Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Muzan Kibutsuji was born weak and sickly, so he has an almost pathological pursuit for a healthy and perfect body. This is why he is so eager to find the blue spider lily and overcome his weakness to sunlight.

So when he learned that the blue red spider lily was found in the Demon Slayer Corps, he showed unprecedented madness.

This elusive Demon King, who had been in seclusion for hundreds of years, came to the Demon Slayer Corps' base camp for the first time without any disguise. He met the Demon Slayer Corps lord who was related to him by blood, and laughed at his sick and weak body.

The result was the same as before. Muzan was trapped by the buried gunpowder, but this time he did not take the targeted poison developed by Tamayo, so he was in very good condition.

Several Pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps arrived, but Muzan was dismissive and asked Naruto to transfer all the Pillars and members of the Demon Slayer Corps to the Infinite Castle, and then transfer the Upper Moons in.

Muzan is not afraid of anyone except Yoshiichi Tsugikoku who lived a hundred years ago, and according to his observations and the information he has collected, these Demon Slayer Corps are not to be feared at all.

After confirming that all the [Pillars] had been transferred to the [Infinite Castle] and watching the fight between these people who did not know their own strength, Muzan prepared to leave this alien space and go to the Demon Slayer Corps' base to look for the blue spider lily that he had been thinking about - in his opinion, the life and death of these people were not as important as that flower, and after he completed his evolution, he would be able to come back and watch the struggles of these weak humans.

But then he was surprised to find that he couldn't get out.

"Miracle! What's going on?!"

Muzan's questioning fell on deaf ears, with no one responding. The [Infinite City] he had built in another dimension seemed to have suddenly slipped out of his control.

This was indeed the case. The [Infinite City], which was originally composed of countless wooden platforms, screens and sliding doors, began to constantly change, twist, split, and fill. This was a scene that Muzan had never seen before.

Looking at the constantly changing space in front of him, a trace of fear appeared in Muzan's heart. He couldn't understand what was happening. Everything in front of him was beyond his vision, and things were beyond his control.

"I said..."

The Mingnu who controlled the [Infinite City] disappeared before his eyes. The Gauss weapon from the Necrons made the regenerative ability of the high-level ghosts ineffective and turned them into basic molecules.

Zhang Yi waved his arms, controlling the space in front of him to change constantly, while holding a Gauss rifle that suited his body size, he looked at the tall golden figure beside him and said.

"Aren't you being a bit too bullying...ghost by coming here?"

445. Tai Lun: Zhang Yi? Who was it?

Demon World

As Muzan's personal tool and one of the demons who was controlled and backstabbed Muzan in the original work, Mingnu is responsible for managing the entire space of [Infinite City] and transferring the target chosen by Muzan here.

Now that Mingnu is dead, Zhang Yi, who also has the ability to control space, has taken over the control of the [Infinite City] and built a suitable battle field for the [Pillars].

Coming into this world with Zhang Yi was O'Neill, who had been separated by the Emperor before. At this moment, he was shining like the sun - physically.

"You still say you are not a god?!"

Pah! (Psychic Big Sinus)

"I am not." The Emperor slapped Zhang Yi to the ground and said with a smile. "Just as you said, these humans are far from it."

The emperor's perception ability, which was beyond the imagination of everyone in the Demon Slayer world, had now spread throughout the entire alien space. He could clearly feel every battle taking place in this space.

Tokito Muichiro was assigned to fight against Gamatome of the Upper Five. With the help of targeted toxins, markings, and the information about the Upper Five that he had been informed of in advance, he should be able to defeat his opponent quickly.

[Flame Pillar] Rengoku Kyojuro and [Love Pillar] Kanroji Mitsuri are responsible for dealing with Hantengu, the Upper Four. The space specially built for the Hantengu team leaves his real body nowhere to hide. As long as they can hold back Zoupoten, it is only a matter of time before they kill this cowardly real body.

But the battles in other places were not so good. Even when facing multiple [Pillars], Kokushibo and Akaza had an almost overwhelming advantage. These two powerful men had almost no obvious weaknesses.

"Move these two over here."

"Listen to you."

He waved his arms and the space began to change. The battlefields where Akaza and Kokushibo were located were moved over and spliced ​​together.

The assassin, the tall and powerful [Rock Pillar] Gyomei Hiramatsu was knocked away by Akaza, while on the other side, the [Wind Pillar] Musashi Fushigi was also defeated by Kokushibo's overwhelming attack.

The power gap between the Upper Ranks is actually quite outrageous, especially for the top three Upper Ranks, whose abilities in all aspects far exceed those of the other Upper Ranks and demons.

Akaza was able to recover in the blink of an eye after tearing off the flesh and blood contaminated by toxins, and Kokushibo had not even a single wound on his body so far.

"The poison that guy gave doesn't work! They broke it easily!" The wounded Fushigi Shimo shouted loudly.

"Don't blame others, these enemies are too outrageous!" said [Sound Pillar] Uzui Tengen.

"We must buy time so that person can face Muzan alone!"

When all the [Pillars] were ready to sacrifice their lives, they discovered that the two upper-rank demons were looking behind them and retreating.

"Are you planning on doing this yourself?"

"...Go and deal with that alien called Muzan." O'Neill said expressionlessly.

"Okay, you have the final say."

Seeing that O'Neill seemed to be in a bad mood, Zhang Yi decisively chose to run away. After that, O'Neill walked towards Akaza and Kokushibo step by step.

"I strive to become stronger in order to protect my loved ones, and I pursue strength in order to surpass my brothers."

"For these, you gave up your human identity and forgot your original purpose."

For the first time, the two upper-rank demons who wanted to become stronger and constantly challenged the strong, after seeing O'Neill appear in front of them, had no intention of fighting with the golden giant in front of them.

They had seen the Imperial Guards, although they had never fought against those beings. But both Akaza and Kokushibo were eager to fight against those unknown golden giants.

I might die, but I might also be able to glimpse a higher realm.

But when they saw O'Neill, they had no such thoughts - the other party was like a sun walking on earth, warm and deadly.

Are there any lunatics who dare to challenge the sun? There are such lunatics, but Akaza and Kokushibo are not like them. The gap between them and the "sun" is too big.

"How sad."

His hands couldn't stop shaking, and so far O'Neill hadn't even shown any attacking gesture. Just standing there made the two top upper-rank demons dare not move.

At this time, O'Neill slowly turned around and looked at the several [Pillars] who were also in surprise.

"You have been working hard for hundreds of years, nearly a thousand years, to completely eliminate the demons..."

"Stand up! Don't let all these years of hard work go to waste!"

"Let these fools who have given up their human identity understand how foolish their decision is!"

"Show us what is possible for humanity!"

. . . . . .

Everything around him made Muzan feel strange and frightened. Those geometric shapes that he had only seen in books and scenes that only appeared in dreams now appeared before his eyes.

In order to trap the Demon Slayer Corps and others, the alternate dimension now became Muzan's cage, making it impossible for him to escape from here.

Just like when he faced the furious Yoriichi Tsugikoku who questioned him "What do you regard human life as?", fear lingered in his heart, making him feel uneasy.

Although he felt a little better after killing and devouring several ordinary Demon Slayer Corps members along the way, Tanjiro, who was wearing the same earrings as Yoriichi Tsugakuni, almost made him suffer from PTSD.

Especially when Tanjiro used his familiar [Breathing of the Sun] and his swordsmanship, he almost wanted to self-destruct and run away.

But he soon discovered that this human boy, who had the same earrings as Yoriichi Tsugakuni and used the same swordsmanship as him, was far from being as proficient and strong as Yoriichi Tsugakuni, the man he called a monster.

It was as hot as a red-hot blade slashing into his body, but it was far less intense than Tsugokuni Yoriichi's attack. This was the comment made by the Demon King Muzan after he took Tanjiro's attack head-on. The anger that followed made him want to crush to death the weak and annoying insect in front of him.

At this moment, a large platform fell down, causing Muzan Kibutsuji to fall to a deeper place.

"You're worthy of being the protagonist. Even in such a chaotic place, the boss can find you."

"Mr. Zhang Yi." Tanjiro, who was nearly crushed to death by Muzan after taking his full-strength attack, gasped and said. "Muzan..."

"Don't think about the boss in your current state. Change your target." Zhang Yi interrupted him and said, "It's too early for him to be with you."

Then, Zhang Yi waved his arm and moved Tanjiro away, and at the same time pulled back Muzan who was falling with the platform.

At this time, this most embarrassing BOSS had recovered from being smashed into a ball by the platform that fell from the sky, and was looking at Zhang Yi in front of him ferociously.

"It's you?!" Wuzan gnashed his teeth. "It's you who's pregnant with me, it's you..."

Halfway through his words, Zhang Yi suddenly stopped when he saw something in his hand.

Blue spider lily

"then."

Before Muzan could react, Zhang Yi threw the blue flower in his hand to Muzan and just looked at him.

"Haven't you always wanted this? Take it and eat it."

Zhang Yi's reminder made Wuzan react. He picked up the flowers on the ground with trembling hands and swallowed them.

His body was wriggling violently, the old flesh, blood vessels, and tendons were torn apart and replaced, and finally, like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, a new body emerged and appeared - he had finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish, and Muzan, who was no longer afraid of the sun, appeared.

"Finally, finally!" Muzan shouted excitedly. "A perfect body! A body that is not afraid of the sun! I finally..."

clang－－!

The sudden sound of metal and stone rubbing against each other made the somewhat crazy Wuzan stop. He turned his head stiffly and looked at Zhang Yi's position - he was sharpening a knife.

A pitch-black whetstone and a similarly pitch-black, edgeless long sword that seemed somewhat familiar to him were rubbing against each other.

"This knife looks familiar to you." Zhang Yi blew away the fine powder while sharpening the knife. "This knife belongs to Yuichi Tsugikoku."

"!"

"In fact, you know very well, even if you find the blue spider lily and eat it, you will just no longer be afraid of the sun..."

"Facing Tsugikoku Yoriichi, you are still completely defenseless~"

clang－－!

There was another friction sound, which made Muzan feel a little chilly. The two figures that had originally had nothing to do with each other overlapped at this moment.

clang－－!

"Whoo~"

He blew away the fine powder attached to the blade, placed the blade on his left arm and wiped it clean. The sharpened blade reflected Muzan's pale face.

"I don't know how to sharpen a knife." Zhang Yi looked at the long knife in his hand and seemed to mutter to himself. "But at the same time, I can use it even without a blade."

Bear--!

Flames ignited on the black blade. Zhang Yi held the knife with both hands, looked at Muzan in front of him, and aimed it at him.

"I'm sorry I didn't kill you, then..."

"Let me make up for this regret~"

At this moment, large platforms from the surroundings flew over, forming a larger ground surface while sealing the surroundings and the top.

"Muzan, do you want to run away again?" Zhang Yi's face was distorted by the burning flames, and Muzan seemed to see the young Yoriichi Tsugikoku. "Or do you want to fight me in an upright manner?!"

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Warhammer World, the star region around the Star Foundry

The reinforcements brought by Guilliman stabilized the war situation in this area to a great extent. During this period, the Tyranids failed to gain any advantage and suffered considerable losses.

Small-scale conventional attacks did not work, and the large forces were blocked. In this situation, the Zerg fleet had to send out special units in order to break the deadlock.

Licart is a special Zerg unit that usually has extremely high intelligence and self-thinking. It specializes in collecting intelligence and hunting high-value targets, and sometimes can also lead the way for the Zerg hive fleet.

The several Licats released by the Hungry Zerg Hive Fleet did not achieve good results. There were battles everywhere, and the troops were on high alert everywhere. They were ready to blow up any insects that suddenly rushed out.

Licart did play a certain role, hunting down some senior officers and gaining some advantages for the Zerg's attack, but then that was it. The advantages in a small place cannot change the overall situation.

But then a message was sent back to the Queen of this hive fleet.

After a Licat devoured the brain of a Space Marine, it obtained the two keywords "portal" and "Zhang Yi", and then he was killed.

Naturally, these two key words were later known by the Queen who commanded the entire hungry Zerg swarm. She knew that these two key words were crucial, as the hive will had said. However, the hungry Zerg fleet, which regarded eating as more important than anything else, did not react for a while to why they were so important.

Zhang Yi... Who is that?

446. The Swarm and the Incarnation of Death

Contrary to its usual practice, the Zerg slowed down its attack speed and no longer devoured all humans like a swarm of locusts. Instead, it arranged its troops to gather all the humans in the areas they occupied, and allowed the Zerg with psychic powers or the ability to extract memories directly from the human brain to extract the memories of these humans one by one.

Some insect nests even slowed down their digestion and began to try to examine the organic liquid that had been digested and could no longer be recognized as its original state, to see if they could find any remaining memories in it.

This abnormal situation was naturally noticed by the Empire. Although it eased the current war situation to a certain extent, on the other hand, those who knew about it also realized that this was not a good thing.

Before this, Zhang Yi's existence had already been known to all races in the entire galaxy, including the Tyranids.

Most Tyranids therefore spent more time looking for who Zhang Yi was. According to the intelligence of the Necrons, part of the Tyranid forces attacking the Milky Way also increased their attack intensity after that, and this situation was spreading continuously.

Except for the Orks who may not have figured out what it meant, the situation in the entire galaxy was stirred up by the announcement of Zhang Yi's existence.

"Originally I was feeling lucky that this Hive Fleet didn't seem to know about Zhang Yi's existence, but now it seems...how long will it take for the support fleet to arrive?"

"The first batch of support fleets is already on the way, and the subsequent ones are also being formed in full swing, but... it will take time."