Warhammer: Become a Saint Starting with the Banner of Souls

The ability to store items in space allows it to conjure Titans out of thin air and enables the machine spirit to autonomously drive the machine body.

Each of these items, taken individually, would be enough to shake the entire empire.

And all these abilities are concentrated in one person.

What is this person's background?

Was he really the emperor's messenger?

Or is he some kind of ancient, unfathomable being?

Krashir wanted to unveil all the secrets of this man, but his reason was also pulling the reins wildly.

Because he knew very well,

The power this person has displayed is not something I can afford to provoke.

Krasher forced himself to suppress his curiosity, and then, out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently glanced at Gil and Brod beside him.

He noticed something interesting: the two space wolves didn't seem too surprised.

Jill simply crossed her arms, a slight smile playing on her lips.

Brod simply nodded slightly.

They already knew.

This only made Krasher even more curious: what exactly had these two space wolves experienced while living alongside this saint?

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And at this moment,

The most shocked person was Oleksandr.

His optical sensors were fixed on the autonomously moving Titans.

"This, this, this, "

His voice transmitter jammed, and it took him more than ten seconds to finally squeeze out a complete sentence.

"Lord Raphael,"

He turned around and looked at Qin Mo.

"Yes, could you allow me to examine the machine spirits of these Titans?"

"It's just testing," he quickly added, "I promise it won't cause them any damage. I just... I just want to understand how this is done."

Qin Mo looked at the sage of the Mechanic Church and nodded slightly.

"Go."

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Having received permission, Orik strode toward the nearest Predator-class Titan, but did not immediately begin testing it.

Instead, they started by burning incense.

He took out an exquisite copper incense burner from his toolbox, put in a special mixture of machine oil and incense, and lit it.

A wisp of smoke rose, carrying a strong smell of engine oil and metal.

Then he began to pray.

"Great Omniscient God, your servant Orik offers you his most sincere respect."

His vocal cords switched to a deep, solemn frequency, alternating between binary prayers and Gothic chants.

"May you grant your servant wisdom, so that your servant may understand your creation."

"May your sacred code run forever."

He knelt down and respectfully kowtowed three times to the Titan's metal leg armor, reciting a passage of binary scripture with each kowtow.

The incense smoke swirled in the burner, and the prayers echoed, creating a solemn and dignified atmosphere.

Qin Mo stood not far away watching all of this.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

"..."

He has lived for thousands of years and has seen all sorts of strange and unusual sects and cultivation methods.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen someone burn incense, kowtow, and chant sutras before inspecting a machine.

If this were placed in the world of cultivation, it would be like a sword cultivator burning three sticks of incense, kowtowing three times, and chanting scriptures for a quarter of an hour before flying on his sword.

Then it took off.

The thought of that scene is hilarious.

However, Qin Mo did not interrupt, after all, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Moreover, the system had told him before that all the members of the Cult of Mechanics were eccentric and mysterious.

The worship of machines has reached a level bordering on fanaticism.

They believed that every machine possessed a soul, that technology was a gift from God, and that repairing machines was a religious ritual. Therefore, a complete prayer ceremony was performed before inspecting the Titan.

In their view, it is a matter of course, and in fact, not doing so would be a desecration.

Nearly ten minutes later, Olek's prayer ceremony was finally completed.

He stood up from the ground and finally began the formal testing.

A dozen or so data cables extended from his back, like octopus tentacles, and precisely inserted into the data interfaces on the Titan's leg armor.

His optical sensors shut down, switching to data analysis mode, and a massive amount of information flooded into his brain like a torrent.

The power system is functioning normally.

Weapon system, normal.

Armor integrity: normal.

Balanced matrix, normal.

Everything was within expectations until he accessed the data layer of the Machine Soul.

At that moment,

O'Leary's brain felt as if it had been struck by lightning.

"!!!"

"This, this is!!"

His microphone emitted an almost screaming cry.

Because he saw the Titan's soul, a soul state he had never seen before, completely beyond his comprehension.

The machine spirit of a normal Titan is silent, slow, and primal.

They are more like an instinct, an unconscious reflex, simple, passive, and requiring external guidance.

But the soul of this Titan is active.

Extremely active.

It was more like a "consciousness entity" than a "machine spirit".

The data flow surged wildly within the core of the machine soul, like a beating heart, each pulse carrying a massive amount of information.

It actively senses its surroundings, analyzes data, and makes judgments.

It possessed something akin to "thought," and what shocked Orik even more was that this machine spirit carried a sacred feeling.

It was as if this machine spirit had been baptized by some supreme power.

Of course, what Eulik didn't know was that this so-called sense of sacredness had an extremely simple origin.

The golden light effect of the fake Emperor's Flag.

As for why Machine Soul is so active, the reason is even simpler.

Qin Mo used the soul power within the Myriad Soul Banner to inject a portion of the evil soul's energy into Titan's machine soul.

These spiritual powers greatly enhanced the machine soul's "consciousness," transforming it from a primitive, instinctive reflex into a control core capable of autonomous operation.

In essence, the machine spirits of these Titans are no longer simply "machine spirits".

They are hybrids of machine spirits and souls, modified by the power of the soul.

He is Qin Mo's puppet.

But under the guise of the fake Emperor's Flag's golden light effects,

It looked as if the Emperor himself had bestowed divine life upon these Titans.

A perfect disguise.

Oric unplugged the data cable.

He stood frozen at the feet of the Titan, gazing up at its enormous golden body.

"Oh Messiah above, this is simply...unbelievable."

"Such a vibrant machine spirit—I have never, ever seen it on any other mechanical creation."

"It's almost, almost like it's alive, truly alive!"

"Moreover, there's that sacred power it possesses, that... that feeling."

"It's as if the God of Myriad Machines himself infused it with a soul,"

At this point, a complex light flashed in O'Leary's eyes.

The active machine spirit, autonomous action, and near-thinking data processing capabilities—these characteristics cannot be explained solely by the machine spirit's great joy.

That doesn't seem to make sense.

Because no matter how much the machine spirit rejoices, it could never reach this level.

Unless there's another layer superimposed on top of the machine soul.

A being capable of independent thinking, independent judgment, and independent action.

intelligent.

One word was displayed in Oric's processor.

A word considered a major taboo by many Mechanicus sects, a word that any member of Mechanicus who mentions it may be judged as heretic.

Aversion to intelligence, also known as artificial intelligence.