Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 345 The Road to Expedition

Some people say that the physical universe and the warp are like two sides of a mirror, one is the reality, the other is the shattered adversity, in the endless storm of the warp, the real world is diametrically opposite and torn in it, one is positive and the other is negative, just like Light and shadow, then, there is another place, it is just between the mirror of reality and nothingness, that is here.

Network Road, when the Milky Way was just born, when accompanied by the first cry of civilization, the ancient sage, the founder, pioneer and guide of countless lives among thousands of galaxies created the Network Road.

This is a highway between the real universe and the warp storm, a perfect creation that perfectly combines all the advantages of entity and nothingness. The ancient sage used it to travel around the galaxy, sow life and create civilization. This is the ultimate perfection His creation is eternal and indestructible, even if the ancient sage left the galaxy after the tragic battle of heaven, after his civilization's eldest son, the Eldar, inherited the net way, they still used it to create and connect their own huge galactic empire. every corner.

No one thought that the net way would be destroyed one day. The Spirit Race believed that it was eternal and indestructible. It was the most precious property that they played. No foreign race could interfere with it, so it was precisely because of this that those arrogant Spirit Race refused. And overlooked a point, a crucial point.

Those civilizations, those civilizations that seem meaningless, insignificant and unintentional in the eyes of the Spirit Race, will one day catch up with this mighty but ancient and stagnant Spirit Race Empire, perhaps through a technological explosion, perhaps through a long period of time. After the accumulation and research, but one day, they will catch up.

The Eldar ignored this, and their arrogance brought tragic consequences, from a "monkey civilization" born on a planet next to the sun, a planet on the edge of the galaxy called Ord Trine by the Eldar , at least that's how the Eldar call them contemptuously, but in other civilizations and their own names, they call themselves human.

When the human beings, the Eldar, who established the future millennium of the galaxy, started, the Eldar did not believe in any way, nor did they want to believe that their eternal empire would be defeated by a group of monkeys flying into the universe. , As long as the network road still exists, the Eldar Empire is undefeated, and no one can destroy it.

But the final result was shocking. The proud and ancient Eldar Empire was defeated by the rising stars. The human civilization called barbarians successfully found a way to destroy the net way. Before the war, countless webs and the man-made planets in them were destroyed, and the webs that once connected the empire's vast empire to different corners collapsed in repeated raids.

Only then did the Spiritual Race realize that the technology and civilization that they were proud of were entirely based on the Internet, and when the Internet was destroyed, they suddenly realized that their arrogance for thousands of years had brought In the end, no matter what, the Eldar couldn't rebuild the net way, or even understand it, so when the Great Fall came, the Eldar who had nowhere to escape finally ushered in their own destruction, like many civilizations they once despised.

Today, there are only a few lingering Eldar branches, hiding in various parts of the galaxy, or cutting off all emotional contact for self-preservation, or hiding in the nets to obliterate psionic power, which their own race once attracted Proud pride, self anesthesia with cruelty and torturing others, and others who completely give up all civilization success and hide on ancient planets in the hope that they can live longer.

But in any case, the Eldar have forgotten their pride, whether it is science or magic, they are like the remnants of a huge empire who survived on its ruins after the collapse, fighting for survival in a field. Struggling to forget everything he ever had.

Ironically, humans who are regarded as monkeys by the Eldar should perhaps be called the heirs of the Eldar civilization. In order to defeat the Eldar, humans have learned and understood many things about the Eldar, their technology, their Civilization and "Magic".

When the Eldar Empire collapsed, human beings became the heirs of the ancient holy mantle. With the Eldar technology that was understood and studied in the war, the flourishing human civilization should have ushered in its own prosperity, replacing the Eldar as the Lord of the Galaxy. of prosperity.

But the final result was not the case. In the end of the golden age, mankind and the enemy who had been in love with each other for decades, went into their own end together. With the decline of the Eldar and the human race, those ancient technologies became Almost completely forgotten, but, it is not the case, the man known as the Emperor has preserved all the research results of the Golden Age, especially, the technology of the Internet.

Human beings are more aware of the net way. In order to defeat the spirit race, they humbly studied and understood the technology and principle of the net way. Human beings can use this to destroy the net way, or they can use it to create a new net way, a completely independent of the spirit race, The new network of warp space and all material existence belongs only to the network of human beings.

The Emperor did exactly that. He took advantage of the Golden Age when he was advancing the Great Crusade. Humans successfully analyzed the technology of the Eldar and researched the Netway, and built a brand-new Netway. He hoped that the Netway would become a The key to a new era, the way of salvation from the suffering of warp chaos.

But in the end, that webway plan was unsuccessful. During the Horus Heresy, Magnus broke the walls of the webway, and as countless Chaos poured into the webway from the hole, the Emperor was forced to sit on the throne. From the moment when the gates of the netway were sealed to prevent the influx of demons into the physical universe, this plan that was supposed to bring the dawn of mankind failed.

Today, the last inheritor of Netdo and all ancient technologies is still sitting on the throne, and the person who caused all the disasters is also standing in a world as broken as the Emperor Netdo, staring at with the same loss that he caused in the past.

Magnus stood on the shattered ground. He looked up at the shattered sky above his head. The sky with countless strange rays of light was like a shattered mirror. Every piece of glass was flying in the air. Drifting and flickering with its own light.

The crimson Cyclops glanced at the shattered ground suspended under his feet. The shattered piece of land floated in the void, and all around him were the same shattered ground and ground, and everything that was broken floated in the air. Through the countless refractions on its mirror surface, the ghostly light is projected everywhere around it, creating a place like a distorted dream.

Magnus raised a hand, he gathered his power in his hand, trying to draw power from the realm of chaos to open a way, a way out of here, but he failed, the power of chaos seems to be Isolated from the outside of this broken world.

The one-eyed Magnus looked up at the net barrier that seemed to be far away from the sky, but was close to his eyes. He squeezed his hands to his chest, and a psionic entity that was churning and twisting smoke appeared in his hands. , Magnus pushed it against the wall in front of him with a backhand.

The constantly changing billowing smoke rushed towards the net road barrier, but the moment its storm-like front end hit the wall, it was instantly destroyed and dissipated, and Magnus' attack was resolved in the blink of an eye. And the net road barrier did not show any damage at all, and it was still intact and flashing a strange light.

"If you want to break the original network barrier created by the ancient sage, you can't break through it like this."

A voice suddenly came from the Twisting Void, and Magnus immediately turned his head to look. He saw a figure coming from the haze of ghostly light. His tall body in armor was stepping on the broken ground of the net channel. Walk up slowly.

The man jumped from a piece of ground suspended on the side of Magnus's ground, and another piece of broken ground, and he landed a few steps away from Magnus. Within the entire network barrier, Magnus looked at him with one red-golden eye, looking at the man who came out of the thin mist.

He pushed the fog away with his huge power claws, and while he looked around, he walked leisurely, "This thing is the original version, it's much harder than the copycat network road made by the Emperor, your Tzeentch thinks. It takes a lot of bizarre methods to get in."

"Vito, you're not dead yet?" Magnus said in a low voice, looking at the man walking by, and he put his finger on his forehead with a smile on his face, "How could I be such a handsome and awesome person? To die in such a boring place, I must have died surrounded by pretty girls."

Vito boasted to himself that he didn't seem to notice the psionic beam that appeared in Magnus's hand. of.

When the light beam hit, Vito pulled out the Phoenix Sword with his backhand, and cut off the sword without even looking at the light ball. The shattered light ball shattered into countless light particles from the ear In the past, Vito turned his head helplessly and looked at Magnus in that light.

"Really? You still want to fight me here?"

"Why not? If you can kill you here, your soul will satisfy Tzeentch, even the other three gods." Magnus said, and a large blue cloud appeared in his hands. of smoke, the thick mist of flickering blue lightning filled him, rising up around the tall giant.

Vito smiled, and the smile was full of sarcasm. He pointed the phoenix sword in his hand to the barrier of the net road, "You destroyed me, how did you bring my soul to your boss? What? Do you know how to get out?"

After Magnus was stunned for a moment, he frowned at Vito in front of him, "Listen to your words, you really want to know how to get out, if you're not lying and procrastinating for yourself."

"Please pay attention, this is a network channel, do you have a concept of time? Besides, is it necessary for me? Whether you can beat me is still a problem." Vito smiled sarcastically and slammed the phoenix sword. Carrying it on his shoulders, Magnus frowned sharply as if provoked, and the blue smoke around him all filled his arms.

Magnus clenched his fists, all the smoke quickly gathered in his hands, two huge fog bodies immediately suspended above his palm, and countless psionic lightnings exploded like thunderstorms in them.

"If you want to try it, I'd love to."

Vito looked at the guy in front of him and waved, he looked around and smiled, "Here? Forget it, if you want to fight, it's a good place to fight. When you go out, if you still want to fight, I will fight with you again. "

"You mean, do you know how to get out of here?" Magnus said, the blue lightning smoke in his hand still did not disappear, he still held it in his hand, as if he was going to shoot it out at any time.

Vito, who was in front of him, didn't seem to look at that thing at all. He walked to the edge of the broken ground, stood on the boundary that shattered into irregular sections, and looked at the void below, the boundless nothingness that could not be seen. There are many pieces of the netway floating in the middle, and they are like ship wrecks floating in the deep sea, floating around and colliding with each other in a powerless situation.

"I have lived for fifty thousand years anyway, why do you always forget, I also understand what the Emperor understands?" Vito smiled and slowly inserted the Phoenix Sword into the scabbard, the burning blade was smashing Vito pursed his mouth and muttered softly when the voice slowly disappeared into the mouth of the sheath.

"Okay, maybe not as well as him, but I still understand! No one knows the net way better than me!" Vito said, inserting the Phoenix Sword completely into the golden scabbard and raising a hand, his fingers swiping in the air When he got up, with the golden light in his eyes, all the fragments of the net that were floating in the void below all flew up.

Those big and small fragments that were broken into different shapes were pulled by Vito's fingers, and all rose from the endless flashing void. Vito looked at the countless fragments rising in front of him, and he dragged his chin. After thinking for a moment, the raised fingers gently grabbed, and all the fragments flew quickly.

Magnus looked at the rapidly moving fragments, they quickly spread out, and then closed together in mid-air to quickly form many luminous strips, all the fragments were swung out of thin air by Vito's fingers, After quickly closing to the center, they gathered into a circle.

"Are you trying to open a gate to the net way out of here?" Magnus asked in surprise, while Vito shook his head with a wry smile, "I still think, the time flow in this ghost place is completely different from the outside world. , God knows how long we've been here, and I'm in a hurry to go back and date my girl."

"But, unfortunately, no, I can't directly build a netway to take us away. At most, I can make a short-distance portal, and let us at least leave this ghost place that is broken into one place in the netway."

Vito said that his fingers continued to wave quickly, and the entire ring was formed quickly with his swing, and the fragmented wreckage gathered in front of Vito to form a huge rotating circular gate, seeing that the gate was constructed. , Vito hung his head back, looking at Magnus from an upside-down perspective.

"Okay, I've done it here, but I need to support the structure of the portal, and I can't inject enough psychic power to get through it, so it's your turn."

"I?"

"Yeah, you want to get out of here too, don't you? Then I think, we can truce for a while, and we'll talk about it when we go out, okay?" Vito said with a big smile, and Magnus looked at the smile and wrinkled slightly. Raising his brows, he glanced at the teleportation gate and then back to Vito.

"Aren't you afraid, I will open the door and climb in by myself, and then kick you out and stay here?"

"Well it's a question, but I choose to trust you."

"why?"

"Do we have any other options besides cooperation? So don't be stubborn. Let's go out and talk about it. Two bets can do it. This break makes my hands sore."

Vito said and turned back. He turned his back to Magnus, as if he really didn't worry about Magnus being slapped by him from behind. Magnus looked at the blue air mass in his hand, He looked up at Vito again, and his red-gold eyes instantly lit up.

The blue air of lightning roared towards Vito's back and hit his head. The roaring thunder shortened the distance in a very short time. Vito could hear the thunder and felt a chill on the back of his neck. Feeling, but he didn't even turn his head, and the whistling blue electric ball shot at the back of Vito's head.

But just as it was about to hit Vito, the air mass shot past his ear, and the whistling lightning flew almost completely against his ear, and the tiny blue arc could even beat Vito's ear. On the earlobe, an electric shock-like numbness spread all over his body.

But at the moment when the numbness of the brain was transmitted, the blue lightning air mass suddenly hit the center of the portal in front of Vito, and the blue air mass exploded like a water polo on the wall. The "water" sputtered forward on the entire plane.

On the invisible door body plane of the portal, blue smoke spreads and swept out in an instant, and the gas quickly spreads around like water, covering the entire surface, and blue lightning mixes in the blue gas. But soon, the entire surface of the door was completely engulfed.

The blue storm clouds kept churning in the broken door body ring, and then with the gentle pull of Vito's fingers, all the fragments glowed at the same time, and the golden light shone into the central cloud layer, and in the blink of an eye for a moment The entire cloud layer changed color like a cloth thrown into a dye vat.

The blue cloud quickly turned golden from the surrounding edges, and the gold rapidly advanced along its surface, and then merged into a group at the center of the cloud, and the entire blue cloud turned completely golden.

Magnus stepped forward, he looked at the golden rolling cloud, it was like a golden ocean wave, dancing with the breeze in the middle of the ring of fragments, the cloud lost its murderous aura Instead, it suddenly became quiet and reassuring.

"Good job, I knew that you also studied the magic of the Eldar. Well, let's go in." Vito said, hitting Magnus's arm lightly with his fist, and the latter rubbed his arm, his eyes He frowned slightly and looked at the golden ocean portal in front of him.

"Do you know where this portal will take us?"

"I don't know at all."

Vito put his hands on his hips and said righteously. The smile on his face didn't have the corresponding expression that should have appeared when he answered, Magnus looked at him coldly.

"You mean, you don't even know what's behind this thing? Then you want me to jump in with you?" "Yes, there will be surprises like this, you're welcome, I'll go first!"

Vito said and smiled and jumped into the door. Magnus wanted to say something, but Vito had already jumped in. He stood outside the door and looked at Vito who was submerged in the golden ocean.

Magnus looked at the door silent for a while, then sighed helplessly, he had no choice, didn't he?In addition to following Vito on the adventure, Magnus could only jump in after a sigh, his legs dipped into the golden ocean first, and his face quickly rushed to the sea with the beating.

Magnus suddenly recalled some memories. During the Great Crusade, before Horus rebelled, Vito would also take them on adventures like this, sometimes with one Primarch, sometimes with several.

Although everyone complained at first that they had this and that problem to deal with, and had no time to kill Vito, but in the end, they would all get involved, and most of the time, they would be in a good mood.

Magnus recalled those memories and jumped into the door at once. The golden ocean engulfed his vision in the blink of an eye, but immediately dispersed from his eyes, and Magnus passed through in one fell swoop. The door, after he jumped out, he stepped on a piece of ground, a piece of ground that was stable and did not float.

"Ah, looks like we got lucky." Vito stood with his arms on his hips a few steps away from Magnus, standing on the edge of the rock like an adventurer, looking out at what was in the distance, the horse After Gnus glanced at Vito, he slowly raised his head and looked forward.

A magnificent city came into view of Magnus, and an ancient ruined city of Eldar came into view.

"Welcome, Letarenia."

(End of this chapter)