The situation wasn't as bad as Alex had anticipated. The Silent Sister indeed saw through his essence, but what she saw was a mass of golden energy enveloping a chess piece, and this energy was shaped into the form of the chess piece Alex was using.
Clearly, this was the power of the Emperor.
"This is not a power from the Warp, nor is it a technological creation; the Void Field has no effect on it." The Silent Sister's expression was very strange as she signed this, a look of excitement mixed with deep resentment: "I have no intention of prying into your origins. I will provide you with all the help I can. Ten thousand years have passed, and that one still hasn't forgotten his left claw."
Alex dared not respond to the Silent Sister's words, but he understood what she was saying.
During the Great Crusade Era, the Imperial Aquila was the personal symbol of the Emperor, and the Aquila had two claws: the right claw, the Custodian Guard, and the left claw, the Sisters of Silence.
Undoubtedly, under the special perspective of this elder sister, who could see through the true nature of Huang Lao Han's big guy from Central Asia, Alex's little secret was not much of a secret.
But the Silent Sisters are trustworthy; not to mention that their nature as untouchables means there is no such thing as corruption for them, their unwavering loyalty, even after being forgotten by the Imperium for ten thousand years, is enough to inspire sufficient trust in them.
"You said my soul? I'm sorry, I haven't found your soul in the form you are currently using. Perhaps something is attached to that chess piece, but it's enveloped in golden energy, and I cannot see through it." Alex also asked about his soul, but the Silent Sister said she didn't see it.
This reassured Alex quite a bit. Although Huang Lao Han was truly inhumane when he was inhumane, if it wasn't necessary, Alex didn't want to personally experience what the Warhammer World cesspool tasted like.
Moreover, if his soul and body hadn't come over, then he could be more unrestrained in many matters in this world.
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Back in the real world, Alex relayed the information about the Silent Sister to his three friends.
"The Silent Sister can see through our essence, and then she told you that we are a mass of golden energy enveloping a chess piece?" Gutierrez stroked his chin, lost in thought after hearing Alex's account. After a long silence, he asked Alex, "How credible do you think this is?"
"I don't know. At least for now, we have no way to verify this claim, do we?" Alex wasn't really concerned about this matter. After all, having chosen to traverse the Warhammer World, thinking so much was truly unnecessary.
Gutierrez thought for a moment and nodded, "Indeed, since we've come to eat this shit, it doesn't matter how we eat it."
"Rather than that, let's discuss inviting others." Alex turned to Mai Mai and Twilight and asked them, "Gutierrez and I plan to invite 32. Who else do you think would be suitable?"
"Uh, not many people in the group are free lately, right?" Mai Mai recalled that most of the group members were busy, either working or doing other things, making it difficult for them to spend long periods in warhammer 40k like they did.
"You don't need to stay there for a long time. What we need now is manpower. They can cross over, open a chess piece, and then just let it run on autopilot." Alex had only recently thought of this mode of operation: "When I was AFK before, my chess piece, as the Commander, was very competent. It basically followed my plan without any problems."
"AFK mode is indeed fine, but is it really okay for long-term AFK?" Twilight also expressed curiosity and concern about this.
"Currently, long-term AFK doesn't seem to have caused any problems, but that doesn't mean there are no problems at all, so you still need to check it occasionally. AFK mode is only suitable for temporary absences." Gutierrez thought about it and still offered his opinion: "After all, our territory in warhammer 40k is not absolutely safe at the moment. If something happens and the character dies without the person knowing, that's the most frustrating thing."
The problem raised by Gutierrez was something everyone had to take seriously. After all, they weren't playing a game where they could just restart after dying or undo moves with a save file.
"This problem is probably something we can't solve right now. Unless we all use Primarch chess pieces, we can't guarantee that we won't die." Alex could only shake his head at this.
In the warhammer 40k world, no one dared to claim they would never die, not even the Gene-Seed Primarch.
Unless they could get the Emperor's chess piece, but that was too ancient and out of print, unless they went to Nottingham and stole that ancient relic.
(The Emperor fighting Horus at GW Headquarters in Nottingham, with The Great Angel lying on the ground. The white-haired figure is the Emperor, and the red-headed figure is Horus.)
"Primarchs require Level VII authority, and only you, Alex, who plays in Commander mode, can use them. We who play in Adventure mode can't switch." Speaking of this, Mai Mai couldn't help but envy Alex.
Although they couldn't use them now, they could eventually, unlike those who started in Adventure mode, who were destined to have no connection with Primarchs.
However, Adventure mode also had its advantages. For example, after reaching Level III, Gutierrez discovered that he could redeem a Kill Team, which meant he could be assigned a squad of followers from the same faction.
These followers were different from Alex's mode of deploying a squad of chess pieces; they were the type that could be trained and upgraded.
Although they had a quantity limit of only one squad, they could be upgraded, trained, modified, and equipped with more powerful gear.
Taking Gutierrez as an example, if he redeemed a Kill Team, a squad of Space Marine Scout Neophytes equipped with basic gear would spawn, and Gutierrez could train and cultivate this squad of Neophytes to upgrade them into full-fledged Space Marines.
When Dora Khaur brought out the Primaris Space Marines, he could also take this squad of followers for Primaris Space Marines surgery, upgrading them to Primaris Space Marines.
Not only that, these Astartes could also change professions. For example, Gutierrez could have someone from this squad of followers become an Apothecary, a Librarian, or a Techmarine.
And after accumulating enough experience, they would naturally become veterans, able to switch to equipment like Terminators, Centurions, and Dreadnoughts.
Of course, once inside a Dreadnought, they couldn't be taken out; only other Dreadnoughts could be exchanged.
This was completely different from Alex's chess pieces. Although the chess pieces he deployed looked no different from real people, their equipment and professions could not be changed.
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