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Chapter 18 Star God Fragments
There were indeed very few items excavated from the alien ruins. There were only seven items in front of Chen Xi that were covered by the stasis field.

Three of them were obviously Necron body parts, including a head, an arm and half a rib... no, I mean ribs.

Judging from the degree of weathering, it must have decayed due to the passage of time.

However, what surprised Chen Xi was that he found traces of something like a sharp blade chop on that half of the rib, proving that this part had been chopped or cut by something.

And judging from the appearance of the marks, it must have happened recently, because the cut surface of the marks looks very new, at least newer than the other fractures.

This made Chen Xi curious and asked, "Did you, Sage Olivia, make these marks?"

"No, it looked like this when we found it. I have no idea what caused it." Sage Olivia had apparently studied the debris and provided a relevant explanation: "It looked like this when it was discovered. I modeled and simulated the marks and speculated that it was caused by a weapon similar to a claw. It looks something like this."

As Olivia spoke, a mechanical arm behind her turned and projected a shape of a curved claw about a foot long in front of Chen Xi.

Looking at the shape projected by Olivia, Chen Xi felt a headache.

"*￥@%@! Skinning curse!" Chen Xi cursed very dirty words. He had already figured out what this thing was.

Olivia naturally heard Chen Xi's curse, but she automatically ignored the curse and asked him directly: "Skinning curse? What is that? Is it a psychic spell?"

In the Warhammer world, curses, witchcraft, and all kinds of other weird things exist, and they are likely to be deeply related to psionic power.

Generally speaking, psykers were born among the intelligent races on primitive planets, but they had no systematic research or relevant knowledge, so they regarded this innate power as witchcraft or other messy things.

If someone among them is extremely talented and has listened to too much trash talk in the Warp, he or she may awaken as a Chaos believer and regard psychic power as a blessing from the gods.

Naturally, some people have developed the use of psychic curses, but the skinning curse is not such a thing, but something more terrifying.

"No, this isn't psychic power, it's something much scarier than psychic power." Chen Xi picked up the ribs, carefully examined the marks on them, and asked Olivia, "Can you tell me how long ago these marks were made?"

"About eighty years ago, before the Rostov II was transferred from the hands of the wandering traders to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior." Olivia gave an answer that made Chen Xi feel not so good.

"It seems I know why the Rogue Trader sold this planet." Chen Xi put down the ribs in his hand, touched his head and thought that he should call for reinforcements. It's not shameful to lose the ribs.

But Olivia obviously didn't understand what Chen Xi was saying, so she asked Chen Xi directly: "Please explain, I don't understand what you are saying."

"Oh, my bad! I forgot you didn't know about the Necrons." Chen Xi apologized and then explained, "Sixty million years ago, the Necrons were enslaved by a being called a Star God. Their transformation from biological beings to machines was the work of the Star God. Later, the Necrons broke free from the Star God's enslavement and physically tore them apart. However, the Star God is not a being that can be killed so easily. The Necrons could only split the Star God into countless fragments and imprisoned them.

However, the technology of these Necrons was too powerful and once killed one of the Star Gods.

When the C'tan died, he cursed the Necrons, the Flaying Curse, which twisted the Necrons' mechanical bodies and their minds, causing them to have an extreme thirst for blood.

These twisted and mutated mechanical undead will tear apart the bodies of their victims, drape their skin over themselves, and let the blood flow through their metal bodies. Only when they swallow the flesh and blood of their victims will their inner thirst for blood be temporarily quenched.

This curse is so strange that it can even infect Necrons without any reason, and spread from one mechanical body to another under the stasis field."

"A curse that can infect mechanical bodies? This sounds incredible." Olivia showed an interested expression, or rather, this was very attractive information for any Mechanicus priest.

Olivia felt that her thought circuits were overheating, as if countless papers and academic achievements were beckoning to her.

However, Chen Xi interrupted her fantasy and said bluntly: "Although this is very attractive from a scientific research perspective, I have to remind you that Star Gods are very dangerous.

They are called gods not because of religious worship, but because they are the embodiment of physical laws in the real universe.

The Star Gods can distort reality, modify physical constants, and even subvert everything you know.

Moreover, they possess almost endless energy. The C'tan fragments are used by the Necrons to power the entire Necronomicon, and when necessary, these Necrons will release the imprisoned C'tan fragments to destroy the entire battlefield and even tear apart the entire planet. "

Having said that, Chen Xi glanced at Olivia and said to her in a warning tone, "This is also why I forbid you, Sage Olivia, from continuing your exploration. No one can guarantee that there isn't a fragment of the Star God sleeping beneath our feet."

"If you find a fragment of the Star God, can you give it to me for research?" Olivia didn't seem to listen to what Chen Xi said. Instead, she looked at him with burning eyes, wishing that Chen Xi would take out a piece of the Star God fragment for her to study.

"Then you'll probably have to convince the Emperor first, and we have to win the battle first." Chen Xi made a helpless expression, but did not tell Olivia that a fragment of the Star God was sealed underground in the headquarters of the Mechanicus on Mars.

Even in the official GW setting, he was a complete Star God! Among the Star Gods, the Void Dragon, who wielded technological power, was the source of the Necrons' powerful technology, and the true form of the God of All Machines, worshipped by the Mechanicus.

When the Mechanicus of Mars was just emerging, a group of Mechanicus believers were influenced by the Void Dragon and worshiped it as a god. This is one of the reasons why the style of the Mechanicus is so strange.

(End of this chapter)