In response to Eldrar's self-answered question, Xilego said nothing more.
The face in the clown mask turned to the other side.
Those eyes, filled with infinite wisdom, shone brightly.
He looked into the distance.
In the bowl-shaped hall, stands a giant metal column.
In addition to the various complicated runes, it is also connected to various generators and machines.
Those machines hummed and resonated with a special pulsation, like a perfect piece of music. Only musicians with extraordinary artistic talent could play that perfect piece of music.
The obscure runes on the surface of the giant metal pillar flickered continuously, vibrating with the resonating rhythm.
With every shining moment, a human hero returns.
Even at his level, such things seem incredible.
The original rules of the universe have been broken.
The barrier of time was also broken into pieces.
Space and time became things that were ravaged by him.
Now, not even life or death can stop him.
Under his control, human military power is increasing rapidly.
What else could stop him
In this case, if Guilliman is not considered a god, then who can be called a god
Are not those imperial armies that fight endlessly in his name a symbol of his destructive power
What difference can be found between these reincarnated heroes and the demons who have been blessed by the gods and resurrected
At most, one side will use the special mechanism of the subspace, while the other side will find another way.
"When will the Holy Emperor go to rescue the Goddess of Life?" Eldrar asked a question that many Eldar prophets were concerned about.
When Silogo surrendered to Guilliman and offered the Black Library, which contained the knowledge of the Old Ones, one of the conditions was that he hoped Guilliman could rescue the Eldar's goddess of life and other gods who were taken away or smashed into pieces during the Great Fall.
Xilego hasn't spoken yet.
Another voice came from behind.
"When the Empire's army specializing in fighting against subspace creatures is formed, it will be the best time to rescue the goddess of life Yinsha. According to the current progress, we will be able to achieve this step soon."
Silogo and Eldrar turned and looked in the direction of the voice.
A noble face appeared in their eyes.
None other than Guilliman, Holy Emperor of the Imperium of Man.
The Void Dragon was lying on his broad shoulders.
Very lazy, just like a pet.
It is hard to imagine that the god who once claimed to be the god of the real universe has now become a pet.
Behind him are the captain of the guards, Sicarius, who is responsible for his safety, and the leader of the imperial guards, Valanor.
"His Majesty."
"His Majesty."
"No need to be so polite." Guilliman waved his hand, indicating that they didn't need to be too polite. He walked to Xilego's side, stood on the railing of the platform, and looked at the densely packed culture cabins that looked like a honeycomb.
The number of heroes recalled by the Empire is astonishing.
"Your Majesty, why did you suddenly have time to come here today?" Xilegao said respectfully, "Could it be that you have come up with new research results?"
Guilliman shook his head.
"There are no new results. We are just still perfecting the Empire's research on the field of life and death. The subspace is mysterious and unpredictable. It is very difficult to completely master life and death and establish a reincarnation or hibernation system for the Empire."
After death, the soul returns to the warp.
If there is a god that you believe in, you will go to the realm where the god is.
If there is no god to believe in, one can only drift in the subspace and be hunted or torn apart by other demons.
Many people would think the former is much better than the latter.
At least you don't have to face those cruel and bloodthirsty subspace creatures alone.
But the result is the same.
As long as the Chaos Gods are born, those so-called gods will be devoured, and the dead who belong to the realm of gods will also become food or slaves.
"Breaking the boundary between life and death is not so easy. There are too many secrets hidden in the vast universe, and even gods cannot know them all." Xilego said: "Your Majesty, there is absolutely no need to worry so much. The power of the empire is enough to protect thousands of people to survive in this dark universe."
"The Empire will rise and fall." Guilliman leaned on the railing with his hand and looked at the incubators. "The more I understand the Warp, the more uneasy and uneasy I become. Chaos is the original force of the universe, and it may also be the key to the cycle of the universe. Everything we have is meaningless in the long time scale. Chaos is there, and when you rise, they retreat to a corner that we can't see."
"When we decline, they will erupt from the inside out like corruption, turning a prosperous and flourishing country into a pathetic ruin. Let those poor people suffer. The only way for the empire to avoid being harmed is to establish a self-circulating system."
"Your Majesty will definitely succeed." said Xilego.
"I am working on it." Guilliman changed the subject. "Speaking of the Eldar gods, perhaps we should do something else first. The goddess of life, Insa, is in the realm of the Plague Father, and is said to be chained to him. To save her, we must face the Plague Father. Can you face a Chaos God?"
Xilego shook his head.
"I can't do this. The Plague Father's gaze contains a plague that is enough to kill a god. I will die."
"It's too difficult to save Yinsha. If we act rashly, we will suffer heavy casualties or even collapse. Perhaps we should summon another Eldar god first."
"Which one?"
"Eldar Death."
Guilliman's words caused Silego and Eldrar to look at each other.
They could see the astonishment in each other's eyes.
Resurrecting the Eldar Death God was once the most important thing for the Eldar.
For this purpose, the Death Army was established to unite the Death believers among the Dark Eldar, Ark Eldar, Harlequin Eldar and Wild Eldar.
It can be said that it was a gathering of elite forces, the first union of the elves after the great destruction disaster.
The unborn god of death, Jena, is seen as the last hope for the declining Eldar.
The followers of the God of Death believe that when the souls of the entire race are taken into the Infinite Circuit, all the Ark Worlds will be united into a huge Infinite Circuit, thus fusing all the souls of the Eldar to form a new force.
This force is Death.
Death will banish Slaanesh and be victorious.
Originally, the prophets of the Eldar attempted to conduct a large-scale ritual to revive the god of death ahead of time.
However, in order to avoid the fate of the utter destruction of the Eldar, the prophets targeted humans for some of the sacrifices.
They were ultimately defeated by the warriors of the Death Watch Chapter.
The Empire would not allow the lives of its own people to be used to resurrect a foreign god.
Then the Death Army was established, and they proposed the Seventh Way.
That is, a path different from the way of foresight, the way of the warrior, the way of the commander, the way of the craftsman, the way of the sailor, and the way of the wanderer.
Through their efforts, by sacrificing all the souls within the infinite circuit of the Craft World Bayetan, the incarnation of the God of Death, Inkarn, was awakened.
Inkaan is the first step of the Seventh Way, a method to awaken the Death without sacrificing all of the Eldar.
All that remains is to collect five Crone Swords to fully bring Death I into being.
They have recovered four of them: the Spear of Twilight used by Prince Yin Ruier, the Soul Sword of Inkarn, the Incarnation of Death, the Silent Screaming Sword of the Visionary, and the Sword of Sorrow used by Yin Fulan.
The last sword was taken away by the keeper of secrets, champion fighter, and scourge of hell - Xarathi, under Slaanesh.
The demon also placed the final sword in Slaanesh's palace.
The Death Army was trapped in a vicious circle.
Why did they awaken the Death? Because they were afraid that Slaanesh would eat them all.
But now the final sword needed to awaken Death lies in the palace of Slaanesh.
They must defeat Slaanesh to obtain the final sword.
But defeating Slaanesh requires the help of Death.
But if you want to get the help of the god of death, you must first defeat Slaanesh and get the last sword.
This incident successfully made the Death Army a joke.
They will never get the final sword to awaken the god of death.
"We have no way of getting the last sword." Eldrar said, "Without the last sword, Jena cannot be resurrected."
"Do you want to sacrifice all the elves to resurrect the god of death?" Xilego asked warily.
After these words were spoken, Eldrar also became nervous.
It is too easy for the current Empire to destroy the Eldar.
The strength of both sides is no longer on the same level.
"Don't think like that." Guilliman said, "You are allies of the Empire. I will never joke about your lives. But before that, we have to explain clearly what God is. The Empire's exploration teams have been wandering in the universe. They have brought back a lot of incredible knowledge and experiences, allowing the Empire to fully understand the subtle connection between the warp and the universe."
"Our race's knowledge of the subspace is even more ancient, Your Majesty, and we know very well what God is," said Xilego.
"No, you don't know." Guilliman said, stretching out his hand for the Void Dragon to stand on his hand. "The definition of the gods is not that simple. It involves the cycle of the universe. The gods have promoted the cycle of the universe to a certain extent, allowing life and death, destruction, and birth to repeat and cycle endlessly. The birth and destruction of a universe is destined. Even the human empire, I don't think it can be eternal."
"Let's get the topic back to the gods. Their mission is to sort out the emotions of all living things in the universe and transform them into fertile soil from which new universes will be born. Gods will disappear as their civilization declines, completing a cycle. When the universe is born again, civilization will repeat itself and the gods will appear again. They will absorb some power and knowledge from the destruction of the previous universe, undergo some changes, and become more adapted to the universe, making it more prosperous."
"I call that immeasurable length of time the early days of the universe. This is a guess made by the Dark Watcher and I based on the conditions of various universes and even the knowledge left by the ancient saints. That period of time has passed very long ago, so long that even time is no longer coherent. Everything is still under exploration. The rules of each universe are full of mistakes and omissions, and the subspace does not have so much filth."
"The rules of the early universe were simple, just like when life was just born, they were just small organic molecules such as amino acids and fatty acids. Life can become complex and complete after billions of years of evolution, and even give birth to life. The evolution of the universe will be even longer, and it is impossible to calculate it using time scales. After all, the lifespan of a universe can easily be tens of billions of years, even hundreds of billions of years, trillions of years. Such a long time scale is beyond our imagination."
"Of course, the early universes may not be able to have such a long life cycle. Their structures are not stable enough, and the physical laws are not perfect enough to form a curtain between them and the subspace. Perhaps a subspace storm can destroy them. The universe will die like an organism. The corpse will be dissolved in the subspace and turned into pure energy. After an immeasurable amount of time, it will be conceived again. The new universe inherits the string of data left by the old universe. Just like biological evolution, the fittest survive again and again, evolving into more complex and more stable physical structures, and the life cycle will also become longer and longer."
"The instability of the warp can destroy the universe and bring it to a rapid end. However, an unstable warp can also bring some benefits, which is that it can allow the emotions of organisms to mobilize more primitive energy, allowing them to easily possess various extraordinary powers. The concept of God was born at this time. Faith is like the glue that civilizations spit out. Gods took shape in the warp with faith, helping civilizations to continue to exist in the warp storms that were set off from time to time, allowing the universe to last longer."
"The warp veil in the early universe was made up of gods and simple laws of the real universe. This combination allowed the universe to last longer, accumulate more data, and evolve more completely. I guess that during this period, many civilizations that use psychic energy will definitely be born, and pure technological civilizations do not exist yet. This is because technological civilizations require complex social cooperation and a research mentality towards the universe. These early civilizations were too easy to pry open the warp, and trained people were able to use the warp to accomplish things that only groups could accomplish. They had no idea of cooperation at all, just like Africa, which is too rich in resources. Because there is no shortage of food, they cannot build a more prosperous and advanced civilization."
"As time went by, civilization's taming of the power of the warp made the universe exist longer, the universe evolved for a longer time, accumulated more data, and left more legacy to the new universe. Those universes already knew how to go in the future from the moment they were born from the singularity!
Just like when babies are conceived, they know that they will grow various organs and arms. They will no longer start from a single molecule and go through a series of trial and error before they can get a complete body. This is because they have inherited the evolutionary achievements of their ancestors. The same is true for the evolution of the universe. From the moment they are born, they evolve along the path that they have explored countless times, allowing themselves to exist independently and stably. "
"The birth of gods is becoming more and more perfect. They are attached to those civilizations, and become stronger and wiser as the civilization becomes stronger. In order to exist more stably, the universe has even evolved things like priesthood, godhood, and godhood. They use priesthood and godhood to attract sufficiently powerful individuals or create gods who live on that priesthood, allowing them to absorb the faith of the entire cosmic civilization to stabilize the space-time structure and prevent the universe from being destroyed by the destructive storm."
"At this stage, the so-called omniscient and omnipotent people were born. The problem is that everything has its limitations. The feudal monarchy stabilized the political structure, allowing slave civilization to enter the accumulation stage and gain more productivity. But in the later period, the feudal monarchy became an obstacle to the progress of civilization and needed to be eliminated. Capitalism promoted the development of industrialization, but their monopoly also became an obstacle to new technology."
"The power of gods allows civilization and the structure of the universe to be stable, and they have enough time to evolve sufficiently complex physical rules to form a barrier between reality and illusion, allowing them to exist stably. The existence of physical barriers has caused the role of gods to begin to diminish, and even become an obstacle to the progress of civilization. If gods want to survive, they must have enough believers. If living beings forget them, they will die. Without worship, they will collapse into the invisible and become an unconscious vortex of emotions. If they become unstable, they will die."
"They will do their best to stir up trouble, trying to get their believers to initiate various sacrifices or extreme worship. They will destroy physical barriers so that they will not be forgotten. There are also different differences between civilizations. Some civilizations that place too much emphasis on psychic power, lack social division of labor and cooperation, and rely on individuals to dominate will definitely not accept that they will be eliminated by those races that they once looked down upon and have no psychic talents. With the intensification of various contradictions, the war of civilizations broke out. The extraordinary civilization on the verge of elimination, out of panic, launched a war against the socially cooperative technological civilization that showed vitality. The gods did not want to perish and be swept into the garbage dump, and they were also full of hatred."
"Such a theory is simply shocking." Xilego could not hide the shock on his face. Human beings' research on the warp and gods has surpassed the Eldar themselves.
They can no longer guide humans.
Guilliman showed no sign of pride.
The fear of a god was no longer something to be boasted about for him.
As his horizons broadened, he no longer had the same awe for beings like gods as before.
He even felt a little sorry for them.
As the assistance system said, they were just a bunch of poor guys trying in vain to defend a past that was already destined to be abandoned.
"Will this help in resurrecting Jena?" Eldrar asked nervously. To be honest, he didn't understand.
What Guilliman said was too profound, touching upon the true nature of the gods.
It's not something he can understand.
"Of course, this universe is not the first time it was created, nor is it the first time it is repeated. The essence of the gods is just faith and the needs of the universe. Now that we have mastered the principles of their creation, are we still worried about not being able to replicate them?"