Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 637 The Tuchucha Engine, the Imperceptible Leap

"The Disordered Country," the third layer of space.

Nimrod, holding the prophecy dice, had the situation of the Sonem system flash through his mind.

The Sonnem system is located on the edge of the Cauldron, near Damaris.

The Sonnem system is centered around a bright blue giant star and includes fourteen planets and hundreds of moons.

The planets closest to their stars are arid, rocky planets, scorched by high temperatures and radiation.

[…]
In fact, Sonem is closer to the area that will later be known as the Calamity of the God-Emperor in the expansion of Colonus than Damaryus, although it does not yet have this name.

After recalling the information he knew about Sonem, Ninglu silently recited it in his mind.

[The star map leading from the Cradle of the Serpent to Sonem.]

[…]
After silently reciting it eleven times, Ninglu reached out and threw the prophecy die in his hand.

After the triangular cone tumbled several times in the air, it landed in his outstretched hand, and a scene that looked like a holographic projection unfolded.

After Ninglu noted down the star map, he entered it into the data crystal.

He did not immediately return to the real world. With a thought, he took a step forward and came to the Tuchucha engine.

The "Chaos Mentor" saw the threads connecting him to the black and white sphere.

On a whim, he attempted to transmit the star map from the Cradle of the Serpent to the Sonem system to Tuchucha.

"Can you lead a fleet on this journey?"

Immediately, as the golden spots on the sphere moved rhythmically, the Gene Primitive felt a flow of information, similar to a thought pulse, rushing into his brain.

"Of course I can."

"It is my pleasure to serve you, Lord of the Black Mist."

[It turns out we can communicate.]

Compared to the thirty years that the "motorstylist" spent, I spent less than a third of that time establishing a closer "connection."

The communication method is more efficient than the servant's language, and I can track its location; even if it tries to run away, I can find it by following the communication.
Ninglu felt that the golden spots on the black and white spheres seemed to form a smiling face.

"Why did you teleport away to escape when you were in Pertitus?"

He asked in a deep voice, and the scattered golden spots regrouped, while a reply came from the same time.

"Your consciousness is powerful and dangerous."

"I don't know what you're thinking, but I'd like to leave cautiously."

“Great Lord of the Black Mist, I will no longer flee; I am willing to serve you.”

Ninglu nodded slightly. Although Tuchucha was not a living being, he was more shrewd and pragmatic than the stubborn Slau Da and the imprisoned Tears of Silence.

"You will have the opportunity."

As he spoke, a thought crossed his mind, and he returned to the real world.

Nimrod summoned Arsena Dunn, handed him the data crystal, and then gave him instructions.

"Order the 7th Company of the 4th and 5th Battle Groups to assemble around the Shadow of the Kings."

Two sidereal days later, under the blue light, the black warships gathered around the Queen Glory-class battleships HMS Regal Shadow and HMS Death and Decay.

Inside the Primarch Palace of the Shadow of the Throne, there are two cabins of different sizes on either side of the Primarch Office corridor.

The large one was the Primarch's private armory. In the smaller obsidian building opposite, inside a stone chamber, Nimrod crossed his arms and stared at the black and white sphere in front of him.

"Let's begin." Primarch's eyes flashed with light and shadow, his consciousness spreading through the bulkhead of the Shadow of the Throne, covering the entire fleet.

The illusory ripples spread rapidly in less than a breath, enveloping the entire fleet like bubbles.

Bubbles suddenly appeared abruptly in the waves of the vast ocean, drifting with the current.

The Primarch of Genes gathered his consciousness. Although he sensed the entire process, he could not understand the method used by the Tuchucha Engine.

Unlike the "teleportation" performed by demon-type psionicists who forcibly tore apart the veil.

It bears no resemblance whatsoever to Nimrod's Dimensional Spiders and "Fear Vision," which allow him to travel at high speed between the real world and the subspace in a short period. Furthermore, it is entirely different from the "Infinity Gate," which constructs a non-material staircase passage.

The methods of the ancient sages are indeed miraculous; their integration of spiritual energy and technology is on a completely different level than that of the Spirit Race.

No wonder Ryan was instantly teleported from the Pertigus underground to the Unyielding Truth without even realizing it.

The fleets entered subspace and began their voyages almost simultaneously, and he had no way of knowing which star system Tuchucha would take them to.
Ninglu thought with admiration, and after much deliberation, he finally found a precise description of Tuchucha's methods:

Like a key, it opened a door.

[Hmm... key, door.]
The “Chaos Mentor” gazed thoughtfully at the spirituality of the Tuchucha Engine.

The radiant spiritual light emanating from it was clearly inferior to the Hand of Order, but it surpassed the Sequence 2 level of the Death Archon Mask.

Does the key formed by combining the Heart of Plague and Ouroboros correspond to the "Key of the Star" at Sequence 1 level?

If that's the case, the key to the combination will be even more valuable to me.

It can not only travel through time and space to unlock the treasure trove of ancient weapons, but I can also "connect" to it and use it spiritually.
As Ninglu pondered, he became increasingly eager to find the other two parts and other key fragments.

……

In the 6th standard month of 894, a "bubble" suddenly appeared in the Sonnem galaxy.

Bright blue starlight illuminated the black fleet that suddenly appeared after the bubbles disappeared.

On the bridge of the HMS Kings Shadow, the officers were briefly thrown into disarray.

Throughout the entire jump process, the Legion and the Navigators were unable to interfere. They were on long-term duty, but could only monotonously repeat limited tasks inside the ship, which left them in a state of panic for a long time in the face of the sudden increase in workload.

Diana Pauline frowned slightly as she stared at the console. On the two video screens, fifteen duplicate reports were scrolling by, along with four reports with slightly different conclusions.

She glanced shyly at the throne while simultaneously turning on her communication headset.

“You’re like a bunch of headless flies that have just boarded the Void Ship.”

Diana shouted in a deep, resonant voice, "Lord Nimrod has granted me eternal life and the authority to command my flagship, yet my officers are in utter chaos."

She would never allow it.

"Calm down!" Her cold voice silenced the slightly cluttered communication channel.

Before the throne, Arsène Dunn examined the results of the oracles' scans, quickly matching them with the data in the crystal.

He looked at the Black Emperor, "My Lord, have we arrived at the Sonnem system?"

Ning Lu nodded slightly. "Yes."

How did my Lord manage to do that?
After the fleet assembled... nothing happened... hmm, they entered a strange navigational state.
The seasoned "detective," attempting to find the cause and deduce the result from the report, quickly noticed a piece of information.

"Chief Veschel reports that the first pioneering voyage from the Cradle of the Serpent to the Sonem system will take five standard months."

"The reason for the long delay was that she observed four anomalies and a subspace storm that she had to avoid during the flight."

"Our voyage, which we just finished, actually took two months."

Ninglu nodded slightly. He was not surprised. The ancient sage had given Tuchucha the way to travel, which was undoubtedly beyond the scope of human understanding.

Warp anomalies and most warp storms cannot stop its journey.

As Ninglu pondered, his silver-haired, sprightly Primarch attendant continued his report.

"The scan report shows that the risk of navigating within the galaxy is extremely low, and there are very few asteroids and other celestial bodies, making them easy to avoid."

"However, most of them suffer from high temperatures and radiation, making them unsuitable for habitation."

"The remaining planets have weak life signals and are preliminarily classified as primitive worlds."

Ninglu nodded, then stood up, went to the strategic table, and stared at the gradually forming holographic image.

He raised his hand and tapped the eighth planet among the fourteen planets arranged from the outside in.

"Target: Planet Eight."

(End of this chapter)