The people nearby saw it.
Their hearts nearly stopped.
Th-that was...?
Was that Chaos soldier's soul?
What had they done to him?
Yet his body had not vanished.
But his soul had been extracted.
The extracted soul had not turned him into a vegetable. Instead, he had become an empty shell. Though some neurotransmitter activity remained in his brain, along with certain behavioral activity, those actions merely followed instinct and lacked independent consciousness.
The dying warrior looked at the light gathering overhead once more and prepared to flee.
Only this time, the beam was no longer purely purple. Green was mixed into the purple.
The Gauss Disintegration Beam could break down matter at the molecular level, reducing all material to its most basic atoms, like the smallest scalpel in the material world.
The Purple Warp Aggregation Beam, meanwhile, was modified through reverse engineering based on the Necrons' nano-repair beams. Rather than directly stacking molecules, it used the gravitational pull of even smaller particles to completely aggregate every nanoparticle smaller than a molecule.
The advantage was that it did not require enormous amounts of power or computing capacity.
Their ability to resurrect ancients, along with fragments of their souls, had already proven that their technology could indeed stack a person's soul at the molecular level. Since they could stack soul molecules, they could alter the shape of a soul.
Now, however, there was no need to stack them from their most primitive particles, nor to expend vast resources using megastructures for calculations. They merely needed to aggregate and compress them, then collect them.
"The technology used by the aggregation beam is called the Brown-Mengjie Sponge. It is a theory proposed by Vice Chief Mengjie under Chief Brown's guidance."
After saying that,
Brown gave a light cough as the other chiefs looked