Chapter 688 City of Darkness
In the gap between reality and subspace, a tower tore through the veil and split the tide of secrets, like a dyed cobalt and flawed dark wave. spear.
The dying flame struggled on the spire, spraying white flames into the ever-changing sea of souls, beating like a heartbeat without rhythm, and lightning constantly sliding across the surging spiritual energy.
The Warp is unforgiving, claws of huge creatures emerging from the hurricane sweep across the shields, crushing the flames weaker with each impact.
In a sealed room at the top of the tower, a lonely figure knelt quietly.
It was shrouded in a shadow as dense as ink, staring into the unnatural storm in the distance without making a sound, not even a breath.
The scenery outside is like oil floating on the water, churning with disgusting colors. Everything will break down just by looking directly at it, but it keeps staring.
The crackle of the shield bending under pressure was all that illuminated the storm outside.
The tides of the Warp crashed against the spire in jagged, unpredictable waves, but then the torches that impaled the slaves ignited the flames with agony, sending that ferocious shockwave back to the mind that produced it In the trash.
The minaret trembled and let out a pitiful wail, the wail of tens of thousands of slaves dying.
But when that sound reached the room, it was distorted like a sinister whisper, directed at the heart rather than the ears.
“Delazaar, delazaal, delazaal.”
Every word echoes in my blood, but no one will pay attention to such a sound, because here It can be said to be the most depraved corner of the universe.
It has many names, but the one by which it is known is -
Comoros.
Commorragh, the Dark City, is a giant city in the Webway and home to the Dark Eldar.
The city's origins date back to the distant heights of the Eldar Empire, and it does not exist in real space, but in a labyrinthine dimension called the Webway.
The Webway is the work of the Old Ones, the Galactic Creators. Although the Webway has undergone tremendous changes since the Eldar Empire reached its peak, and was destroyed by wars and disasters, they still mastered the original Webway. Tao technology.
Although traveling between dimensions is an extremely risky technology, the Eldar have no hesitation in using this unique technology, because the Webway allows travelers to teleport between stars at the same time. , and can also avoid the risk of direct exposure to subspace.
But since the Great Fall, the Webway has become a fragmented and dangerous place, its darkest corners filled with nameless entities from the warp.
Even so, the many nodes in the Webway still allow the most fearless or vicious to attack millions of targets across the galaxy without warning, and Commorragh was the largest Webway city in the Eldar Empire before the Great Fall. .
The fleets of the ancient Eldar Empire can travel to various home worlds and the farthest corners of the galaxy through Comorragh, so it is also the most important location in the Webway.
Due to its strategic value, no faction in the Eldar Empire can assume a dominant position here. Instead, it is directly ruled by the Supreme Council of the Empire. This autonomy allows Commorragh to expand rapidly, and various hopes Individuals who escape the Eldar's radar travel here, and all money and influence flows through the city into the hands of the Imperium and its allies.
Comoros itself is also expanding into the empty space of the Webway, incorporating many labyrinthine satellite areas, private territories and other port cities. After countless years of construction, the city has reached a point where People are amazed.
But at that time, Comoros was still a relatively normal city, but the Great Fall changed the Eldar's way of survival, and also changed Comoros.
The self-degeneration of the Eldar created the evil god Slaanesh, but not all Eldar know how to repent. In fact, hedonism and perverted arts have been deeply rooted in the flesh and blood of many upper-level Eldar. They are unwilling to accept the penance and repentance of those Ark compatriots. ism, seeking a safe place away from Slaanesh's gaze, and continuing their depraved lives.
Comoros finally became their choice.
But just hiding is not enough. As time goes by, the Eldar hiding in Commorragh begin to feel the thirst of their souls and become withered day by day. They can only continue their lives by torturing other living beings. Feeding on the pain of other creatures.
Some speculate that the cause of this phenomenon is the Chaos God Slaanesh, who is constantly sucking the souls of the Eldar of Commorragh.
In order to survive, the Eldar of Commorragh began to hunt a large number of slaves to perform various cruel tortures. This may be to satisfy Slaanesh's hunger, or to supplement their own needs. The sucking soul.
Since then, the Dark Eldar were born, and Commorragh has become the largest slave market in the galaxy.
Out of fear, other races often only dare to call it the "Dark City", and other Eldar call this city a "cancer" growing on the sacred webway. After countless years of reconstruction and proliferation, Comoros is not only a single city, but also the largest city in the galaxy. It is considered impossible to measure the area using traditional methods, and its entire surface has been over-exploited. , so that buildings must continue to grow in the vertical field, and buildings in various areas grow upward to compete for sunlight like plants competing for sunlight.
Every spire and skyscraper in this city is connected to its neighbors through curved arches and gossamer piers. Those miles-high nests and palaces extend up and down at the same time, spiraling Deep into the twisted space of the Webway.
With each Terran year that passes, the city absorbs more dimensions as its foundation, so that the population of Commorragh is greater than that of all the worlds in a major system combined.
From another perspective, Comoros is actually a collection of many loose sites, adhered to the trunk lines of the network like tumor cells. Those sites that are far apart may be thousands of light years apart from each other, but In the network tunnel, these distant sites are connected to each other by shortcuts in space.
Thousands of ships dock on the spiers of Commorragh every day. The population of the Dark Eldar far exceeds the predictions of the Human Empire. Even the compatriots of the Ark cannot accurately count their numbers.
The webway passages around the Dark City are filled with light trails of ships entering and exiting. Some of the portal passages entering and exiting the real space are small and dim, but those located in the largest area of the city are huge and abnormal, enough to accommodate the entire city. Only the entrance and exit of the plundering fleet, on the thorny skyscrapers and spire dock pillars, are parked a variety of high-speed aircraft of the Dark Eldar and other alien races fixed by purple electromagnetic beams
But Commorragh is not All areas are open to the public. In the city, there are still several mysterious areas that belong to various shrines. Even the consul cannot control them and only belong to the bishop of the shrine.
The Nightmare Temple is one of them, and its iconic building is the huge Torch of Pain.
"Silence."
The shadows whispered hoarsely, but their laughter was still heard.
The beast with primitive wisdom laughs wildly with rough poetry, scratching the boundaries of its thinking with its eternal claws.
A huge being stirred in the mist of ether, it felt the being shaking and saw a shadow as big as the sun rippled in the storm.
It's getting closer.
"Get away."
The huge existence broke the violent fluctuations of the mental fog, like a huge shark, it was crossing the vast ocean, its eyes stared hungrily.
【You lost it】
This time, the answer was emotional but not pleasant at all.
It is deep, mocking, and carries an inhuman resonance.
"It is me, and I am it."
[It was once your body, carrying the memory that you were a mortal]
A mental shadow composed of black mist and hatred fiercely The ground struck, hitting the invisible shield, causing a wave of waves in the spiritual realm.
"It passed away, I am me now, there is no other me."
[Very good, even that thing——]
The torch burned violently again, and the being suddenly swung and disappeared.
Shadow watched the storm outside gradually subside. He first chuckled lowly, then laughed, and finally laughed so wildly that the whole tower shook.
All the Dark Eldar nearby instinctively felt the threat and their hearts beat faster. Then, a roar like thunder pierced the chaotic sky of Commorragh——
"SuinDaellae !"
"SuinDaellae!"
"SuinDaellae!!"
(End of Chapter)