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Chapter 214: Dora Kaur's Mission

Looking at Kaul's humble appearance, the forging general Gastav beside him widened his eyes in disbelief.

Although he was the High Lord of the Adeptus Mechanicus on Terra as an Active Forge-General, if one were to really calculate, Gastav's identity, status, and influence in the Adeptus Mechanicus were not even one-tenth of Cawl's.

This is not an exaggeration, because the Mechanicus advocates rationality, knowledge, and information. Why is the most well-known army of the Mechanicus so powerful and fearless? Because in the concept of the Mechanicus, knowledge and information constitute everything in this world. As long as you fight for the Mechanicus, you will get the knowledge and information you want. And this is a good service to the Mechanicus - in short, there is a reward for every effort. So the Mechanicus's Skitarii are fearless.

Well, it doesn't matter even if there is any hesitation, because the Sage Commander who is connected to the mind of the entire Skitarii army and gives commands can forcibly occupy the opponent's body, erase the consciousness of fear and perform combat overload, or directly activate the self-destruction program when he senses that the Mechanicus Skitarii warriors are timid and wavering.

In this case, in the Mechanicus, the identity and status of any member are directly linked to the knowledge, technology, and information they possess.

Before the Dark Age of Technology, Mars was the most important technological center for mankind. After the Emperor unified Terra, he cleansed the many planets in the solar system to varying degrees based on their importance.

Take the moon as an example. The moon of this world is also a scientific research center related to biology and genes. After occupying the moon, the Emperor wiped out all the high-level officials, but left scholars to work for him. As the technological center of mankind, the Mechanicus would only cause the newly unified Terra to fall into a long internal friction if a conflict broke out rashly.

Therefore, in order to further strengthen the power of humanity as a whole, the Emperor personally arrived on Mars and gained the respect of all the Mechanicus through his knowledge. Even now, many people still believe that the Emperor is the legendary God of All Machines, the incarnation of the Om Messiah in the material realm. Since then, the Mechanicus of Mars has been closely linked to the Empire as an ally.

Forge General sounds powerful, but this thing is just like the title of "Supreme King" of the rulers of those Knight Worlds, which is effective within a single planet. Looking at the countless worlds of the Empire, the leader of each Forge World belonging to the Mechanicus is called a Forge General. The reason why Gastav can become the High Lord of Terra is more because he is the Forge General of Mars, the ancestral planet of the Mechanicus. Although they are both Forge Generals in name, the mayor of Baijing is completely different from the mayor of an unknown 18th-tier small city.

But Cawl is different. As a great sage of the Mechanicus, it is no exaggeration to say that as long as Cawl is willing, he can use the knowledge he possesses to lead at least one-third of the members of the Mechanicus to Chaos at any time... After all, there is indeed a Chaos God in the Warp who is closer to the concept of Om Messiah than the Emperor.

The evil god, Vashtor. Known as Vashtor, he is a demonic demigod of inventors, engineers, scientists, and craftsmen. He represents curiosity, creativity, and a desire for knowledge that is not bound by morality. He is the embodiment of the concepts of technology, innovation, and invention in the subspace. Everything related to technology will provide power for this demigod. However, he does not belong to any of the four evil gods. He is just a simple businessman who trades arms with them and is keen to see the conflict between the chaos and the material world, because along with war, the arms race and the technology race will make him stronger.

Few people know about Vashtor. If Cawl really surrendered to Chaos, and the existence and ideas of this evil god were really made public, then it would not be difficult to directly pull half or even more members of the Mechanicus to surrender to Chaos...

But that's all. After all, there are all kinds of monsters and demons in the subspace, and there are even atheistic gods among them...

Although he didn't know about the existence of the half-immortal Wa, Gustav was very clear about Kaul's identity and status. Looking at Kaul, who had previously questioned Ron's existence but was now full of humility, Gustav couldn't understand what happened in the process... He knew that Ron had a strong affinity and convincing power (psychic filter), but no matter how friendly he was, it was impossible for him to be like this now...

After looking at Gastav beside him, Cole looked at Ron again. After confirming that Ron didn't seem to mind at all, he said calmly:
"The words King Roan conveyed to me were once spoken to me by the Emperor himself."

After hearing what Kohl said, everyone present couldn't help but swallow their saliva, making a gulping sound.

The Emperor himself told Cawl that? That was at least five thousand years ago, during the Horus Heresy!
For a moment, even the Imperial Fists' commander, Razrion (finally found his name...) was speechless. In other words, this beast-like person in front of him was already more than 5,000 years old? !
You know, the Horus Heresy, for today's Empire, is a story that happened in the Age of Mythology... and now, this guy in front of him has lived from the Age of Mythology to the present?
The Imperial Fists' Legion Commander Razrion suddenly understood why King Roan summoned Cawl alone... It was not enough that he had a long life, but he was even summoned by the Emperor and was told to "persist in research that was so outrageous that even he himself would doubt it"...

For a moment, not to mention the Imperial Fists' commander, Razrion, even the few guards beside him couldn't help but wonder - Oh my God, what on earth is he researching? Is it so important that the great Emperor personally instructed him?
The reason why Cawl respected Roan so much, besides the fact that the Emperor said this himself, more importantly, there was no record of it. Before Roan appeared, only three people knew this. One was Cawl, one was the Emperor, and the other was the atheist scientist Serdain, whom Cawl's master had mentioned before.

However, the only ones who can truly understand this sentence are the Emperor and Cawl... and now, perhaps Ron needs to be added.

At first, Serdain tried to take over Cawl's body, but was defeated by Cawl and had all his knowledge and memories absorbed by Cawl. In Serdain's memory, it was the Emperor who said this to Serdain himself. It is even said that when the Emperor first met Serdain, he called him Belisarius Cawl.

When Serdain heard the Emperor speak these words to him, he did not understand what they meant. In fact, the Emperor did not speak to Serdain at all, but to Cawl through Serdain's memory.

And now, only Cawl, Serdain, and the Emperor know, and only Cawl and the Emperor understand the meaning of the words spoken by Roan who appeared five thousand years later...

Cawl had enough reasons to suspect that Ron was definitely more than just a living saint...even if Ron said that he was the reincarnation of the emperor, Cawl would carefully consider whether this was possible and would most likely believe it.

There is no way, this sentence has a huge impact on Kaul...

Cawl's life story is also quite amazing. On the eve of the Heresy, when Cawl was still a Tech-Priest in the Trisolian System, he had secretly begun to perform illegal brain enhancement surgery to make himself smarter.

This is a heresy in the Mechanicus, so the priests of the Mechanicus prefer to strengthen it by adding external artificial nerve bundles and nerve enhancers. The reason is simple, because the human body is sacred. The reason why the Imperial Church often uses skulls as decorations is because natural skulls without any traces of modification are a symbol of pure souls.

Before meeting Thurdain, Cawl had a female superior. However, because she was worried that her secret plan to gain immortality through cloning would be exposed, she turned to Horus. So Cawl also pretended to be loyal to Horus, until Leman Russ, the Primarch of the VI Legion Space Wolves, came to start a war with Horus. Cawl took the opportunity to kill the female superior and absorb her intelligence core and all related knowledge.

First, the memories and knowledge of his female superior, and then the memories and knowledge of Serdain. Through this knowledge, Cawl's status in the Mechanicus rose rapidly - plus he was once Serdain's disciple, so he directly inherited Serdain's status.

But it was precisely because of Cawl's independence and the Emperor's "encouragement" that Cawl hated some of the doctrines of the Mechanicum - when Guilliman woke up, Cawl was already more than 10,000 years old. Guilliman originally planned to directly appoint Cawl as the new Forge General. However, considering Cawl's independence, Guilliman finally gave up this idea.

As for Caul's size... there's nothing he can do. Ordinary life extension devices can only extend his life by a few hundred years, which is already amazing. For someone like Caul, in order to prolong his life, he has to undergo countless transformation surgeries. It can even be said that Caul has replaced everything except his brain. In order to ensure that his huge memory is not lost due to the passage of time, Caul even has to back up his memory on multiple uninhabited secret planets to prevent himself from forgetting important things or knowledge.

And now...

Although Cawl is already very large now, judging from the plot of Guilliman's awakening, Cawl still has a lot of room for transformation.

Thinking about it, Ron also asked: "How are you doing with what Guilliman asked you to do?"

What did Guilliman arrange for Magus Cawl to do?
Hearing this, not only the others, but even Valdo was slightly stunned, and then looked at Kaul with some suspicion. As for the others, let alone Kaul. Before Kaul could speak, the Imperial Fist Corps Commander Razrion Razrion said hesitantly:
"King Saint Ron. Should we...step aside?"

"No need." Ron waved his hand and said, "This will soon become public knowledge, just don't spread it around casually."

"Okay, I'll delete some of the relevant memories after this is over."

Although Roan said it casually, just don't spread it. But out of caution, Razrian decided to delete this part of the memory of everyone present. After all, this may be related to the many preparations made by the Primarchs of the Emperor's Children for the future empire in the mythological era.

At the side, Casting General Gastav nodded seriously and said, "I can do it too. If you are worried, you can ask Great Sage Kaul to delete my memory personally to prevent backup."

"I told you not to be so nervous." Ron shook his head, not paying any attention to it, but looking at Cole.

The reason why Cawl is called Dora Cawl by players is that before Guilliman fell asleep, Guilliman secretly gave Cawl many instructions.

And now, after hearing Ron's question, Cawl also said truthfully: "I have completed part of the first task that Lord Guilliman assigned to me. Although it has not yet reached my expected goal, I have already produced some finished products. After Lord Guilliman fell, I began to work on the second task. So far, 70% has been completed, but the remaining 30% may be more troublesome than all the difficulties I encountered before."

Guilliman gave Cawl two tasks. The first one was to create new weapons to cope with the more brutal battlefield in order to turn the war between the Imperium of Man and the Warp God from "a hopeless war" to "an almost hopeless war". Not only warships, tanks, artillery, swords and guns, but also a new generation of Astartes Space Marines. For this purpose, Guilliman even secretly gave Cawl the core technology "Blood Stack" used by the Emperor to manufacture the first batch of Space Marine Legions.

It contains all the genetic material that can be collected from the twenty Primarchs. In a sense, the gene seeds in it may be purer and more uncontaminated than those in the current Primarchs.

Another thing is that when Guilliman decided to launch a reckoning against the Chaos Space Marines who participated in the Heresy, he realized that he might be in danger, so he ordered Cawl to find a way to save himself no matter what if he was really in danger.

In the original timeline, Guilliman had been asleep for more than 10,000 years before he finally woke up. Roan was prepared for Cawl to have no results in this matter. But now it seems that Cawl obviously realized how important Guilliman was to the Empire. When he encountered danger, he put aside the first task and shifted his focus to the second task of rescuing Guilliman.

And now, 70% of the reliquary to save Guilliman has been completed... It's almost enough. Because the remaining core technology is still hidden in the Eldar.

(End of this chapter)