The Moment of Severance

The technological Singularity fused with Chaos radiated outward from Kelbo Hal, affecting everything around him.

Aside from the Custodes' weapons and equipment, every electronic device began to mutate.

Hellish screams and roars blared through the ship's broadcast system.

The various intelligent electronic devices on the Command Deck emitted binary wails.

Even the walls began to mutate.

Gears and mechanical structures abruptly emerged across the walls, their mechanisms coalescing into twisted faces, as though the walls themselves were screaming.

Quadrant, like the Custodes, remained unaffected. But it was not because he was protected by some mysterious power or ritual. It was because he did not have so much as a single electronic device on him.

The difference between this synthetic shell and an augmented body was like the difference between the Stone Men and Iron Men of old. In a sense, it was a synthetic life-form.

The Creator's exclusive authority to shape life had been seized by technology, and the life-forms it created were even more powerful.

Kelbo stopped ten meters away from Quadrant and opened the Pocket Universe.

This spatial artifact from ancient times was not an Eldar artifact. Ancient humanity had also possessed the technology to create Pocket Universes, and this ancient relic had passed through countless hands before eventually falling into Kelbo's possession.

The Pocket Universe unfolded, and Kelbo's mechanical troops marched out of the dark cosmos in formation.

These intelligent-controlled machines surpassed any existing creations of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Not only did they incorporate more advanced technology, but they also possessed the most forbidden element of all—Abominable Intelligence.

Yet these machine soldiers, one of the products born from Kelbo's life's work, did not seem to bear the slightest trace of Kelbo's style.

They looked more like some warped fusion of flesh and steel.

And the so-called Abominable