Infinite Metaverse

The Forge World of Atal Median.

Airport, inside a mechanical ark.

Hieronymus Gant, the governing sage, stood alone in the center of the laboratory, holding a data tablet between his exquisite mechanical tentacles. He was looking down silently, with six green mechanical eyes shining with light of unknown meaning.

The picture on the data tablet was a little shaken, and the camera was always facing the sky, shooting from an upward angle. This video was taken from the mechanical eye of a Skitarii Alpha, and the recorded footage was a titan battle on the forge world of Al Yes, a fierce battle between the Jaeger Legion and the Sanchen Legion.

In the rugged and sloping valley, a Warlord-class Titan is slowly approaching a Predator-class Titan. This warrior-level Titan was scratching the ground like a wild beast, exuding a strange feeling. Even across the screen, the Control Sage felt a hint of animal instinctive fear of danger. One can imagine how frightened the Predator-class Titan crew would be when facing this thing. Then something even more surprising happened. The warrior-class Titan raised its head and let out a deafening howl.

Titan can actually scream?

"Cogs and gears. On Mars, what did these guys do to the sacred engine?"

The ruling sage talks to himself.

The scene in the video continues to play.

The Warlord-class Titan is approaching menacingly and quickly. Before the Predator Titan even raised its weapon to take aim, it was hit in the chest. The Warlord Titan's shoulder pushed against the cockpit, and the Predator Titan was violently impacted. The two Titans were pushing each other, fighting like wild beasts.

Facing the Predator-class Titan, the War-General Titan has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and weight, shaking the Predator back continuously. The war general swung its fallen angel-shaped power claw, first breaking a pipe, and then tearing an arm... It was extremely ferocious and violent, but it felt like it was brainless - not only the ruler of the sage, but also the predator-class titan in the video Also realized this. The medium-sized titan moved sideways to dodge, neutralizing the momentum of the warrior-class titan. The large Titan couldn't react in time and rushed forward, only to stumble and had to raise its power claws to hold on to the cliff to prevent it from falling completely to the ground.

Smart choice, beautiful operation.

The ruling sage couldn't help but praise the Predator-class Titan pilot crew. Although the Titans of the Jaeger Legion do not have the violent power blessed by the power of Chaos, they still have sense and they know how to adopt strategies, although this strategy is not enough to close the gap in combat power between large Titans and medium Titans.

The ruling sage is mentally prepared.

Prepare to see Reaver-class Titans die in action.

The large Titan, which had been reduced to some kind of demonic engine, immediately pulled its claws out of the rock wall, then turned around and chased after the Predator Titan. The Predator Titan was escaping along the steep mountain road, its mechanical claws clenched on the side of the mountain wall, only a hundred meters away from the depression below, and it was in a precarious position. In the video screen, Skitarii Alpha also turned around and ran wildly. The white snow drifts through the darkness, and the unfathomable ravine is visible.

As of now, all the scenes shown in the video are still within the expectations of the ruling sage. Even the strange Titan after the demon's corruption actually appeared was not the first time. The existence of these blasphemous machines has always been kept highly confidential by the Titan Order, but his status as the Dominant Sage allowed him to understand these secrets.

"boom--"

The screen was suddenly flooded with blue light.

The quality of Skitarii Alpha's mechanical prosthetic eye is certainly far superior to that of Skitarii Vanguard and Skitarii Rangers, but the mechanical prosthetic eye that recorded this scene still suffered from overexposure. Within two or three seconds, the entire Only blue and white horizontal stripes flickered and floated on the screen. When the electronic sensory components regained their vision and the picture refocused, the governing sage suddenly discovered...

The shoulders of the Warrior Titan disappeared.

The Demon Titan stood blankly on the cliff.

The missing shoulder revealed charred and melted precision parts and wiring pipes. There were also some disgusting substances that looked like fleshy growths between the cables and gears. The next second, a giant black long tail with thorns flashed across the screen.

"Snapped!"

The Demon Titan's head was blown away.

The headless fuselage erupted with an inhuman, twisted wail.

What it is! ?

The ruling sage was shocked and quickly looked back at the scene. The video speed slowed down to extremely slow, and the images flashed frame by frame. The long black tail was fixed in the center of the screen, similar to the tail of some kind of reptile, with thorns on one side ranging from large to small, and those thorns were abnormal. It was sharp and easily cut through the structure between the Demon Titan's head and fuselage.

Skitarii Alpha was also surprised.

Soon, the overall image of the instigator appeared on the screen. It was a black giant beast like a mountain. It easily climbed over the ridge, its body almost filled the valley, and the snow, gravel and sand rolled down the cliff. The monster's eyes were fixed on the surviving Predator Titan, with a strong murderous intent in its sharp eyes. The Predator Titan was so frightened that it stayed in place and did not dare to move. However, the monster seemed to have received some instructions and ignored this Taichung. Titan, turned around and left.

Why is this?

Recovering from the shock of the monster.

The ruling sage quickly noticed this anomaly.

Why doesn't it attack the Reaver-class Titan?

With a thought in the mind of the ruling sage, the video freezes the moment when the monster's body appears. It zooms in, zooms in, and zooms in. A clear figure appears above the monster: a space warrior wearing black gold power armor and holding a chainsaw sword.

Hiss... Iron Buddha Battle Group!

The ruling sage still remembers this color scheme.

Why are they again?

The matter of the Four-Armed Titan is not over yet - Sage Xiao Fei of the Phaeton Forge World is very resolute. This technical priest who was born in the Fire Bee Legion has no respect for Mars and is tight-lipped about the technology related to the Four-Armed Titan. He is neither willing nor willing to It is abhorrent to accept any form of negotiation or exchange. Now another black behemoth appears. Sage Gant is very suspicious that this black behemoth is the work of Quinto.

The ruling sage did not know Xiao Fei, because Xiao Fei was just a small sacred relic guard in the Fire Bee Legion, responsible for maintaining the Titans. But he knew Master Quinto. The two were former colleagues and members of the Mars Forge Council.

Master Quinto was also a well-known biological sage in the past, who controlled his own forging temple - otherwise the White Scar Primarch would not have sent someone to escort him back to Mars. Later, for some unknown reason, Quinto actually asked the foundry commander to dispatch him to station at a scientific research site in a remote star sector and serve as the foundry director there - yes, in the eyes of Martians, Phaeton is not a forging world at all. , it is a research station at best. Mars is the place closest to the God of All Machines. No one wants to go to that kind of wilderness unless they are relegated to exile.

Now it seems that this move...

It’s all just to avoid the scrutiny of the Forging Council!

"Quinto Anastasio..."

The ruling sage lowered his voice and said:

"Damn foreigners!"

It’s a four-armed titan and a black behemoth. What is the Phaeton Forging World studying? Even if the ruling sage is really slow, he can see at this moment that the Phaeton Forge World definitely has some special relationship with the Iron Buddha Chapter. Although Qingshan Khan is a master forger, the Iron Buddha Chapter is a sub-chapter of the White Scars, not a sub-chapter of the Iron Hands. They are not the kind of Space Marines who openly believe in the ways of the Ohm Messiah. The chapter's relationship with Mars is good, but limited.

The ruling sage stretched out a mechanical tentacle, with a micro laser cutting device at the end of his finger, and slowly carved out a line of small words on the metal table in front of him:

Qingshan·Khan.

The ruling sage thought silently.

This person will not be eliminated for a day.

His secrets are never safe.

The ruling sage raised his head, the mechanical prosthetic eye flashed, activating the intracranial wireless communication data connection:

"Come here, inform Skitarii Alpha, Freenos-361-A2, and ask him to come see me immediately."

"Confirm, Ruler Sage."

The servitor outside the door immediately transmitted the answer.

Freenos-361-A2 is the Skitarii Alpha who recorded the battle against the black behemoth.

Not long after, two servitor slaves with noble and gorgeous clothes and exquisite mechanical modifications walked in, leading a Skitarii Alpha. This Martian radiation soldier looks exactly like the Skitarii vanguard: wearing a gear-edged red robe and gray metal armor. The Skitarii pot-top helmet completely covers his face, except for the golden gear crown on top of the helmet. , reminding others of his identity as an Alpha squad leader.

Before entering the Mechanical Ark, Skitarii Alpha had unloaded all weapons. The three of them came to the governing sage, bowed and saluted, and simultaneously sent a message:

"Dear Lord Hieronymus Gant, the sage of command, the living embodiment of the wrath of the God of Machines, and the person in charge of the Army of God's Machines. I extend my highest respect to you."

The ruling sage raised a tentacle:

"Okay, no need to be polite...wait!"

The ruling sage suddenly stared at Skitarii Alpha, his three pairs of mechanical prosthetic eyes flashing continuously, his few remaining sparse eyebrows tightly knitted together, and he said solemnly:

"I'm reading your personal information tag. There's nothing wrong with your service experience. However, just three weeks ago, there were traces of tampering in your file information, a microscopic erasure of data and byte migration. The technique Be very careful... Unfortunately, I still scanned it."

After hearing the words of the ruling sage, the two seemingly unarmed servitors immediately opened their gorgeous robes, revealing a large number of unique weapons of the Mechanicum: arc hammer, Taser rod, radium. Pistols, high-frequency knives, short dart guns, gamma pistols... all pointed at Skitarii Alpha. The skitarii squad leader was immediately surrounded by guns.

The lab door opened quickly.

Two five-meter-tall Castellan intelligent robots walked in with a "dong dong dong" sound, their arms and the weapons on their left shoulders pointing condescendingly at Skitarii Alpha.

The scene became a little quiet for a while.

"You are trying to deceive a ruling sage in the data field! It's ridiculous. Your ignorance makes you arrogant. In my eyes, your flaws and loopholes are as obvious as oil on the circuit! Tell me, who are you and why do you want to enter? Mechanical Ark?”

The ruling sage asked sternly.

"Hehehehe..."

Skitarii Alpha laughed.

His gender on file was male, but the voice at the moment was clearly female. The Alpha squad leader was calm and calm as he slowly began to unbutton his armor and robe. The armor, red robe and shoulder pads fell to the ground, revealing his graceful figure wrapped in a tight-fitting black uniform. "Skitarii Alpha" finally raised his hand and took off his closed helmet, revealing a masked face without eyepieces and filled with can-shaped metal implants.

The ruling sage looked horrified and exclaimed:

"Assassin of Vanus!"

At the moment when the ruling sage lost his mind.

"Data flood erosion!"

The black-clothed assassin stared intently at the ruling sage.

"Crack! Crack!"

The two servitor slaves beside the Vanus assassin, as well as the two Castellan intelligent robots behind him, suddenly sparks and arcs appeared all over their bodies. The weapons in their hands were all out of control, trembling and unable to fire, and the circuits stank of burnt. Floating up, the jammed shell of the machine body bounced, and there were only two "pop" and "pop" sounds. The fully armed machine slave fell to the floor, and the intelligent control machine was also frozen and unable to move. The firepower surrounding the assassin was instantly lifted.

Only the ruling sage was still trying his best to raise his mechanical tentacles. The six mechanical prosthetic eyes of the Gant sage were running at high speed, his face was tense, and he squeezed out a voice intermittently:

"A mere assassin can't even think about defeating the Mecha's servants. Your trick... can only last... for a short moment! After I get out of trouble, you will die!"

The Vanus Assassins are the data masters of the Court of Assassins. They can mislead and eliminate enemies by intercepting communications and destroying signals. Some unfortunate assassination targets may even find that their weapons suddenly begin to target themselves. But these assassins are usually not the ones who carry out the assassinations themselves. They are often located in the rear, using their hacking abilities to track down the enemies of the Empire on the assassination list, and then hand them over to other assassins to perform tasks. Very few people can escape the attention of these typical data agents.

Time passed by second by second.

As the data battle intensifies.

The confidence of the ruling sages is greatly increased.

Although the Vanus Assassin is also very strong.

But after all, he is no match for the ruling sage!

The ruling sage Hieronymus Gant is not a mediocre person, and the Nemonix sage is just an exception. In the field of data, few people can surpass Mars.

"Uh-huh, really?"

The Vanus assassin chuckled.

At this moment, the figure on the left of the two machine servants lying on the floor with smoke all over his body suddenly changed and pulled, as if he was melting rapidly. In an instant, she transformed from a stiff machine servitor into a masked young girl wrapped in a tight-fitting black uniform, with a brown-red braid on her head that hung all the way down to her waist.

The assassin girl's two long legs were bent, her muscles were tense and bulging, and she suddenly kicked the ground with force. With a "pop", she jumped out in an instant at a speed comparable to that of an Astartes. A green straight-edged rapier made of an unknown mysterious metal was fixed on the outside of her wrist. Like a female leopard preying on prey, the blade turned into a black shadow and a green light and rushed towards the ruling sage.

The ruling sage was caught off guard.

"Uh-huh!"

The ruling sage had a large number of mechanical prosthetic modifications all over his body, but the moment he was touched by the strange green sword, there was no sound of fighting. It was extremely smooth, smooth and natural, and the blade easily cut open half of the technical priest's body. .

"Pap..."

The ruling sage fell to the ground in two halves.

"Callidus..."

The guttural vocal apparatus spits out the last word.

The body of the ruling sage collapsed and fell apart.

However, the assassin in black has not stopped yet.

The light of the knife flew rapidly in his hand, slicing through the body of the ruling sage in various directions. Every data storage core and every computing enhancement component were cut into scraps by the green blade. Not a single piece of mechanical prosthetic transformation survived.

"I am the daughter of Callidus."

The female assassin in black said:

"In the name of the Emperor I bring death."

This ended the sudden killing.

The Vanus assassin looked around the laboratory.

This was a carefully planned assassination operation. The ruling sage never thought that the tampering traces that appeared in the Skitarii Alpha information file were deliberately left by her in order to attract the attention of the ruling sage and make him focus on herself. Ignoring one of his servitor slaves, he had already been replaced by a Callidus assassin.

"Target confirmed dead."

The female assassin of Vanus said calmly:

"The mission is over, prepare to evacuate."

Suddenly, she found her teammates staring down at the experimental table next to the body of the ruling sage without moving.

"What’s wrong with you?"

The Vanus assassin asked in confusion.

"Nothing, I found an interesting name."

Callidus assassin said.

Her palm gently stroked the concave pattern etched on the metal table, which read "Qingshan Khan".

"Don't add unnecessary complications."

The Vanus Assassin warned:

"Let's go, before the guards on the Mechanical Ark react, we must evacuate here as soon as possible."

"OK."

Callidus assassin said softly.

…

Some may be able to escape the judgment of the Adeptus Adeptus, and even fewer may be able to stand up to the Imperial Guard and the Adeptus Astartes, but they will all eventually understand...

No one can resist the Court of Assassins.

——"Assassin's Court Second Edition Rule Book"

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Order of the Assassins: Operation Knight's Sorrow

Posted by: Action Mentor

Shipping method: Delivery by myself only

Date: █████

Location: █████

License Level: Vermilion

+Do not send+

+Please do not copy+

+Destroy after reading+

Sanction targets:

Hieronymus Gant, about 675 years old.

Logician, level super-rational person; Blacksmith, level master of source power; member of the Mars Forging Council (for complete titles, please see the purple-red level briefing materials, individually packaged). Three months ago in Terra time, Te was appointed by Forge Lord Zagreos Cain to serve as the commanding sage of all Mechanicus forces in the Iron Ring war zone until the end of the war.

Hieronymus Gant secretly contacted Nemonix Sage, a local Mechanicum sect in the world of Orestes Knights, the "Data Custody" sect (the technical priest has now been found to be a follower of Nurgle), Conspired to kill the Draconis family, a loyal imperial knight family, leading to the destruction of all members of the Draconis family. At the same time, the deployment of all Titan legions in the Iron Ring was leaked, causing heavy losses.

There is no sign that Hieronymus Gant has abandoned his loyalty to the Empire, but the interests of the Mechanicus and his personal interests are obviously higher than the interests of the Empire. His status means that his existence will greatly threaten the security of the Empire.

Security threat level: Very high

evidence:

Report from Grand Inquisitor Cid Nora.

Primary goal:

The Imperial Council authorized members of the Execution Squad to use all available means to eliminate Hieronymus Gant.

Secondary goals:

The Imperial Council approved the Execution Team to use all feasible means to mitigate the possible collateral damage caused by the death of the Dominant Sage, and try not to affect the operation of the Iron Ring War Zone.

+Action proves everything, the end does not matter the means+

+The command ends and is destroyed immediately+

…

It took less than five minutes after the death of the ruling sage.

This alerted the guards on the Mechanical Ark.

A large number of skitarii and technical priests flocked to his laboratory and found that the ruling sage himself had been reduced to a pile of mechanical debris, lying in a pool of blood and engine oil.

The Tech-Priest immediately began surveying the scene.

One detail at the scene of the incident is puzzling.

On the experimental platform of the Dominant Sage, the center of the metal tabletop was cut with some kind of sharp weapon, and there were a messy and dense scratches all over it. All the technical priests did not know what the scratches meant and what they meant, as if... they were trying to transfer some information. cover?

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