Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 67 Heart-Slayer Followers

Nearly a hundred people collapsed at once, especially a dozen of them whose ears and noses were larger and longer than those of ordinary people, and blood was oozing out of their ears and noses.

The space monkeys staggered, then continued to run forward.

Nimrod was not surprised, as he knew that the space apes had no known language, no form of culture, and no motivation other than survival.

With a loud bang, the Primarch crashed into the crowd, killing four people instantly and throwing more than a dozen people away by the shock wave.

Nimrod's consciousness spread, directly and forcefully knocking on the doors of the hearts of the twelve people nearby.

The brain is the person's thoughts, but the person's heart is the truest response.

Countless chaotic mental images flashed through his mind, like a rain of flowers falling from the sky.

[Um? ]
Nimrod was immediately attracted by the images that appeared in the minds of the twelve people at the same time. They held their burning hearts in their hands, knelt in a crystal jungle shining with colorful light, and worshiped a crystal statue that was tens of meters high.

The most striking thing about the statue is its snake-like tail, which is as long as half its body, and its four arms are holding something in their palms.

The twelve people worshiped the statue devoutly, and Nimrod understood the meaning of the local Low Gothic language directly from their hearts.

"Great Heartslayer, we offer you our sacrifice!"

"Please protect us! Give us your blessing!"

"..."

[Heartkiller? Seems familiar.]

Heart, snake tail, four arms.

Secret Keeper, Heartbreaker?]
Nimrod looked at the people around him and found that they all had slight mutations, some with forked snakes in their mouths, and others with eyes that shone like crystal...

[The degree of variation is not large, but the proportion of people is high.]
He frowned again. He did not feel the veil being weakened or the energy of the warp surging.

[Perhaps, only in a small area.]
Nimrod also received information about the space monkeys from their minds.

[Suspected to be followers of Slaanesh, they discovered that the space monkeys used stone and other materials to create exotic works of art - light sculptures.

They are then recaptured, but the space monkeys escape.]
Nimrod was not surprised, for the space apes would escape if given the chance, and they could always build things to help them escape.

He gathered his consciousness and turned back to his body, and then he saw a man holding a gorgeous sword, with blood-yellow eyes like snake pupils, shouting loudly.

"Stop chasing him, catch this guy who fell from the sky. He is the most perfect sculpture!"

Through the mind reading just now, Nimrod mastered the commonly used parts of the local language of Crystal Illusion and could understand what they said.

Twenty-five followers of the Heart Slayer pounced on Nimrod with agility far beyond that of ordinary people.

A cold look flashed across Ninglu's black eyes, and then he swung his heavy halberd.

With a spinning sweep, many enemies were cut in half. Their bodies rushed forward by inertia, then collided with each other and fell to the ground.

Nimrod had already turned and chased after the space apes. To him, this tribe was worth more than this world.

He ran and pulled out the data pad, circling the criteria on it according to the memory he had just read.

While sending a message to Bukayo, he turned on the communicator and gave orders.

"Bukayo, lead the team immediately to the marked location."

Ningluo thought of the fact that in the previous scan of the Auger Matrix, there was no life signal in the gathering place of the Heart Slayer believers, and then gave a warning.

"Don't rush!"

"As you command, my king!"

Nimrod relied on his keen perception and caught up with the tribe of space monkeys after a while.

He strode forward, then stood in front of the space monkeys, holding his spear across his chest to stop them.

The space monkeys sensed the danger, stopped immediately, turned around and ran to the left.

The next moment, Nimrod appeared before them.

After more than ten times, the space monkeys instinctively gave up escaping and stared at Nimrod with wide eyes.

They didn't say a word, like statues standing there motionless. Nimrod turned on his communicator and sent a message to Gul Gul.

"Bring a platoon down."

Ningluo narrowed his eyes and frowned slightly as he looked at the space monkeys in front of him who were unable to communicate through language.

Space monkeys create things randomly. If they are faced with a laser gun, they may modify it to make it more powerful, or they may just weave a decoration and place it on top.

Only their creators, the Old Ones, know how to harness their instincts.

[Future Inquisitor teams will include Space Apes, and the Demonic Inquisition in the Calixis Sector will use their simian force field technology to resist demons.

The former may rely on luck, but the latter will certainly not rely on the creation instinct of space monkeys for life and death.

Then there must be a way to force them to do as ordered.]
Nimrod's mind raced as he thought about how to tame the space ape.

[Instinct, survival instinct... Well, let's assume that I consider the space ape not as a biological machine, but as a living being, but he does not communicate in the way humans know, as the basic logic.

Well, by injecting implants into their bodies with a built-in driver "program" that forces them to perform.

There is another possible method. The spy flies they create need to be injected with psionic energy. Inquisitor Jack Draco therefore suspects that they may have psionic powers. Perhaps I can use telepathy to drive them to act according to my will.]
When Ningluo thought of two solutions, a loud roar sounded above his head.

The space apes were herded onto the barge, and he followed them inside, sending a message to Wojciech.

"Prepare a closed deck and empty it of all its contents."

Even if it's useless garbage, you never know what it will become after the space monkeys get their hands on it.

They can create rare ring weapons from scraps of garbage in an instant, and the most common ones they create are tools for escape.

"Also, order your men to gather the waste materials from manufacturing and prepare them for use."

As Nimrod returned to the Pride of Vostroya, Bukayo led his regiment to land near the target point.

He then saw a crystal mountain that towered into the clouds and had no visible top. Its facets seemed to be cut, reflecting colorful light under the sunlight.

Bukayo, who had grown to the height of an average adult, cautiously did not lead the team to climb the mountain immediately. He boarded the aircraft, sat in the co-pilot seat, fastened his seat belt, and gave the order to take off.

His eyes widened as he tried to observe the situation on the mountain.

However, all I could see was dazzling colorful lights.

"Fly sideways, tilt thirty degrees!"

The pilot immediately changed direction according to Bukayo's order.

What Bukayo saw in his eyes was still the dazzling colorful light, which changed at dozens of angles.

He frowned and gave new orders reluctantly.

"Go around the mountain!"

Bukayo kept staring at the mountain. He couldn't see the scenery on the mountain clearly until a stairway to heaven appeared in his sight.

He then discovered that the mountain was a polyhedron, with passages only found at the transition points between the facets.

After one circle, the aircraft landed.

Bukayo turned on the communicator and tried to contact the ship, but only heard a rustling noise.

“Stand back.”

Only after they were several hundred meters away from the foot of the mountain did the noise in the communication channel disappear, and he sent a message to Nimrod.

"My Lord, I have arrived at the target point and found a crystal mountain. It is a hexahedron."

“I’m about to climb a mountain.”

After waiting for nearly a minute, he still didn't receive a reply.

[Perhaps the Lord was busy with other things and didn't hear.]
Bukayo immediately ordered a landing and led his men to choose the nearest passage and climb up.

(End of this chapter)