Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 666: Crossing the Well of Eternity (Three in One)

The changes in the Emperor's Compass immediately aroused Luo Xi's highest alert.

He hoped extremely that the movement this time was because the compass had brought him to the right place, and not due to any other abnormal situation.

It is precisely because of the complex environment here that any slight disturbance can make Luo Xi extremely nervous.

As the red alert seemed to break through the invisible boundaries, everything in front of me suddenly changed from the original chaos to a beautiful and dreamy world.

A mysterious blue-purple area appeared in front of Luo Xi's eyes, and almost boiling psychic power was lingering there.

At this moment, Roshi's Ohm Messiah power began to expand and swell, actively absorbing the ownerless spiritual energy.

The etheric currents are so abundant that they make people feel thrilling, and the nature of these energies is so mild that they have almost no properties to speak of.

The invisible Red Alert quietly passed by the huge crystal pillars that spanned the sky and the earth. Their ends were almost invisible, and only the Optimus Prime-like existence that could be seen supporting this special dream world.

Some special jellyfish-like psychic creatures roam freely here. They travel in groups, almost reaching a million in number, and their collective parade is extremely magnificent and shocking.

More psychic creatures were chasing behind, and occasionally some luminous jellyfish were caught up and hunted, and then swallowed up.

"This is simply a paradise for psychics. I doubt whether even the labyrinth of the Lord of Change has such a favorable environment."

Luo Xi sighed instinctively, the master of the crystal maze is the god in charge of psychic power and magic, all wizards or magicians yearn to obtain the knowledge and power of the Lord of Wisdom.

Of course, the vast majority of wizards will only become Tzeentch's playthings and entertainment.

The Lord of Change is definitely the most difficult god to get along with and deal with among the four evil gods of chaos. Even his subordinates are constantly fighting, plotting, and killing each other.

Roxi did not dare to attract the attention of those native psychic creatures. They felt very dangerous to Roxi. Any one he caught could rival the weakest Tzeentch demons.

However, the psychic creatures here did not give Roxi a sense of danger or evil. Instead, they showed a return to their original purity and harmlessness, as if this was the original appearance of the subspace creatures.

They feed on the emotional power of countless living beings, wandering silently, growing aimlessly, without worries or troubles.

The Emperor's Compass was still emitting a faint light. Roche controlled the Red Alert extremely rigorously, driving it towards the depths of this magical area.

The deeper they went into this area, the larger the subspace creatures became, some of them even to the point of making Roxi's scalp tingle.

Finally, after another nine days of silent sailing, Luo Xi finally arrived at the core area of ​​this mysterious area.

What appeared before him was an ancient well whose diameter could not be determined.

It is between existence and non-existence, and even its size is constantly changing and distorting.

The data obtained by the Red Alert's scanning array never stopped changing, and the numbers rolling on the display screen seemed to be calculating an infinite non-repeating decimal, as if the well itself was in an unobservable state.

Sometimes powerful psychic energy gushes out from the wellhead, like a blue volcanic eruption, spewing more subspace creatures into this strange world, maintaining its existence.

It was the power of ether without strength attributes, extremely powerful, yet gentler than the power of the subspace in Roche's impression.

"Perhaps the power of the subspace that I know is the polluted existence. It symbolizes the primitive and the newborn. These powers are ownerless and harmless."

Luo Xi instinctively wanted to get closer to the ancient well, and the power of Om Messiah's authority sent out a strong desire to devour the power there.

His instinct told him that as long as he entered that ancient well, he might be able to get the most important opportunity in his life.

However, Luo Xi had suffered too much loss after all, and he understood one thing: there is no kindness without reason in the subspace, and all the pie that falls from the sky is poisonous.

He observed and waited, and finally after waiting for another nine days, Luo Xi discovered the danger hidden in this strange ancient well.

An "old acquaintance" of Luo Xi, the fate-weaver Carlos, slowly came to the edge of the well.

Carlos had appeared on the battlefield during the Siege of Terra, but this two-headed Lord of Change died tragically under the frost blade battle axe of the Wolf King Leman Russ.

The wolf king, who had fully awakened the essence of the Warp, faced the psychic spell of the great demon Tzeentch and rushed forward to chop off its head.

However, all the Lords of Change are followers of Tzeentch and his fragments, and they are extremely difficult to kill completely.

And even if they are killed by beings with the power to obliterate, such as the Sisters of Silence, as long as Tzeentch is willing, he can reverse the timeline to bring them back and piece them together.

Luo Xi hid in the dark, carefully observing Carlos's defenseless appearance.

He had never come into close contact with a Chaos Daemon in the Warp.

But according to preliminary observations, Carlos' power is much stronger than when he encountered it in the real universe.

Without the weakening of the reality veil, and with the supplement of almost endless psychic power, the power that the Lord of Change can exert can reach a hundred or even a thousand times that of the real universe.

Luo Xi observed Carlos and found that even this extremely powerful Demon Lord of Change was unwilling to get too close to the ancient well.

It looked at the ancient well with an attitude of fear and awe, while its two heads were still chattering to itself.

“This is the beginning of time and space.”

“It’s also the end of time and space.”

"The Well of Eternity contains infinite wisdom and power."

"The Well of Eternity contains infinite dangers and fears."

"I forgot what I saw when I fell in there."

"I remember the dangers of falling into it."

Carlos' two heads were mumbling different words, which sounded difficult to understand.

It always keeps affirming, and then keeps denying, and this cycle repeats over and over again. Luo Xi suddenly feels that this guy is a complete lunatic.

"The Lord of Change thirsts for the secret of the Well of Eternity. He knows everything and can do everything."

"The Lord of Change fears the power of the Well of Eternity. He orders us to go deep into it and seek the truth."

However, after talking so much, Roxi finally realized a piece of valuable information, which is that the Lord of Wisdom could not fully control and understand the secret of the Well of Eternity.

"Nyos, is this the goal you are guiding me to? The key to crossing the universe is the Well of Eternity?"

Luo Xi murmured to himself, but unfortunately the Emperor was no longer able to respond to his confusion.

However, the Emperor's Compass responded to Roche's confusion. It was flashing rhythmically, signaling Roche by changing its frequency.

Decoding was almost an instinctive ability for Luo Xi, and he immediately realized that he was right.

Only by truly passing through the Well of Eternity can he reach the other side.

However, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart. Looking at Carlos's fearful look, he knew that the Well of Eternity was not as harmless as it seemed.

He understood that the more dangerous something was, the more harmless it looked.

He even speculated that the reason why Carlos was different from other Lords of Change was because of the Well of Eternity.

After all, compared with his colleagues, Carlos seemed more weird and crazy, and his body was more shriveled and hunched, like the dregs of medicine after being squeezed dry.

However, once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Since Luo Xi has already come this far, there is no way he can go back in disgrace.

Carlos didn't die, so he might not die either, and he was also protected by the Emperor's Compass. The Lord of Mankind wouldn't have sent him here specifically to die. The bodies of the two Primarchs were still stored on the ship.

After making up his mind, Luo Xi immediately began to look for an opportunity. He noticed that Carlos would only stay at the edge of the Well of Eternity for nine minutes and nine seconds, and then disappear for nine days and nine hours, and this cycle would repeat over and over again.

If you want to avoid being discovered by the Fate Weaver, you have to seize that brief window of opportunity.

After another cycle, Roche took advantage of the disappearance of Fate Weaver and resolutely drove the Red Alert into the Well of Eternity.

"Emperor, I have placed my entire life and property on your shoulders!"

"It must succeed!"

The Red Alert rushed towards the ancient well that could not be accurately observed. Roche's ship was one kilometer long, and no matter how close he got to the body of the Well of Eternity, it could perfectly accommodate the size of the Red Alert.

The Well of Eternity seems infinitely small and yet infinitely large. Time and space have lost their meaning here.

Finally, before Fate Weaver returned, Red Alert finally passed through the Well of Eternity and entered an equally unobservable passage.

The ripples in space were smoothed out, and Carlos appeared again chattering, but it vaguely felt a strange feeling.

"A mysterious being has been here."

"Nothing happened."

Carlos' two heads began to quarrel with each other, but he didn't care about anything. He still wandered around the Well of Eternity, continuing the observation that had been repeated for countless years.

The great Lord of the Crystal Labyrinth glanced at this place, and Tzeentch only felt that the thread of fate had become more complicated again, and even He could not see through it completely.

"change!"

“Change is always a good thing!”

Tzeentch looked at the Well of Eternity meaningfully, and he tacitly agreed to the changes.

……

It was difficult for Luo Xi to describe what it felt like to travel through the universe. As he went further into the Well of Eternity, he felt more and more anxious and worried.

He believes that this is the consequence of leaving the source universe that gave birth to one's life. If the multiverse really exists, there must be many differences between them.

Many phenomena or rules that seem common to humans in the source universe may be completely different in other universes.

This sense of unknown and novelty, which he had never experienced before, made Luo Xi's curiosity for knowledge continue to grow.

However, even if he wanted to study the rules and properties of different universes, he had to wait until he reached his destination. Now he was relying on the Red Alert, a small boat, and he might be completely finished in the next second.

In the transmission channel derived from the Well of Eternity, the influence of the source universe on Roche is gradually weakening.

Luo Xi keenly felt that deep in his soul, the power of Ohm Messiah authority given by the Emperor was undergoing changes.

It... is slowly weakening amid the fluctuations.

This made Luo Xi suddenly serious. With the protection of authority, he had the confidence to face most difficulties, and the situation now was undoubtedly changing for the worse.

"My power and authority come from the source universe, born from the Mechanicus's worship of the God of All Machines and Om Messiah, and also incorporates a portion of the power from the Star God [Void Dragon]. It is neither pure psychic energy nor pure material power."

"Could it be that, after leaving the environment that gave birth to it, the power of this authority is also weakening?"

"What should I do? Although my loss of authority and power is not fatal, I have still lost a trump card."

Luo Xi didn't know whether his power would continue to weaken, or even to the point of complete extinction. If that were the case, it would be a big trouble.

After a period of intense suffering, Luo Xi finally sensed that the situation was not as bad as it could be. The farther away from the source universe, the more the power of Om Messiah continued to decrease at an extremely weak rate.

But when it dropped to about half of its original level, it finally maintained a delicate balance.

"It's good that it didn't disappear completely. To be honest, I'm used to supernatural powers, and it's extremely painful to be suddenly stripped away. It's like falling from the clouds, and my eyes are blocked by countless mists."

With the power of Om Messiah, Roshi's view of the world from a completely different height and angle than before. He can more easily see the essence of things and the trajectory of the movement of matter.

Humans rely solely on their five senses to observe the world, which is too vague and too slow. For Roche, returning to the original state is no different from becoming blind.

As the voyage continued, Luo Xi gradually became aware of an unfamiliar force of rules.

He was suddenly delighted.

"This is a new universe with new rules. It is quite different from my original universe."

Roche didn't care what the universe that appeared was like. After all, it was much better than the unknown place where he was now, extending from the Well of Eternity.

When he entered the range of another universe, suddenly, countless images of that universe flashed before his eyes. It was only for a brief moment, but it allowed him to glimpse an extremely important piece of information.

That is, humans also exist in this universe, because in the picture he glimpsed, there is the human species in Roche's impression.

An indescribable joy filled my heart, a situation that only occurs in the best deductions.

Humans, humans are not alone!
Although Roche did not understand why the "humans" he saw were so similar to those in his original universe, from a probabilistic point of view, this was almost impossible.

The probability of two unrelated universes giving birth to similar "human" species at the same time is incredibly small.

"Unless humans themselves are a species that exists in the multiverse, I cannot explain the phenomena I saw. I was originally prepared to face those alien life forms that may appear in different forms."

"The universe is too vast and vast, and carbon-based life like humans is just an insignificant form of it."

"My database contains thousands of forms of silicon-based life forms, energy life forms, subspace life forms, and so on."

"It just happened to be a carbon-based life form, and it just happened to be a human being..."

Luo Xi suddenly became thoughtful.

However, all of this is just speculation. We need to delve deeper into the actual situation and explore it clearly before we can draw a conclusion.

Everything that Luo Xi encountered now was new and had no ready-made theoretical system to support it, so he recorded everything he saw and heard to form a complete logical system for reference.

"Hypothesis 1: Human races exist in all multiverses. Even in the multiverse, humans are not alone. The similarity of human gene sequences and soul composition in different universes remains to be determined."

"Hypothesis 2: The multiverse may have different compatibility with different power systems. It is not ruled out that some universes absolutely obey the laws of physics and resist all psychic powers."

Luo Xi thought about it and lowered the credibility of the second speculation.

According to what he has observed now, the warp is indeed much more vast and boundless than he had imagined, and other universes do exist like islands in the sea of ​​warp.

Since it is in contact with the Warp, is there really a universe that can completely resist the power of the Warp?
This is as incredible as an isolated island that is completely unaffected by erosion from waves, land salinization, and tsunamis and typhoons.

The subspace is so vast that it is the opposite of all real universes. Theoretically, the subspace and the real universe are balanced with each other, like two sides of a mirror.

"Hypothesis 3: The rule systems of different universes will be compatible with visitors from other universes in order to protect the logical consistency and completeness of the rules of their own universe."

Luo Xi believed that he was definitely not the only one who had crossed the subspace and arrived in other universes. Even some beings in his source universe came from other universes, but no one knew it.

When the probability of an event is not 0, then as long as time is long enough, it will definitely happen, and it will happen more than once.

Just like the relationship between organisms and viruses in nature, the existence from other universes is the virus, and the universe itself is a complete living organism.

Living organisms constantly encounter viruses and have evolved different antibodies to fight these foreigners.

Correspondingly, a universe must have the ability to evolve and adapt to outsiders in order to survive to this day.

If a living organism does not have the ability to fight against viruses, it would die the moment it encounters them.

In a world based purely on physical rules, if a subspace creature suddenly appears, it must "explain" the rationality of the subspace creature's existence.

The universe itself is an explanation. It must explain the rationality of its own existence, and its logic must be complete and self-consistent.

Like Roche's source universe, subspace creatures must obtain a body or anchor point in the material universe in order to exist for a long time.

Once the anchor point is destroyed, the subspace creatures will inevitably be exiled back to where they came from. This is the "explanation" evolved by the source universe for the existence that does not belong to this universe.

Subspace creatures can appear, but they must act according to their own rules.

The preliminary theoretical model that Roche established in his mind became more and more perfect. According to his calculations, the probability that these visitors from outer space could be recognized and compatible by the universe was also increasing.

Luo Xi could feel that the rules imposed on him by the universe were being strengthened. This was a very mysterious feeling, and ordinary humans might not be able to detect it.

Being able to change is a good thing, it means that these visitors have begun to adapt to the environment.

As long as you can take the first step, the rest will come naturally.

A hazy light came from the distance of the void passage, and the power released by the Emperor's Compass was gradually dimming.

In a violent distortion, the Red Alert suddenly left the subspace and returned to the physical universe.

Luo Xi's heartbeat reached its peak in an instant. He nervously checked the operation of the Red Alert, his own physical condition, and the conditions of the personnel and primarchs on the battleship.

+Self-test completed: system operating normally+
+All occupants' vital signs are stable+
The intelligent brain pickup truck reported dutifully, which sounded like heavenly music to Luo Xi.

"Okay, very good. Activate the void shield, activate the cloaking system, and activate the scanning array to search for similar cosmic galaxy structures that may exist. Locate our position immediately."

Luo Xi directly issued a series of orders, and he did not dare to be careless in the slightest.

The Red Alert disappeared into the deep space of the universe, while becoming invisible on multiple levels.

The coordinates of the Red Alert are in an extremely unfamiliar galaxy. The distance between two stars of almost the same size is unusually close, and both are orbiting around a common center of mass.

"This is a binary star system, which is relatively uncommon in the universe."

"This is good news. It helps to locate where we are now."

Luo Xi opened the explosion-proof curtain on the porthole of the Red Alert and observed the planet outside with his naked eyes.

"To be honest, if the logbook hadn't recorded that I had completed the inter-universe journey, I would have thought that I had never left the Milky Way of the Source Universe."

"In order to distinguish it, I might as well name the universe I come from as the Warhammer Universe. After all, there is nothing in that universe but endless wars." Luo Xi thought to himself.

The planet in front of him was exactly the same as those planets in the Warhammer universe. The only difference was that there was no sign of life here at all.

Although most of the space planets in the Warhammer universe are dead worlds with no signs of life, there is a high probability that there are traces left by some intelligent life.

If a universe is compared to a dark forest, then the Warhammer universe is a scorched earth and ruins that has been burned countless times and shattered.

Countless lives come and go, are born and destroyed. The universe is far more lively than humans can imagine.

Before the birth of mankind, the galaxy was much more lively, but after the Emperor launched the Great Crusade, the galaxy became much quieter.

Those alien races must either die or escape.

Even though the Empire has always been unable to endure the harassment from the Orks, the Eldar and the Necrons, in fact, in such a vast galaxy, there are only these few types of aliens that can give humans a headache.

Other aliens are not even qualified to be included in the Imperial Alien Biological Database.

But the celestial bodies in this universe are different. The scanning array of the Red Alert has penetrated the celestial bodies and even scanned deep into the earth's core, but no trace has been found so far.

It felt like... he had come to the early days of the universe, when life had not yet begun to spread and everything was still in its primitive state.

"Interesting, very interesting." Luo Xi laughed, "Did I come too early?"

"Since the traces of life are so rare, the existence that may pose a threat to me will also be reduced accordingly.

Generally speaking, the older a civilization is, the more powerful it is. After all, civilizations that are not powerful enough would have been destroyed by external enemies or internal strife long ago.”

The intelligent computer quickly compared the Warhammer universe star map recorded in the database with the galaxy it was currently observing.

The intelligent computer's computing speed is extremely fast, and it gets the answer in just a blink of an eye.

But the moment he saw the display screen, Luo Xi was stunned.

"This is still the Milky Way. According to the star map, although it is quite different from the Milky Way in the Warhammer Universe, it is generally the same."

"Everything went so smoothly. I came to another universe, and then I came to a place that was very similar to the Milky Way."

Luo Xi felt a little uneasy in his heart. The difficulties he had imagined did not seem to appear. He didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

"Anyway, there is one place that needs to be confirmed. Since this galaxy is so similar to the galaxy in the Warhammer universe, humans will most likely appear on Terra, or its original name, Earth."

"Try to see if the subspace engine can still be used. Target: Earth!"

Pika immediately followed Roche's instructions. The Red Alert remained invisible and started accelerating in the real universe.

They arrived at the Mandeville point of the galaxy, and then the subspace engine started running.

A subspace rift opened, and the Red Alert, which had just emerged from the Well of Eternity tunnel, returned to the Sea of ​​Souls again.

"Subspace drive is functioning normally, Geller stand is activated."

The Red Alert was shrouded in the bubble formed by Geller's stance, and like countless subspace jumps in the past, it began its first voyage in this unknown universe.

Countless data are collected and summarized, and then analyzed by intelligent computers.

The result made Luo Xi overjoyed, and he was even excited to the point of wanting to cry.

"Emperor, the subspace of this universe is so peaceful, we hardly encounter any waves!"

"If you say that you are sailing in the Warhammer universe, you are fighting for your life in a sea full of reefs, undercurrents, and typhoons that destroy everything from time to time. At the same time, there are countless monsters and prehistoric beasts lurking in the seabed that want to eat you."

"Then navigating in this cosmic subspace is as safe and easy as playing in the water in a bathtub. Even the little yellow duck in the bathtub will not sink here."

"So this is what the unpolluted world looks like. What kind of shithole universe are we living in?"

"Emperor, it would be great if you could see this scene."

Luo Xi couldn't help but sigh. He had just arrived here and he already felt the difference between this universe and the Warhammer universe.

All in all... this universe is fucking awesome!

(End of this chapter)