The ultimate goal of the Mechanicus is to establish a complete empire.

To achieve this, it is impossible to rely solely on spreading faith, so they prepared a little trick, which is to implant a little information deep in everyone's mind through mental suggestion.

This was a common occurrence in the past.

In the chaotic times thousands of years ago, many warlords with powerful psychic powers controlled a region, a country, or even an entire planet through brainwashing.

The mind synchronization device under the Golden Palace also has the same function.

Of course, that's not really what it does.

After the failure of the psychic ascension, all the imperials had to rely on the mind suppression barrier to live normally, and the mind suppression barrier was just the outer layer of the mind synchronization device. Although one of the original purposes of this device was to allow the emperor of the empire to easily control others with his mind if a rebellion occurred, in fact, this part of the function has never been used so far.

It's not just because the royal family has a bottom line, but also because there is a price to pay for doing so. After all, it is an invasion of the minds of millions of people.

Behind Su Ziyu was a burst of fire.

Holding Queen Isabella, he broke through the defense line in front of him and rushed into the enemy's encirclement in the midst of electromagnetic beams.

——"Sunshine Gun!"

A lightning spear made entirely of golden lightning cut through the air, and in the exploding and dancing electric snakes, Su Ziyu's pupils turned directly into a ball of dazzling golden light. Light visible to the naked eye passed in front of him, and after directly vaporizing a knight of the Mechanicus Church, he stomped his foot hard, and his mental power burst instantly overturned the passage above his head. Huge rocks fell down, and before burying everyone, his figure turned into a residual image and disappeared.

Rumble.

Most of the passage collapsed. Su Ziyu had just stopped when he suddenly reached out and pushed Queen Isabella away from his arms.

A ray of dim light flashed by.

A slender figure seemed to emerge in the darkness, accompanied by a flash of faint light, and Su Ziyu's psychic protective field shattered instantly, and a trace of blood appeared on his abdomen.

Da da da.

A slender figure that looked a little bit unlike a normal person appeared in the darkness. Looking closely, one could see a pair of electronic eyes that emitted a dark red glow. Its appearance was like that of a female, but that was just a resemblance. Its entire body was made of metal, its legs were sharp blades, and its hands also extended with dark blades of light. The diameter of its arms and thighs was no more than five centimeters, and the whole person was as slender as a metal bracket.

"It's the Punisher." Queen Isabella whispered, "A modified person from the Church Inquisition."

"They are semi-finished products of mechanical ascension."

The air trembled.

The Punisher's electronic eyes flashed, and his figure disappeared in an instant, at a speed that was a little hard to catch. The fully mechanized structure has allowed it to easily surpass the limits of humans. Even its brain has been completely replaced by a memory chip. Without the slightest hesitation, it instantly chose the best way to attack, leaped up, and launched attacks from three directions at the same time.

After the complete mechanical ascension, humans no longer need to communicate using sound, electronic signals are enough.

"You don't have to do anything." Su Ziyu raised his hand slightly to stop Queen Isabella beside him, and said in a voice transmission: "I can handle it."

"You can't break my seal yet."

The gradually increasing spiritual energy fluctuations of Queen Isabella suddenly stopped, a flash of lightning flashed across Su Ziyu's palm, and the whole person instantly turned into an exploding light and shadow, colliding head-on with the Punisher in front of him.

——"Field【Lightning】!"

For a moment, the entire passage was filled with dancing electric snakes, and everyone's vision was completely obscured.

When everything calmed down, Su Ziyu was standing in front, and under his feet was a completely damaged mechanical corpse with wisps of electric sparks coming out of its slender brain.

Completely mechanized and very strong.

Really strong.

They have completely exceeded the limits of human beings, and even legendary professionals cannot match them. However, they also have a fatal weakness. If the mechanical parts that make up their body consciousness cannot withstand the huge voltage, then they may be killed instantly when facing Su Ziyu.

Very unfortunate.

The Punisher in front of him might be able to withstand ordinary electric shocks, but within the explosion range of the lightning field, the memory chip inside its brain would be directly burned.

"Let's go." Su Ziyu turned around and said.

The passage ahead became much quieter. It seemed that there were not many semi-mechanically ascended humans inside the Mechanicus.

soon.

They came to an empty hall. Right in front of them was a dark blue psionic barrier. Within their sight were men and women dressed as bishops. In the center was the scene that Su Ziyu had seen before: the next heir to the empire, Prince William, was now imprisoned naked in a completely enclosed crystal jar. Silver-white metal wires connected various parts of his brain and then extended to a diamond-shaped crystal cluster above. At the top was an extremely large mechanical organization composed of a large number of dark blue crystal circuits and electronic components, like a brain.

Is this the mind-coherence center?

Su Ziyu felt in an instant that his spiritual power was being amplified. Even though he had just entered here, his mental fluctuations were already a little unstable, and the debris scattered around him was directly suspended.

Here.

Even a lowly psychic can easily unleash incredible power.

"This is simply a super psychic amplifier!" Su Ziyu murmured.

Inside the dark blue barrier, more than a dozen bishops of the Mechanicus Church are sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed around Prince William. In the front is an old man in a bronze robe. He is the Archbishop of the Mechanicus Church - Dan Davent. However, he did not stand up or open his eyes at this moment. He is still sitting there motionless like a puppet.

"Let William go!" Queen Isabella still cared a little about her nephew, and raised her hand to break the psionic protective force field in front of her.

Su Ziyu immediately reached out to stop her and said in a deep voice: "Don't be impulsive!"

"Look carefully!"

After he finished speaking, a ray of light flashed across his fingertips, directly removing the seal on Queen Isabella and granting her a layer of spiritual vision.

Within sight.

Directly in front of them, three meters in front of Prince William, a humanoid outline made up entirely of countless sophisticated mechanical components gradually emerged. It had a slender body and a pair of metal wings spread out behind it. Although it looked like a mechanical body, it appeared in the form of a spiritual body.

——"Machine Spirit! [Projection of the God of Machinery] [is coming]"

The beliefs of the Mechanicus.

They believe that all machines have souls, and they worship the God of Machinery. They are clearly walking the path of materialism, but they are overtaking idealism and going further and further.

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