Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 667 The Dangerous "Traveler" Promotion Ceremony, Traveling with Magnus's Web

901.M30.

After receiving reports from the various fleets of the Fifth Fleet, Nimrod selected the Viziore system, whose stars were the dimmest among the three star systems he had explored, as his target.

The nocturnal Hruds prefer dimly lit stars, and the Hruds of Wizol are probably the most numerous.

Under the gray night sky, one black warship after another sailed out of the jump point, starlight imprinted on one side of the warship.

On the bridge of the Starship, in front of a large panoramic window, San Diego Bergkamp gazed into the void.

On either side of him were five jars containing spiritual blood concocted from different species, each a different color:
The deep blue of Kraken blood mixed with seawater, the light blue of Sahadune blood mixed with lava blood mixed with red, the white of Raft Spider blood mixed with spider silk, and the most precious rainbow colors of World Serpent blood mixed with rainbow colors.

Saint Diego put down his paintbrush, its handle made of an even number of black gold pieces.

The brush tip is made of cold stone, which does not affect the spiritual blood.

During the voyage, the demon-type psionicists followed the Black Emperor's orders and used the most primitive methods to draw star maps.

"Full power on the oracles, begin scanning!" Santiago commanded, then rolled up a dozen star charts and placed them into the drum.

He picked up the star chart and strode towards his dormitory.

Saint Diego used his radiant staff to strike symbols of different shapes, such as triangles and squares, and as the spirituality spread, he activated the "Euclidean Symbols".

After the sea of ​​souls receded like the tide, he paused for a few seconds to adjust to the loss of some of his power before using the ritual knife to create a wall of spirituality.

He arranged the star chart on the altar before kneeling on the obsidian, and with his hands upside down and clasped together, he prayed to the Black Emperor.

As San Diego recited the incantation for the third time, a phantom gate opened out of thin air amidst the billowing black mist.

The star map was drawn in by an unseen force and flew into the gate.

Inside the fourth layer of the "Disordered Kingdom," Ning Lu raised his hand to catch the star map.

His eyes were deep as he turned his fingers.

The star map drawn with spiritual blood is already available, and the potion ingredients for the "traveler" have been gathered.

The troublesome part, however, is the promotion ceremony; it's far too dangerous, in some ways even more so than my promotion to "Chaos Mentor."
The ascension ceremony for "travelers" requires the establishment of special coordinates in four completely different and far-away locations deep within the subspace.

As a demonic psionicist skilled in teleportation, and a seasoned astrologer adept at divination and counter-divination, San Diego possesses numerous extraordinary abilities, including the ability to "record" and travel through the warp.

The problem is that he is a powerful psyker who, like a beacon in the warp, attracts all sorts of monsters and demons.

When danger arises, prayers take time to be answered.

Although his promotion to "Mentor of Chaos" increased his authority, he still needed to personally listen to prayers and draw people into the "Land of Chaos".

This means there is a possibility that he cannot extricate himself from reality and cannot act immediately.

[I personally accompany San Diego, which can handle most troubles, but may also attract the four peddlers, since I am quite attractive to them.]

Although the eleventh level of space could drive me to my doom, that doesn't include San Diego.

If the four hawkers were truly intent on causing trouble, it wouldn't be so easy to send San Diego into the "Land of Chaos" on their home turf.
Ninglu's mind raced as he thought about the events during the "Great Expedition" and his own plans, and he came up with an idea.

[The spaces controlled by the Khlavian Originators, the underworld of Sonem 8, and even the underworld of Fenris are all pocket dimensions of the subspace and should meet the requirements.]
The Originators of Herav are the primary material for his advancement to "Fallen Earl". They can exist simultaneously in the warp and the real world, meaning that to obtain potion materials, one must go to the Origin Space.

[Yes, the entrance to Argos's Web is also an option.]

However, entering with Magnus would allow them to join forces against the Primarch, while Tzeentch's attention would be focused on the Primarch he considered the most perfect.
Nimrod thought of the dead stone of Argoschitter and the drumbeat melody that could seal away the power of Azek Ahriman and all the other Thousand Sons.

The Dead Stone might be an ingredient for potions, and the "Hidden Ones" and "Listeners" might be able to glean from the drumbeats the Eldar's methods of sealing psychic energy, the Web Path entrance, and chaos.

Argos is worth a visit.
As Ninglu pondered, he gradually came up with an idea to help Saint Diego complete his ascension ceremony.

With a flick of his hand, the star map vanished into thin air and reappeared in a separate palace in the first layer of space.

At the same moment Nimrod returned to the real world, under the grey light of Viziore, the Fifth Fleet deployed its forces in accordance with San Diego's orders.

San Diego stared at the holographic image and saw frigates and destroyers, like bait thrown out to lure the Hrud ships.

His gaze fell on a decoy destroyer, the most crucial reading being temperature, the most obvious indicator captured by the entropy beam.

32.18, 34.85, 33.96... The radioactive impact of the dissipated neutrons, along with the automatically recharged void shield, pull against each other.

Dispersed atoms recombine under the influence of a force field.

Following the conquest of the Gugan system, the Legion accelerated improvements to the Fahish auto-recharged Void Shield.

Cypra Mundy, with shipbuilding capacity comparable to that of Mars, completed the modification of all the ships.

Cruisers were scattered on both sides, using the stars as cover to resist the time rays shot from the bubble.

The dispersed Hrud ships, with their concentrated entropy energy, were insufficient to tear the star apart.

All artillery arrays that could fire physical projectiles were dormant, while the black ship unfurled its side bows, unleashing dazzling laser cannons.

The dazzling beam of light pierced through layers of spacetime force fields, revealing the indistinct warship.

The battleship Starry Sky and the battleship, with Randan Shadow Destroyers mounted on their sides, are targeting exposed ships.

The radioactive beams triggered electromagnetic explosions around the Hrud ship to prevent it from being annihilated by the distorted spacetime turbulence like a physical cannonball.

The shockwave from the explosion pierced through the bubble shield, turning the ships into ominous shadows.

Gaps appeared in Hrud's petal-shaped defensive array.

The missing ships accelerated the demise of Hrud's petal-shaped defensive array.

The relic-class warship, Starry Sky, fired two beams of colored light from its bow-mounted Flao's ether cannon, striking targets in the distant void beyond the reach of the flow of time.

The alien ships drifted lifelessly in the void, and the flames in their depleted entropy field burned eerily fast.

San Diego recalled the dangerous battles in the Gugan system and clearly felt that the danger of the battles had decreased significantly.

The application of automatically rechargeable void shields significantly reduces the threat of alien spacetime weapons.

As he was marveling at this, a warship with completely different readings suddenly rose from the main planet of Viziore.

San Diego glanced at the video screen, where multiple warships and different oracle imaging systems were combined in the simulated sanctuary to form a warship with a barely recognizable shape.

It looks like it's encased in a strange, coated fungal aggregate.

A migrating ship.

The team led by Primarch Arsena Dunn gained a deeper understanding of the Xenomorph race after reading and analyzing the Hrud mycelial scrolls.

In a flash, a seasoned astrologer calculated the migration ship's trajectory.

He gave the order, "Turn to 4-9-6, fire the ether cannon in sixteen seconds."

The punishment-class reactor pumped up, driving the warship to complete the turn.

Two dazzling beams of colorful ethereal light leaped out from the lower sides of the bow of the ancient warship.

The beams of the long-range strike array of the Relic-class warship traversed the void battlefield and accurately struck the target.

The outer layer of the fungus ripples through spacetime waves for 10,000 kilometers.

The ethereal beam, ignoring all shields, dispersed and disintegrated into pure light amidst layers of ripples: red, green, blue...

The beams of light, splitting into different colors, rained down on the fungal aggregates, causing them to fade and disappear rapidly.

San Diego watched the migrating ship turn tail and flee, lost in thought.

[The gathering of Hruds has become a real problem.]
Saint Diego frowned slightly. The number of Hruds on the migration ship was unusually large. If it escaped, it would pose a huge threat to his territory in the future.

We absolutely cannot let it get away.
While he was thinking, he gave the instructions.

"Prepare to teleport."

The Empire's ordinary teleportation cannot break through Hrud's distorted force field.

However, the Starship teleportation platform was personally built by the First Psionic Craftsman of the "Shadow of Order".

(End of this chapter)