novelonline Chapter 349 Legion Equipment Preparation Plan: Take or Exchange
Chapter 349 Legion Equipment Preparation Plan: Take or Exchange
Chapter 349 Legion Equipment Preparation Plan: Take or Exchange
Lu Mingfei never thought that the Emperor would actually have a "good conversation" with an alien, and even reached a trading relationship;
The same was true for the commander of the Imperial Guards, Valoris, who showed strange and angry expressions many times during the conversation, as if he wanted to swing his axe to destroy the undead alien that possessed the human.
"A lock of your hair? Of course it would be best if it came from you, sitting on the throne."
"No, no one can get close to Him now. And this biological organization may no longer exist."
"So...is your hair solid now?"
"Sure. Mingfei."
Then, under the gazes of the imperial guards, which were filled with vigilance, nervousness, anger, envy, etc., Lu Mingfei took off his thick gauntlet and carefully cut off a small section of the boy's smooth black hair with a pair of scissors. He then placed the hair in a bronze box as if it were a treasure.
During the process, the alien even dared to shout, "Too little! Cut more!"
"This hair is considered a 'part' of my fragment of humanity. Correspondingly, the items I chose to exchange in advance will be given a higher value," the boy said calmly.
"That counts... well, it does count. Then... are there any fragments of the armor you wore at the time? I mean the ones that haven't been melted yet."
Lu Mingfei couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. This damn alien actually wanted to steal the emperor's armor.
But from what he had learned, the armor worn by the Emperor was melted down at his own will after the Horus Heresy and made into countless cross medals - these medals were generally worn on Astartes tactical dreadnoughts (i.e. Terminator armor), which could provide special protection and resistance to the Warp.
"No more," the boy replied.
"Okay, do you have any clothes for walking around in the world? Something bigger would be best."
"Yes. Valoris, go to my deserted chamber - you should know where it is. Give him the robe." The boy called the commander of the guards.
Although he was very dissatisfied with the alien, Commander Valoris could only obey the will of the Lord of Mankind.
[Endless] still seemed unsatisfied, and even greedily asked the Emperor for various so-called "deposits", such as the Imperial Guards behind him, the weapons that the Emperor had used... and even set his sights on Lu Mingfei——
As the leader of the 21st legion established by the Lord of Mankind ten thousand years later, this has a very high collection value.
But most of them were rejected by the boy, such as collecting the Imperial Guards, wanting to visit the Terra Palace or the dark prison under the palace, and many other outrageous conditions;
Or he could change it to something less important but of considerable value to this abnormal alien - for example, he wanted to collect the Legion Master Lu Mingfei, but he changed it to collecting the power armor of the new legion, and he also targeted the alchemist sergeant Lao Tang who came to deliver the armor;
Then he used the White King's Dragon Bone Cross. His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have anticipated today's transaction and had specially prepared an alchemical replica in advance to replace Old Tang...
After this exchange, before the boy personally served as the museum collection of [Tarasim the Infinite], Tarasim had already received a "sincere" deposit, which dispelled his suspicion of the boy's "getting something for nothing", and he also "generously" contributed the collections needed by the Lord of Mankind in the Solemnas Museum.
Although he was quite curious about how the boy knew the types and conditions of the collections in his museum, Tracin cunningly said that the "deposit" he had received now needed to be delivered to him intact before he would "ship" the collections the boy exchanged;
The boy also calmly said that if Trazyn went back on his word or dared to collect the goods from the escorting guards when receiving and sending goods, he would cause losses to Trazyn's Solemnas Museum far exceeding the gains from his collection; on the contrary, if the cooperation was pleasant, he would tell Trazyn about the hidden danger in his museum.
After the guards reluctantly left with the human body possessed by Trazyn and the pile of bronze collection boxes, the Hall of Stars returned to peace again.
"The Eternal Undead possess a level of technology that is difficult for us to understand and cannot be achieved for the time being. I exchanged with Trazyn mainly for the technology he collected that I can use."
The boy explained to Lu Mingfei gently, as if he wanted to explain to him why he, who had once destroyed almost all aliens in the galaxy, would choose to make a deal with another alien.
Lu Mingfei nodded. Actually, there was no need for explanation. He roughly understood the emperor's intention.
Because the most important collection the boy exchanged from [Infinite Trazyn] was called "Quantum Slingshot" - a super-light speed navigation device that could run independently of the subspace engine.
However, this device is not a form of FTL travel used by the Eternal Dead, but rather a prototype of a technology developed during the Dark Age of Technology before the Iron Man Rebellion;
The warp of that era was not as dangerous as it is today. It could even be said to be as peaceful as water. The technology of warp navigation was mature and safe, and humans, who had used it on a large scale and colonized the entire galaxy, were not very interested in developing new technologies for faster-than-light travel. Instead, they were more interested in crazy genetic modification technologies.
However, a small number of people began to research new faster-than-light travel technologies. Unfortunately, the Iron Man Rebellion broke out soon after, causing the collapse of the entire human race at that time. These new technologies, like other advanced human technologies, were destroyed or buried in the war.
Although it was unknown how Trazyn got this device, he reminded that when he found the slingshot, more than half of the device had been destroyed, so a lot of technology belonging to the Eternal Undead was used to repair it - so the appearance might look more like the style of the Eternal Undead.
Theoretically, this device should be able to work, but Trazyn has never tried it - he is not a Mechanicus sage who recycles technology. After repairing it, he placed this collection in the "Epitomes of Human Glory" exhibition hall as a collection.
But the boy didn't care about that, and Lu Mingfei also knew that this new super-light speed navigation device could be used in addition to the dark universe full of war...
It also needs to be used in one's own universe where subspace does not exist.
The human territory of this universe needs an expedition to expand the territory to accommodate the large number of humans evacuated from that universe, which also means that a new superluminal travel method is needed.
However, this future is still quite far away from Lu Mingfei.
Secondly, this transaction with the Infinite Ones is also part of the "exchange" part of the "take, ask, and exchange" equipment preparation plan of the Sword of Revelation Legion.
The future strength of the Legion is tentatively set at 100,000, equivalent to 100 Codex-sized Astartes Chapters. To supply such a large number of Chapter equipment, a huge production line is needed;
Moreover, the Emperor did not want his new legion to fight like the Lamenters, so he equipped the legion with as much equipment as possible, such as heavy vehicles, air vehicles, and a large-scale, self-contained legion fleet.
But if all of these were supplied by the Earth, the Earth would probably be drained dry, and His Majesty the Emperor did not want the Earth to really become another Terra (Lu Mingfei had never been to Holy Terra and was not sure what the environment there was like), so he decided to let that technologically mature universe solve the problem of legion equipment and prepared a simple and neat "take, ask, and exchange" plan.
"Take" means to take directly from the armory of the Imperial Guards.
As the Imperial Guards who accompanied the Emperor in unifying Terra in the Old Night Age, they control and preserve a large number of relics and weapons from the Dark Age of Technology that far exceed the imagination of the outside world. There are several watchtowers belonging to the Imperial Guards in the Solar Segmentum, which also store many advanced warships from ancient times.
However, it seems that they took into consideration whether it would cause the Imperial Guards to feel dissatisfied with the Sword of Revelation Legion by "taking things from one's own son to raise a godson". Therefore, the "taking" aspect mainly armed the Legion's cutting-edge forces, such as the Legion's First Company, the Legion's champion warriors (who would challenge enemy leaders in single combat), etc.
And "want" means to ask the Mechanicus for it.
Although the Mechanicum was divided after the Horus Heresy, and the subsequent actions of the High Lords Council, the Inquisition, etc. made them passive and lazy, the will of the Emperor is also the will of the God of Machinery, Om Messiah.
All the guards of the Imperial Guards need to do is hold a "Decree of Om Messiah" and take out some stocks from the dark prison under Terra, and they can still make several large forging worlds in the Solar Star Region willingly take out a part of their assets and produce them wholeheartedly and efficiently for the needs of Om Messiah.
The "need" aspect is to meet the combat readiness needs of the entire legion, from a variety of weapons and vehicles to legion warships.
Finally, he "exchanged" with [Tarasim the Infinite].
In addition to the slingshot, a superluminal navigation device, the most important thing is the flagship of the Sword of Revelation Legion - it can also be called Lu Mingfei's flagship (wedding ship).
In the past, the flagship of the Legion was the Queen of Glory-class battleship. This powerful warship could destroy a fleet on its own. Ordinary battleships were as weak as frigates in front of it.
During the Great Crusade, each Primarch owned one or more Queen of Glory-class battleships, but now the Human Empire seems to have no ability to build new Queen of Glory-class battleships; Lu Mingfei did not know whether the battleship that His Majesty the Emperor asked Trazyn to exchange was the Queen of Glory-class. He just said the name of a ship, and the body controlled by the Endless showed a painful and tangled expression.
(End of this chapter)