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Chapter 272 Take away

Howard felt a little uncomfortable with the mechanical monk's cruelty, but he didn't show it.

He could understand why humans treated aliens in this way. During the most glorious period of humanity, when the empire had not even been established, humans were also an open and inclusive race.

Human civilization in this era reached its peak in terms of technology, art and self-confidence.

This glorious era is called the Golden Age by humans, and it is also the era that the Emperor tried his best to bring humans back to.

Human civilization in the Golden Age was prosperous and peaceful. Even the aliens that humans now regard as great enemies were more tolerant towards them by humans in that era.

Because this tolerance is based on absolute power, the powerful strength of humans in the Golden Age allowed humans and some aliens to live in harmony, trade, and even conclude alliances.

However, with the raging waves of the warp and the rebellion of internal artificial intelligence, the golden age ended and the human world became precarious.

At this most critical moment, these aliens who had surrendered on the surface due to the strength of humans finally showed their claws. Instead of lending a helping hand to humans, they took advantage of the situation and massacred humans who were at their most vulnerable period.

If the Lord of Mankind had not rebuilt human civilization, humanity might have been extinct long ago under the double massacre of chaotic creatures and aliens.

From then on, human civilization became extremely xenophobic.

Thinking of this, Howard couldn't help but start thinking about how to deal with these aliens after all this is over. Regardless of whether he is their "Messiah", he has made a promise that he will not abandon them.

It was definitely not possible to let them stay on this planet. How about trying to convince Freya to take these aliens in as collections? After all, from the brief encounter, these aliens didn't seem particularly disgusting or dangerous.

If Freya agrees, he will of course have a gift of thanks, and Freya should be interested in this gift, but he originally planned to use this gift against Slaanesh when he had the chance.

Forget it! Let’s solve the problem at hand first.

The mechanical monk's actions on the projection continued. He used the special device in his left hand to absorb the energy of all the surviving aliens, and then ordered the Astra Militarum to chase in the direction of the aliens' retreat.

During this pursuit, the Astra Militarum team encountered no resistance worth mentioning. A few aliens resorted to suicide attacks, but their tracks had long been discovered by the mechanical monks. So before these aliens self-destructed, anti-psychic bullets cut off their last thoughts.

Finally, the picture stopped, and then the angle was raised, and the projected picture showed the mural that Howard had seen in the Alien Sanctuary.

What disappointed Howard was that even in the video footage of the Mechanical Monk, the mural was still damaged, with large areas missing between the humanoid creatures and the tower.

After recording this mural, the mechanical monk and the Astra Militarum followed the grappling rope and quickly descended from the cave where Howard was pushed down by the nun.

"Boom——"

But before the mechanical monk landed, the blue flames engulfed the vanguard troops that landed first, and these Astra Militarum troops were burned to ashes without even being able to scream.

So the mechanical monk cut the rope around his waist and let himself fall. He finally landed before the next wave of psychic flames hit him and opened his shield to block the most fatal blow.

Next, under the cover of the mechanical monks, more and more Star Army soldiers landed at the bottom of the cave. The guards replaced the mechanical monks and took the lead, pushing the position forward little by little.

By not eliminating the Astra Militarum before they could gain a foothold, these aliens lost their last chance of victory.

The Astra Militarum's guards stood at the forefront with their warp-light shields, resisting the constant psychic attacks from the aliens. The snipers in the back row accurately killed the mages and all threatening units in the alien camp, while the soldiers armed with power weapons stayed in the middle of the team, clearing out all enemies that broke through the psychic defenses against intrusion into the camp.

Under such a tight combination formation, although the stubborn resistance of the aliens still caused a certain degree of casualties to the Astra Militarum, the casualties of the aliens were a hundred times that of humans.

Finally, under the cover of the Astra Militarum, the Mechanical Brother fired a bullet made of black stone into the chests of these alien high priests.

The high priest was killed, and the remaining aliens immediately lost their fighting spirit. They scattered like birds and beasts, and this time the mechanical monk did not order a pursuit.

Because he has found the purpose of this trip.

What appeared in the projection at this moment was the destroyed Möbius cavity that Howard had seen at the beginning, and the cavity in the picture was still intact.

And inside the Möbius strip, an object emitting a quiet light is quietly suspended.

In other words, this is not an "object emitting quiet light", but the object itself is a ball of quiet light.

This ball of light had no form, no core, and no temperature. Its existence completely defied common sense, as if a beam of light had been beamed down from a higher dimension, manifesting in this world from within this Möbius strip.

Obviously, this is the energy source that the Mechanical Sage mentioned.

The picture stayed on this shot for a long time. If the index of the timer in the corner had not been moving forward, Howard would almost think that the picture was stuck.

The scene remained frozen like this for about half a minute, and the mechanical monk finally began to act. He once again raised the device in his hand that could absorb the alien life energy and turned on the switch at the energy source.

The mechanical wheel in the quartz jar began to run. If there was a device that could display the flow of energy at this time, one would be able to see a vortex of negative energy appearing at the muzzle of this strange gun. Any existence with positive energy would be attracted by this vortex.

If the satellite used by the Mechanical Sage to detect psychic fluctuations could detect this place at this time, then the degree of psychic fluctuations on the grid should be concave.

But the energy source remained motionless.

So the mechanical monk increased the power, and the negative energy vortex became more turbulent, even the Möbius strip cavity that contained the energy source was shattered, but it still had no effect.

The mechanical monk looked a little impatient. Several mechanical arms stretched out from behind him and held the gun instead of his hands, while the mechanical monk's original hands began to adjust the internal parameters of the gun.

Soon a new vortex will appear at the muzzle of the gun. The previous vortex was composed of negative energy, while this new vortex is composed of negative space.

Under the influence of negative space, the captured images were distorted to a certain extent. The Astra Militarum soldiers closest to the Mechanicus found that their bodies were slightly deformed or twisted. Some of them stretched out their hands in the direction of the Mechanicus out of curiosity.

From the perspective of these Astra Militarum soldiers, the fingers of their hands stretched out towards the Mechanicus appeared elongated to a certain extent, as if they were putting their fingers into a basin of water. When they retracted their hands, the deformation disappeared and the fingers returned to normal.

The mechanical monk didn't care about all this. He almost pointed the muzzle of his gun at the energy source. The Möbius cavity that housed the energy source twisted like a noodle under the pull of negative energy and negative space, while the energy source was slowly and leisurely sucked into the center of the vortex.

The mechanical monk obviously lost his patience. He adjusted the power of the absorption device to the maximum, and the mechanical wheel rubbed and sparks flew.

Just like a reed falling into a whirlpool in the water, at first the reed was just spinning on the edge of the whirlpool, and it seemed that it might be thrown out at any time. But as it was slowly sucked into the center, after crossing a certain limit, the speed of its fall suddenly accelerated.

The energy source was sucked into the device in the blink of an eye, and the device exceeded its limit load at this moment. Electric sparks popped out from the gaps between the mechanical parts, and the negative energy and negative space generating device failed.

The projected image went black again, but this time it was not because the chip was damaged, but because there was a problem during the recording.

About half a minute later, the screen flickered twice and the picture returned to normal.

The mechanical monk in the picture does not seem to be in good condition. The parameters in the upper right corner show that many functions of his body have been damaged due to the explosion.

Then the picture moved downwards, and the strange gun in the mechanical monk's left hand had disappeared, replaced by the quartz tank that was previously installed on the gun.

In the middle of the quartz jar, the energy source was quietly suspended.