Eternal Night

Chapter 586 The Burning Solar System
"...Penetrating through the folded phase space, arriving at the world satellite orbit of the Starview Fortress, stellar gravity information is being collected at the node...Estimated time: eleven hours, one minute, and eight seconds..."

This is the eighth material node. Currently, the Allied Forces are only three nodes away from the Solar System. This area is already in the periphery of the Solar System and falls within the absolute defense perimeter of the Terran Empire. The planets in the surrounding area are either fortress worlds, forging worlds, monastery worlds, or various holy sites, making it one of the strongest regions in the entire Terran Empire.

So when the Allied Forces arrived at this material node, the Starview Fortress world had not fallen. Instead, it was engaged in a fierce battle with the surging forces of the four evil gods and demons, resulting in mountains of corpses and seas of blood... although most of them were the corpses of the Star Guardians.

The entire Starview Fortress world is composed of multiple fortresses. The inner fortresses are protected by powerful relics and psionic energy, so demons cannot directly appear inside the Starview Fortress, nor can they corrupt it. They can only attack from the outer fortress defense zone.

The Astronauts guarding this place are the elite of the elite, numbering over a billion, and equipped with powerful vehicles and strong defensive facilities. They have hundreds of Monarch-class super-heavy tanks and five Titans!
It was precisely because of this powerful firepower that Hoshinobi was still able to maintain its defense.

When the Allied Forces arrived and Wu Pifu jumped onto the planet with his knife, the world marked by this material node was saved. This was the second world to be saved so far. The previous material node world to be saved was the base of an Ultramarines company in the Ultramar 500 worlds. As for the other material node worlds along the way, they all fell. Even with Wu Pifu's participation, only a few survivors were left at most.

This is a road filled with blood and fire; all who traverse it will be left with death.

Wu Pifu fell from space into the wilderness, surrounded by demons and Chaos Space Marines. As he landed, these corrupted beings launched a deadly charge at him. The moment they saw Wu Pifu, their remaining rationality was completely annihilated. A higher-dimensional power descended and erased all their will except to attack Wu Pifu. In that moment, they became a vessel for some higher will.

At the same time, Wu Pifu confirmed one thing again... their strength was no longer limited to physical entities.

These chaotic beings from the warp were actually able to use a small amount of warp power around Wu Pifu. Although it was little, only increasing his strength and speed by less than one-tenth, it was still a breakthrough from nothing. Most importantly, they were not the chosen demons of the four gods infused with the power of the four gods.

Something is changing...

As Wu Pifu, wielding a machete, fought his way from the wilderness into the fortress, the allied forces descended in droves from outer space to begin their annihilation of the remaining demons. Inside the fortress, he encountered the master of the Star Court, a high-ranking member of a navigation family with a third eye on his forehead.

"...Great savior, I have finally seen your arrival." The man knelt down the moment he saw Wu Pifu, facing him with the highest respect.

Wu Pifu stared at the man with a puzzled expression. After a long while, he said, "You have... a demon inside you?"

As soon as the voice fell, everyone around immediately pointed their guns at the navigation family man, even his guards.

Unexpectedly, the man remained calm and said bluntly, "That's right, Savior. The moment you launched your honorary expedition, the one with the number nine attempted to corrupt me. I was doomed, but the great emperor protected me. As long as I don't leave this hall, this demon cannot corrupt me in the final way. Instead, I have seen their terrifying schemes through the essence of this demon. This is why I have preserved this broken body and am waiting for the arrival of the Savior!"

Wu Pifu carefully sensed the emotional information of the man opposite him, and after a few seconds he nodded and said, "Go ahead and speak, I'm listening."

The man's face was fearless, even carrying a sense of calm relief. He said, "Enter the solar system cautiously, but be quick, faster, even faster! His Majesty can't hold on much longer. The underground network is being besieged by the armies personally led by the deputies of the Four Evil Gods. The Imperial Guard has already begun to suffer casualties, and the Cursed Legion's losses are even more severe. The Four Evil Gods have invested enormous power in the essence of the Lord of Darkness, and they are doing their utmost to erode the last remaining essence of the Emperor. Hurry, hurry, hurry! The Emperor can't hold on much longer!"

"Once the Dark Lord has completely corrupted the Emperor, a warp rift far exceeding the Great Rift will tear the entire galaxy apart. At that moment, the end of the galaxy will arrive, and we will lose all hope."

"Furthermore, the Thirteenth Dark Crusade is drawing to a close. The Emperor is being corrupted by the Dark Lord, who has channeled the power of the four evil gods, and can no longer care about the safety of Kadia. The countdown to its fall has begun. The Great Rift in the center of the galaxy will inevitably expand, tearing the entire galaxy in two. At that time, the warp will be able to project power into the material universe more easily. The dark future is fast approaching..."

"Beware of the Mechanicus's Martian headquarters. They're rebelling, but there are still loyalists holding onto the last secret. That 'dragon' absolutely cannot be released!"

"Beware of the High Lords, beware of the Assassin's Court, beware of the State Religion, beware of the Supreme Fleet of the Solar System, beware..."

As the man spoke, with each word he uttered, his body grew paler and thinner. His flesh and blood were being absorbed by some unknown force. When he spoke his last sentence, he looked almost like a skeleton, all his flesh and blood gone, leaving only a layer of skin covering his bones. Then he shrank inward, and the remaining flesh, blood, skin, and bones on his body completely condensed into a small ball, which was then easily snatched away by a bird's claw from the void.

Only a series of grotesque laughs remained in the central hall of the Star Viewing Pavilion.

The man kept the demon within him to spy on the movements of the warp. In essence, this was a deal with the demon, a sacrifice of his life and soul. In the end, he revealed most of the secrets, and his life and soul naturally became the possession of the demon.

If the warp isn't destroyed, he will be tormented by demons within it for millions of years until all his spiritual imprints are completely destroyed, ultimately turning into "materials" of pure soul essence... "...So, you just watched the whole thing?"

Just as everyone was immersed in sadness and pain, Wu Pifu's voice, tinged with anger, rang out.

Everyone present immediately looked around warily, but they saw no enemies.

Only in Wu Pifu's eyes did a faint golden light appear at the spot where the three-eyed man had died.

The light was faint, vaguely forming the image of a blond boy with bloody tears streaming from his eyes. He was powerless to stop the three-eyed man's demise. He seemed to open his mouth to Wu Pifu, but in the end, he didn't say anything. He simply turned and walked into the darkness, disappearing from sight.

Wu Pifu silently sensed everything. His super brain's emotional perception suddenly exploded with information. He had never felt such surging emotions before, and the emotions alone formed a dynamic picture.

It was a critically injured boy, crawling on a dirty, muddy road. He was covered in blood and barely breathing, and a torrential rain was falling from the sky. He could die suddenly at any moment.

Then, an old shepherd saw him, rescued him, and even slaughtered a lamb to make meat for him...

It was on a battlefield. He was an unknown soldier, and one of his comrades pushed him aside, but was himself pierced by a hail of arrows...

It was in a barren field. He was a dark-skinned old farmer, and several boys were running and playing happily around the field...

Under a dazzling starry sky, he was a rational scholar standing in the darkness of space, watching countless immigrant fleets venture into deep space. People were rational, peaceful, united, and courageous, using their collective spirit and glory to illuminate the darkness ahead for the first time. At that moment, tears streamed down his face...

"...So, you are a person, a good person, not a god, not a demon, and certainly not some inhuman war tyrant or murderous maniac...right?"

Once the race determination was complete, Wu Pifu's eyes softened completely. He lowered his head slightly and murmured, "Hold on, I'm coming."

Meanwhile, on Terra, two-thirds of the High Lords rebelled, two-thirds of the State Religion rebelled, two-thirds of the Inquisition rebelled, two-thirds of the Star Language Hall rebelled, two-thirds of the Navigation Family Armed Forces rebelled, two-thirds of the Solar System Supreme Fleet rebelled, and two-thirds of the Martian Mechanicus rebelled…

The entire solar system is now engulfed in flames, with every planet, asteroid, and meteoroid cluster engaged in fierce combat.

Loyalists risked their lives to delay the traitors' attack, while the royal palace area, which had not been attacked for millennia, was subjected to relentless bombardment from the ground to space.

The people of many settlements in Terra were slaughtered by hordes of traitors, and their flesh and blood opened the gates to the Warp, from which tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of demons poured out.

Beneath the Terra Palace, in a space far larger than what is visible from the outside, massive net-like voids are being torn apart by four giant hands of different colors. More demons are rushing into the palace, while in their path stand countless Space Marine spirits...

Cursed Legion!

After the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne, his psychic powers began to increase rapidly. When his soul projection in the warp transformed into a cold sun, he possessed His power and could accept the souls of those who died loyally. These souls were carefully selected, and only the most loyal, the most skilled in battle, and the greatest could be redeemed. This is the origin of the Cursed Legion!
For millennia, humanity's greatest, most loyal, and bravest warriors have been using their remaining souls after death to wear down the demon.

Every second, hundreds of Cursed Legion warriors were reduced to ashes, and among them, the Custodians, whose strength far surpassed that of the Space Marines, fought alongside them. Not only were the Cursed Legion warriors being reduced to ashes, but even the much more powerful Custodians were suffering heavy casualties.

But they didn't retreat even a single step!
In the place they guarded, the place known as the Golden Throne, lay a skeleton, half of which had been blackened by ink...

The Lord of Darkness is about to let out his first cry of birth in this universe!
(End of this chapter)