"The Heart of Nirvana...... Why do you call it that? ”

"Because of its function and function: as its name suggests, this research product, which has just passed all clinical tests, can give every dawnbreaker who owns it the precious power to break free from the endless pursuit of death, and even take the opportunity to rise again."

"A second life?"

"You can understand it this way: but in fact, it's far more powerful than that."

"Let's be clear."

"Yes."

"To put it simply, every dawnbreaker with the heart of Nirvana, as long as he escapes the cold wind of death on the battlefield, then he will become a little stronger: how to become stronger depends on the difference of each individual, but the fact that he will become stronger is universal."

"With each victory over death, they get closer and closer to their limits, and the cycle repeats itself without ending, growing stronger in constant death and trauma, and every malice that cannot kill him eventually becomes nourishment along the way until he reaches the top: this is Nirvana."

“……”

"It sounds like this so-called [Nirvana Heart] is not a separate organ?"

"Yes, our Creator used her wisdom and ambition to fuse several individual transformation steps, tweaking and improving them continuously, and eventually, they formed a kind of synergy, and all of this she named the [Nirvana Path]."

“…… Can't you change your name? ”

“……”

"Actually, at first, she planned to name this achievement [The Road to Ascension], but for some reason, she later felt that the name might mean something not very good, so she temporarily changed it."

“…… I also think that the name "Path to Ascension" is a bit unlucky. ”

"Who's to say it isn't."

Ophiuchus's voice was as cold as a fountain that had not been disturbed for thousands of years, and when she patiently and coldly answered Virgo's questions one by one, she even gave the latter a brief illusion: she was like an overly beautiful iron man.

But Virgo knows that the real situation is actually a little different.

She is well aware of this.

After all, as the Spider Empress's personal attendant, Virgo probably knows more about the Lord of the Second Legion than all the Daybreakers combined, because only she can clearly see the real Spider Empress, and can see Morgan's every move and Morgan's thoughts when she doesn't have to keep the idol baggage of that genetic body.

From this point of view, compared to Cassiopeia, who wields the worldly power of Avalon, and Orion, who guards the side of the Ministry of Justice, Virgo is actually the most powerful: if nothing else, the countless secrets about Morgan that she has seen and remembered are the eye of the storm that can implicate the entire star field.

And she is well aware that her greatest mission is to keep these secrets firmly in mind and not let anyone know them until the day comes when her Creator and her mother need them again.

Compared to the most important and terrible secrets in her charge, the existence of Ophiuchus itself, though it is not a small secret, is not so heavyweight: all this is said by Morgan himself, and witnessed by Virgo himself.

As the fourth machine of the [Handmaiden of the Stars] series, Ophiuchus was formed by Morgan in the depths of the [Goddess of Dawn] at some point before the official start of the Osiris Expedition, and from the moment she opened her eyes, she never left the private realm of the Spider Queen, nor had she ever seen any life form except Morgan and Virgo.

Because her mission is so important and monotonous, she only needs to stay in Morgan's private research room, forever in the company of endless experimental data and test-tube solvents, and can feel a kind of instinctive happiness, and sometimes even need Morgan or Virgo to chat with her to make sure that her spirit does not go wrong because she is too withdrawn.

"Actually, you don't need to be so troublesome, I'm used to the current living environment."

Virgo sat quietly to the side, watching the Ophiuchus in front of her say these words with a smile after a hundred Terra standard hours of intense work, only to feel that the credibility of this sentence did not seem to be very high.

The Primordial Maid looked at her third companion quite closely: by the standards of mortals, Ophiuchus was a well-proportioned, tall woman with short, slightly curly brown hair, the ends of which touched the sides of her neck at the lowest ends, and her eyes were a cyan blue similar to those of the Primordial, but a little thicker, which made Virgo feel a little jealous.

There is no doubt that Ophiuchus is also a good-looking woman, and the appearance of the star maids seems to be the part that the genetic prototype will focus on when creating them, but because Ophiuchus seems to be more lacking than Virgo's, the cold aura on her body has completely suppressed her beautiful appearance, and it is difficult for others to judge what she is thinking.

Thinking of this, Virgo spoke.

"Answer me, Ophiuchus: do you remember what your most important duty was?"

"Do you have to ask the same question every time, Virgo?"

"That's it."

"Okay."

Finally, Ophiuchus temporarily put down the work at hand, cleared his throat, and his face became more serious and focused, rather than the simple coldness of the original.

"The most important duty I have been given is to learn from the legacy of her eleventh brother: my mission is to study the knowledge of Heydrich's memory, and to summarize the obscure data and theories into mature knowledge that can be quickly accepted, just as the brutal pig iron is forged into practical steel."

"And whenever my studies and research are fruitful, adults will copy those mature knowledge from my mind and let it become her new strength, so as to speed up her acceptance of her brother's inheritance, and also save countless hours that would have been spent on other important things."

"This proved to be very fruitful, and with my assistance, even when the adults devoted themselves to the expedition and other studies of Osiris, she did not fall behind in the slightest in her learning of the Heydrich legacy: this is the best answer she gave me to the mission, how is it, Virgo?"

"That's true."

The primordial maid nodded, and Ophiuchus' answer left her irrefutable.

"But does every copy of the knowledge in your mind have an effect on you?"

"No, you know, we are essentially one with adults, my learning is the learning of adults, everything is the efforts of adults themselves, I am just a transit station."

“……”

Virgo blinked: she suddenly noticed something quite interesting in Ophiuchus's words that piqued her interest.

"Ophiuchus, you call our Creator...... My lord? ”

“…… Any questions? ”

"No...... It's nothing. ”

A strange smile suddenly appeared on Virgo's cold countenance, which made Ophiuchus raise an eyebrow, but he could not think of anything wrong with her words.

But she could feel it: for a moment, there was an incomprehensible slight arrogance in Virgo's pupils, like a nobleman in the center of a ballroom looking at the waiter by the wall.

However, this arrogance was fleeting, and Virgo soon reverted to the same coldness as Ophiuchus, and the two star maids who constantly exuded an icy aura looked at each other briefly, and the cold air between them made even the serious laboratory itself seem a little warm.

A few minutes later, the maid, who was still a genetic protogen, broke the deadlock.

"Talk to me, you and ...... I have the right to know, record, and preserve these modified organs until they are needed again. ”

"No problem."

A layer of data flashed through his pupils, and after confirming that what Virgo said was true, Ophiuchus quickly selected a book of experimental data from the surrounding documents and archives, and summarized the illusory court created with millions of symbols and knowledge in the most concise tone possible.

"To put it simply, our Creator has created a special re-transformation operation for those who break the dawn, which was briefly named [Original Casting Transformation] at the beginning of the experiment, but now, its official name is [Nirvana Path]."

"The path to nirvana is divided into six transformation steps, and they are born out of the myriad of transformational methods that adults have already learned and mastered, including Astarte, the original casting technology, the Praetorian Army, the Thunder Warriors, the Psionic Warriors, and the crazy or forbidden biological knowledge in Heydrich's mind: some of this knowledge is not even willing to be involved in too much by adults, because they are completely outside the red line of the emperor."

"To put it another way, the being who is called the Lord of Humanity did have infinite hopes for Heydrich in the beginning, and gave him so many things and secrets that our adults would be of great use for decades."

Virgo suddenly raised her hand, interrupting Ophiuchus's narration.

"Six steps?"

"Yes."

"Can you explain, because in my Minerva array, there are only three of them."

"I can explain five to you: but the sixth is not allowed, because it has not actually been fully developed, and it will take countless improvements and experiments to ensure that the sixth transformation appears, and in the meantime, she may give up on this step at any time."

"Let's start with the first five steps."

"Yes."

Ophiuchus nodded, she turned and pulled out a bottle of sherry, seemingly in a brief respite, and behind her, a projector descended at some point.

"We all know that the Dawnbreaker's transformation is based on the technique named "Original Cast" in Heydrich's memory, which consists of three transformation procedures, namely the tendon cable, the ode to the pituitary gland, and the so-called Furnace of Belisarius: but now, it has been improved to the heart of Nirvana."

"In other words, is the heart of Nirvana the furnace of Belisarius?"

"They are not all the same, the mind of nirvana is more complex, sophisticated and powerful."

"Understood...... Go on. ”

"Frankly speaking, none of these three techniques are too complicated, especially the Ode Pituitary gland, which itself is just a weakened version of the immortal glands possessed by the genetic protogen, so our Creator Master mastered them almost instantly, but she spent several years studying the further possibilities of these three strengthening organs."

"In the end, she succeeded."

"Adults found that the most technically difficult of the three modified organs, the ode pituitary gland, is not a finished product in itself: the function of this strengthening organ is a gland placed in the brain to secrete strengthening hormones, but in fact, it only strengthens the right brain, and because for unknown reasons it does not strengthen the left brain, so it has a certain room for improvement."

(In the original book, due to the loss of the original drawings, Kaul's ode pituitary gland does only strengthen the right hemisphere, which is a typical Warhammer storyline: the results are good, but there are regrets.) ）

"So, the Lord used her own immortal gland as the research object to further strengthen the role of the Carol Pituitary Gland, and the main enhancement points were used in psionic energy and data recording: compared to the original technology, the new Carol Pituitary now has a database."

"Database?"

"Yes, a linked database, every Daybreaker who has received the Carol Pituitary Gland, all his combat experience and lessons, through this strengthening organ, will be linked to Lord Morgan's immortal gland, just as countless subordinate computers transmit data to the mastermind: in the same way, the mastermind can also transmit this data to other subordinate computers if needed."

"Doesn't that create a load?"

"Burning some alien souls, and the brain capacity of the original body is even more terrifying than we imagined, Lord Morgan can actually forcibly remember and copy all the essence of Heydrich by herself, but she lacks time, so she created me."

"Understood."

"So, what's the use of this combat database?"

"This brings us to the heart of nirvana that we just mentioned."

Ophiuchus gestured to the void curtain behind him, on which the outlines of three strengthening organs appeared, and between them there were several lines that illustrated the connection.

"First of all: Master Morgan's modifications are not only for the last two, she has actually partially improved the tendon cable, this strengthening organ has begun to fuse part of the psionic energy from a purely physical product, it can produce a timely response to the command of the pituitary gland, and can even serve as a carrier of psionic energy."

"How did you do that?"

"You may not believe it: we tried many methods at first, but none of them were ideal, until we thoroughly studied the spirit bone that Lord Morgan brought back from the southern part of the galaxy, which is a raw material related to subspace, and my lord and I ground it into powder and added it proportionally when building the tendon steel cable......

"It's surprisingly good."

Listening to Ophiuchus's statement and emotion, even the indifferent original maid couldn't help but show a little stunned.

“…… It sounds very unscientific. ”

"After all, the science in this galaxy...... Sometimes it's really not so scientific. ”

Ophiuchus is very calm, and her sterile gown, which she never leaves, does not make her too adamant about being a scientist.

"Okay, and then what?"

"Then, we can talk about the existence of the heart of Nirvana."

"To put it simply, the Heart of Nirvana is a modified version of the Furnace of Belisarius, and the function of the Furnace of Belisarius is that between the two hearts of Astarte, when its owner's spirit is extremely tense, or the body has suffered a devastating trauma, it will release a large amount of combat response hormone mixture, and quickly repair the injured parts, so as to ensure the continuation of Astarte's life."

"But after that, it cools down for a while before it can continue working."

"And now, Master Morgan has created the Heart of Nirvana, which has a shorter cooldown time than the furnace of Belisarius, which can be greatly reduced by the overload of adrenaline and the respiratory system, but at the cost of a period of sleep after the war is over: between five and twenty Terra standard hours."

"Having a long break?"

"We're improving, it's a technical issue, and when it's time to rest is mostly determined by the subjective consciousness of those who break the dawn, depending on their mental state and level of relaxation."

"If they keep thinking they're in a fighting mode, then the break will be postponed as well: it's just that the more they accumulate, the more they will be."

"That's not bad: but that's not [Nirvana] at all, is it?"

"Indeed, the real progress of the Nirvana Heart lies in its second transformation: whenever the Nirvana Heart is in motion, it produces two hormones, one to repair the damaged area, and the other to the Carol Pituitary gland, all the way through the conveyor belt between the Nirvana Heart and the Ode Pituitary Gland."

"This second hormone has a certain psychic definition, which can only be stimulated in those moments of life and death, awakened by noble emotions in the face of death, and when these hormones are infused into the pituitary gland, they awaken the corresponding parts of the left and right brains at the same time."

"The right manor's carol pituitary gland uses this peculiar hormone as the source power to begin to push the tendon cables that connect to it: connecting these cables to the carol pituitary gland is itself another small improvement for Master Morgan, and the psionic energy in the tendon cables will also start to work because of the push of these hormones, and will continue to spread throughout the body of the Daybreaker warrior."

"This kind of psionic power can further tap the physical potential of the Dawnbreakers, and use a certain savage instinct to develop the powers that are ignored in the subjective consciousness of the Dawnbreakers, so as to strengthen their physical attributes, and further improve their physical qualities such as strength, speed, and resistance to blows."

"This kind of improvement will not be very conspicuous, but it is indeed progress, and because of the traction of the psionic energy, the process of improvement will unconsciously tend to the causes that trigger the initiation of the Nirvana mind: the last time, the Daybreaker was in danger because of a deficiency in which area, the ode to the pituitary gland and tendon cable will focus on supplementing the deficiency in this aspect, and in general, the strengthening of the new blood of the Legion in this area will be very obvious, and although the veterans may not seem to be strengthened much, their bodies will also be unconscious, It can be more adapted to their own combat habits, with an increasingly skillful, subconscious instinct, to help them better achieve victory. ”

"Sounds good: what does the left-brain ode pituitary gland, reinforce?"

"Something more complicated: the left brain's Ode Pituitary gland has a database directly connected to the original brain, and whenever the Nirvana Heart emits its source power hormone, this database operates on its own, connected to the Primordial's master database, where all the battles and experiences of each Dawnbreaker are stored, and the Carol Pituitary will summarize the lessons that led to the Nirvana Heart, and at the same time calculate itself from the database a more appropriate path for the Dawnbreaker."

"A more suitable path?"

"Yes, we all know that everyone has his own direction in which he is relatively good at it, and in this direction he can go further and gain more success and strength: but it is difficult to recognize this direction in time, even for Astarte."

"And this database was born for this: the Heart of Nirvana and the Ode Pituital will record the combat experience and experience of each Dawnbreaker, as well as every danger that is enough to activate the Heart of Nirvana, and through the large database in the original mind, the Dawnbreaker's own cognition, and the relationship between the Prototype and Astarte, calculate a set of the most suitable direction for the Dawnbreaker in the future."

"The most important thing in this set of calculations is actually the close psionic connection between Master Morgan and the Daybreaker, and she seems to have been born with a natural knowledge of where each of her offspring should be placed in order to do her best."

"On the basis of this set of calculations, the Heart of Nirvana and the Pituitary of Ode are able to prepare a path for each Dawnbreaker that is most suitable for him, and to tell him after each initiation of the Heart of Nirvana, through some kind of dream or suggestion."

"However, it should be noted that this path is not mandatory, if a think tank seed with an infinite future still chooses to become an ordinary warrior when he sees his future direction, then there will be no coercive means to force him to learn psionic energy."

"But then again, in the face of the guiding beacon set up by the genetic prototype itself in the unknown future, how many people would choose to disdain?"

“…… That's true. ”

Virgo nodded, and through Ophiuchus's tirades, she had been able to deduce the respective abilities of these three organs to transform their organs, and the linkage between them.

To put it simply: every near-danger experience awakens the heart of Nirvana, and the special hormones that burst out of the heart of Nirvana act as a unique source of power, allowing the pituitary gland to perform two incredible operations at the same time.

The right manbour's ode pituitary gland is responsible for directing the tendon cables that spread throughout the body, making up for the physical deficiencies exposed in desperate situations, and at the same time tapping more physical potential, so that the physical fitness of the Dawnbreaker can be further strengthened: this is the physical strengthening and improvement.

The left-brain carol pituitary gland will upload the data to the large database of the original body to indirectly help the other Dawnbreakers, and on the other hand, it will deduce a set of paths that are most suitable for the Dawnbreaker from all the data, so that he can know how he can become stronger, know where his future is, and know in which direction he wants to work harder: this is the strengthening of the spiritual realm, the automatic filling of gaps and the deepest self-reflection.

At the same time, because both of these augmentations require the psionic elements that Morgan has inserted into the three augmentation organs, as well as the unique connection between the Dawnbreaker's genetic protoplasm and her offspring, these augmentations can be said to be unique to the Second Legion and cannot be passed on.

And as he earns life from danger again and again, a dawnbreaker's physical fitness will also quietly improve, and he will be clearer and more accurate about his strengths and paths, and even passively look at his own shortcomings, knowing the fatal points in his body that have been overlooked

Driven by these factors, he should have become stronger, and every death that could not kill him would allow him to move forward again in both physical and spiritual realms, and this process.

"It's Nirvana."

"It's the path to nirvana."

"With the heart of Nirvana as the engine, the pituitary gland as the conductor, and the tendon cable as the executor, the three improved strengthening organs perform their own duties, but they are closely linked to the path to Nirvana."

"Every Daybreaker warrior who has undergone transformation will embark on this path, and he will continue to grow his strength on a clearly visible path, and every step is so profound and calm."

"We don't need to worry about whether the Dawnbreaker recruits will be matched with the seeds that have the memories of the veterans' battles, because when they take the first step on this path, they will be learning from all the legion veterans at the same time, and they will become determined warriors at a faster rate, and every new blood of the Dawnbreaker who has defeated death once will become extremely difficult to kill."

"But this is not the greatest contribution that the [Nirvana Path] has brought us."

Ophiuchus tapped on the projector, and a pyramid-like structure appeared on the curtain behind her, and Virgo only glanced at it cursorely, and her expression became extremely serious.

Ophiuchus just took a sip of her sherry and continued to speak.

"Before that, although there was no class among the Astarte soldiers, there was also a rather obvious stratification of strength, there were many legion veterans who had stopped moving for many years, and their strength had been hovering at a level that could be said to be strong, but in fact it was that level: this point existed in every Astarte legion, and a legion veteran is likely to have experienced life and death for decades, but the strength has not changed in the slightest."

"On the contrary, there are some rising stars, some of the more talented, and those who have inadvertently embarked on the right path, and the speed of their progress in strength is staggering: every legion has this kind of monster to a greater or lesser extent, and their titles may not be conspicuous, but their strength and special status are recognized."

"They are both company commanders, but company commanders like Bayar and Acudona are definitely different from ordinary company commanders in the legion: but have you ever thought that they are essentially just Astarte warriors, although their strength will be higher or lower because of the difference in talent between them, but it should not be so big."

"In other words, the power of experience seems to have been greatly diminished in this realm of Astarte warriors, and many legion veterans have escaped death again and again, but no further progress has been made by it: even in the Legion of the Daybreakers."

"In other legions, this may be tolerable, but it is clear that our Creator has a different idea: relying on this path to nirvana, she can effectively translate the experience of her legion veterans into their new strength, so that after one terrible war after another, she can get a group of stronger Astarte warriors."

"They may not have the strength of Bayar or Acudona, but in the realm of [ordinary Astarte warriors], they will reach a theoretical strongest state because of the assistance of the path to Nirvana."

"A product like one may sound inconsequential, but given the popularity of the path to nirvana, and the veteran base of the entire Dawnbreaker Legion: can you imagine what a terrifying force it is?"

"This is the value of the Path of Nirvana: even a Dawnbreaker warrior with ordinary talent, with the help of the Path of Nirvana, can reach the strongest state he can achieve, which may not be able to raise the upper limit of the Dawnbreaker Legion, but it is enough to raise the lower limit of the Legion's strength."

"And ......"

"Embarking on this path means that they are completely inseparable from Lord Morgan: although they themselves are followers and believers in the kingdom of Morgan, such an identity is inevitably a little unsafe, so our Creator thought of the path to Nirvana."

"Or rather, the road to elevation."

"Upgraded ......"

"Yes: when a Daybreaker goes farther and farther on the path to Nirvana, his will and even his soul are also bound to Master Morgan step by step, and his body will be more and more contaminated with the aura of the Spider Empress, which will not allow other eyes to prying eyes."

"And when he has walked long enough on the path to Nirvana, the connection between him and Master Morgan will be so intimate, and the strength will grow together with great loyalty, so great that even the will of the emperor cannot be shaken."

"The strongest warriors will also be the most loyal, and they will become the champion warriors of the entire Dawnbreaker Legion, probably more in number than the other legions combined, but in terms of quality, they will not be inferior, or even stronger."

"But at that time, maybe we could call them ...... as well"

Ophiuchus laughed, her smile had a rather decent, icy beauty, and she pointed to the delicate route that was advertised as the [Path to Ascension], explaining in detail, from the [Follower] at the bottom, all the way to the ...... at the top

"The Chosen One."

"Morgan's Chosen One."

——————

"At the end of the path to Nirvana, they will become the children of Master Morgan."

"Real kids."

"At that point, there will be no one or any reason in the galaxy, even in subspace, to take away her most powerful and loyal warriors from Lord Morgan."

"Not even the gods."

(End of chapter)