchcraft spells and the titles of those gods from those mythological books, and then get a response through mysterious rituals, embarking on the path to transcendence.
Those legends are not groundless.
If you keep thinking about it, there will be an echo in the subspace.
Karga took a look at the report and took in dozens of pages of information.
"Allowing those guys to control psychic energy at will is indeed a big problem. The speed of conquering the universe will be slowed down by at least 60%." A mechanical sage said based on the results predicted by the data model: "Too slow a speed will definitely attract the attention of the Holy Emperor. We have received most of the empire's military support. If we can't show enough results, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the public."
The words of the Mechanical Sage made Calgar feel a little pressured.
Giving this task to him instead of to other Primarchs was enough to prove how much the Holy Emperor valued him.
As long as he is not a fool, he can use the resources at hand to get the honor of being the first to conquer the universe.
Such an honor was enough for the empire's historians to publish several history books about him.
His deeds will probably be sung in various colleges of the empire.
When learning his historical chapters, the imperial students probably had to write a seven or eight hundred word reflection.
But all this is not without cost.
It depends on whether he can successfully conquer Universe 04.
If he failed, the imperial history books would record that he was arrogant and had not achieved any results.
"We have to stop this etheric wind." Calgar said, "Strengthen the curtain between reality and the warp, making it more difficult for those creatures to mobilize the energy of the warp."
"If the Lord has any need, perhaps you can allow me to introduce some of my latest research results." The Mechanical Sage Regula stood up, and the sound of mechanical gears turning came from his bloated mechanical body.
His legs were gone, replaced by piston-driven insect-like mechanical limbs.
Mechanical tentacles slid out of Regula's body and connected to the humming servo skull that was suspended in the air.
When he wanted to speak, the sound would come out from those servoskulls.
Calgar was somewhat disgusted with Regula's behavior.
The sound produced by the vocalizer built into the throat was much more pleasing to the eye than it is now.
"What research results?" asked Karga.
"That is a restraint device for the use of supernatural powers. After studying the exorcist dead zone, I made some improvements to it. It can greatly weaken the ether wind and ensure the minimum demand of creatures for the subspace."
Any intelligent creature with a soul has a need for the Warp.
The soul needs nourishment from the subspace in order to grow.
So far, the Imperium knows of only one race that can completely escape the Warp, and that is the Necrons.
The question is whether the Necrons are even a race at all.
The Necrons are an echo of the past, truly soulless beings.
Even if they are completely isolated from the subspace, it will not have any impact on them.
The soul-exorcising dead zone they built can make a certain range of the subspace dead silent and turn the surging ocean of ether into a pool of stagnant water.
Even demons cannot be active within the range of the Exorcist Death Zone.
Any supernatural means cannot be used in the dead zone to exorcise spirits.
However, this method will have an impact on humans and even any creature with a soul.
It will cause life to gradually fall into the despair and pain of losing self-awareness, until it falls into a fugue state, and finally suffers irreversible soul death, leaving behind a soul without flesh and blood.
Regula studied the various devices of the Dead Zone and learned the technical knowledge required for the entire plan from the Star God - the Void Dragon.
The Exorcist works through a massive array of Blackstone Spires.
Blackstone is a very special material. The positive pole can strengthen the subspace, and the negative pole can suppress the subspace.
The obelisk made of black stone can somehow emit Geller waves, which is the energy that makes up the Geller field.
The Geller Field is an important barrier that allows Imperial ships to safely pass through the Warp.
Ghelebo can be used to repair the veil, making it difficult for those so-called extraordinary beings to pry open the power of the warp.
It makes spells that can be used at will become extremely difficult to use.
This is also the principle of the equipment currently most commonly used by the Empire to suppress extraordinary people.
But such an approach would also cause harm to the users of the empire.
People cannot stay next to those devices for long to avoid their souls being exhausted.
Regula improves on this premise.
It can suppress the subspace to the greatest extent while ensuring the survival of normal creatures without any interference.
He also gave it a name that was in line with the views of the indigenous creatures - the Dharma Ending Age.
As the name suggests, after turning on this device, it will curb the ether wind in the real universe, strengthen the barrier, and make those with psychic talents unable to sense the subspace and have no way to use psychic power.
Using such a device, all the worlds in the universe can be driven back to the feudal age.
No matter how powerful those indigenous creatures are, it will be of no use if they cannot pry open the subspace, and then they cannot use those extraordinary powers.
"By building such a ring device, we can control the etheric wind within a range of 10,000 light years and repair the curtain between reality and the subspace." Rigula stretched out a mechanical arm and displayed his scientific research results on the holographic projection on the strategic table. "This thing will not affect ordinary people. Of course, in order to ensure that the psychics of the empire can still play a role. I have also reserved a backdoor so that the psychics of the empire can release their psychic energy through special devices."
"Those enemies who don't have their own dedicated devices will find it difficult to mobilize the energy of the warp and will no longer be able to perform sorcery and magic."
Calgar looked at the ring device in the holographic projection.
It was a gigantic celestial creation.
It consists of an inner ring and an outer ring.
The outer ring has a diameter of 60,000 kilometers, which is larger than the diameter of a planet.
It is thirty to fifty kilometers thick and more than one hundred kilometers wide.
It can be considered a small world.
There are six giant spokes in the middle that connect to the inner ring in the center, acting as energy conductors.
Once activated, it can form a Geller resonance with the subspace, strengthening the veil between reality and illusion.
Karga fell into deep thought for a moment.
Building such a giant structure is not a difficult task for today's empire.
The Empire's space particle excavator can extinguish a star in its prime, dismember it, and obtain various precious materials through directed fusion reactions.
The extinguished stars will be devoured bit by bit by the Empire's mining forces.
Through specific smelters, massive amounts of materials needed by the empire are extracted.
Giant mining ships can cut entire planets apart, and countless Cogito mining machines will be sent out to use their mechanical prostheses to collect precious minerals.
Other elements will be mined by giant machines and sent directly to the furnace factory, where they will be melted, sorted, and recast. Once everything is completed, giant metal pipes thousands of meters long will transport the materials that have completed preliminary processing to transport ships and send them to designated casting worlds.
All elements of the planet will be completely devoured, even the air and water will be collected and sent to agricultural worlds or hive worlds.
The Imperium eats more thoroughly and cleanly than the Tyranids.
The Tyranids would at least leave bare rock behind, but the Empire would cut and recycle the rock itself to build warships or other void structures.
Seeing that Calgar was wavering, Regula continued to introduce his plan.
"There is another benefit to building the Age of the End. It will resonate with other similar devices. The more devices there are, the more territories can be controlled, and the stronger the amplification will be. In the end, it will even form an unbreakable confinement, making it difficult for the subspace to interfere. At that time, all myths and legends will become the past and history, and Universe 04 will become the Empire's fortress and bastion against the Chaos Gods."
These words completely moved Karga.
Before he came, the Holy Emperor bluntly stated that he wanted to leave a retreat for the Empire in Universe 04.
Obviously, there is such a plan.
"Then let's do that." Calgar said, "Build Universe 04 into a fortress that cannot be interfered with by the subspace and is used to fight against Chaos creatures."
Mechanical Sage-Regula smiled.
Imagine what an achievement it would be if you could build a fortress like that yourself.
The other colleagues must have their eyes widened!
Regula couldn't wait to see the reverence and self-contempt in their stupid, mechanical eyes.
They will know who is the best and most qualified sage to stand in the Hall of Truth.
... ...
With Calgar's authorization, the next thing became much easier.
Regula returned to his mechanical ark.
The sages standing in the same camp as him were busy debugging various equipment or supervising the work of the slaves.
There are various theoretical factions within the Mechanicus.
Kohl, Sigma, Kren, Proyin and others are all leaders of their respective factions.
Regula is also the leader of one of the factions.
All sages compete for the favor of the Holy Emperor.
Who will enter the Hall of Truth of the God of All Things is an undecided matter.
Every wise leader feels that he has the qualifications.
Regula was no exception, and he gained great fame by improving the Titans and fighters.
But if you want to rely on this to suppress the sages of other factions, it would be a bit disappointing.
This Dharma Ending Age will make those wise men feel inferior.
The Empire will truly gain a fortress universe that is not disturbed by chaos.
This is an unimaginable progress in the fight against chaos.
A thin mist filled the passage of the mechanical ark.
Buzzing filters are constantly pumping carbon dioxide and argon into the channels, simulating the air of the forge world.
Regula greedily grabbed the air through the filter. Every breath and every inhalation seemed like a baptism from the God of All Things - the Holy Emperor.
The hard-working machine souls maintain the temperature changes in every area of the mechanical ark.
This room was filled with the raging heat of the forge, while that room remained comfortably cool.
Regula went straight back to his laboratory.
Several sages were busy doing tests there, trying to dig out more secrets from those indigenous creatures.
"You will all be punished one day. When my master comes out of seclusion, he will kill you all. He is the most powerful land immortal in Jiuzhou and the only fifteenth realm expert in the world."
The one shouting at Regula was an indigenous creature belonging to the humanoid beast race.
These indigenous creatures are not much different from humans in appearance.
It has two hairy legs and hands with only three fingers.
Its head is somewhat similar to that of a wild boar, its skin is hard and black, and its body is covered with stiff hair.
The fangs in its mouth are as white as jade and appear to be glowing coldly.
Regula and others called this race Amonroe.
The Amon Luo they captured was the leader of a group that rebelled against the Empire.
The other party tried to lead a raid on the Empire's research team, but was eventually captured and brought back to the Mechanical Ark.
This Amon Luo is known as the most beautiful Amon Luo in Jiuzhou. He is also one of the ten strongest geniuses in Jiuzhou. He comes from a holy place called Yaochi.
There are countless suitors.
If the path to immortality had not been cut off, they would all have the qualifications to become immortals.
Regula didn't care about Amonro's crazy shouting. They were just a bunch of damn aliens. There was nothing to worry about.
Such threats were of no use to him.
Regula walked straight to the platform, and many sages spontaneously stopped their work and looked at him.
"Lord Karl has agreed to the Dharma Ending Era Plan. Please complete the relevant test reports as soon as possible. After review, we will start this project."
He told the many sages the results of this meeting through binary code.
"Praise the God of All Things."
"Praise the Holy Emperor."
The sages sent out binary signals to express their inner joy.
The Dharma Ending Age Plan will be the key to their victory in completely crushing other factions.
After a pause, Regula said, "Let's use the Amon Luo clan as experimental subjects to test the power of the Dharma Ending Device and see if we can completely cut off their ability to use psychic energy."
PS: Let me say here that the levels of those races are set by themselves, and they like to say what they are. This has nothing to do with the combat power of the Empire. The setting of Universe 04 is the ruins left by the extraordinary civilization. Many races can't even go to space. They say they are gods and saints. That is their own value system and has nothing to do with the combat power of this book. The Empire calls Guilliman omniscient and omnipotent, but Guilliman is not omniscient and omnipotent. I hope everyone can distinguish them.
The empire is competing against a truly extraordinary civilization, which will only be written after level 6 or 7 technology is unlocked.