Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 693 Saint Diego: I am the chosen one of my Lord.

912.M30.

In the fourth dimension of the “Disordered Kingdom,” Nimrod picks up the prophecy die.

Compared to the previous three years and one month, after obtaining the Shadow Blade, Birac waited for twelve more standard days, which was five days longer than the week he had expected.

[Bilak is stronger than expected.]

Well, it's also possible that within the Shadow Blade, there's a small portion of the Four Little Vendors' power that he retained.

We can only be certain when we perform another divination on the fragments of Birak's relic.
With the Shadow Blade, which is most closely associated with Tyraki, as a medium for divination, he anticipates that performing divinations will be much easier in the future.

Ning Lu's mind flashed through the information he knew about the Invisible Abyss.

The Formless Abyss, also known as the Chaos Abyss and the Land of Bewilderment, is a realm not under the rule of the Four Chaos Gods.

Every dream, nightmare, and vision that every intelligent race ever possessed is reflected in the Unseen Wasteland.

Each sub-realm is an extension of the Chaos Realm, inhabited by numerous warp entities not subordinate to the four Chaos Gods, including Vashtor's Soul Furnace, powerful demons like Samus, and demon princes like Bilak...
After Ninglu's mind raced through everything he knew about the invisible abyss, he silently recited it in his heart.

[Coordinates of a stable region in the Unseen Abyss, outside of the Soul Forge and the Shadowlands.]

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In the invisible abyss, most of the landscape is just a chaotic, random terrain, where spiritual streams generated by the minds of all living beings constantly form and disappear.

However, several areas remain stable, such as Vashtor's Soul Furnace and Bilaraka's control of the Shadowlands.

Santiago must avoid them, at least for now.

The Unseen Abyss is located deep within the warp, not in the real world, so to get there, you need to locate coordinates.

Ning Lu silently recited the mantra eleven times in his mind before throwing the triangular cone in his hand.

A supernatural scene unfolded before Ninglu; it was supernatural and did not exist in three-dimensional space.

The scene, dazzling and radiant, is only a blurry and indistinguishable image visible to the naked eye.

Psionicists must open their spiritual eye to capture its true form.

As its other name, Chaos Abyss, suggests, it is layered like a house of cards.

The Primarch's eyes flickered with light as it suddenly ascended into the second layer of Magnus's space, but it did not leave its body of light, lest it be detected by a powerful subspace entity.

The layers of pockets magnified rapidly, twisting into "pearls" in the field of vision.

The deep red sky, the petrified forest, and the endless spiraling of a huge transparent staircase are vaguely reflected in the "pearl".

The Primitive Gene's Mind Eye followed the shimmering illusion projected by the triangular pyramid and plunged into one of the "pearls".

He saw flashes of lightning streak across the dim sky, followed by pillars of fire shooting into the heavens.

The moment the mind of the Primogen comes into contact with it, light and shadow appear in the mind.

He perceives its existence through his own subspace imagery.

With a thought, Ning Lu conjured a data crystal out of thin air in his hand.

As the light flashed, runes were generated within it.

In an instant, the Primitive Gene transformed mental perceptions into psionic runes and inscribed them within.

After a few dozen breaths, he turned the data crystal and glanced at the prophecy dice.

[This time it hasn't become particularly dim, so the cooldown time shouldn't be extended.]
As Nimrod pondered, his spirituality spread, touching the spiritual sphere of San Diego Bergkamp.

Amidst the churning black mist, San Diego was pulled into the "Land of Chaos".

“My lord,” he bowed and reported, “I have arranged the affairs of the chapter and made preparations.”

Nimrod nodded slightly. With a thought, two items appeared out of thin air in front of Saint Diego: the Ring of Flames and Bishop Nephilim's black scalpel.

After Ninglu “associated” with it, he determined that it corresponded to the “Death” pathway sequence 3, “Ferryman”.

The "Ferryman" possesses a degree of authority over death, as exemplified by this black dagger engraved with tiger stripes, which causes any creature it attacks to slowly wither away.

He has the extraordinary item corresponding to Sequence 2 "Death Archon", so the Ferryman Black Knife is a loss he can afford.

Just as possessing the uniqueness of the "Red Priest" allows one to bear the loss of the Flame Ring corresponding to the "Iron Knight".

The two magical items, one offensive and one defensive, combined with the "Record Officer's" diverse abilities, give them a strong ability to cope with challenges.

Nimrod did not bestow more magical items, partly because they might have been lost, and partly because the spirituality of Sequence 6 Saint Diego was insufficient to support more magical items.

With a thought, fifty-two green teardrop-shaped silence runes and one hundred and six worm runes appeared out of thin air.

With a flick of his wrist, ten more ring weapons appeared in his palm.

Saint Diego was momentarily stunned when he saw the numerous talismans and ten ring weapons overflowing with spiritual light.

He knew that ring weapons were equipped by the Legion and the nobles of Terra, but he had never seen Astartes use them.

The first psionic artisan of the "Shadow of Order" once observed and disassembled the ring weapon of a noble commander of the auxiliary army who had received a reward, hoping to figure out the principle of spell generation, but ultimately came up empty-handed.

San Diego couldn't help but marvel at the ancient saint's extraordinary abilities beyond psychic power and technology. He was incomprehensible that the ancient saint could grant the space ape the instinct to use scrap materials to create ring weapons and many other items.

He eventually abandoned the idea of ​​creating ring weapons for Astartes, but unexpectedly, the Black Emperor has now bestowed ten rings upon him.

As San Diego pondered, he knelt on one knee.

"My Lord, thank you for your blessings."

“I told you I would support you.” Nimrod anticipated that with so many items, and given that Saint Diego was an immortal, unless he was unlucky enough to run into Vashtor, Birac, or others, he should be able to escape unscathed.

After putting on the ten rings on both hands, San Diego took out an even number of black gold boxes and arranged the talismans in layers with intervals between them.

Ninglu then presented the data crystal to Saint Diego: "It contains the coordinates of the Invisible Abyss you are heading to."

“Upon your arrival, immediately mark it with your spirit and never forget it.”

San Diego paused, then asked in confusion.

"My Lord, please forgive me. Since You already have the coordinates, why do you need me to mark them?"

"You must mark the four corners of the warp to receive the next gift; this is the necessary ritual for you to gain new power."

Upon hearing the Black Emperor's words, Saint Diego knelt down once more.

The Black Emperor actually went to such lengths for him.

He was favored by the Black Emperor.

He is a chosen one of God.

"Thank you for your concern for me."

"After marking, if possible, explore the Abyss of the Unseen Wasteland. This will help you master the new power I have given you in the future." With a thought, Ninglu sent black mist churning and engulfing Saint Diego, sending him back to the Starship.

San Diego returned to the Starship and looked around at the six mind servants.

He himself made a lot of preparations over the course of a year, including the addition of four new mind servants.

Saint Diego read the data crystal and, in addition to the information about the Invisible Abyss, he also saw the functions corresponding to the ten rings.

After adjusting his equipment to a convenient position, the fully armed San Diego took a deep breath, his eyes sparkling like stars.

(End of this chapter)