197: Chapter 197 Weapons Targeting the Four Chaos Gods

On the star map, the two remaining traitor Primarchs, Mortarion and Magnus, were highlighted.

"Mortarion suffered heavy losses in the Eye of Terror campaign; his plague essence was severely eroded by C'tan weapons, and his recovery cycle is estimated in centuries. Magnus's single-eye ability has been temporarily sealed by the Causality Disruptor, and the backlash rate of the Path of Change has risen to 37%. They are now at their weakest state in ten thousand years."

"Priority targets for the second phase of the Hunting Fleet: within a hundred years, complete the localization, capture, or elimination of Mortarion and Magnus."

"When the Four Chaos Gods lose all their traitor Primarchs, their last layer of solid coupling with the material universe will be thoroughly severed."

The final part of the report was presented directly by the adjudicator: Summary of Results for Phase Two of the Chaos Essence Deep Analysis Project.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of Slaanesh's avatars (Prince of Pleasure, Lady Slaanesh, the Daemonette of Sound, the thirteen members of the Council of Keepers of Secrets, and seven Pioneers of Pleasure) and the Slaaneshi Primarch Fulgrim, the construction of a computable model for Slaanesh's essence has been completed.

Slaanesh's essence can be abstracted as: a self-sustaining, non-linear high-dimensional information processing system based on a positive feedback loop of desire fulfillment. Its core logic includes:

1. Desire Capture Module: Extracts pheromones related to longing, pursuit, and satisfaction from the neural activities of all sentient beings in the material universe.

2. Feedback Reinforcement Module: Amplifies, distorts, and feeds back the captured desire information to stimulate the generation of more and stronger desires.

3. Essence Storage Module: Stores the moments of ultimate desire fulfillment—those eternal instants—as energy reserves, permanently sealed.

This model has been verified. During Operation Spear of Dawn, the suppression effect of the Causality Disruptor on Greater Daemons of Slaanesh was precisely based on interference with the model's first module.

Based on this model, we have developed conceptual weapons targeted at Slaanesh:

Desire Vacuum Field: Uses zero-point energy to excite anti-desire waves of a specific frequency, forcibly 'freezing' the ability of all sentient beings to generate desire within a local range. Within this field, Slaanesh will be unable to draw any energy.

Feedback Inverter: Inverts the reinforced desire signals fed back by Slaanesh, converting them into signals of post-fulfillment emptiness, and injects them directly into its essence storage module. This will cause the stored eternal instants to be contaminated by eternal emptiness, triggering self-destruction at the essence level.

Analysis of the essences of Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch is accelerating based on existing samples. It is expected that within five years, the construction of computable models and the development of targeted conceptual weapons for all four evil gods will be completed.

At that time, the Four Chaos Gods will no longer be gods. They will be high-dimensional information systems that can be precisely struck, systematically weakened, or even completely erased.

After the report ended, the Command Center fell into a long silence.

Alpha-01 was the first to speak: "So, we can really kill gods?"

"Not kill," Han Zhe corrected. "Deconstruct. Just as we deconstructed the Taotie Prototype, deconstructed Slaanesh's avatars, and deconstructed C'tan shards. We reduce them from incomprehensible, mysterious entities back into information flows that can be calculated, predicted, and controlled."

"When the Four Chaos Gods are no longer mysterious in our eyes, they are no longer threats; they are merely resources."

He stood up and walked to the star map. On the map, the dark gold territory of the Human Federation already covered most of the eastern side of the galaxy. Half of the Eye of Terror had turned into the Sea of Order, while the other half was being slowly eroded by twelve Expeditionary Firmament platforms. The colonial network in Extragalactic Systems was growing denser, with Void Siphons and zero-point energy providing the Human Federation with nearly infinite power.

And at the center of it all, in the deep-space laboratory Tomb of Time wrapped in layers of Void Barrier, Fulgrim's remains were being analyzed inch by inch by the adjudicator, the essences of Slaanesh's thirteen Keepers of Secrets were being classified and archived, and the first batch of conceptual weapons targeted at the Four Chaos Gods had entered the live-fire testing phase.

"In less than five thousand years, we have traveled a path the Empire didn't dare imagine in forty thousand years," Han Zhe's voice was calm as usual. "But the true test has not yet arrived."

He pulled up a special file. The cover of the file had no text, only an indescribable, cold, and indifferent ripple.

"the cold observer."

"The Four Chaos Gods are enemies we already know. We can calculate them, deconstruct them, and eventually clear them away." Han Zhe's gaze turned toward that ripple. "But this..."

"We know nothing about it. Has it already observed us? Has it already marked us as an anomaly? Is it preparing to initiate some kind of calibration protocol? Is its calibration a local fine-tuning, or is it a total erasure like the Great Collapse of the golden age?"

"This is why we must accelerate the deconstruction of Chaos's essence, accelerate the extraction of C'tan shards, and accelerate our understanding of time technology."

"Not to conquer Chaos, not to dominate the galaxy."

"It is so that before the the cold observer finally makes a decision, we are strong enough to look it in the eye."

The meeting room fell into silence once again.

This silence was longer and deeper than the last.

Finally, Han Zhe broke the silence:

"Orders:"

"One: Phase three of the Void Barrier network project is to be launched immediately. Goal: within ten years, cover all core territories of the Human Federation and major Extragalactic colonies."

"Two: Accelerate the construction of Orderly Firmament-Expeditionary platforms. Goal: within five years, complete the total suppression of the remaining half of the Eye of Terror."

"Three: All three Warp Hunting Fleets are to enter active combat deployment. Goal: within three years, clear all high-level Greater Daemon targets on the list; within five years, complete the localization and capture of Mortarion and Magnus."

"Four: Elevate the priority of the Chaos Essence Deep Analysis Project to the highest level. The adjudicator has full authority, and all relevant resources are to be prioritized."

"Five: A special research group for the the cold observer will be led directly by me. Goal: collect as much information as possible and understand its essence without triggering its calibration."

"Everyone—"

Han Zhe's gaze swept across everyone present:

"In five hundred years, we grew from survivors of a single star system into beings capable of looking gods in the eye."

"In the next five hundred years, we will make those gods bow their heads before us."

The entire Command Center stood up, paying their deepest respects to that calm yet infinitely powerful figure.

Outside the window, the dark gold light of the Sea of Order continued to pulse steadily. Farther away, deep within the rift of the Eye of Terror that had yet to close, the domains of the Four Chaos Gods were experiencing an unprecedented tremor, for they finally realized that the heretical civilization they once viewed as an interesting toy had grown into an existence capable of hunting them.