Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 160 Strong Brain Cat

Nimrod returned to the palace. The strong-brained cat he picked up with two fingers was over one meter long and was the largest among the thirty-six cats.

The strong-brained cat stared at Nimrod with its bright eyes. The black-armored giant exuded an aura that frightened it.

Its ginger fur stood on end and it suddenly opened its mouth and let out a hiss.

With a scream, the Primarch felt as if a huge rock had hit his chest.

The Primarch's majestic form didn't even waver: [A heavy blow from the "telekinetic" system.]
While he was thinking, the Strong Brain Cat screamed again, and flames burst out, hitting his arm.

[The fire-type "Fire Blast"? Force me to let go of you, and then use "Freeze Time"?
By the standards of an ownerless strong-brained cat, the three consecutive spells are quite well chosen. He must have been a family member of a war wizard.]
Although the Strong Brain Cat possesses powerful psychic powers, it has low intelligence and cannot use spells properly. A triple spell is already a good tactic.

Ningluo understood the spells used continuously by Strong Brain Cat in an instant. He shook his arm slightly, and the flames of the Warp brushed past his armor and hit the obsidian floor with a loud bang. The whole palace shook in the explosion.

At the same time, the Primarch applied force with two fingers, and the Strong Brain Cat let out a mournful cry.

A moment later, Ningluo returned to his room and stared at the weak Strong Brain Cat in his hands.

The Primarch's black eyes focused on the sapphire eyes of the Strongbrain cat, his consciousness spreading to the ginger body in his hands.

The door to Strong Brain Cat's mind is like a cat curled up, like a ball of yarn.

The Primarch's consciousness penetrated through the gaps in the ginger ball of yarn and saw its heart's desire.

Out of deep-seated needs, the strong-brained cat without an owner needs an owner and a family.

The Primarch's consciousness transformed into a warm big hand, gently touching the heart of the Strong Brain Cat.

The Strong Brain Cat's hair that had stood up gradually calmed down, and its sapphire eyes no longer flashed with fear.

Although it is not a cat at heart, it lies comfortably in Nimrod's palm like a pet cat.

Strong Brain Cat found the feeling it needed, and was warmer and more comfortable.

The feeling created by the Primarch with his powerful mental power enveloped the Strong Brain Cat.

The mental connection that others would take weeks to establish with Strong Brain Cat was completed in minutes.

Nimrod selectively revealed his warm side, which he rarely showed, and established a mental connection with the Strong Brain Cat, while cautiously opening only a small part of his heart to it.

Even so, the Strong Brain Cat immediately underwent a noticeable change, and its sapphire eyes turned black.

Nimrod knew that strong-brained cats would exhibit a slow metabolic change, gradually becoming more like their owners in physiology, temperament, and habits.

On the day the Primarch established a telepathic link with the Strong Brain Cat, Arsena and Diana also began to establish a telepathic link with their new family.

Although the Primarch's attendant was not a psychic psyker, he used telekinesis to block all attacks and firmly restrained the brown strong-brain cat.

Arsene estimated that it would only take ten work cycles for him to establish a mental link with the Strong Brain Cat.

Compared to powerful psychics, Diana faces much greater trouble.

The weakest of the thirty-six strong-brain cats she obtained, it was not yet an adult, only fifty-eight centimeters long, and its only psychic spell mastered was the biochemical "accelerate metabolism" spell.

Even so, the captain of the flagship still encountered huge troubles.

Within a few hours, her heart rate slightly accelerated, she felt a little hungry, and her body temperature rose by three degrees.

Diana suspected that if she had not been wearing the protective orb given by the Primarch, she would have died suddenly.

Because of the protective orb, the impact on her was very slight. If she hadn't been wearing a physiological monitoring device, she would have subconsciously ignored it or thought it was caused by fatigue.

After Diana underwent a comprehensive physical examination on the medical deck and found no major problems, she decided to temporarily hand over the matter of installing the ether cannon on you to the artillery supervisor who was more proficient in this area.

The female captain decided to take the initiative and try to tame the Strong Brain Cat.

The first method Diana used was the one that Terran nobles often used to establish a connection with their pets, which was to take their pets for a stroll.

So she ordered her followers to bring high-quality pet food that was urgently processed from Cradle of the Sea food.

After hesitating for a moment, Diana bit her lips and bravely picked up the Strong Brain Cat.

The gunboat took off from the Royal Shadow, which was being equipped with an ether cannon, and quickly passed over the surface of Vostroya's satellite.

Diana kept an eye on the changes in the Strong Brain Cat in her arms, but it only bared its teeth from time to time.

Every time this happened, the female captain would feel that some part of her body wrapped in the carapace would be wet with sweat.

Diana held the strong-brained cat tightly in her right hand, raised her left hand, and wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her white hand.

Then she pointed ahead and said, "Let's land in that canyon."

The adjutant beside him immediately checked the data board and reported to the female captain.

"Sir, that was originally a mine. There's a special kind of ore there with moon patterns on it, called moonstone."

"The Primarch was very interested in this ore, so he began large-scale mining when the satellite shipyard was established." "Later, the ore here was mined out, leaving only the canyon-like mining pits. When the miners left, they built a moon with ordinary stones."

Diana became even more interested when she heard that there were minerals that the Primarchs were interested in.

She put on a breathing mask and personally put the breathing tank specially made by the technical sergeant on the ginger little strong brain cat.

Afterwards, the escort team walked down the deck first and set up a cordon around it before the female captain walked out of the gunboat carrying the Strong Brain Cat.

Diana then looked at the moon built by the miner. After looking at the sphere made of silver ore in front of her for a moment, she spoke.

"I've never seen Luna from my hive on Terra, but the books say it looked like a silver disk in the past. We could even see a shining circle from afar on our spaceship."

“It’s indeed similar.”

The adjutant nodded in agreement.

Diana then turned her attention to the strong-brained cat in her arms, and could not sense any expression of joy from it after leaving the spaceship and coming to the outside world.

The female captain frowned and placed the Strong Brain Cat on the silver disc.

The miners of Vostronia skillfully forged the silver ore into a single piece, and even when the cockroach cat stood on it, the disc didn't shake at all.

After hesitating for a moment, Diana picked up a piece of ore from the ground and threw it to the Strong Brain Cat, just like she used to tease her pets when she was a child.

As the female captain of the flagship, she should have asked her lieutenants and guards to disperse, and then she took actions that were inconsistent with her majestic image.

But the cockroach cat has not been tamed yet and may take the opportunity to escape. The arc projectile in the hands of the guard can electrocute it when it escapes.

The stones Diana threw flew past the little ginger creature. It could have touched the stones if it had just reached out its hand, but it didn't move.

The female captain took it to visit the hollowed-out canyon again, and after returning to the gunboat, she tried to feed it again, but it had no effect, as if the cockroach cat was not interested in anything.

When Diana finally gave up, the 7th Regiment returned to Vostroya, and the Royal Shadow slowly docked at the starport.

After listening to the briefings from commanders such as Sanchez and Szczesny, Nimrod confirmed through observation and questioning that Sanchez and the other four "hunters" had been digested.

He ordered them to send his men to bring all the Nar Grubs and Telesian Eyes to the palace and wait outside for a while, then he returned to the "Land of Disorder".

Nimrod wants to use the Scruggs to prepare the "Provocateur" potion. Unlike in the past, the volume and quality of the main ingredients of the potion this time far exceed the minimum standards.

He knew from common sense that the better the quality of the main ingredients used, the better the effect of the prepared potion, but the improvement would not be too great.

The potions that Nimrod had prepared before did not have such significant differences.

Nimrod brought the Scugs, who were imprisoned like amber, to the furnace.

The Primarch sent a thought pulse to the Space Ape, commanding him to begin preparing the "Provocateur" potion recipe.

Then, Nimrod mobilized his spiritual energy and poured it into the silver gloves.

A golden light flashed, and according to Nimrod's will, the Scug monster was sentenced to be released from its "imprisonment".

The released beast let out a confused roar.

Nimrod keenly felt that releasing the Scug beast would consume much less spiritual energy than imprisoning it.

[Is it because of the size, or is it because releasing consumes less spiritual energy than "imprisoning"?]
While Nimrod was thinking, he sent out a mental shock wave.

The frustrated Squig Monster suffered a mental shock and fainted instantly before he could figure out what was happening.

At this time, the other potion ingredients were added, and while the space ape was stunned, Nimrod threw the Scruggs monster in. The furnace with a cross-sectional diameter of eleven meters was just enough to accommodate the Scruggs monster.

With a crackling sound, the Squig monster quickly "melted" as if a chemical reaction was occurring.

After Sanchez and the other four new "provocateurs" left, Nimrod sat on the black throne and recalled and compared the differences they had shown.

[After being promoted to "Provocateur", the Reaper Lord is more powerful than other Order Shadows, but this cannot be entirely attributed to the potion.

Sanchez is already stronger than them. He is even the only Terran descendant who has truly awakened "subspace insight" so far, just like Howard is the only one of the Vostonian descent.]
The Primarch frowned as he recalled every detail. He could only vaguely determine the enhanced effect of the "Provocateur" potion on Squig Behemoths and ordinary Squigs by the changes in the breath and aura of Sanchez and his five descendants, and limit it to between 4% and 11%.

[This also meets the definition of a small margin.]
Nimrod then thought: [What is the so-called mass? It is definitely not that the Squig monster is bigger than the ordinary Jumping Beast, but the difference in the amount of spiritual energy they contain.

Based on this, it can be inferred that higher sequences also contain spiritual differences compared to lower sequences, but the difference should be not in quantity, but in quality.]
Nimrod tapped his fingers on the back of the chair and thought.

[If I had a choice, I would also use better quality ingredients to make potions.

Of course, if there is no choice, there is no need to wait for this little increase.

The best option is to advance to a higher sequence as quickly as possible and enhance your strength.

Advancing to a higher sequence level will result in a qualitative change, so this increase can only be considered better than nothing. In other words, only high sequences are worth choosing the best of the best and selecting potion materials.]
After Nimrod came to his conclusion, he sent a message to Diana Boleyn, summoning her to come.

(End of this chapter)