Warhammer 40k: Terra Collector

Just when the heart of the Imperial Regent was about to be completely swallowed by incomparable despair, a cold and magnificent will descended into this golden space without warning.

It was a cold sun shining with golden light!!

The Lord of Mankind - the Emperor!! At this moment, he descended into the spiritual world of the Imperial Regent.

After the end of the Horus Heresy, the severely wounded Lord of Mankind was forced to step onto the ancient mechanical golden throne! In the following ten thousand years, the great Emperor never stepped down from the cold mechanical creation.

The body of the Emperor left in the physical universe is irreversibly declining! But his soul has become a kind of existence similar to the gods of the warp in the cold sea of ​​souls between the ten thousand years of worship of the state religion believers.

There is no doubt that the cold sun hanging high above the sea of ​​souls has extremely terrifying power.

Even in the face of the siege from the four gods of chaos, the great Lord of Mankind still did not take his eyes off his own race!!

At the moment when the Imperial Regent was about to be completely swallowed by despair, the golden light representing the Emperor's will suddenly filled the golden space.

The emotions accumulated by the huge human race for thousands of years created this cold sun! !

The obsession of maintaining the survival of the race has exhausted the Lord of Humanity physically and mentally! In order to avoid excessive emotions from burdening the soul, thousands of years ago... the Emperor who turned into a cold sun had already abandoned emotions.

Rather than saying that the current cold sun is the incarnation of the Lord of Humanity in the subspace, it is better to say... this is a computer that inherited the Emperor's obsession.

The Imperial Regent cannot feel any emotions from this cold sun! What is revealed from this cold sun is only endless grandeur and majesty.

For the Lord of Humanity who has long abandoned all emotions, as long as he can keep humans and the Empire alive in this cold and crazy galaxy... then no matter what price he pays, no matter what sacrifice he makes, it is worth it.

In the Emperor's calculations to keep humanity and the Empire alive, the Imperial Regent who led the Empire out of the darkness for ten thousand years is undoubtedly an indispensable part.

In the cold calculations of the Lord of Humanity, the Fortress World of Cartier is the top priority for suppressing the Eye of Terror! No matter what the cost, the Fortress World of Cartier must never fall into the control of the betrayers and demons.

And in order to achieve this goal, the cold sun hanging high in the sea of ​​souls... brings a gift to the Imperial Regent who is about to be swallowed by despair.

It is a will shining with golden light!!

In layman's terms, it is the last legacy left by the great Lord of Humanity before he completely abandoned his emotions... in this cold galaxy.

It is a strange will called "divinity"!!

As mentioned before, the great Emperor could have relied on the ten thousand years of human support... and ascended to become a god in the cold supreme sky with huge power.

The Lord of Humanity who ascended to become a god will gain incomparably terrifying power! Even the Emperor's power alone... is enough to rival the rest of the Chaos Gods.

But the Emperor has a deep love for his race and the Empire he created.

The Emperor can ascend to God in the Warp at any time, but the price of his ascension to God is... the souls of all humans!

From the moment the great Emperor was born in a corner of Terra, the Lord of Mankind has been deeply bound to the human race.

Even though the world has changed dramatically, even though this galaxy has undergone earth-shaking changes in tens of thousands of years... this bond has never shown any signs of breaking.

The Emperor's love for his race is deep!

The great Lord of Mankind would rather endure eternal torture on the Golden Throne than become a Chaos God in the cold and crazy sea of ​​souls at the cost of devouring the souls of all humans.

And this wisp of matter called "divinity" is the most important thing for the Warp entity to be upgraded to a Chaos God.

Tens of millions of years ago, the Prince of Joy devoured the souls of almost all the Eldar... Only then did he condense a ray of divinity representing corruption and desire, and then ascended to become a god in the cold and crazy sea of ​​souls amid the wailing of the Eldar!

Including the Lord of Brass, the God of Plague and the Lord of Change, all the Chaos Gods, before they truly became Chaos Gods... all relied on some unique way to condense their own divinity.

And the process of condensing divinity for each Chaos God can be said to be extremely bumpy.

But at this moment, such a key that can directly make ordinary mortals ascend to Chaos Gods... was placed straight in front of the Imperial Regent.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Emperor's intention should be to let the Imperial Regent absorb this ray of divinity... so as to achieve the purpose of ascending to become a god in the subspace.

But since the Lord of Mankind has such a purpose, then a new problem has come again! ! !

As we all know, the cold and crazy sea of ​​souls is not a beautiful place! As a reflection of the intense emotions of intelligent life in the physical universe, the Soul Sea uses similar characteristics to the creatures in the physical universe in some aspects.

The emotions of every intelligent life can be gathered into the cold and crazy Soul Sea through some unknown means!

Before the War in Heaven that almost shattered the entire galaxy, the Sea of ​​Souls was not as turbulent as it is today! Although there are still some subspace entities lurking in the High Heaven, they are not as malicious to all intelligent life as they are now.

In the War in Heaven that lasted for thousands of years, the pain and unwillingness of countless intelligent lives before death aroused eternal echoes in the cold Sea of ​​Souls.

Countless Chaos Demons representing negative emotions were born from these echoes, and among them... included the existence called Chaos Evil God by the Empire.

In essence, the essence used by Chaos Evil God is not completely evil.

The Prince of Pleasure is called the God of Desire and Depravity, but in the same way... for some specific people, He can also be called the God of Art and Music!

The Lord of Brass, known as the God of Blood, also has the title of God of Justice and War.

Nurgle, the father of kindness, can also be called the god of life and death, and Tzeentch, the lord of change, can also be called the god of sorcery and the arcane...

The essence of the Chaos Gods all has their own relatively positive side! But because the main theme of the entire Soul Sea is chaos and madness, so during the countless years of ascending to become gods... the Chaos Gods are also subtly influenced by these chaos and madness.

This is why they are now showing such a malicious attitude...

And if the Emperor also ascends to become a god in the Supreme Heaven, then the Great Lord of Mankind will still insist on his belief in the survival of the Empire and mankind.

Under the distortion of the warp, no one knows what form such a belief will be distorted into...

The Great Lord of Mankind asked the Imperial Regent to accept divinity and ascend to become a god in the warp. In a sense, this is not in line with the will of the Emperor himself.

As mentioned before, even if the Imperial Regent can retain his determination to protect the Empire and mankind... but no one knows how such determination will be distorted by the cold and crazy Soul Sea!

If the Imperial Regent, who ascended to godhood, had the idea of ​​destroying the Empire to save it, then facing the malice of the five evil gods of the Warp at the same time... the Empire and humanity would have no possibility of survival.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Lord of Mankind's move is to create a more terrifying enemy for the Empire.

If the Imperial Regent could not still clearly feel the light shining from the Cold Sun, he would definitely think that the Cold Sun in front of him was a disguise of the Chaos Gods!

The Imperial Regent rejected the divinity in front of him! At the same time, he cast a questing look at the Cold Sun hanging high in this golden space.

Seeing that the Imperial Regent had not taken action for a long time, the Cold Sun also calculated the Imperial Regent's concerns during this period of time.

A golden light with a cold and grand atmosphere was released from the Cold Sun, and then slowly sank into the depths of the Imperial Regent's soul.

This golden light contains countless thoughts! And through these slightly cold and complicated thoughts, the Imperial Regent finally understood the Emperor's intentions at this moment.

This divinity before the Imperial Regent once belonged to the great Lord of Humanity! But in order to ensure the survival of mankind, the Emperor rejected this gift from the warp... and has been firmly occupying the position of the fifth evil god.

In essence, as long as the Emperor does not ascend to become a god... then the fifth evil god in the cold and crazy sea of ​​souls will not appear in the true sense.

It is no exaggeration to say that the great Lord of Humanity has completely blocked the way for other evil gods to descend.

But this divinity separated from the will of the Emperor himself is an exception.

This divinity originally belonged to the great Lord of Humanity. In a sense... this divinity is the same as the Emperor.

But the person who accepts this divinity at this moment is the Imperial Regent!

The Emperor has been deeply bound to the human race since the moment he was born, but the Imperial Regent who descended on this galaxy a century ago... did not have such constraints.

Even if the Imperial Regent flew to become a god in the cold and crazy sea of ​​souls, the impact it caused on the physical universe... would not cause the entire human race to fall into destruction.

The Emperor had already given a solution to the distortion of the Chaos God in the Warp.

This divinity belongs to the Emperor after all! The direction of this divinity in the Warp also belongs to the cold sun hanging high in the Sea of ​​Souls! !

All the effects of the Warp on the holder of this divinity will eventually be reflected on the cold sun that has lost all emotions.

In other words, this great gift from the Emperor... only comes with the power of the Warp, and all the negative effects have been borne by the cold sun hanging high in the Sea of ​​Souls.

This is the Emperor's last gift to mankind! ! !

After a long silence, the Imperial Regent still chose to accept this gift from the Emperor!

The situation facing the fortress world Cartier no longer allows the Empire to continue to delay. At most two hours later... the Chaos Demons from the Sea of ​​Souls will turn the land of Cartier into a purgatory on earth.

The power of chaos that surges from the depths of the Eye of Terror will cause all intelligent life in this cold galaxy to fall into catastrophe...

The hand of the Imperial Regent slowly touched the divinity that was shining with golden light.

When the two came into contact, the divinity flowing with golden light instantly changed into some kind of viscous liquid, and penetrated into the depths of the soul of the Imperial Regent without reservation.

The process of integrating this divinity was not as painful as the Imperial Regent imagined.

That feeling was like being wrapped in a warm and soft hot spring... It was a kind of comfort and warmth that seemed to come from the depths of the soul.

The golden light flashing with the breath of the upper level was subtly transforming the golden soul of the Imperial Regent! Under normal circumstances, existences like divinity cannot be traded casually by their owners.

But the Imperial Regent and the great Lord of Humanity both have unique golden souls!

The golden soul of the Emperor comes from a certain will between this galaxy, while the golden soul of the Imperial Regent... comes from a gift from a higher-level existence.

Although the origins of the two golden souls are different, the effects of both on the human race are extremely similar! It is precisely because of this that this divinity that should have belonged to the Lord of Humanity... can be so easily integrated by the Imperial Regent.

Time has lost its concept of existence in this golden space.

The Imperial Regent did not know how long the process of integrating this divinity lasted!

Maybe it was a day, maybe it was ten thousand years...

When the Imperial Regent came back to his senses from a mysterious state that could peek into every corner of this galaxy, the integration of this golden divinity was nearing its end.

The golden light like a tide flowed in this golden space, accompanied by a sound as grand as a movement... An amazing surging force surged from the depths of the Imperial Regent's body.

This terrifying force impacted every corner of the Imperial Regent's body! Under the influence of this power of higher status with the power of chaos and psychic energy, the wounds left by Chaos Warmaster Abaddon on the Imperial Regent began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Almost in an instant, the Imperial Regent's body, which had been severely injured... once again gained a great power that was more terrifying than at its peak.

At this moment, the Imperial Regent was like a Chaos God who could walk in the physical universe!

The Imperial Regent could even clearly feel that with just one will of his own... the curtain separating the physical universe and the sea of ​​souls would completely collapse.