Chapter 340 Going Around in Circles

Woo...woo...woo...

Amid the shrill sirens, the light in the entire laboratory switched between red and white.

Hundreds of areas on the Relentless Jihad are under emergency blockade, and the temporary passages between various important areas are also closed, leaving only the main roads where the Gray Knights are stationed.

The psionic choir was already in place, and as their vocal chants echoed, the psionic arrays all over the Relentless Crusade were flashing.

The nearby real space, Leia Space, was forcibly stabilized without any fluctuations.

At this time, the Relentless Jihad was like a hedgehog with all its muscles contracted, looking around with the most dangerous eyes.

Once there is any disturbance around it, it will be greeted by a devastating blow from the array of light spears on its body!

Seeing that the surrounding windows were closed by the gradually lowering armor, the entire test area was about to be completely isolated.

In the psychic channel, Calvin issued the last command to the astropath before entering silence:

“Get in touch with Terra Directions now!

Report to the Order of the Holy Hammer and file it in the Antarctic Archives!

Authorization code α6960013, key, order with my highest authority:

Go to Mars immediately and thoroughly investigate the background and past experience of Stovan, the third-level forging sage of the Adeptus Mechanicus!

Yes, don’t want their results!

Send a team directly to Mars! "

This is where Calvin's wariness lies.

He did not believe that fate was always so generous, especially in the face of such unexpected gifts.

Before ruling out the possibility of the conspiracy of the Chaos Gods to intervene, he would not, and could never, completely believe Stowan's words.

He just stood there quietly, no one dared to disturb his thinking.

It was not until he saw the Astropath projecting this message in his psychic vision and fainted because of this urgent announcement that Calvin turned his attention from the warp back to reality.

Calvin squinted his eyes slightly to prevent the thunder from spilling out and frightening the mortals in front of him. He said to Stovan who was still remembering:

"You can talk now."

"say what?"

Stovan asked subconsciously, and then under the anxious gaze of everyone, he finally understood his situation.

“Its final form is a huge clock, but the way it counts is a reverse countdown.

It is a building that uses the technology of an older civilization to observe the impact of certain events in advance by folding the timeline;

Then use the stability of the physical rules of the real universe as a yardstick to infer the activity level of the subspace and the device's remaining lifespan of the real universe.

All in all, when its pointer reaches the end, it is the end of the universe. "

Advance observation, rules, stability, activity level, lifespan...

Stowan's words echoed in the laboratory, and several key words in his words aroused the thinking of everyone present.

Countdown?

Advance warning?

Can it be considered that the complete form of this artifact has similar functions to the prophet in the battle group?

And the performance of this artifact is even more powerful!

No matter the scope of observation or the continuity of observation!

Both the depth and accuracy of the event impact assessment!

The power of this artifact far exceeds the perception of any psychic prophecy?

Its power may not be as direct to an individual or a certain battle as the STC of a weapon.

But for a race, what a powerful artifact this is!

"Why have we never heard of its existence? If it really existed, how could it be unknown in human history?" Lyric asked.

"Haha~ If you were "them", would you allow this kind of thing to exist?" Stowan laughed nervously.

"It was just a concept and plan from beginning to end, and when it was actually about to be born, did you see that space hulk? This is its end..."

As if afraid that others would not believe it, Stovan raised his head and looked at Calvin:

"Let me introduce myself again. My name is Trinary Elfanio. I am currently the master of the high-level forge and the master of the first-level covenant. I belong to the Origin Return Order under the Titan Academy of the Mars Mechanical Order.

And before my body was activated and assigned to the Order of Origin, I had another identity - the last member of the Kress School, which is famous for its research and recovery. "

"That's wrong!" Father Lyric obviously knew something about the "Kress School", and he subconsciously read out the information in his database:

"As far as I know, the Kress School has died out. The last pure member of the Kress School disappeared at the end of the Great Crusade and was declared dead within the next hundred years. His name..."

"It's called Trinary Elfanio, right?"

Facing the shocked looks of his colleagues from the Order of Omen, the mechanical priest wearing a "Stovan" vest said to Calvin:

“Some people don’t want this artifact to exist, so we become an eyesore.

Unlike you, the first thing my mentor and I came into contact with was another part of this artifact.

And it was also from that time that our school of thought experienced an inexplicable attrition of members. Experimental accidents, disappearances during exploration, struggles between colleagues, self-destruction...

From a huge school with nearly a thousand people, we have quietly shrunk to less than a hundred people without participating in any major battles.

And all this happened in less than a hundred years. "

The words of "Stowan" made the people present shudder.

They were naturally not afraid of war or sacrifice, but they felt a bone-deep tremor just thinking about the desperate situation of not being able to find the enemy and disappearing without a sound.

"How did you survive?"

Calvin asked in a low voice. At this time, his doubts about Stowan had been mostly eliminated. This sentence was more of a response and encouragement to Stowan's narration than a question.

"A seed that was accidentally lost produced the unexpected fruit of 'me'."

Stowan blinked and explained his origins with a symbolic description.

"The real Elfanio is dead, both physically and in other ways.

And I am just a wrong product of his apprenticeship." Stowan said self-deprecatingly.

When "Elfanio" was still an apprentice, in a "mass artificial consciousness" authorization for mechanical prostheses, he mistakenly delegated part of his code authority.

After these mechanical prostheses were assigned to the Source Restore Order, their consciousness was always in a state of backup dormancy due to the online status of the data subject.

The story later was not very complicated.

When Elfanio "disappeared" during an exploration operation and was confirmed internally that there was no data backup, he was officially declared dead by the Mechanicus.

In the war reserve of the Source Restore Order, Stovan, who received the information that the "subject was permanently offline", finally got the opportunity to inherit its personality and wake up.

After waking up again, "Elfanio" did not know the final fate of his subject, nor did he know why he participated in the expedition.

He did not dare to know.

In order to protect himself, he did not even dare to download the backup of his own data stored in the common database. In case those people followed the download records and found him from the hidden dormant state.

He did not even dare to drive this body, for fear that he, who had become a "black household", would leave any traces of instructions on this body.

He consciously restricted himself and limited the current carrying his consciousness to a few tiny components.

Until this mission, a mechanical priest of the Yuanhuan Order activated this body and used it as a replica of consciousness to go out on missions.

Stowan took advantage of the opportunity to be away from the main body and took over the bottom-level control authority of the body in order to escape.

If he hadn't seen the remains of this artifact here, this guy would probably continue to lurk until he had a chance to escape from the sight of the Mechanicus.

"So how complete is it, or what is it missing?"

After listening to the story of "Stowan", Calvin knew that the people he sent to Mars to investigate were destined to return empty-handed.

And now the identity of this mechanical priest is no longer important. What is important is what parts of this incomplete artifact he mentioned are missing.

"Of course it's its "pointer"." Stowan answered straightforwardly.

"We found three pointers in total. One is a finished product, which is the holy relic you saw - the Gestal Bell. The other two were sealed by us, but they have disappeared with the members of the school."

"Where is it? I mean the finished product." Calvin asked Stowan while entering the name of the holy relic in the data terminal of the power armor.

However, Stowan's answer and the database of the Tribunal gave an answer he had never thought of in the next second:

"Storm Star Region, Ophelia 7!"

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