Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 120 What if Mechanical Ao awakens the Machine Soul?

They changed into new power armor, but there was no machine soul on it. This discovery made them very distressed as they had never encountered such a situation before.

Normally, after a Space Marine completes recruit training and leaves the reconnaissance company, there will be a sacred armor-granting ceremony.

The technical priests of the Martian Mechanicus and countless mechanical servants pray to help them establish a connection with their new armor, which will then accompany them for the rest of their lives.

If it is a powerful Terminator series armor, then this set of armor will also grant the next owner promotion to a veteran of the company.

A power armor without a machine soul will not last long. It will be scrapped in a dozen years or so, and may even require major repairs in a few years.

It is completely incapable of lasting hundreds or thousands of years, and is completely incapable of fighting in sync with its master to unleash even greater power.

Things like bolt guns or chainswords are all assisted by machine souls. Without the assistance of machine souls, the power of the weapons will be greatly reduced.

Rhodes nodded thoughtfully. In the Warhammer universe, there is indeed the setting of organic souls, and this thing is very magical.

This thing is not an electronic program, nor is it artificial intelligence or anything like that. It is a soul that belongs to a machine. Yes, it is a soul!
From the Empire's battle barges, the Ark of the Martian Mechanicus, the Empire's Titan machines of various star signs, and the Knight Mechs to the power armor, chainswords, and bolters, all of them have machine souls.

Even in the official comics, the Machine Soul has been shown many times. In one comic, a Space Marine died in battle, but his grenade gun was talking to itself.

My Lord, why can't I see you?

Where are you, my Lord? I know nothing but war!
I will serve you faithfully!

Please don't abandon me.

Even after the Space Marines or Imperial soldiers die in battle, these Machine Souls will continue to fight back against the enemy in the latest official plot.

An Empire battle barge machine spirit couldn't stand the crew's outrageous operations, so it just operated itself and drove the enemy away.

Machine Souls are a unique setting in the Warhammer Universe. There are indeed mechanical life forms like Transformers in other universes, but they are completely different from Machine Souls.

The reason why something like Machine Soul could be born in the Warhammer universe actually has a lot to do with the Warp.

The subspace is a fantasy dimensional world beyond reality, where everything that is impossible in the physical universe happens.

Anything could happen in the Warp, which is a psychic world.

Some human prayers and beliefs can give birth to their own gods when humans pray and worship some mechanical creations.

These mechanical creations will also experience some miracles and give birth to their own souls, commonly known as machine souls. Some of these souls are powerful, while others are weak.

"Lord Rhodes, without the machine soul, it will be a very serious problem." Titus said.

“I’ll figure out a way to do this. Your power armors may not have any machine souls right now, after all, they have just been created.

We need to hold some ceremonies to allow them to give birth to their own machine souls." Rhodes nodded.

"Excuse me, Lord Rhodes, but I'm afraid the prayers of us Space Marines are useless."

The method they are using now is actually the dumbest way. Every Space Marine prays to his own armor.

It is estimated that it will take a long time to give birth to one's own machine soul, which may be more than ten years or even a hundred years.

After all, a person's prayers are limited.

"I'll find a way to solve this. Don't worry." Rhodes nodded and said.

Titus and Reverend Magro nodded together, then went back to their knees and began to pray to their power armor and weapons.

"Ahem! Lord Rhodes!

These guys said their armor should have souls, and then they prayed here.

I think these guys are crazy." Helotia came to Rhodes and whispered.

Are you kidding! She has never heard of machines having souls. If you are talking about artificial intelligence, she knows about it.

The dark Cyclops she captured before was just an advanced artificial intelligence in her eyes!

But soul! Are you kidding?
According to these soldiers, their guns, their weapons, and the armor they wear all have self-awareness and souls! Can an armor have a soul? The crappy bolt guns you use also have souls? Are you guys crazy?
Moreover, these power armors and various weapons and equipment are designed for mass production. Aren’t they only going to be used for a few years, or at most a dozen years, before being retired?
Who the hell can use a weapon for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years!
“Helotia, you are wrong. Machine souls do exist. They are the souls of mechanical life.

It has self-awareness, can think, can be afraid, and can experience joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

This world is different from the world you know, and some physical laws cannot be fully applied.

In this world, there is a high-dimensional world called subspace, where some prayers and thoughts of human beings can trigger some miracles.

Human prayers and praises can even give birth to a God, so it is actually very easy to make a machine give birth to its own soul.

The machine souls created by these machines will protect themselves like a living being and can even communicate with their masters.

And as time goes by, the longer these machine souls survive, the better the original performance of the weapon will be.

For example, a weapon's ultimate state is to deal 100 damage, but if the machine soul survives long enough, it can deal 150 or even 200 damage. "Rhode said.

"Really? Lord Rhodes!
If you say so, then do the mechanical Ultra Warriors I made have a chance to give birth to their own machine souls?" Helotia suddenly thought of something and looked at Rhode excitedly.

I have completely explained the light abilities in those Ultra Warriors. If I can solve the soul abilities, if this machine soul is really as magical as the master said!

If the mechanical Ultra Warriors that you created have their own opportunities, their fighting power will soar!
"It's completely possible in theory, but we need to find some people from the Star Mechanicus to come and pay us a visit." Rhodes nodded and said.

This actually enlightened Rhodes' King Joe robot, Big Iron Block, and Mechanical Ace. In theory, they could also awaken their own machine souls!
Once the machine soul is born, the effect on the improvement of the mechanical body is extremely significant. Although its computing power is not as good as artificial intelligence, it is a real mechanical metal life soul!

The birth of the Machine Soul requires the help of the Martian Mechanicus and a large number of mechanical servants.

Only by holding a mysterious ceremony with a large group of mechanical priests, lighting various incense, having mechanical angels chanting, singing hymns of praise, and then performing crazy prayers and worship, can one worship one's soul out of a machine.

Moreover, the more powerful and complex the mechanical structure, the more people are needed to pray and worship. We have too few people on our side to accomplish this.

For example, for an Empire's Titan machine, it requires tens of thousands of people to pray day and night and give various praises in order to bring out its machine soul.

Rhode felt that these so-called machine souls were all gods through incense! It must be said that the subspace thing was really awesome.

"Master, if my mechanical Ultra Warriors are made, please have them worship me!
If mechanical life forms can really give birth to souls, then these mechanical Ultra Warriors can reach a perfect state." Helotia also said excitedly.

"Yes! This can be done! But if it is a Mechanical Ultraman, a giant mechanical body like that.

We need quite a lot of people to kneel and pray. I think it will take at least tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people.”

"How about we do an experiment first? Master, I remember you have a mechanical Ace made by the Yabo people.

How about you call him back and let's try to see if we can let him create his own machine soul first?" Helotia said.

"Sure, your idea is very good. You wait here for a while." Rhodes nodded in agreement.

And it's not just Mechanical Ace, there's also King Joe and the big iron block, and even Mechanical Seven, who will be summoned soon, can summon the Machine Soul.

However, things like worshiping the machine soul are professional matters that need to be left to professionals, and he needs the oil man from the Martian Mechanicus to come over.

Rhodes immediately returned to his captain's room, picked up the communicator given to him by the Human Empire Inquisitor Lacino and the Ronin Merchant Kania, and called the Human Empire.

"Honorable Lord Shafulin, is there anything you want to talk to us about?" A reply came quickly from the other end of the communicator.

During this period, the forces of the Human Empire have been staying in Comoro City, waiting to leave with Rhodes. It is still early for the agreed departure time.

"I need your help with something. What's your relationship with the Martian Mechanicus?" Rhodes asked.

"I have some technical priests of the Martian Mechanicus on my ship. What do you want from them?" asked the wandering merchant Kania.

There are Mechanical Priests on every Imperial barge. After all, without these members of the Martian Mechanicum, these large machines cannot operate at all. All human technology is basically monopolized by the Martian Mechanicum.

"I need to borrow the Mechanical Priests. I have just made a batch of products and need them to help awaken the Machine Soul."

I need a group of people to come and perform the ritual.

“??? Awaken, awaken the machine soul!”

(End of this chapter)