Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 44 "Sailor"

The cradle of the sea, the largest island - Castello Island.

Nineteen Frao Ether Masters dressed in purple and gold robes led more than three thousand warriors to attack the primitive city walls built of stone and wood.

Ten psykers and a thousand warriors gathered in the front area where the Furao launched their offensive.

Standing on the city wall, facing the firepower of ten Ether Masters, was a woman holding a wooden staff with a skeletal sea monster skull embedded in the top.

Her features are clear and soft, her forehead is broad and smooth, and her eyebrows are thick yet delicate, like two exquisite ink lines.

Anger flashed in her brown eyes. She raised her fair and delicate left arm, and a blue lightning streaked across the sky, wrapping around the three psychics.

Countless tiny arcs of electricity penetrated into the body of the Flao people like living things, making crackling sounds.

Along with the flickering blue light, blood gushed from the mouths and noses of the Ether Masters, and their white hair turned to charcoal and slid down as the Furao people's bodies trembled.

The other seven psykers each raised their staffs and attacked the city wall. As space pirates, their cunning nature drove them to attack other weak islanders and consume the powerful enemies.

The flames rose up, mercilessly devouring several islanders who were shooting with Vostroyan laser guns.

Several islanders who were waving their chainswords to resist the attacks of the Furao warriors were thrown up by an invisible force and smashed towards the islanders who were rushing up the city wall.

The psychic's violent attack immediately caused dozens of islanders to be seriously injured.

The female psyker bit her plump and elastic lips, and pointed her staff at the commander beside her who had lost half of his body.

With the infusion of biochemical spiritual energy, the bronze body recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The commander supported himself with his hands and got up from the ground. He noticed the female shaman beside him.

"Shaman Marlena, please leave quickly. We can't hold on any longer."

"No," Malena, with her straight nose, raised her chin and said firmly, "I saw it. The Mother of the Sea showed me the coming of the giant who would descend from the sky. He will save our home."

The commander swung his sword to kill the Fraw warrior who rushed to the top of the wall, and kicked him hard, kicking him down from the eleven-meter-high wall.

He looked up at the azure sky and saw three Elifas with orange bellies flying through the air with their azure wings spread.

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He was sure that the shaman's prediction of the alien invasion and the failure of the Vostroyans to come to the rescue in time was false.

[She was just trying to boost morale.]
Just as he was about to look away, he suddenly saw a red color in the air, the size of a grain of rice, gradually getting bigger.

The commander rubbed his eyes and then screamed wildly.

"Here they come, the reinforcements are here."

The corners of Malena's mouth curled up, she raised her staff with both hands and mobilized all the strength in her body.

The hearts of all the Flao people within dozens of meters in front of her were beating rapidly, their blood was surging, and their skin color turned darker in an instant.

With a roar, they lost consciousness and stumbled to the ground.

The seven surviving Ether Masters also felt powerless and fell to the ground.

Malena's body swayed, and she leaned on her staff to avoid falling.

She looked up and saw a figure dominating the sky, a giant identical to the one she had seen in the Coral Sea.

Marlena tried her best to turn her head and follow the figure.

He slammed down hard into the alien, causing the ground to shake and the city walls to tremble.

Hundreds of aliens were killed directly by the shock, and hundreds of raiders fell down.

The Ether Masters had just struggled to stand up from their "blood boiling" when a huge force surged from behind them, throwing them into the sky. They tried their best to turn their heads, but their wide field of vision allowed them to see a giant approaching them just as they turned halfway, and then lost consciousness.

The commander looked at the seven powerful aliens, their heads flying off in an instant, dark purple blood spilling all over the ground, their mouths opened, and the splashed mud poured into their mouths.

When he spat out the mud in his mouth, he saw the broken limbs of alien creatures in front of him.

Nimrod did not stop and took Maria and the other two to attack the Flao people.

Just now, when he was looking down at Castello Island from the air, he saw that large areas of the island had been plundered and destroyed by aliens, and only the largest city and three smaller cities were still struggling.

Just as Nimrod was slaughtering the aliens, Szczesny excitedly jumped out of the assault boat and fell into the blue sea.

As soon as his body entered the sea, he felt relaxed all over, just like a fish that had been released.

An Ether Master was attracted by the cry. He quickly came to the beach, used telekinesis to support his body, and temporarily floated above the water.

On the assault boat, two soldiers from the Vostroyan Fourth Regiment raised their laser guns and fired beams at the Flao psyker.

Master Ether raised his hand and raised a "protective force field".

The beam shot out and hit the force field shield, causing invisible ether ripples.

Just as the Flao psyker blocked the attack, he suddenly felt his ankles being grabbed.

Before the Ether Master could mobilize the etheric energy, he was dragged down by a huge force and fell into the sea with a splash.

He tried his best to mobilize the etheric energy and use telekinesis to force Szczesny away.

Szczesny felt the alien's struggle, and illusory fish scales appeared on the backs of his hands, and his five fingers tightened frantically.

Master Ether opened his mouth in pain and sea water poured into his mouth.

Although he has a shark-like head, the Flao man is not a fish. He is like any other drowning person. The more he struggles, the faster he sinks.

The "sailor" was not affected at all. He had already tried it and found that he could easily dive for more than seventeen minutes even without carrying any equipment.

The alien was dragged and sank rapidly. Although he was a master of ether, he was not good at biochemical ether spells and could not create oxygen for himself, which was fatal to the Flao people who needed to breathe.

Szczesny felt his resistance growing weaker and weaker, so he pulled hard, wrapped his arms around the alien's neck, and twisted it hard.

The "Sailor" was able to perfectly exert his extraordinary strength even underwater, and the Flao man's head was directly twisted off by Szczesny.

He kicked the Ether Master's body underwater and swam upwards.

Szczesny rose more than a hundred meters in a few seconds, and suddenly he felt strange waves in the sea water under his feet.

He immediately drew out his waterproof chainsaw sword, pressed his finger on the start button, and looked down vigilantly.

[The alien's body disappears.]
Szczesny became more alert, his eyes searching around.

After a while, he found nothing and had no choice but to surface. He also had to command his men to attack Trinio, the second largest island in the Cradle of the Sea.

Five hours after landing on Castello Island, Nimrod cleared the entire island of aliens.

He saw the female psychic he had noticed when he looked down. His eyes met the brown pupils and he was surprised to find that the other person's pupils only shrank but there was no expression of pain.

[Her will was very strong. When she looked at me, although she felt uncomfortable, it was not tortured.

Even stronger than Howard and Maria, the strongest person I've seen since I fell into Vostronia.]
As Nimrod pondered, the shaman bowed and spoke in Vostroyan Low Gothic.

"Marlena Scala greets you and thanks you for your rescue."

(End of this chapter)