Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monster Horde

Chapter 588 588: Luring a Chaos God into the Ultraverse?

"So, you really destroyed the Chaos Godshard? How did you do it, Rhodes? I can't even imagine it," Aisha asked.

As the former bearer of the Chaos Godshard—the one who actually gestated it—she had the most authority to judge its strength.

It was the supreme divine relic formed by the Warp itself, something that exists within every Chaos God at birth, the embodied concept of chaotic divinity.

Erasing that isn't as simple as killing a Greater Daemon. In theory, a Chaos Godshard can endlessly erase daemons and greater daemons alike.

But now this supreme relic had actually been destroyed by someone, so Aisha was extremely curious—what method did Rhodes use to annihilate a Godshard?

"I'm curious too, Rhodes. How exactly did you destroy the Chaos Godshard?" asked the Goddess of Life, Isha, standing to the side.

Though not as powerful as Aisha, she knew a bit about the Godshard. To be able to destroy it—how was that possible? She was very curious.

"Since you're both so curious, I can tell you. You should know that the monsters and special items I summon all come from another world, right?" Rhodes said, sitting down.

The two goddesses nodded. Rhodes's endless summoned monsters, the cosmic beasts, and the technology that clearly didn't belong to this world—without these, he wouldn't have drawn their attention. To win the favor of both elven goddesses at once wasn't something an ordinary person could do.

Before, they hadn't been sure. But after following Rhodes, they'd become certain: his summons from other worlds—lifeforms or technology—weren't conjured from nothing. They required a cost—and that cost was life.

Whether Tyranids, humans, or Warp daemons—if it involved life, it could be used as "recharge material."

"I directly sacrificed the Chaos Godshard to my system, and in return I gained even greater power," Rhodes said.

He'd intended to save that one free monster-enhancement for Belial. For the next enhancement target, he'd been choosing between Tartarus and Daram.

But with Belial now revealed to be a pure-blooded Ultraman from the Land of Light, and even stronger than expected, Rhodes set Belial as the target for that free enhancement.

Along with the next monster enhancement—one for Tartarus and one for Belial—Rhodes's strength would leap to the legendary tier.

"Sacrifice? You mean that thing of yours that can summon otherworldly monsters and special tech can erase a Chaos Godshard?" Aisha asked in shock.

"That doesn't seem strange to me, Aisha. We should accept the facts. This is what Rhodes does—he can pull it off," said Isha.

Rhodes's power always exceeded their expectations and kept surprising them, so this wasn't that strange.

If anyone in this universe could destroy the Four Chaos Gods—wipe them out completely—Isha was sure it would be Rhodes, not anyone else.

"You get me, Isha. Come here—you deserve a kiss." Rhodes laughed, hugged the life goddess, and kissed her on the cheek.

The elven pantheon now had only two goddesses left, and both were his.

A point of pride.

From the moment he transmigrated, Rhodes understood: if his cheat could be activated, then in the grimdark, cold, hopeless Warhammer universe, he would be the one ray of light—because he had the power.

He could defeat the Four Chaos Gods—and now he'd already subdued one!

Crushing the Four Chaos was just a matter of time!

"You're right—I should accept it. Since a Chaos Godshard can grant you even greater power, we should put the other Chaos Gods on the schedule," Aisha said.

This dark, wicked, chaotic, filthy universe was finally going to be reborn!

Rhodes was about to bring a complete transformation to this world!

Aisha touched her belly; her child was about to be born. She had thought the child would become a powerful helper for his father against the Chaos Gods.

But now, it seemed that while the child was still growing up, his father might already have thrashed all four Chaos Gods.

"I've been thinking on this. I plan to go after Nurgle," Rhodes said.

This time, Rhodes intended to target the Chaos God he'd wounded most heavily: Nurgle. The Plague War and the earlier battles with the Primarchs had cost him dearly.

So Rhodes set his next Chaos God target: Nurgle.

Aisha's case was different—she had voluntarily abandoned her Godshard, which made it easy for it to appear. But Nurgle would never give up his Godshard, so a plan was needed.

Rhodes planned to first take a trip to the Ultraman world to see what he could gain, then unite his hardest-hitting subordinates and find a way to lure Nurgle into an extradimensional world and destroy him there.

"Nurgle! He's no slouch—arguably second only to Khorne. In terms of raw power, he might even surpass Tzeentch.

When I was newly born, I fought him—and he beat me into a rout. I wasn't his match at all.

And his vitality is the strongest among the four. I don't think picking him next is realistic," Aisha said, shaking her head.

Your opponent often knows you best. Having fought Nurgle, she knew how terrifying that green fat man was.

He wasn't easy. He was the true embodiment of life in this universe, but unlike Isha, he symbolized all life—even a single cell, even a bacterium. In his eyes, mortals are just aggregates of life. "Nurgle loves everyone" wasn't a joke.

"I can assemble at least three top-tier fighters on his level," Rhodes said.

First, Tartarus; second, Ultraman Belial; as for the third, Rhodes had it planned:

Let Daram choose the Alien Empera as his human host—that was why Rhodes separated Daram from Horus.

Staying with Horus wouldn't make Daram any stronger; he needed a more powerful partner.

The most suitable was the Alien Empera—wielder of absolute dark power.

Can Alien Empera be an Ultraman's human host? Why not? Who says otherwise?

Fused with the Dark Emperor, their dark power would be fully ignited.

The previous fusion with Horus had granted humanity's light and gave Daram a body aligned with light.

When Daram left Horus, what he left him was the power of a Giant of Light, with no Giant of Darkness power.

The dark power had always remained in Daram. The deepest dark within him would best fuse with a Dark Emperor—but picking the Chaos Dark Emperor wasn't appropriate.

But after Rhodes summoned the Dark Emperor of the Ultraverse, things changed. This was one of the top darknesses in the Ultra cosmos.

If they could merge, the effect wouldn't be 1+1=2—it would be far greater.

They would erupt with terrifying power—at least a match for any of the Four Chaos, and possibly capable of thrashing them.

"Rhodes, that's a good idea. Three equal-level powerhouses harassing a Chaos God does give you a chance to kill one. But be fully prepared!

Chaos Gods are nearly invincible in the Warp—effectively undying, existing across all time.

To beat one, you must drag it into your extradimensional world. But your pocket dimension can't currently withstand a Chaos God," Aisha said.

Rhodes's plan sounded nice, but his prior target wasn't the same situation; he'd faced a Godshard without its master.

A Godshard alone couldn't unleash a Chaos God's full power. If he tried the same trick on a true Chaos God, the battlefield might grow beyond imagination.

"My strength has improved. The pocket world keeps growing. It absorbed some of the Warp force from the Godshard this time—it's expanding," Rhodes said.

"It's not the same, Rhodes. Chaos Gods are apex lifeforms in the Warp—they're insulators to the material universe. Are you sure they can even enter your pocket world? How will you drag them there?" Aisha asked.

It wasn't that she didn't trust Rhodes—she needed to lay out the consequences and a Chaos God's power so he could prepare and ensure a one-shot kill.

If they truly killed Nurgle, the others wouldn't sit idle—they'd band together.

"In the Warp, distance and time don't exist—you know that. If the others sense what you're doing, they'll rush to support Nurgle.

Even Tzeentch, who hates him, would go help," Aisha said.

Rhodes had done something earthshaking; the Chaos Gods would soon sense a colleague's fall.

That proved they weren't truly immortal. The universe's balance had been fundamentally altered.

"So you mean, if I act, the other three will be on alert?" Rhodes asked.

Aisha had a point. The pocket world indeed didn't seem suitable as a decisive battleground. Could he even drag their true bodies inside?

"Maybe we set a trap, Rhodes—like we did against Fulgrim. Dangle a body no Chaos God can refuse, and lure them in," Aisha suggested.

"That's unlikely. Some ploys work once; by the second or third time, they'll be wary. And I don't have a vessel that would satisfy a Chaos God," Rhodes said.

"No, Rhodes—you do. The Dark Giants. A Dark Giant's body absolutely qualifies," Aisha said.

Rhodes's arrival had already shattered the cosmic balance and completely reversed reality's relationship to the Warp.

If the Chaos Gods did nothing, they'd lose everything in the material universe.

All their cultists, all the chaotic influence—Rhodes would wipe them out one by one. Without believers, the Chaos Gods would weaken drastically—back to how they were ten thousand years ago, or even sixty million years ago under the Old Ones and the C'tan.

Bait.

Battleground.

These words clicked in Rhodes's mind.

"Aisha! I've thought of a perfect battleground," Rhodes said.

"Other than your pocket world, where else? Without a body, a Chaos God can't set foot in realspace," Aisha replied.

"Even if they get a body, it might only be a large avatar. Killing them would at best weaken them—not truly kill them," Rhodes said.

"So what's your idea?" Aisha asked.

"Simple. I've obtained a chance to go to another universe. What if we bring a Chaos God into that other universe and kill him there? How's that?" Rhodes grinned.

"W-What? Another universe? You mean directly take a Chaos God into another universe?" Aisha's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Exactly. Just as you're thinking. I can travel to other universes—before I couldn't, but now I can. We'll drag Nurgle into another universe," Rhodes said.

Maybe they could even enlist some beings from the Ultra world to help. The Ultra world had no Warp.

If Nurgle went there, his true form would be exposed.

"It's a wild idea—but the most feasible," Aisha said with a smile at the corner of her lips.