Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 269 Boomerang 2

The people on this planet are really troubled. It seems that everyone wants to sacrifice them to achieve a greater cause.

When it comes to considering the overall situation, they are not in the overall situation; when it comes to doing things at all costs, they are often the cost.

And they don't even have the right to know until the moment the butcher knife falls.

Thinking of this, Howard's laughter gradually subsided until he could no longer laugh.

Howard's laughter interrupted the confrontation between the nun and the mechanical sage. Then Howard stopped laughing and admired the nun's expression. If conditions permitted, he even wanted to take a picture of this expression and take it back to observe and appreciate it slowly.

However, Howard also knew that the nun's heart must be very complicated at this time, so he did not attack her further.

Then Howard walked over to the silent nun, patted her shoulder gently and said:

"The geese haven't been shot down yet. Isn't it too early to start arguing about how to cook them?"

"I..." The nun wanted to say something, but when she saw Howard's usual calm look, she closed her mouth.

"I know, I know." Howard said to the nun softly, as if he was coaxing a child who had made a mistake: "Leave it to me, trust me."

Then he turned back to the Mechanical Sage:

"We've been talking for so long but haven't gotten to the point yet. Is the Mechanicus so inefficient?"

Because the Mechanical Sage's remarks were exactly the same as the nun's about sacrificing a few people to achieve great things, Howard was destined to no longer have a good face towards him. The nun might be able to change, but this oil man would be a hundred times more stubborn than the nun.

"I don't care how you plan to use this energy source, because you can't get it with your strength." Howard mercilessly poked at the Mechanical Sage's sore spot:

"You can't ask the Space Marines for help. If they knew about the existence of this energy source, they would either destroy it or give it to someone else to study. Even if they allowed you to conduct this research, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to accept the research qualifications promised by the Space Marines, right?"

Facing Howard's ridicule, the Mechanical Sage was surprisingly calm: "What do you want?"

Vicklor also realized that the human in front of him was a completely different person from the Battle Nun. The Battle Nun was stubborn and very emotional, so to deal with her, he needed to make himself look emotional as well. But to deal with this human, the emotional trick was useless.

Howard did not answer the Mechanical Sage's question immediately, but instead looked at Esrick beside him.

"The Sage had his reasons for sending troops to attack the Blackwater Region ahead of schedule, but what about you? Why did you allow them to issue such an order? In the minutes you showed me, you clearly opposed this decision. What changed your opinion?"

"I'll answer for him."

The Mechanical Sage took over Howard's question, and the projection module on the mechanical servant turned on, and the holographic image of Karenya appeared in front of Howard.

The surface of the planet Karenya projected by the Mechanical Sage is covered with a grid that is constantly and subtly fluctuating.

"I don't understand. Please explain." Howard said bluntly.

"This is a real-time psychic energy fluctuation map of Karenya. Through sixteen detection devices in synchronous orbit, we can monitor all psychic energy fluctuations on this planet."

As the Mechanical Sage spoke, he waved his palm in the air, and the projected planet began to rotate. The Mechanical Sage rotated the projection to a specific angle and then enlarged that area.

As the projection enlarged, the grid representing the degree of psychic energy fluctuation in that area became more refined and accurate. Howard saw that the originally flat lines began to gradually become steeper in this area, and the color of the lines gradually transitioned from blue to yellow.

"This area is the Blackwater Section occupied by the orcs. There are many psychic wizards among them. The level of psychic power these wizards can control is very low, but when added together, they are still not to be underestimated."

Then the Mechanical Sage continued to wave his palm slowly. Howard noticed that when he rotated the projection before, his palm and the projection were parallel, but now the palm and the projection were perpendicular.

This time, as the Mechanical Sage waved his hand, the projection itself did not rotate, but the grid representing psychic energy above the projection began to fluctuate violently.

It is obvious that when the palm is parallel to the projection, waving the palm means switching areas, but when the palm is perpendicular to the projection, waving the palm means switching time.

Howard looked at the curve that was jumping like sand on a drum, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Could it be...

The next second after Howard had this thought, he saw an incredible wave peak suddenly appear on the receding grid.

Howard's face was less than a meter away from the psychic projection. Even the steepest psychic fluctuations in the Black Water Section were just like a small wave, but in that frame, the curve of the grid almost poked Howard's face.

Although Howard knew that it was just a projection and had no lethality, he was still frightened by the sudden attack from Bo Feng and jumped back a step.

After cutting through the crest, the Mechanical Sage slowed down and began to retreat, eventually pausing the psychic detection map at the frame where the crest appeared.

Then what appeared before Howard's eyes was a strange peak, the height of which was higher than all the previous peaks combined. The lines of the grid appeared a dangerous red, and the end of the peak even turned black.

If the psychic energy generated by the previous Black Water Section was a small hill, then this peak was Mount Olympus.

Howard already knew how this crest was formed, but the Mechanical Sage was still explaining it to him.

"Four days ago, during our most recent Kalenya meeting, I detected a momentary surge of unprecedented psychic energy, so intense it even burned out one of my satellites. We subsequently received more reports of several astropaths within Blackwater Fortress having their brains boiled, and of a large number of orcs dying within the buffer zone between Blackwater Fortress and the Blackwater Sector."

No one knew the reason for this psychic fluctuation better than Howard. He looked away guiltily. The nun also knew some of the reasons from some previous events, so she was also staring at Howard.

But she was only staring at Howard. If her mind was still in the same state as when she first met Howard, she would have exposed Howard by now.

"And on this planet, the only thing capable of generating this level of psychic fluctuations is that energy source," the Mechanical Sage continued. "So I presume the orcs have already obtained it. After these cunning aliens occupied my original laboratory, they must have also become aware of the existence of the underground energy source."

"This energy source is unimaginably powerful. Every second the orcs control it, our danger increases. Our only option is to seize it back while the orcs have just obtained it and haven't yet gained control. Even if we can't seize it, we must delay their control of the energy source. Otherwise, no one can be sure that the entire Blackwater Fortress will not be destroyed by these aliens in the same way in the next second."

"So we didn't have time to wait for the Space Marines to arrive." At this time, Esric spoke. He looked at Gloria and said, "Lord Archangel, I know this decision has resulted in heavy casualties, but I still don't think it was wrong. Even if I were to choose again, I would do the same. We did nothing wrong, we just didn't win. Even if the Divine Emperor wants to judge me, I have a clear conscience on this matter."

If Howard hadn't already made some progress in facial management, his expression would probably be even more interesting than the nun's just now.