Chapter 597: The map is unrolled, the dagger revealed!

Communication of thought is extremely rapid; countless exchanges of information can be completed within a millisecond's pause.

When Su Xing entered a state of 100% negative mental backlash, regardless of whether it was him or the surrounding environment he influenced, a layer of confusion between matter and mind had already begun to appear. That corruption and mutation of all things was not merely a simple change in Su Xing's own perception; or rather, when he activated the 100% negative mental backlash, there was no longer a clear boundary between reality and thought.

When he stepped into the Emperor's Golden Throne room, the weeping youth and countless torture devices he saw were both material and spiritual. His exchange with the Emperor was also not limited to the few lines of dialogue on the surface.

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

The Emperor did not know if it was feasible, but he was willing to take a gamble with Su Xing.

Both of them had no way back, and both had persistence they were willing to stake their lives to fulfill. They could bet their lives on it...

The moment they saw each other, the two actually had the feeling of seeing another version of themselves.

Therefore, Su Xing was willing to replace the Emperor on the Golden Throne, trusting that the Emperor would not abandon this world or Su Xing sitting on the Golden Throne just because he had escaped.

And the Emperor was also willing to trust the information Su Xing transmitted, willing to believe that the other end of the transmission was not a deception of the Warp.

In that brief moment of interaction, the two, who considered themselves human, anchored themselves as human, and were willing to act as humans, reached a pact of faith!

Su Xing sat upon the Golden Throne, while the Emperor was transmitted by the Main Brain to another world.

The Golden Throne was a very, very special bizarre item; it was both a massive protective tool for the being sitting upon it and a torture device inflicting endless, extreme, and cruel punishments.

The moment Su Xing sat upon it, he knew exactly what this Golden Throne was.

A Fantasy Item!

This Golden Throne was actually a Fantasy Item!?

"Golden Throne. (Gift of Fate, already turned into a Fantasy Item.) (This Fantasy Item has been corrupted.)"

"When sitting on the Golden Throne, any pollution, corrosion, distortion, alienation... and all other non-self-anchored information targeting the person sitting will be suppressed, unless the person sitting has a failure in self-anchoring."

"Side effect: When sitting on the Golden Throne, one will suffer unimaginable, terrifying torture, endless devastation from the physical body to the spirit. The stronger the pollution, corrosion, distortion, alienation... and other non-self-anchored information received by the person sitting, the more terrifying the torture. This torture cannot be exempted or resisted by any attribute. Once one cannot resist this torture, the person sitting will be erased from their very essence."

"This creation was corrupted by a mastermind at the moment of its birth. All beings who sit upon it will gradually be swallowed by darkness."

This was a Fantasy Item that suppressed all non-self-anchored information. The moment Su Xing sat upon it, he recovered from an indescribable lump of flesh back into a human form, back into Su Xing. Even though he had activated the 100% negative mental backlash, it still did not hinder his recovery into human form.

However, this did not mean Su Xing only needed to endure the torture and could then be without worries. This creation itself had already been corrupted, and the power of its root was terrifying; even a Fantasy Item that suppressed pollution could not fully resist it.

When Su Xing sat on the Golden Throne, a negative force that would turn into darkness began to pour into his sea of consciousness. This was also the fundamental reason why the Emperor, having sat on the Golden Throne for ten thousand years, was gradually corrupted by the Lord of Darkness.

However... that was in regard to the Emperor.

For Su Xing, when he sat on the Golden Throne, he indeed felt endless, agonizing torture, but it was limited only to his physical body—crushing, tearing, piercing, a thousand cuts, burning, freezing, and other physical pains were all present. However, he could not feel the greatest pain from the spiritual level, because when the darkness attempted to trigger his mental pain, any darkness that entered his sea of consciousness was instantly dissolved. Even faintly, something even more terrifying was about to surge out from his sea of consciousness...

Gradually, a peculiar change occurred. The darkness that was originally meant to trigger absolute pain at the level of spirit and consciousness began to frantically resist the backlash from within Su Xing's spirit and consciousness. The entire Warp was boiling, but this boiling did not come from the corruption of Su Xing; instead, through the dark connection between the Golden Throne and Su Xing, it was frantically trying to resist a certain fluctuation transmitted from the Golden Throne.

From invasion to resistance, it was only a matter of a few dozen seconds. As Su Xing sat on the Golden Throne, something even more terrifying was taking shape. The Warp felt terrified by the existence of this thing, but unfortunately, the Golden Throne was the Warp's deepest connection to this world; once the connection began, neither side could break it.

You cannot be connected only when it is beneficial to you, right?

A malicious smile gradually appeared on Su Xing's face, matching the indescribable things surging from his sea of consciousness. At this moment, he looked even more grotesque and terrifying than the entire Warp...

Meanwhile, the Emperor arrived in the Sanctuary Dream World.

At this moment, he had returned to his original appearance, exactly as Su Xing had seen him: a blond youth who had just reached adulthood.

As an immortal of the Warhammer Dream World, the moment of his adulthood was his fixed appearance. Unless he used psychic powers to change his form, his appearance and shape were eternally fixed here; he would neither age nor die.

The blond youth stepped onto the metal floor of the Sanctuary. He watched with curiosity as his earth-shattering psychic powers gradually dissipated, and he could no longer perceive the existence of the Warp. This world did not have a so-called Warp; matter was matter, and spirit and consciousness were spirit and consciousness. The two had an extremely clear boundary. This sensory experience was the first time in the blond youth's life.

"... Is this the real world?"

The blond youth reached out his palm in great wonder. Under his will, the surrounding walls, floor, and ceiling made of metal turned into fluid and quickly compressed toward his palm. However, after one second, he had only compressed a thousand cubic meters of metal into a ball the size of a fist.

"... My strength has dropped too much. Is it really directly related to the Warp?"

The blond youth fell into deep thought.

In his calculations, his current limit was only to compress about one hundred thousand cubic meters of matter into a ball the size of a fist. For him, his strength had dropped by more than ten thousand times!

It was simply the difference between heaven and earth.

You must know that at his peak, he could compress a star into a ball the size of a fist, and that wasn't even his full-power outburst.

However... without the Warp, this still made the blond youth incomparably joyful. He was like a person born in a cesspit who had never seen what a truly clean world looked like in his entire life. Now that he had seen it, he truly felt how dirty the original cesspit was.

The blond youth sighed in his heart, then quickly walked toward the object Su Xing had hinted at.

When he pushed open the massive metal door and walked into the huge containment room of the Sanctuary's mental world, the first thing he saw was the thick fog standing in the center.

Just from the first glance, the blond youth immediately understood the terror of this thing. This was another terrifying existence of spirit and consciousness relative to the manifestation of the Warp. If the Warp was an unimaginable, massive cesspit covering the entire material universe, completely blurring the boundary between matter and spirit, then the thick fog before him was a terrifying black hole of spirit and consciousness. The thick fog before him was merely a manifestation after it had fully contracted.

If this thick fog were to fully unfold, it could even encompass the entire material universe!

"Su Xing, is this your plan? It really is too crazy..."

The blond youth did not take action immediately; he was also hesitating, thinking, and evaluating.

He stopped thirty-three meters outside the thick fog and began to walk around it while observing, always maintaining a distance of thirty-three meters from the fog.

"... Forget it, Su Xing, you have no way back, and neither do I."

The blond youth stood silently with his eyes closed. Then, he seemed to have made a certain determination. When he opened his eyes, there was no longer any confusion in them, only resolution and firmness.

Just as Su Xing would fight the Final Producer for his parents in a parallel world, and would resolutely step into the Warhammer Dream World for the sake of three small animals and the Golden Tree, using his all to complete this battle.

The Emperor... the blond youth, in the tens of thousands of years since his birth, also had too many bonds and persistence supporting him.

From the sprout of human civilization he saw in the most ancient times, to every bit of kindness, partner, friend, relative, and lover he had encountered in his tens of thousands of years, their deaths, the encounters of these people after falling into the Warp, the truth and essence of the Warp...

Every accumulation of bonds, every familiar parting of life and death, until the moment he saw humanity finally defeat superstition and ignorance with reason and science, stepping into the starry sky with golden hope and opening the Golden Age—at that moment, he finally observed that the influence of the Warp was weakened. Humanity's scientific rationality toward the material world gradually expelled the mental superstition of the Warp. At that moment, he finally found the direction for his struggle and persistence!

Unfortunately, the progress of humanity's Golden Age was destroyed. Although the beginning came from the so-called Machine Crisis, he saw the hidden mastermind within it, just like the mastermind during the War in Heaven back then. The deepest darkness of the Warp destroyed all of this...

He had to stand out personally; he had to carry the banner named "Master of Mankind"; he had to face this world with the most indifferent and cold posture; he had to measure everything by turning sacrifice into cold numbers; he had to personally commit many earth-shattering facts...

Because his enemy was the ultimate terror far beyond the cognition of all life!

"Malcador, will they... will they resent me?"

"No, Your Majesty, they will not, because at the very least, they sacrificed as 'humans'. We all know that if it weren't for you... they wouldn't even have the qualification to sacrifice, let alone sacrifice as 'humans'."

"Is that so?"

At the moment the blond youth made his determination, countless memories from tens of thousands of years flashed through his mind—laughter, joy, despair, pain... Finally, all these images froze on that scene he could never forget.

Humanity, breaking superstition and ignorance with reason and science, stepped into the starry sky with golden hope. Countless interstellar colony ships launched from Earth's spaceport into the stars, bringing golden light to this dark universe. They were brave, they were united, they were diligent, they were of one mind, they treated every rational alien civilization they encountered with kindness, and they used science to explain everything before them...

That day, that moment, the blond youth was in tears...

"Su Xing... I will fight side by side with you!"

"Let us together, cut off this inhuman darkness!"

The Emperor shouted as he stepped into the thirty-three-meter range of the thick fog. At the same time, the power from his mind condensed everything within thirty-three meters of the fog onto his palm, turning it into a sphere that kept rotating around him. Stimulated by this, the thick fog was rapidly changing, and then in the next instant, the penetration from the Main Brain unfolded again!

"Judging... Judgment complete, penetrating target: Warhammer Dream World!"

In the next instant, the Emperor returned to the front of the Golden Throne. He looked at Su Xing, and Su Xing also looked at him. The two reached out their palms at the same time, and the blond youth and Su Xing shook hands. The torture devices of the Golden Throne fell upon both their bodies and spirits simultaneously.

The terrifying and massive psychic power from the Emperor was activated, and simultaneously erupting was the part of the Emperor's spirit and consciousness that had been corrupted by the Lord of Darkness.

"Aren't you trying to corrupt me?"

"Aren't you trying to make Terra... no, Earth, the biggest node for the Warp to corrupt the material universe?"

"Come! Everything as you wish!!"

The Emperor shouted loudly. He looked at Su Xing and asked, "At the final moment, is there anything you want to say?"

Su Xing sat on the Golden Throne. He looked at the blond youth before him, and the blond youth was also looking at him. Both were silent for a moment. Su Xing then slowly stood up, stood firm, and cupped his hands toward the Webway breach below the Imperial Palace.

"Su Xing..."

The Emperor was stunned, then laughed out loud, and also cupped his hands toward the Webway breach, imitating Su Xing's manner.

"Human Emperor..."

"We have met!!"

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

Influence is always relative. Wanting to corrupt the Emperor into the fifth god, wanting to turn Earth into the biggest material rift for the Warp, this also meant... Earth and the Emperor could also penetrate deep into the Warp!!

The Webway below the Imperial Palace collapsed and shattered entirely. Looking from space toward Earth's location, one could see a dent larger than Earth appearing, and within the dent was the bizarre and indescribable Warp.

At this moment, the entire Earth, along with the surrounding space, began to sink into the Warp.

Then, the thick fog rotating around the Emperor exploded violently, turning into a massive black hole manifested in the Warp. Earth kept rotating around this black hole, its size not even one-ten-thousandth of the black hole, like a speck of dust rotating at the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

The moment this massive black hole appeared, the entire Warp was frantically sucked in by the black hole as if a floodgate had been opened. Every second, more than a galaxy's worth of Warp essence was sucked into the black hole. And the more Warp essence it inhaled, the more three special symbols emerged within the black hole: one flesh, one mist, one light. Three unimaginable great terrors were awakening!

At the same time, the Warp roared and boiled. Four massive, indescribable Demon Gods stepped forward—one blood-red, one cobalt-blue, one rot-green, one bright-pink. They roared in indistinguishable voices, leading endless hordes of demons to charge at the black hole. Their target was not the black hole itself, but Earth, which was rotating at the edge of the black hole's event horizon.

The Emperor laughed out loud as he rose into the air, turning into a scorching white sun to meet the four Demon Gods.

Su Xing also stood up from the Golden Throne. He took a crystal shard from his personal space and then pressed it against his heart.

"Activating Nodos Contract Crystal (shard), judging..."

"Judgment complete!"

"The enemy is the Golden Race, Silver Race, Heroic Race... the Eternal Enemy!"

"Compatibility will reach the limit!"

"Extracting Heroic Soul... extraction complete."

"Hero Bellcross anchored successfully."

"Perfect Transformation activated!"

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

"Perfect Domain: Existence!"

"Judging... Judgment complete, Citizen Su Xing, emergency special mission has been activated for you!"

"Kill the root of the Psychic Civilization!"

"Kill the three roots of the Mental Civilization!"

"Reward: Level 7 Portable Super Sanctuary!!"

In the next second, a super mecha a thousand meters tall soared into the sky, turning into a star and rushing toward the four Demon Gods!

(End of chapter)