Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 972

Chapter 963, The Eldar Surrender

. This is Gu Hang’s first time observing the relationship between the Human Imperium, the Alliance, the Emperor, and the Storm Kingdom through the perspective of another Warp God.

Of course, this structure only appears as it does in the Thousand-Faced God’s eyes and doesn’t represent reality.

Different perceptions of the Warp naturally reveal different things.

But it also reveals a portion of the relationship between the four parties,

which is actually quite interesting.

Meanwhile, Gu Hang also roughly understood the Thousand-Faced God’s demands.

“You want me to help you, and the entire Alliance to help the Eldar?”

“We… beg you…”

The voice, previously dominated by Mensha’s chilling coldness, shifted to a gentle female voice.

It was Windsor’s will.

It guided Gu Hang’s gaze through the fog that shrouded the stitched-together structure of his own Thousand-Faced God, revealing all his secrets to him.

There, at the center of the vortex formed by the despairing sobs of countless Eldar souls and the god’s own disintegration pain, a tiny structure emerged.

This was the divine core, forged from the very concepts of pain and death, forged amid the dying screams of countless divine fragments. Its fundamental purpose was a single, single entity: to forcibly weld together the two processes of the Eldar’s acquisition of transcendental power and the Thousand-Faced God’s absorption of pain.

“This is a curse… but also a last resort…” Windsor’s will helplessly explained the core’s significance. “If the channel for the Eldar’s transcendental power had not been anchored within this divine core, the Eldar and we would have perished long ago…”

“For ages, this structure, like a rusted iron chain, temporarily protected the Eldar from complete Chaos engulfment, yet it also served as a toxic petri dish for the infiltration of Slaanesh… Now… it’s on the verge of collapse…”

Gu Hang remained silent.

At this point, he clearly understood the Thousand-Faced God’s need for help.

He sought a method that could bypass this endangered divine core and provide an alternative energy channel for the Eldar’s transcendent individuals.

This method, naturally, is the vast network of the human empire.

If Gu Hang is willing, then the blue network, built atop the golden network, with its double reinforcement and filtering, could create a temporary spiritual haven for the Eldar souls. When the Eldar transcendents extract power, their mental agitation will have two more layers of “filtering,” reducing the degree of Slaanesh’s infiltration, and this corruption can be borne by humans.

While it still exists, the magnitude is minimal and negligible. Humans are far more resilient. Already under the constant scrutiny of the Four Gods, they don’t care about even a tiny bit of Slaanesh’s corruption.

More importantly, unlike the Eldar, human souls are not destined for the Dark Prince’s realm of lust after death, so they have no fear of it at all.

This way, the burden on the Thousand-Faced God will be greatly reduced, providing a precious respite and opportunity for self-recovery.

However, after explaining the predicament faced by the Eldar gods, offering solutions, and confirming Gu Hang’s ability to help… the most crucial part remains unsaid.

Is helping the Eldar free of cost? Is there no benefit?

Gu Hang posed the question bluntly.

He calmly and clearly outlined the essence of this deal and the immense danger lurking behind it: “Slaanesh will never allow the Eldar, the very creatures it desires most and has always considered its prey, to be spared. He will never relent and will unleash frenzied revenge…”

What Gu Hang spoke of was a profoundly realistic question.

Humanity wasn’t afraid of the added corruption, but what would the impact of Slaanesh’s frenzied counterattack be?

It was foreseeable that the Chaos factions that worshipped Slaanesh would act frantically. Slaanesh would unleash wave after wave of corruption, and the probability of Slaanesh cults within the Alliance would increase dramatically…

The former would mean higher military costs, the latter would mean greater internal governance costs. This would inevitably involve a vast tsunami of Imperial blood and endless

… And for all this, what would either the Alliance or Gu Hang gain?

After a moment’s silence, Windsor summoned a new vision.

In a corner of the galaxy, a nearly hopeless Imperial Guards regiment, trapped by Greenskins, suddenly shimmered with an eerie silver light at the edge of their defensive perimeter. The next moment, a swarm of howling Banshees, clad in spiked helmets, emerged from thin air, their shuriken spears plundering the Greenskins’ hideous heads with pinpoint precision before the Imperial soldiers’ astonished gaze.

A powerful Imperial capital ship, possessed by the daemon of Tzeentch, had its internal navigational charts tampered with without warning. Deadly Warp currents threatened to throw the vessel astray. But then, on the bridge, the Human navigator looked up in bewilderment, a whisper echoing in his ears—incomprehensible yet reassuring—that guided him safely.

On Comoros, every port was operating at full capacity. The Eldar worked alongside the Humans. The Dark Eldar’s legacy of technology, undestroyed by their defeat, was deployed, one by one, to propel the Human fleet through the Veil Gate, from one end of the universe to the other.

Within the Warp, waves of purple lust surged toward the Storm Realm, crashing wave after wave. Yet, against this backdrop, Windsor and Mensha remained at the forefront of the fight against the tide of Slaanesh. And, as time passed, the number of Eldar gods standing shoulder to shoulder with them would grow. The fragments dormant within the divine core would have the opportunity to be restored, to become whole again, to become new forces of strength…

The Thousand-Faced God emphasized that everything presented was not mere speculation, but a projection of future possibilities.

A clear and alluring path lay before Gu Hang: If humanity could provide this temporary spiritual haven, even a temporary, fragile anchorage, it would buy precious living space and breathing space for the Eldar Craftworlds, the Dark Eldar, and the Thousand-Faced God.

And, if these Ark Eldar and Dark Eldar continued to exist, they would act in a manner perfectly suited to the Imperium’s current needs—they would serve as reinforcements in the Imperium’s battle against its common Chaos enemy.

Though their numbers are small, their more advanced technology, greater individual capabilities, and elusive mobility will be particularly effective in many situations.

Their ancient knowledge, even surpassing the Imperium’s, will trickle down to crucial Imperial ship navigation and the repair of medical relics, playing an incredible role in shifting strategic balance points. This

includes the Thousand-Faced God himself. Once his situation improves, he will awaken more ‘faces’—those shattered Eldar gods—and they themselves will become powerful aids, playing a considerable role in the Warp’s confrontation.

The wrath of Slaanesh may not be able to be accurately directed at Gu Hang. When the Eldar gods stand up one by one, Slaanesh’s troubles will become even greater. This will be a great relief to the huge pressure on stabilizing the foundation of the real universe that is constantly being shaken by Chaos. After

the Thousand-Faced God showed all this, he did not say much, but his attitude was actually very clear.

Whether it is the Empire, the Alliance, the Emperor, or Gu Hang, in short, for humans, they can of course fight all enemies independently. The malicious gods in the warp, the greenskins and the zerg in the real universe, these real enemies, humans can bear them on their own.

That’s fine.

But there’s another path.

The Eldar can be not enemies, but good allies.

Humanity doesn’t have to shoulder this all on its own; humanity can have allies.

And the Eldar really don’t want much.

Help resolve Slaanesh’s ongoing corruption, allocate some resources and a few worlds so the Eldar can survive.

That’s all.

For humanity, these are just the beginning.

As for Slaanesh’s frenzied counterattack… Actually, even if this didn’t happen, even if they didn’t help the Eldar, would Slaanesh not attack humanity? Of course not.

None of the Four Gods can escape the consequences of the devastation inflicted on humanity. Whether this happened or not, both sides are mortal enemies, impossible to reconcile. They

clearly share the same enemy, and there’s no conflict between them, so why bother to destroy the Eldar?

This is the attitude the Many-Faced God frankly expressed.

And all the decisions rest in Gu Hang’s hands.

Gu Hang pondered for a long time and made a decision.

He laid out his conditions:

“Comoros belongs to the Alliance.”

“A mark of commitment must be engraved on the back of every Eldar Ark.”

“Your divine core must be handed over to me.”

These conditions ultimately led to one outcome:

if the Thousand-Faced God attempted to renege on the agreement after repairing himself, or even more horrifically, if He ultimately failed to resist the ultimate contamination of Slaanesh and completely transformed into a Chaos abscess that threatened humanity, then Gu Hang would have the ultimate means: a single command to detonate the extermination marks imprinted on the cores of all Eldar Arks.

It would no longer be a battle, but the physical annihilation of the remnants of Eldar civilization!

Simultaneously, it would be the complete annihilation of the Thousand-Faced God.

If Gu Hang so desired, all this would become a reality without cost.

A race once dominant in the universe would see its final shimmering glory with a single thought.

This perfectly aligned with Gu Hang’s consistent demand for Comoros and the Dark Eldar:

unconditional surrender.

However, the scale of the situation had now been further expanded.

The demands were not limited to Comoros, but also included the Ark Eldar, who had little to do with the war, and the Thousand-Faced God, who stood behind both Eldar.

Faced with such conditions, Windsor’s response was swift and decisive:

“Alright.”

Gu Hang was somewhat surprised, yet it felt perfectly reasonable.

If the Thousand-Faced God hadn’t made such a decision, He wouldn’t have come to see him today.

As for whether giving everything to humanity was a good option, and whether He feared Gu Hang would utterly destroy them with a single wave of his hand…

that wasn’t a big deal.

Why would Gu Hang do that at this point?

If he could completely control both Eldar races, the benefits would clearly be greater than simply destroying them.

Instead of utterly annihilating the Eldar, why not simply enslave them?

Highly qualified personnel, powerful cannon fodder, and superior technology… what’s wrong with having such a large pool of “slaves”?

As for whether they were worried about Gu Hang actually implementing this kind of slavery… that wasn’t a big deal.

The Thousand-Faced God’s decision meant that he, and the entire Eldar, had no other choice.

They have two options: either, after a thousand years, the God Core can no longer hold on, and the entire race, regardless of whether they are Ark Eldar or Dark Eldar, will be sent to the Palace of Desire to be enslaved by Slaanesh forever.

Or, they will choose to be “enslaved” by humans.

There is no other option.

Now, perhaps for individual Eldar, there is the option of not choosing anything and just dying; but for the Eldar as an entire race, even the option of destruction does not exist.

When the God Core is corrupted, the remaining Eldar, whether they are alive or dead and their souls are preserved in Soul Stones/Soul Boxes, will be the same. They will all be toys of Big Sister Slaanesh.

When Gu Hang and the Thousand-Faced God reached an agreement, and when the old woman returned to Comoros, only three standard Terran days later, the Dark Eldar of Comoros declared their complete and unconditional surrender to the Alliance.

(End of this chapter)