"Stop, they are not enemies."
Cortana issued an order to the Necron constructs besieging the Players and the Skitarii through a psychic link.
The Necron constructs, like a tide, stopped.
The noisy alarms in the maze also disappeared.
"The battle is over. In the name of the omnissiah, cease fire."
Seeing the Necron constructs stop their assault, Cawl immediately ordered the Skitarii and Players to also cease their attacks.
He turned and walked towards Cortana by the core.
At this moment, the little angel girl's eyes were still surging with complex binary data.
Cawl walked up to Cortana and eagerly asked, "Have you acquired the core technology of the Pharos Lighthouse?"
Cortana said, "The reverse engineering will still take 36 hours and 50 minutes. Currently, only the core data and code of the Pharos Lighthouse have been acquired."
"It's over already?"
Little Fatty looked at the Ghost Spider that had stopped attacking, and pushed it with his exoskeleton mechanical arm.
It retreated a few steps and did not launch an attack.
"I haven't even used my full strength yet, and it's already over?" Tenjiro said, "I'm really too strong."
"I wonder who was screaming for an escort just now." Little Alpaca teased.
"It definitely wasn't me. How could I, the esteemed leader of the Thousand Sons Legion, do something so undignified?" Tenjiro said with a righteous expression.
"Even if I, Tenjiro, kneel on the ground and am bitten to death by scarabs, I will never ask for help." Brother Pian imitated Tenjiro's tone, "Ah, I can't take it anymore, which godfather will come and save me?"
The other Players immediately burst into laughter.
They had to admit, the imitation was spot-on.
"Slander! This is slander against me!" Tenjiro shouted, "I guarantee with Magnus's brain that I absolutely never said such a thing."
"No wonder Magnus is brainless. So it was all your fault, you damned Imperial traitor, prepare to die!"
"Execute Tenjiro, get Magnus's brain back!"
"..."
The Players, as always, were carefree, bickering amongst themselves.
Boom!
A deafening sound came from outside, and the ground trembled violently.
Cortana showed a hint of worry.
Her master was fighting the former prisoner of the Pharos Lighthouse.
She had to find a way to help her master; she couldn't let him be bullied.
Cortana looked at the Necron constructs waiting for new orders, and issued her first command after taking control of the Pharos Lighthouse, "Disassemble yourselves and use your bodies as repair materials to repair the Pharos Lighthouse at the fastest possible speed."
The Necron constructs carried out the order; the living metal that made up their bodies automatically decomposed.
The living metal integrated into the dilapidated and incomplete Pharos Lighthouse, quickly repairing the damaged areas.
Under the extensive repair and sacrifice of numerous Necron constructs, the Pharos Lighthouse was restored at a visible rate.
In a short while, the damaged Pharos Lighthouse was completely revitalized.
Energy flowed along the patterns of the passageway, emitting a bright light, and finally surged into the core.
A bright beam of light shot from the spire, disappearing into the vast void.
At this moment, outside the Pharos Lighthouse, on the surface of Sotha.
Zahurash was fighting countless Necron constructs.
After Cortana took over the Pharos Lighthouse, she did not order the Necron constructs besieging him to stop, so these Necron constructs were still fulfilling the order to prevent Zahurash from escaping.
Alex moved around outside, occasionally using psychic sneak attacks, which infuriated Zahurash even more.
Zahurash's power was terrifying, capable of easily tearing apart the sky and earth.
But he was, after all, only a fragment, and could not possibly overwhelm such a vast number of Necron constructs and a Emperor Living Saint with powerful psychic abilities.
Both sides were in a stalemate, neither able to achieve victory.
But with Cortana activating the Pharos Lighthouse and joining the battlefield, the equilibrium was broken.
Boom!
A force capable of destroying all things swept out from inside the Pharos Lighthouse, rushing towards Zahurash.
This was the first time Cortana had displayed her power; reality laws and Warp energy were combined, terrifyingly destructive, exuding fluctuations that could destroy all things.
Zahurash was sent flying by this force, his metallic body almost melting, nearly destroyed.
"How can you control psychic power? This does not conform to the laws of Holy Terra (Earth/Reality)?"
Zahurash's metallic face showed fear and unease.
He couldn't understand how Cortana, also a C'tan, could simultaneously control the authority of the Warp and the Holy Terra (Earth/Reality) universe.
"What did you do to her, human??"
The shattered Zahurash glared at Alex, who was soaring in the sky.
Such a perfect member of his race, yet bound to a pathetic carbon-based monkey.
Alex did not respond to the other party, and began to seal him with psychic power.
As his hands moved, the psychic light beams that emerged outlined brilliant psychic runes.
Zahurash's body collapsed into a ball of energy, enveloped by the runes, and finally formed a crystal.
Alex retrieved the crystal imprisoning Zahurash's fragment, and then returned to the Pharos Lighthouse.
By this time, the Pharos Lighthouse had been completely revitalized.
Numerous Necron constructs had disassembled themselves to repair this damaged lighthouse, and also cleared away stones and corpses.
Seeing Alex walk in, Cortana seemed very happy.
"I've become stronger, Master. Cortana can protect you better now."
"That's great." Alex praised Cortana.
...
After Cortana finished reverse engineering the Pharos Lighthouse, a golden light screen appeared before Alex.
[Quest: Construct a New Lighthouse (Completed)
Faith value reward has been issued. Infuse the Emperor's power into the Pharos Lighthouse to complete the transformation and enable superluminal fixed-point teleportation.
(Superluminal fixed-point teleportation is limited to between two lighthouses. Players and NPCs can quickly return within the lighthouse range.)
]
Alex followed the prompt and placed his hand on the core of the Pharos Lighthouse.
Golden light surged from his body, forming a torrent that poured into the Pharos Lighthouse.
The Necron code and runes in the core database transformed into human binary runes.
The Necron script on the machine's surface burned to ash, and then new human script appeared.
Some places even displayed golden double-headed eagle patterns.
The light emitted by the Pharos also transformed into a brilliant golden, like a second Astronomican.
"This is the supreme power of the omnissiah."
The many Adeptus Mechanicus members present, seeing this scene, were all excited.
They all saluted Alex with a gear-salute, praising the great omnissiah.
The activation and conversion of the Pharos Lighthouse were like a meteor striking the ocean, stirring up unimaginable tidal waves.
Over on Macragge,
Guilliman, who was preparing to set out to crusade against the Chaos traitors, received a report from Chief Librarian Tigurius.
He stated that a beam of light had appeared on Sotha, emanating the Emperor's aura.
"This must be the Guide's masterpiece; he succeeded."
Guilliman's face lit up with joy.
With the Sotha Lighthouse converted into the Emperor's light,
even if the matter of the Second Empire were to be exposed in the future,
those individuals would not be able to shake his authority in the slightest.
Eldrad Ulthran and other Eldar, who planned to accompany Guilliman on the expedition,
also immediately detected the activation and conversion of the Pharos Lighthouse.
Initially, they were somewhat angered, believing that humanity had embraced Necron technology too thoroughly.
However, the subsequent conversion caught them completely by surprise.
The cold Pharos light actually emitted psychic fluctuations.
One must remember that Necron technology never involves psychic powers.
Clearly, all of this was humanity's masterpiece.
No one knew how they accomplished it.
"What exactly do they intend to do?"
Eldrad Ulthran, as a Great Seer, found that the threads of fate regarding the galaxy had become incredibly chaotic.
He also increasingly struggled to comprehend humanity.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy,
Abaddon, who was pushing forward with the Great Raider Crusade, preparing to deliver the final blow to the Imperium, learned of this from the accompanying Chaos Sorcerer.
"A new lighthouse?"
"Are they worried about Terra falling, so they plan to make a backup in advance?"
"No matter what these Emperor's pawns do, it's futile. I will destroy all their struggles and conquer the entire galaxy."
Abaddon's expression was grim; he knew Guilliman had been resurrected.
But soon, he would prove to him that even a resurrected Primarch was useless.
The age of the Primarchs was over.
Now was his era, the era of Abaddon, chosen by the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods, the Chaos Warmaster, the Great Raider.
The servants of the Dark Gods also noticed the Pharos light, especially the tyrannical Angron.
He utterly loathed this light, which was identical to the Astronomican.
He had forgotten his past memories, but he still felt disgust towards the one who had once claimed to be his father.
Although he could not destroy Terra's Astronomican, he could destroy this newly appeared light.
Angron emerged from the crimson gladiatorial arena, summoning the World Eaters Legion and those warriors craving slaughter.
He prepared to head to Pharos to utterly destroy this light.
...
After converting the Pharos Lighthouse into a human structure,
the trip to Sotha was declared a complete success.
Alex, who had returned to the Imperial Glory,
had Cortana post an update announcement for the new version of Warhammer OL on the official website.
[Update Announcement:
Through our unremitting efforts, the brand new 2.0 version of Warhammer OL has been launched.
We have updated and improved many issues raised by Players.
First: A brand new commercial financial system has been launched. Players can quickly develop through loans, fundraising, and other methods.
Second: Aquila Coins and Contribution Points have completed the underlying coding architecture of the exchange system, allowing for the purchase of various weapons and equipment from Forge Worlds using Contribution Points.
Third: Hyperspace communication and teleportation will be available in the new version. Even if you are on Atoma, you can communicate with Players on Macragge.
As long as you have enough Faith Points, you can quickly teleport back to the city or between lighthouses.
Fourth: The Merit System will soon be opened. Players can serve as planetary governors, be promoted to fleet commanders, become high-ranking generals, etc., based on their merits. Stay tuned.
Fifth: The campaign system rules have been improved, using scores for calculation, and Warbands will be allowed to declare war on the Imperium's enemies independently.
Do you want territory? Do you want honor? Do you want passionate combat? Go forth! The Emperor has placed all of this in the Eye of Terror.
Sixth: The qualification for purchasing warships and commercial barges will be opened.
Players can prepare their money and propose purchases to NPCs who own ships. Be careful not to get scammed!
Seventh: The loot system has been updated. Key mission items will be recycled by the system, while other loot belongs to the participants.
Individual Players can use a point allocation system, and Warbands will use DKP and GKP to ensure fairness and impartiality.
Eighth: A Player penalty system will be introduced, with the Guide as the chief judge and Cortana as the co-judge. NPCs or Players who have passed a loyalty assessment will serve as reviewers.
The focus of the review will be on whether Players have violated rules, including but not limited to abusing NPCs or Players, maliciously causing the death of NPCs or Players, and defrauding or bullying NPCs or Players, etc.
A solemn warning to Players entering the game: Warhammer OL is a 100% realistic virtual reality game. Every NPC is a valuable asset, and once they die, it will cause a chain reaction.
If an important NPC dies, it is highly likely to cause changes in important plotlines.
Therefore, once behavior that maliciously disrupts the game experience occurs, the official team has the right to take various punitive measures and reserves the right to pursue accountability.
Creating a good game environment relies on you, me, and everyone.
Finally, Little Cortana wishes everyone good health and a happy life.
The boss also said that Warhammer OL is a casual entertainment villain simulation game. All you need to do is stop the heroes blessed by the gods and prevent the arrival of the age of the gods.
Don't overwork yourselves too much!
+++Daily Thought: Sacrifice is the cornerstone of the Imperium, life is the Emperor's currency, blood is the spark of civilization, and death is the end of duty.+++
]
After checking it and confirming there were no issues,
Alex had Cortana post the announcement on the official website, to really whet the appetite of those hard-working folks.
To make them work even harder.