I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 306 Fortunate Enough to Sit on the "Golden Throne"

Thanks to the mysterious connection between the God-Emperor and the Primarch's subspace nature, Lino learned of Horus and Magnus's whereabouts from Macardo.

These two Primarchs from the Age of Rebellion are currently in the core region of Altramor.

Guilliman divided Altramer into five zones: East, West, South, North, and Central.

Guilliman himself was based in Macurag, the central district, which is also the seat of the Church of Omniscience.

Horus was imprisoned in the Fortress of Hera, a fortress-monastery in Makula, and was personally guarded by Guilliman, the leader of the Defenders of the Church of Omniscience.

When Guilliman was severely injured and could only recuperate in the static field, he was placed in the punishment hall of Hera Fortress.

But now, Guilliman has been corrupted by Tzeentch, becoming the Cult of the Omniscient and the leader of the Guardians of the Cult. The Chaos corruption within Hera Fortress must be severe, and the Hall of Punishment may have already become the Bluebird Hall.

Rescuing Horus from such a place is a terrifying prospect.

In comparison, rescuing Magnus was much easier.

His place of confinement is the Foundry World-Gantz in the northern division.

This is a forging world established during the Great Crusade, whose primary product is the Titans.

At its peak, Gantz was able to produce more than one hundred different models of Titans simultaneously.

After being controlled by the Cult of Omniscience, Ganz began to study how to use warp energy to power the Titans.

Thus, Magnus, who was skilled in psionic energy, was used as a humanoid engine and stuffed into Ganz's giant furnace to serve as an experimental subject.

To be honest, when the Chaos God and the Mechanical Cultivator combine, they always produce strange sparks.

Poor Magnus was like a psionicist sent into the Star Torch, his psionic energy being drained day and night, his remaining eyes flashing wildly like the indicator lights of an instrument.

“Li Nuo, considering the success rate and benefits of the rescue operation, I recommend saving Magnus.”

Makado analyzed rationally:
"After rescuing Magnus, give him some time to heal his wounds. He will naturally learn from this painful experience and treat the warp and psionic energy with greater caution from now on. With his psionic prowess, activating the God-Emperor from the Apostate Era shouldn't be a problem. As for Horus..."

Makado sighed softly:
“Alas, I watched Horus grow up. Both His Majesty and the Emperor have extremely deep feelings for him. Even if he doesn’t have psionic powers, he can still activate the God-Emperor of the Apostate Era with his sincere emotions. However, rescuing him is too difficult. You can give it a try, but if the chances of success are slim, then you should give up. His Majesty will not hold a grudge against you for this.”

Li Nuo pondered for a moment and said:
“I understand. I will send out two teams to act separately and proceed as needed. Time is of the essence, so I will go and prepare the rescue team now.”

Li Nuo took his leave and departed.

He returned to the reconnaissance ship and switched his consciousness back to Space Generation II.

Two hours later, the two rescue teams were ready.

The rescue team for Magnus consists of five squads, each with five members, for a total of twenty-five Blood Raven Boys.

They would use the shapeshifting abilities of the Mudmans to disguise themselves as random passersby in Alteramar and infiltrate the Forgeworld - Ganz.

The rescue team for Horus consists of fifty Blood Raven Boys, divided into ten five-man squads.

Macurag is heavily guarded, and it's not easy to sneak in.

After sending the team to rescue Magnus out, Lino piloted his frigate and lurked around the central region of Altrama, finally finding an opportunity.

A small logistics fleet, while leaving subspace and returning to the real universe, unfortunately collided with an asteroid belt.

This was a minor subspace navigation accident, and the navigator of the logistics formation bears the primary responsibility.

For them, the immediate priority was not to blame the navigator, but to repair the damaged ship, preserve the cargo, and call for backup.

Li Nuo's escort ships were disguised in advance, with the Omniscient Church's symbols and fake Otlam patrol ship numbers added to their hulls.

After the frigate appeared, the logistics fleet immediately sent a communication request.

Both sides first conducted identity verification, and after confirming that there were no problems, Li Nuo dispatched a repair team to board the ship.

During the ship repairs, a rescue team was dispatched.

Blood Raven Kid swiftly knocked out the crew member, impersonated him, and hid the replaced crew member on the escort ship.

When the logistics fleet regained its sailing capability, no one in the entire fleet noticed anything unusual on board.

The logistics convoy set sail for Makula to unload its cargo.

Li Nuo piloted the frigate to the northern district, unloaded the mortals whose memories had been erased, and settled them in an industrial world.

Three days later, the logistics convoy arrived in Makula.

Li Nuo switched consciousness and personally directed the rescue team to leave the ship and head towards Hera Fortress, located on the highest peak of the planet.

This journey is destined to be difficult.

The patrol formations of fighter jets and ground patrols of the Faith Guard completely surrounded the Laponis Mountains, where the Hera Fortress was located.

In the mountain valleys, in the dense forests, and on the riverbeds, there are detectors everywhere.

Thankfully, the "Silent Brother Mao" force field and the "Black Hair of Brother Mao" were incredibly cool and awesome, otherwise the rescue team would have been discovered before even entering Hera Fortress.

After two days of free climbing, the team reached the mountainside of the Laponis mountain range.

There is a valley here, and Hera Fortress is located in it.

At this point, Tzeentch's corruption of the Ultramarines finally revealed just the tip of the iceberg.

The fortress's four corner towers were brightly lit, and Ultramarines could be seen patrolling within them, their armor gleaming.

But the main building of the fortress was pitch black, without a trace of light.

Staring intently at the windows of the main building, Li Nuo noticed a kind of black, non-luminous, hair-like airflow seeping out from the window cracks.

These black currents were quickly dissolved by sunlight or the light from the neighboring house, and Blood Raven Boy's object finder accurately captured their energy signals.

It was a psionic fluctuation caused by the leakage of some kind of psionic ritual, with obvious characteristics of chaotic corruption.

Beings that come into contact with these kinds of psionic fluctuations will be affected by the ritual and experience intense hallucinations.

Without a doubt, Horus is inside the main building of the fortress.

Li Nuo nodded to himself and took out the "Gao Mao Goggles" from the Palu warehouse and put them on.

Without the ability to generate germs - the mental network, the effectiveness of one person forming an army is slightly reduced.

But it doesn't matter, "wearing the goggles" will still allow you to control the entire team.

With a thought, the fifty-person team split into several groups and infiltrated Hera Fortress from various angles.

The process went unexpectedly smoothly.

Blood Raven easily infiltrated the main building of the fortress by using the "Brother Mao, Quietly" technique.

Inside the main building's lobby, a group of fifty people assembled.

This is where Guilliman once slept, the Hall of Punishment.

Its main body is an arched tomb, covering an area of ​​more than 3,000 square meters. Its architectural style is simple and ancient, but it reveals the noble style unique to the Ultramarines. It is decorated with intricate gold-plated reliefs and shiny gemstones.

Before the falling out between Ottarama and Terra, millions of pilgrims traveled every year just to catch a glimpse of Robert Guilliman, the author of the Astartes, sleeping.

Calling it a sleeping position is actually a bit inaccurate.

Because when Guilliman fell into a deep sleep, he did not lie in a tomb, but sat on a throne in the hall like an emperor, fixing himself in place by a static field.

Now, under the illumination of the enormous crystal chandelier, every corner of the Hall of Punishment is filled with holy light, showing no signs of chaos or corruption.

"Horus isn't here..."

Li Nuo frowned, his gaze sweeping back and forth as he observed the hall through the holographic vision of his goggles.

The device is in operation, collecting environmental information from the lobby repeatedly.

There were over a hundred life signals, and besides the patrolling Ultramarines, it was from his own group of fifty Blood Ravens.

The explosive signals all came from the heavy bolters in the hands of the Ultramarines and the bullet belts on their waists. There were no high-energy explosives, indicating that there should be no explosive traps at the scene.

The psionic signal was extremely weak, almost nonexistent, and its source was not the marble throne in the hall.

Li Nuo looked toward the source of the psionic signal, his brows furrowing even deeper.

The signal was coming from the floor above.

Where is that place?
Oh!
correct!

That's the Ptolemaic Library at Hera's Fortress!

One of the five great libraries of the human empire!

The cunning and treacherous hold the reins of knowledge.

It makes perfect sense that He would set up psychic rituals in the library to corrupt Horus.

In a flash, Li Nuo led his team toward the library.

After traversing a spiral staircase stretching over a hundred meters, the group was confronted by a wall of black mist. Strange blue lights flickered within the mist, and faint whispers lingered in the black fog.

Blood Raven Boy's Palu psionic field is immune to the effects of the subspace.

When Blood Raven Boy approached the black mist, the eerie black energy was dissolved by the psionic field, failing to cause him any harm.

Upon seeing this, Li Nuo immediately raised his fist and stopped the team's advance.

The black mist was caused by a psionic ritual, and the Palu psionic field's ability to neutralize the black mist might alert the ritual's organizer.

In this situation, if fifty Blood Raven Boys swarm in, their whereabouts will definitely be discovered by the master of the ritual, and they will inevitably be surrounded by Chaos Limit Warriors.

It's not a safe bet to go all in like this; I need to have a backup plan.

Li Nuo divided the team into two groups with a look in his eyes.

The first group, consisting of three teams, followed me into the black fog.

The second group, consisting of seven squads, was positioned at various points within the fortress to provide support.

After the teams were divided into groups, they set off on their own. Li Nuo led the three teams into the black fog.

The whispers in the mist grew louder, but under the influence of the Palu psionic field, they had no effect other than causing some noise.

Not far ahead, the blue light intensified, like sharp arrows piercing through the thick fog and penetrating Blood Raven Boy's holographic vision.

The psionic fluctuations became intense, quickly reaching the gamma level.

Suddenly, Li Nuo passed through the mist and entered a place where books floated.

Horus was enveloped in a blue cocoon of light, floating in the air with his eyes closed and his expression pained.

He was surrounded by a large number of parchment scrolls, ancient books, and manuscripts, each of which emitted a blue light, and the characters on the pages rose and fell like waves, emitting layers of whispers.

At the center of this psychic ritual, directly below Horus, a towering figure stood silently, his hand on the longsword at his waist.

With its blue paint job, gold engravings, and eagle-shaped power backpack, it sits on your back, with a gleaming gold iron halo fixed to the backpack.

The longsword at his waist was wreathed in blue flames. It was the Imperial Sword, once forged by the Emperor by the fusion of science and warp knowledge, but Tzeentch had transformed it into a blue greatsword that manipulated fate and magic.

The sword and the blue and gold armor introduced the tall figure to Li Nuo.

He is Robert Guilliman, the Primarch of the Ultramarines corrupted by Tzeentch.

"Finally, you have come before me, Alphamega."

Guilliman's gaze fell on a patch of mist distorted by something invisible.

When the unseen entity stepped out of the mist and arrived at the ritual site, its psionic field compressed an ellipsoid onto the surface of the mist.

It was the change in the surface morphology of the fog that allowed Guilliman to discover the uninvited guest's whereabouts.

How was he so sure that the person who came was AlphaMega?

Of course, it's because of the other party's unique psionic field.

Guilliman slowly turned around, his blond hair still dazzling, his square face with its strong features, seemingly uncorrupted by Tzeentch, but the blue fire in his eyes proved that he had been corrupted.

With the magical psychic powers bestowed upon him by Tzeentch, his eyes can perceive the psychic fields of all things.

He saw the other party's peculiar psionic field, which contained both the green of orcs and the black of Tyranids.

Interweaving two distinct psionic fields to form a new psionic field is precisely AlphaMega's area of ​​expertise.

However, did Guilliman mistake someone for someone else?

Li Nuo paused for a moment when he met Guilliman's gaze, not intending to explain his identity further.

Now that their whereabouts have been discovered, there's no need to continue hiding.

Li Nuo led the three teams out of the fog, surrounded the ceremony site, and waved to dispel the "Brother Mao is Quiet" force field.

The appearance of fifteen armored men out of nowhere did not surprise Guilliman.

His eyes darted around, gleaning some clues from the figures wearing red metallic gloves and power armor painted primarily in dark red:
"These are all orcs? It seems you've built a respectable orc army. The composite material, made of terracotta steel with a hardness comparable to adamantite and subspace single crystals, the Gauss weapons that use electromagnetic fields to drive high-energy particles to create penetrating damage, and the multi-functional gloves that appear to have miniature traction fields. The equipment manufacturing level of your orc army is quite remarkable; it has impressed me."

Guilliman was commenting on Bloodraven Boy's gear when he suddenly changed the subject:
"But with these men alone, you cannot take Horus from me. You have overestimated your strength and underestimated the fortress's defenses. In the name of the All-Knowing God, you will pay the price for your recklessness."

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The sound of metal clanging echoed from within the black fog, and the road and doorway from which they had come were blocked by heavy metal gates.

"Buzz buzz----"

Deep rumbles echoed throughout the fortress, and intense energy fluctuations reverberated outside the fortress.

A spherical shield force field surrounds the fortress; this is a void shield that was not activated before, specifically designed to prevent uninvited guests from entering or leaving.

"Da da da da————"

The terracotta boots clattered against the floor, and a series of rapid footsteps approached from afar. Gun barrels from the Chaos Ultra Warriors pierced through the black mist, pointing at Blood Raven Boy.

In just over ten seconds, Lino, who had infiltrated Hera Fortress, became a sitting duck.

Sure enough, rescuing Horus was no easy task.

Guilliman was meticulous; with him around, Horus would have no chance of escape.

It would be better to just bring in a few massive bombs, blow up Macragge, and then pray that Horus survives the explosion.

Li Nuo muttered to himself, preparing to detonate the explosives on Blood Raven Boy's body to disrupt the ritual as much as possible and slow down Horus's corruption.

Just then, Guilliman spoke up:

"AlphaMega, have you ever deeply considered the relationship between humanity and the warp gods? We are not actually enemies with the warp gods..."

If you're going to fight, then fight. What's with all the whining and complaining?

Li Nuo, too lazy to listen to the chaotic and corrupt ramblings, directly used the "Goggles" to issue the order to detonate the bomb, putting on a grand self-destruction performance.

"Bang bang bang bang——"

The cationic grenade on the belt detonated, and a bright golden-white light instantly dispelled the surrounding black mist.

The parchment scrolls and books floating in the air projected blue light, forming a light barrier to block the impact of the cation bomb.

As the flames flickered, Guilliman swiftly raised his foot and stomped down.

"boom!"

"Rumble——————"

The floor collapsed, and rubble flew everywhere.

Li Nuo wasn't quite dead yet; the cation rays were destroying his physiological functions, and Blood Raven Boy's body was still a little way from death.

He felt as if he had first experienced a free fall, and then with a hum, he crashed into a force field as soft as a cotton ball.

At that moment, the golden lightning and plasma flames on his body were forcibly paused by the force field device, and his injuries were frozen in this semi-permanent state of being on the verge of death.

The only part of his body that could still move freely was his consciousness.

His peripheral vision swept around, meeting the armrest of the marble throne before moving on to the omnipresent light blue force field rays.

Lino found himself sitting on the very throne that Guilliman had used to sustain his life, and the force field enveloping him was the infamous "static field".

Considering that both this throne and the Golden Throne can extend the lives of those who are on the verge of death, Li Nuo can be said to have indirectly sat on the "Golden Throne".

Things are getting a bit tricky. When controlled by the static field, can I still shift my consciousness?
Li Nuo steadied himself and tapped on the simulation interface.

A system message popped up.

[Completing this Waaagh simulation.]

[You have been detected to be in a "static field". You will need to wait 10 minutes for the event to officially end.]

The static field truly lives up to its reputation as a cutting-edge technological creation capable of extending the life of a God Emperor by ten thousand years. This is the first time Li Nuo has encountered a situation where the transfer of consciousness requires a 10-minute delay to complete.

Sand and gravel slid down from above, making a rustling sound.

A figure descended from the sky and landed in front of the marble throne. Guilliman, with blue light in his eyes, emerged from the swirling dust.

Fine dust flowed along the intricate patterns of the armor, forming trickles that slid down with a soft rustling sound.

"Now, we can talk."

Guilliman stretched out his right hand toward the open space, palm up, and slowly raised it.

As he moved, blue psionic lines appeared out of thin air and wove together to form a high chair.

Guilliman sat down and began to chat like old friends:
"Before coming to Macurag, you must have already learned about the current situation in Alterama. Between Alterama and Terra, which do you think is more favored by mortals?"

(End of this chapter)