I'm a magnetic field madman

Unabashedly displaying her arrogance, even contempt, Bai Qianshuang directly raised her middle finger towards the throne in the audience stands—

Although such contemptuous insults are not part of the Dark Eldar culture, they still managed to pick up on the feeling.

"That monkey's asking for it!!"

Tallir slammed his fist on the table, his fury seemingly ready to order his conspiracy to storm in and grind that monkey to dust.

But after hearing a single sentence from the Lacas lute, he immediately sat down obediently.

"You're in the way."

The words were light and casual, as if the person didn't even realize they had been insulted.

The arrogant and domineering Taliel immediately sat down like a well-behaved child, not daring to breathe loudly.

Lacas's expression was extremely pleased. It was just a Pain Engine, a treasure in the hands of an ordinary Bloodlust, but to him it was the most low-grade thing that was not worthy of being presented to the public.

He found the human boy's punch more amusing than that.

Strangely enough, after comparing the data with the billions of biological entities in his mind, the one that most closely resembled the nature of the opponent's power was—

C'tnir

The ancient enemy of the Eldar, which, in human terms, is—the Star God!

12. Living Star God

Star God, Stellar Vampire, Katan...

This race has many names associated with them... but without exception, they symbolize absolute power and evil in any civilization.

Calling them gods is not an exaggeration at all.

Although compared to the four or five powerful beings in the subspace, the Star God seems to be inferior...

However, in reality, the two are almost equivalent to two extremes of the balance of this universe—representing the subspace and the physical universe, both of which are equally evil.

Star Gods are born from self-aware stars and nebulae that devour stars. No one knows how they were born; perhaps only the ancient sages know the true origin of these extraordinary beings.

However, there is no doubt that living stars are merely the lower limit of these physical cosmic deities... In reality, the power they possess is far more terrifying than that!

Because they are the destroyers of the ancient saints!

As the earliest civilization and maintainers of the subspace at the birth of this universe...

The civilizations and wonders built by the ancient sages are more powerful than all modern civilizations combined.

One of the legacies they left behind—the Warp Network—is a product that runs through the lifeblood of the entire Ancient Elven Empire, and something that the human emperor could only dream of...

The only thing that can guarantee that all races in the universe can safely travel faster than light.

Of course, the space necromancers possess faster-than-light travel technology that bypasses the network—unfortunately, it cannot be used on living people.

If we were to compare this subspace of the universe to a terrifying wilderness fraught with danger...

The network paths are like safe highways extending through this endless wilderness, protecting travelers as they safely travel from one side to the other without being hunted by countless predators lurking in the wilderness.

In fact, apart from the Ancient Ones, no one else in this universe knows how to create a true network...

Even the Spirit Race Empire merely maintains and uses the network system created by the ancient saints.

They can use and shut down channel nodes, but they don't even know what materials are used to create channels.

But the greatness of the ancient saints doesn't stop there; they were the first intelligent race in the galaxy...

They shaped the galaxy and adorned the then-mild subspace with beautiful splendor, sowing the seeds of life on countless planets.

Life on Earth originated from the blessings of the ancient saints, so in a sense, the Eldar and humans have a unique "brotherly" relationship.

But this great ruling race was ultimately destroyed by the Star Gods and their servants.

Lacas knew this very well, because he had once frequented the Phoenix King's court during the Eldar Empire...

Although the empire was already in decline at that time, historical records were much more accurate than they are now—after all, the Eldar Empire at that time was still systematically eliminating their ancient, dormant enemies.

The Star Gods were initially no match for the Ancient Saints, because although they possessed almost limitless power in the physical universe, they lacked even the slightest understanding of the soul...

In fact, when they were still in their star-devouring form, they lacked even self-awareness.

Each Star God possesses the ability to control a portion of the underlying rules of the physical universe, making them virtually invincible within it.

However, because they lacked souls and physical bodies capable of free movement, neither the Star Gods nor the Ancient Saints could defeat the other before the rise of the Fearful Ones.

The dead, however, served the Star God as their master, who provided them with bodies made of necrodermis—the skin of the dead created by the advanced technology of their civilization—allowing their consciousness to descend into the husks. With these bodies, the Star God truly possessed a self and a will to anchor the world.

Then, disaster struck in its entirety.

These stellar vampires became extremely cruel and insane the moment they gained self-awareness, as if some kind of plague had contaminated them.

These star gods deceived and devoured the souls of all those who feared death...

This once prosperous and powerful civilization was wiped out in an instant, leaving only the In'Gair (in Eldar, meaning space undead) who possessed their consciousness, just like these stellar vampires.

Despite having no projection in the warp, they possess their own consciousness; this is what the Star Gods and their created servants look like.

Not being AI created by humans, the Star Gods are far more advanced than their servants—you simply cannot comprehend where the Star Gods' consciousness comes from.

The Star Gods, now possessing physical bodies, demonstrated their complete control over the rules of the universe... In the War of Heaven, they joined forces with the Necromancers of Space to force the Ancient Ones into a series of defeats...

This forced the latter to create war races like the Eldar and Orcs, which were adapted to counter destructive psionic energy.

But the war in Heaven resulted in no winners; the Ancient Ones either perished or fled the galaxy in the war and the subsequent plague of the enslavers…

The crippled Star Gods were almost completely destroyed by a counterattack from their servants. Even though the Eldar later ruled the galaxy, this godforsaken warp had already taken shape...

This led to all races having to face this cesspool that, along with the ever-increasing entropy of the universe, was constantly heading towards decay and extinction.

In recalling the vast amount of information stored in his brain, Lacas primarily focused on memorizing the power and characteristics of the Star God.

To be precise—they have no power properties at all.

They have no psychic abilities whatsoever, and they don't even know where their self-awareness comes from.

Their power is also quite special. Although it seems to be just the origin of stars, they possess an almost endless ability to control the underlying rules of the world.

The first Star God, Nightbringer, was like this. The moment he gained a physical body, this Star God displayed the power to take away and take away any life. The area he descended upon was a life silence measured in light-years... even the complete extinction of tiny life forms, including bacteria and archaea.

Such extensive deprivation of life could even be interpreted as the Night Bearers' ability to prohibit the movement of any object carrying chaotic entropy...

So much so that the image of the Nightbringer with his hooded scythe later became a unified impression of the concept of "death" etched deep into the memories of all races in the galaxy.

In fact, Lacas also knew a very secret and utterly rebellious statement...

That is, the Spirit Race gods were actually created by the ancient saints using the shattered Star Gods, such as the Void Dragon among the Star Gods...

That power to manipulate all inorganic matter made a fragment of his body the prototype of the Om Messiah worshipped by humans, and some scholars in the Ancient Eldar Empire also believe that their worshipped god of craftsmen, Vaal, is actually a side of the Void Dragon...

Leaving aside these unverifiable histories, the Star Gods can almost be seen as the material opposite of the four Warp Gods.

They are completely unable to control the warp, yet they are the true divine concepts of the physical universe—to put it bluntly, the four warp gods currently embroiled in the Eternal War cannot freely wield the power of a single, complete star god in the physical universe.

The powerful descriptions of the four gods in the subspace seem terrifying, but in the material universe, it's a different story.

Just like many psykers in the warp feel they can control everything and extinguish stars with a wave of their hand... but in reality, they still can't escape the fate of having their heads blown off by simple kinetic weapons.

Even the Primarch of Humanity, which has been directly empowered by the power of the Four Gods, is nothing more than a chicken to be easily manipulated by any fully formed Celestial. The power of the Warp needs to be expended far too much to project into the material world.

To give an example, if the Void Dragons were to awaken now, the human empire would be destroyed by its own war machine in an instant.

If the Nightbringers are fully resurrected, then the four gods will have to try to destroy this scourge before it devours the galaxy, just like the Old Ones did.

And the most troublesome thing is that the Star God is almost immortal.

Of all the Star Gods to date, only one has actually died—Llandu'gor the Skinner…

However, the direct impact is the skinner virus that even the Necromancers of space cannot eradicate, and an indescribable destruction of the underlying logic of the universe.

Therefore, whether it was the Star Gods who later turned on each other and devoured one another, or the Space Necromancers who turned against their masters and killed them, they could only smash the Star Gods into pieces and imprison them, and they would never dare to truly erase them.

No race in this era, including the human empire itself, could completely oppose the power of a fully-formed Star God.

Even those damned Ingal, crippled as they are, couldn't kill a fully-formed Star God.

They didn't even dare to provoke the only fully-formed Star God, the "Outsider," who was living in seclusion outside the Milky Way, even though their Silent King knew of his existence...

Even the Tyranid swarm will not hesitate to take a large detour to avoid this thing when it encounters it.

Lacas had no means to study the Star God, because even the fragments of Ka'tan were absolutely forbidden to be studied or touched in the Ancient Elven Empire.

But... this era is different.

The collapse of the Eldar Empire certainly cost them countless civilizations, but it also freed some people from the shackles and constraints of research.

Lacas is like that, and interestingly enough, he actually has two Star God fragments in his possession.

Those were all dug out from the tomb worlds of several space necromancers when he controlled Comoros; one belonged to "The Silent One" Kalugura, and the other to "The Burner" Nyadra'zatha.

This is Lacas's biggest secret, and something he would never tell outsiders—not because he's afraid they'll covet it, but because he's afraid some clueless fool will unleash these two troublesome problems...

Lacas wasn't afraid, because the device binding the two fragments wasn't just something taken directly from the necropolis...

Another part was obtained by him through a huge exchange with a collector, using a treasured, immortal body of the Eternal Queen.

That's why he was so interested in Bai Qianshuang, who was wreaking havoc on the field.

His power, and the whale he unleashed, seemed to Lacas very similar to the power of the Star God.

They are completely devoid of subspace power waves, yet they are able to create such unrealistic attacks in the physical universe.

Although weak, its inexplicable yet powerful electromagnetic force greatly intrigued Lacas.

Races with special abilities are everywhere in the universe, but the strength of any race is traceable.

Even for psykers, their power originates from the projection of their own souls onto the warp...

By mastering the concept of subspace, one can project power onto the material world to create surreal manifestations of power.

And this human—he didn't use any psychic powers, and although he didn't possess the qualities that soulless beings have that normal life finds repulsive…

However, his soul also seemed particularly strange, at least in terms of subspace energy, it was extremely inert.

His body contained no other superfluous organs; Lacas was certain it was a clumsy and inefficient combination of human organs, even replicating those errors...

Even compared to the superfluous organs within the crude human bio-weapons beside him, he seemed excessively normal, even more so than in this universe…

The vast majority of humans who have undergone genetic modification using the Golden Age technology still resemble humans.

Although no genetic testing was performed, the purity of his sample was remarkably close to that of a human body structure from 40,000 years ago.

Without any external organs, and with no fluctuations in subspace energy in his soul, how did he create that surreal power?

Could it be a humanoid star god?

Lacas narrowed his eyes, but he quickly ruled out that possibility.

Although he rarely left his research lab, his information network was astonishingly advanced—this galaxy was never quiet, and many of those Star God fragments had actually escaped with human expansion and the grave-digging activities of those tech geeks…

And some of these fragments have taken control of the space necromancers that imprisoned them...

Some, however, simply transformed themselves into humans or other races and infiltrated the group.

For example, the Deceitful Morpheus, a fragment of the most cunning and even more senior swindler among the Star Gods than Tzeentch, once manifested as the governor of a planetary empire of mankind.

Even according to a collector Lacas knew...

When he infiltrated the Alien Inquisition of the Human Empire using the Heartlock Beetle, he encountered a guy who resembled a Fragment of the Deceiver, not to mention the Void Dragon Fragment on Mars who was playing tricks on people.

However, the creature before them had an organic body structure—that was secondary; the main thing was that, despite its strangeness, it possessed a soul.

A star god can have anything, but can never have a soul; this is a rule ordained since the ancient times before the War of Heaven.

So, where does this human power come from? What is the basis for the incredible and illogical manipulation of cosmic energy by beings like Catan to create supernatural powers?

Of course, that weak human was no match for even a fragment of a Star God.

But the foundation of that power still exists.

Lacas failed to fully understand the power of the Star God because he lacked sufficient research resources—those fragments, though incomplete, were still formidable… If the research process went wrong and he were to escape, Comoros would suffer severe damage.

Most importantly, the Bloodlings' research direction is arguably the opposite of that of the Necromancers.

One of them traveled on organic matter, and the other on inorganic matter.

And now, an organism has mastered a power similar to that of a star god? A manifestation of manipulating the rules of the universe in a completely unreasonable way?

Most importantly, is this still an organism?