Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 559: The Fourth Trial
The door slowly opened.

The roar shook the entire corridor, the entire Black Library, and even the entire webway.

Energy that came neither from the subspace nor from the real universe poured out from the crack in the door, and when it flowed out through the slightly open gap, it gave Qin Xia the feeling of facing a volcanic eruption.

It was as if there was something transcendent behind the door.

But when the door opened, what Qin Xia saw was an infinitely large space made up of psychic crystals. Sometimes it looked like a maze, sometimes like the White Knight's library filled with giant bookshelves, and occasionally it looked like the underground prison of the Terra Palace of the Human Empire.

Although this change and instability can easily remind visitors of the Tzeentch Realm, it is actually just a coincidence between certain characteristics of Tzeentch and the most advanced ideas of the engineers of the ancient Eldar Empire.

The idea of ​​the ancient elf engineers is that a place that stores many things does not need to have a fixed shape. It should be like having its own life, shaping itself according to the will of the visitor, so that the visitor can finish what he wants to do faster.

For example, if the visitor's purpose is to find a weapon, then a road should immediately appear in front of the visitor, and the equipment depot should be ten steps away.

In an infinitely large place, where so many things are stored that the newly emerged races cannot even imagine it at the cognitive and sensory level, the "change" design of the Black Library is naturally extremely necessary.

"Don't try to use your human senses to identify this place."

The God of Laughter did not go ahead, but floated beside Qin Xia and taught him patiently.

"Don't categorize them, distinguish them, just accept them here."

"You are a powerful psychic. When you think, your brain can let psychic energy penetrate everything around you. Therefore, this place can change the environment according to the psychic energy you penetrate."

"You try to force your identification of this place, and it will be reshaped according to your ideas."

After saying a few words, Xiaoshen still felt that he had not explained it clearly.

There is no way. Human language is too simple and plain. There is no way to make Qin Xia understand the meaning with just a simple sentence.

However, if one uses psychic energy to communicate, the meaning expressed will become extremely abstract and more difficult to understand due to the influence of psychic energy itself.

"I understand what you mean." Qin Xia took a deep breath and calmed down.

No longer observe everything in front of you, but only have one thought: I want to observe.

As the Laughing God said, Qin Xia's thinking activities caused spiritual energy to penetrate into the surrounding environment, and the environment immediately stopped changing, forming a more intuitive scene.

Winding and twisting roads and walls covered with runes.

Every few steps there was a gate with signs hanging on it that expressed in human language what could be expressed in just one or two words in the Eldar language.

[Here are demon fragments, demon knowledge, and demon weapons. You need to make a will test before entering here. ]

Qin Xia saw a sentence written on the doorplate on the left.

In the eyes of the elves, this sentence is just one or two words.

"The entire Black Library is different from what I knew." Qin Xia said.

Qin Xia had once thought about coming to the Black Library. Although it was guarded by the Harlequins and heavily guarded, it was not impossible for no one to come in. For example, Ahriman.

Qin Xia thought that after arriving at the library, he would see everything that the people passing by saw, and then he could take the initiative and use the methods he knew to overcome the many dangers of the library to enter here.

But now that it really came, Qin Xia realized that he was just daydreaming before.

"From the moment you arrived here on the ship, everything you saw is not worth remembering. Only what you can take away from here is valuable." The Laughing God floated forward, "Because the Black Library itself is an extremely dangerous place. The ever-changing nature is only the most insignificant of the countless restrictions it sets for intruders."

“If you were trying to break in here, you’d be wandering around in the maze for decades before you could even get into the theater.”

"I've done you a great favor."

Qin Xia knew very well that what the Laughing God said was true.

One god and one man walking on the road.

The road was not without danger. Some creatures appeared on the road and cast hostile glances at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia could feel a strong sense of threat from them.

These creatures are the guards of the Black Library. They do not come from the Warp, nor from the real universe. Their existence itself is a mystery.

In addition, the origin of these guards is unknown. Some people speculate that they are ancient elves, while others speculate that they are puppets created by some technology that is beyond the imagination of young species.

There is no value in figuring out this information. It is better to think about how to deal with the attacks of these guards, because they are so powerful that they are difficult to quantify.

But the guards did not attack Qin Xia. When they saw the God of Laughter, they continued to wander around.

"I can only take you here." The Laughing God suddenly stopped. "The Black Library contains the darkest and most terrifying things, including Chaos Taboos. You have to find them yourself."

Qin Xia stopped and looked back at the laughing god.

“Try to survive the attacks of these guards and find the Chaos Taboos, then learn and strengthen yourself until you can challenge the guards, then you can continue to go deeper into the Black Library and explore more ancient secrets and treasures.”

"In the end, you will have gained a lot and put an end to this experience in the Black Library."

Listening to what the Laughing God said, Qin Xia felt that it was a bit too dramatic.

It’s like the protagonist in a story comes to a secret realm, and through constant fighting, learning, and strengthening himself, he finally breaks out of the secret realm and returns strongly with a lot of harvest.

There's nothing wrong with that.

"I was joking." The Laughing God suddenly took back his previous words, "You don't have that much time to waste, and I don't have that much time to wait for a foreigner like you to stay here for so long. Come with me quickly, get the job done, and then leave."

The Laughing God continued to float forward.

Qin Xia followed behind in silence.

The Laughing God likes to play pranks, but Qin Xia originally thought that it was a god who particularly liked to laugh. However, after meeting it, he found that it was quite silent and indifferent. If it weren't for the joke just now made by the Laughing God, he would have felt that the Laughing God was different from the general impression it left on the world.

"Here." The Laughing God stopped, raised his hand and pushed open a door.

Qin Xia stepped into it and saw that it was an extremely vast space filled with all kinds of strange things. The Laughing God guided Qin Xia to a book suspended on black flames.

When Qin Xia approached the book, he could feel the extremely evil power of chaos, just like being in Tzeentch's crystal domain and facing the warp storm created by the gods themselves.

This is undoubtedly a chaotic creation.

The Black Library's collection contained many similar chaotic creations, and even some overly powerful demons were collected here.

"Pick it up," said the Laughing God.

Qin Xia picked up the book and turned the page subconsciously.

This chaotic creation calmed down when it was turned over, and did not release any chaotic power.

Qin Xia discovered that the entire book had only four pages, and each page had the words "Fourfold Trial" written on it, and below the Fourfold Trial was a passage of riddle-like text.

[The Holy Book of All Knowledge: The despicable learner wandered between reality and illusion, greedily learning everything. In the end, he wrote everything in his own book and shamelessly declared himself the master of all knowledge.]

[The Brave Lord: A man with nothing but courage faced countless powerful enemies with courage alone, and finally ascended to the throne with courage. What makes a king is not a mountain of bones, but only courage.]

[Foolish compassion: People with compassion in their hearts walk in the epidemic world, with only the wish to save others, but the end result is just watching others die, and they themselves die from the plague. ]

[Strict and persistent: all you want is to reach the pinnacle. ]

After reading these four pages of riddles, Qin Xia thought for a moment and then said, "These four trials are obviously related to the Four Gods. They should be four ways to seek greater power. For example, the Holy Scripture of All Knowledge probably requires finding a way to collect as much knowledge as possible and then record it down."

"And the Brave Lord needs to deal with many people alone, even without armor or weapons."

"I don't quite understand the foolish compassion and the self-critical persistence."

After listening to Qin Xia's analysis, the God of Laughter nodded in approval, and then added: "Foolish compassion requires saving many, many people, while self-discipline and perseverance require reaching the pinnacle of a skill."

"The last two are too general. Can't I see that it's about saving people and reaching the pinnacle of a certain memory or event?" Qin Xia said, "The second half of Foolish Compassion is about watching others die in pain and dying of illness yourself. Do I have to go somewhere to save people and then watch the people I rescue die?"

"The part about foolish compassion...someone has tried it as you said, but it didn't work," the Laughing God responded. "The part about self-discipline and perseverance, some people have tried to reach the pinnacle of a certain skill, but they didn't succeed either."

Qin Xia suddenly felt puzzled. Since two people had tried the last two trials and had done as the Laughing God had just said but had not succeeded, what else did the Laughing God say?

The God of Laughter has a reason, however: "Losers don't try their best."

Qin Xia thought for a moment and realized that although the two losers that the God of Laughter mentioned did what the God of Laughter had just said, they did not try their best and did not do it well enough.

But this is the opinion of the God of Laughter. What if the method the God of Laughter suggests is wrong?

"The four levels of trials are four paths to becoming a god," said the Laughing God.

"I know that mortals can ascend to godhood with the help of the Fourfold Trial, becoming a secondary god or something like that." Qin Xia looked down at the book in his hand, "I realized it the moment I opened it."

Qin Xia started thinking.

The fourfold trial is four different paths, so choosing any one of them and following it to the end is the same.

In the final analysis, the four methods of trial are to do four unprecedented and unparalleled things. Qin Xia is not unfamiliar with this method, because some mortals who are too obsessed with a certain kind of power will also use similar methods to sacrifice and upgrade their demons.

For example, killing enough people.

Invent enough knowledge.

Drain the demon of Slaanesh or something...

Qin Xia was thinking, but Xiaoshen thought Qin Xia was worried.

"You can also see that this fourth level of trial is related to the Four Gods."

"The four gods themselves are components of the subspace, carrying with them a large number of concepts and powers. Their personalities are also affected by the concepts they carry with them. If a mortal body completes the four trials, he will inevitably become a part of them, but you may not."

“You may be able to claim concepts as your own.”

"Four trials, four paths of ascension. They may have their limits. If everything goes well, when you reach the last step, you will seize all the concepts of chaos in the subspace and ultimately kill the four gods from the root."

"While this is theoretically possible, a god thinks this is theoretically possible."

The laughing god was majestic and solemn, speaking patiently like a teacher, without any joking at all.

"If you ask me, it's 100 percent feasible. I've been planning to do this for a long time, but I don't have this thing to show me how to do it." Qin Xia lowered his head and looked at the book.

"It would be useless even if you knew you should do this earlier. Without this medium, even if you did something earth-shattering, such as killing trillions of creatures, Khorne could eventually decide to ignore you." said the Laughing God.

Qin Xia looked at the book and felt that it was like a gift given to him by the little man in robes. It was unique and powerful, but not indispensable.

"The book in your hand comes from a mortal who witnessed the birth of the God of Chaos, so the records he left behind are indispensable to you." said the Laughing God.

Qin Xia immediately hung the book around his waist.

The book given by the Emperor was fixed to the waist of the armor with a thin gold chain passing through the spine. Now Qin Xia hung the Book of Chaos under the Book of the Emperor.

"Thank you." Qin Xia stood up. "I know a lot of information and can sense a lot of things, so I can tell that you are indeed helping, but I still want to ask a question, which is why you are doing this."

The Laughing God is against chaos, and is the only Eldar god among the living gods who can get practical things done.

It creates a top-level prank for Chaos, to be used against Chaos.

But with gods like the Laughing God, one thing is inevitable: their perspective is extremely high, and it is difficult for them to focus on a specific individual among real living beings. So when an individual accepts kindness from the Laughing God, they will naturally feel strange.

"because."

"You're a Trouble"

(End of this chapter)