Although Luka decided to conduct a preliminary exploration of the Tomb of the Dead, or to put it more bluntly, to search for gold on Pai Gu's grave, this was not an activity that could be carried out on a whim.
At least Luka needs some time to gather a small team to go to the grave to dig for gold, and prepare weapons and equipment for himself.
The tomb of the Necrons is not the kind of maze in the tomb-raiding novels of the 3K era, which would never appear in reality except in novels. Unless the tomb owner has some special hobby, it is absolutely impossible for a normal person to build a tomb like that.
A tomb is a place for the deceased to rest in peace. It requires that the dead be treated as if they were alive, and all utensils and expenses should be the same as those for the living!
It's difficult for a living person like you to get in, so how can you expect the tomb owner to live comfortably in it?
And for a tomb this size, have they considered the engineering effort?! People can hang on wires in the tomb, and several people can wander around in the tomb passage for hours!
What you are digging is probably not an ancient tomb, but a cemetery world of Necrons!
The tombs of the Necrons are really that exaggerated. Because of their short-lived nature, their predecessor, the Necrontyr, actually built their cities into tombs, and the entire race lives in cemeteries.
The structure of a tomb of the dead is also very complicated. After all, it is a super-large tomb that can accommodate the army and people of an entire dynasty, as well as various vehicles.
For more powerful Necrons, their graves might even be tomb ships tens of kilometers long, comparable to the Empire's battleships.
It is conceivable that if it is a tomb of the dead, if you want to rob the grave and steal the gold, you may not even be able to enter the door without making full preparations.
But when Luka took stock of the forces at hand, he found that if he wanted to go to steal gold, the number of people on hand was not enough.
Now, the only people he can mobilize, apart from himself as the psychic inquisitor, are the Kashejin Guards and the battle sister squad around him, plus four special sister units.
In addition, Sage Olivia herself can be regarded as a combat force. If she is willing to spend some time preparing, she can make a few combat servants to support the scene.
There is no big problem in dealing with general situations, but digging for gold in the graves of the dead?
All I can say is, forget it, even the professional crusaders won't be able to hold out for long.
This is even more true for the Planetary Defense Force. The Astra Militarum can only hold out for minutes against the Necrons, not to mention the ordinary Planetary Defense Force whose equipment and training are far inferior.
If you want to rely on these conventional forces to resist the Necrons' army, then apart from sacrificing human lives, the only way to have a glimmer of hope is to use various heavy weapons and armored vehicles.
The Necrons' Gauss weapons are capable of tearing matter apart at a microscopic level. Even powerful Primaris Space Marines will be torn into the most basic atoms bit by bit, along with their power armor, after being hit.
However, the battle nuns, especially the one in the official animation who can resist Gauss weapons by praying, are really awesome, making people call it the appearance of the old man.
So if he really went down to the tomb to search for loot, considering that Luka did not intend to disturb the entire tomb, the only people he could bring with him would probably be his combat nun and Sage Olivia.
At most, we can ask Rachel and General Gregory to select a few good reconnaissance experts from the planetary defense force.
As for the others? If there were too many people, it would alert the tomb's owner.
Although judging from the things Olivia provided, this tomb has probably been eroded by time over the long years and has begun to decay.
But considering that the Flayers were active here more than eighty years ago, Luka was very worried that there were still active Necrons in this tomb.
If it was just an ordinary Undead Lord, then Luka would just mobilize the army and drive directly over there to fill this tomb world with human lives.
But if the person sleeping in the tomb is a tomb technician, or a figure of the Undead Overlord level, then all Luka can do is to quickly call for reinforcements.
After all, the organized Space Necrons are not something he can deal with. Without deploying a million or eight hundred thousand interstellar troops, he is afraid that he will not be able to move a single Necron Overlord.
You should know that the Necrons are called Necrons not only because of their metal skeleton shape, but also because the living metal in their bodies is a special material that can repair itself and even regenerate as long as there is enough energy.
Any Necron, if not completely killed, can repair itself by lying on the ground for a long enough time and getting enough energy supply.
And when you have finally destroyed a Necron with great effort, sorry, the 'Rebirth Ritual' has started!
This is a special technology developed by the Necrons, specifically used to upload their consciousness data when the Necrons are destroyed.
This thing is a robot. If you blow it up, it will just upload its own program and it will be a robot again in eighteen minutes.
There are only two ways to completely get rid of the Necrons.
First, destroy its rebirth protocol, send elite decapitation troops to teleport into the core of the opponent's tomb, destroy the data storage core of the rebirth protocol, and make all the ribs unable to upload and regenerate themselves.
Although this may sound simple, the Rebirth Agreement is the most crucial key to a tomb world, so it is inevitable that the other party will heavily guard it.
And there is another crucial point. Humans do not have much research on the Necrons. It is very difficult to accurately destroy the Rebirth Protocol. It is even questionable whether the elite troops teleported over recognize this thing.
In addition, the Necrons' territory is usually very vast. As long as a Necron dynasty is not too weak, it usually controls at least several Tomb Worlds. And the Rebirth Protocol...
It is possible that it is not on the planet you attacked, but on the crown world of this Necronomicon dynasty, which is also its headquarters.
Don't be surprised, this is normal for the Necrons. With their technology, they can easily build a portal between the two planets and then send reborn Necrons from the Crown World to the Tomb World.
So you want to defeat the Necrons with this one? It's not impossible, but it's really hard.
The other way is relatively easier to implement, but it is not an easy way to do it.
Because this requires you to solve the problem with the simplest brute force without any fancy tricks, directly blow up all the Necrons, and kill them multiple times in a short period of time so that they have no energy to complete their rebirth.
This has a relatively good effect on some small-scale undead tombs or dynasties. After all, the empire has always been full of martial virtues in this regard.
But this is not enough when facing some powerful Undead Dynasties, because these dynasties have Star God fragments that are said to have unlimited energy.