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The mountains stood tall, the sun and the moon were dim, the wind was howling, and thunder was rumbling in the sky.
An army of about fifty thousand people was waiting around the Blade's Edge Mountain in the Roof of the World.
This Army of Chaos was waiting for the return of their leader, Eichahn.
Of course, other than Eichahn's most trusted aide, Keron, there was also the First Demon Prince, Birak, and the nun of the Church of Justice, Giselle, who had always been by Eichahn's side when he was still the Holy Knight of the Empire, Didric. She had always had that kind of relationship with Eichahn.
Under the Blade's Edge Mountain, hundreds of dwarven corpses were piled up. This was an army of dwarves led by the Dwarf Hero, Flake – BloodBlood. After Priest Granny received a fragmented prophecy, he led the army to the Blade's Edge Mountain in an attempt to stop the coronation of the Eternal Chosen One.
Even though the Dwarf Hero, Flake – BloodBlood and his army fought bravely, they were completely useless against Eichahn's army. Facing the attack of the Sword of Chaos and the massacre of the Qie Army from the Kurgan Plains, the dwarven army was quickly defeated. Flake was grabbed by the First Demon Prince, Birak. Boundless Chaos energy was injected into the Dwarf Hero's body. The dwarf was quickly petrified and turned into a sturdy stone statue. After that, he was thrown into the deep valley by Birak and shattered into pieces.
The entire battle ended so quickly that it seemed like nothing had happened at all.
The First Demon Prince stared at the entrance in the distance. The majestic Chaos energy inside made Birak, who finally had some time to wake up, recall the past.
Pilak had lived for a very long time, so long that he could not remember when he was born. This primordial demon prince was completely black, with two terrifying giant horns, a chaotic octagon on his chest, and a pair of gigantic black skulls on his back. His entire body was shrouded in the evil energy of Chaos. He could still vaguely remember that when the Ancient Sage was still active in this world, he was already one of the most powerful warlords of Chaos. At that time, there were few Chaos Demons who were not restricted by the laws of Chaos who could rival Pilak. As a warlord of Chaos, he ravaged the world, causing countless injuries and massacres, leaving a deep impression on the Four Gods of Chaos.
At that time, the Ancient Saint Portal was still in operation, so the four gods could not directly intervene in the mortal world. Therefore, they all gave Birak their blessings. He was the first being to be promoted in the history of this world. He was the first and most likely the only Demon Prince who was not a part of Chaos.
At that time, Birak was very popular. In order to fight for the loyalty of the first Demon Prince, the Four Gods of Chaos scrambled to bestow blessings, Divine Artifacts, and power to Birak so that he would be loyal to them.
However, Birak was very ambitious. He did not want to be a dog of the Four Gods of Chaos. Instead, he wanted to be promoted to the Fifth God of Chaos. The First Demon Prince did not do anything after receiving the benefits. At first, he went on a crusade to exterminate, enslave, and corrupt mortals. But soon, he began to run away and did not attack, preserving his strength.
Birak's actions angered the Four Gods of Chaos. Coincidentally, the portal collapsed, so the Four Gods promoted more Demon Princes from the mortals and took away Birak's power. Of course, Birak did not agree. A great civil war broke out in Chaos. When the first Phoenix King, Alarion, fought against the four Chaos Demons on the Island of Death, Birak and a large group of Demon Princes were busy fighting the civil war, which directly led to the failure of stopping the Great Whirlpool Ritual.
The First Demon Prince's actions angered the Four Gods. Tzeentch punished him. He took away Birak's physical body and turned him into a mass of pure energy, a mass of shadow that could only rage powerlessly. The First Demon Prince became the "Eternal Sparring Partner" and was responsible for crowning the Eternal Chosen God so that it could understand, ask around the street, and find out who the father was.
It was not that Birak, who became the "Eternal Sparring Partner", did not try to escape from this state. He once tried to possess the newly crowned Eternal Chosen God of Chaos, but the energy was too strong, and the new Eternal Chosen God of Chaos' body split open.
Then, he went to Obion Island and tried to seize the ancient saint energy and the divine artifact of the Truth Speaker. This matter has been mentioned before, so I won't repeat it here. In the end, Birak failed. Although he obtained a small part of the ancient saint energy, he still failed in the end. However, Birak finally regained a little bit of his rationality and began to plan.
He divided part of his power and transformed into a Noska warlord to rob Nord and raped a woman in a village. The woman later died in childbirth and left a posthumous child. The woman's husband threw the child into the forest, but it was picked up by a priest of the Church of Justice and named Didrick. The child later became a priest, a Templar Knight, and a demon hunter.
Then, Birak transformed into a nun of the Church of Justice named Giselle and became Didrick's girlfriend. Step by step, she led the priest named Didrick to fall into darkness.
Now, the time to harvest had come!
… I'm your father's section break …
Eichahn spent an entire day and a half to climb the entire mountain. The Blade Peak of the Roof of the World was so high that even Eichahn could not reach it in a short time.
But no matter how long the journey was, there would always be an end. When he reached the end after an entire day and a half of climbing, he saw the rolling and surging colorful lightning, flames, and a huge gate with the mark of Chaos on it. Eichahn knew that his journey had come to an end.
This was the first Chaos Shrine in the world, and also the place where Birak ascended.
Endless evil energy of Chaos gushed out from the double-layered gate. The gate was slightly open, and there were strange illusions and countless monsters everywhere. There were all kinds of monsters that had been corrupted by Chaos and had lost their rationality, demons that had committed a lot of mistakes and were imprisoned, twisted souls that desired only to be possessed, and the will of Chaos shrouded the entire gate.
The whispers of the Evil God lingered in Eichahn's ears. It was an incomparably treacherous and unpredictable voice.
"You're here? You're finally here! Guest, a guest has come to visit us! " The treacherous voice said excitedly, "I've prepared dessert for you, but I've eaten it all. Do you want to guess what the dessert was? Who ate it? "
"He, looks, doesn't look, strong enough, and doesn't, obey?" A dull and slow voice stuttered, "Yes, he's, strong, patient, and tenacious."
"Oh! A warrior, the most charming and exciting warrior. My dear, you're finally here. I've been waiting for you for a long time. I'm so infatuated with you. I like you. Oh, what kind of surprise are you going to bring me now? " A strange voice that was neither Yin nor Yang, or rather, both Yin and Yang. "But there's no doubt that I like people who are loyal. Are you?"
"Blood and glory! Slaughter and destruction! Up to you, there are already thirteen eternal Chosen Gods! " This was a voice that was irritable and filled with an endless thirst for skulls and blood. He seemed to be seriously sizing up this new guest. "Without exception, they have all failed. We've given you the opportunity and the test. This is the highest honor!"
"You've chosen me?" Eichahn sneered. The tone of the eternal Chosen Gods was filled with sarcasm and disdain. "Think about it. You must have gotten something wrong."
"It's me! It's me who decided to destroy the entire world. It's me, it's me who decided to give Charlemagne and his hypocritical and cowardly Empire a decent ending! I will overthrow the Empire and expose the true faces of those fake gods. I will let everyone see their hypocritical lies and cowardly faces. " Eichahn drew his own sword, the King Slayer. The blade of the sword was burning with fiery red flames. "It's me who chose you! It's me who gave you the opportunity to realize your dream of destroying the world. "
"Remember this! After I've dealt with the Empire, I'll come back to settle the score with you! I'll take back everything you've done to me! "Eichahn calmly finished his own words.
"Wow! What a shocking speech! Your words make my heart flutter! "The voice that was both Yin and Yang became excited.
"It doesn't matter. Even if. You. Don't. Like. I. Father. Still. Loves. You." The decaying and slow voice seemed to have changed as well. "Father. Loves. Every. Child."
"Oh? You're not going to eat my dessert? Or have you already eaten it? In a thousand parallel universes, a thousand eternal Chosen Gods faced with a thousand identical desserts. What would they do? Would they eat it, spit on it, or throw it on the ground? Are a thousand parallel universes an illusion or a real existence? Or perhaps, from the beginning, the dessert never existed? Wait, how do you define from the beginning? Where did this concept come from? What kind of standard is considered from the beginning? Can you understand all of this? "The treacherous and fast voice was chattering non-stop.
"Enough!" The furious voice violently interrupted the treacherous voice. It took a deep breath. Eichahn seemed to be able to smell sulfur and brass in its breath. "That's not important. No matter what you think, as long as you offer your skull and blood to my altar like before, I will continue to watch over you."
"Then, let's begin!" The four voices spoke in unison.
Without turning back, Eichahn walked into the depths of the door.
What greeted him was a stretch of shining buildings.
Sounds, images, illusions, and a strange sense of perception, Eichahn found himself in a transparent country. Everywhere in this place were shiny surfaces that looked like polished pebbles. Eichahn could see himself no matter where he was.
His past self, his failed self, his confused self, his distorted self.
Everything in the world was in a state of change. Every passage was opening, closing, shifting, dissolving, merging, and splitting at any time. At the end of every passage, Eichahn could see his own ending.
He saw his own past.
He used to be Didrick, a battle priest of Nord, a demon hunter, and a templar knight. He used to be so devout and fanatical, with a strong physique and brimming with the spirit of a knight, as brave and fierce as the young Emperor Charlemagne.
In his illusions, he saw himself as Didrick fighting bravely and eventually becoming an archbishop of the Church of Justice. He saw himself as Didrick fighting bravely and eventually becoming a grand tutor of the Templar Knights. He saw himself as Didrick fighting bravely and eventually becoming the greatest demon hunter. He saw himself as Didrick fighting bravely. Nord erected a statue for him so that future generations would remember him forever.
Of course, Didrick didn't always survive. Sometimes, he died in battle and became a hero. Sometimes, he died in obscurity and everyone was still looking for his traces. Sometimes, he died worthlessly and was used as a negative example. Sometimes, he died in a funny way and became a laughingstock.
But Eichahn could not help but tremble. As Didrick, dedicating his life to the Empire was his life's goal!
If it wasn't for … if it wasn't for the fact that he met the nun named Giselle delivering the Book of Destiny.
Staring at the illusions in the Crystal Labyrinth, Eichahn saw a thousand possibilities. Fear, distortion, and hope were reflected in the Chosen One's mind. The repeated comparisons of dreams and nightmares, the countless possibilities extended by Tzeentch almost drove Eichahn crazy. Confusion and despair made him disheartened.
A thousand possibilities of his own ending, a thousand ways of Giselle's death, every one of them was incomparably real. This kind of imagination was enough to drive even the most strong-willed mortal mad, turning him into a fool, a madman, or even suicide.
The Chosen One only felt himself struggling on the edge of madness. He covered his head with his hands and walked out of all these illusions and nightmares.
That was how Motkin failed!
Eichahn covered his eyes. The Chosen One did not look at the things in Tzeentch's Labyrinth anymore. He even sealed off his sense of hearing and smell, relying solely on his instincts, the instincts brought by the Eye of Scherren, to continue moving forward in Tzeentch's Labyrinth.
No one knew how long Eichahn had been searching in the Crystal Labyrinth. Perhaps it was a few minutes, perhaps it was a few days, perhaps it was a few years, or perhaps it was a few centuries. The Chosen One gave up all his senses. No matter what happened, he did not waver. He no longer had any attachment to anything in this world. The only hope he had left was destruction.
Even if his parents reached out their hands and begged him to return home, even if the Archbishop wept bitterly and told him that he was wrong, even if Emperor Charlemagne personally knelt down and begged Eichahn to turn over a new leaf, even if Giselle opened her mouth to ask the two of them to go into seclusion together, even if he saw his most beautiful and most failed ending, Eichahn was unmoved.
With this thought in mind, he continued moving forward. In the end, the Chosen One succeeded. When he passed through the ninth Golden Arch, the illusions in the Crystal Labyrinth disappeared.
He had passed Tzeentch's test.
"The dessert is always there!"
Right after Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth was the test of Nurgle.
Nurgle's test was not as complicated as Tzeentch's. The test of the God of Decay and Plague was very simple, and that was illness.
The first thing that appeared was kidney stones. Eichahn only felt extreme pain in his lower abdomen area. The Chosen One bent over in pain. His face was pale. He was in so much pain that he wanted to roll on the ground. He almost went into shock.
Then came arthritis. Waves of intense pain from his nerves almost drove Eichahn crazy.
Trigeminal neuralgia flared up and stopped suddenly. It was like lightning, like a knife twisting, burning, stubborn and unpredictable.
Interstitial cystitis brought on swelling and pain in his lower abdomen. It was like a burning pain.
Cluster headaches came quickly and repeatedly. The pain around his eyes made it impossible for Eichahn to reach out and gouge his eyeballs out.
This was not the end. The pain from his teeth that drilled into his brain made Eichahn cry out crazily. Before he could confirm what had happened to his teeth, a large area of herpes zoster appeared on his body. The burning sensation was like a big fire, like being cut by a chainsaw, torturing Eichahn's nerves.
The entire Blade Peak was filled with the sound of Eichahn's grinding.
After going through such terrifying torture, the Chosen One laid on the ground. He no longer had any reaction. Only his body twitched from time to time, proving that he was still alive.
A few hours later, Eichahn, who was burdened with dozens of incurable diseases and painful illnesses, stood up. Beneath his armor and cape were large amounts of sweat and blood, his skin and organs that no longer resembled a human's.
But Eichahn still stood up. He fought against Nurgle's illness with his unparalleled will and moved forward tenaciously.
He still had the goal of destroying the world to complete!
He must not fall here!
After a few days of torture, Eichahn did not have any thoughts of suicide or suicide. He continued to move forward.
Nurgle saw Eichahn's determination. The loving father mumbled in satisfaction, "You are, not picky, good, child, come, come, into, daddy's arms, come, baby, daddy loves you."
The illness disappeared.
The moment Nurgle's will faded, a voice that was neither yin nor yang, both yin and yang, appeared.
"Oh my, you are quite capable, aren't you?"
"Then, it's my turn! You torturing little fairy! "
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