Fragment of the Star Gods

The items excavated from the alien ruins were indeed few, with only seven items shrouded in stasis fields before Chen Xi.

Among them, three were obviously Necron body parts, including a head, an arm, and half a rack of ribs... ah, I mean ribs.

Judging from the degree of weathering, they should have decayed due to the passage of time.

However, to Chen Xi's surprise, he found traces of blade strikes on the half rack of ribs, proving that the part had been cut or chopped by something.

Moreover, judging from the appearance of the marks, it should have happened recently, because the cut surface of the marks looked very new, at least newer than the other breaks.

This made Chen Xi couldn't help but ask curiously, "Did you make these marks, Magos Ovilia?"

"No, it was like this when it was found, and I don't know what caused it." Magos Ovilia had obviously studied the wreckage and gave a relevant explanation: "The wreckage was like this when it was discovered. I modeled and simulated the marks and speculated that they were caused by a claw-like weapon, something like this."

As Ovilia spoke, one of the mechanical arms behind her turned around and projected a curved blade claw shape about a foot long in front of Chen Xi.

Looking at the shape projected by Ovilia, Chen Xi felt a headache coming on.

"*￥@%@!Flayer Curse!" Chen Xi cursed with a very dirty word, he had already judged what it was.

Ovilia naturally heard Chen Xi's curse. She automatically ignored the swear word and asked him directly, "Flayer Curse? What is that? A psychic spell?"

In the Warhammer world, curses, witchcraft, and all kinds of strange and supernatural things exist, and they are likely to have a deep relationship with the Warp.

Generally speaking, Psyker are born among the intelligent races on primitive planets, but without systematic research and related knowledge, they regard this innate power as witchcraft or other messy things.

Among them, if someone is exceptionally talented and hears too much garbage from the Warp, they may also awaken as a follower of Chaos, regarding psychic powers as a gift from the gods.

Naturally, some people have developed cursed uses of psychic powers, but the Flayer Curse is not such a thing, but a more terrifying existence.

"No, this is not psychic power, but something much more terrifying than psychic power." Chen Xi picked up the rib and looked carefully at the marks on it before asking Ovilia, "Can you determine how long ago this mark was made?"

"About eighty years ago, before Rostov II was transferred from the Rogue Trader to the Departmento Munitorum." Ovilia gave an answer that made Chen Xi feel uneasy.

"It seems I know why the Rogue Trader sold this planet." Chen Xi put down the ribs in his hand, touched his head and felt that he should call for reinforcements, it's not shameful to be unable to beat the Flayer.

But Ovilia obviously didn't understand what Chen Xi was talking about, so she asked Chen Xi directly, "Please explain, I don't understand what you are saying."

"Oh, my mistake! I forgot that you don't know about the Necrons." Chen Xi said apologetically, and then explained: "Sixty million years ago, the Necron race was enslaved by a being called the Star Gods. Their transformation from biological beings to mechanical ones was the work of the Star Gods.

Later, the Necrons broke free from the enslavement of the Star Gods and physically tore these guys apart, but the Star Gods are not existences that can be killed so easily. The Necrons can only divide the Star Gods into countless fragments for imprisonment.

However, the technology of these Necrons is too powerful, and they have also killed one of the Star Gods.

When this Star God died, it cast a curse on the Necrons. This curse is the Flayer Curse. It twisted the mechanical bodies of the Necrons and their minds, causing them to have an extreme desire for blood.

These twisted and mutated mechanical Necrons will tear the bodies of their victims and drape their skin on themselves, allowing blood to flow over their metal bodies. Only when they swallow the flesh and blood of their victims will their inner desire for blood be temporarily calmed.

This curse is so peculiar that it can even pollute the Necrons out of thin air and spread between mechanical bodies shrouded in stasis fields."

"A curse that can infect mechanical bodies? That sounds incredible." Ovilia showed an interested expression, or rather, this is very attractive information for any Adeptus Mechanicus priest.

Ovilia felt that her thinking circuits were overheating, as if countless papers and academic achievements were waving at her.

However, Chen Xi interrupted her fantasy and bluntly said, "Although this is very attractive from a scientific research perspective, I must remind you that the Star Gods are very dangerous.

They are called gods not because of religious worship, but because they are the embodiment of physical laws in the real universe.

Distorting reality, modifying physical constants, and even subverting everything you know can be done by the Star Gods.

Moreover, they possess almost endless energy. Star God fragments are used by the Necrons to power the entire Necron tomb, and when necessary, these Necrons will also release the imprisoned Star God fragments to destroy the entire battlefield or even tear apart the entire planet."

Speaking of this, Chen Xi glanced at Ovilia and said to her in a warning tone: "This is also why I forbid you, Magos Ovilia, from continuing to explore, because no one can guarantee that there is not a Star God fragment sleeping under our feet."

"If you find a Star God fragment, can you give it to me for research?" Ovilia didn't seem to have listened to what Chen Xi said, but instead looked at him with burning eyes, wishing that Chen Xi would take out a Star God fragment for her to study now.

"Then you probably have to convince the Emperor first, and we have to win first." Chen Xi made a helpless expression, but he didn't tell Ovilia that a Star God fragment was sealed under the Adeptus Mechanicus headquarters on Mars.

Even in the early GW official setting, that was a complete Star God! The Void Dragon, the Star God who holds the power of technology, the source of the Necrons' powerful technology, and the true form of the Omnissiah, which the Adeptus Mechanicus has always believed in.

When the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars was just rising, a group of Adeptus Mechanicus believers were influenced by the Void Dragon and worshiped it as a god, which is one of the reasons why the style of the Adeptus Mechanicus is so strange.