mastered time technology very early on. In the Calixis Sector, Alex snatched the Infinity Key from Ahriman.
As a supreme technological creation capable of reversing time, the Infinity Key, even before its completion, aroused the Silent King Szarekh's apprehension.
He immediately used the Master Protocol to strip the Hexos Dynasty of their ability to resist, imprisoning them all.
He also shut down the Hexos Dynasty's energy devices, letting them slowly march towards death over a long period.
This method was extremely cruel, akin to cutting off food to human Hive City, allowing countless humans to slowly starve to death.
The Hexos Dynasty, just as the Silent King Szarekh had envisioned, moved towards its demise.
However, the Hexos Dynasty's Emperor Setka, upon obtaining the Infinity Key, immediately used the power of time to resurrect the entire Dynasty.
He pulled his vanished subjects out of the River of Time.
This demonstrates the terrifying power of time technology.
It can reverse time, pulling people and objects from the past out of the long river of time and bringing them to the present.
Considering that no enemy was worth using such cutting-edge technology against, Alex did not promote it, but secretly had people researching it, just in case.
Now, Nurgle, the Plague God, disregarded martial ethics by using a causality weapon.
Alex also had no intention of continuing to endure and planned to counterattack.
The time device was sent to the front lines of the Plague War via the Lighthouse teleportation network. To be safe, Alex also conscripted the strongest group of players.
He instructed them to put aside their other tasks, or transfer them to relevant Imperial departments, with the results and rewards still counting towards them.
Alex also sent Jaghatai Khan to deal with Mortarion, giving him a chance to thoroughly humiliate his former brother.
Soon, the first batch of players, piloting Sky Punishment Colossus equipped with time devices, joined the battlefield.
A fleet led by players from the Emperor Niuma Battle Group encountered a Nurgle fleet. Without any surprise, a fierce Warp battle immediately erupted between the two sides.
This Nurgle army was controlled by the Silent Apostles warband.
They were a powerful Nurgle warband, consisting of over a thousand Death Guard warriors and tens of thousands of Cultists and Mutants.
Their leader was Gastag, a veteran of the Great Crusade.
He also served Abaddon's Black Legion, thus possessing an Ark of Omen.
Summoned by Mortarion, he came to participate in the Plague War.
Nurgle, the Plague God also bestowed blessings, allowing them to severely cripple Imperial forces using the Triple Path.
It must be said, the power of the Triple Path was terrifying to the extreme.
Enjoying the results in advance and then making amends afterwards, such a method had completely transcended the understanding of mortals, belonging to the realm of Gods.
When Gastag saw the Emperor Niuma Battle Group's Sky Punishment Colossus, his first thought was that he could once again please Father Nurgle.
By destroying such a large fleet, Father Nurgle would surely grant him more rewards.
Perhaps he could achieve a new round of promotion and gain more authority.
"By the power of Father Nurgle, be destroyed."
Gastag ordered his sorcerers to perform a ritual, unleashing the Triple Path to destroy the human fleet before him.
Following a strange fluctuation, the massive Imperial fleet instantly turned to rust and disintegrated.
"Hahahaha, this is the power of a God."
Gastag burst into laughter, his gaze growing colder and crueler. He was already eager to enjoy the fruits of victory.
He yearned to offer countless lives to Father Nurgle in exchange for rewards.
However, in the next second,
A sigh, like a ripple, spread across the spacetime fabric.
The destroyed Imperial fleet was reborn at a visible speed. Rusted steel became bright again, and the dull Aquila shone brightly once more.
All of this unfolded like magic before the many Chaos Warriors and Cultists.
"How is this possible?" Gastag's face showed shock. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.
Why did the Imperial fleet, which had clearly been destroyed, reappear?
This is not scientific!
In that instant, Gastag even doubted the reality of this universe.
It just reversed?
Is this some kind of cheat?
"Father Nurgle, protect us."
"Continue to pray, use the Triple Path again. These servants of the Emperor certainly can't stop it."
Gastag shouted.
With the sorcerers' prayers and the slaves' sacrifices, the massive Imperial fleet once again decayed and disintegrated under the corruption of the Triple Path.
But the next second, these warships recovered as if new again.
However, the Imperial fleet ignoring the Triple Path was not what made Gastag most despair.
Not long after his fleet destroyed an Imperial warship, that warship would exhibit a strange phenomenon of time reversal, returning to its state before it was destroyed.
Gastag:... —.. —
Cheating shouldn't be this outrageous, right?
Even the Chaos Gods aren't this shameless?
It's destroyed, and it can still be reset?
Are they just completely shameless?
The other Chaos Warriors were also stunned. Imperial warships continuously reversing time meant that even if they destroyed them a thousand or ten thousand times, it would be useless; they would still constantly reappear.
They were essentially facing an army that could never be destroyed.
The opponent could fail countless times, but they only needed to fail once for this battle to end.
What is shameless? This is true shamelessness.
The daemons looked at the Imperial fleet, also doubting life a bit.
They had always thought they were the kings.
Although they would suffer a bit after death, as long as they endured, they could resurrect.
This was why during The Battle of Terra, the daemons grew in number the more they fought; they could resurrect again and again, and there was no way to truly kill them.
However, now these humans were also playing such a shameless trick: destroyed and then reversed and reshaped, destroyed and then reversed and reshaped. Unkillable, absolutely unkillable.
Undoubtedly, the damage caused by the Triple Path was offset by the Imperial time technology.
Gastag's Silent Apostles warband suffered a crushing defeat, even achieving a kill count of 0.
The Imperial fleet didn't lose a single warship but utterly destroyed the entire Silent Apostles warband.
Gastag was dragged into the Warp by his daemon familiar, thus surviving.
The others were not so lucky and were completely annihilated under the Imperial bombardment.
The failure of the Silent Apostles was just the beginning.
The Nurgle daemon army's previously unstoppable plague offensive was blocked by the Imperium, which then counterattacked with even more violent methods.
Mortarion also clashed with Jaghatai Khan.
Facing the infinitely reversing time technology, Mortarion was directly broken.
His fleet simply couldn't hold on.
The Imperial firepower was already fierce; destroy one, and it would recover, making it impossible to fight.
Jaghatai Khan's words were also very irritating.
"Honestly, Mortarion, I could fight this battle with my eyes closed and still easily defeat you."
"Is this all the strength you have after joining the Gods? It seems you truly chose the wrong side."
"But that's normal. With your toxin-damaged brain, what wise choices could you make?"
"By the way, why haven't I seen Typhus, the Primarch of your Death Guard?"
Jaghatai Khan's words were like knives, stabbing Mortarion into a furious rage. Finally, Mortarion, abandoning all caution, boarded Jaghatai Khan's flagship with his Deathshroud, intent on killing Jaghatai Khan and reversing the tide of battle.
Jaghatai Khan immediately issued a quest, summoning nearby high-level God Chosen to first exhaust Mortarion.
Mortarion, holding his scythe, cut his way from the boarding deck to the Bridge, didn't see Jaghatai Khan, and then cut his way from the Bridge to the mid-level ritual hall.
The combat power of those outsiders was astonishing, already on par with the Custodes.
Even though Mortarion was a Primarch and had the blessings of Father Nurgle Nurgle, he struggled.
By the time he reached the doors of the ritual hall, he was panting, his stamina almost depleted.
"I have a question."
Desert, whose body was pierced by the scythe, asked while spitting blood.
"What question?" Mortarion looked at the outsider on his scythe, giving him a moment of patience, and taking the opportunity to recover some stamina.
"You've been chopping people for so long, do your arms hurt? And you don't seem to blink at all, do your eyes get dry?"
Mortarion swung the scythe in his hand, splitting the opponent in half.
I've killed countless people, and you ask if my arms hurt or if my eyes are dry??
Are you kidding me??
Having dealt with the last God Chosen, Mortarion stepped into the ritual hall, directly facing his brother.
"We meet again, my brother."
Jaghatai Khan, composed, rose from his seat.
With a flick of his hand, countless rays of light condensed into a shining long blade, which he gripped tightly and pointed at Mortarion.
Jaghatai Khan wore new power armor blessed by the Emperor and imbued with cutting-edge Imperial technology.
His weapon was also energy-based; as long as his armor had energy, he could summon it at will.
"I never thought the Warhawk of Chogoris would become so shameless now." Mortarion stared intently at Jaghatai Khan, "Even in a duel with me, you resort to tricks."
"I'm just giving you a chance to prove yourself. Don't forget, you did the same thing during your time on Terra." Jaghatai Khan's tone was calm, "Challenging a brother exhausted on the battlefield, wasn't that what you taught me?"
"By the way, why hasn't Typhus shown up? Is he really looking down on me, unwilling to even meet me for a duel?"
"I wonder if it's a case of kings not meeting kings, or if he's avoiding my sharp edge."
Having spent a long time with the God Chosen, Jaghatai Khan was also full of witty remarks.
"Die." Mortarion stopped talking nonsense. He charged at Jaghatai Khan with his scythe.
Jaghatai Khan was fearless.
This was no longer The Battle of Terra; the roles had reversed.
Humans were the side with the advantage.
The battle between the two Primarchs was extremely fierce, with countless phantoms appearing in the air, their movements too fast for even machines to capture.
After an intense exchange, Mortarion was ultimately defeated.
Those outsiders possessed high-dimensional power and his Father Nurgle's blessings; they had exhausted the blessings and power of Nurgle, the Plague God within him.
It was a pity that Nurgle, the Plague God ultimately couldn't bear to lose him, forcibly tearing open a Warp rift and pulling him back.
He even tried to snatch Jaghatai Khan along. If not for the Emperor's blessing, he might have succeeded.
Mortarion suffered a crushing defeat, and his fleet was completely annihilated.
The Nurgle daemon army that initiated the war also suffered heavy losses and was routed.
However, as the war progressed, spacetime black holes, never seen before, began to appear across the galaxy.
These black holes quickly drew the attention of the Imperial side.
After investigation, it was discovered that these black holes surged with potent temporal energy.
By analyzing the collected data, the Void Dragon, Cortana, and other C'tan obtained the results.
These black holes were temporal black holes that appeared due to the misuse of time technology and Warp authority.
If not dealt with promptly, they could lead to a temporal catastrophe.
"The essence of the Warp is an aggregation of sentient emotions, which, through the Old Ones' manipulation and development, gained power beyond the Reality universe."
"Essentially, the Warp is also part of the universe, not truly transcendent. It also contains the law of energy conservation."
"That is to say, the energy of a universe is conserved; unless it can draw energy from the void, the universe's own energy is fixed."
"This energy is not just what we can see, like stars and radiation, but also includes hard-to-understand forms like souls, emotions, and time."
"Different forms of energy convert into each other, forming a complex cyclical supply system."
"However, Nurgle, the Plague God frequently used causality authority related to time, and the Imperium misused time technology, constantly initiating time reversal. Countless other forms of energy were converted into temporal energy, flowing into the past and future. This led to energy flowing into the past and future, which is the cause of spacetime black holes. As more and more temporal black holes appear, the universe and the Warp will move towards depletion."
Cortana created a model, allowing everyone to understand how the temporal wormholes appeared.
The universe is a whole, and energy is conserved. Whether it's emotion, time, space, or matter, they are all forms of energy.
The misuse of time devices by people caused energy to flow into the past and future, forming temporal black holes.
Continued misuse of time technology would lead to the collapse and depletion of the entire galaxy.
"If the temporal black holes persist and continue to expand, what will happen eventually?" The Chain God Incarnation asked.
He had never experienced a temporal catastrophe and didn't know what consequences it would bring.
"The power of the Warp will be completely depleted, Chaos Daemons will starve to death, and the Reality universe will experience widespread Haunted Dead Zones, where the souls of all living things will wither due to lack of sustenance from the Warp," Cortana explained.
"That sounds pretty good." Trazyn said, "At that time, everyone can just convert to metal bodies with us."
"I support that." Orikan, uncharacteristically, supported Trazyn for once.
"I support that too." The Void Dragon's voice carried a hint of anticipation.
It should be known that the C'tan race cannot perceive the Warp at all, so even if the Warp completely withered, it would have no bearing on them.
"Not only the Warp, but Reality will also wither." Cortana added, "Physical laws will be strengthened as never before, and no living thing will be able to escape the constraints of physical laws."
"Even technology will drastically decline. For example, we will never be able to exceed the speed of light, and any flying object can only travel at sub-light speeds. The power of the C'tan race will also disappear, and many technologies will be locked, making them unusable even if the principles are known."