Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 47 "Subspace Insight"

As soon as Nimrod conquered Grosseto, he received a message for help from Szczesny.

He immediately boarded a flying vehicle and flew towards Trinio.

When he saw the giant sea monster named Zhangya, he couldn't help but sigh at the huge size of this tooth-eating octopus.

Malena's eyes were filled with hatred: "Zhangya is the largest tooth-eating octopus. It has devoured countless Sicilians."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the giant leap up and jump down.

After Szczesny cut off the sea monster's tentacles, he was attacked frantically by the other side. He dodged everywhere in a panic, but the rodent octopus did not have only eight tentacles like the ordinary octopus. It had dozens of tentacles.

He was blown away several times, but fortunately his men opened fire in time to disperse the pressure for him, so he was able to barely hold on until now.

This also led to a frenzied counterattack by the sea monster, and the Fourth Regiment suffered heavy losses. At least dozens of soldiers who had undergone less steel transformation and more than a hundred candidates were eaten by the tooth-eating octopus.

The Trinio people's morale collapsed and they fled in all directions, shouting in fear in the local low Gothic language that Szczesny could not understand.

Only Jorginho followed the captain, loudly scolding his fellow tribesmen and rallying the thirteen new recruits who had passed the selection.

Just when the Fourth Regiment was in crisis, a huge figure fell from the sky and hit the rodent octopus's narrow head.

Szesni's eyes lit up as he saw Nimrod plunge his halberd deep into one of the sea monster's compound eyes.

The steel warriors saw the rodent octopus being hit like a meteorite and being smashed into the sea, causing huge waves hundreds of meters high.

They looked at the majestic figure standing on the sea with reverence and burst into thunderous cheers.

"Perun, the god of thunder and lightning!"

"God of War Sventovit!"

"..."

Each of them associated Nimrod with the image of the old night gods, rushed into the sea like a pilgrim, and launched a frantic attack on the tentacles.

Ninglu drew out his heavy halberd, blood dyed the sea red, and Zhangya let out a painful wail.

The Primarch keenly felt that the damage caused to the rodent octopus by the previous attack was not fatal. This huge sea monster had a vitality that matched its body, and its eyes were not its fatal weakness.

The sound of whistling wind sounded behind his head, and Ningluo rolled forward, while his heavy halberd left a deep scar on the sea monster's head and body, which was as narrow as a runway.

He activated his clairvoyance and tried to observe Zhang Ya in the same way he had captured the Mother of the Sea, to find weaknesses that his physical senses hadn't discovered.

Dozens of giant python-like tentacles were swinging wildly. Zhang Ya had not been injured for thousands of years. It was angrily trying to swallow the hateful prey on its head.

On the aircraft, Malena raised her staff with both hands and pointed it at the abominable creature that had devoured countless of her tribesmen.

Two bright rays of light shot out from the skull and shot towards the tentacles.

The cells boiled and burned, and the gray tentacles instantly turned into red-hot snake bodies, swinging wildly.

With a loud bang, the tentacles shattered into thousands of pieces and splashed in all directions.

The attack was successful, but Malena frowned delicately.

[Zhangya's vitality is so strong that my attack only shattered one of its tentacles.]
At the same time, Maria and the other two injected the Kournikova family's combat potion into their bodies.

Tesvesna quickly pulled the trigger in her hand, and in an instant the energy box was emptied, and an arc of light rain hit the sea monster's head.

The other two assassins leaped down, and Dementieva turned sideways, tightly grasping the explosion-proof shield in her hand, and hit the rodent octopus hard on the head.

Maria swung the scimitar in an arc, splitting the tentacles thrown by Zhang Ya. As she landed, she fiercely stabbed the glass blade of Flao into the slippery head.

The Coral Sea's overlord roared, its remaining compound eyes bloodshot, and it raised its head in anger. Maria and Dementieva raised their weapons, attempting to plunge them into the sea monster's head. As they swung their arms, tentacles flew through the air and lashed out at their arms.

When the two women were thrown away, Zhang Ya's head had risen to the highest point, but it was still dozens of meters away from the aircraft.

After replacing the energy cartridge, Tesvesna pulled the trigger and fired at the open mouth.

Marlena thought to herself that this was not good. She shouted in Vostroyan Low Gothic, "Get out of the way! It's going to spray ink."

The pilot had no time to think and subconsciously pulled the joystick to evade the situation in a hurry.

The black ink splashed on the bottom of the aircraft, and the streamlined airship spun out of control in the air.

The pilot tried his best to stabilize the aircraft. He was sweating all over and the ink almost hit the head of the airship.

When everyone was in a mess due to Zhang Ya's attack, Ningluo found an opportunity.

He entered that wonderful state again, as if he was standing in the air, overlooking the entire sea, and the entire battlefield was within his "sight".

What he saw was not everyone's movements, but everyone's projection in the subspace, the waves rising in the sea of ​​souls.

The fear of the Trinio people and pilots, the faith of the Iron Warriors, and Malena's overwhelming hatred...

The most important thing is that Nimrod saw Zhang Ya's projection in the subspace.

The most peculiar thing about the octopus's body is its ink sac, which presents two opposite lights: the shining light of life enveloping the darkness of countless lives crying in pain.

At the same time, he opened his spiritual vision and saw the spiritual light flickering above.

Ningluo understood: [The ink sac of the tooth-eating octopus is both its weakness and its extraordinary material.]
Zhang Ya's somersault completely exposed his weakness. Seizing the opportunity, he let his body slide down naturally.

Ningluo swung his heavy halberd violently in the air, piercing the top edge of the ink sac under the rodent octopus's head.

He twisted his body, and the heavy halberd in his hand drew an arc and slid to the lower right.

The Primarch's body seemed to have escaped the control of gravity. He and the heavy halberd in his hand were like a butcher's blade, cutting along the edge of the ink sac.

Zhangya felt his head being cut open, and he tried hard to change the trend of falling backwards, but he could not control his body as inhumanly as Nimrod.

Its huge body tilted slightly to the right and slammed heavily into the sea.

Nimrod strode forward in an arc amidst the turbulence of wind and waves.

He cut off the entire ink sac intact along with the skin. The Primarch reached out and grabbed the slippery rodent octopus skin and pulled hard.

Zhang Ya's tentacles swayed weakly, and as the ink sac left its body, its life faded rapidly.

In Nimrod's perception, when he fell into the sea, Zhang Ya's light in the sea of ​​soul was extinguished.

The Primarch, who had successfully tapped into his own potential, couldn't help but smile.

[I should give this ability a name. It is different from the etheric vision of psykers and the clairvoyance of transcendents.

When I use this ability, seeing the emotions of creatures is just a byproduct. The more critical function is to identify the enemy's weaknesses.

This ability is somewhat similar to the Red Priest's Sequence 5 Beyonder ability, "Weakness Detection," but it's not activated from a mystical perspective, but rather directly observes through the warp. In that case, let's call it "Warp Insight."
Nimrod thought of the 11th Legion, which he would soon take over from the Emperor.

[I don't know how many of my genetic descendants have discovered and inherited my ability of "subspace insight."]
The Trinio people looked at the giant who dragged back the ink sac with admiration in their eyes. He actually killed Zhangya, the evil beast of the Coral Sea, and ended the Sicilians' nightmare of thousands of years.

Malena got off the aircraft and walked towards Nimrod, she bowed.

"Thank you for killing Zhang Ya. With its head, the Sicilians will pledge their loyalty to you."

(End of this chapter)