I'm in Warhammer, please don't praise Doraemon

Chapter 711 Chestnut Buns
The sharp spears formed from shadows pierced the Martian dragon's body, but the star god merely waved his arm lightly at the four-armed god-king.

Molten black stone emerged from beside the Martian Dragon, and the black stone matrix near this star system was activated under its control.
A solid barrier stood between the subspace and the real dimension, resisting the ever-rising waves of the subspace.
Even the power of the insect hive's will and the entire Greedy Dissolution Domain was significantly weakened by this impenetrable barrier.

The four-armed god-king paused slightly; his tentacles, spears, and spikes, formed from coiled shadows, all shrank considerably in an instant.
Of course, what also shrank at the same time was the dragging from the subspace and the realm of greedy dissolution; its ascension trend weakened somewhat.

But it's only a fraction of the extent; the path to ascension is unstoppable. A Black Stone Matrix of this scale simply cannot truly hinder the subspace.

Realizing that his ascension was inevitable, the Four-Armed Emperor was in even greater pain.

He clearly realized that there was definitely an invisible hand in the warp, quietly pushing Him to ascend to become the Lord of Greed and Dissolution, to become an eternal dragon.
From the moment he swallowed the Blood Stack, he unknowingly stepped into a trap, being manipulated by beings in the warp.

He is destined to become an eternal dragon, enduring an insatiable hunger that can never be relieved, even if he devours everything in sight, and even if he finally bites his own tail and swallows himself whole, it will not be relieved. He will only leave the world with a hungry void.

Who exactly is it?
The four-armed god-emperor searched through the memories in his genes, trying to find out who the mastermind was.
His gaze swept over Zhou Yun, who was standing behind Ryan, Saint Gilles, and the Martian Dragon.
This Saint Doraemon always wore a smile. In the subspace, He was constantly pressing down on the will of the insect hive. In the real dimension, His power was manifested through the Martian Dragon and Saint Gilles, suppressing the four-armed God Emperor.

No, it shouldn't be Him. What good would that do Him?

Moreover, it is obvious that Zhou Yun has been trying to prevent himself from ascending.

God of plague? God of thirst? God of war?

Or... cunning and strange?

Was all of this part of your plan? Master of Change.
Do you want me to fight Doraemon so that you can reap the benefits in the end?

The Four-Armed Divine Emperor looked at Zhou Yun, his eyes filled with a sorrowful sympathy for his plight.

They were all being manipulated by the tentacles of the Lord of Change.
"Actually, our positions should be similar."

The Four-Armed Divine Emperor sighed and said:

"I also do not want to ascend to heaven, nor do I want to suffer eternal hunger."

"But I had no choice; the call to dissolve greed was so strong that it was etched into my very being."

"Even with the humanity that this body brings, even with you using the Black Stone to weaken the influence of the Warp, I still cannot resist that tendency and can only offer a negligible amount of resistance."

"The moment I entered this body, the birth of the Eternal Dragon was already a foregone conclusion."

"The dragon was born in the future; it is only now spreading toward the present."

The Four-Armed Emperor could already sense the hungry shadow of the Eternal Dragon stretching into the future.
"Since that's the case, how about I become the Eternal Dragon?" Zhou Yun asked softly, as if waiting for the Four-Armed God Emperor to say so.

"You?" The Four-Armed God Emperor seemed somewhat surprised, not understanding what Zhou Yun meant.

Zhou Yun simply reached into his pocket and took out a pastry the size of a fist.

The pastry was baked to a deep brown on top and remained a light brown wheat color on the bottom, emitting a subtle aroma of flour.

The Four-Armed God Emperor's keen sense of smell also detected the aroma of chestnuts, indicating that the filling inside the dessert must be made of chestnuts.

It's chestnut steamed bun! The Four-Armed God Emperor found memories of this dessert in his genes.

Suddenly, He realized that there were gaps in His genetic memory, gaps that existed above the Emperor's genetic memory, concentrated around the second and third millennia of humankind.

Those blank memories seem to have some connection with chestnut buns.
Suddenly, those memories began to surface within the Four-Armed God-Emperor's genes, as if a veil had been lifted before him.
The Four-Armed God-Emperor saw the Emperor, the Emperor of the 21st century, who was lounging on a sofa, with the TV in front of him playing some kind of anime, Doraemon.
Doraemon, chestnut buns, the 22nd century
The anime series called Doraemon was originally concealed by the Emperor's power and erased from subspace to prevent the gods from knowing of its existence.

Now the Emperor has lifted a corner, allowing the Four-Armed Divine Emperor to peek.
"You?" The Four-Armed God Emperor looked at Zhou Yun blankly, not understanding why something from an anime could appear in reality.
Could it be that He is a projection of that anime in subspace?
No, His tools seem to truly possess great power.

He was holding a chestnut bun. Could it be...?
"This is a chestnut steamed bun."

Zhou Yun held up the chestnut bun in his hand, then reached into his pocket with his other hand and pulled out a small vial of medicine.

The potion was in a glass jar with a sticker on it depicting two nested rings that form an infinity symbol.

"This is a double dose of medicine," Zhou Yun said, shaking the bottle in his hand. There were only a few drops of medicine in the bottle.

The moment the word was uttered, the expressions of the Martian Dragon, Saint Gilles, and the Four-Armed God Emperor all changed slightly. All three of them stopped their attacks at the same time, not daring to cause the slightest disturbance, as if they were worried that the potion would be spilled on the ground.

Only Ryan stared at the potion, completely bewildered.

"The effect of this potion is very simple: it can double the quantity of something every five minutes."

"Of course, the full version is too expensive and I can't afford it. This is a trial pack, with only three drops, and it only works on foods of a certain size, such as chestnut buns, roasted sweet potatoes, dorayaki, and the like."

"What about the upper limit?" Ryan vaguely realized something and asked in a low voice.

"There is no upper limit. Unless it is reduced to zero in a proper way, it will keep replicating itself, doubling every five minutes."

Zhou Yun chuckled softly:

"If you drip it on chestnut bread, there will be two in five minutes, four in ten minutes, 4,096 in an hour, more than 16.77 million in two hours, more than 100 million in fifteen minutes, 68 billion in three hours, 281 trillion in four hours, and four orders of magnitude larger than the number of atoms in the entire universe in twenty-four hours."

"Two days later, the number of chestnut breads will be so large that we would need to turn every atom in the universe into a universe, and then add up the number of atoms in all these universes to reach one hundred millionth of the number of chestnut breads."

The lion choked. His extraordinary mind could easily understand what Zhou Yun was saying, but when he looked at Zhou Yun, he still had a "what are you talking about?" expression.

"No, no, no!" The four-armed god-emperor shook his head repeatedly: "It will collapse! When the number of chestnut buns increases to a certain level, it will collapse on its own."

"It will not collapse."

"Hmm?" The Four-Armed God Emperor looked at Zhou Yun and let out a confused hum. "It won't collapse; it must be eliminated in a 'suitable way'."

Zhou Yun looked at the Four-Armed Divine Emperor and said:

"The only proper way to eat food is to finish it all. Even in the 22nd century, saving food is still a virtue."

"..." The Four-Armed God Emperor gasped: "No, there's also the speed of light. Theoretically, during the expansion process, the collision speed on the surface of the chestnut buns will also increase. It will expand to exceed the speed of sound in just thirty minutes, and exceed the speed of light in eleven hours."

"But in the end, this is just a chestnut bun. It is still subject to the laws of physics. At most, it can only approach the speed of light. Due to length contraction and time dilation, the expansion rate of the chestnut bun will be infinitely close to zero."

"In other words, if the chestnut bun does not collapse, it will eventually maintain a stable volume, with its mass increasing indefinitely but its volume no longer increasing."

The Four-Armed God Emperor's expression twitched:
"What the hell is this thing?"

"That won't happen." Zhou Yun shrugged. "Didn't you hear me?"

"It can only be eliminated in a 'proper way,' otherwise it will expand indefinitely and be beyond the control of physical laws. And for food, the proper way is to eat it."

"You mean this thing will eventually expand faster than the speed of light? According to the laws of physics, at that point, the volume of the chestnut bread will become negative, which is obviously a reduction. But since the reduction can only be achieved by eating it, this situation will not occur."

The Four-Armed Divine Emperor quickly clarified his thoughts:

"The only solution is to eat him all up before he gets too big, using an act that can be considered eating?"

Zhou Yun nodded slightly: "For example, you can't directly burn chestnut buns with a nuclear reactor, because that won't reduce their quantity. But you can create a giant robot and use the nuclear reactor as its stomach, so that the robot can eat them and the quantity of chestnut buns will decrease."

Those present were speechless.

This potion isn't very dangerous in the early stages; as long as you consume it in time, it's fine. However, as time goes on, the potion's potency increases exponentially.
"If you're careless and leave a chestnut bun somewhere, causing it to swell to a certain size, then I'll have to save this galaxy." The four-armed god-emperor gave a stiff laugh.

Zhou Yun remained silent, picked up the chestnut bun, and dripped a drop of double-strength liquid onto it.

A moment of silence fell over the air; Saint Gilles and the Four-Armed Emperor's precognitive abilities allowed them to see the future five minutes from now.
Five minutes later, the chestnut bun replicated itself, becoming two; ten minutes later, it became four.
"Want some?" Zhou Yun held a chestnut bun dripping with syrup. "These chestnut buns have unlimited appreciating value; you can never finish them no matter how long it takes. Do you want some?"

What do you mean by that?

"I will take your place and become the Eternal Dragon."

Zhou Yun chuckled lightly a couple of times:
"The realm of greed is the purest realm. In this realm, there is only hunger, only the relationship of eating and being eaten."

“I once preyed on a small portion of your swarm, and as a result, I gained some of the power of the Greedy Dissolution Domain.”

"Similarly, if I devour you as you are now, devour all the Tyranids, and become your predator, I can replace you and become the Eternal Dragon."

"The Tyranid swarm will become my sacrifice; your hunger will drive me to ascend to the realm of greed and dissolution."

Just then, the chestnut bun in Zhou Yun's hand was copied once, turning into two.

"I'm going to put the chestnut bread into the four-dimensional pocket."

"You will destroy all the Tyranids outside this galaxy. You will become weak, but your current body is strong enough, and with the large number of Tyranids gathered in the galaxy, it is still enough to sustain your existence."

"You, and all the Tyranid beings in this galaxy, must enter this four-dimensional pocket; in other words, be devoured by me."

"You will be able to feed eternally in this pocket, which will sustain me as an eternal dragon."

The Tyranid swarm is offered as a sacrifice; their hunger awakens the emotions of the Greedy Dissolution Realm. The Greedy Dissolution Realm is a realm of eating and being eaten; feeding itself is the ritual and the faith of this realm. The Tyranid swarm feeds endlessly on Zhou Yun, thus forging an incredibly solid altar for Zhou Yun's ascension.

"You can make this decision. It will not affect the birth of the Eternal Dragon. The Greedy Dissolution Domain has limited binding force on you. In fact, to some extent, you will still become a part of the Eternal Dragon."

"So, based solely on the humanity this body grants you and the Blackrock Matrix's shielding against the warp, you can make this decision and put yourself into my pocket."

The Four-Armed Divine Emperor stared at Zhou Yun for a full seven or eight seconds.
He could sense that Zhou Yun wasn't lying, because the ever-approaching shadow of the Eternal Dragon truly reflected a different future.

In a future, he was immersed in the realm of dissolving greed and became an eternal dragon.

In another future, he enters a four-dimensional pocket and eternally feeds.
Both futures are so clear; it's just a matter of him making the choice.

"Oh it's you."

At this moment, the Four-Armed God Emperor finally realized that the mastermind behind everything was Zhou Yun from beginning to end.

Do you understand the hunger we suffer?

"We do not know who brought this destruction upon us, nor whose war has affected us. We have fallen into a hungry void without any explanation."

The Martian Dragon, standing to the side, shifted its head slightly, looking a little guilty.
"Oh dear, how could the ancient saint be so wicked!" He muttered.

The Four-Armed God Emperor ignored the Martian Dragon.

"In order to feed, to alleviate endless hunger, we abandoned hatred, our race, our ego, and even survival itself, merging into the Tyranid swarm, picking up scraps in the void, and devouring other equally hungry individuals and races."

“I bear the hunger of the individuals and races we have devoured. How could I possibly sell out this heavy hunger for a piece of chestnut bun?”

"I also have some dorayaki and roasted sweet potatoes here." Zhou Yun took out a sweet potato and a dorayaki from his pocket and shook them at the Four-Armed God Emperor.

"Done!"

(End of this chapter)