Chapter 48 Seeds and Thieves

The thought of good and evil in human history has existed since its birth. Almost at the same time, religious concepts that explained the human cognition of the world when productivity was not yet developed were born.

The earliest time when the concept of demons appeared in human religion is unknown.

Relatively speaking, it can be verified that in the early days of the earliest slave society, there were descriptions of demons in the primitive shamanism.

What is more interesting is that the same or similar concepts appeared in the shamanism, druidism, and Changshengtian sect in East Asia almost at the same time in the ancient Terra period, when different human birthplaces were thousands of miles apart.

Such a coincidence may not have attracted human attention at the time. After all, due to the communication efficiency problem limited by productivity, most people will never step out of the coverage of their civilization in their entire lives.

However, in the past 30,000 years, human technology and productivity are no longer as slash-and-burn as they were in the past. With the development of the times, human footprints have long been all over the galaxy.

Thirty thousand years have passed. With the advancement of technology, humans have been able to maintain an empire with a galaxy-wide territory as a political system for the entire race with the support of warp communication technology.

When humans, under the leadership of the Emperor, developed the Empire's national strength to the second peak since the Golden Age, the Chaos Gods in the Warp, who had been planning for a long time, used a rebellion that affected the entire galaxy, causing unprecedented trauma to the human empire.

It was at this time that the scholars and wizards of the empire finally turned their attention to religion, a concept that has been with humans for thousands of years.

With the need for faith, the concept of gods was re-examined from the ancient human notebooks, and a corresponding derivative concept: demons, also began to attract people's attention.

When the most intelligent groups in these empires began to trace the history of mankind because of the history of religion, they vaguely perceived the Chaos Gods' far-reaching malice towards mankind in the materials preserved over the years.

These projections, which correspond to the first evil deeds of mankind since its birth, were quietly planted when mankind was still in its infancy as a race.

In the memories of the Chaos Gods, the Eldar were still active at that time. But in the vision created by the gods in the life of ten thousand years, the days of these Eldar are running out.

The last "field" has already produced the biggest fruit, and Xin Liezhi was born here. So what about the next field? Naturally, the seeds symbolizing disaster were planted early.

The Chaos Gods do not have to pay too much, just wait for these evil seeds to grow with the rise of mankind, and there will be a day to harvest the fruits of the disaster that represents the extinction of a race.

The Emperor also discovered this problem, but it was too late. The earliest recorded possibility of the Emperor's birth was after mankind got rid of ignorance.

So even the sacred and great Emperor himself was powerless against these seeds planted since the barbaric period, which became a vicious curse parasitic on the entire civilization after growth.

Because the Emperor is also a member of the human race, since he is a human, when facing these demons that represent the original sin of mankind, his power can only be limited to injuring and sealing these demons.

These demons naturally have the right to be immune to the power from the Emperor that can completely destroy them, simply because the Emperor is also from the human race.

Sealing is one of the few ways to deal with such existence, but it is only a delay.

As long as human civilization exists, these parasites rooted in the concept of human beings will also exist.

And as humans exist for a long time, they will become more and more difficult to restrict.

According to the original destiny of this universe, these seeds will eventually expand to a point where they are difficult to control. The day they break out of their shells is also the time when the Chaos Gods harvest the human race.

When the end comes, these fruits will become exclusive weapons like the cursed blade that the gods stabbed at the Warmaster Horus. Or to put it another way, these demons are essentially the Achilles heel deliberately created by the evil gods for humans.

Fate cannot be changed, but fate has its own destiny. Calvin is such a constant and a variable.

When Calvin, the variable, came to this universe from another world, the originally predetermined destiny trajectory was naturally changed.

Is Calvin a human? Of course he thinks he is.

But is the human he thinks of really the same concept as the human born in this universe? Obviously not.

Otherwise, why is the essence of his soul so different from those native people?

So when such an outsider who claims to be a human, looks like a human, but is not a human in essence, has a chance to transform from a mortal to a god by chance, and truly becomes a being with divinity, he naturally has complete restraint on this seemingly unsolvable curse in terms of power.

Does Calvin have divinity? Yes.

So he, like the Emperor, can effectively kill these demons.

Is he a human? Yes, but he happens not to be a human in this universe, so the original sin represented by the demons has nothing to do with him.

Then when Calvin has the opportunity to completely destroy these original demons with the power of his own divinity, they will naturally no longer have the privilege of being exempted from death when facing the Emperor.

"Sorry, I won't accept your trick."

This is Calvin's attitude towards these demonic powers. It is also the biggest reason why Calvin deliberately chose to live here.

Since he moved into this room at the bottom of Titan, these fragments from the great demon sealed deep underground in Titan have been tirelessly rushing towards Calvin.

These fragments were originally insignificant in the eyes of the great demon.

Moreover, in the tens of thousands of years of growth of this great demon before it arrived in the physical universe, the short-lived species of the physical universe really had no way to completely destroy it.

In the past practice, these fragments from it were usually destroyed by the Grey Knights recruits who came to the trial, and then reborn in the subspace based on their own concepts was the original established procedure.

And if they were lucky enough not to be destroyed, these fragments could also bring back new information about the surface for the great demon.

Although it didn't help it break the seal, it was a good benefit to have news of new things and to kill the boredom brought by the long time.

So in the eyes of the great demon who had no sense of crisis, releasing these fragments of himself to any creatures coming from the surface became a sure-win business.

But everything started to change when it came to Calvin. The fragments that were supposed to return on time gladly abandoned their old master after a series of short and friendly exchanges with Calvin.

After being digested and absorbed, they permanently became a part of Calvin and never had the chance to return to the body.

Correspondingly, the power they carried: the power of the evil god that had accumulated from the entire human race and civilization over a long period of time and was supposed to be handed over to it at the end of humanity in the future, was quietly intercepted by Calvin and became the nutrients needed for his own growth.

The evil gods should be angry about this, if they had the opportunity to catch Calvin, the shameless thief.

However, in countless timelines, Calvin, who was also the only one in existence, wiped out the traces of his little actions very cleanly.

So the farmers who had been diligently planting seeds in the "field" of humanity in ancient times and planning to wait for the fruits to mature slowly may be destined to never wait for the moment of harvest.

As the old saying goes, who cares? Calvin didn't care anyway.