Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 719: The 16% Untouchables Sprout the Ambition to Create the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters.
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In the hazy star field, the Antima sub-sector, the wild world of Vesa.

The Shadow Stormbird bobbed in the air currents, and Nimrod peered down through the narrow viewing window.

The Primarch drew Osiris's Staff, and his consciousness spread out.

High on a black basalt mountain, in a treacherous and treacherous ravine, a burly man, his body covered in wild animal fur and his face painted with terrifying greasepaint, raises a matchlock gun without any sights and fires primitive gunpowder as he runs at top speed.

bang bang bang...

The musket, within its extreme range of four hundred meters, accurately struck the ferocious beast charging from between the rocks.

The Vesa people fearlessly faced the roaring, lion-like beast; their ferocity transformed into innate cunning before the battle.

They skillfully dodged, sending wild beasts crashing into the rocks, and unleashed deadly blows with their weapons.

This is the style of the Visadians: meticulous, thorough, and always striving for the most effective strikes.

Nimrod's eyes gleamed as he took the Vesaan battle into his conscious awareness.

He immediately recalled the assessment of the Vesas by the future legendary inquisitor Greg Eisenhorn:

"Frankly, I would rather fight an angry Kashejin than them."

Kashejin are the elite of the "Kadia Blitzkrieg," stationed in the fortress world of Kadia, facing the threat of chaos.

The statement that "any Cardian who can't handle a laser gun before the age of ten is born on the wrong planet" illustrates the brutal threat facing the people of this world.

Kashejin became the ultimate warrior of the vast Astral Army through generations of battles against warp terrors and mortal champions with destructive power.

They faced the chaos head-on during each of the "Black Expeditions," safeguarding the security of Cardia.

Eisenhorn was the Inquisitor of the Misty Starfield and fought alongside Kashezin many times throughout his legendary life; his assessment is authoritative enough.

Eisenhorn's assessment was by no means a mere formality; when he belatedly realized that the attackers were Vesa mercenaries, he felt a lingering fear.

He realized that if he had known the attackers were Vesa mercenaries, he might not have risked turning back to rescue the seriously injured and unconscious driver, Midia.

Unlike those cold-blooded judges, Eisenhorn grieved for the deaths of his men.

As long as there is a chance to save his followers, Eisenhorn will never abandon them.

His self-doubt indicates that even this legendary inquisitor, who had banished powerful demon hosts, was not confident of surviving the Vesa mercenary attack.

As the Stormbirds continued their descent, Nimrod brought the entire battlefield under his consciousness.

He suddenly felt thirteen black dots appear.

They pierced the vast web of consciousness of the Genetic Primarch like sharp thorns.

His consciousness seemed to crash into a series of reefs, instantly shrinking its coverage area.

A flash of light appeared in the eyes of the Gene Primarch, and he suddenly entered Magnus's third state of mind.

Thoughts surged like waves, spreading throughout the mountains.

On the ground, the thirteen Untouchables looked up in terror at the sky, feeling an immense will pressing down on them like a mountain.

Untouchables are not necessarily able to completely suppress psionicists.

Powerful psionicists will only be suppressed to a certain extent, and their strength will be weakened to a certain extent.

The abbot of the Star Speakers always carries two untouchable beings with him in order to suppress his own spiritual energy to a controllable level.

With a thought, the Gene Primarch encompassed all the Vesa people in the mountains.

Eighty-two people.

Ning Lu's lips curled up slightly, exceeding 15%.

"Keep moving forward!" Ninglu ordered.

He knew that the larger Vesalian tribes numbered close to a thousand, and there was no need to linger on a small tribe of less than a hundred. The Shadow Stormbird sped forward, and Nimrod brought each battlefield into his consciousness's range.

The Visayans used their superhuman endurance to run and hunt wild beasts in the treacherous mountains.

Natural warriors, when required to fight, can go for days without food or water, fighting relentlessly until the enemy is killed.

The tribes met instantly and launched a merciless attack.

Bullets shattered his head, and swords pierced his chest.

Weapons shattered in the bloody battle, and they charged at each other without hesitation, whipping kicks knocking weapons away and thick arms grabbing the enemy's neck.

Ninglu knew that in the Vesa military training, shooting, swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat took up about the same amount of time and were the three main subjects.

He counted the twelve tribes of varying sizes he encountered along the way, and of the 1,837 people he counted, 294 were untouchable.

Ninglu's preliminary conclusion is that the proportion of untouchables is approximately 16%.

As I suspected, the proportion of untouchables among the Visayans was higher than one in ten but lower than one in five.

Moreover, each tribe has untouchables.

Could the Vesa people's innate resilience be related to the existence of the Untouchables?
The Vesa people fought day and night in a cruel, savage world, yet they were able to withstand the interrogation of the judges.

The ordinary Vesa mercenary, Wamok Tal, once resisted Eisenhorn's psionic torture.

Nimrod knew that, at Magnus's behest, Azek Ahliman had been teaching Lemuel Gaumont.

As one of the four founders of the Inquisition, Gaumont will teach the Inquisitors the psionic skills he learned from the "Thousand Sons".

Eisenhorn is an Alpha-level enhanced psionicist and the teacher of Inquisitor Kiting Ravenno. He is skilled in psionic probe techniques.

However, he needed the aid of drugs to break the consciousness of an ordinary Visarian mercenary named Tar, which demonstrates just how strong the Visarians' will is.

Untouchables are ostracized wherever they go, and their presence makes people uneasy. However, among the Vesa, untouchables have integrated into the tribe.

Through shared growth and generational evolution, the Visayans have become accustomed to unsettling fears and forged an unyielding will.

Yes, the Vesalians have no reverence for the God-Emperor precisely because they don't need faith, they've overcome fear, and because of the untouchable nature of the God-Emperor, the negative projection of his presence in the warp prevents them from feeling his light.
Ninglu's deduction leads to a question.

How did Old Man Huang manage to win over the Silent Sisters?
Was it extraordinary charisma, or the overwhelming psychic power that captivated the Silent Sisters?
The "Chaos Mentor's" eyes flashed. Although his psionic power was no match for Old Man Huang's, he was confident that he could subdue the powerful Vesa.

[The Vesaians, who have modified the Order of Shadows, possess formidable combat power.]

Hmm... The psychic desensitization of ordinary Vessa people is similar to that of the Imperial Guard, while the untouchables are like the Silent Sisters.

Old Man Huang has the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters, um... it's not a fantasy...
Old Man Huang has accumulated tens of thousands of years of dark secrets originating from the four peddlers. He can also cultivate high-sequence extraordinary individuals through the "Mother" and "Moon" pathways. They will all gain certain authority over the life domain when they reach Sequence 2.

[Well, given that Doraemon, the "Selena Gene Cult," and the Primal Mother were all involved in the grand birthday celebration, it's not impossible that they could create their own Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters.]
As Ninglu's ambition stirred, his eyes suddenly twitched.

The hundreds of black dots caused his consciousness to shrink rapidly.

The powerful Vesa tribe, numbering nearly a thousand.

[The tribe below is one of the largest tribes in Vesa.] Nimrod's eyes narrowed; their necks were adorned with falcon tattoos.

He murmured to himself, "The Sobo tribe."

Ninglu recalled the Sobo tribe leader, whose swordsmanship was no less than that of Eisenhorn, and gave his orders.

"Open the hatch."

With a roar as the airlock opened, he spread his golden wings and leaped down.

　PS: The high percentage of untouchables among the Vesa is from Chapter 10 of the official novel "Nemesis," page 153 of the published physical book. The original text is as follows:

　　"The Vesa are very slow to react to psychic energy, and the probability of encountering untouchables is very high. An important part of their military training is learning to resist interrogation."

　　The Sobo tribe also originated from this book.

　　
　
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