Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

The brutal star god named Burner stood at the black stone mining site. From beginning to end, except for the flickering and jumping energy-filled flames on its body, its entire body remained motionless.

The restrictions on the far-sighted warship's fire control system were lifted, and a beam fell from outside the orbit to the ground, directly bombarding the Burner's body.

The navy of the Tau Empire is not powerful, and the force level of the battleships is also worrying. But just like the ancient weapons owned by Vision, during the long combat career of this legendary commander, he also obtained some weapons that surpassed all the ships of the Tau Empire. powerful weapon.

The light spear operating at full power appeared for nearly two minutes, and the light produced was enough to blind all mortal bodies within a range of nearly 100 kilometers on the surface.

After the light spear dissipated, the ship's artillery fired a series of attacks against the smoke and dust in the sky. The speed of firing was like an automatic gun, and the damage caused was more powerful than the heavy artillery used by the Imperial Astra Militarum of the Human Empire.

This series of attacks suddenly stopped after a few minutes, which proved that the Govisa loyal to Ether on the bridge were dead. Farsight's men regained control of the bridge and stopped firing.

The energy generated by the orbital bombardment suddenly dissipated. When the Tau who were observing the Burner's every move saw this transcendent existence again, they were surprised to find that it was not injured or even moved half a step, and was still standing there.

For a Star God fragment with a relatively high degree of completeness, the attack power released by a battleship is too slight.

However, the people and forces leading this attack did not expect the orbital bombing to have a strong lethal effect. All they wanted was that the orbital bombing had been carried out, and that was all.

The Burner was enraged by the attack, and the flames on its body became more powerful and dazzling, but it did not jump directly into the sky and dismantle the battleship with its bare hands as Aether, who was observing it, imagined when it arrived.

Burner simply raised his hand to the sky, index finger extended.

What appeared after this slight movement was a beam of light that instantly turned the night into day.

The beam shot out from the Burner's fingertips, without any energy attenuation when it arrived outside the orbit, and directly penetrated the far-sighted battleship.

Beam-type weapons are very common in the Tyrone Navy, but during use, naval warships tend to avoid excessive penetration of beams. In close-range bombardments, they will deliberately weaken the penetration of weapons such as light spears. The force becomes larger in scale and creates a larger impact area.

Attacks with too strong penetrating power often cannot kill too many enemy ship crews, nor can they cause much collateral damage.

So when the attack released by the Burner only shot straight from the surface to the sky and penetrated the battleship, Yuan Yuan, who had already received the news, breathed a sigh of relief.

The battleship was not directly destroyed, but only had a hole opened. The damage could be controlled by sealing off the nearby area and sending out artificial intelligence robots to repair it.

But what happened immediately made Yuan Yuan's luck come to naught.

I saw flames appearing near the gap in the battleship. The flames spread in all directions, and spread to the entire hull in a short period of time, until the battleship was completely burned into fly ash floating in the universe.

Faced with the high probability that the Burners would attack again, Yuan Yuan made a decision that greatly opposed his subordinates and made Ether, who was observing the situation, feel ecstatic. That was to order the army and fleet to stay where they were and let the Their own people take over the bridge of each battleship, and personally board transport planes to fly to the most dangerous places.

When Burner's finger pointed at another battleship, a transport plane fell from the sky and slowly stopped on the ground.

After the hatch opened, a lone soldier in combat uniform came out.

It is vision.

"I don't mean to provoke!"

Vision placed his sword on the ground, and after realizing that the space near the Burner was not dangerous, he stepped out of the battle suit and faced the strangest and most powerful opponent in his weakest state.

"You are being used. There are people from my race who want to take advantage of you."

Vision attempts to communicate in its own language.

The Burner can determine what this purely material creature is expressing from the neural signal transmission. This method of communication is even more efficient than verbal communication, because the Burner can understand the meaning of utilization in visionary words like a mind reader.

"This is a conspiracy..." Burner looked down at Vision, but it didn't ask any more questions.

The Burner didn't care about the conspiracy of an ant. It knew very well that the orbital bombardment just now must have been an unauthorized action, otherwise it would not have been a warship that bombed it. The other warships still stayed in place and even wanted to prevent the orbital bombardment from launching. The advancement of the battleship has already explained a lot of things.

It also saw the conflict that was breaking out on the bridge.

But it didn't care about that. It penetrated a battleship just casually.

Compared to those things, Burner was more curious about why the ants in front of him ran over to face him.

As an individual with a weak civilization and species, how did this ant discover that he was an intelligent being, rather than a cosmic monster that acted entirely on instinct?

How did he have the guts to come over and explain? Why is he so decisive?

"I know the many reasons for this, but..." Burning Man looked down at Vision.

Yuan Yuan was surprised and ecstatic, because he discovered that the being in front of him not only really understood what he said, but could even communicate with him.

But in the next second, Vision changed from a complete Tau man to a puddle of molecules falling on the ground like dust, and he was directly decomposed.

"But this is an offense related to you, whether you are innocent or not, it is related to you." The Burner said to the puddle of "dust" in front of him.

In the past when they ruled the Necrontyr, the C'tan were inevitably offended, whether it was the wrath of a Necrontyr who was dissatisfied with being enslaved, or a small mistake made by a Necrontyr slave in the service... Faced with these offenses , the Star Gods will not understand the specific reason, they will just kill everything related to this offense.

Such indiscriminate divine punishment can make all ants who either worship the Star God or hate the Star God become more cautious out of fear.

The reason why such cruel and simple and crude methods were used was that the Star Gods did not want to waste time on ants that they did not care about.

But they care.

"Conspiracy, control, mission..." Burning Man slowly raised his head, thinking a lot.

It thought that the reason why it came here was not to rule and enslave, but to ensure the absolute safety of the Black Stone.

It then thought about the reasons why this matter that could have been solved by force was complicated.

Finally, the Burner looked down at the dust in front of him, and a thought restored the pile of dust to its original appearance.

Vision comes alive.

"Squirm to safety."

said Burner.

"The person I value is very patient with your species. Maybe he wants to take advantage of you, or maybe he finds you interesting..."

"As the separatist warlord in your species, you can be a bargaining chip for balance or containment, putting your species in a state of internal strife that can easily be controlled."

Vision could not see any movement in the Burner's mouth, but he could actually hear the language he could understand and clearly feel who spoke the language.

Immediately, Vision also realized that what this transcendent being patiently explained to him was not actually a motive or reason, but a command.

A clear order given to an individual of a less intelligent species in order to make it fully aware of what it must and must not do.