Chapter 389: Sword Name, Imperial Truth

Kotos, the embodiment of the greatest malice of the Warp to the human race, is also one of the many masterpieces of the Dark Gods.

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

It is difficult to summarize its existence with the simple word "demon", because its existence is different from all the servants of the Dark Gods.

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

It is also completely different from ordinary Warp creatures. It does not even have a fixed form. All the known records about it come from the narrow and crude observations of humans limited by the vision of the soul.

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

Its existence is so special that even the noble Lord of Humanity cannot resist the fate of his own race to harm it, and can only drive it away and seal it in desperation;

Even the powerful Chaos Gods cannot command it, and can only pick it up from the depths of the subspace like a virus, and then carefully "plant" it on the target, waiting for it to bear the fruit they want.

Yes, the original Kotos had no name and no properties. It was like a seed that the "farmers" could manipulate at will.

But once it is given a chance, it will take root.

It will take the most unusable "waste" from the host as nutrients and grow rapidly in a secret environment.

And when it finally grows to a level that cannot be ignored, it will spread to the host's body like a cancer, eating up all the "meaning" of its existence, and then break out of the body to gain freedom.

This is a race that makes "gardeners" fear a little bit, because in the cognition of the Chaos Gods, this race is not short of cases of gods as hosts.

In fact, they have almost no identical existence forms, because their adults have completely different appearances based on their different hosts.

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

They don't even have a fixed name, or the names given to them by gods cannot be understood by humans.

But they have clear names, because after each individual completes the transformation from childhood to adulthood, it is destined to identify itself with its original host.

This is the origin of the name Kotos.

When it stretched out the first tentacles on this race called humans, feeling the negative emotions accumulated by the entire human race for tens of thousands of years, it awakened itself and also knew its "name":

"Kotos", born from a race that dominates the entire galaxy, the first ray of hostility and hatred-Kotos.

It is destined to be unknown how great its mother is, and the gods only awaken themselves after that existence leaves this universe.

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

And it was the influence of the "existence" of these seven brothers that allowed the rules of the universe about the dark side of civilization to extend to both sides of the long river of time after their appearance, and eventually became a classification based on the number "seven". (Well, Nurgle expressed great welcome and happily incorporated this part of the divine power into his original system with 7 as the core.)

"They" were taken away and collected by the gods, and used for different goals at different times.

Some have already blossomed and borne fruit, and the gods took away their fruits when the transformation was completed.

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

And some, like Kotos, are still in a long period of lurking and accumulation.

If it is given time to continue to grow. Then it may add the name of human beings after its name after the transformation is completed.

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

Calvin didn't spend much time to kill it, but this does not mean that the process of eliminating this cancer of humanity is so easy and simple.

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

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

The seemingly simple battle between the two people, behind it is not only the theological significance of the astronomical background (the phase of Saturn and Terra) that occurs once every few decades, but also represents the direct confrontation between two rare high-level forces in this universe in a certain specific environment.

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

But the judgment and confrontation of power in it have been traced back all the way up in the long river of time, and even alarmed many ancient beings comparable to gods.

Countless destinies and possibilities were slashed by a single sword, and the variables and changes it triggered surprised even the gods.

This was the result of many coincidences and inevitabilities colliding.

If it weren't for Calvin's soul from the higher-dimensional universe leading this confrontation, even a noble "order" would not be able to erase this special existence.

If Calvin and the Emperor had not been prepared, and the Emperor had covered the subspace corresponding to the entire solar system under the conditions of favorable time and place.

Even if Calvin had infinite power, he was destined to regret the interference of the gods after they came to their senses.

But fortunately, Kotos died.

It died forever under Calvin's power of order, which was full of destruction and correction from the root;

It also died in the helpless sigh of the gods who tried to interfere after realizing it, but found that the Emperor had been waiting for a long time and was waiting for it.

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

As the biggest executor, Calvin was the first to bear the brunt, and most of the power accumulated by Kotos for tens of thousands of years became the nourishment in the process of his soul completion.

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

Throughout the galaxy, whether within or outside the empire, all humans felt the same at this moment, and felt as if a cloud had dissipated from their souls.

And all of Calvin's direct descendants were even more blessed. Under the reward of the rules of the origin of the universe, a trace of golden blood was born from nothing 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 are no longer the lambs covered by the power of the gods.

Perhaps 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 clouds that the gods have shrouded the human race have dissipated a little.

The latter is even more insignificant. The blessings that the sons of Calvin have received in their souls and bodies may be a very important matter for the Holy Hammer Order and the Inquisition.

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

And all of this is still a later story. As for Calvin, he was already drowned in the "legacy" of Kotos.

The huge negative emotions were like a huge wave with no visible edge, pouring into Calvin and dissipating around.

After the latter found that he could not catch up with the speed of this power pouring in even with all his strength, he decided to cast the "Sword of Killing Kotos" in his hand into a divine weapon on the spot in a flash of inspiration.

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

The so-called time comes and the world is all from the power, which is what Calvin is in now.

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

After being cleansed by the origin of order, the immeasurable negative emotions poured into the long sword in Calvin's hand.

In conjunction with this condensation of power, countless refined gold and real silver rose spontaneously from the mantle, melted into liquid under the guidance of the rules, and poured into the sword blank in Calvin's hand.

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

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

Buzz!

A low buzzing sound spread from the center of the psychic storm, and the remaining power in Calvin's hand was dispelled by the power from the artifact itself.

After the casting was completed, this artifact showed itself to Calvin in a brand new form. On the platinum-colored sword body that was three meters long and one and a half palms wide, silver-gray wings extended to both sides from the sword.

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

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

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

It is not even related to the essence of the artifact, but a faithful explanation of the way and righteousness that Calvin implemented in all the processes of forging this sword under the most equal and indifferent rules of the universe.

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

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

And the Lord of War is the worst among them.

The bloody figure on the brass throne, after several attempts to intervene with power but being 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 brewing with the Kingdom of Khorne as the core, tore the barrier between reality and subspace under the Lord of War's reckless full force, and raged in the territory of the human empire throughout the galaxy.

And people like Shalish who controls pleasure, Xinlizhi who controls variables, and Nurgle whose god name is life and death, chose to sit back and watch after a round of meaningless speculation and evil smiles.

This was not their work.

Especially since they had been reminded of the fall of Kotos by the reminder of fate, they no longer even thought of taking advantage of the situation to rob this "unripe fruit".

Against the background of endless time, the bored gods are like a group of old people playing cards on the street corner after retirement. They are always full of extraordinary interest in the disputes and struggles between neighbors.

Well, there's also the malice hidden behind the smile, ready to take its place at any moment.

The war never stops, the war always goes on.

Perhaps mankind today still relies on the appearance of Calvin to gain a slight upper hand in this struggle concerning the fate of the race;

But looking at the entire dimension of time and even destiny, there is still a long way for them to struggle and resist...

renew. Good night!