Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"There is no doubt that they are powerful, but even so, they still lost to me."

"The power of the World Tree, which can create gods and other beings, is unquestionable, but... compared to the [Star Gods] who can devour civilizations and extinguish stars, how does it compare?"

As he spoke, Shalet waved his hand, and his throne began to change, and a twisted and painful figure appeared above it.

[Burning One] Nyadra'zatha (Fragment)

This powerful [Star God], whose body was burning with flames, once tried to ignite the entire Webway and burn all the ancient saints of the Eldar within it.

But now, it was broken into pieces by the Necrons, and one of the fragments became one of Shalet's collections and weapons (the Burner's skin was also peeled off and made into a cloak).

"Based on the information you provided, the twin gods were created and guided to this world, the world tree that is a world of its own..."

"It is also what you mentioned that is easier to access at this stage, 'multiple existence'..."

"Do you really want to chop down the tree? It's different from the Star God."

"Indeed." Shalek admitted. "Star Gods do not have the means to travel to other worlds, nor can they form their own world, but..."

"Creation and guidance... That tree is not a combat type, right?"

"When it's big enough, it doesn't matter whether it fights or not to a weaker being." Zhang Yi said. "Even if a mountain has no 'weapons' or 'hands and feet', it can destroy a lot of things if it falls directly on you."

From the known information, we can know that although the World Tree can create various existences, it is not good at fighting (it is helpless against the creations of its own creations and needs outsiders to help deal with them/of course it may also be that it is unwilling to fight).

But as Zhang Yi said, when the gap between the two sides is too big, it actually doesn't make much difference whether the stronger side will fight or not.

"You know, the world where the World Tree is and itself," Shalek said. "Take me to see her."

"She needs to explain what her creation did."

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The world where the world tree is located——ever after

This is a world where the concept of death does not exist. Here, death does not mean the end, but reincarnation. Although all memories will be lost, you can reappear in another form and start a new life.

It is also because of this that the beings in this world are not afraid of death, because their greatest fear of death - the unknown, or what will happen after death, is already known to everyone.

And in the center of this world, there is a huge towering tree. She is the creator and manager of this world, and the maker of the Gemini Gods.

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Not long ago, this world welcomed back the most powerful creation of the World Tree ever - the Twin Gods, but they did not come back voluntarily, they caused trouble.

The World Tree would naturally not give up its former creation, its own child, and she was also prepared.

Prepared to welcome another outsider...

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Several wooden sculptures were placed on the table, including sculptures of the twin gods in their true form/dragon form.

A female being whose body was made up of metal gears, small metal plates, and branches with tender leaves was hammering something on a piece of iron felt. With every hammering, sparks flew from the iron felt.

Suddenly, the man who was repeating the knocking action stopped what he was doing, slowly turned around and looked behind him.

There, a white portal appeared, and [King of Silence] Shalet walked out of it.

"You didn't bring your army, outsider." The blacksmith said. "Does this mean that you want to talk first?"

"Greetings, powerful god." Shalek said. "As you said, I come to speak to you on behalf of the Necrons..."

"Depending on the outcome of our conversation, I will decide whether or not to declare war on you."

In some ways, the Necrons are actually very easy to talk to. For example, before a certain dynasty's emperor decided to attack a human planet, he specially invited the inquisitor in charge of that planet to have dinner with him and told him that he was about to attack that planet.

planet.

Moreover, the Necromancer Emperor had endured the Inquisitor's insults many times until he could no longer tolerate it (the consequences for the Inquisitor were self-evident).

Out of his recognition of the blacksmith's ability and awe of his power, Shalek decided to talk to the blacksmith, who was the creator of the twin gods, first. Even though many high-ranking Necrons, including himself, wanted to try to send this unique god to their research table.

"...Sit down." The blacksmith was silent for a while, motioned Shalett to sit down and talk, then looked at Zhang Yi behind him. "You sit down too."

After both parties sat down, Shalek first affirmed the ability of the blacksmith as the incarnation of the World Tree. Even though she did not have the record of many [Star Gods] who could easily extinguish stars, destroy a galaxy, and distort the laws of physics within a certain range, her creative power was something that the [Star Gods] did not have.

But then, Shalek began to show the blacksmith in front of him their past achievements, the results of smashing their own gods and using them as "batteries", and he even showed her a weapon with fragments of a star god.

"What do you want?" The blacksmith's expression did not change much, but he calmly asked Shalek in front of him.

"Your creations have harmed our interests," Shalek said. "They need to pay the price, or you can give me a convincing explanation."

"Shubuzi Planet." The blacksmith said. "If I remember correctly, that planet originally belonged to them..."

"Destroying all life in your world over a disagreement, and making demands that you don't even know the answers to," Shalek said. "This world is really pitiful."

"When they left Shubuzi, I perfected that world so that everyone could live better... But he (the Dark God) destroyed a city under my management and all the residents in it just because it no longer belonged to him."

"..."

Zhang Yi sat quietly on the side, listening to the conversation between the two sides without saying a word. Just as Shalek said, despite certain selfish motives, the Necrons did make the Shubuzi world a better place. On the other hand, the twin gods who created the Shubuzi world left after destroying the previous generation of Shubuzi humans, which resulted in almost everyone being unaware of their existence.

The Gemini gods did create humans on the planet Shubuzi, but they never cared about them again after that. They also said that if the humans on Shubuzi still could not satisfy them after their return, they would destroy them completely.

Although the Necrons as outsiders also caused some waves, and although their preferential treatment of the Shubuzi world was for a purpose, it is undeniable that the arrival of the Necrons did greatly promote the development of the Shubuzi world and made life better for almost everyone - at least there is no need to worry about the threat of the Slaughter Beasts, right?

"What a dilemma between adoptive parents and biological parents..." Zhang Yi whispered.

Shalek's demands were clear: either hand over the twin gods, or the blacksmith, as their creator, should give him a satisfactory explanation, or both sides should break up, and the world would wait for the attack of the Necron army.

Although the Necrons don't have the technology to travel across borders yet, you don't think that humans are the only ones researching this kind of thing, do you?

The blacksmith remained silent about this, because as Shalek said, although the humans in the Shubuzi world were created by the Gemini gods, the second generation of Shubuzi humans had no idea of ​​their existence, and the Gemini gods did not seem to have done anything useful for their creations - biological parents are not as good as adoptive parents, which is a bit embarrassing, isn't it?

"...what do you want?" asked the blacksmith.

"The twin gods gave up the Shubuzi world and vowed never to interfere with anything in this world again." Shalek said. "And all the information about the special existence of Yuanqi."

“This is just the first phase, compensation.”

Previously, due to insufficient understanding of vital energy and the existence of the twin gods, the Necrons had not yet widely used the method of using vital energy to reshape the soul, but now... they will have the opportunity to understand the existence of vital energy from the source.

"I'll explain this to them when I get back," the blacksmith said. "This will also be a lesson for them."

After saying this, the blacksmith looked at Zhang Yi who had remained silent.

"Do you have any questions?"

"Yes." Zhang Yi replied. "And a lot."

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"Well... it's quite different from what I imagined..."

Unlike Shalete's aggressiveness, Zhang Yi's series of questions seemed to be just to satisfy his curiosity, which was also what the empire needed at this stage.

First of all, regarding the blacksmith's ability to travel through worlds, she can only go to a few worlds that she knows and are located near her world, and she has only come into contact with a few different worlds. Traveling across worlds is not that easy (Zhang Yi is an exception).

The energy required for a one-time cross-world trip over longer distances is enormous, unless a stable and long-lasting channel is established in the right location, like the door leading to the universe where the Shubuzi planet is located.

But it is not easy to build such a channel.

In addition to sufficient power, some "right time and right place" is also needed. At least for her, she cannot build such long-term and stable channels everywhere.

As for her power, to put it simply, the blacksmith can be regarded as an 'architect' and 'manager'. She is very good at creating other beings (including divine beings like her) and making her creations live in harmony. Therefore, she is indeed not good at killing, but it is not that she cannot do this kind of thing.

Apart from anything else, her ability to reincarnate and reshape herself would make many beings with life and souls fear her, but... At this stage, most Necrons have no souls, let alone life...

"That's the way it is..." Zhang Yi murmured. "I have one last question..."

"Have you seen anything strange since the return of the Twin Gods?"

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somewhere in the world

"You need to rest..."

"You let me rest after being beaten like this by those soulless dead things?!" The Dark God said loudly. "I want revenge! I want them to pay the price! I want to pay the price together with those creations that betrayed me!"

"We have discussed this issue before. Now you need to rest..."

"I need an army! A powerful army! An army that can help me trample everything!"

From a certain point on, the God of Light noticed that his brother's temper began to become more violent.

Although he had a bad temper before and the two sides often quarreled because of different ideas, the God of Light was still keenly aware of his brother's sudden change and that he had become more irritable.

"...I think it's time for me to stop for a while, brother." The God of Light said. "Those metal beings are right..."

"Almost nothing we did on the Shubuzi world benefited our creations, but with their help, the creatures there did live better, perhaps..."

"Are you asking me to give up?! You actually want me to give up?! You actually try to let it go like this?!" The Dark God questioned his brother loudly. "We are their creators! Every inch of land there belongs to us! They have no right to stand on that planet! They have no right to tell us what to do on it!"

"...You need to calm down, now..."

"Are you going to deny my decision again? Just like you denied my creation before?!" The Dark God interrupted his brother again. "When did you become such a coward, my brother?!"

There was something wrong with my brother, but generally speaking, there seemed to be nothing wrong with him. After all, as I said before, he had always had a bad temper, and it wasn't the first time that he had quarreled with me. But... what was wrong?

At this moment, the Gemini gods suddenly realized that there was someone behind the Dark God. Then a blue feather was pulled out from the Dark God, flew to the man's left arm, and sank into it.

"He is here." Zhang Yi said. "He came to this world..."

"That's not good news...huh?"

As soon as Zhang Yi finished speaking, he saw the God of Light who was a little confused, and the God of Darkness who was obviously in an awkward situation. The twin gods now looked at him in surrender.

"Who are you?" The Dark God slowly approached Zhang Yi and asked, "You are not a native of this world. You are... an outsider from the Shubuzi world..."

"You and those metal golems are in this together!"

"Well... is this effect semi-permanent or permanent?" Zhang Yi said as he looked at the approaching Dark God. "His nature makes him have a bad temper, and Tzeentch only promotes this..."

"It's like pouring a bucket of gasoline on a burning fire. It just makes it burn bigger."

"brother..."

"This is none of your business!" The Dark God said to his brother angrily. "Maybe I am no match for those soulless puppets, but... mere humans..."

The dark god in the form of a western dragon appeared again. Although his size was much smaller than when he was fighting against the Necrons and the aura he exuded was also much weaker, he was still full of oppression compared to Zhang Yi.

"With your temper... Tzeentch chose you for a reason." Zhang Yi looked at the dragon in front of him, and then spoke to the God of Light behind him. "I have to temporarily incapacitate your brother to prevent him from affecting his subsequent actions..."

"Don't worry, I won't kill him for now."

"Kill me?! What right do you, a tiny being, have to have..."

The dark myth about the dragon form came to an abrupt end when he heard a terrifying aura coming from the tiny humanoid creature in front of him... More than one aura!

The smell of blood and sulfur appeared for the first time in this extremely peaceful world. A blood-red giant, much taller than the current Dark God, appeared behind Zhang Yi and looked at the Dark God in the form of a western dragon below with interest.

"No, why did you come out?" Zhang Yi looked at Khorne who appeared behind him with some surprise.

Before Zhang Yi could say anything else, the bloody giant raised his right fist and smashed it towards the tiny 'lizard' on the ground with overwhelming momentum.

The Dark God was stunned when the blood-colored giant appeared. This was obviously beyond everyone's expectations. However, it was unlikely to solve the problem peacefully at this point. Besides, if he was so cowardly, how could he survive? !

The Dark God spewed out flames with destructive power at the oncoming giant fist. The power that could instantly destroy the entire human race in the Shubusi world dissolved the oncoming bloody giant fist at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this did not stop the blood-red giant from attacking. An expression of excitement and fanaticism appeared on his unclear face. Then his whole body merged into the giant fist. The attack became more solid and heavy, and soon overwhelmed the breath of the Dark God and hit him heavily.

【cut! 】

"You beat this guy up and you're still going 'cut', right?" Zhang Yi looked at the Dark God who was beaten back to human form again, said to the voice in his mind, and then walked to the Dark God who was beaten to the ground. "Now, can you tell me when you started to become abnormal?"

"Damn...humans!"

With a roar from the Dark God, he who had been knocked to the ground suddenly jumped up, and his left palm instantly turned into a sharp claw and grabbed Zhang Yi in front of him, but the next second a golden palm slammed him into the ground.

"Why do I feel like you hit harder than Khorne, old bacon?"

The God of Light who was witnessing the whole process behind his brother was stunned. He had never expected that there would be other divine beings that would appear in ever after so brazenly, and he just happened to run into them!

"Don't worry, he's not dead, just like I said..."

"I won't kill him for now."

Then Zhang Yi turned around and shouted to the empty space behind him: "Blacksmith, help me find a cat..."

"The one your son built."

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Cheshire Cat

This is one of the Twin Gods' original creations. This magical cat-like creature is endowed with the ability to see through the flaws/shortcomings of living things, which helps the Twin Gods perfect their creations (the creation of the Slayer is to eliminate failed products and speed up manufacturing and improvement).