At this time, in the Crystal Maze, Tzeentch's laughter suddenly stopped. He had just arranged for his subordinates, the All-Changing Demon Lord, to send Darkus's other companions back to the mortal world. He felt the changes in Darkus, and at the same time noticed Nurgle's immense anger. He realized that Darkus was in the subspace. A great thing was done from scratch. Seeing that Nurgle had suffered a big loss, he who was supposed to be full of joking smiles immediately became alert, and then began to capture the next changes.
Soon, a crow suddenly appeared where Maranur was camping, and without the Druchis noticing, it entered the tent where Darkus stored his luggage.
Darkus felt that he had quaked, but not quaked. He felt that his current state was very strange. His soul spiraled up to the sky, floating in the air, or seemed to be fixed in the air. He couldn't feel the pain and everything he had before, he could only watch and think about it, and couldn't do anything else.
Darkus, who was in mid-air, could clearly see a strange heart where he had fallen, and several snakes crawling slowly on the floor. How many snakes? Already exhausted, he has plenty of time to think about it, at least for now. He feels that he has no sign of going to report to anyone at the moment. Now that he realized it, he felt a little baffled... He didn't know why snakes appeared in this place.
Logically speaking, it is normal for crows and eagles to appear here. In Norse culture, the eagle represents Tzeentch and the crow represents Nurgle. Although Tzeentch often appears in the form of a crow, this may be a crow. It is also caused by birds, which are large songbirds. In addition, it is also Tzeentch's tribute to Nurgle, Tzeentch's spoof of Nurgle, and Tzeentch is also called the "Raven God".
But... what is this "snake"? Darkus's mind was filled with big question marks. If he remembered correctly, these snakes were transformed from the fences he encountered on the way here. This in itself is very strange, or incompatible with this place. .
In Darkus's previous reincarnation, the snake symbolized luck, good luck and holiness. From another perspective, snakes are also cold, cunning and evil. It indicates that he will encounter more difficult opponents in the near future, so he will feel pressured? Your fortune in interpersonal relationships has been good recently, and you may make new friends? How about letting Duke Zhou interpret dreams?
Darkus knew that snakes usually represented Slaanesh in this world. In this world, Slaanesh was the youngest and most immature of the four Chaos Gods, but Slaanesh alone possessed divine beauty.
Slaanesh has the power to take on any form He desires, to become flawless and stunning on His own, beyond any expectation, whenever He desires. In the elaborate sculptures and paintings created by his mortal servants, he is often depicted as a flawless, charismatic youth. The limbs are slender, the movements are elegant, and there is a kind of androgynous perfection that goes straight into the heart and lingers, which is also a certain correspondence with the snake.
While Darkus was thinking, he saw the Trident of the Sea on the floor being raised up from the floor by those snakes. One of the snakes climbed up along the trident's pole and wrapped around it. The snake's head was He opened his mouth and spat out the letter and looked at him, as if the snake could see his soul.
"That's not right." Darkus felt that his thinking had gone astray. The snakes and tridents under his nose gathered together, it was clearly a snake staff!
The snake staff was also called the staff of Asclepius in Dacus's previous reincarnation. In ancient Greek mythology, this was the staff used by Asclepius, the "god of medicine". The snake on the staff resembles The snake of Slaanesh is a different concept entirely, representing restoration, renewal and healing, as the snake sheds its skin. The cane represents the human spine, which indicates the growth and evolution of human beings. When superimposed, it means saving human life and health. For this reason, this symbol is widely used in the medical industry.
While Darkus was thinking, the snake staff changed again, and another snake climbed up the trident along the staff, forming a cross spiral with the previous snake. This change is completely different from the previous snake staff. It is more like the double snake staff of Hermes or Mercury. Hermes is the god of commerce, travelers, thieves and livestock in ancient Greek mythology. It is also regarded as the protector of travelers, doctors, thieves and businessmen, and the god of eloquence.
Hermes made a lot of money while carrying this staff in trade, so his staff is also called the Merchant Staff, also known as the God's Double Snake Staff, and the customs emblem uses the same mark. In addition, He will also help the dead souls reach the underworld. In many Greek myths, He is the only god other than Hades and Persephone who can freely enter and exit the underworld.
Darkos looked at the snake under his nose and felt more and more familiar. He thought of seeing the snake in the snake pit of Izata when he was in the Lustria continent, and also thought of seeing the snake on Queza and putting it there. Is there any connection between the snakes he entangled? The problem is... they're not right next to each other. The ancestor god of the lizard people is more like the South American pantheon in his last reincarnation, and is not close to the Greek pantheon.
Or is this a coincidence or a mistake? But why did Sotek do this? In Darkus' view, gods like Sotek tend to be on the order side, and their actions contain some kind of logic, rather than chaos and disorder. He thought again about the iron railing that appeared in front of him when he came in. The more he thought about it, the more something was wrong. Why was there an iron railing that was incompatible with the painting style here? Or should I say? This iron railing doesn't belong here at all?
Just like Lilith, Sotek also appeared, but in different ways. Lilith gave Darkus a mouthful of foot-washing water, while Sotek turned into an iron railing? What's the meaning? Give him some kind of hint? Otherwise, you can't just show up for no reason, just to block him and prevent him from entering? The problem is that it doesn't stop him, so what's the point?
Just as Darkus was thinking about it, the snake that originally climbed up the trident climbed down again in a spiral posture. The second snake stood on the pole, showing the shape of a snake staff. In addition, there was another snake crawling up the trident. When he reached the cold heart, he pointed at it with his tail, as if to remind him. While he was thinking and watching, the first snake climbed up again, forming a cross-spiral posture with the second snake. Then a new change occurred. The two snakes on the pole began to recede like the floor at the same time, as if they were lying upside down.
"No, there must be something wrong. There must be some link that I didn't understand." Darkus was deeply confused as he looked at the orderly movements of the snakes. In his opinion, the movements of these snakes were completely It was orderly and contained some kind of logic, but he didn't understand it.
"The flesh and steel are, after all, just phantoms here. I can feel that change is happening. The moment you open the box, it may trigger a change that is beyond your control. The wheel of fate begins to spin, and everything will follow. Get up. I'm...a little scared, but also looking forward to..." Tzeentch's previous words suddenly flashed through Dax's mind, and Tzeentch's words were imprinted in his mind like a mental stamp.
"Flesh and steel are the phantoms here. Flesh and steel, what does this refer to? Subspace? Change is happening, box? Change? Wheel of fate? Rotation?" Darkus felt that he seemed to be a little uncomfortable. Steady, with a sense of detachment, like something was starting to tear at him.
Darkus knew that he didn't have much time, and the snakes under his nose seemed to feel it too. The two snakes hovering on the trident jumped directly, and the snake pointing to the heart no longer pointed with its tail. Instead, he changed his mouth to hold the heart. He could clearly see that the snake's head had a tendency to freeze the moment it touched the heart. The other snakes moved their tridents toward the heart, and the tendency to freeze became greater and greater, but that snake had a tendency to freeze. The snake still tried hard to hold the heart in its mouth and headed towards the trident's shaft. The snake's movements became slower and slower, until at the last moment, the snake holding the heart wrapped around the shaft when it was completely frozen, and turned into The snake staff he saw at first.
"No, Sotek must have some kind of meaning in doing this, so what exactly is it? Maybe... it's really like in ancient Greek mythology, where the twin snakes entwined represent the extradition of the dead? And the snake represents recovery, renewal and healing. The cane represents growth and evolution? Can I be resurrected? This is... too nonsense and abstract!" Darkus could feel the change in his facial expression. His face now looked like a subway old man looking at his mobile phone.
"Or? This is my agreement with Sotek? The question is what did I agree with? Flesh and steel are the phantoms here. Here? Agreement? No! No! No! Maybe I really made an agreement with Sotek What! It's just not me now, but me in the future, or me in the past! This may involve the nature of subspace." The thoughts in Darkus' mind were like a tide, constantly surging, and he felt I seem to have grasped the edge of the key point, but I just can't grasp it.
Darkus' thoughts kept wandering. He thought of the subspace and the gate that Tzeentch took him to. The Chaos Demon Realm, or subspace, is completely composed of magical energy. It is the source of all magical winds and an infinite dimension constructed of pure magic. It is also home to entities composed entirely of magical energy, such as gods and demons.
The subspace is a place where dreams and nightmares intertwine, a place where hopes and fears manifest. Reality is reborn here as a fanatical illusion. The effects do not need to follow the relationship of cause and effect, just like a floating castle appearing in the sky or a staircase suspended in the sky. A spire hanging upside down in the air. Subspace is like Li Ning, making everything possible. Here there are no physical laws similar to those in the mortal world and the existing universe.
In the Warp, magic is the essence of life, and the breadth of the realm is not just a symbol of power, but actually an expression of power itself. When one of the Chaos God's minions seizes the advantage, the conquered land is shaped to the new master's will. If Khorne takes over part of Nurgle's Rotten Gardens, the diseased vegetation quickly decays into nothing, leaving only a red wasteland. Likewise, if Tzeentch managed to wrest the same territory from Nurgle, crystalline structures would erupt from the corrupted sky.
Although most of the Warp is occupied by the Four Gods of Chaos, a small part is occupied by other beings, such as the Horned Rat and Hashut, both of whom are Chaos Gods. Similarly, there is room for the existence of the god's residence of the God of Order. For example, it belongs to the elf Sesarayi's pantheon, which is the underground god, and occupies the Black Pit, which is the underworld often mentioned by the elves.
Gravity, space, reason, etc. all change within the subspace, completely changing with the will of the god or the evil god of chaos, but there is a premise. The essence of these components is the wind of magic, which can only be controlled by mortals. Desires, thoughts, emotions, and passions give shape and form, and it is from this that the power upon which those who believe in the god relies, originating from the same origin as the god of chaos.
To use an inappropriate analogy, everything is just like the water circulation system of modern humans, except that this water plant is not as powerful as imagined. The discharged water is more like recycled water used for flushing toilets, which cannot be directly quoted. water. What the "Chief Plumber" Darkus has to do is to treat the gray water discharged into the mortal world on the basis of the maelstrom and turn it into purer drinking water. In this way, the pollution caused by gray water will be controlled, the earth will no longer be corroded, and mortal creatures will not suffer anything from drinking gray water. Of course, this is just an inappropriate analogy.
To give another more abstract and inappropriate example, the existence in the subspace is like an APP on a mobile phone. The colors are blue, Slaanesh pink, Khorne red, green hat Nurgle. This requires putting emotions into the APP, and the APP responds... As for why the God of Order is such a noob, it can be understood that the APP is not good.
Things like Elf God Hes also represent knowledge, but they are more niche, so niche that the public has never heard of it, just like few people can name other websites that are similar to it and are very popular. The base of browsing is not enough, and all of them are taken away by the four major APPs. In a more abstract way, the four major APPs are like the four major banks, while those banks are more like local banks and regional banks. More abstractly...
few mortals are able to perceive the true splendor of the Warp, for the living mind shrinks from this otherworldly landscape. This is why Tzeentch took Darkus to see the dangerous landscape behind the door, just like some kind of test. The entire Warp is filled with illusions, often contradictory. If there is anything that can be called the truth, it is that the Warp is a mirror image of the destruction and suffering, misery, pain and horror suffered by the mortal world.
Darkus kept thinking, thinking like a thinker and philosopher, and at the same time, his soul was tearing and shaking. After wanting to understand the nature of subspace, he began to think about the concept and significance of time in subspace. However, time did not seem to have any meaning in subspace, and there was no unified and fixed linear concept of time.
There are only two extremes in the state of subspace: existence and non-existence, existence and nothingness. There is no clear beginning and end, which means that the existence of any moment is eternal, existing in the past and future at the same time. This is completely different from the conventional concept of time, where the past, present and future seem to occur simultaneously, with no strict order. If the time of the mortal universe is a circle, then subspace theoretically exists at the center of the circle, and any point in time in the past, present, and future can be reached from subspace. In other words, after 3 o'clock in mortal time is 4 o'clock, in subspace, after 3 o'clock it may be 12 o'clock, or some other point. The mortal universe is the time domain, and the subspace is the frequency domain. The two map each other.
(I’m confused in explaining myself. Don’t worry about this stupid setting.)
Darkus suddenly thought about something. Perhaps in a certain node in the mortal world or subspace, his relationship with Sotigo was not as strange as it is now. But more heartfelt and trusting. so? What did he say to Sotek that caused Sotek to appear at this time and give him some abstract hint that only he could understand? The problem is that this prompt is too abstract. Now he can only think about it...
"Wait, it's still wrong. Gravity, space, reason, etc. all change in the subspace, completely following the movement of God or Chaos. Change according to the evil god's will... What about me? A mortal? Or a god? Or an evil god? That pillar? And that box?" Darkus' thoughts were still surging as he recalled what had just happened. What, he remembered that when the Great Unclean One came out, there seemed to be only a box and no pillars? He felt as if his memory had gone awry.
When Tzeentch appeared, he first looked at Darkus who was cocooning on the ground for a while, then looked at the pillar and told him a spell. So what does that pillar, which is also different from the painting style here, represent? He was thinking about something and suddenly thought of something. On the way here, he seemed to have thought about it. It might be a big demon that closed the gap between this place and the mortal world, or it might be something else. Could it be that the rift here cannot be truly closed? Like the temple city of Zahuitak in the Lustria continent? Then his obsession drove him to materialize the so-called pillar, or to think of a so-called pillar to close the rift?
Darkus began to recall all the previous events again. Did he fall to the ground because he thought he couldn't run past? Dragon? The dragon too? There was indeed something wrong with the floating tower, and then I killed the dragon by thinking that the floating tower was gone before the floating tower was completely destroyed? Just because I'm thinking about it? Why wasn't it like this when you came in? Could it be that I really can't beat Xunsi? So you can't beat it? Or... I didn't understand the true nature of subspace at that moment, and as I led the team gradually towards despair...
"That's such nonsense, it sounds like I can think and I can resurrect myself..." Darkus I was suddenly stunned when I was thinking about it. Maybe this is really the case?
"The entwining of the twin snakes represents the extradition of the undead. Does the fading of the twin snakes represent the return of the undead? The snake represents recovery, renewal and healing, the cane represents growth and evolution, which all match, and the heart... represents the source? Exactly. Because I was the only one who knew these meanings, I told Sotek at a certain point in time, and Sotek responded to me at this point in time according to my instructions? Sotek has been reminding me from the iron railing on ?
Am I really the "lost one" Ashoranka, and I just returned in another way? Then, I materialize myself through my thinking? Resurrect yourself? "Dakeus looked at the snake staff again and began to think. Although he was in a soul state at this time, he felt that his hair was falling continuously, and his head was exuding hot steam. This is Clearly caused by overuse of the brain.
“Why do I keep thinking? Instead of just thinking about it? "Dakus felt that he had no time. After thinking about it, he stopped thinking and started thinking.
Then, a magical scene happened. The cold heart seemed to sense something and started to move like a violent exercise. Pulsing rapidly. The snake holding the heart also disintegrated under the pulsating vibration, turning into withered fragments and falling to the ground, and then disappeared under Darkus's eyes. The cold heart was Suspended in mid-air like that, the other snakes who felt the change also moved the trident away from the heart.
Darkus felt the pulsation of his heart, and his body seemed to be attracted by a mysterious force, involuntarily Drifting towards the heart. The heart shimmered in the air, and an indescribable power filled the surroundings. His soul was guided deep into the heart, and then gradually merged into this cold and pulsating organ. In the
soul The moment it merged with the heart, a strange power began to surge. The heart gradually enlarged, emitting a dazzling cold light, and Darkus' soul began to feel a unique and mysterious change. He knew that this was a critical moment. , he no longer felt but continued to think. He thought that he could not be like a monkey jumping out of a stone. Then under his thinking, his soul gradually materialized, forming a vague and illusory figure. The figure was cold and cold
. The periphery of his heart became clear, gradually taking on the appearance of Darkus before. After the figure and outline were established, under his reflection, his body was reshaped, gradually appearing from nothingness, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, Fat and skin gradually filled up.
Darkus, who was thinking, felt it. He felt the power injected from his relatives, friends, elves, gods, Slann and ancient saints. These powers were in his soul. It is surging, as if it is an energy that is both earnest and noble. The expectations of the partners, the blessings of the elves and gods, as well as the care of the Slann and the mysterious power of the ancient saints, all merge into a powerful current. Continuously injected into his body.
These strange powers are not a simple collection, but a profound combination, like the intersection of stars in the universe. Darkus's soul became the center of this miracle, and he thought He also became a god at this moment, and these powers were like infused sacred springs, providing a steady stream of support for his thoughts.
"Second Brother Mao is not as good as Brother Da! "
Dakus felt that his body, soul and heart formed a wonderful resonance, making his existence beyond the previous limits. This power is full of vitality and mysterious wisdom, like the wheel of the universe, this For a moment, he thought that he was really the lost one, but he had just returned in another way. The "lost one" Ashoranka was lost, and was replaced by the new "lost one" Darkus! His soul flickered. With the strange light, he felt the expectations of the gods, friends and the whole world for him. His rebirth was bound to become deeper and more brilliant!
At the same time, in the southern jungle of the old world in the mortal world, the secret room of Tran had already Chicota, who became a mummy and whose soul was restricted to the body, seemed to feel something. His mummified body shook. He seemed to feel that his teacher, the ancient saint Ashoranka, seemed to have returned, but in a different way. There was something different. And the feeling was very weak, appearing suddenly and disappearing briefly, as if the moment just now was an illusion.
At this moment, the elves and gods also came to the room where Darkus was. , Marcelan, who saw the floating heart, was more certain that the heart belonged to his brother Blizard, and the other elves and gods focused on the contours that had been formed around the heart.
As mentioned before , the Lord of Destruction, Illinir once had more than a hundred children, each of whom inherited an aspect of his destructive nature. Together, the father and his children brought all kinds of disasters to the world, intoxicated by their The harm caused by the elves. He was proud of his descendants, but he was also paranoid, fearing that his descendants would conspire to replace him.
Isha could no longer bear the pain that Illinir and his descendants had brought to the elves, and she asked The gods begged to stop the destruction, and then Loic took action. Illinir listened to Loic's words and became furious, hunting down and devouring his offspring one by one, to retrieve the manifestations of their offspring. The destructive power. However, this also weakened him, and he would never return to the level he once was.
Among all the descendants of Illinir, only five descendants survived by chance, namely the Flamebringer, Ardaeus ; Lord of Hungry, Estrekh; God of Earthquakes, Harkon; Queen of Revenge, Dracora, and Lord of the Abyss, Marcelan. And Lord of Winter, Blizard, fell at that time , the heart containing weak divine power also disappeared.
Marcelan glanced at the heart with a complex expression, and various thoughts emerged. He wanted to take the heart back and make it his own, so that he would become stronger. He could freeze an area of the sea in an instant. But he soon sighed. He knew that this could not change anything at all. He could not get rid of the destined fate and could only become stronger. Instead of doing this, it was better to let When Darkus used it, he saw another way. As long as Darkus was strong, he would be strong. As long as Darkus was strong, that terrifying fate would be broken.
Darkus squatted on the ground, He picked up the Holy Soul Reef that fell on the ground and stood up again. The moment he put on the Holy Soul Reef, his naked body was covered with a layer of frost. The newly born man controlled his body and he could feel powerful. The vitality surged in his body, with his heart as the core, and the power released filled every inch of his skin with powerful vitality. From head to toe, every muscle seemed to be re-infused with infinite power, making him feel stronger than before.
Vision becomes clearer and perception becomes sharper. The new body seemed to have endless energy, making Darkus feel that he could easily control this strengthened body. Every breath is full of life, and every step exudes the footprints of strength.
This place first belonged to Nurgle. When he was crowned as the Lord of Plague, the thread of fate was formed. Now all the existences here are waiting for this moment, including Darkus' rebirth here. Just as the end of the old paves the way for the birth of the new, decadence is just part of the cycle of life. At this moment, the old does not go and the new does not come. Everything has reached a harmonious alternation in the cycle of life.
Just like other Chaos Gods, Tzeentch will not go to a university to serve as a professor to grant true knowledge to mortals, and Slaanesh will not go to mortal weddings to bless the couple like a priest.
As long as there is life, there will be corruption. Decay is just part of the life cycle, and you will eventually be reborn. So what is rebirth, Ruru, right? Is there a secret to this word, Tathagata, Tathagata? Tathagata, has rebirth really come? Tathagata, has Tathagata come or not? Tathagata, why is it said that Tathagata has come? Has rebirth really come?
coming!
At this moment, Darkus did it. He slapped Nurgle's face so hard that he became a joke in the subspace. Because he achieved rebirth in the realm of Nurgle, Tathagata really came. Just like in 1871, William I of Ertoku was crowned Emperor of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles in France, surrounded by princes and nobles, and announced the establishment of the German Empire. Car No. 2419D is the same as France’s surrender treaty.
Moreover, what Darkus still doesn’t know is that the lump of meat he saw in the box before was also thought out by him. Just like Marcelan saw from his perspective, in fact, there was only cloth in the box. Lizard's heart. He wanted to kill the Great Unclean One completely, so the mass of flesh representing the essence of Nurgle appeared, and was then picked up by him at a strange angle and method... and was finally obliterated by him and Asuryan working together, of course. As a price, his so-called physical body also disappeared.
Demons can be banished, but difficult to kill, because the essence of demons is a certain collection of concepts and thoughts. Darkus thought up a higher concept and thought that covered "Sojourner" Grubil This low-level concept and thought, this great unclean person was killed by him in a real sense, which fully expressed his great disrespect.
At that moment, Darkus was not alone! He surpassed Kaldor Diego, Malekith, Araloth, Grimnir, Osyotan, Leman Russ, Abar, etc., he is not alone! At that moment, his power of thinking was comparable to the emperor's great health care!
At this time, the crow representing Tzeentch appeared again. When he saw the thing in the crow's beak, Darkus understood, and a teasing smile appeared on his sinister face... He knew why he had to spend so much money. Zhou Zhang's circle resurrected himself.
It would definitely be a bit ridiculous to do this in the mortal world, but everything is possible in subspace!
Normal thinking is not in vain_(:з」∠)_The
next chapter will explain why it works like this...