The Emperor’s Angel of Death

After listening to the introduction, Soyaang stared at the location of the Supreme Valia, calculating in his mind, and nodded after a while.

"I understand, thank you for your answer, everyone go about your business."

Just as the other three sages were leaving, Sage Arattimos did not move, but waited for everyone else to leave before approaching Soyaang.

"Sir, before leaving, the director instructed me on one thing, but I didn't dare to disturb you before because you were busy with military affairs."

As he said that, he turned his head to look at Dietrian in the distance, and Soyaang immediately understood what the other party meant.

"Dietrian, you go out first."

Dietrian didn't say anything, got up and left the conference room, and then Sage Arattimos opened his mouth and said:

"To thank you for your assistance to the Forge World and your contribution to fighting the enemies of mankind, the director is willing to provide you and your warriors with a powerful weapon."

"Oh?"

At first, Soyaang thought it was a Terminator or something, so he showed a smile.

"Then thank you very much."

Perhaps sensing Soyaang's somewhat disapproving attitude, the sage stretched out a metal tentacle to connect to the data panel, and then the projection rippled, followed by an unusually complex structure.

"This is..."

Soyaang looked at this thing, because he had never been very interested in mechanical equipment, and he couldn't see what it was.

"Sir, this is the pride of Arattimos, and also the result of the wisdom of our greatest predecessors and geniuses, the Flash Cannon."

"Flash Cannon? How powerful is it?"

"Sir, I'm not bragging, this is by far the most extreme laser weapon that humans can create within the limits allowed by real physics! It can even be said to be the strongest energy weapon of mankind in the same volume! What you see is the scale mounted on the gunboat, but even so, its power is unimaginable. It has two firing modes, one is to carry out wide-area shooting, which can instantly evaporate almost an entire small city, but it needs to sacrifice range, and the other is a concentrated shooting mode, which has a longer range and penetrating energy. In this mode, even a well-prepared Warlord-class Titan can't stop a shot!"

"Hiss——"

Even Soyaang, who had seen the most powerful weapons of the human and Eldar races, couldn't help but gasp slightly after hearing this power, but then he thought about it, it seems that the Adeptus Mechanicus has drawn a lot of "big cakes" in the past ten thousand years, and many weapons are theoretically very powerful, but either they can't be made, or they are very unstable.

In order not to打击the other party's self-esteem, Soyaang said euphemistically:

"Such a powerful weapon, Arattimos must have developed it for many years, right? Was it recently completed?"

The other party shook his head.

"Sir, this is not an experimental weapon, it was designed and finalized as early as ten thousand years ago, and it was manufactured."

"Huh? But why is there no information——"

Suddenly, Soyaang thought of one thing, or rather a message revealed by Zhao-Akada, Arattimos seemed to have some relationship with the Custodes during the Great Crusade era.

"Could it be, the Custodes?"

"Yes, sir, it is the Custodes. The Flash Cannon is the main weapon of the Custodes' Ares gunboat, so it is strictly kept secret."

"So that's how it is..."

After getting this information, Soyaang finally really began to examine this weapon, but he really couldn't see anything.

". Then does Arattimos still have contact with the Custodes now?"

"After developing the Flash Cannon, the Custodes took away most of the sages and priests who developed this weapon, and the subsequent Forge World was only responsible for the manufacture of some processed parts. After the end of the civil war in the Steel Ring, we announced that we had completely lost this technology and could no longer provide any parts, and the Custodes never paid attention to us again... Even though we gave them such a gift."

Soyaang could hear that Arattimos was obviously resentful that this technology was sealed up. He had provided the Empire with his best technology and the best talents, but he was abandoned like a worn shoe just because of the civil war. Anyone would be full of resentment.

In fact, this is also the Empire's consistent attitude of asking for and taking, which makes so many Forge Worlds think that they are being exploited and plundered, and finally defect to the traitors or present a semi-independent state. Even the Forge Worlds that are loyal to the Empire have to secretly keep a few tricks, such as Riza secretly hiding an entire Knight family.

Don't they want to contribute to the human Empire?

In fact, there are too many thankless things, not to mention that most of the time there is no return for the effort, then even the most loyal force will gradually become muddled.

All along, Soyaang has been extremely generous to his allies, whether it is the Covenant of Suffering, or the Adeptus Mechanicus, even to the point of being too generous in the eyes of outsiders, but he understands a truth very well, for a complex group, beliefs, ideals and other things can strengthen the bond between each other, but can never replace the real bond, only interests can become the real bond, although it is said that gathering for profit is also easy to disperse for profit, but if even the most basic interests of each other cannot be taken care of, then the dispersal will only be faster.

So he will not ask the other party, why this technology is only now taken out, if he had not given them the Titan, whether they would not provide this technology and other questions, because there is no need, some things everyone knows it well.

"I see, since the Flash Cannon is so powerful, how is its stability?"

"Well, because the energy generated during operation is too great, it requires a highly matched strong heat dissipation cooling system, this cooling system... is relatively complex, and cannot be in a small and closed environment."

"Is there the appearance of the Ares gunboat?"

"Yes."

Soon, a unique twin-engine gunboat appeared in Soyaang's eyes. He observed it carefully and noticed the weapon at the front of the aircraft.

"That's the Flash Cannon?"

"Yes."

Then the view rotated to the rear, and Soyaang was stunned.

"Its rear is... open?"

The tail of the Ares gunboat has a recessed area without armor protection, which is full of various precision capacitors and heat dissipation equipment. Soyaang immediately saw its shortcomings.

"This weakness is too obvious. Even if this gunboat has shield protection, once any external force hits this area, it will lead to disastrous consequences..."

Soyaang frowned, imagining the vehicle suitable for using this weapon in his mind. It seems that it is really only the gunboat, and it will only be more dangerous on the ground.

"If it is damaged, will it be very serious?"

The other party's answer confirmed his guess.

"Yes, the energy storage system of the Flash Cannon is very powerful, which also means that once it explodes, it will be a scene no less than the meltdown of a Titan's plasma furnace."