Eternal Night

Chapter 420 Not a God
Wu Xianxiao learned a lot of things from the three Primarchs, including the past of this dream world, the Emperor, the Warp, the current situation of the entire world and so on.

Ten thousand years have passed since the Heresy. The Emperor sits on the Golden Throne, suppressing the Webway loopholes on Earth. At the same time, he uses the Golden Throne to extract his own essence and power, forming a huge Astronomican that can point the way in the Warp. Like a beacon in the dark night, it allows strictly trained navigators to find a safe path.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Astronomican does not go out, the Human Empire burns a thousand psykers every day to recharge it.

Now, ten thousand years later, the Primarchs loyal to the Emperor have either disappeared, died, or been fatally wounded and forced into stasis fields. At the same time, because of the Great Heresy, the Space Marines loyal to the Emperor are also feared by mortals. Before a Primarch enters the stasis field, he is split from a legion size into small teams, and transformed from a regular army into a special forces type.

At the same time, during these ten thousand years, the power of Chaos grew stronger, and it would rush into the material universe from the Eye of Terror in the center of the Milky Way or other cracks in the Veil to burn, kill and loot, while the pollution and bewitching of the Four Gods never stopped.

Although the Human Empire still exists and is still huge in scale, it is essentially a collapsed corpse. There is no hope, but it has not yet reached the end. The Emperor can neither stand up nor die. The Chaos of the Warp regards all life as their pleasure, and all life struggles to survive in this desperate world.

This is the dream world that Wu Xianxiao has to face.

Ignorance, cruelty, despair, and the brilliance of courage among humans...

In the next few days, Wu Xianxiao kept pondering this world, how he could build a more advanced shelter, what Gaia humans could gain from this world, and what they could bring to this world.

The shelter must be built. Now that the decision has been made, Wu Xianxiao naturally cannot give up.

Perhaps there are still zero point five dream worlds that have not been invaded by the roots, but that depends on luck. That is not what Wu Xianxiao expected. He plans to take one step at a time in this world, both to grow and become stronger, and to slowly build shelters until he reaches the seventh-level shelter. At that time, he will revive his companions, the little mute, his parents...

"So, what's going on with you three?"

After discussing with the three primarchs for a whole day, Wu Xianxiao confirmed the past and present of this world. Although it was not particularly detailed, he had a lot of understanding of the world before his eyes. Then he asked the three primarchs.

The three demon primarchs looked at each other, and the two of them and the demon head all smiled bitterly.

Magnus spoke first: "I believe you can see that the three of us are the so-called Fallen Primarchs, and are now the Demonic Ascendants. But what I want to say is that this is not our original intention, whether it is what we did during the Great Heresy, or our fall into the Warp, or our essence being controlled by the Four Gods, becoming Ascendants, becoming Demons, and all the evil deeds, these are not our original intentions."

Magnus said this, pointing at Angron, who had only one head left. "He, my brother, should have been the most gentle, compassionate, and the one with the strongest negative resistance among all our brothers. However, he was forced to be pierced with the Butcher's Nail, a vicious torture device that is connected to a person's brain nerves and causes inhumane pain all the time. That kind of pain is unbearable for any mortal, even a demon. They can only be furious and bloodthirsty, and it is impossible for them to think or be calm at all..."

Magnus pointed at Mortarion and said, "My other brother, Mortarion, is actually the most innocent. During the Great Heresy, he was betrayed by his offspring, and then trapped in the Warp and suffered unimaginable horrors. There is no concept of time in the Warp, and perhaps he himself does not know how long he has been tortured. That is Nurgle's domain, and he cannot escape. The torture spans life and death, but even so he did not give up resistance until Nurgle threatened him with his offspring. It was not until then that he was forced to fall with his offspring in his heart and became Nurgle's Demon Prince."

Finally, Magnus pointed to himself and said: "As for me, a poor creature played by fate, I wanted to remind the Emperor to be careful of betrayal, but I was implicated in Tzeentch's conspiracy. This reminder became the location of the Webway, thus destroying the Webway under the Terran Palace. Later, I was played by the Warp. A tampered false information caused the loyal Primarch to destroy my world, my people, and my descendants. In the process, I was loyal, always loyal, and never thought of betrayal. I even ordered my descendants to lay down their weapons and accept investigation. I can destroy mountains and rivers with a thought, and I can destroy fleets with a psychic power, but I chose to surrender. What was the result? Everything is gone, everything is destroyed. At that time, when I was most desperate, Tzeentch told me that He could save everything as long as I became His Demon Prince, and I agreed..."

Wu Xianxiao asked curiously, "So, did He save us?"

Magnus's face was twisted, and he roared angrily, "No, no! Never! He is still playing with mortals. His so-called salvation is to distort everything. In time and space, in cause and effect and connection, everything has become a distorted state that may exist or may not exist. I have been deceived, but it is too late!"

"The so-called Demon Prince and the so-called subspace sublimation are actually our essence being seized by the evil gods, and then their essence is filled into the 'I' that exists as us. Everything is distorted and controlled. No matter how good a person you are before, you will become their puppet, doll, and distorted chaos itself!!" Wu Xianxiao was silent for a while and said, "So what are your plans?"

Mortarion took the lead and said, "Find a way to take back our essence from the Four Gods. As long as the essence we obtain exceeds a critical point, which is almost a little more than half, and can maintain our bottom line as ourselves, then we can carry out self-sublimation beside you. Although we will become weaker due to the loss and cutting off of a part of our essence, we can at least become our true selves again, instead of a puppet, a weapon, or a deranged lunatic!"

Wu Xianxiao looked at the other two and asked, "Do you think so too?"

Magnus and Angron were both silent, but the emotions they revealed were undoubtedly telling the same thing. Yes, that's what they thought.

Wu Xianxiao then said, "I don't mind you using my abilities to redeem yourself. In other words, I appreciate your doing so and can provide you with help within my ability. But there is one thing I want to explain. You should know, right? The Four Evil Gods are determined to get me. They will never give up on me and will try every means to get me. I have a very strong premonition that once I enter the subspace, I will be doomed and there will be no chance of escape. Even in this material universe, they have been trying to spy on me and have never given up. It's just because I am special that they can't cross the border to come... Even so, do you still want to continue?"

"That's natural!"

Two humanoids and a demon head said at the same time: "We are already in the deepest hell. The situation can't get any worse than it is now!"

Wu Xianxiao nodded and said, "Well, let's become an alliance temporarily. I need your knowledge, intelligence and help within your ability about this world, and I will provide you with shelter. Of course, the premise of this alliance is that everything you say now is true and you really want to get out of the subspace... I am willing to treat you the way I treat human beings, and I hope you can live up to my treatment and be a real human being."

The three primarchs naturally had no objections. They were the best among the best, the real demigods of this world. After truly understanding the true nature of the subspace, they had the determination and will to give up everything.

At this time, Magnus said: "As you said, you absolutely cannot enter the subspace. Even if it is just a very ordinary subspace voyage, it will cause those four to desperately take action personally... I think you should have some understanding of your own nature, right?"

Wu Xianxiao nodded, and suddenly said, "Let's talk about it after we get here."

The three primarchs were all surprised, and then a few minutes later, they saw Inquisitor Kessia, Technical Priest Armida, and Ecclesiarch Leston walking in from outside the door with distorted, weird faces, panic, trembling, and bewildered looks.

Wu Xianxiao said frankly: "I passed our conversation just now to them, and let them listen to it all. Don't panic, it's nothing more than everyone talking frankly about the next action. The three of you should stop shouting at mortals. After listening to all this, I think the Emperor is actually just one person, a powerful person, but he is a hero who is willing to sacrifice and dedicate himself and loves mankind. There are no gods in this world. There are only rebellious humans and monsters hiding in the dark subspace like a cesspool."

The face of the state priest Leston changed, and he hesitated to speak. The three Primarchs showed expressions of "as expected". Inquisitor Kessia immediately asked: "You... are not a god too?"

The three Primarchs, Caesar, and even Leston, except for Armida who could not truly observe the Warp, all relied on their psychic abilities or the Emperor's blessing to look directly at the Warp, and everything that placed their essence between the Warp and the real material world. There was no doubt that that essence was far beyond their imagination, and to some extent, it was even more exaggerated and terrifying than the essence of the four evil gods.

Wu Xianxiao spoke as a matter of course.

"Of course, I'm not some god!"

(End of this chapter)