Chapter 638: This is All in the Plan!

Machine God.

This term echoed in the wills of all Necrons and was also transmitted to the Warp, heard by the existences within the Warp.

Inside the Soul Forge...

Vashtorr, who was assembling the fingers of Long Linxing, suddenly stopped. Electric sparks surged in the fog of thought.

God.

A terrified conjecture was born in Vashtorr's mind instantly.

Could it be that Zhou Yun was trying to become a god, competing with Him for the sixth throne in the Warp, competing for the position of Malicious Artistry?

But what reason did He have to do this?

Didn't He know that becoming a god was not a good thing? Why did He want to send Himself to the altar of Malicious Artistry?

Vashtorr's gaze looked at the floating light screens before Him, each one being a time period in the reality dimension.

For an existence like Vashtorr, everything at any time in reality happened simultaneously; the past, present, and future were all presented before Him.

He saw the past: the Zhou Yun of the past always refused others to call Him a god, refused the faith of the masses, and had repeatedly stated the dangers of becoming a god.

Zhou Yun knew what becoming a god would bring to Himself and understood the price of becoming a god.

Moreover, what good did becoming a god do for the human race? It didn't even do any good for the entire galaxy, let alone the entire Warp.

The Gods were born one after another, unstoppable and irresistible.

The Dark King was inevitably the fifth to be born.

Once the sixth god position—that is, the complete Machine God, the Lord of the Malicious Artistry domain—began to be born, the trend of the Dark King's birth would at least double, and the pressure on the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang would also double, equivalent to the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang having to block the birth of two God-Emperors alone.

If the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang couldn't hold on, humanity would inevitably face the final moment anyway.

Finally, becoming a god wasn't something one could just do if one wanted to.

Rituals, sacrifices, and tides of emotion were all indispensable.

For example, the birth of the Dark King:

With the Vengeful Spirit as the altar, with the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang killing the four-god champion Horus as the ritual,

with the human race as the sacrifice, offering the rise and destruction of a race,

and with the intense desire for destruction, self-destruction, and despair stirred up during the Old Night, the Great Crusade, and the Great Heresy as the tide of emotion to lift it up.

But where did Zhou Yun find the correct ritual? Where did He find another galaxy-overlord-level sacrifice? And where did He find the tide of emotion?

Vashtorr believed He could become a god because He knew of the existence of the "weapon" left by the Old Ones, and that "weapon" theoretically could only be used by Him.

Wait...

Vashtorr's thoughts began to surge and rotate, beginning to explore the clues in time...

The Dragon of Mars, the true Omnissiah, the massive faith of the Mechanicus.

Granting souls to Necrons, letting Necrons establish a connection with the Warp.

The Necrons, the overlord race of the galaxy, being born in the Warp—this could serve as a sacrifice.

The tide of emotion stirred up by the Mechanicus's faith in the Omnissiah for ten thousand years after ten thousand years, paired with the tide of emotion at the birth of the Necrons, could lift Him to ascension.

And the ritual...

The current Malicious Artistry domain could be roughly divided into three parts.

The Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, with the help of the Dragon of Mars, held a part; Zhou Yun, in the name of Saint Doraemon, held a part; and Vashtorr, in the name of the Lord of All Forges, the God in the Machine, held a part.

This corresponded exactly to the triple divinity of the complete Machine God in the faith of the Mechanicus.

The Dragon of Mars was the Omnissiah, the incarnation of the Machine God walking in the material universe, the teacher, guide, and protector of the operation of all machinery and physical laws.

Zhou Yun was the Primordial Power, the source of power for all matter, all spirits, all machinery, and even the operation of the entire universe, the first driving force of all things.

Vashtorr was the Machine God, the incarnation of abstract concepts such as data, knowledge, information, creativity, and curiosity, a non-material existence.

If, if Zhou Yun devoured the Dragon of Mars and devoured Vashtorr, He could gather the triple divinity and use this as a ritual to ascend...

Vashtorr instantly felt sweat pouring down His back.

Without a sound, Zhou Yun had actually gathered most of the conditions for becoming a god.

Was He really going to become a god? ===== CHAPTER 639 =====