Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 168 Sequence 1 Level Beyonder Ability

At the end of the summer of the Year of Fenris, a gunboat braved the storm and flew over the Storm Sea.

Most Fenrisians have grown up with the sight of the vast, continuous ocean, so they naturally imagine the world they know as an ocean, calling it the Sea of ​​Storms.

The Fenrisian world of the living is a sea of ​​storms, except for the only permanent continent, Asaheim.

Inside the gunboat, two figures walked to the hatch.

The Wolf King shed his pelts and donned armor forged by the smiths of Fenris, engraved with runes carved by the Son of Storm.

Nimrod glanced at the runes and keenly sensed the primitive and brutal warp energy contained therein.

He was wearing a fitted suit of armor forged in advance by a technical sergeant. Its protection was far inferior to the top-level craftsmanship of the Mechanicus, but it was more flexible and light for moving in the sea.

The Emperor looked at the two heirs in front of him, his eyes gleaming with golden light as he detected the thread of fate and predicted the outcome of the duel between the Primarchs.

The hunting proposed by Nimrod disrupted the results of his deduction using sympathetic magic, and the previous results could not be used as a reference.

Sympathetic magic and psychic prophecy both allow for the foresight of the future, but their difficulty and effects are completely different.

The millions of threads of destiny discovered through prophecy and exploration take the present moment as the node.

Sympathetic magic is dynamic. When making plans, the Emperor will add variables to deduce the future.

The Emperor relied on sympathetic magic to formulate a series of plans, which were more trustworthy than prophecies.

Every factor taken into consideration affects and alters the plan, making it more difficult to use, even for the Emperor, who feels pain every time he uses it.

After a moment, the golden light in his eyes dissipated, and after the two Primarchs jumped down, he asked Alpharius beside him.

"Vostonia, like Terra, is full of hives and wastelands. Leman Russ is better at hunting in the frozen sea."

"Nimrod will win."

The first vision the Emperor saw in his foresight showed Nimrod hunting a much larger sea monster and winning.

Among the millions of threads of change, the two Primarchs had their victories and defeats against each other, but he believed in the first picture he saw.

As the Emperor and Alpharius spoke, Nimrod and Leman Russ simultaneously plummeted into the sea like cannonballs.

The Wolf King let out a loud howl, roaring his victory declaration to Nimrod in Vorghan, the battle language of Fenris.

"I will be the winner. Your witchcraft tricks are useless."

Ning Lu was about to speak when suddenly a thought pulse flashed through his mind and the voice of Old Man Huang rang out.

"Don't use psionics. Win in the Fenris way."

When Ning Lu frowned slightly, the old man Huang's voice sounded again.

"I will give you a relic-class battleship."

Hearing this, he readily agreed and sent a thought pulse to Old Man Huang in the high-altitude gunboat.

"it is good."

Afterwards, Nimrod closed his eyes slightly. He did not use any psychic power, nor did he use the "subspace insight" which was closely related to the Sea of ​​Souls.

He doesn't use psychic powers, but he still has magical items to use.

During this period of time, he successfully established a connection with the power gloves with the help of the third layer of real space in the "Land of Disorder".

He therefore knew that it corresponded to the "Hand of Order" of Sequence 1 of the "Judge" pathway.

Now, Nimrod infuses his spirituality into the power fist and uses the Sequence 1 level "Sheriff" extraordinary ability "Detect Evil".

Generally speaking, Sequence 7 Beyonders' spirituality couldn't mobilize higher-sequence items, but the "Hand of Order" was one of the two pathways to the "Realm of Disorder." The Essence possessed absolute power over the corresponding pathway's magical items. After Nimrod established a relationship with the Power Fist, he was able to utilize higher-level Beyonder abilities to a limited extent.

In an instant, Nimrod's perception reached the entire stormy sea, and countless unshielded things related to evil, chaos, and madness jumped into his mind.

Giant ice worms burrowing through the glacial fjords of Asaheim, sea dragons hunted by nomadic tribes, and countless of his prey, the giant octopus-like creatures—the Kraken…

A massive flow of information, enough to burst any mortal's brain, poured into the Primarch's brain.

The Primarch received and analyzed the information at superhuman speed, and then locked onto the largest Kraken in the Sea of ​​Storms.

The criterion for determining the winner that Nimrod and Leman Russ agreed upon was that the Kraken being hunted was the largest, and the winner was now determined.

After confirming the direction, the Primarch immediately exerted all his strength to swim towards the target.

The Primarch's muscle fibers vibrated at a frequency of 3,311 at every instant, and the ocean currents of the Storm Sea were converted into propulsion energy by his superhuman body.

The air current trailing behind the Primarch was like the shock wave of an explosion. The sea fish that hit it had no time to dodge and were instantly torn to pieces.

On the gunboat, the Lord of Humanity, who was watching the fight, shifted his gaze from the Wolf King to the blood-red straight line of the Storm Sea.

He frowned. In the previous moment, apart from Nimrod, only the Emperor sensed the faint energy fluctuations.

It's not psychic power, but another kind of strange energy.

The Emperor recalled the energy fluctuations he had captured, trying to figure out what they were.

After a moment, the Lord of Mankind had no choice but to give up. The energy was only for a moment, did not belong to his familiar area, and was extremely weak. He could only draw some vague conclusions.

[The effect appears to be similar to an auspex or Auger matrix.]

Considering the victory conditions of the duel, Ningluo should have used his biological detection ability.

The Primarch possesses an artifact capable of surveying the oceans of Fenris?]
After the Emperor determined the item's capabilities based on the limited information available, he began to consider what that item might be.

[To complete the detection of the vast ocean of Fenris, it should be an item from the Dark Age of Technology. What could it be?

The power gloves I gave him, besides attacking, only have some strange ability to force the surrounding environment to undergo regular changes, so it should have nothing to do with this.

Although the power sword is sharp, it has no other effects.

[…]
The Lord of Mankind thought for a moment but still came to no conclusion.

[Whatever it is, if Nimrod can detect the location of the largest Kraken, he will win.]
The Emperor nodded with satisfaction, “The result of the sympathetic magic deduction is indeed correct. Although there are slight deviations in the process, Nimrod will not let me down.”

I should reward him with a few more Relic-class battleships.]
In the stormy sea, Nimrod was moving forward rapidly, and suddenly he felt a melting sensation in his body, and the "Briber" potion was digested a little more.

The almost dried-up spiritual power was restored to about one tenth due to the digestion of the "Briber" potion.

[Um?
What did I do? How did the potion digest again?]
Nimrod thought in confusion that he had already figured out the rules for playing the "Briber" potion through the feedback from the potion.

He must have committed the bribe, whether voluntarily or not.

He did not actively bribe anyone just now, so he did it subconsciously, but he met the behavioral requirements of bribery and received a certain degree of feedback.

[Feedback can only come from the Emperor, but what will it be?]
Nimrod's thoughts were interrupted in an instant, and his attention turned back to the real world.

He had already sensed the presence of a giant sea monster even larger than the Royal Shadow.

The giant beast in the sea swam slowly and caused a storm in the sea.

The airflow created by its breathing creates an ocean current.

The Kraken, the sea monster of Fenris!

(End of this chapter)