Warhammer: I don't want to become a stinky can!

Page 578

Hades turned the black stone fragment he was holding between his fingers over.

Generally speaking, within the same dynasty, the owners of different tomb worlds are different. So, if he were to raid a tomb world under the Figurine King Dynasty that doesn't belong to the Figurine King World... there shouldn't be any problem... right?

Hades was silent for a moment. He fumbled in the filing cabinet and pulled out Tarasim's letter. The King of Figurines had not left any contact information, nor had he said that one could not go and destroy the tombs of his dynasty.

That means it's possible.

Hades thought,

“Yes,” said Hades, “let’s begin.”

Hades spent two days on approval and preparation, and before the Emperor could react, Hades had already followed the returning Hades ships to the vicinity of the Mars-attached slingshot, ready to launch.

"I didn't run away, I just went home."

This is a note from Hades to the Lord of Man, requesting leave.

--------------

This is a tomb world geographically close to the world of Greiel's Forging.

Sage Alina α3 chose the planetary environment she was most familiar with—a rainforest planet. According to the sage, the burial world of space necromancers is generally not built on planets with too many creatures. The reason for this is that after the necromancers fall asleep, the surface of the planet undergoes drastic changes, eventually forming a rainforest.

Intense rainfall, vegetation altering the original soil, and river seepage mean that these necromantic tombs in the world are easily affected, becoming unstable and causing some disruptions to the program's operation...

In short, it's suitable for shoveling occasionally.

In order not to disturb the anti-chaos program of this fringe world, the Empire's ships used massed bullets to reach this place. Thanks to Hades' presence, four-fifths of the ships successfully reached their destination, while the rest were scattered in the nearby star system.

Sage Alina's advance team had already completed the survey of this star system. After the main fleet arrived, three black ships, each equipped with a black stone obelisk, immediately surrounded the sky above the Tomb World, creating a weak physical barrier.

Hades followed the principle of not interfering unless absolutely necessary, observing the sage's actions from the sidelines.

Then came six ships carrying psionicists, which, according to precise calculations, were scattered in more distant places. As the psionicists chanted, the High Heavens began to fluctuate, and a psionic barrier unfolded, isolating the planet from the outside world.

Hades hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to enter the realm of the Black Ship's interior structure—trying not to think about the ship full of psionicists.

Thus, with the interior stabilized by the Black Stone Field and the exterior isolated by the Psionic Field, this peripheral tomb world silently lost the possibility of communicating with the main dynasty.

Next, the troops were deployed. In order not to disturb the undead's automatic mind, Alina Alina α3 chose the Partridges, a mortal force she had raised, and the Oglins.

Space Marines and psionicists would likely activate the tomb's level two defenses directly, as there's no need to take the risk.

According to Alina Alina (α3), this unit is a collection of gravediggers she gathered from various worlds—each with their own expertise.

The partridges quickly followed the trail of the necromancer scarabs and traced it back to the entrance of the tomb. Seventeen tomb entrances were identified, three of which were severely collapsed.

Surveillance devices disguised as local small creatures were deployed, and the bio-sages under Alina α3 remotely controlled the nervous systems of these creatures, probing into the interior of the tomb.

"Please don't worry, we also have geological sages who can disguise themselves as rolling stones to enter the cave—as the saying goes, everyone has their own expertise, and on the road to finding the truth, the Mountain-Entangling Ship is the professional, Hades."

Hades watched silently as the people who called themselves "Partridges" skillfully began using echolocations to construct a map of the tomb's interior, deciding to believe Alina Alina's words.

Every field has its own talent.

If it were Hades, he might have opted for brute force to achieve a miracle.

They spent a day mapping the shallow sections of the tombs, and as Alina α3 had predicted, most of the shallow tombs had collapsed and were severely flooded—two of the tomb entrances were connected to a river.

The fact that the Machine Soul didn't even bother with these collapses further proves the decay of this edge world.

The initial phase of the plan went smoothly. Next, they needed to descend into the middle level of the tomb, find the technician's tomb at the deepest part of the middle level, invade the technician's mind—obtain the key, and then evacuate.

This step requires a sufficiently capable sage; only a sage specializing in this area can complete the task of obtaining the key. Alina Alina and Kim are prepared to work together on this task.

Experience a thrilling and exciting "physical hacking" adventure.

Hades does not intend to descend to this world himself for the time being. If he is discovered by the undead army of this world, the Anti-Star God Protocol will immediately awaken all the undead on this planet.

He came here... solely to ensure and verify the feasibility of Alina's plan and as a backup.

Yay! That's it!

Chapter 636 Who's being targeted?

“You exude an aura of death, Jin.”

Alina α3 said that the sage used his gear axe to clear away the branches blocking his way and moved nimbly toward the U2 tunnel.

"Thank you for the compliment."

Kim said that his enormous body was clearly struggling to move through the rainforest; he was like an elephant, breaking through any obstacles in his path.

“I don’t understand you,” Alina Alina said. “You are the most favored sage under Hades, so why did you choose to exile yourself? You have better options.”

“I want to be a person,” King said. “If you keep asking, then my original intention in following Hades was to become a person. Ten thousand years later, I have determined that I am a bit far from that anchor point. Yes, I am a believer, but I am more than just a believer. I am me, and I am who I am. This is what he truly advocated.”

Jin was silent for a moment.

"Compared to the people of the Church of the Underworld, the Church of the Machines has clearly misunderstood him."

"...It's all that idiot Kirkland's fault."

Jin cursed under his breath, his personal void shield deflecting the birds flying towards him.

"The creatures on this planet are highly aggressive."

Alina α3 said as they walked to the marker, “It’s time to part ways. You go to tunnel i6, and I’ll go to tunnel u2. Okay, I still don’t understand your point of view, but maybe I can understand 64.08% of your attitude, just like others don’t understand my fervor for digging out the truth underground.”

Jin waved his hand.

See you underground.

The sage said, and then the two mechanical teams parted ways.

Alina α3 might not understand that Jin had other purposes for coming here... other things. He wanted to see the undead in space to remind himself that living is something that requires vigilance. The living cannot be imprisoned by the past; they need to move forward and flow continuously. That is living, not being completely defined by the past self, which is not living.

Those are space necromancers.

Kim thought to himself with a self-deprecating smile that perhaps Kirkland's underlying code had something in common with the Necromancers in space, which was obviously logically supported, but he did not tell anyone else about his thoughts.

Hades' knowledge comes from dragons, who are the stars. The Void Dragons once bestowed technology upon the undead of space—and now, Hades is replicating that process.

King remained silent on this matter, now believing that humanity would hold Hades back, and if not... he would step forward again.

But now, he should embark on his own path.

Even so, with the help of the [demigods], humanity still couldn't fully master the technology of the undead. As Hades' most trusted sage, Jin knew what Hades was worried about: the technology that Hades most wanted to acquire and utilize—

[Living metal].

After Hades transforms into his Star God form, he can freely use living metals, but the metals he creates quickly become inactive, cannot be preserved, and cannot be used by humans.

But Pluto clearly lacks the knowledge of how to build a living metal assembly line from scratch, just like someone who can't describe to others how to move muscles or make their heart beat...

For Him, is this something that needs to be learned?

This is why tomb raiding teams exist. In addition to obtaining the keys, these teams also bear the important task of deciphering necromancy technology—to date, personal Gauss pistols have been mass-produced.

Jin temporarily stopped the third level of thinking in his mind engine. While he was thinking, they had arrived at the entrance of the tomb. Several partridges were squatting near the newly opened tomb entrance smoking. When they saw the Great Sage arrive, they all saluted and made way.

Jin nodded. Due to geological erosion, the pivot points on this route had stopped functioning on their own, leaving only the scarabs and tomb spiders blindly working automatically, allowing them to infiltrate directly.

The Death Guard gravedigger behind the golden statue nodded to the sage. There was also a dedicated grave-robbing faction within the Death Guard—otherwise, where would the mass-produced Gauss pistols come from?

Triple stealth field, scrambled impact field, psionic stealth, DDoS disruptors placed in different locations on this hilltop, and then there's a full set of weapons—if discovered, at least enough to defeat the enemy.

It's like a failed theft that escalates into robbery.

This is their creed for tomb raiding.

Jin carefully bypassed the silent, crawling simulated insects on the ground and entered the tomb.

----------

The Silent King will return...

Tarasin lay sprawled out on a deckchair in his museum, staring thoughtfully at his collection of seven small death guards.

Eurycan was right about that. Judging by the timeline... the Silent King is indeed returning soon, and more and more dynasties are approaching their awakening, that much is certain.

The Necromancer felt a surge of irritation. As a fearful being, it did not support the Silent King—who had placed its people in their current predicament, even though the Silent King had shown them no mercy before.

It wanted to continue its pleasures rather than obey the Silent King.

The Endless One then thought of Hades, who had actually followed the rules and stayed in the insect nest for a year before coming out.

Because of the shadow of the hive, the Endless One had no idea what was happening inside, especially since it was currently embroiled in a conflict with the Astrologer's Court.

As for itself… Tarasin pondered, its army might be a powerful force, but it was still no match for the mighty Hierophant or the Silent King.

Not to mention that the Silent King is a madman, Tarachin was agitated, and he would never forgive the Silent King's decision to convert beings into living beings, something no conscientious death-fearing person would forgive.

But the reality is that the Silent King is about to return, and it is no match for them. If it hides, and if the Silent King doesn't pursue the matter, Tarasin might be able to live happily for a while. But what if Hades's affair is exposed...

After a moment of silence, Taracin decided to immediately change the containment file from ten thousand years ago to "On how to utilize the Star God Fragment Experiment more efficiently".

Cut it off, cut it off immediately—at least don't let other death-fearers find any fault with it.

Or should I go and see Hades?

Why did it impulsively agree to that little guy's request?

...The initial impulse always requires a lot of make-up afterwards, and Tarasin readily admits this.

Taracin felt a pang of regret; how could it have known this creature would grow so big? But subconsciously, Taracin harbored its own ambitions.

A potential Star God who can be won over? And his warp allies behind him? For a race that is already dead, this wouldn't be a losing proposition.

Tarasin tried to comfort himself that this was a helpless act, and under his observation, the expansion of the High Heaven... Since the fall of the Star God of the physical world, the balance had failed, and the High Heaven had begun to erode the physical world.

The real world must find new anchors to confront the Supreme Being.

As Taracin pondered, its thoughts drifted back to Eurican's mad ramblings, wondering what he meant by "the shattering of the radiant purple galaxy?"

Perhaps this is just Eurycan's nonsense, but why are astrologers so sure that the return of the Silent King will not cause it any trouble?

Taracin didn't believe that the old man had the means to fight against or escape the Silent King. In this respect, they were evenly matched, and neither of them should look down on the other.

Could it be...? Could it be...?!

Has that guy already found himself a new backer?

Taracin immediately thought of Storm King, the High Priest of the Sothek Dynasty, one of the most powerful existing dynasties of the Necromancers, possessing extremely strong military power, and also the High Priest who was most at odds with Silent King.

No, Tarasin thought again. Even Storm King couldn't escape the control of the master control protocol, or had they found a way to break free from the protocol?

Does this possibility really exist?

Talasiam remained silent, but it didn't get along well with the Storm King. In fact, it had minor conflicts with every dynasty—after all, its museum needed its collection.

It doesn't have much affection for its own kind.

------------

"Severely damaged."

Alina α3 said, looking at the undead soldiers who could no longer rise. Incredibly, the shallow tomb was almost completely destroyed, and the automatons were unresponsive. It seemed they were lucky enough to have stumbled upon a badly damaged tomb.

"Prepare to enter the second level."

Alina α3 received a message from Jin; Jin's team had already begun their incursions.

The sage remained silent for a moment. She thought this was an opportunity. Since Hades was already protecting them, why not go a little deeper?

The army I brought this time was large enough to annihilate this undead force.

She can wait for Kim's team to successfully complete their objective... and then she can go a little deeper herself...

The risk assessment was approved; the only obstacle was persuading Hades, and Alina Alina began editing the application.

She lingered for a while, waiting for Jin's team to go first. According to Jin's report, the infiltration of the second level went smoothly. The detection system hub was destroyed, and the tomb still hadn't awakened.

The tombs of the undead in space would cause communication delays, so Alina Alina was not worried at all that Hades would discover them in advance and punish them. She immediately decided that this was a golden opportunity and that they should continue to explore deeper.

A wise man who doesn't take risks can't find the truth in the grave, which is why only Alina α3 persevered.

Those who are easily frightened should not come to dig up the grave.

Marking the entrance to the deepest tomb on the map, Alina α3 decisively led her team forward.

May Om Messiah bless you...

..............................

"smoothly……"