Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 480

The lure of knowledge

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After witnessing a series of demonstrations by Punisher Titan, Fasor Priest ignored Valentin and several other Sage who were still trying to control themselves, and turned around in disbelief to look at Imperial Titan Iax who was still standing there.

"Praise Omnissiah! The crystallization of great and ancient wisdom. Does the bipedal self-propelled weapon platform you just proposed refer to the miracles of these Omnissiah?"

Iax turned around, glanced at Fasor, and responded.

"This is not a miracle of Omnissiah. This is the crystallization of Creator's wisdom, technology and knowledge. No matter what, you cannot deny the greatness of Creator. Even this machine is also the work of Creator."

"The proposed quid pro quo for this machine is not these existing designs."

"In order to adapt to your existing manufacturing process, this machine will redesign a set of body for exchange. Of course, it will be better. If necessary, this machine can provide a set of prototypes. Of course, this requires some supply of raw materials."

Limited by the constraints of the agreement, Iax cannot provide them with many technical innovations. It can only analyze the technology contained in their existing creations and make simple technical improvements and design adjustments.

After all, Punisher's manufacturing process, technology, and the most important artificial intelligence core are technologies that Imperium does not have. Even if the data is handed over to Adeptus Mechanicus of Lucius, they have no possibility of reproducing it.

What's more, Imperium strictly prohibits Adeptus Mechanicus from touching artificial intelligence.

The operation of such a huge body is very complex in nature.

Based on the data currently analyzed by Iax from the Emperor Titan in front of him, it is probably not realistic for the huge distributed computing array inside its body to be adapted to a flexible body like Punisher.

Just a jump and landing is enough to semi-paralyze the computing array inside it, not to mention that the body's weapon operation, action posture, avoidance, etc. must also be taken into consideration at the same time.

But even so, this new design also needs to overturn all the current design and manufacturing of Imperial Titan.

Fasor naturally cannot refuse such an offer.

But he also has his own difficulties.

"If possible, maybe I have to invite you to follow me somewhere."

As a disciple of Chief Martian Adeptus Mechanicus Sage, although Fasor Priest has good appeal, he does not have many skills.

As for Voidwalkers Titan Legion's Teleportation technology, it is even more impossible that he, Priest, can master it.

Fasor dare not directly agree to Iax's request.

If he couldn't imagine what would happen if he couldn't hand over the technology.

He cannot afford the wrath of the incarnation of Omnissiah.

Although Iax was a little confused about Fasor's request, he did not reject it after all.

Soon, when everyone's attention was attracted by Punisher Titan who entered standby mode, Fasor sneakily brought Iax to the side of the inconspicuous Valkyrie Transport.

After taking a look at the huge body of Iax, Fasor Priest was a little embarrassed.

However, under Fasor's horrified eyes, Machine Body began to change. The leg structure of the machine disappeared, and the back structure expanded into two huge vector nozzles.

If the Quantum Printing component could not directly decompose itself, this aircraft could even directly transform itself into a flying vehicle.

"The flight module has been built, and the action mode has been updated."

Fasor walked into Valkyrie Transport's cabin with three steps.

Then two F75-MV afterburning vector turbojet engines were activated.

The lightweight Transport Aircraft quickly headed straight for Forge Temple in the distance amidst the buzzing sound of Titan in the background.

Iax controls the aircraft to fly closely behind it.

After crossing a considerable distance, Valkyrie Transport gradually landed.

The roar of huge machines echoes here.

Canticle of the Binary is played continuously without stopping.

Countless Servitor, Mortals Menials are busy here.

From time to time, you can still see one or two Priest and Servo-skull walking through the huge foundry.

This is one of several Titan foundries of Lucius, and it is also one of the only places on Lucius that directly uses Artificial Sun energy.

The scorching heat melted the metal, and bright red molten metal surged around the factory.

Sparks flew everywhere.

The huge gears rotated slowly, making heavy sounds. Servitors pushed the levers, and the pistons kept running.

Steam with terrifyingly high temperatures was sprayed into the sky.

When Fasor Priest walked out of Valkyrie's cabin, Iax's Machine Body had landed, the flying device behind him had disappeared, and the leg structure had been restored.

Under Fasor's greeting, Iax followed him into the interior of the foundry.

The tall machine smoothly followed the opponent through the complex structure.

Wherever he passed, even those numb Mortals Menials would curiously look up at the shining machine that they had never seen before.

Many Priest bowed before meeting Fasor.

Judging from the heraldry, most of these people are low-level Priest.

After passing through a series of plank roads filled with pungent metallic smell and billowing heat, they finally reached the depths of the factory.

The huge Alloy door stands in Iax's field of vision.

A team of Legio Cyberneticas are guarding the door. Under the illumination of the lighting device and the surrounding red metal lava, these black-painted Kastelan Robots stand like sculptures.

There are three units in a group, twelve units in total.

As Fasor and Iax approached, Phosphor Machine Gun behind these loyal mechanical guards immediately reacted.

The unusual movement of Kastelan Robot immediately attracted the attention of Enginseer behind it.

Fasor stopped with Iax a hundred meters away from the gate.

Soon several Priests with completely different patterns came out from behind these robots.

Although they also wear the coat of arms of Lucius and Adeptus Mechanicus, it is obvious that they are very different from other Priest.

Several Priests have multiple Auxiliary Arms. These Auxiliary Arms allow them to replace combat command chips for multiple Kastelan Robots at the same time.

These people are Enginseer, who is in charge of this team of intelligent control machines.

In addition to these Priest, Iax also discovered several Skitarii soldiers wearing dark stealth suits and using electronic camouflage standing a little further away from them.

They have weird long knives and pistols on their bodies, and their heads look a bit like T'au's Gun Drone, similar to a mushroom cap, with their limbs removed and replaced with Bionic Body.

These people are an extremely rare troop in Skitarii - Infiltrator Alpha.

They are equipped with marked Arc Sword, Multi-melta Gun and an amazingly powerful Mag-rail Pistol, and they also carry a lot of Frag Grenade around their waists.

These semi-invisible soldiers serve as human alarms. Once the attacker blocks communications and their strength exceeds their upper limit, they will immediately break away from the battle and seek more support.

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