Chapter 290: Ramirez-class Star Fort STC

The Living Metal spread rapidly, wrapping around the black-armored body, and golden flames surged, lighting up a sun above the dim, rocky world.

Energy beams lashed against the golden flames, only making the fire surrounding Ninglu's body burn a little brighter.

Ninglu had already mastered a portion of the power of the C'tan Shard; the flames he controlled, while not equal to the fire within the heart of a burning star, still exceeded the Liyan Rongliu of planetary volcanoes.

The destructive firepower grid of the Andrew robots was swallowed by the golden flames, which only made the golden light shine brighter.

Ninglu swooped down, the golden flames on his body growing ever more intense.

He swung his Chainsword, relying on the power of the C'tan Shard he had mastered, and the golden flames lingered on the quarter of the blade closest to the hilt.

With a roaring sound, the chainsword severed the head of an Andrew robot.

Red eyes flickered with light, and binary code interacted within the network of the Andrew robots.

The Andrew robots raised their left arms in unison; their arms rotated rapidly, energy light blades flashing with red light as they charged at Ninglu from all sides.

"Intruder, die!"

Ninglu did not dodge, and the energy light blades struck his flame shield.

Amidst the continuous booming sounds, he swung his Chainsword, his body spinning rapidly in accordance with the 12th article of the "Osberh-Waya".

Thump, thump...

Metal heads fell to the ground one by one.

After Ninglu cut off the heads of all the Andrew robots, he said to Arsena Dunn, who was stepping off the Stormbird.

"Tell Merson I want them from the shoulders up."

To reduce the possibility of the heads being damaged, Ninglu requested the neck and other parts as well.

The Primarch Attendant relayed his order to the Lord of the Eleventh Chapter.

Ninglu scanned the members of the Honor Guard, his gaze finally resting on one of them.

"Andrea, you and the Techmarine accompany the Archmagos, let him ignore the existence of the Andrew robots and focus on searching for the Standard Template Construct."

Ninglu wanted to obtain as many Potion Materials as possible, but without letting the Archmagos notice.

"As you wish," the "Lawyer" replied.

The Archmagos led the Skitarii off the landing craft and looked at the Order Shadow in black armor standing before him.

"Respected Archmagos, Primarch Honor Guard, Andrea, pays his respects to you."

"Father has ordered me to accompany you in searching for the Standard Template Construct."

【Ninglu sent his progeny to come/Is it to ensure I do not monopolize the sacred template?】 A message appeared in Rian's logic engine, and he spoke.

【More critically, whether a sacred template exists on this world.】

"Let us depart."

He looked at the golden figure in the sky in the distance, his bionic eye focusing.

【112 kilometers... 124 kilometers...

Identifying target identity, Primarch Ninglu.】

Twenty-five minutes later, Rian stopped at a dilapidated stone Fortress.

His bionic eye swept over the broken metal limbs on the ground; he walked up to a metal leg, and two tentacle-like mechanical appendages emerged from behind his armpits and rested upon it.

The mechanical metal claws moved at high frequency over the metal body, and friction sparks flashed.

Twelve seconds later, Rian walked toward the next metal limb.

After he checked twelve targets in a row, he finally finished testing a damaged, polished metal head with exposed wires and said angrily: "Abominable Intelligence!"

His right arm raised the Sage Staff, and the electrical circuits lit up.

The Sage Staff smashed into the metal body, and destructive electric currents tore the metal leg into a pile of parts.

The Servo-skull on Rian's right shoulder turned backward, and a binary signal sent an order to his Skitarii.

He discovered from the log documents that the robot model named Andrew possessed a certain degree of autonomous thinking ability.

They would identify the threat of a target through an embedded Identification Rune Matrix and perform threat-level calculations.

Afterward, unlike robots permitted to exist, they would not attack the target according to set attack protocols.

They would run logic engines, use models to perform logical analysis on data, and even perform 1024 iterations.

After they determined the target, they would also iterate on the attack plan.

Throughout the entire process, in addition to pure data, indicators from other levels and dimensions such as shape and color were also mixed in.

Rian, who was well aware of the dangers of Abominable Intelligence, strictly enforced an extermination policy; he would never allow these robots that did not follow original data and logic programs to exist.

Especially, he could not allow Andrew robots to think about shape, or even color.

Although the "Lawyer" Andrea did not understand the language of data, he judged from Rian's words just now and the signal light flashing on the Servo-skull that the Archmagos had ordered the Skitarii to move out.

The "Lawyer," having accepted the Gene-Father's mission, immediately walked in front of Rian.

"Archmagos, our priority mission should be to search for the Standard Template Construct."

"If it is destroyed by the robots, that would be an irreparable and huge loss."

"The Order Shadow will, under Father's leadership, purge all Abominable Intelligence."

【Andrew robots do not operate according to fixed programs//There is a 42.09% probability of damaging the sacred template/if it exists here.

Osenkes contains Abominable Intelligence/Ancient human world established a stronghold here/Probability of sacred template existence 95.64%.】

After Rian's logic engine reached its conclusion, he said to Andrea: "What you say is true."

"Please convey my request to the Primarch, to purge all Abominable Intelligence on this world without fail."

"Please rest assured, Archmagos." The "Lawyer" obtained the result he wanted; he saw the light flashing on Rian's Servo-skull and said to the other party.

"Father, the Archmagos requests that you destroy all Abominable Intelligence."

Ninglu, having received the message from Andrea, knew that the "Lawyer" had successfully made the Archmagos focus his attention on the search criteria for the Standard Template Construct.

The Primarch then repeated the process of flying, swooping down to attack, and taking off again.

Eleven hours later, he had the Order Shadows transport the Andrew robot heads of the Primarch Attendants back to the Kingdom of Disorder.

He ordered the Space Apes to prepare the "Machine" Potion, then brought it back to the real world and handed it to John.

The Brain-Strong Cat recovered from a half-dreaming, half-waking state; he squatted on the ground like a human child and poured the silver liquid into his mouth.

After John reined in the overflowing power of the "Machine" Potion, Ninglu handed him a Data Crystal and a Holographic Projector.

"This is a Data Crystal regarding the Fulao people's divination; use it as a reference."

The "Machine" possesses divination and anti-divination abilities, with its super-high inspiration extending into the realm of precognition.

Although there is a certain difference between extraordinary abilities and psychic powers in performing divination, it can serve as a reference.

Following the method Ninglu transmitted via a psychic link in his mind, John placed the Data Crystal into the Holographic Projector.

His black eyes were clear as he looked at the data, text, and runes emerging before him.

The "Machine's" Mental Body was strengthened; his intelligence now surpassed that of most people, and his superhuman brain began to rapidly master the language of the Fulao.

The strange, incomprehensible text before him gradually began to make sense.

Ninglu left the "Machine" to study, flapped his wings to take flight, and flew toward the nearest battlefield.

Arriving at the battlefield, the Spear of Dionysus appeared abruptly in his hand, and he immediately raised his arm and threw it.

The purge of the Andrew robots lasted for fifty-eight stellar days.

The next day, when the Spear of Dionysus returned to his hand, Ninglu received a communication from the Archmagos.

"Lord Ninglu, your information is accurate."

"I have discovered a Sacred Construction Template, a construction template for a powerful Star Fort."

"This is a great discovery that far exceeds the battle tank."

Ninglu knew that the Archmagos's words were no exaggeration.

The Belik Battle Tank is a weapon that is easy to manufacture and maintain, and it is a war tool for the Auxilia.

The Ramirez-class Star Fort is a war Fortress capable of changing the strategic situation of a star system or even a Sector.

It is a key part of the Imperium's strategy; each deployment can shorten a campaign by at least several years, or even decades.

The Ramirez-class Star Fort can serve as a repair, command, and supply base for the Imperial fleet, saving the long journeys of warships traveling back and forth between temporary supply bases and repair docks.

It can also be placed on a planet under forced siege to serve as a permanent orbital bombardment position or as part of an important star system defense system.

(End of this chapter)