Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 55 02.0055: ‘The Lady Serving the God of All Machines’

Horatio rested well that night, and it was a quiet and stable feeling that he had never felt since he came to this world.

In the morning, after a brief meal and thanks, the shuttle engine roared and quickly rose into the air.

“Mr. Horatio is really impressive, mother.” Thei smiled with narrowed eyes.

“Of course, he is excellent. But it is not worth your too much emotion now, dear.

He still has a long way to go and it is also very dangerous. The more you like him, the more uncomfortable you will be when you learn of his suffering. This is my personal experience.”

The lady sighed, smiled bitterly and touched her daughter’s soft hair: “You are still young and don’t understand these.”

“If he died simply, I wouldn’t care about him, mother.”

The girl opened her eyes and spoke cruel words that were very consistent with the Warhammer world with a bright smile.

"Only a strong man is qualified to stand by my side and shoulder to shoulder with me, but I think Mr. Horatio has this potential."

"Oh~ Of course, dear, there is no more powerful and outstanding girl on the whole planet than you."

The beautiful woman smiled and took her daughter's hand and walked towards the palace-like official residence.

"Only the strongest man is worthy of the best you.

As for whether Mr. Horatio can become such a strong man, I think time will give us the answer."

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"The sun is shining, it's a good day for reporting!" Brigadier General Peru said happily.

Horatio saw the full picture of the Gothic University in the sky.

It covers an area of ​​at least 8,000 square kilometers, and the largest university on earth is less than one-tenth of it.

There are huge artificial oceans, forests and mountains and other various landforms on the campus. The six colleges of Gothic University are all located here.

The colleges are connected by huge corridors, and each college has a different planning and design style.

Ravensburg College is like a super-enlarged version of the combination of Cambridge, Oxford and Warwick. The architecture adopts the style of classical Baroque mixed with Gothic, which is magnificent and full of historical and academic sense.

From a high altitude, Plymmawr College for Girls looks like a castle courtyard in the fairy mythology, with a symmetrical structure, magnificent and magnificent, white walls and golden tiles, and extraordinary luxury.

The cathedral in the Saint-Savavin Seminary is soaring into the sky, all Gothic buildings. Although it looks monotonous and old-fashioned, the huge main building and countless sculptures make up for it.

The Abyss Port Polytechnic Institute is filled with smoke, and various huge machines, both civilian and military, are lined up on the yard, and there are various laboratories scattered in various blocks. Rather than being casual in planning, it is better to say that the sages and priests inside have spontaneously divided the territory and school districts.

The Gothic School of Political Science and Economics is next to the Planet's Ministry of the Interior. The two are essentially connected, and the bureaucrats can call on the attendants who are studying inside to help with free work at any time.

The styles of Saint Abridal Loyalty College vary from campus to campus. The Navy Campus is the largest, with a Gothic red brick building. On the huge Honor Square, there is even a 1.5-kilometer-long Cobra-class destroyer with a fin width of 300 meters, fixed on the surface for students of various majors to learn on board.

Even the smallest warship in the Imperial Navy looks so huge and magnificent with the surface buildings as a reference.

Although it is small (not small at all!), it has everything. There is a surprisingly large (relative to ground buildings) light macro turret at the bow, a torpedo tube the size of a teaching building, a side-by-side twin plasma engine, and four huge horizontal T-shaped cooling fins that are very iconic, just to help the warship park stably on the reinforced ground.

"Get ready, Mr. Horatio. We will land in one minute. Put on your hat and tidy up your ribbon. Welcome to the cradle of the Gothic Fleet!"

"Sir Peru, isn't this the Loyalty School?"

"Wouldn't it be useless if such good teaching equipment and teachers were only provided to the Loyalty School?" Brigadier General Edward laughed heartily:

"Among your classmates, there are also preparatory students from the Officer Preparatory School.

These people are not Loyalty Schools. Their parents are middle and low-level officers, naval sergeants, warrant officers, civil officials and all those who serve the Imperial Navy. I hope my children can join the school system established by the Navy.

After all, not everyone can send their children directly to the ship as a candidate officer, and each ship does not have so many places.

The only difference between preparatory students and Zhongsi Marines is that if the academic points do not meet the requirements, they will not be transferred to the Zhongsi Storm Force. Instead, they will be awarded the corresponding military rank after graduation and assigned to the ship as a full-time sergeant.

Military preparatory is also the only chance for these children to compete for the quota of naval candidate officers, so they can roll up their sleeves. "

Zhongsi Academy consists of four parts: Zhongsi Training School, Sergeant Training School, Officer Preparatory School, and Military Academy.

Zhongsi Training School is for closed training of Zhongsi under the age of 12, and preliminary screening.

Sergeant Training School is equivalent to a military middle school.

Officer Preparatory School is equivalent to university preparatory + junior college/public courses. The junior college here refers to Western-style vocational education. Because officers are military professions, Western-style military academies are all junior colleges.

The Military Academy is a university professional course + postgraduate training model.

The shuttle landed on the tarmac.

"Lord Peru, everything is ready." Lord Sterling's captain, who had been waiting here for a long time, stepped forward to greet him.

"Thank you for your hard work, Captain Sterling."

Horatio followed the two into the tallest main building that looked like a bridge.

When he stepped into the building, the solemnity of the Gothic cathedral came over him. The three of them walked up the spiral staircase and stood in front of a huge room. The door slowly opened, revealing a dark and cold room.

"Please come in." Brigadier General Edward said.

"Where is this?"

"The place where the loyal heir surgery is performed." Captain Sterling replied.

The moment Horatio stepped into the door, the door slowly closed again.

He looked around. In the middle of the room were two rows of tall and magnificent Roman columns, on which were hung banners embroidered with the imperial double-headed eagle.

The golden and red carpet in the middle formed the way to the surgical altar. The sunlight shone on the red carpet through the cold-toned glazed windows on the walls on both sides, as if inviting visitors to come forward.

Horatio looked forward and saw a lonely figure standing on the altar.

His eyesight was good enough for him to see the person clearly, but because it was too inconsistent with the stereotype in his cognition, he blinked his eyes and wanted to confirm again.

In the end, he was sure that he was not mistaken. It was a tall, slender, upright woman holding the axe of the mechanical god and wearing the red robe of the mechanical order.

She stood beside the life detection contemplator array on the altar, waiting for his arrival, and two surgical servo skulls floated around her body.

"Nice to meet you, individual Horatio... Oh, sorry, Mr. Horatio Cochrane. I am Lati-EB2A1, both an engineer and a genetic assistant. I will be responsible for your surgery this time. Please come forward."

The woman's voice sounded smiling, gentle and crisp. It was clear enough even from a long distance. It was obviously blessed by a special high-level sound array.

[Lati-EB2A1? The mechanical priest who created the ant bull specimen? She is responsible for my surgery? ? ]

Horatio felt a little hairy.

As Horatio got closer to her, he could look at her more clearly.

The red robe on the priest was a relatively new set of holy vestments, and together with the brand new Mechanic Axe in his hand, it showed that this person was either a newly promoted priest who had just been promoted from an apprentice, or had a strong obsession with cleanliness.

Of course, Horatio felt that it was more likely that it was both.

The face under the crimson hood had replaced the upper right half, replaced by a cold artificial eye with a red glow;

Her face was thin and long, and the modified part still could not conceal the mature charm of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was smooth and white, and her facial features were three-dimensional and delicate. It was impossible to imagine that she could be associated with the Mechanic Order.

The only remaining brown pupil stared at Horatio intently, with an expressionless face, like a flesh-and-blood portrait sculpture embedded with pipes.

"Zhongzi, I believe you are ready to sacrifice yourself for the Emperor."

When Horatio approached, she unexpectedly smiled, and the expression on her face could even be described as 'sweet'.

It was also at this time that Horatio discovered that she was not looking at him, but staring at his metal hand.

"Hello, honorable Father Lati."

Horatio saluted her respectfully: "I am ready to be loyal to the Emperor."

"The Emperor praises your courage and dedication."

While speaking, she raised the mechanical hands installed on the human arm and saluted Horatio with the gears - the shape was like a variation of the Sky Eagle Salute, with the fingers spread apart.

The two bright red steel prosthetic limbs behind her pinched the two sides of the holy vestment and saluted him like a lady.

The fusion between the human body and steel, the running-in between humanity and machinery, the extremely impactful contrast surprised Horatio.

As she moved, a strange incense mixed with a faint smell of engine oil floated into Horatio's nose. He was sure that it was emitted from the mechanical priest.

Its fragrance was different from the strong and pungent holy incense burners commonly used by the state religion. The olfactory experience it brought was very... strange.

The smell was very light, like exhaust gas, vanilla, kerosene, sandalwood, musk, plant medicine, floral fragrance, engine oil and many other raw materials, which were burned layer by layer in order, and finally the pungent smells were discarded, leaving only the industrial incense on top.

It's hard to say whether humans like it or not, but it's estimated that the machine spirits will like it very much.

Horatio looked at the lady in front of him - he called her that for the time being, although he was not sure that there was really a difference between men and women in the Mechanic Order.

It must be said that her facial expression management ability is quite excellent, and she always maintains that warm and friendly smile.

But after thinking about it carefully, these actions have instead created an unrealistic and huge sense of separation from her identity.

From his understanding of the Mechanicians before he crossed over, the descriptions he got were simply a collection of stereotyped negative impressions.

Selfish, dull, crazy, weird, rigid, isolated, cold, autistic, arrogant...

But the lady in front of him did not fit these negative words at all.

Whether this was an appearance or a reality, Horatio did not know.

Two mechanical servants walked slowly towards Horatio. As servants of this female priest, they were dressed very uniquely.

They looked like exquisite male and female servants respectively, and the clothes on their bodies were not cheap. It was not difficult to guess that this mechanical priest must have been born in a wealthy upper nest and made the choice to serve the God of All Machines.

He opened his arms, and the mechanical servants took off his clothes in an orderly manner. The movements were gentle and coherent, and they were not as clumsy as the mechanical servants he had seen before.

"As a mechanical priest, you look quite different, ma'am."

She turned her head smoothly with a slight sense of machinery, tilted her head slightly and smiled at Horatio, as if she saw through his confusion.

"I like this title. No one has called me that for a long time."

The red-robed woman smiled even more brightly, and her only original eye narrowed into a slit:

"Even though I am a mechanical priest, the way of etiquette still runs through my heart. I will treat individuals equally in etiquette.

The great cause of serving the God of All Machines does not conflict with the life of a lady. The holy and wise Ohm Messiah is all-encompassing. He also favors those who can seamlessly synchronize the two like gears."

Looking at her overly warm and friendly smile, and then connecting it to the intelligent biological specimens she made by hand, Horatio was a little afraid.

-Simple people cannot become qualified mechanical priests, they can only become mechanical servants.

"Please lie down, the operation is about to begin."

The female priest couldn't wait to stroke Horatio's iron arm.

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