Eternal Night

Chapter 590 See you soon!

The speed of mental communication is extremely fast; countless pieces of information can be exchanged in a mere millisecond of pause.

When Wu Pifu entered a state of 100% negative backflow rate of his mind, both he and the surrounding environment affected by him began to experience a layer of confusion between matter and mind. The abnormal and corrupting changes in all things were not just simple changes in Wu Pifu's own perception. In other words, when he activated the 100% negative backflow rate of his mind, there was no longer a clear dividing line between reality and thought.

When he stepped into the Emperor's golden throne room, the weeping boy and the countless instruments of torture he saw were both material and spiritual. His communication with the Emperor was not limited to the few conversations on the surface.

Both considered themselves human and anchored themselves to human existence. They exchanged a great deal of information, especially Wu Pifu's entire plan for this battle, which was almost entirely conveyed to the Emperor through this exchange of information that was both material and spiritual.

The emperor didn't know if it was feasible, but he was willing to take the gamble with Wu Pifu.

They had no way out, and they each had their own principles they were willing to uphold with their lives, principles they were willing to risk their lives for...

The moment they saw each other, they felt as if they were seeing another version of themselves.

Therefore, Wu Pifu was willing to replace the emperor and sit on the golden throne, believing that the emperor would not abandon this world and Wu Pifu sitting on the golden throne just because he was freed.

The Emperor was willing to believe the information Wu Pifu had conveyed, and to believe that the other end he had been teleported to was not a deception of the subspace.

In that brief moment of interaction, the two of them, who considered themselves human, anchored themselves as human beings and were willing to exist as individuals, thus made a pact!
Wu Pifu sat on the golden throne, while the Emperor was transported to another world by the mainframe.

The Golden Throne is a very, very special artifact. It is both a huge protective tool for the being that sits on it and an instrument of torture for the being that sits on it, subjecting it to endless and extreme torture.

The moment Wu Pifu sat down, he knew exactly what this golden throne was.

Fantasy!
This golden throne is actually a figment of imagination?!

"The Golden Throne. (A gift of fate, now materialized through fantasy.) (This fantasy has been corrupted.)"

"When one sits on the golden throne, any non-self-anchored information that is polluting, corrupting, distorting, alienating, etc., directed at the person sitting on it will be suppressed, unless the person sitting on it loses their self-anchoring."

"The negative effects are that sitting on the golden throne will result in unimaginable and terrifying torment, endless physical and mental devastation. The stronger the non-self-anchored information such as pollution, corruption, distortion, and alienation that the person sitting on it receives, the more terrifying the torment will be. This torment cannot be exempted or resisted by any attribute. Once the person cannot resist this torment, they will be essentially erased."

"From the very beginning of its creation, it was corrupted by a dark force behind the scenes, and all that exists within it will gradually be swallowed up by darkness."

This is a fantasy object designed to suppress all non-self-anchored information. The moment Wu Pifu sat on it, he transformed from an indescribable lump of flesh back into a human form, back into Wu Pifu. Even when he had activated a 100% negative backflow rate in his mind, it did not prevent him from returning to human form.

However, this does not mean that Wu Pifu can be carefree after enduring torment. The creation itself has been corrupted, and the power of its source is terrifying. Even the illusionary objects used to suppress the pollution cannot completely resist it.

When Wu Pifu sat on the golden throne, negative forces, transformed into darkness, began to flood his consciousness. This is the fundamental reason why the emperor, who sat on the golden throne for ten thousand years, was gradually corrupted by the Lord of Darkness.

However... that applies to emperors.

For Wu Pifu, when he sat on the golden throne, he did indeed feel endless torment, but it was limited to the physical body. The physical pain was varied, including being crushed, torn, pierced, cut into pieces, burned, and frozen. However, he could not feel the greatest pain, which came from the mental level. This was because when darkness attempted to inflict mental pain on him, any darkness that entered his sea of ​​consciousness vanished in an instant. Moreover, something even more terrifying seemed to surge back from his sea of ​​consciousness...

Gradually, a strange change occurred. The darkness that had originally caused absolute pain at the level of mental consciousness began to frantically resist the backflow from Wu Pifu's mental consciousness. The entire subspace was boiling, but this boiling did not come from the erosion of Wu Pifu. Instead, it was through the dark connection between the Golden Throne and Wu Pifu that it frantically resisted a certain fluctuation transmitted from the Golden Throne.

From the invasion to the defense, only a few dozen seconds passed. As Wu Pifu sat on the golden throne, something even more terrifying was taking shape. The warp sensed the terror of this thing's existence, but unfortunately, the golden throne was the warp's deepest connection to this world. Once the connection began, they could not be severed.

You can't just connect with someone if it's in your best interest, right?

A malicious smile gradually appeared on Wu Pifu's face. Combined with the indescribable surging from his sea of ​​consciousness, he now appeared more bizarre and terrifying than the entire subspace...

Meanwhile, the Emperor arrived in the dream world of the internment facility.

He had returned to his original form, just as Wu Pifu had seen him: a blond boy who had just come of age.

As immortal beings in the Warhammer Dreamworld, their appearance is fixed from the moment they reach adulthood. Unless they use psionic energy to change their form, their appearance and form are eternally fixed in this state, neither aging nor dying.

The blond boy stepped onto the metal floor of the containment facility, watching with curiosity as his earth-shattering psychic power gradually dissipated. Moreover, he could no longer sense the existence of the subspace. There was no such thing as a subspace in this world; matter was matter, and consciousness was consciousness, with a very clear dividing line between the two. This was the first time in the blond boy's life that he had experienced this kind of sensation.

"...Is this the real world?"

The blond boy stretched out his palm in astonishment. Under his will, the metal of the surrounding walls, floor, and ceiling turned into fluid and rapidly compressed into his palm. However, after a second, he had only compressed a thousand cubic meters of metal into a sphere the size of a fist.

"...My strength has decreased too much. Is it really directly related to the subspace?"

The blond boy fell into deep thought.

According to his calculations, his current limit is only able to compress about 100,000 cubic meters of matter into the size of a fist, which would reduce his strength by more than ten thousand times.

It's like heaven and earth.

Keep in mind that at his peak, he could compress a star into a sphere the size of a fist, and that wasn't even his full power.

However... the absence of the subspace still filled the blond boy with immense joy. He was like someone born in a cesspool who had never seen what a truly clean world looked like. Now that he had seen it, he truly understood just how filthy the cesspool had been.

The blond boy sighed inwardly, then quickly walked toward the object Wu Pifu had indicated.

When he pushed open the huge metal door and entered the massive containment chamber that housed the mental world, the first thing he saw was the thick fog towering in the center.

At first glance, the blond boy immediately understood the terror of this thing. It was a terrifying existence of spiritual consciousness, a different form of existence from the manifestation of the subspace. If the subspace was an unimaginably huge cesspool covering the entire material universe, completely blurring the boundary between matter and spirit, then the thick fog in front of him was a terrifying black hole of spiritual consciousness. The fog in front of him was just a manifestation of its complete contraction.

If this dense fog were to fully expand, it could even encompass the entire material universe!
"Wu Pifu, is this your plan? This is insane..."

The blond boy did not take immediate action; he hesitated and pondered the situation.

He stopped 33 meters away from the thick fog and began to walk around it, observing it as he went, always maintaining a distance of 33 meters.

"...Fine, Wu Pifu, you have no way out, and neither do I."

The blond boy stood silently with his eyes closed. Then, as if he had made up his mind, he opened his eyes and there was no longer any confusion in them, only determination and resolve.

Just as Wu Pifu would fight the Final Producers for his parents in a parallel world, and resolutely step into the Warhammer Dreamworld for the sake of three little animals and the Golden Tree, giving his all to complete this battle.

The Emperor… the blond youth, throughout the tens of thousands of years since his birth, has been sustained by countless bonds and unwavering commitments. From the earliest glimpses of human civilization he witnessed, to every act of kindness he encountered over those tens of thousands of years—partners, friends, family, lovers—their deaths, their fates after falling into the Warp, the truth and essence of the Warp…

Every little bit of bond he built, every familiar parting of life and death, until he saw humanity finally triumph over superstition and ignorance with reason and science, stepping into the starry sky with golden hope and ushering in the Golden Age, he finally observed that the influence of the subspace was weakened, and humanity's scientific rationality towards the material world gradually drove out the superstition of the subspace. At that moment, he finally found the direction for his struggle and perseverance!

Unfortunately, humanity's golden age was destroyed. Although it began with the so-called Omnic Crisis, he saw a hidden mastermind behind it all, just like the mastermind behind the War of Heaven. The deepest darkness of the warp destroyed everything...

He had to step forward himself; he had to take up the banner of "Lord of Humanity"; he had to face the world with the coldest and most indifferent attitude; he had to measure everything by turning sacrifices into cold numbers; he had to personally commit many horrific acts...

Because his enemy is the ultimate terror that transcends all understanding of life!
“Macado, will they...will they resent me?”

“No, Your Majesty, they won’t, because they at least sacrificed themselves as ‘human beings.’ We all know that without you… they wouldn’t even have the right to sacrifice themselves, let alone sacrifice themselves as ‘human beings.’”

"is it?"

The moment the blond boy made up his mind, countless memories from tens of thousands of years ago flashed through his mind—laughter, joy, despair, pain… In the end, all of these images froze on that one scene he could never forget.

Humanity, with reason and science, broke through superstition and ignorance. They stepped into the starry sky with golden hope. Countless interstellar colony ships were launched from Earth's spaceports into the cosmos, bringing golden light to this dark universe. They were brave, united, diligent, and determined. They treated all rational extraterrestrial civilizations they encountered with kindness, and they used science to explain everything before them...

On that day, at that moment, the blond boy was in tears...

"Wu Pifu... I will fight alongside you!"

"Let us join hands to cut off this inhuman darkness!"

With a shout, the Emperor stepped into the area within 33 meters of the dense fog. At the same time, the power from his mind condensed everything within that 33-meter area of ​​fog into his palm, transforming it into a sphere that kept spinning around him. Stimulated by this, the fog was rapidly changing, and then in the next instant, the penetrating power from the main brain unfolded once again!

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete, penetrating the target Warhammer Dream World!"

In the next instant, the Emperor returned to the Golden Throne. He looked at Wu Pifu, and Wu Pifu looked at him. The two of them extended their palms at the same time, and the blond boy and Wu Pifu shook hands. The instruments of torture of the Golden Throne fell into the bodies and minds of the two of them simultaneously.

The Emperor's terrifying and immense spiritual energy was activated, along with the portion of the Emperor's consciousness that had been corrupted by the Lord of Darkness.

"Didn't you want to corrupt me?"

"Didn't you want Terra... no, Earth to become the largest node in the warp that erodes the matter universe?"

"Come! Everything as you wish!!"

The emperor shouted loudly, looking at Wu Pifu, and asked, "In your final moments, is there anything you wish to say?"

Wu Pifu sat on the golden throne, looking at the blond-haired boy before him. The blond-haired boy was also looking at him. They were both silent for a moment before Wu Pifu slowly stood up, stood still, and clasped his hands in a fist salute towards the gap in the net below the palace.

“Wu Pifu…”

The emperor was taken aback, then burst into laughter, and, imitating Wu Pifu, clasped his hands in a fist salute towards the gap in the net.
"The Emperor of Man..."

"I've seen him!!"

In the next instant, the Emperor merged with the essence of the Lord of Darkness within him... The ascension ceremony from ten thousand years ago was activated at this very moment!

The impact is always relative. To corrupt the Emperor into a fifth god, to turn Earth into the largest material rift in the warp, also means... that Earth and the Emperor can also penetrate deep into the warp!

The net below the palace collapsed and shattered. Looking from space towards Earth, a crater larger than Earth itself could be seen, within which lay a strange and indescribable subspace.

At that moment, the entire Earth, along with the surrounding universe, began to sink into subspace.

Then, the thick fog swirling around the Emperor suddenly exploded, transforming into a massive black hole appearing in subspace. Earth revolved endlessly around this black hole, its size less than one ten-thousandth of the black hole's, like a speck of dust swirling at the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

The moment this massive black hole appeared, the entire subspace was frantically sucked in by the black hole as if a flood had been released. Every second, more than the size of a galaxy of subspace essence was sucked into the black hole. And the more subspace essence was sucked in, the more three special symbols emerged inside the black hole: flesh and blood, mist, and a ball of light. Three unimaginable horrors were awakening!
At the same time, the subspace was boiling and roaring. Four enormous, indescribable demon gods strode in, one blood red, one cobalt blue, one rotten green, and one bright pink. They roared in indistinguishable words and led an endless and vast horde of demons to charge toward the black hole. Their target was not the black hole itself, but the Earth surrounding the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

The emperor rose into the sky with a hearty laugh, transforming into a blazing white sun to greet the four demon gods.

Wu Pifu also stood up from the golden throne. He took out a crystal fragment from his personal space and then attached it to his heart.

"Activating the Nodos Contract Crystal (Fragment), in progress..."

"Judgment complete!"

"The enemy is the Golden Clan, the Silver Clan, the Hero Clan... our eternal foe!"

"The compatibility will reach its limit!"

"Hero's Soul drawing in progress... Drawing complete."

"Hero Belcouros has successfully anchored."

"Perfect activation!"

The crystal fragment merged into Wu Pifu's heart, and then unimaginable, terrifying power began to erupt from it. At the same time, his body began to grow taller and larger rapidly...

"Perfect Realm: Exists!"

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. Citizen Wu Pifu, an emergency special mission has been activated for you!"

"Destroy the root of the Spiritual Civilization!"

"Slay the three roots of spiritual civilization!"

"Reward: Level 7 Portable Super Shelter!!"

The next second, a gigantic super mecha, thousands of meters tall, soared into the sky, transforming into a star and hurtling towards the four demon gods!

(End of this chapter)