Chapter 503

Erebus believed he had already won.

Lu Se brandished that Caliban greatsword and clashed with Nobi Daixiong.

This second-in-command of the Dark Angels Legion claimed he had fully grasped the mysteries of Chaos and mastered the power of Chaos, rather than being controlled by Chaos himself.

Regardless of whether his words were true or false, Lu Se had indeed obtained immense power from Chaos, one that could almost be called a "beggar-tier" version of the Four Gods' blessing of Horus, even a step stronger than Abaddon, and he was even able to trade blows with Lion, one of the best among the Primarchs, and thanks to Lion's soft-heartedness, he had even nearly killed him.

Swirling with torrential Chaos evil energy, he arrived at Nobi Daixiong's side in the blink of an eye; the Caliban greatsword tore through the veil of reality, smashing toward Nobi Daixiong's head with a Warp tide.

Then, the famous sword "Dian Guang Wan," glowing with light, drew an incomprehensible arc, lightly blocking Lu Se's strike.

Lu Se was startled by this, but the famous sword "Dian Guang Wan" had exhausted its battery after blocking Lu Se's full-strength strike and the continuous attacks from Be'lakor, flickering a few times before extinguishing.

Lu Se seized this momentary opportunity, gathering strength again to swing his sword.

Yet he saw Nobi Daixiong, with lightning speed, pull another famous sword "Dian Guang Wan"—fully charged—out from his clothes, and Lu Se also saw the many famous swords "Dian Guang Wan" hidden under Nobi Daixiong's clothes.

This made Lu Se's expression twitch.

However, Erebus did not care; as long as Lu Se could hold off Nobi Daixiong, allowing him to open that door leading to the bridge, clearing the game would be enough.

Then, Erebus would cast a secret art to summon the Ouroboros to descend, combined with the Tuchulcha Engine in the Rock and the Plague Heart in Lu Se's ship, uniting the three artifacts to open a rift to the past and send Saint Doraemon to the past to ascend as a god.

Once the thought arose, Erebus did not hesitate and rushed toward that door.

On the *Light Lord*, Zhou Yun watched this scene through Nobi Daixiong's eyes.

The divination instrument in his hand had just completed a divination, confirming that Erebus would at least be unable to open this door and clear the game during this charge.

This was because Erebus had been affected by one of Zhou Yun's items.

【Item Name: Retribution Medicinal Wine】

【Origin: 22nd Century Earth — Future Department Store】

【Production Date: 261. M3】

【Function: As long as the aggrieved person consumes this medicinal wine, their enemy will be possessed by the God of Misfortune, experiencing nothing but trouble and bad luck in everything; the stronger the resentment, the more powerful the resulting bad luck.】

In Zhou Yun's line of sight, two cold, pitch-black mists were clinging to Erebus, and within the mists existed two figures whose eyes were filled with hatred, constantly mobilizing bad luck to press down upon Erebus.

Khârn and the daemon Raum possessing Khârn had both drunk this item; the hatred they had accumulated over ten thousand years had turned into two powerful Gods of Misfortune, strong enough to even twist fate and burden Erebus with immense bad luck.

At this very moment, when Erebus's plan was about to be realized and everything was going incredibly smoothly, those two Gods of Misfortune were not weakened but grew increasingly powerful, tightly strangling Erebus's fate, causing the bad luck to accumulate continuously upon him, reaching the final moment of eruption.

Zhou Yun felt it was not enough, so he pulled the Heavenly Punishment Whip from his bosom.

This item could inflict punishment upon those who had committed evil, and it was prepared by Zhou Yun specifically to deal with Erebus.

"Evil deeds committed by Erebus: Corrupting Horus, burning the galaxy, killing Argel Tal, causing Khârn to fall, helping Lorgar believe in gods, falling into false belief, backstabbing Loken, closing causality..."

"Punishment: His crimes are too numerous to record; he shall be loathed by Heaven and abandoned by Earth."

The moment Zhou Yun flicked the whip, thousands of pages of crimes committed by Erebus flashed before his eyes; this was just the table of contents.

Then, the entire reality trembled and roared because of it.

Reality itself showed extreme disgust toward Erebus; reality began to twist fate, causing everything to plummet in a direction extremely unfavorable to Erebus.

Within the Warp, Tzeentch was still struggling to beat fate, attempting to dispel the bad luck on Erebus.

But no matter how much effort he exerted, he could not shake the bad luck on Erebus by even a fraction.

Just at this moment, Tzeentch suddenly perceived that the will of the material dimension, which had always been suppressed by the Warp, suddenly began to struggle.

Along with it, the fate he was pressing in his palm also trembled violently.

A strong backlash came from reality and fate.

Tzeentch let out a scream, and unable to dodge in time, he was blown away by the tremor of fate.

Fate, like silk threads, was fiercely bundled together under the control of the will of reality, smashing toward Tzeentch's bird face like a whip.

Slap!!!!

A whip mixed with anger lashed onto Tzeentch's head.

The anger from reality and fate reached Tzeentch's will directly.

How dare you destroy reality!!! How dare you toy with fate!!!

How dare you help Erebus!!!

At the moment fate was whipped, Tzeentch saw the direction in which fate was flowing.

The Plague Heart, the Tuchulcha Engine, and the Ouroboros, the three artifacts, were shaped by the Old Ones and inherently possessed the desire for self-aggregation, instinctively thirsting to aggregate.

And the Ouroboros was Caliban itself; on Caliban, from every concrete rock to every abstract thought, everything was a part of the Ouroboros.

The Rock fortress was the largest concrete, material fragment of the Ouroboros, having come due to the instinct of aggregation.

And the largest fragment of the Ouroboros in the spiritual realm, or rather the bearer of Caliban's spirit, beliefs, and thoughts, came to this system due to the instinct of aggregation and descended before Erebus... isn't that very reasonable?

Isn't it very reasonable?!!!

I ask you!! Isn't it very reasonable?!!!

The angry questioning of reality and fate rushed directly at Tzeentch; fate bundled into a tougher bundle, continuing to swing toward Tzeentch.

In Nurgle's Garden, Mortarion watched the fate presented by these numbers, nodding slightly toward the Grandfather.

The rigorous science of numerology once again exerted its effect, proving that it was the truth.

The Grandfather, who had long been prepared, grinned; Nurgle's daemon army raised troops from the frontier of Nurgle's realm, joining forces with Slaanesh's daemon army, which was also prepared, and pressed toward Tzeentch's realm.

Tzeentch himself had not fully recovered his ability to interfere with reality, and now that reality and fate were backlashing, and he had been invaded by Nurgle and Slaanesh, he was suddenly anxious and angry, waving his powerful arms and summoning boundless changes to block the space between reality and the Crystal Labyrinth, isolating reality's interference with the Crystal Labyrinth and also isolating his own influence over fate and reality.

Then Tzeentch could no longer care about Erebus, hurriedly going to defend against the invasion of Nurgle and Slaanesh.

In reality, on the *Blessed Lady*.

Erebus was beaming with joy; he was already very close to that door leading to the bridge.

But just at this moment, the air suddenly became cold, invisible mist drifted out from the void, and the faint sound of a babbling stream echoed in Erebus's ears.

Lu Se, who was fighting Nobi Daixiong, froze, suddenly turning his head to look in the direction from which the mist was drifting.

Within the Rock fortress, Ezekiel, who was helping Azrael command the fleet to bombard the Fallen Angels in the command room, also suddenly raised his head.

He felt an aura that was both strange and familiar.

Strange because he had never seen this aura before.

Familiar because his bloodline was rejoicing due to the appearance of this aura.

"How could this be..." Ezekiel blurted out in immense astonishment, and then an unspeakable joy surged in his heart.

He has returned.

Erebus's body froze in place, looking in disbelief at the giant rock lying before him.

On the giant rock, a King of the Forest, wearing black power armor, holding a winged helmet, with a few golden threads mixed in his white hair, was sleeping with his eyes closed.

(End of chapter)