When the long ceremony came to an end, the Mechanicum acolytes in robes took their places throughout the building, while the little angels became the main reciters of the Mechanical Hymn. Almost every boy was surrounded by three flying ones.
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With nervous expressions on their faces, the boys climbed up the heavy and huge iron steps one by one, turned around and sat down in front of the throne at the top.
As soon as they sat down, heavy steel straps tied up their ankles and wrists, and then silver hoods rose from behind the throne and covered their heads smoothly.
Soshyan noticed that Mathias, who had always had a watery face, finally showed some nervousness and anxiety at this time. He was holding an eagle emblem tightly in his right hand. Obviously, this father was not as ruthless as he seemed.
Like other fathers, they are worried about their sons.
After all, the consequences of failing to qualify can range from brain damage to brain death.
Soshyan could feel the heat rising in the hall as the cable plugs whirred against the input sockets on the backs of the boys' necks and spines.
"Praise be to Omnisiah!"
The Holy Machine Sage let out a low voice of praise. He stood on the high platform at the end of the hall, and the mechanical tentacles on his body plunged into the huge array of thinkers like a predatory octopus. He was the only one who could save the boy's life in the qualifying ceremony.
To exist, we must detect subtle dissonances in chaotic brain waves in time and cut off the links before everything is irreversible.
This is not an easy job.
"Witness their fitness!"
At that moment, Soshyan saw many boys twitching.
Then everything fell into silence again, except for the whining sounds of many devices...
Soshiyan, who already has a certain amount of mechanical knowledge, knows that the Mechanical Throne is not just a device for controlling mechas, it is also a necessary condition for mortal rituals to communicate with the mysterious machine soul of the knight mecha.
The machine soul has always been a topic that is difficult to summarize in words. Even the most knowledgeable sages of the Mechanicus have difficulty describing the state of the machine soul, its causes and composition in accurate words. Due to the sacredness of the religion
Sex sages will not be allowed to deconstruct machine souls, so in the eyes of outsiders, machine souls are indeed very illusory things, but there are also some machine souls that are very real existences, such as Titans and knight mechas.
The knight's machine soul is one of the very few that has some kind of mechanical consciousness that appears externally, because the knight's machine armor is a kind of war machine. In principle, if their composition and purpose are consistent, they should be exactly the same. However, in fact, every knight has
Their own unique "personality" determines that some mechas may be significantly different from the same model. These differences will be reflected in attack methods and preferences for certain weapons. Therefore, knights and mechas are essentially the same.
The process of two-way selection - while the knights are adapting to the mecha, the mechanical throne will quietly change their brains, allowing them to gradually form strong concepts about loyalty, responsibility and conservatism.
So it’s not that knights came first and then knight mechas came about, but knight mechas came first, and slowly the pilots also formed the original knight traditions and strict rules during the battle, and eventually something like knights was born.
groups and families, and helped many worlds survive the long night of the dark age. (This is equivalent to the fact that the knight pilot should have been a 'modern man' at the beginning, but was slowly changed into an 'ancient man' by the knight mecha...
.)
Of course, the knight mecha brings to the knights not only loyalty, responsibility and bravery, but also arrogance, impulsiveness and conservatism, as well as persistence in family lineage. On the other hand, the machine souls will in turn be affected by the knight's character, and even interact with each other.
Fusion may make the driver more sinister and cruel due to the character of the driver.
So it is not that Soshyan has not thought about organizing knights in the form of soldiers, but as long as he drives the knight mecha, he will still be changed by the mechanical throne over time. This is why the Mechanicus is very keen to find pilots in the feudal world.
Because of the pilot's reasons, mechas will affect knights, and knights will also affect mechas. What's even more mysterious is that once there is a recognized pilot and the two fight for a long time, the machine soul will be more likely to accept the blood descendants of that pilot.
, at least the qualified success rate will be much higher than that of a stranger. This is another reason why the knight family emphasizes blood ties.
About five minutes later, the connecting cables slid down from behind the boys one by one as if they were alive. The priests of the Mechanicus came forward with holy anointing and incense burners, and began to chant while chanting for the backs of their hands and the backs of their necks.
Apply holy ointment to the location, which makes the air a little thicker.
After another five minutes, the priests began to remove the restraints on the boys, and then the helmets were raised. Many boys fell forward and knelt down, retching, and almost everyone looked pale.
But very, very fortunately, all 45 boys were qualified and succeeded this time!
This made Mathias overjoyed and praised repeatedly that this was a day of miracles. It was Soshyan who brought the Emperor's Light to bless the boys. Soshyan was a little baffled by this, but at least it was a good thing that there were more knights.
..
Mathias immediately announced the good news to all the knights, nobles and subjects, which immediately triggered another carnival, followed by a dinner to celebrate the boys' success, but Soshyan was not in the mood to attend this event.
A series of banquets took place, because someone, I shouldn't say an Ada, found him.
"Your Highness."
In the secret cabin of the Avesta, Doral appeared in front of Soshyan and leaned down to salute.
Soshyan also temporarily received a message from Veronica, saying that Doral came directly here to see him. Considering that the other party was so anxious, he knew that there must be something big, so he returned to the flagship on the pretext that he had something to deal with.
"It's really not my intention to disturb His Highness, but the military situation is urgent."
"Military information?"
Soshyan frowned and thought for a moment, then remembered that Veronica did say that Doral had military matters to discuss with him, but it had been delayed until now due to a series of things.
"Ah, I almost... there are a lot of things, I'm sorry."
Soshyan rubbed his forehead.
"Tell me, Sir Doral, what is it?"
"That's it, Your Highness... About some time before you returned to the Nessen galaxy, the Royal Court received a distress signal from the virgin world of Esro. They were attacked..."
Hearing the attack, Soshiyang's heart skipped a beat, and then asked softly:
"From...the Empire?"
Doral nodded, and Soshyan felt a splitting headache.
I'm really afraid of what will happen...
But now that things have happened, there is no way to hide. After all, he is in this position. However, Soshyan now has a certain understanding of Ada, and he is not in a hurry to talk about the rescue. Instead, he asks:
"When the virgin world is attacked, you usually seek help from the Harlequin Troupe first, right? Or the nearby Ark World, how can you find the Royal Court?"