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There were over a thousand Spirit Stones in the dish held by the statue of Isha, Goddess of Life, but that was only the small share. The real haul was on the walls of this circular chamber.
The walls were lined with numerous slots decorated with glass and crystal. Those slots were densely embedded with vast numbers of unused Spirit Stones—more than a hundred thousand in total!
During the Eldar's Dark Age of Technology, Eldar newborns were born every moment, and these Spirit Stones had been meant to serve the Eldar of an entire planet.
Now, this world had fallen into the Warp, becoming a realm filled with Daemons and death.
These Spirit Stones, which had once represented hope and were meant to be equipped upon Eldar newborns, had become relics of a bygone era.
The modern Eldar could only eke out an existence by relying on these irreplaceable relics. It was truly pathetic when one thought about it.
Li Qinwu opened a Portal on the spot and summoned the Vault supervisor and more than three thousand Skitarii.
Pointing at the Spirit Stones embedded in the walls and the Constructs blasted apart outside, he said to the Vault supervisor:
"Take all the Spirit Stones, as well as any Xenos creations you consider valuable. Leave nothing behind!"
With a wave of the Vault supervisor's hand, three thousand Skitarii soldiers picked up their tools, clambered onto the walls, and began prying out the Spirit Stones.
Some Skitarii soldiers drove small forklifts, dragging the shattered Constructs into the Vault.
To facilitate this, they even hauled a High-Power Laser Cannon out of the Vault and blasted the Wraithbone gate, widening the breach Li Qinwu had previously blown open with Psychic Lightning until heavy equipment