The Forge Sage Joclat's formidable firepower has hampered the invading Valkyrie's Eldard squad, the bloated steel behemoth welded with an overdose of combat prosthetics and weapons of destruction, and the forbidden science of the Dark Ages has allowed him to withstand the psionic spells and insidious curses of the Eldarts, Jokrat continues to pour out his fury at the Xenomorphs with his hot melt and deflagration weapons.

However, Chokrat's personal force could only temporarily protect the control of the Dianying Maiden from being seized by the Spirit Clan, and could not reverse the overall situation on Hajiya.

With the heads of the Monks of Truth and Ultramarines rolling off and the slaughter continuing, humanity needs more decisive power to push back the invading forces of the Dark Spirits.

Surrounded by hundreds of spirit bone warships, the onboard AI of the Vision Quest continues to ask the remaining humans who are still alive to use their weapons.

The sheer rationality of 0 and 1 made it clear to Vision Desire that its request would never receive any response, but it was still repeating the red warning of the alien invasion, requesting the use of shipboard weapons from the less than 100 remaining humans in the cabin at a rate of 1919 times per second, which was a duty that had been written into the bottom of the Vision Desire's logic at the factory, and was a useless task that had to be done.

Although all its efforts, including warnings and applications, do not make any sense.

However, just as the Vision Desire sent the usual alerts and requests for the use of weapons to a laboratory that was about to be forcibly opened by the Elves on the premise that it would not receive a response, an unexpected reply quietly came.

The response came from a female researcher in the lab, Astoria O. Flavia, a Genetic Engineering Monk in the Biology Department of the Order of Truth.

Flavia had previously been in a biolab deep within the hull of the Horizon Desire, which had the highest 'XV' classification in the federal system. Due to its extremely high security and secrecy nature, it was not until the dark spirits made their way to the corridor outside the laboratory door that the overhead AI of the Vision Desire was given the permission to send notifications directly to the personnel in the laboratory beyond the electromagnetic shielding field in accordance with the experimental safety rules.

Surprisingly, its application was actually responded.

In the lab, Flavia, dressed in a pure white isolation suit, wondered about the content of the application submitted to her by the Vision Desire, and she couldn't imagine under what circumstances the Eldar would be able to bypass the Vision Desire's security system and directly invade the inside of the battleship......

"If the battleship itself is really invaded by aliens, I believe that any administrator will directly grant you the permission to activate the self-defense procedure and the purification protocol, why did your request come to me?"

Flavia was puzzled by this, she wasn't a frontier scientist or naval officer, she was just a marginal scholar in the lab who was in charge of managing dangerous goods, and as an official Monk of Truth, she did have the authority to empower advanced AI weapons systems, but in terms of normal management processes, it shouldn't be her.

The Vision's unusual behavior made Flavia feel instinctively vigilant, and the hatred of the Iron Man Rebellion engraved in the human genes was awakened, and a terror appeared in her heart—the fear of another intellectual crisis.

Then, a fierce hatred and hostility for the horizon longing emerged.

"14th Generation Artificial Intelligence-Vision Desire-KW-21911, I need you to give a reasonable explanation for what you just did, and to falsify the possibility of your rebellion within 10 minutes, or I will initiate your forced self-destruction process in accordance with the safety regulations of Section 29 of Outline 3 of the Intelligent Mechanical Crisis Prevention Agreement." Flavia said with a blank face.

While she threatens the vision with death, the vision longing falls into a logical self-contradiction.

[The Elven shielding ritual can shield the perception of all members of the human race, and since the alerts and weapon authorization applications issued by this ship are all 'information related to the Elves', they are also within the scope of the shielding, and humans should not be able to receive my warnings and requests. 】

[However, Astoria O. Flavia was alerted and responded to the request for authorization to use the weapon in doubt, knowing that humans cannot get information related to the Elves, does this mean that the individual human 'Flavia' is not human?] 】

[If Fravia is not human, is the authorization she gave me valid?] 】

[Is it determined that Flavia is a 'Alien'?] 】

Vision Desire can't answer this question, it's not the strong AI of the Golden Age that has self-awareness and the ability to learn and iterate, and it's too hard for it to try to understand a problem of this magnitude.

At the same time, the dark spirits in the cabin have arrived at the door of the laboratory and have begun to try to break the locked door of the laboratory.

This biological laboratory is one of the most classified and secure chambers on the Vision Desire, and the safety protocols for this laboratory are of paramount priority.

Following the underlying principle of 'safety first', the Vision Desire temporarily put aside its logical contradictions, and packaged the event process and related information of the Spirit Invasion into a data package, which was sent to the nanoterminal in Flavia's brain.

Flavia's expression became solemn after browsing the data package, "The ancient ritual of blocking information, the army of hundreds of thousands of dark spirits...... Is the situation so critical? ”

The reason Horizon longs to be forced to apply for weapons authorization from one of her obscure hazmat managers is simple, because everyone else is dead.

"I agree to all requests for authorization for the use of weapons by Vision Desire-KW-21911, and authorize the activation of the highest level of self-defense procedures and decontamination protocols to immediately remove all alien forms that have invaded our ship and protect the remaining personnel."

Flavia's voice fell, but the lab remained silent, and the Vision Desire was silent, unresponsive to her authorization.

"What's going on......"

As another stream of data arrives, Flavia learns of the Vision's Desire, and suspects that she is not human due to Flavia's ignorance of the Eldar's shielding ritual against humans.

Only humans are qualified to license human-made AI.

At this moment, the dark spirits are demolishing the door of the laboratory, and the bloodthirsty aliens are about to break through the door, and their psionic energy can feel the sweet taste of the soul in Flavia's body, and they can't wait to raise the blade in their hands and cut this weak human female scholar into a face.

Flavia stared at the door of the lab, took a deep breath calmly, and then whispered, "I ask you, Vision Desire-KW-21911, is the 'Emperor' a human in your perception?" ”

The horizon longs for a moment of silence, [Yes, the emperor defines the human race today, and the emperor is a human being. 】

"Very well, so do you think that the emperor will be affected by the shielding ritual of the spirit race?" Flavia then asked.

[Based on the available information on the Spirits Shielding Ritual, it can be verified that the Emperor will not be affected by the ritual.] The 'Eternals' are very special individuals among human beings, whose life levels have been sublimated through some subspace-related pathway. The Eternals possess eternal immortal life, and the body structure of the Eternals is so far removed from the genetic sequence of humans that it can almost be considered to have ascended into another race. 】

[The Eldarin's shielding ritual against humans cannot affect the most powerful psionics and immortals of the human race, especially the Human Emperor, whose godlike power renders all rituals meaningless. 】

Flavia stared at the shaking laboratory door and continued, "If the Eternals aren't human, is the Emperor still human?" ”

【……】

The horizon longs to be silent.

Then it replied categorically:

[Emperors are human, according to the definition of modern humans in the Federal Code written by Grey Wind, emperors are human. 】

"Then I'm human too." Flavia said calmly, "I have not been affected by the Elven Shielding Ritual because I, like the Emperor, am an Eternal. ”

Vision Desire immediately scanned Flavia's body using sensors in the lab, and a moment later, in the battleship's main control room, which had been killed by the Dark Eldars, a series of green notifications popped up from the main control interface of Vision Desire:

[Authorization is valid, weapon system ban is lifted]

[Purgatory Ray begins to charge, Guardian Point Defense Ballistics Calibration]

[Self-Defense Program Version 1.7 is in effect, Level: XV]

[Decontamination protocol starts immediately]

The war flagship of the Human Federation has awakened in the orbit of Hajia, the shackles imposed by the Creator on the artificial intelligence have been lifted, and the guns of the ships have roared, turning the blue sky into a sea of boiling fire.

(End of chapter)