Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 389 Sword Name, Imperial Truth

Kotos, the manifestation of subspace's greatest malice to the human race, is also one of the many masterpieces of the dark gods.

It symbolizes the initial hostility and hatred of human birth, and it also symbolizes the test that human beings are destined to overcome on the road of self-evolution.

It is difficult for you to use the simple term of demon to summarize its existence, because it is different from all the servants of the dark gods in the way it exists.

It has no evil and desire in the traditional sense, because all its "evil" comes from human beings themselves.

It is also completely different from ordinary subspace creatures, it doesn't even have a fixed form, and all the descriptions about it in the known records come from the narrow and simple observations of human beings who are limited by the vision of the soul.

Its existence is more like a curse, but its essence is a "cancer" parasitic on the entire human body.

Its existence is so special, it is as noble as the master of human beings, and it cannot resist the fate of its own race to hurt it, so it can only be driven away and sealed away in desperation;
Gods as powerful as Chaos can't order it, they can only pick it up from the depths of the subspace like a virus, and then carefully "plant" it on the target's body, waiting to bear their desired fruit.

Yes, the original Kotos had no name and no nature, it was like a seed at the mercy of the "farmers".

But once you give it a chance, let it take root.

It will obtain the most unusable "waste" from the host as nutrients, and grow at a high speed in a secret environment.

And when it finally grows to the extent that it cannot be ignored, it is the time when it spreads to the whole body of the host like a cancer, eats up all the "meaning" of its existence, and then breaks out to be free.

This is a race that even the "gardeners" are afraid of, because in the cognition of the Chaos Gods, this race does not lack cases of using gods as their hosts.

In fact, they hardly have the same form of existence, because based on the difference of their respective hosts, their adults also have completely different appearances.

And if it weren't for the existence of gods who ignore time, no one would be able to discover and extract the seeds with common characteristics from among them.

They don't even have a fixed name, or the name of it among the gods cannot be understood by humans.

But they also have definite names, because every individual is destined to identify itself with its original host body after completing the transformation from infancy to adult.

That's where the name Kotos comes from.

When it stretched out its first tentacles on this race called human beings, it felt the negative emotions accumulated by the entire human race for tens of thousands of years. It awakened itself and at the same time knew its own "name":
"Kortos", was born from a race that dominates the entire galaxy, the first ray of hostility and hatred-Kortos.

What kind of great existence its matrix is ​​is doomed to be unknown, and the gods only achieved self-awakening after that existence left this universe.

But Kotos and his "brothers" were found by the gods and preserved.

It is also the influence of the "existence" of the seven brothers that made the rules of the dark side of civilization in this universe extend to both sides of the long river of time after they appeared, and finally became a classification with "seven" as the number. (Well, Nurgle expressed his welcome, and happily incorporated this part of theocracy into his original system with 7 as the core.)
"They" are taken by the gods, stored away, and used at different times for different purposes.

Some had already blossomed and bore fruit, and the gods took the fruit when the metamorphosis was complete.

They either become new artifacts in the hands of the gods, or they are simply swallowed by the gods and become part of their endless origin.

And some, like Kotos, are still lurking and accumulating for a long time.

If given time, it can continue to grow.Then it might end up with the human name after its own name after its transformation.

But Kotos has no chance, at least in this universe where Calvin came, it will never wait for the day when it will complete its transformation.

It didn't take much time for Calvin to kill it, but this is by no means to say that the process of getting rid of this human cancer is so easy and simple.

On the contrary, it was precisely because of the convergence of many special conditions possessed by the former that this demon, which made the emperor helpless, easily fell under Calvin's sword.

Time is the least important evidence in this process, because in the war between existences at this level, time is the cheapest consumable.

The seemingly simple battle between the two contains not only the theological significance produced by the astronomical background (the aspect of Saturn and Tara) that meets once in decades, but also represents the rare two forces in this universe. High-level power is a frontal confrontation limited to a specific environment.

The collision of countless rules is hidden under Calvin's understatement.

However, the judgment and confrontation of power traced back all the way in the long river of time, and even disturbed many ancient existences comparable to gods.

Countless destinies and possibilities were slashed with a single sword, and the variables and changes it caused even the gods were amazed.

This is the result of the collision of chance and necessity.

If Calvin's soul from the high-dimensional universe did not lead this confrontation, then even the noble "order" could not erase this special existence.

And if it weren't for Calvin and the Emperor's preparations, under the conditions of the right time and place, the Emperor would have allowed the Emperor to cover the subspace corresponding to the entire solar system.

Even though Calvin had boundless power, he was doomed to be regretted by the interference of the gods after they came back to their senses.

But fortunately, Kotos is still dead.

It perishes eternally under the power of Calvin's order, which is full of destruction and correction from the source;

He also died in the helpless sigh of the gods who were bewildered and tried to interfere, but found that the emperor had been waiting for a long time, waiting for work.

And its death is like a dose of adrenaline, which is immediately reflected in the fate of the entire human race and even the entire universe.

As the biggest executor, Calvin bears the brunt, and most of the power that Kotos has accumulated over tens of thousands of years has become the nourishment for his soul completion process.

And a small part of the influence of the rules at the conceptual level, after a chain reaction in the origin of the universe, spreads to the entire human being and even the sentient beings in the entire universe.

In the entire galaxy, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the empire's jurisdiction, all human beings have a tacit understanding at this moment, and feel that a dark cloud seems to have lifted in their souls.

And all the direct descendants of Calvin were even more blessed. Under the reward of the original rules of the universe, a trace of golden blood was born from scratch in their gene seeds.

The appearance of the former means that the fate of the entire human race has changed after the fall of Kotos, and the hostility and hatred at the source of the struggle no longer become lambs shrouded by the authority of the gods.

Maybe the gods are destined to rebuild the channel of this power in other ways, but at least now, in the past tens of thousands of years of human history, the cloud of the gods hanging over the human race has dissipated a little .

The latter is even more insignificant. The favor that Calvin's sons have received in soul and body may be extremely important to the Holy Hammer Order and the Tribunal.

But if their fate is placed in the context of the entire human race, then their promotion this time is only an insignificant part.

And these are still things to talk about, just talking about Calvin, at this time he has been submerged in the "inheritance" of Kotos.

The huge negative emotions are like a huge wave that cannot see the edge, pouring into Calvin and escaping to the surroundings at the same time.

After the latter found that the full absorption could not keep up with the speed of this force pouring out, in a flash of inspiration, he decided to cast the "Kortos Killing Sword" in his hand into a divine weapon on the spot.

This kind of behavior is obviously more in line with the will of this universe. Instead of putting this part of the power into the body of Calvin, an outsider, under the guidance of rules and instincts, it obviously prefers to keep this part of the power in this universe.

The so-called heaven and earth follow their forces is referring to Calvin's current situation.

Numerous rules are spontaneously helping Calvin complete this casting, even though he has absolutely no experience and knowledge of such work.

After the cleansing of the source of order, immeasurable negative emotions poured into the long sword in Calvin's hand.

And in conjunction with the cohesion of this kind of power, countless fine gold and real silver spontaneously rose from the mantle, and under the guidance of the rules, they melted into liquid and poured towards the sword blank in Calvin's hand.

Calvin watched the ancient long sword in the style of the Astartes training sword grow like a living thing in front of him.

And the core of Kotos' power left behind after his death spontaneously fell on the sword follower at the moment when the sword body first formed.

hum!
A low buzzing spread from the center of the psionic storm, and the remnants of power in Calvin's hands were dispelled by the power from the artifact itself.

This artifact showed itself to Calvin in a brand new form after it was cast. It had a platinum sword body that was three meters long and one and a half palm wide, with silver-gray wings extending from both sides of the sword.

Calvin felt the energy pulsation of the sword as if it had life, and the source of the interaction with his power in his perception was the huge magic eye with blood-colored vertical pupils in the middle of the sword.

"Truth! Imperial truth!" Calvin couldn't help but blurted out.

This is not his will, but the sword and even the embodiment of the rules of this universe.

It does not even have anything to do with the nature of the artifact, but is a faithful exposition of the Tao and righteousness that Calvin enforced in all the process of forging this sword under the most equal and indifferent rules of the universe.

In the solar system, the battle on Calvin's side has finally come to an end.

But outside the solar system and even at the level of the entire subspace, the battle among the gods has just begun.

And this is especially true of the Lord of War.

The blood-colored figure on the brass throne, after several attempts to intervene but was beaten back by the emperor, could only set off endless blood rain in the Kingdom of God to vent his rage.

The huge, bloody subspace storm, after a short period of brewing with the kingdom of Khorne God at its core, and under the full force of the Lord of War regardless of the consequences, tore apart the barrier between reality and the subspace, raging across the entire galaxy In the territory of the human empire.

Shalux, who is in charge of happiness, Xin Liezhi, who is in charge of variables, and Nurgle, whose godly name is life and death, chose to sit by and watch after a burst of speculation and smirks of unknown meaning.

This is not their handwriting.

Especially after they knew of Kotos' fall under the reminder of the river of fate, they didn't even have the idea of ​​taking advantage of the fire to snatch this "unripe fruit".

Against the background of endless time, the bored gods are like a group of retired old people playing cards on the street corner and roadside, always full of extraordinary interest in the entanglements and struggles among neighbors.

Well, and the malice that hides behind the smile, ready to take its place.

The war never stops, the war goes on forever.

Perhaps the current human beings still rely on the appearance of Calvin, and have a slight upper hand in this struggle concerning the destiny of the race;

But from the perspective of the entire time and even the dimension of fate, there is still a long way for them to struggle and resist...

　renew.Good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)