"Spirits?"

"Eldar."

"Shhhh Benhardt's mind was shaken.

Russell became interested: "What are the rumors?" Tell me about it? ”

Benhardt pondered for a moment and said, "When the 2nd Expeditionary Fleet of the Terra Expedition passed through the Krenna sector, I had a meeting with their commander 'Sergius'. It was at that time that the site of the L-Star Gate was negotiated.

While chattering, I also noticed that although the ships of the expeditionary fleet were from the Imperial Navy, they were quite different from the usual styles in service today, and the appearance alone showed that many new weapons and shields had been added, and the core engines and pressurized cabins had also been modified for the expedition route......

Even if a foundry world with full capacity is desperately rushing to complete the refit of a massive expeditionary fleet, it will take centuries. However, the time spent in the Far Eastern Star Field is less than 70 years. ”

"The most terrifying thing is that there are 13 fleets like this."

Russell nodded: "You are not wrong in your estimation of time, the efficiency of the Mechanical Order has always been like this. But it's biased.

It takes more than a century to cast a battleship in the world, but it is not because it really takes a century, but because many redundant ritual links and blessing steps slow down the progress, if you can abandon superstition, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and let the sages of the Mechanic Sect do their best, it is not impossible to have a battleship in 10 years. ”

Banhardt shook his head with a wry smile: "Your Excellency Russell, you can just say this to me, but don't let the sages of the Mechanical Order hear it." ”

When it comes to faith, the oil guys are very grumpy.

"Of course I do." Russell smiled faintly: "Although the blessing ceremony of the Mechanical Order is cumbersome, it is not a simple superstition, the blessing of the God of All Machines and the favor of the Emperor can indeed play a role in preventing chaos and corruption." ”

Imperial warships are to sail into subspace, and if these blessing steps are omitted, it means a huge security risk.

"You're right, that's why I'm curious when I talk to Commander Sergius about how the Second Expeditionary Fleet's ships are being refitted in such a short period of time, lacking the necessary blessing steps, and how ships that have not received the blessing of the Emperor should deal with the invasion of Chaos?" ”

"His answer to me was - the Eldars."

Banhardt's tone paused and his expression became serious: "Most of the technical support for building the Valkyries and modifying the expeditionary fleet came from an organization called the 'Order of Truth', which is made up of followers of the Bullet Starmen. It is said that the Order of Truth holds in its hands a dark technology capable of burning living psionic races into dust, and the dust created through this technology is the purest and most precious spiritual energy in the galaxy. ”

"According to Sergius, by consuming psionic dust as an energy source, the expeditionary fleet can drive an ancient technological creation called the 'psionic repulsion field', which continuously purifies all discordant spirit spectrum within a certain range, achieving the magical effect of purifying chaos."

Banhardt's tone was very determined, for he had personally verified the divine power of the Psionic Repulsion Field

"The 'Psionic Repulsion Field' consumes a lot of energy every time it runs, so the gap in psionic dust in the Second Expeditionary Fleet is quite large...... To hide from Lord Russell, Commander Sergius bought me a lot of Spirit slaves as firewood before leaving, and I also successfully purchased a Psionic Repulsion Field Generator and set it up in my mansion. ”

Having experienced it for himself is the right to speak, and Governor Banhardt clearly has a high regard for psionic repulsion.

As for why there are Spirit Slaves in Banhat's hands...... Then you have to ask his Heaven World Jade Star, maybe there is Ran Dan Yu or the mother short person on it. The Imperial Lords played with bells and whistles in this regard.

Russell propped his chin with one hand and continued: "In addition to the psionic repulsion field, the Bulletiner also has many mysterious psionic technologies from the Dark Age of Technology, but these technologies need to be powered by psionic energy.

Of all the sapient races, the Spirit Race has the highest psionic potential, and hunting the Spirit Race is the best choice to obtain dust - that's the rumor you're talking about, right? ”

"That's right." "This rumor is widely circulated in the Ronin Trader and the Bottom Nest Black Market, and in the Krenna sector alone, as many as a dozen bounty hunter groups have spawned around chasing the high bounties offered by the Bulletiners for the Spirit Clan. ”

Before the arrival of the 2nd Expeditionary Fleet, he had thought that this wave of bounty hunters who hunted the Spirit Clan was just a farce, but now that the messenger of the Bullet Star had come to him in person, he couldn't believe it.

Russell smiled and did not comment.

He was right with this bounty order, but in the end, he didn't receive much psionic dust himself. Most of the spirits captured by the bounty hunter group have been cut off by passing expeditionary fleets, and they are in dire need of psionic dust resources, and even incinerate humans to obtain dust if necessary.

It has been 15 years since the Terra Expedition began, and there are even a large number of nomadic tribes in the Extreme Star Domain who specialize in chasing the routes of the Terra Expedition, relying on hunting the Barbarian and Dark Elves and the major expeditionary fleets in exchange for resources to make a living.

These were the typhoon benefits of one of his bounty orders, which were unplanned by Russell.

"If the Bulletin-sama needs the Spirit Clan...... I do have some channels. Benhardt Medius suddenly slowed down and said cautiously.

"Oh? How so? Russell was a little surprised.

The Spirit Race is not easy to catch, this race is very strong in terms of physical fitness and technological level. Even if Governor Banhardt had kept some Spirit slaves in captivity on the Emerald Star to provide some special services to the dignitaries of the Human Empire, this scale should not be too large, compared to Russell's energy needs.

Banhardt smiled narrowly, and said with some hesitation: "I believe that as His Excellency Russell, you can more or less understand that the dark spirits in the dark city of 'Comoros' have some special cloning technology, and even the Aydarin, a life with an extremely complex genetic structure, can be mass-produced. ”

“…… Truth be told, I have a friend who has some channels on the dark elves side, and as long as he is willing to pay enough to get a large number of living elves from the Comoros, it is not a problem. ”

Russell: "Huh? ”

It took him a few seconds to recover from the shock, and Benhardt's friend really gave him a little imperial shock.

At this moment, he could only sigh, the governor of the Krenna sector, Benhat Medius, was really worthy of being a bureaucrat of the Human Empire.

(End of chapter)