Chapter 153 Storm of Destruction: The Choice of Mission
While the battle was going on fiercely on the ground, Belisarius Cawl was also conducting his research deep underground in the Cadia Obelisk Plain. After getting the permission of Lord Creed, Cawl successfully came to the underground of the Obelisk Plain. He broke through the wall of the bunker and found the core of the black stone here.
This is a huge inverted pyramid. The strange black metal body protrudes from the upper part of the crypt, just like a building built by a designer after taking the wrong drawings.
Countless green energy lines flickered and flowed on its surface. There is no doubt that this is definitely the target that Cawl is looking for, so he ordered his technical priests and servitors to build this camp.
In this underground scientific research camp, countless energy cables were pulled from the bunker at the far end, and the lighting headlights lit up the huge cave structure of the entire underground. Display screens and Mechanicus holographic equipment were deployed around the pyramid.
Among these research equipment, Cawl, who was much more burly than most priests, stood there, and his only face that retained human features scanned the screens in front of him.
Countless data and energy scanning maps were scrolling on it. The servos and servos were scanning the energy data of the inverted pyramid structure, and the results surprised Cawl.
He looked at the ever-changing energy display on it. The energy was as unpredictable as water, and seemed completely random and irregular. However, Cawl repeatedly calculated through the unimaginable data array in his mind. Finally, after millions of calculations, he discovered the characteristics of these energies.
The energy performance of these obelisks is almost completely consistent with that of the subspace, and it is almost completely random and unpredictable. Cawl did not notice this at first, but he accidentally paid attention to the war on the surface. When Celestine summoned the Bound Legion, he detected the subspace energy field there out of curiosity, and then found the similarity with the Black Stone.
The energy performance of the Black Stone Obelisk is almost completely a mirror of the subspace energy field, just like a person standing at both ends of the mirror. They are exactly the same, with the same movements, demeanor and any subtle changes in expression. The only difference is that one person is facing the mirror and the other is facing the mirror.
"What a magical creation." Kaul said, his mechanical arms operating the computers around him, the Thinker engine running at full speed and calculating energy changes. This was difficult, but Kaul still made up for the error through his own computing power.
Kaul's mechanical eyes swept across the screens, and the changes on them made him extremely obsessed. Even though he had lived for thousands of years through replicas, data transfer and storage, the things here still made Kaul curious and puzzled.
His fingers tapped the keyboard, constantly using the portable reactor function brought by him to inject powerful external energy into the lower structure of the obelisk. The energy of the reactor was injected into it through several data cables connected to the end of the pyramid.
Kaul constantly used external forces to attack, interfere with and try to destroy the energy field of the obelisk, but he was surprised to find that its energy form was completely stable. No matter whether it was attacked by the United from the physical energy level or the psychic level, its operation was still stable and conserved, just like it was easy to hit everything into the water and then take it back.
"How amazing," Caul exclaimed. He walked around the data platform and came to the front of the black inverted pyramid. His mechanical fingers touched its surface. The flowing black steel was cold and mysterious.
His mechanical eyes turned and scanned its surface structure. The absolutely smooth surface had no dents or damage. Even if he increased the magnification by 50,000 times, its surface was still absolutely smooth, like a water droplet that flows smoothly all over.
Its surface molecules were completely locked, leaving no gaps. It was hard to imagine how the obelisk on the desolate planet was destroyed before, and why Abaddon wanted to destroy these fascinating creations.
The red light illuminated Caul's robe and mechanical limbs. He turned his head and looked at the alarm. The warning red light and the piercing sirens echoed throughout the underground space, like a scream of doomsday.
"What happened? Report the data immediately." Caul said and turned around. A technical priest walked in front of Caul. His face, which was mostly covered by machinery, looked at the data tablet in his hand and responded to the great sage in a cold tone.
"The Cadia air defense system has been invaded by electronic demons. All systems have been down and the air defense array has been paralyzed." The priest said word by word. He raised his head and looked at the face of the great sage. "According to the calculation of the command system, the planet will fall within two hours if it loses its orbital counterattack capability."
"This result is unacceptable. Repair the orbital defense system immediately." Cawl said. He turned and strode to a data terminal. The connection between the terminal and the Cadia defense system was originally just a window for Cawl to follow the progress of the surface war.
Now he looked at the raging electronic demons on it. Cawl tried to repair the system, but the connection was decisively disconnected in an instant. The electronic demon discovered Cawl and almost instantly pounced on him along the data stream. If the great sage had not disconnected quickly, his data terminal might have been invaded.
Cawl searched for these viruses in the database and soon found that they existed in the records of the Empire. This was a deadly virus created by the war blacksmiths of the Iron Warriors.
"By Omnissia, we must save Cadia until my research is complete." Cawl said, holding the mechanical scepter. The terrifying orbital bombardment above his head had begun. The crypt was shaking with the explosion of shells and countless rubble fell.
Some of them hit some metal objects at any time. Cawl listened to the strange collision sound and the strange footsteps and looked into the shadow.
A figure came out from the depths of the cave. He brushed off the dust on himself and walked out of the shadow. His completely mechanized body appeared in front of Cawl, almost instantly arousing the vigilance and hostility of the great sage.
"Space Necrons." Cawl clenched the scepter. He looked at the dead spirit in front of him. His face flashed green light with a strange laugh. This guy had a huge back crown on his back, and its shape looked completely different from his dead spirits.
"Hello, great sage, it's nice to see you here." The dead spirit said with a smile. He walked out of the shadow and walked towards Cawl. The great sage raised the scepter, and the cathars around him all raised their weapons.
"The Endless. Trazyn." Cawl said in the most murderous, hostile and terrifying voice among his voices.
The Necromancer did not show any fear or displeasure. He walked towards Cawl with a chuckle, "Don't worry, Great Sage, I'm here to help. I think you should treat your allies with friendship."
"I'm not like what you said, alien." Cawl said seriously, and his countless mechanical arms were raised, and long cutting razors extended from under his red robe.
The Skitarii around him also aimed at the Necromancer, but this alien who suddenly appeared alone was surprisingly calm, which made Cawl a little different and began to think about what he said.
"Why are you here, what is your purpose?" Cawl asked in a mechanical voice, and the Necromancer responded in a more human voice, "Help, because of a friend's request."
"What kind of friend?" Cawl continued to ask, and raised the Scepter of the Great Sage to signal him to stop. Trazyn stopped, and he raised his mechanical fingers with a chuckle and turned them up. His wrist twisted in front of his eyes, as if he was performing some acrobatics.
"Answer my question, alien! Before I blow you to pieces!" Cawl warned, and Trazyn calmly tapped the Empire's data terminal computer with his finger. Almost instantly, all the electronic demons were destroyed, and the demon virus that the Iron Warriors were proud of was instantly disintegrated and destroyed.
"I said, I'm here to help. This is the first favor I'm doing you, and this is the second and most important one."
He flicked his finger and a data hard drive appeared, as if it was really a magic trick.
"A friend, a mutual friend." "You and I have no mutual friends, alien!" "No, Great Sage, but whether you understand it now or not, I will help you, here."
Tarasim handed the hard drive to Kaul, who looked at the hard drive suspiciously, "Is this a trap?"
"No." "Why should I trust an alien?" "Cadia is about to be captured, Great Sage, do you have better ideas? No? Then you can only accept it."
Kaul hesitated for a moment, then stretched out a long mechanical arm and probed over. Its wriggling mechanical structure opened and closed back and forth in front of Tarasim like a snake, and then grabbed the hard drive and quickly retracted it.
Belisarius Kaul inserted the data hard drive into the reading interface. He created a safe isolation zone and used one of the temporary personalities to process it. If it was invaded, it would be quickly discarded and deleted to ensure the safety of the host as much as possible.
But his worry was totally unnecessary, because there were indeed no viruses or attack programs in the hard drive, but a bunch of dense data and data archives. He opened one of the data packets, and then the half-human face showed an expression that could be called surprised.
"This is the data of the Black Stone Obelisk. My people created them during the War in Heaven to suppress the power of the Subspace Psychic Sea, so as to better suppress the Old Saints and their servants."
Taraxin explained attentively, his face was covered by a bunch of data windows in front of Cawl, but his explanation was still very helpful.
Caul scanned and read the data at the fastest speed, then closed all the windows and looked at Taraxin in front of him, "It is because of the existence of the obelisk that the Eye of Terror is blocked at the edge of the Milky Way, pulling out a long physical corridor."
"Yes, that's why it is called the Eye of Terror. In a sense, this eye is only possible because of the existence of Cadia. And as you think, Great Sage, you can reversely operate the obelisk to suppress it, and even try to close the Eye of Terror."
Caul turned around without saying a word. He strode to the data terminal and used the knowledge he had just acquired to activate the obelisk. The constant energy field began to change rapidly, and countless energy structures began to expand rapidly, then collapsed and contracted, and then repeated this, like a vortex.
The inverted pyramid structure was all lit up, and the obelisk structures extending from the ground around it were all lit up. Strings of green light flickered on it, and the powerful energy field even destroyed several Thinker data terminals.
Kaul stood in front of the control interface. The high-speed operating reactor hit the obelisk with regular energy, thereby activating its energy field. Kaul looked aside, looking at the rapidly declining subspace energy map. Power is being suppressed! Even the Eye of Terror itself!
Violent vibrations rippled through the ground, and the Skitarii could hardly stand still. Amidst the flying sparks, Caul excitedly looked at the subspace data, which was rapidly collapsing, and the energy field in the obelisk expanded and contracted. It is squeezed and absorbed below.
"But there is a warning, you need to know, Great Sage." Trazin said and walked up, standing behind Caul, "Now you know that what I said is true, and thousands of advices are not as successful as one." Try, now I need to tell you another fact."
"The obelisk can indeed suppress the energy of subspace, and the demons on the surface will disappear as the power of subspace weakens. But for Abaddon, the main force he relies on in this battle is the Black Legion, and the traitor Space Marines , these existences do not require the maintenance of subspace power.”
"They can continue to attack, but for the empire, Celestine, who is currently maintaining the war situation, will lose his power, and the Cursed Legion will disappear immediately. Like the devil, the empire can only rely on the mortals of Cadia and a few The Black Templars and Imperial Fists Space Marines are seeking death against the hordes of destruction."
As Trazin said, Caul turned his head and looked at the undead overlord. Electric sparks continued to spurt out around him. He stood there steadily and spoke calmly.
"You have two choices, Great Sage. You can abandon Cadia, abandon them, and let Abaddon slaughter them all. Taking Cadia will also destroy your fleet, your ark, and the ones on it. The treasure you carry, the treasure you must send to Macragge, but you can try to use the obelisk to directly close the Eye of Terror permanently, but your commitment to Guilliman, and your ten thousand years of mission and responsibility will Falling short of success.”
"You can also choose to save them. Stop your attempts now, try to save Cardia and your compatriots, and send the destiny armor carried on your Mechanical Ark to Macragge to fulfill your obligations thousands of years ago. Commitment, you need to make a choice.”
Caul watched Trazin remain silent, and the Necromancer looked at him. The Great Sage did not answer immediately, but Trazin nodded silently, then turned and walked into the shadows.
Once again, a Dimensional Rubik's Cube appeared in his hand like magic, and he gradually walked away, "I will buy you time, but you need to make a decision as soon as possible, Great Sage."
Kaul stood in the constantly shaking underground cave. He looked at the operation interface in front of him, his fingers hovering over the power button. He needed to make a choice. Is he going to risk destroying all his efforts over the past ten thousand years and close the Eye of Terror? , it is better to give up this opportunity and break through the encirclement to fulfill the promise between himself and Guilliman.
He must make a choice, a choice that determines the fate of the entire galaxy.