Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 712 Ninglu's Best Source of Soldiers

In the third layer of the "Disordered Kingdom," Nimrod sets down the prophetic dice.

Then, the star chart that had just been divined, pointing to a new fragment of the Birac relic, was entered into the data crystal.

After completing the star map entry, Ninglu turned the data crystal that shone brightly, his eyes deep and thoughtful.

"It's actually in the Antima sub-sector, not the Colonus expansion, nor the neighboring Calicus sector."

"Then there's no rush."

Upon receiving reports from the Cradle of the Serpent and the Fourth Warband stationed at Sonem 8, Nimrod couldn't help but think of the recent discovery by Alsena Dunn of fragments of the new Birac relic from the Hrud mycelium scroll.

Because the information was too blurry, he could not pinpoint its location; he could only determine that it was within a hazy area.

Nimrod considered that the anomaly might have been caused by him seizing the Shadow Blade, so he immediately used the cooled Prophecy Dice to perform divination, only to find that it was not in that area.

"Antima Sub-sector".

He whispered the area the divination was pointing to, a wild and untamed world flashing through his mind.

"Visa".

Vesa is a world that Nimrod has always wanted to conquer.

Ignoring loyalty, or more accurately, loyalty based on wealth, the Vesas were, in his view, the best source of soldiers.

Especially with the imminent rise of chaos.

He hadn't taken any action before because he wasn't confident he could subdue the Vesa.

After all, the Imperial Military Affairs Department, which had already been established and would have even greater power in the future, had tried every means to subdue the Vesa people but had failed.

But now, he is a “chaotic mentor”. Although the combination of “majesty” and “corruption” has not changed qualitatively, it has been enhanced and should be able to win back a considerable number of Vesa people.

The contracts signed in the second layer of the shadow plane are even more capable of motivating the remaining people with strong wills.

“The ‘Shadow Contract’ mercenary contract is also a mercenary contract.”

Nimrod made a decision: "After the Timefire Alien ends, we can go to the Antima Sector to subdue the Vesa and find the Birac fragment that we just divined."

He then recalled the strange vision that shone in the northeastern to southeastern part of the future Colonus expansion, which occurred just before the Spear of Dionysus returned to him.

"Could it be that Old Man Huang fought with Ouroboros when he retrieved the Spear of Dionysus?"

"Was he personally in Terra that day, presiding over the War Council, or did he deploy a psionic projection, or a psionic clone?"

"Well, no matter what, Old Huang, thank you for helping me get something for free."

As Ning Lu pondered, he took a step forward and returned to the real world.

He strode to the bridge and handed the data crystal to Think Tank Mellon, who had just been promoted to Chief Recorder.

Among the honor guards selected by Nimrod this time, the largest group consists of space sharks clad in black armor, followed by the former Faceless Ones of the Tenth Chapter.

To his surprise, Tezuka Sasebo was not among them, but Mellon was still selected and performed exceptionally well.

Ninglu had already trained him to be a "secret seeker".

Mellon took the data crystal, strode to his console, and began reading and backing up the data within it.

"My Lord." Primarch's servant Artena bowed to the Black Emperor and then turned his staff.

The image projected on the holographic strategy table zoomed in rapidly, and void ships were marked with red runes.

"The Oracion instrument scanned the entire galaxy and found no alien ships."

"The keel markings of the seventy-four ships in the Wolf system all belong to the Empire."

"It is worth noting that there are 29 registered activity areas, the closest of which is 15 light-years away."

Ninglu thought of the Timefire Alien as the main material of the "Dream Thief," and also thought of the pattern on the blasphemous stone slab, which resembled a ball of flowing fire, and made some guesses.

[It does not have its own ships.]

Parasitic on human ships, even their crews, to travel to other human colonies?
As he pondered, Alsena, with his snow-white hair, continued his report.

"The sound array master broadcast across all channels and received responses from twelve ships."

"The other party replied in Gothic, claiming that the galaxy had not suffered any alien attack." "But when we asked them to dock in batches at different locations in the four quadrants, they never replied again."

[The aliens have taken control of the ships.] Ninglu stared at the ships marked with red runes, which were shrouded in the upper quadrant of the galaxy.

[If the "Dream Thief's" Timefire steals human thoughts, memories, or dreams, it shouldn't grant skills like a Shapeshifter gains after drinking blood.]
Thinking of this, he raised his right hand and quickly drew two arcs on both sides of the slowly rotating upper quadrant, near the left and right quadrants.

"Dispatch destroyers to harass from both sides and draw enemy fire."

"Yes, sir." A messenger immediately immersed his thoughts in the sea of ​​data within the simulated sanctuary.

The Tenth Legion, inherited from the Data Deletion Legion, has repainted Hunter-class destroyers, and their modified and added Punishment-class reactors are now ablaze.

On the bridge of the Thorn, Tezuka Sasebo's gaze swept darkly over Tresoldi beside him and Ordones, who was hunched over his seat.

The image of them on the Lyco fishman's basin-shaped ship, their mouths covered in blood, flashed through my mind.

"Odonez, relay the order."

"Steering 5-7-6, lean angle 4."

"Our mission is to lure the enemy."

The three destroyers under the command of the adjutant flew in an arc like arrows toward the target fleet in the upper quadrant.

Although Tezuka Sasebo gave up the honor of becoming a member of his father's guard because he was worried about the squad members, he was promoted to adjutant due to his military achievements and the vacancy of the commander.

Tresoldi looked uneasy under his adjutant's gaze and turned his attention to the screen.

"They threw shells without any plan, just like orcs in a chaotic mess."

As he was speaking, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Is green-skinned food tasty?
What do they taste like?
Green mushroom soup?
Tresoldi suppressed the instinctive tremor in his throat as he imagined another potential food.

Is Time Fire delicious?

Grilled pork chops?
“Father is expending their ammunition,” Sasebo Tezuka ordered Ordones.

"Retrieve the enemy's hit ratio."

Ordones immediately glanced at the statistics and exclaimed in surprise.

"The enemy's damage capability is assessed to be far below average; their hit rate is only 6.3 percent of the firing rate."

“They were even turning and firing without locking onto a target.”

Tezuka Sasebo watched the rain of artillery fire and the churning torpedoes, which seemed to be firing wildly like a child with a machine gun.

"Adjust your direction, keep cutting in at an angle, lure them to turn, and waste more ammunition."

"Lieutenant, we have an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the target ship." Tresoldi's eyes gleamed.

Although the Hunter-class destroyers lacked assault boats and boarding torpedoes, they were equipped with the Shadow Stormbird, enabling them to conduct close-range assault missions even when enemy ships lost their defensive guns.

The Shadow Stormbird is much smaller than the Warhawk, which has been widely equipped by other legions since the early days of the Great Crusade and can carry one hundred Astartes.

It is also much smaller than the experimental hunting suit, the Sokaren-type Stormbird favored by the World Eater and the Space Wolf.

The Sokaren-type Stormbird can carry fifty Astartes or five Dreadnoughts of various models, and can also carry a Rhino.

The Shadow Stormbird can only carry ten Order Shadows and one Vostonia Rhino, and part of its space is occupied by the Quantum Domain Repeller.

Based on Stormbird data from the tech warlord Tang, the Shadow type developed is a unique model of "Shadow of Order".

Apart from the technical sergeants of the "Shadow of Order," who, based on the complete data of Tang, the creator of the Stormbird, mastered the quantum domain repulsion technology, only the technicians of the forging world of Kiava possessed this technology and used it on the flying vehicles of the "Raven Guardians."

[You want to eat the Fire of Time, don't you?] Tezuka Sasebo's eyes flashed. "I will give the order when the opportunity arises."

He hoped to earn merit and qualify again to join the Honor Guard.

"Equipped with twelve Nirbhay Strike missiles, replacing the Rhino troop carrier."

Tresoldi's eyes lit up, and his decision to replace the Rhino troop carriers, which were unsuitable for the cramped space of the ship, with strike missiles indicated that his adjutant agreed with his suggestion.

　PS: There is a section on "technology" in the work's documentation. If you are unsure what technologies the Legion possesses, you can refer to the relevant chapters using the index.

　　
　　
　
(End of this chapter)