After a long warp voyage, the expedition fleet, which had lost dozens of Swordfish frigates and several Sailfish research ships, returned to Falla.

They were also joined by a number of high-tech priests, who had either been destroyed by the Omemenides' powerful shipborne firepower or torpedoed by the Space Marines, who had seized control of several of the Order's and research ships through gang jumping.

In a sense, this was a good thing for the Technopriests, who were able to fully experience a warp voyage across galacies on the way back to Falla.

After learning that the "curvature bubble" that brought the ship into a physical faster-than-light state was powered by a biological wetware engine called a brain worm, the creature sage "Igrenu", who had a high status in the casting world of Musbell, fell into great happiness.

Egrenou's academic field is neurobiology, so he is particularly interested in how the Brain Worm Wetpiece uses its powerful nervous system to distort space and create a curvature bubble large enough for space battleships to travel interstellarly.

After the death of the head of research and the disappearance of Alphons, the titular organizer of the expedition fleet became Lystia. Ignoring the atmosphere of grief and loss that lingered among the Brothers of Truth after the death of his colleague, Egrenu continued to haunt Lystia as the most fanatical believer, using all rhetoric to obtain permission to study the Brain Worm Wet Piece.

As for the banshees who took off their armor in the medical pod, revealing their scarred graceful figures?

The god of all machines is above, isn't that a subhuman that has been strengthened by special surgery? As suched by the academic reputation of Musbell's chief biological sage, it is human. How can a two-meter-tall human with pointy ears not be human?

The bio-sage Igrenu still stalked behind the already distraught Listia's ass, and the technopriests in the cabin who couldn't spare a moment annoyed her enough.

This group of guys who have been mechanically transformed to almost indistinguishable human form in the casting world Musbell is clearly a high-ranking priest, but when they enter the sailfish research ship, they are like bear children who go to the supermarket for the first time, either turning over or looking, and they are full of interest in various precision facilities and even predictive interfaces in the ship.

The air seemed to be filled with the smell of burnt wires on their bodies due to the short circuit due to overexcitement, and Listia was a little suspicious, if it weren't for the fact that they couldn't beat it, this group of oil guys would have been eager to dismantle the whole ship and bring it back to Muspel to lick it...... Do some research.

"Miss Lystia, what are you thinking?"

Lystia had just found an empty rest pod that was empty and was about to rest for a while, when the familiar voice, Igrenou, came up again.

As a biological sage who specializes in neurobiology, Igrenu doesn't have a lot of mechanical modifications, at least Listia can tell her gender by the curves of her pelvis and her breasts that have not yet been removed.

Having also undergone biological modification, Egrenou's body form will be closer to that of an integrated prosthetic preacher than a mechanical sage without human form, which makes the Monks of Truth somewhat subconsciously less estranged from her.

But that's about it. For the Cyber God Sticks of the Mechanic Order, the materialist monks have no extra favor.

In the empty rest pod, Egrenum sat down beside Listia out of sight, close enough to hear the insignificant, near-utter silence of the singularity reactor in his chest.

"Miss Lystia, I may sign a confidentiality agreement, and swear in the name of the God of All Machines that I will never divulge any secrets I learn here; Musbell has always been hostile to Embra, but I can also be on the side of the marbles and use my channels to lobby the top within Musbell; I can still ......"

"As long as I have what I have, what I can do, everything I have can be put on the table as a weight, as long as it ...... I can even turn my back on the belief in the God of All Machines and join the Truth Order! Only, as long as I can get a complete piece of the Brain Worm Wet Piece Bio Engine to study......"

The more Igrenu spoke, the more agitated she became, the servo skull behind her tried to report some information to her several times but was forcibly interrupted, the biological sage's breathing was so rapid that it was like a dry wood fire about to be lit, and Listia felt that she could pounce on her on the bed at any moment without control.

"You just said that you swore in the name of the God of All Machines that you would keep it a secret, and then you said that you can renounce your faith in the God of All Machines and join us at any time, is this ...... Not quite right? ”

Listia couldn't help but laugh: "And whether the brain worm wet piece can be opened to outsiders for research is not something I have the authority to decide. The Bio Engine was given to us by the leader himself, and even we don't fully understand how it works, which will be an important topic in the future......"

"Wan ...... The Bullet Star is on top! Miss Lystia, doesn't that mean you need me to help with your research? I am not boasting, in the field of biological research, looking at the entire Far Eastern frontier, there is no one who is on my right! ”

Ignoring Lystia's assertion that she had no authority, Igrenu began to boast of her academic achievements in an exaggerated tone, hoping to prove that she would be of great help to the Order's future research.

"Even if you say that, I still don't have permission...... I've always been disgusted in the congregation. Listia was particularly tired:

"And it's useless to tell me more? It's nothing pointless. If you really want to study the Brain Worm Wet, you can apply to join the Terra Expedition - oh, you call that the Sage Expedition? It's not bad. ”

"The Sage's Expedition to the West?" Igrenu finally calmed down a bit: "Does this have anything to do with the bio engine I want to work on?" ”

So you don't know, that's no wonder...... Listia thought for a moment and said:

"It is so, the Prophetess summoned 13 Astarte warbands and almost all the military forces of the entire Far Eastern Frontier to form 13 expeditionary forces to Terra from 13 directions in order to send the L-Star Gate construction template to Stalterra."

"Our leaders have pledged to provide each expeditionary force with a warp engine, as well as to upgrade the flagships of the 13 warbands for free, also equipped with biological warp engines."

Igrenu and the servo skull behind her were silent.

"So if you really want to study the brain worm wet parts, why don't you apply to be stationed in a certain warband flagship to become the chief technical advisor, there are 13 warbands, if you really have achievements, then you can choose any of them...... No, we've already had a blood feud with the Death Stalkers, and the leader probably won't provide ships for this warband? Listia said in a tone of uncertainty that she was not sure.

In that case, only 12 of the 13 expeditionary forces would be supported by the Queen of Glory and the Warp Engine.

(End of chapter)