Chapter 243: The Primarch's Mechanical Body
That's right. What Lucan intended to do was exactly what he had thought of before: to reforge a body for another gene-primarch, the gene-father of the Tenth Legion, the Iron Hands, the one who had been beheaded by Fulgrim—Ferrus Manus. A body created from wraithbone and Purifier technology. Then, with the help of Lucan's limited-edition Soul Forge ability, he would attach his soul to this mechanical body.
The reports from the various Chapter Librarians and psykers on Cadia had let Lucan know that several Daemon Primarchs had also set their sights on Cadia. It was even possible that they were just waiting for him and his forces to arrive. Compared to Cadia, they certainly wanted to kill him more.
Through the texts and written data he had learned before his transmigration, it was difficult for Lucan to judge just how powerful these Daemon Primarchs were. Their combat effectiveness fluctuated wildly. Although he himself had a restraining effect on these primarchs who had completely ascended to daemons, he couldn't handle the fact that there would certainly be more than one coming. And they were not just daemonic bodies; they could also use physical weapons from the material universe.
He had a gene-primarch here as well, but Guilliman's dueling ability was... emmmm. Lucan hoped he could at least hold one of them off. The combat power Artanis now displayed was enough to kill a Greater Daemon, but without actual combat experience against a Daemon Primarch, Lucan was not at ease. And Kerrigan's combat power in this world was not strong. She had not inherited the memories of her past life; here, she was more of a commander.
Lucan had to fill the gap in his high-end combat strength.
The relationship between the Iron Hands and the Adeptus Mechanicus was very close. This was because the Iron Hands, like the tech-priests of the Mechanicus, also believed in "the flesh is weak, the machine is ascendant." Lucan didn't know what the Iron Hands would think if they saw their gene-primarch resurrected in such a way. This had truly reached the level of mechanical ascension in their hearts, guaranteed to be one hundred percent made of machine, without a single trace of flesh.
The severed head of Ferrus and a small fragment of his body were still revered as holy relics by the Iron Hands. The thought of Ferrus looking at his own former head made Lucan feel a bit awkward.
"I hope the Iron Hands can still recognize their primarch."
"Let's begin, Karax! Activate the Stellar Forge!"
Karax began to use the Stellar Forge to shape the molten wraithbone. The liquefied wraithbone began to slowly take on a human form. Cawl was at the side, helping Karax to optimize the mechanical body. The Purifier technology was originally designed to serve the Protoss and was based on their biological habits. Although both were humanoid creatures, there was still a great difference in their ways of movement. Karax was not skilled in how to shape a body that could move freely and fit human activities. And Cawl was providing Karax with advice and reference, to make it more in line with human movement habits. The Protoss had no mouth, so one had to be added for Ferrus.
Cawl's powerful computational ability made Karax's shaping exceptionally precise. And the set of equipment used to create the Purifiers also filled Cawl with novelty. And the idea of resurrecting another primarch in this way also made Cawl feel a long-lost excitement.
Lucan was also continuously injecting psychic energy into the Stellar Forge. Since they were creating a body for the already-dead Iron Hands Primarch, Ferrus, it certainly couldn't be a slapdash job. Wraithbone was a special material created by the special class of Eldar known as Bonesingers. It was harder than most steel and more durable than adamantium. In essence, it was a solidified form of warp energy. It could be manipulated and forged into almost any shape, with extremely high ductility and plasticity. This made it more suitable than plasteel or adamantium for creating the bodies of these Purifiers.
And its non-metallic, but rather warp-energy-based properties also allowed Karax, with Lucan's assistance, to compress the wraithbone even further. Ordinary wraithbone could not meet Lucan's requirements, so it had to be further strengthened.
Lucan ordered the temperature of the Stellar Forge to be continuously increased, to continuously temper the molten wraithbone. Under normal circumstances, the wraithbone from one or two Wraithguard would be enough to create one Purifier. But now, this three-meter-tall body for Ferrus had already consumed the wraithbone of nearly a hundred Wraithguard. And this number was still rising.
One hundred... two hundred... three hundred...
"Lord Lucan, 350. This is already the compression limit that the Stellar Forge can reach!" Karax reminded him. He could no longer inject more molten, liquefied wraithbone into it.
And Lucan also found that he had reached his limit. Even so, the strength of this mechanical body of Ferrus had reached an extremely exaggerated level. Through the Stellar Forge, everyone could feel the psychic energy continuously being released from this body. It had even vaguely and spontaneously formed a psychic shield around itself.
Cawl began to test its durability.
The final result was that it had an extremely high resistance to both physical and energy weapons. Its physical durability exceeded that of adamantium by a factor of two, and its resistance to energy weapons was even more exaggerated. In areas with a dense concentration of warp energy, it could even repair itself. The richer the warp energy, the faster its repair speed! And if various weapons and equipment needed to be added later, they could be smelted and modified due to the plasticity of the wraithbone.
In all aspects, this attempt was very successful. But after all, it was a product of Purifier technology. A machine still needed energy to power it. The external structure could be modified, but the internal power supply system still needed to rely on the energy provided by the Solar Core in the Spear of Adun, just like other ordinary Purifiers. Before the Purifier project had a breakthrough or innovation, this body could not fight for a long time far away from the Spear of Adun.
But something was better than nothing. Lucan believed that this would definitely not be a problem in the future.
"Karax, Cawl, you two can perform the final optimization! I'm going to prepare to bring back Ferrus's soul."
And Lucan once again connected to his warp projection. When he sensed Lucan's arrival, the Emperor also sensed the change in him. The Emperor, who was also regarded as the Omnissiah by some tech-priests, also sensed the portion of Vashtorr's portfolio that had been added to Lucan.
Hearing Lucan talk about how he had devoured Vashtorr's portfolio, the Emperor also found it absurd... Faith-power could be plundered in this way? This was simply a Great Devourer in the warp...
And when he heard Lucan talk about wanting to resurrect Ferrus and the method he would use, the Emperor did not, as expected, immediately agree. Attaching a soul to wraithbone with a Soul Forge... neither of these methods was what the Emperor wanted to see.
Turning Ferrus into a form of the Legion of the Damned was also a last resort. Only in this way could his soul be protected from being completely annihilated. And now, he still had to be turned into a non-human state...
He, who had always resisted psionics, really did not want to see his son return to the Imperium in this form. Otherwise, he would not have almost never deployed the Damned-version of Ferrus to the battlefield. The only appearance was in the War in the Webway. He, who had resisted psychic energy and even wanted to completely destroy the warp, did not want his son to exist in this way.
The Emperor also knew what wraithbone was. And he was also worried about whether the Soul Forge that Lucan had obtained was really reliable. If an accident were to happen, the annihilation of Ferrus's soul would be the better outcome. He was afraid that Ferrus would also become like those sons who had betrayed humanity.
The Emperor was struggling. If he could leave the Golden Throne, he had the ability to resurrect Ferrus. Back then, when Malcador had reported Ferrus's death to him, he had said that he could "fix" him.
And Lucan's existence had given him the hope of leaving the Golden Throne. He could choose to let Lucan resurrect Ferrus now in this special form, or he could wait until he himself had risen to resurrect him.
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