"The Word Bearers' own legion culture is to find a path to worship, and the stronger the existence behind this path, the better. In the 30K period, Lorgar went to the Chaos Four Peddlers in silence. On the one hand, Big E didn't let him worship, and on the other hand, the external performance of the Chaos Four Peddlers was indeed much more outrageous than that of the Emperor. This could easily make Lorgar, a swamp, conclude that Big E is indeed not a god, but just a stronger mortal. Well, in a sense, that conclusion is indeed what Big E wants Lorgar to understand, but the result is a little bit different from Big E's idea..."
The Dark Lady's six hands kept dancing in the air, constantly printing and engraving the Emperor's Word on the bodies of the Word Bearers who had completed their confession, prayers and oaths, while she was very self-satisfied in bragging to the other Hammer guys in the Hammer chat room - after a successful operation that resulted in all the Word Bearers in the cruiser being either burned to skin and bones and hung on the walls of the preaching hall to swing, or directly returning to the great Word of the Emperor, the Dark Lady was now so excited that she even wanted to sing a song.
"Indeed, Lady Dark, your performance has made it clear to these Word Bearers that Big E is not only a god, but also the most outrageous kind of god? Big E can even take servants of other gods under his command?"
While Liang Feifan was complaining about the Dark Lady's operations, he summoned a chess piece from the Black Legion that was modified to look like a technical sergeant. Together with the chess piece summoned by Lizhi Zhang, they conducted a detailed inspection of the engine room to make sure that there were no fatal problems in the key areas of this old thing that had been struggling in the Eye of Terror for who knows how many years. This ship was now their greatest reliance in finding Erebus, and the Hammerers had to ensure that this ship did not sink in the sea of stars at least before encountering Erebus.
"Yes, my existence proves that Big E is not only a god but also the most powerful Chaos power. I can't wait to see Erebus's face when he sees me holding out a copy of the Word of the Emperor in front of him! He must be extremely happy - um, Big E, I'm right! In fact, you are already super-dimensional and are above those four things."
An angry expression of the Emperor suddenly popped up in the Hammer chat group. Realizing that this was Big E's way of expressing his protest to her, the Dark Lady hurriedly explained.
"Indeed, so now Big E is a super god in the 40k world, not just a god. Oh, right! There is a serious malfunction in the Geller field of Big E's ship. Do you have any idea how to fix it? The skills that Lizhi Zhang and I have mastered don't include a way to repair it with the materials at hand. This should be our first time to go through the subspace properly, and we want to make sure everything is safe."
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Liang Feifan succeeded in saying something that silenced Big E. However, the next second, he was distracted by the repair details in front of him. According to the information he retrieved, the coverage of the Geller force field of this Word Bearers ship is extremely limited, and it can basically only ensure that core areas such as the bridge are not affected. On the surface, this coverage rate is enough. However, the Hammer guys all know that the warp corrosion is not something that can be avoided by covering a small area. If you are not careful, after floating in the warp for a few days, it is a question whether your ship is still the same ship as before...
"Although I can think of a solution, are you still worried about this?"
几秒钟后，大E哥略带纠结的声音从锤佬聊天群中传出。欢;:迎"进?"!入?【,!夜;袭";的":月:?费.'群;:】:.6;9?.4?:9.,3:""6!，1:3";5?."
"Ah... um, it seems to be true."
After being reminded by Brother Big E, Liang Feifan realized that all the members on this ship were actually monsters in the subspace. He clapped his hands vigorously, and the expression on his face showed the words "sudden enlightenment".
"Brother Big E, how do we solve the navigation problem? Although we also know that we can use your big light ball to lead the way."
Lizhi Zhang also realized that for the people on the ship who were not counted as beings, returning to the subspace might be as refreshing as going home. He stopped trying to make the Geller force field work more efficiently and asked another question instead. Although they had already mastered the coordinates of the demon planet that was the lair of Erebus from the database on the ship, the Hammer guys had no idea how to cross the subspace and get near the coordinates.
"This is easy. Let the Dark Lady be the navigator. The psionics of her pieces in my world are extremely compatible. It would be a shame if she doesn't become the navigator."
Big E's answer was light and airy.
"No, Big E, are you suggesting this so casually? My Great Secret Keeper chess piece doesn't have any navigator abilities, right? How about asking someone else to send down a navigator chess piece?
The best solution is to find the right match for your industry!"
The Dark Lady, who had just finished pretending to bless and anoint the last Word Bearer and was about to perform some other exciting operations in front of these Word Bearers, was stunned when she heard Big E's suggestion - her incarnation was a Slaanesh Daemon pawn! A Slaanesh Daemon was the navigator, and the navigator in the Eye of Terror. Wasn't she afraid that this ship would be driven all the way to the Silver Palace of Slaanesh under the will of the Warp?
"If I say yes, then yes - you just have to sit in the navigator's seat and you'll see."
Big E's tone left no room for doubt. The Dark Lady, who felt that Big E would not, in theory, kill her, finally followed his advice and went to the currently empty bridge. Then, she swaggered and sat down in the navigator's seat. In an instant, a scream that was probably only slightly better than the moment when a pig was chopped to death began to spread throughout the Hammer chat room.
"What the hell is this star map beacon? Why do we need trigonometric functions and geometric equations to calculate the jump! Wait, this is inside the eye of fear and we have to go through the subspace! Are you really okay with math?"
Looking at the super cool star map that popped up in front of her and the various drawings and mathematical tools that popped up around her, the dark lady continued to scream as she realized what a terrible task she had taken on.
"Although mathematics in my world is indeed distorted by those four things, its roots are anchored deep in reality and are not so easily invalidated. At most, the calculated results may deviate by a few hundred million points, but it is generally reliable. Otherwise, how do you think the Empire navigates most of the time? Just by praying?"
Big E answered seriously.
"Big E, you are plotting against me! Big E! You know I am a liberal arts student and not good at math! I gave you my portfolio! Isn't there an idiot version? Why do other operations require you to press F to freely enter and exit the vehicle? This navigation system is so hardcore and professional! If you design the game operation interface like this, players will give you bad reviews!"
The Dark Lady wanted to jump up from her seat but found herself tied up. If she didn't follow the procedure, some of the ship's fragile systems would be damaged and protested loudly.
"I haven't finished the simplified version yet. Who knew you would start trying to master the ship so soon? You should be happy to have a working system! Just use it as it is!"
After saying this in a tone that seemed to be gloating, Big E's voice disappeared from the Hammer chat room, and even a "Do Not Disturb" sign was hung next to his avatar. Looking at Big E's obvious distraction, the Dark Lady gritted her teeth - the next second, she turned her attention to the other Hammers and started to recruit strong men.
"Come and help me calculate! I have already returned these geometry things to my teacher!"
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"It's a good thing that you're here with us this time, Doctor Zhang. Otherwise, given our abilities, this navigation would have taken us several days - time isn't a problem, boredom is!"
The Dark Lady sat in the navigator's seat, quickly drawing the star map route with the data calculated by Lizhi Zhang, while maintaining her very solemn appearance, she ordered to walk into the bridge, and looked at her with a look of "How can this Slaanesh Daemon who surrendered to the Emperor also work as a part-time navigator? It's too weird, take another look." The new captain of the ship, the new chief priest of the ship who also served as the captain - Ge Maer, a veteran of the Word Bearers during the Great Crusade, started the ship's engine and headed towards the relatively stable subspace entrance of this system to allow the ship to enter the subspace diving program - and in the Hammer chat room, she had already complained - such a large pile of messy data, really let herself calculate it by herself, it's really a nightmare scene!
"It's OK. These are pretty basic."
Lich Zhang, who was holding a weapon that looked 90% like the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, sat in front of the weapon control console and spoke in a light tone, as if these problems that gave the Dark Lady a headache were as simple as having a meal to him.
"Subspace diving takes several months at best. This is the first time I've encountered such a long dry period. Everyone, what do you think we should do during these months? How about we take turns going back to reality and hang up?"
Liang Feifan looked at the various estimated figures on the star map in front of him, with a subtle expression - admittedly, he had participated in missions that were measured in months before, but this was the first time he had been on a month-long mission. He just thought about how he had been sitting on this ship doing nothing for several months...
Hiss, just thinking about it, Liang Feifan felt like he was not feeling well.
"Isn't this a good opportunity to make money? Don't forget that Big E pays us based on 40K per hour. Besides..."
The political commissar knocked on the projection of the interior of the battleship in front of her, and a "rough" smile emerged on the face of the descended being hidden behind the helmet.
"Considering the Geller force field coverage of our ship, I think we won't be too bored during this journey. After all, there are always some overly curious guys in the subspace who want to try to get the opportunity to 'enter reality', right?"
"Are you sure there will be something from the subspace getting on this ship? There are already so many golden areas inside this ship!"
Turning his head to look at the golden light that was gradually spreading on the ship, Liang Feifan's tone was filled with a little
A small doubt - after the Dark Lady's operation, this Word Bearers cruiser has been slowly and irreversibly heading towards the path of being 'corrupted by the power of Big E'. What kind of blind Warp creature could crash into such a golden thing?
"I haven't changed the outer area of the ship. Even now, from the surface, the ship still belongs to Undivided Chaos. Do you think Erebus can accept the golden ship?"
The dark lady thought that the navigator's job was over after calculating the route, but after some experiments she found that she could not get down from the navigator's chair before reaching the destination. She continued to grit her teeth, which in turn brought about Lizhi Zhang's wild laughter.
"That's right! Then let's see if there will be any 'unexpected surprises' on this journey into the subspace!"
30. Erebus must die! - The summoned 'uninvited guest'
Colors that cannot be described in words and are beyond the limits of human understanding are surging wildly.
The ebb and flow of disordered energy fueled by emotions and thoughts.
All kinds of whispers that could not be explained by reason rose and disappeared in the changing halo.
The past, present, and future are all blended together here, and the rules of reality have lost their meaning here - in the midst of madness, only those with a strong will can maintain their original intentions. Under endless temptations, only those with extreme piety can remember their original intentions.
Even though humans have been using the subspace to conduct intergalactic superluminal navigation for thousands of years, just as humans were always helpless when facing the turbulent waves of the ocean before leaving their home planet Earth, the magnificent waves in the vast ocean can still cause irreversible destructive effects on ships and their crews in this era. As long as there is a slightest flaw, even a flaw that can be observed in reality, appearing on the ship or the crew of the ship, the power of the Supreme Heaven that cannot be detected by conventional means can easily penetrate into the ship that barely maintains the stability of matter with the Geller force field, and then begin to dismantle and reconstruct the stable combination in various ways according to its instinct - this kind of action, even most of the time, is a pure energy behavior without "malice", just like the real universe hates the subspace, and the subspace also hates reality...
Therefore, in this spiritual realm that hates reality, the fact that a warship with a basically intact appearance and only a few key areas on its hull covered by the Geller force field suddenly jumped in from the Mandeville point of a certain galaxy seems very intriguing to the guys who saw this ship in the warp space - although it is not uncommon for idiots to rush into the warp space because their ships were badly damaged in the real universe and they were overwhelmed by the thought of escaping, but this ship does not look like it hastily jumped into the warp space, but more like... well, fearlessly seeking death?
However, most of the existence in the warp is direct and irrational after all. After the initial doubts jumped in their soul sparks for a while, a small number of warp creatures who smelled the breath of reality coming from the ship and saw the flickering soul sparks in the ship, driven by the purest desire, could not wait to take action - they climbed onto the body of the ship, which was almost defenseless to them, and after a few simple experiments, they easily passed through the seemingly indestructible armor of the cruiser and infiltrated its interior - after confirming that they were not blocked by any means, these crazy existences became more "mobile".
"Hee hee hee……"
"Giggle..."
"Quack quack..."
The ominous beings that had successfully entered the cruiser let out laughter that mortals could not easily hear, the strange visitors turned into or merged into shadows under the empty and pale light source, and the eternally hungry monsters began to look for food in the ship that could make them happy and satisfied - they seemed carefree and confident at first, until they ran into a team of hollow warriors who looked wrong.
"?"
A shadowy creature that dissolved into the shadows on the wall looked up and down at one of the warriors for a while, and after confirming that these weird creatures that had not changed from the perspective of the subspace creatures had not discovered it, it stretched out its mental tentacles without hesitation and pierced a warrior's back at lightning speed - the idea of this subspace creature was very simple - no matter how strange this walking thing was, as long as it was captured by the thorns on its tentacles, then it could get the answer from the prey's mind!
next second...
"Gah?"
When the mental tentacles of this subspace creature entangled with its target, an "answer" that it had never thought of appeared in its mind - emptiness! The thing that was entangled by itself was a void! A hollow thing with only its shape but no soul! But how is this possible? This is the subspace, and the subspace is not...
However, this Warp creature did not have time to ponder deeper questions. Before it realized that something was wrong and wanted to retract its spiritual tentacles, the golden flames rising from the 'Soulless Warrior' had already spread along its tentacles to its body - without leaving even a trace of a scream, this Warp creature was completely turned into dust under the burning of the flames.
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——The dividing line of the Hammer guys————————————
"There's something beautiful about the random spawning of monsters on an open map - given the size of the cruiser, I think I could spend months on this without getting bored."
Liang Feifan, who still used the captain of the Black Legion as his descended body, raised his hand burning with golden flames and easily strangled a very random-looking subspace creature that was rushing towards him. Then he swung his arm and smashed the remains of the creature, which had not yet been scattered into basic subspace energy residue, at several more random-looking subspace creatures that wanted to escape in the distance. He used the flames attached to the residue to ignite them all into torches. When he was sure that all those things had turned into small points in his account, Liang Feifan happily began to express his feelings about his experience of ship life in the past few days in the Hammer Brothers chat group. In short, it was great!
"Indeed, I think we are playing a high-profile version of Dark Tide right now - you and Lizhi Zhang's Advents serve as firing points, my World Eater Veteran Advents serve as charging units, and the Dark Lady's Slaanesh Succubus temporary Advents serve as psykers - a standard Dark Tide four-man squad."
The political commissar sister, who had just killed a creature that looked a bit like Khorne but was definitely not Khorne inside, retracted her chainsaw axe and turned her head slightly to look at a passage beside her - the passage seemed quiet, but on the screen in front of her, several red outlines in the passage were extremely conspicuous.
“Oh my! So why can’t I use the Great Demon of Slaanesh as a psyker? Big E is so unkind!!”
The Dark Lady attacked as a Slaanesh succubus with a sad face, and used her psychic power to pinch the soul sparks of those creatures that thought they could launch an attack in the passage, forcing them to walk out of the hidden area in pain. The moment these guys left their shelters, Lizhi Zhang and Liang Feifan opened fire at the same time, using explosions and flames to simply send them back to the cycle of the subspace.
"Because Big E is worried that you'll do something that will upset his heart. Do you feel that the monsters ahead are respawning faster?"
Lizhi Zhang, who felt that the Dark Lady's current "end" was entirely her own fault, lit up his force field Guandao and simply cut into pieces a subspace creature that was trying to sneak attack him through the wall. At the same time, he "suppressed" the Dark Lady who was trying to transform into a crying monster in the chat channel.
"Because going down here is the place where the Word Bearers conducted large-scale sacrifices before—the area where they artificially weakened the barrier between the warp and reality."
The Dark Lady, who had already imprinted all the strange things about this ship into her mind, quickly opened the internal structure diagram of the cruiser and pointed to a red area in front of them to the other Hammer guys - although there was no picture to illustrate, the term "large-scale sacrifice" had already made the other three Hammer guys feel cold in their hearts - a place that could be given this purpose by the Chapter in the Eye of Terror must have borne only God knows how many tragic mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
"Has the area been decontaminated?"
After a brief silence, it was the voice of the political commissar that broke the silence first.
"It has been purified a long time ago. Big E tied my Rusalka to that chair and also used me as a buffer. He planned to use his power to purify the entire ship. That place was the first to be purified. However, many things cannot be purified once and for all, especially some neutral things. Even Big E's power is powerless. It can only be eliminated slowly over time."
————————————————The Hammer Guys are moving forward——————————————————————————
"Ms. Dark, is this the purified area you mentioned?"
The political commissar sister stood on the platform at the end of the passage, her eyes twitching as she looked at the huge square below the platform that was covered with all kinds of blasphemous runes. Although she could not understand them, she could tell from the aura that they were all related to the four gentlemen in the subspace. She looked at the remains of the victims hanging on the execution pillars standing in the square that were clearly arranged in a certain pattern, the ritual braziers that were still smoldering with colorful colors, and the spice pots that were still emitting ominous smoke. She didn't feel that this area had been purified at all.
"That's not right. I clearly remember that Big E burned this area several times with his flames. Why is it still like this? Could it be that something went wrong when I was directing Big E's power?"
The Dark Lady leaned over the railing, stuck her head out, and looked down intently, trying to find every trace of the burns caused by Big E's holy power. However, after observing repeatedly with the observation ability of the Slaanesh Succubus chess piece, the Dark Lady had to admit in frustration that this area now looked like the base where the blasphemous ritual was maintained without any changes.
"Ask Big Brother E? This situation is definitely considered an abnormal situation!"
Liang Feifan, who felt that this matter might be a bit serious, quickly knocked on the avatar of Big E, who had the sign "Busy", in the Hammer chat room, and at the same time filled Big E with all the details they had discovered and the pictures they had taken. About five seconds later, Big E replied.
"Don't worry. This is the last pain of the souls remaining in this area, combined with the time chaos of the subspace, which caused the overlap of the past and the present. The site you see now is the place where it was not yet in the past.
It looks like it has been purified. Just leave it alone. Once the pain of the soul inside is completely gone, this overlap will also disappear. "
"In other words, we can just leave it alone - but the time distortion sounds bad, should we go around it?"
Liang Feifan breathed a sigh of relief after getting a reply from Big Brother E, and turned to look at his teammates - Political Commissar Sister agreed, Lich Zhang agreed, but Lady of Darkness...she seemed to have some strange ideas again?
"Don't you think this place is suitable for fishing?"
Before Liang Feifan could ask the Dark Lady what her next idea was, the Dark Lady's claws pointed to the center of the area below that was filled with the echoes of the past that blasphemed the word "blasphemy" - there was a huge chaos magic circle, and because the cruiser was already in the subspace, this magic circle was already in a "semi-activated" state.
"Ms. Dark, you're not planning to activate that magic circle and lure in the Chaos Four vendors to beat them up, are you?"
Because of the Dark Lady's previous series of outrageous actions, the Political Commissar, who was barely able to keep up with the Hammer Man's thinking circuit, frowned.
"Yeah, yeah! Don't you think that if we really regard our current situation as a super version of Dark Tide, this place would be a good place to earn points? The demons under the Four Gods have higher points than those of the messy Warp creatures in Big E's place!"
The Dark Lady rubbed the crab claws of her descended body, her tone full of impatience.
"Summon the peddler's stuff? Are you sure there won't be any trouble? What if something comes that we can't handle?"
Hearing that the Dark Lady even wanted to make use of the afterimages of the past that appeared in the subspace due to the chaotic time, and even wanted to summon the subordinates of those four things to come and let them beat them, Liang Feifan was still shocked even though he knew that there was a high probability that the Dark Lady would kill him if she took action.
"Of course not! Don't forget that our essence is the creation of Big E's power. Use our power to start the ritual. Even if the chaos ritual gets out of control, the result will be... uh..."
The Dark Lady got stuck suddenly, and the others thought that this was feasible but risky. Hammer also came to his senses and realized that this operation was completely unfeasible for them - no matter how blasphemous and heaven-defying their bodies looked, their essence was still the power of Big E. Using this kind of power to fish for demons in the subspace? I'm afraid they would just destroy the nest!
"Hey, I thought I could use a bug to get points... No hope, no hope - what? Big E? You want us to go to the opening ceremony?"
——————————————The dividing line in the subspace————————————————
Grey Knights Grand Master Kaldor Diego stood on a blood-soaked wasteland of the Warp, holding his weapon tightly in his hand, staring at the Great Daemon of Khorne who was confronting him with a firm gaze, and adjusting his breathing deeply - bearing the curse of his old enemy, he had wandered in the Warp for countless years, and facing such an opponent was already commonplace - Chaos demons challenged him, made promises to him, laughed at him that everything he did in the Warp was meaningless, and mocked him for trying to fight against the power of destruction with the will of mortals - these filthy things always tried to take away his soul, and describe for himself the beautiful picture after giving up everything, strength, power, status, eternity... Endless temptations appeared in front of Diego at any time and place, tempting the Grey Knights Grand Master to put down his sword and embrace the true meaning of the Warp.
But, so what? How could these tearless monsters understand human pride?
"The Blood God has ordered that whoever takes your head will be promoted to a higher level and rewarded with eight bloody battles."
The voice of the Bloodthirsty Demon rumbled through the chaotic air, setting off a bloody wave. Knowing that this was the signal from the Great Demon of Khorne to formally challenge him, Diego took a deep breath and prepared himself to withstand the first round of attack from the Bloodthirsty Demon. After countless battles, the Grey Knights Grand Master was already familiar enough with this kind of always furious demon, and he had roughly simulated in his mind the way the demon was going to attack.
Then, Diego saw light, a light that shouldn't appear in this chaotic realm.
"?"
Before Diego could figure out the source of the light, a powerful force made him fly towards a sudden crack involuntarily - the next second, he found himself standing in a golden area, and the bloodthirsty demon who wanted to challenge him just now also landed beside him.
"Fuck! Khorne Daemon! Fuck! Hit!!"
Before Cardo Diego could take a closer look at this area where the Emperor's divine aura could be clearly felt, a 'passionate' war cry reached his ears. Diego turned around and saw that a guy who should be the captain of the Black Legion had already rushed to his vicinity and was fiercely hitting the Khorne Demon with his power weapon, knocking out a cloud of demonic blood.
"???"
Not knowing why this Chaos rebel had ignored him and chose to attack the Great Daemon of Khorne without hesitation, the Grey Knights Grand Master decided to wait and see what would happen, and was ready to finish off these two things together - in this area that was obviously holy land, Cardo Diego was confident that he could do it.
Just, the next second
, something happened that the Grey Knights Grand Master could not understand -
"For the Emperor! Tear this Khorne thing apart!!"
A Slaanesh succubus exuding the fragrance of the holy oil of the state religion and with the mark of purity on its body raised its pincers high and roared a war cry that was extremely outrageous for a demon, and rushed towards the bloodthirsty demon who had raised his weapon to fight back against the black legion warrior. On the pincers lingered the pure psionic energy that the Grey Knights Grand Master was extremely familiar with - in theory, psionic energy that would kill ordinary Slaanesh demons like succubus!
"..."
31. Erebus must die! - 'Cheating' the Grey Knights Grand Master
