The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3464: Reality and Illusion, Hard to Discern

The Overlord's 'As you wish' was clearly not a compliment. Soshyan grinned.

"Ha, you can be sarcastic too? Alright, let's talk business. You see, I'm not a Warp Spawn. In some ways, we have common interests. You don't want to see Warp Spawns appear, and I don't want them to appear either, because I just want to be myself. Zahurash, what good advice do you have?"

"Actually, you already have the answer in your heart."

Soshyan pondered for a moment and nodded.

"Smart enough. That makes it harder for you to devour me, right? But I really need power. I have a lot to do and a lot of trouble to deal with. Zahurash, can you feel it? There are things approaching here."

"This place completely isolates us from the outside world."

"You're quite cunning. Then let me ask you a few more questions. Khaine, the Bloody-Handed God of Eldar, is also a Star God, right?"

"The Mad God, a weak and foolish thing, reckless and gluttonous, like a pet of the Warp Spawns."

"Regarding the Warp, how exactly did the Chaos Gods come about?"

"The Warp is just a pale shadow. What you call them are just emerging consciousnesses formed by aetheric disturbances."

Soshyan shook his head helplessly.

"I should have known you'd say such nonsense. I shouldn't have asked. Perhaps they hadn't fully formed when you were shattered. Forget it. I heard that the Outsider still exists as a complete individual?"

"It cannot accept that it is not fated, but we cannot sense it. It has also disappeared for a very long time."

"So, it wasn't present during the Necron rebellion?"

"Yes."

"Tsk, I feel like you've said a lot, but also like you haven't said anything at all. Then why were you so easily defeated and destroyed by the Necrons in the first place?"

"The outer skins created by the Necrons."

The Overlord's usually emotionless voice finally showed a fluctuation, mixed with hatred.

"These shells gave us a more convenient form of activity in the galaxy, but they were also a flaw. Although we never thought this flaw would be a problem, but... those ungrateful Necrons still exploited it. No, it should be said that there was a being who helped them exploit this flaw."

Soshyan immediately thought of who the "being" implied by the other party was.

"Asuryan? Also... he must have known the Star Gods very well. So you were actually defeated by your own arrogance. You despised the Necrons, but you let them create bodies for you. Ha, what a wonderful story, don't you think?"

The other party did not answer. Soshyan walked to the sarcophagus, satisfied.

"I can release you, so how should you repay me? You've devoured seven shards, the energy must be enormous. If I devour you, my power will also greatly increase, so you have to give me a satisfactory answer."

The Overlord fell into a brief silence, seemingly pondering the meaning of the word, and finally blurted out this sentence.

"We do not deceive you."

Soshyan was also thinking. He felt that this Star God was speaking half-truths, very cunning, but so far he had not mentioned Amnennar.

Now it's a matter of how to deal with it. Soshyan didn't have a clear idea. Devouring it directly was too risky, because the other party had already devoured eight Star God shards. This number meant that the other party's energy was very huge. Although it was most likely not his opponent, if he swallowed it, it was very likely to cause a bad situation. Since he couldn't devour it, he could only lock it up first.

But could an ordinary extradimensional cage hold it?

Soshyan could feel that the strength of the extradimensional prison here was very high, many, many times higher than that of the cube. If he hadn't entered in a non-energy form, he might not have been able to get in.

Once he took the Overlord out, the other party might immediately turn hostile. He was not sure how strong the other party was. If it was strong enough, for example, even if it couldn't beat him, but it could escape, it would be difficult to deal with. Soshyan didn't have the time and energy to search the entire galaxy for a hiding Star God.

Unable to come up with a good plan for a while, Soshyan decided to call for a helper, so he casually opened a dimensional rift and summoned his "Greater Daemon."

"Hmm, many years, back here again."

As Amnennar, wearing a robe and a pair of swords at his waist, leisurely walked out of the rift, the Overlord's angry roar immediately echoed in the hall.

"Damn liar!"

Amnennar grinned and waved at the sarcophagus.

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"It's been a long time, Zahurash."

"Liar! You deceived us!"

"Didn't you also deceive me? At least I helped you devour the other seven shards, otherwise how could you have done it in your state at the time? The method you gave me also tricked me very badly in the end, so we can only say that it's mutual, no one cheated anyone, we're even."

The Overlord then stopped talking. Amnennar looked at Soshyan.

"Having trouble?"

"I don't want to move it yet."

Although it was just a sentence, Amnennar already understood Soshyan's thoughts. Then he turned his head and looked around the core of this Pharos.

"After it devoured the other seven Star God shards, the Pharos was actually unable to operate. Zahurash is the only anchor point here. Only it can control the almost violent energy here. Once it leaves, this dimensional cage will collapse, and the singularity generated by this will overflow into real space, that is to say, the entire Sotha planet will be sucked into a black hole. Not only that, but even Sotha's star, and everything within half a light-year of it, will also be like this."

This gave Soshyan a hint. Considering that the Tyranid Hive Fleet was moving towards here, perhaps this was an opportunity to severely damage them.

But the commotion would also be very big, so big that it would attract the attention of certain beings. Soshyan wanted everything that happened here to be quiet.

And more importantly, he really wanted this facility. Amnennar had briefly told him about the Pharos's operating mechanism, roughly meaning it was a kind of interstellar teleportation technology independent of the Warp, and it was very accurate and easy to use, but it required extremely large amounts of energy.

Its value was of great significance to Soshyan, who now had many enclaves. After all, the Throne is the way of the Throne, and it's always inconvenient when the legions are active.

"Amnennar, is there any way... to preserve the Pharos?"

"This is not a small thing, and its entire structure is actually not very stable. After all, it has experienced too much time and has suffered many attacks. Detaching it completely from the mountain is a delicate job. Is there that much time now?"