Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 260 Main Line

After Howard asked this question, the alien was silent for a long time, and Howard almost thought it had turned into stone.

But in the end he answered Howard's question.

"It's been too long... too long..."

As expected, it was an ambiguous answer, but it actually answered Howard's question.

But Howard wasn't giving up. He continued to ask, "Can you be more precise? Did you know this prophecy before or after the orcs came... No, did you know this prophecy before or after the humans came?"

The alien gave Howard an answer he didn't want to hear: "Farther...we...guard...the secret...the prophecy..."

This time it was Howard's turn to be silent, and at this time the nun and the elves squeezed through the layers of alien protection and came to Howard's side.

"Heh... Have there been other "Messas" here before me?" Howard suddenly asked another puzzling question.

"Messiah...you...are one of a kind..." the alien replied.

"Huh..." Howard let out a long breath and turned to the nun, "According to these aliens, they are the masters of this planet, and it was you who stole their home and drove them here."

"This is the empire's territory, this planet is the empire's territory, and humans are the masters of this planet! They are just weeds growing in the courtyard." The nun made this statement bluntly.

Howard was a little surprised. "Are you really that aggressive, sister? You were almost killed in one move just now!"

"Even if I can't eliminate them now, I won't surrender," the nun said. "You can kill me, but you have no right to change my position."

"Humans are cruel, barbaric, ignorant, and unable to communicate." This was the evaluation of the alien. Howard noticed that its speech was not as unfamiliar as it was at the beginning. As a life form that obviously possessed intelligence, its ability to learn and adapt should not be underestimated.

"Stop, stop!" Howard quickly stopped both sides and asked a question that concerned him: "We saw a lot of murals on the way here. What do those murals mean? What are they depicting?"

There was another long silence, and then the alien gave an answer: "The high priest, the high priest knows."

"What about the high priest?" Howard asked.

"Humans killed the high priest and stole...the secret."

Howard took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. He thought that all the problems he encountered along the way could be solved after coming here, but the aliens waiting for him here looked even more confused than him.

"So what do you know?" Howard couldn't help it.

"A spell." The alien replied, "The high priest told me a spell."

Howard glanced at May, who then stepped forward and asked Howard's question: "What is that spell?"

Because Howard was a soulless person, he probably couldn't understand the spells just like a layman couldn't understand what a monk was chanting. But Mei was an expert, so Howard asked her to try.

But the alien's body began to flicker violently: "Now is not the time."

"Why did you decide that now is not the right time?!" Howard asked.

The alien didn't answer.

Howard felt his blood pressure rise completely, and the blood vessels in his temples were throbbing.

He rubbed his temples, calmed down, and said, "It seems I'm late. If I had come a few days earlier, your high priest would still be alive and could answer my questions, right? But I've only just arrived, and your high priest has already been killed by humans, and you know nothing at all."

After being scolded by Howard, the alien actually looked a little overwhelmed, like a child being scolded by an elder: "Please forgive us... Messiah..."

"Alright, alright! If you don't know anything, then don't waste your time. Let's get out of here. We have more important things to do."

"Don't abandon us!" Hearing Howard say this, the alien suddenly became anxious: "Messiah! Please..."

"I didn't say I was abandoning you." Howard realized his tone had been a bit harsh, so he softened it a bit and said, "You asked me to forgive and save you. If what you're asking me to forgive is the so-called theft of the secret and your ignorance, then I've already forgiven you. As for saving you, although I don't have a clue yet, I'm sure I can't save you by staying here. So, let's get out of here first, okay?"

The alien tilted its head. It took a moment to process what Howard had said before replying, "Messiah, I understand."

Then its body began to flicker at a unique frequency, and the other aliens also began to flicker. It seemed that these aliens were using light to transmit information to each other. Finally, these aliens stopped flickering, and it was obvious that their communication had achieved results.

"We will send you away, Messiah." The alien seemed to have finally adapted to human language. "Please... don't abandon us."

Then the alien raised its hands, and the rest of the aliens followed suit. The humanoid ones raised their hands, the animal-like ones raised their forelimbs, and the insect-like ones raised their antennae. The ends of these raised limbs began to glow.

Howard suddenly lost his balance and slipped, but he did not fall to the ground. Instead, he was suspended in the air. Not only him, but also the nuns and the elves were in the same situation.

The aliens are trying to teleport them away using psionic powers.

"Wait, wait!" Howard, in a state of weightlessness, wanted to swim to the alien, but no matter how hard he tried, he was just paddling in place. So he shouted, "Do you know where we are going? And how can I find you after we get out?"

"Messiah, we will come to you at the right time," said the alien.

A dazzling light burst out from the void, causing Howard to lose his vision briefly. He then felt himself being attracted and pulled by an unknown force. His body was repeatedly stretched, twisted, and entangled like a rubber band. When Howard felt that he was about to be stretched to his limit, the force suddenly disappeared.

Howard felt weightless again, and the biting wind cut his face. He opened his eyes, but before his eyes could recover from the blindness, he fell headfirst into the yellow sand.

Yellow sand flooded Howard's head like flowing water. He tried to stand up, but his limbs seemed to be pinned down, unable to move an inch. Every time he breathed, large amounts of sand would fill his mouth and nose, even choking his trachea and lungs, nearly suffocating him.

Just when Howard's vision began to go black due to lack of oxygen, someone finally turned him over. Howard didn't care about anything else. He first took a deep breath of air to fill his shriveled lungs again. Then he curled up like a shrimp and started coughing violently.

The sand he inhaled cut his organs and was finally coughed out of his body along with mucus and blood. After Howard coughed out all the sand in his lungs, he had exhausted all his strength and fell to the ground exhausted.

Mei knelt beside him. It was this elf who had just rescued Howard from being drowned by the sand.

"Thank you...thank you..." But at this moment Howard was unable to express anything more and could only squeeze out these few words.

Then the nun came over. She looked down at Howard, who looked like he was about to die, but she didn't say anything in the end. Instead, she sat cross-legged beside Howard, imitating the elves.

After lying down for a while, Howard regained some strength. He took a deep breath and sat up, then shook off the sand on his body.

"There are the elves and the aliens, there are really a lot of things involved with you." At this time, the nun finally spoke, and it was not clear whether it was a mockery or a ridicule.

"Before this, even I didn't know I was so involved." Howard said, "Come on, let's have another small meeting now to summarize the existing intelligence and exchange views."

Neither the nuns nor the elves objected to this proposal. They all sat up straight and waited for Howard to speak.

"The situation seems to be this: somewhere on this planet...possibly beneath the Blackwater Section, there's an alien sanctuary containing a 'secret.' Humans fought their way in and seized the secret, but it was then stolen by the orcs. Previous analysis suggests that Miss Mei, your race also wants to obtain this secret." Howard looked at Gloria and then at Mei. "Do you have any clues?"

"You've intentionally concealed a piece of information." The nun looked straight at Howard and said, "You want this thing too."

"No! I don't want to at all!" Howard decisively denied this: "My instinct tells me to stay as far away from this thing as possible."

"Just because you don't want it doesn't mean the people behind you don't want it either." The nun said, "The defenders of this planet represent humans, Mei represents the Eldar, the orcs are orcs, and behind you is..."

"Stop it, stop it." Howard interrupted her quickly. "You have no evidence to support your claims... and if you're right, it would be a disaster."

"I began to believe that something was controlling your fate. Maybe I should really shoot you. It would be for your own good," said the nun.

"You can't do it, and even I can't do it," Howard said. "But I'm not that pessimistic. My destiny is still in my own hands."

"Why is this?" the nun was puzzled again.

"That's unspeakable," Howard said with a smile. "Some wishes won't come true if you tell them."

Then Howard stood up, shook off the sand on his body, and looked at the towering and steep human fortress not far away.

Now, it's time to push the main line.