There is a faction among the space necrons who aspire to replace the star gods as the gods of the physical universe, and the astrologer Orikan is one of the representatives of this doctrine, and Ourecan has long been looking for a way to become an astral god without a metal shell, and Russell is very aware of these things.

But what he didn't know was when Orican actually succeeded.

According to the records of the Black Library, until the 42nd millennium, the progress of Orican's research on the star gods was still at the level of 'temporarily perceiving the hunger and thirst of the star gods', which is not far from the grand goal of truly replacing the star gods, at least it can be said that the Long March has just begun to prepare dry food.

Now in the 39th year of the 40th millennium, how can Orican, which had achieved almost nothing for the next 2,000 years in the course of history, suddenly succeed?

"Perhaps, we can find the answer in Orikan's memory." Russell glanced at the three extradimensional time loop cages on display in front of him and asked, "Gray Wind, do you have a way to read Orikan's memories?" ”

Gray Wind shook his head, "Orican has cut and pasted his consciousness and memories into the fragments of the Void Dragon's divine body, the life structure of the Star God is different from any life form we know, we currently have no technical means to interfere with the will of the Star God, so naturally we can't read Orikan's memory, unless we ......"

Although the Order of Truth claims to have extracted the secret of the Black Stone from the Void Dragon's Star Will, in fact, only Grey Wind himself knows that the technological breakthrough in synthesizing the Black Stone was actually researched by dissecting the Void Dragon's living metal skin.

The Void Dragon's living metal skin has the same quantum inertia and subspace poles as Blackstone's matter, but the two are completely different substances, which shows that Blackstone itself cannot suppress psionic energy and demons, and that it is a more primitive and pure power that inhibites/amplifies subspace.

"Unless what? How exactly do we need to successfully extract the memories of a star god? Russell hurriedly asked.

Grey Wind spread his hands, "Unless we can master the Ascension Protocol." ”

The Ascension Protocol is a high-powered protocol used by Orion to format the Star God Fragment and erase the Void Dragon's will, and it is the only known means of interfering with the Star God's will and memory.

"So ...... Ascension Protocol is there?"

"In Orikan's memory." Grey Wind said helplessly, "Without extracting its memories, we won't be able to master the Ascension Protocol." ”

Well, the key is locked in the safe.

So the question goes back to the original place - how did Orekon get the key? How could an astrologer who had been inactive for tens of thousands of years suddenly develop something as awesome as the Ascension Protocol?

"Who knows?" Grey Wind spread his hands again, and the hands and feet of the astrologers and the endless were very clean, and they were secretive, and there was no place to check them.

Russell thought for a moment and said, "Or, I'll do a hexagram?" ”

Grey Wind's face puffed out, "It seems that this is the only way to go." ”

Under the gaze of the gray wind, Russell prayed on the spot.

Sure enough, nothing came out. This is not surprising, the history of the struggle between space necromancy and subspace and psionic energy can be measured in hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, and it is not too simple for astrologers to try to shield psionic divination.

"Is my fortune-telling posture wrong?" Russell began to reflect on himself, if he wanted to talk about fortune-telling, Motarion's numerology might be an option, or he could try to ask the emperor and Tzeentch.

"If it really doesn't work, we'll go and destroy the Orican unit, the Sotek dynasty, right?" Grey Wind proposed, "Although there is a lot to do right now, and everyone is busy, the Ascension Protocol is very important, and I think the rest of the work can be put aside for now, and I will go to the astrologer and the Storm King's house for clues first." ”

"Hmm...... That's the only way to do it. Russell was really thinking about it.

Just as the two of them were discussing the feasibility of this plan together, suddenly, the time weapon, which was stored in another compartment inside the Gray Gu Mothership, the Ring Principle, turned on its own.

A soft voice with a faint grievance sounded in Russell and Grey Wind's subconscious at the same time:

"Even if you're helpless to this point, won't you want to turn to me for help?"

Russell and Grey Wind looked at each other, and the two of them showed a hellish expression together.

This is the first time that Russell has communicated directly with the worm of time since he came to this universe, without the help of the Omega homology device, nor in the great void of the nightmare constellation that is affected by him, the thoughts of the latent time worm are directly projected into Russell's subconscious, which is the purest communication between thoughts and thoughts.

Russell suddenly remembered that as early as when he first boarded the Gray Gu Mothership, Gray Wind had told him that there were actually 4 Star God Fragments she had captured, but the Ruler Zahurash's fragments had been eaten by the Time Worm.

"Zahurash the Ruler holds the time authority in this universe, and since he ate his shards, the Time Worm can now communicate directly with us?"

"No, on the other hand, the Time Worm has never communicated directly with me before, maybe it's not that he doesn't want to, but he can't, because the Time Worm is not a native law creature of this universe, and after devouring the fragments of Zahurash, he absorbed a part of the concept of time belonging to this universe, and the Time Worm 'localized' a little bit......"

Russell's silk turned rapidly, and he quickly sorted out the cause and effect of this series of events.

Immediately after, the voice of the insect of time, as gentle as a lover's whisper, resurfaced in Russell's ears:

"You're really smart, kid, I'm getting more and more in love with you."

"Then my love for the marshal is, ×2!" Not to be outdone, Grey Wind muttered.

It's all about what and what.

Russell felt that something was wrong with the magnetic field around him, so he quickly changed the topic and said, "So, the Worm of Time... Lady? You mean you're able to give us clues about Orikan and the Ascension Protocol? ”

"The title of lady is too distant, I hope you can call me in the words of human society that call female relatives, such as sister? Mom? Or sister...... Anything, I just want to be closer to you, and then I'll be happy. ”

"......" Russell looked at the gray wind on the side and found that her head was a little deformed in anger.

The literal deformation, the humanoid mimicry of the nanobot swarm is somewhat untenable.

Russell didn't dare to respond to the Worm of Time's proposal, so he had to fool around ambiguously.

The Worm of Time seemed to have known that this would be the outcome, and he didn't care.

The topic is back on track: "So, where did the Ascension Protocol come from in the hands of Orikan?" Could it really be that it was an accidental burst of inspiration that unreasonably forced a breakthrough in esoteric research that had not been able to make an inch of progress for thousands of years? ”

"Of course not." The voice of the insect of time was soft and soft: "There is a being who is helping it, guiding it, so that the astrologer finally succeeds in occupying the magpie's nest, replacing the star god, the god of the physical universe." ”

"What is that being?" Russell hurriedly asked.

"The God of Machines."

The voice of the Worm of Time was still soft, but every word it spoke was heavy.

"Yes...... The god of all machines I was thinking of? ”

"It's not a clay artist, kid, it's a god of all machines." The Worm of Time emphasized, "It has always been worshipped by the Mechanic Order, the god of all machines. ”

(End of chapter)