Warhammer III

After Tai Yue and Della left the Forging Temple, they quickly arrived near the volcanic furnace.

The Volcanic Forge was originally an extinct volcano. After the Adeptus Mechanicus decided to make this world a Forge World, the volcano was transformed into a steel factory.

As the metal material production base of the Styx Forge, it mainly produces the three most commonly used materials in the empire: adamantine, ceramic steel and plastic steel.

The lake in the center of the volcano no longer stores water, but molten metal, with temperatures exceeding 3,000 degrees Celsius year-round.

After the operation of the volcanic furnace steel factory, it became the main source of heat energy for the entire planet, which eventually melted the ice and snow covering the entire planet, indirectly making the temperature of the planet livable.

Therefore, many nests were built around the volcanic furnace. At the same time, in order to facilitate the body transformation of the followers of the Mechanicus, the mechanical transformation factory and the garrison fortress of the Skitarii were also here.

But now the metal lake has dried up, and the copper mirrors formed by the remaining solidified metal on the ground reflect the cold light.

Taiyue and Della followed the map provided by Grantham, the sage of the Mechanicum, and passed through a series of secret passages, finally arriving at the air-raid shelter nearly ten kilometers deep beneath the Skitarii fortress.

The two Gray Knight brothers stood opposite the Mechanicum Sage Grantham. Behind Grantham were more than 1,000 Skitarii, which was almost the number of Skitarii squadrons.

They were fully armed, with air filter masks on their heads. Various individual detectors scanned the surroundings, and they held slender arc rifles and arc hammers covered with spikes in their hands.

The blue-white electric current emitted by the arc rifle can burn a person's brain in an instant, and when the arc hammer is activated, the violent energy lightning surrounding it can make the enemy twitch to death.

The Skitarii are one of the most important armed forces of the Adeptus Mechanicus. As the infantry legion of the Adeptus Mechanicus, they tirelessly defend the Forge World and annihilate the enemies of the Om Messiah.

As powerful transformation warriors, the more mechanical components of their bodies, the higher their status in the Skitarii.

At the same time, neural synchronization implants allow Skitarii members to fight in perfect coordination and execute tasks in a strict and orderly manner.

Most importantly, each of them is permanently connected to the Adeptus Mechanicus via an invisible stream of information. Specifically, the Skitarii upload the military capabilities of their enemies to their masters on the battlefield, while the Tech-Priests The most effective combat data will also be downloaded to each Skitarii in order to adjust the progress of the defense mode in time and choose the most effective tactics.

"Glory to Om Messiah, we have been here for more than ten years, and finally we are waiting for the rescue of your Brother Astartes!"

The radiation-proof red robe of Grantham, the sage of the Mechanicus, was in tatters. His three electronic eyes took up most of his face. The green light reflected by the electronic spectacle lenses was incompatible with the surrounding gray walls.

"Grand Master, when we were investigating here, Sage Grantham discovered us first and asked us to go here."

Bruce explained that after Tai Yue sent over the encrypted message, he had been watching the Mechanicum Sage in front of him with vigilance.

"Your Majesty the God Emperor, Sage Grantham, please first explain in detail what happened to the planet."

Tai Yue is now not sure whether the person in front of him has betrayed the empire. Although this forging world is producing unknown psychic devices, it is possible that only the foundry director has defected to Chaos, and other related Mechanicus sages on the planet are not aware of it. .

Grantham did not refuse, he came to Taiyue, his left eye projected the previously recorded image, and the servo head connected to him began to introduce the situation:

The Eldar suddenly attacked the Styx Forge, alarms sounded everywhere, and the Eldar were everywhere.

They blew up the Forge Temple, destroyed the dock station and all the frigates.

In order to prevent the total destruction of the planet, we hid in this air-raid shelter.

This is a defense facility built by the Forge World. The molten metal in the volcanic furnace flows through the outer layer of the air raid shelter, forming an egg-shaped metal cage dozens of meters thick.

The spatial structure of the entire cage determines that external forces cannot open or destroy it, but we have left a secret passage inside, which is the route you just entered.

Without this air-raid shelter, all the followers of the God of Machines in the forging world might have been wiped out!

Taiyue listened carefully to Grantham's report, and what surprised him deeply was these Eldar people.

He has already met an Eldar from the Uthwe Arkworld!

"Your Majesty the God-Emperor, where is Foundry Director Blomfield? Is he dead?"

Taiyue suddenly asked.

"I don't know. Director Blomfield was going to hide in the air-raid shelter with me, but he insisted on turning off the instruments and equipment in the Forging Temple before leaving. In the end, he was trapped in the Forging World by psychic people. According to my calculations , he can’t come here!”

Sage Grantham answered the situation truthfully. When the Eldar broke through the Skitarii fortress, he hid here alone with the remaining Skitarii.

"Is Director Blomfield making something at the end?"

Grantham hesitated and finally told the truth:

"The planetary governor of Octavia II, Harrison, found an STC template. Foundry Director Lomfield personally went to Octavia II to negotiate the ownership of this STC template."

"The production machine is the instrument that records the STC template?"

"Yes, the result of the negotiation between the two is that after the Styx Forge produces 99 machines corresponding to the STC template and gives them to Planetary Governor Harrison, he will be able to own this STC template!"

"Why do you think the Eldar attacked this forge world and blew up the forge temple?"

Tai Yue directly asked this pointed question. If the Mechanicus sage in front of him had any heretical behavior, at this distance, he would kill him directly and seize his data core.

"Isn't it a high probability that alien races will attack humans?"

Grantham asked rhetorically.

"Your Majesty the God-Emperor, Octavia II betrayed the Empire more than ten years ago!"

Tai Yue told the current situation. He now speculates that the reason why the Forge World was attacked by the Eldar is because of the structure witchcraft ring produced by the STC template, and the witchcraft ring is related to chaos.

Grantham fell silent, his logic circuit had analyzed this result.

"Your Majesty the God Emperor, let's go to the ground first. Our purpose here is to eliminate the traitors on Octavia II!"

After Tai Yue finished speaking, he led everyone out of the underground air raid shelter and came to the surface of the planet.

"The STC template data in the Forging Temple has been deleted, now we need to find its backup!"

Taiyue gave everyone a task. He guessed that the person who deleted the data must know that the data was very important. He probably had a backup of the STC template data, and the data from the Forging Temple showed that the product batch was 16, and Planetary Governor Harrison requested There are 99 witchcraft rings!