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Chapter 57 Where does the energy go?
The main power room has six entrances and exits.Regardless of whether the ship called the Claw of Destruction was originally designed this way, it is normal for it to become like this after encountering Slaanesh's contamination.

Konrad Curze let go of his hand and allowed Markan Feros' heavy body to fall to the ground uncontrollably.He has not committed any serious crimes in the past 200 years, but has only suffered many minor injuries.What makes him unable to move is not these physical injuries, but the mental shock - he is still barely able to maintain consciousness, which is a miracle achieved by combining the advantages of the Primaris Space Marines and his own tenacious willpower. .

The instigator doesn't care about these trivial matters.The original body of the Night Lord was just thinking: Why did the original reactor inside the power room, the... "mutated demon engine", have nine activated metal tentacles extending from each entrance and exit.

The members of the Iron Hands naturally realized that there was a little bit of Tzeentch's power mixed in this inexplicable raid.But for the crew of the Claw of Destruction, dealing with the hijacking of the main reactor, which is the lifeblood of survival, is obviously the highest priority. Which camp the enemy belongs to may be of some use in tactical processing and deployment. , but not much, so the Iron Hands warriors did not delve deeper into this issue - even if they had this idea, their few think tanks are almost all in the lower cabins, and there is no way to go deeper with spiritual energy. Level detection.

But as a crew member of the Stormbound, Coates clearly had other views on the matter.

+ "Emissary of the Throne Blessed by Tzeentch", do you have any thoughts on the possible alliance between the daemons of Slaanesh and Tzeentch on this ship? +
When he was still in the Star Torch, Fujimaru Ritsuka was very clear about the "connection with Tzeentch and the Well of Eternity" to everyone.Therefore, he can naturally use this to tease the other party - this is not the first time.

Fujimaru Ritsuka's reaction to this was no reaction at all.

+Don't know.According to my crash course in demonology from the Emperor, while Tzeentch is hated by all the other gods, if it's Slaanesh, there's little chance of them joining forces as long as they both think "this might be fun." Quite high. +
She completely ignored the first title in her words and directly started to answer the following question:

+Speaking of which, what exactly happened to the main power room? +
+The plasma reactor was turned into a demon engine. +
+Hmm... Since this matter has Tzeentch involved, let me ask one more question: Are you sure that is the Daemon Engine?Could it be something else that looks like a demon engine? +
+Iron Hands thinks so, I haven't looked closely yet. +
+Check it as quickly as you can - it would be strange if it was indeed a demon engine. +
+1 minute.You can use this time to talk about your reasoning. +
He made a gesture behind him that said "Follow, advance and standby", and then nonchalantly stepped across the bunker line set up by the Iron Hands. A shadow glided through the wide passage and approached the main power room door.

+ It’s not really an inference, it just feels weird. +Fujimaru Ritsuka's tone was a little hesitant,+Enkidu went to the lower level of the ship, where he discovered and destroyed a chaos ritual that probably mixed the power of two gods at the same time.The information I received from the middle-level command room indicated that the main power room showed abnormality only after a problem occurred at the lower level. +
Sensing Curze's approach, the many activated tentacles that had been dormant at the entrance also "awakened".These ugly creations, which are made from the fusion of machinery and human flesh, actually show a strange elegance when they stretch their bodies.At this distance, the original body's hearing was able to pick up the sounds of fighting at the other five gates behind the wall, but the tentacles in front of him just lay lazily at the door when no one was approaching, without showing any attack. Desire - even though he had wasted a lot of time with Feros near the distant front line.

It's as if they don't really care about "corrupting the entire ship", but just "preventing others from entering the power room".

+ Generally speaking, because of this apparently strongly related sequence, it should be considered that "the lower level rituals summoned the demons in the power room."But this is subspace, and Geller’s position is broken. Does the demon really need a ritual summoning with a large-scale blood sacrifice when it comes to the ship?The specifications are too high, right? +
Some sighing whispers began to float in the air, tender and affectionate like the whispers between lovers, the rich musk and stench mixed into a disgusting smell, and it seemed as if there were taboo secrets and blasphemous knowledge creeping on the skin of the tentacles. .The gun muzzle and cannon port were revealed in the surging flesh, and evil projectiles made of human bones and rays composed of chaotic energy struck at Curze.When faced with this kind of battle, the Astartes assault team had to pause and raise their shields to defend themselves. To the original body, this was a gentle attack.

Koz even had the mood to send out words while evading:
+I can’t say whether you are trying to save others by yourself. + It's completely unclear how he did it, but even if all the long-range attacks seemed to hit, they just passed through as if they were hitting phantoms or air. +After all, there is never any arrangement that can be called a "ritual" when you need to summon something. +
+...Can this be the same! +Fujimaru Ritsuka's voice sounded a little angry,+In addition, the fact that the "plasma reactor was turned into a demon engine" itself was also very suspicious. +
A tentacle swept towards Curze with lightning speed, and as if he had expected it, he avoided it with a slight sideways movement, and even carved several deep parallel wounds on it with the activated lightning claw. .As a result, the tentacles simultaneously emitted screams from the countless mouths integrated into the body that could drive mortals crazy in an instant. Even the Terminator team behind him stopped for a moment, but Curze himself Not affected at all. +How to say? +
+Isn’t the Demon Engine made by “merging the Demon into the mechanical structure”?I've done something similar in Fantasyland, so I probably know the principle.But, even if they are demons, do you think they can enter the plasma reactor and control its mechanical mechanism?That's a plasma reactor, the main reactor that can drive a battle barge!There is no doubt that the energy of the physical universe is energy. Even if the devil enters, will he still be alive? +
Since the conversation is carried out directly in the spirit, the efficiency of conveying information through spoken words is much faster than the language itself.In the moment when this thought was transmitted and received by Curze, he quickly used the pair of lightning claws of kindness and forgiveness to completely dig out the screaming tentacles, and poured the sticky and foul-smelling purple blood on it. It was all over him, and it clearly contained a clear taint of Chaos, but the Primarch ignored it.

This move visibly enraged the enemy, and the remaining eight huge tentacles became visibly more active. The waves of the warp surged, and the omnipresent power of Chaos began to heal the damage sustained by the regenerated tentacles.The moment they danced wildly, the Terminator team behind Curze began to fire backup in accordance with the order - using long-range weapons picked up from the Iron Hands.

+Aren't there also huge daemonic engines like the Chaos Titan?What's more, demon-engined Chaos ships seem to be not uncommon. +
Curze strode forward, amidst the stormy attacks of screaming tentacles, the original's huge body was as light as a falling leaf.He moved forward slowly and fast in a strange and unpredictable route. At the same time, the hot knives of the lightning claws wrapped in the disintegrating force field and the emperor's psychic power sliced ​​through the obstacles of the tentacles like butter. It was like entering a no-man's land. Advance.To the Iron Hands commando, this distance was like a chasm, but it was like walking on flat ground in front of him.

+In that case, it would not be faster or safer to start the Corruption from the main console's array of cogitators than from the main power source. +
+That's true. +
As he spoke, he had cut through the last layer of disgusting defense on the tentacles, used brute force to tear open the adamantine door that had become blasphemous, and looked inside the power room.

+Your inference is correct. +
Confrontation with daemon creations in the Warp almost always turned into an endless war of attrition, so Curze quickly retreated after a brief glimpse.For the original body, that moment of peeking was enough for him to see all the details clearly.

+There are some manifestations of Chaos runes inside, but the reactor itself is basically intact. +
Curz immediately retreated, and the Terminator team that received the order also slowly retreated while maintaining shooting.At this time, Fujimaru Ritsuka raised a new question:

+ Now there is a new question: If the plasma reactor is intact, then why is the ship barely running on backup energy - where does the energy from the main power source go? +
+That’s because——+
Coates himself paused at this intuitive inference.He originally thought that the ship's power system went offline on a large scale because the Iron Hands themselves physically cut off all the energy transmission lines of the main power source.Using normal logic to extrapolate from the results, this will indeed cause energy supply problems - but is this really the case?

The reason why they went to such extreme measures to cut off all energy transmission pipelines was because Chaos corruption was spreading along the pipelines.In other words, if such extreme treatment had not been carried out, the entire Claw of Destruction would have been completely corrupted by Chaos.At that time, the pipeline was obviously still outputting energy normally: the traces of safety accidents that Cozz saw along the way, as well as Feros's related memories, can confirm this.

——Then the problem arises. Now that all the energy pipelines have been cut off, the energy in the intact plasma reactor has nowhere to go. It should have exceeded the endurance threshold of the shell and exploded long ago.However, even in Coze's sudden glimpse of the main power room just now, he saw no sign of the reactor being overloaded.

Where does the energy it outputs go?
　There is one more chapter at six o'clock.Wait for me to touch it slowly at the work station.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)