Disaster Level 15, Ascension Is Within Reach

Chapter 38: Disaster Level 1.5, Ascension Is Within Reach

Cisrain stomped the fleeing Fabius to the ground before the other side.

A massive axe blazing with immense psychic power smashed down upon Fabius as he tried to rise.

He grabbed Fabius's warped head.

As though lifting a corpse.

He forced the traitor to face the Warp gate and look through it.

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In Cisrain's grasp.

Fabius's brains seemed to be drained away by some force. His flesh rapidly caved in, while his pupils appeared to be scorched by flames.

He opened his mouth and howled as his soul was reduced to ashes by searing fire.

The betrayer screamed, but there was no change in emotion on the other side.

Bang!

Amid the screams.

A head exploded in his hand.

The corpse crashed heavily to the ground.

And the Blade of Corruption, which had remained in Fabius's hand all along, fell away.

"We will meet again soon."

"Terminator of Chaos, end of the world, one from beyond the shore."

Cisrain could not be bothered to listen to the other side rattle off titles.

He swung his axe.

And shattered the Blade of Corruption, which contained the lingering soul of a demon, with a casual blow.

"Godslayer, betrayer."

The Blade of Corruption was the blasphemous object Fabius had used to open the Warp.

When it shattered, the demon housed within it was destroyed as well.

The Warp gate torn open in the physical universe lost the support of its blasphemous object and instantly closed.

"Graveyard of civilizations, false Emperor."

It still was not done reciting?

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In the real universe, there was only one Chaos gate that permanently connected the Warp and reality: the Eye of Terror, where Slaanesh had been born.

Warp gates opened by Chaos elsewhere would slowly heal over time. Especially in places far from the Eye of Terror, without Chaos power to sustain them, once their blasphemous objects were destroyed, the gates would rapidly close.

[Daily Mission: Decapitation Mission Complete]

[Obtained: Warp Distortion Detector]

[Effect: Can detect tools corrupted by Chaos, affected by warp distortion, or used for blasphemous psychic spells]

"This is useful. How long would reverse-engineering it for mass production take?"

[Reverse Engineering: Warp Distortion Detector. One Synapse Condenser operating at full power: 9 days]

Anything related to psychic power required a great deal of time to reverse-engineer.

If the relevant technology already existed, however, research time could be greatly reduced.

He would have them study it when he had the chance, then mass-produce it. It could effectively guard against Chaos corruption. He did not want Chaos infiltrators lurking all around him.

[Emergency Mission: Chaos Warband Complete]

[Obtained: Gravity Slingshot]

[Effect: Once built, accelerates spacecraft and enables faster-than-light travel. Drawback: high dispersion. Dispersion is lower when accelerating a single ship and higher when accelerating multiple ships]

This thing was costly to build, but it might produce remarkable results on the battlefield.

After all, it was an accelerator capable of allowing spacecraft to travel faster than light.

Though it was not as useful as Necrons technology, for Cisrain's Gamma World, it was currently the best support weapon. It could rapidly reinforce the battlefield.

"This is good. Once it is built, we can strike at Chaos."

The Chaos gathered around the Chaos Beacon had always been a threat to him.

And he possessed the advantage of faster-than-light travel.

He could use that mobility advantage to dispatch fleets and support strikes at any time.

The advantage was that he could strike quickly.

The drawback was that the fleet would not be able to return swiftly after the attack.

Cisrain continued checking the Disaster Level on his Stellaris Template.

[Disaster Level 1]

[Wetware: Synapse Condenser (Unlocked) Description: The enormous Synapse Condenser is a reservoir computer that uses the networked consciousness of the population as computing power. It can be used for calculations. Some species with questionable values believe this kind of computer poses moral problems.]

[Perfect Ecological Architecture: Utopia (Completed) Description: The Fallen Empire may have forgotten how to recreate its former glory, but the brilliant minds of our scientists can uncover the secrets of the dust-covered Golden Age.]

[Non-Baryonic Energy: Dark Matter Energy Ship (Incomplete) Learning how to harness anti-baryon particle energy is the key to advancing to the next Disaster Level.]

[Transcendent Logic: Laws of Physical Reality (11%) Description: Reach 20% to enter the next Disaster Level. Transcendent Logic represents our understanding of the laws of the universe and our ability to influence them.]

Only after completing the prerequisites of [Wetware], [Perfect Ecological Architecture], [Non-Baryonic Energy], and [Transcendent Logic] could he unlock the second stage of Disaster Level.

At the second stage, he would gain a great deal of Golden Age technology.

At the third stage, even Chaos would become an object for their observation and experimentation.

[Disaster Level 2: Locked]

[Upon Unlocking, Obtain Level 3 Alloy Manufacturing Technology]

With level 3 alloys, even Necron Gauss beams would probably struggle to disintegrate them in one shot.

At present, the only unfinished requirement was the Dark Matter Energy Ship.

Besides the Dark Matter Energy Ship, all other reverse-engineering projects also required the Synapse Condenser.

"I need to build naval ports. I need vast amounts of ore and energy to upgrade the Synapse Condenser. A complete Megastructure Synapse Condenser can even hold one hundred units of population, and those populations do not necessarily have to be human."

"All kinds of reverse-engineering projects need to be carried out. Even the dark matter research required for the next Disaster Level has to be put on the agenda."

And he still had to guard against harassment from all kinds of xenos and Chaos.

There was far too little time left for him. Far too little.

Watching transport ships fly overhead as they pursued the fleeing Chaos.

Cisrain walked toward the center of the battlefield.

Corpses lay everywhere, along with blood and entrails.

The wreckage of warships falling from the sky slammed into the mountains.

Producing tremendous booms.

The raging flames stirred up by explosions swept across the entire battlefield.

The enemy had been foolish as well.

They had completely abandoned their own advantage.

Everyone aboard an entire warship had gotten carried away and charged down to the ground.

No wonder people said Chaos was a pile of shit when gathered together, and scattered stars when dispersed.

They acted independently, with no unified ideology. Truly useless.

But he had to admit.

These fools had directly ruined his planet.

Perhaps, for those Chaos forces, they were more than willing to use a Chaos Warband to contaminate an entire planet, reducing its value in Cisrain's hands directly to zero.

In the sky.

The research ship was slowly docking above the Research Station.

The Salamander Vulkan had been melancholy the entire way.

When he arrived, he had already prepared himself for a decisive battle and sacrifice.

But when he saw the destroyed Chaos Warband battleship and the Chaos Space Marines being hunted down by transport ships.

He was still somewhat dumbfounded.

You called a group of mortals chasing down and killing Chaos Space Marines from an entire warband a dangerous situation requiring support?

They had gotten the timing wrong. Sorry, sorry.