[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te":3,"chapter-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-166":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I'm in Warhammer, Please Don't Praise the Doraemon Machine God",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2264989,4422,"Chapter 166: The Elytral Guilliman","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-166",166,"\u003Cp>Is that the Chief Librarian, Mephiston, who looks like a corpse?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun’s eyebrows twitched slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston is one of the Empire’s most powerful psykers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Infiltrations like those by Dici and the others could never slip past Mephiston’s psychic senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And, my Lord, the entire Angel’s Bastion has undergone massive changes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dici adjusted his words and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Battle-Captain Dante issued orders: excavation is underway across a radius of several kilometers around the Angel’s Bastion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ancient structures buried for millennia beneath desert sands have been unearthed to house the arriving Angels.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They even discovered an ancient, sturdy wall—now serving as the new shield of the Angel’s Bastion.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Zhou Yun nodded slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already aware of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Guilliman had split the old Legions into thousand-man Chapters, the Blood Angels on Baal were no longer enough to fill the Angel’s Bastion that once housed the full Legions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the ancient fortress had been buried under Baal’s sands over ten thousand years, leaving only its core region intact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as support from daughter Chapters arrived, Battle-Captain Dante ordered the Blood Slaves to excavate the lost sections of the Angel’s Bastion once more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old bunkers, towers, meeting halls, and walls were rediscovered, expanding the Angel’s Bastion’s footprint by several kilometers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a fortress strong and vast enough to have once served as the command center of the Angels, and the best possible defense against the Tyranid hordes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhou Yun suspected that Saint Guilliman’s remains still lay within the core region—never buried by the sands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old maps should still be usable, allowing Zhou Yun to slip silently into the Angel’s Bastion using his Gate of Anywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We only need a map of the former core region.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun looked at Dici and Old One-Eye and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Or even clues.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of silence, Dici spoke: “My Lord, we have only been on this planet for about three months.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But a group of abominations had long since infiltrated Baal, lying dormant in the desert—they likely possess maps of the Angel’s Bastion’s interior.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old One-Eye, hearing Dici’s words, visibly froze, then asked: “You mean Gene-Stealers?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, exactly.” Old One-Eye nodded. “These creatures seem to know Baal intimately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These bastards once tried to corrupt refugees from Asford, but we had enough knowledge of them to track their trail.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yet when the Angels arrived to assist us in surrounding them, those damned mutant monsters vanished into the desert—gone without a trace.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We suspect these Gene-Stealers infiltrated Baal many years ago and have lain hidden in the desert for over a century, slowly expanding their influence and gathering intelligence on Baal.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Only recently, as the Tyranids neared, did they grow slightly more active—and we caught them red-handed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Dici and Old One-Eye, Zhou Yun rubbed his chin in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gene-Stealers. Indeed, during the coming Battle of Baal, Gene-Stealers would appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had coordinated with a Lictor to infiltrate the Angel’s Bastion, attacked the Blood-Coffin Hall where new recruits were grown as a diversion, and destroyed the Bastion’s Void Shield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, they possessed considerable knowledge of the Angel’s Bastion’s interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the Tyranid Hive Fleets had been preparing to invade Baal for a long time—possibly for over a century.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gene-Stealers infected by the Tyranids must have been extremely cautious, slipping silently onto Baal and gathering intelligence invaluable to the Hive Fleets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They must possess maps of the Angel’s Bastion’s interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Zhou Yun, finding them would not be difficult—he had the Seeker’s Staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With sufficient information, he could effortlessly locate anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tell me everything about these Gene-Stealers hiding on Baal. The more specific, the better.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Yun looked at Dici and Old One-Eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This goes back to when we first arrived on Baal, before we split off.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old One-Eye spoke:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Initially, most refugees from Laxio worshipped Saint Doraemon or Magda the Great Abbess, while a significant portion of the Asford refugees worshipped only Saint Guilliman.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We thought nothing of it—whether they worshipped Saint Guilliman, Saint Doraemon, the Emperor himself, or Laxio’s native faiths, it didn’t matter, since their ultimate enemy was the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unless they worshipped the twisted cult of the Gene-Stealers.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dici took over from Old One-Eye:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We remained vigilant against this possibility. My sisters infiltrated the followers of Saint Guilliman and traced them to a small outpost and chapel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These Gene-Stealers likely hadn’t yet received information from the Hive Fleet about Asford—they didn’t understand our capabilities, and underestimated us, the Cult of the Death God’s assassins.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My sisters and I infiltrated their outpost and chapel. We confirmed they did worship Saint Guilliman—but not the Saint Guilliman we know.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Dici, Zhou Yun raised an eyebrow—he suspected what was coming. Gene-Stealers didn’t worship only the Four-Armed God-Emperor; they adapted their heresies to local needs, crafting new twisted faiths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, on Forge Worlds they might develop the Blade Omnisiah; on the Five Hundred Worlds, they might birth Mother-Worm Guilliman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they invaded a Daemon World, perhaps they’d invent Mating Slaanesh, Brain-Worm Tzeentch, Horned Khorne, or Dung-Scarab Nurgle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The winged figure in Bai Guang’s corner twitched its wings slightly—he too seemed barely able to contain himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Saint Guilliman they worship does not have white wings, but four pairs of elytra-like scales, like flies or wasps.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In their doctrine, Saint Guilliman did not truly sacrifice himself—he merely fell gravely wounded and slumbered within a cocoon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When fate arrives, the cocoon containing the Angel shall descend from the heavens, and Saint Guilliman shall awaken, unfolding his scaled wings.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“At that moment, all Gene-Stealers who worship him shall merge into Saint Guilliman’s cocoon, achieving eternal bliss alongside the Angel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dici paused briefly, then whispered:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They call their faith… the Elytral Guilliman.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!. Read\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Elytral Guilliman.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston murmured the name of that blasphemous faith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gene-Stealers, corrupted by genetic taint, twisted the pure veneration of the Archangel into a blasphemous heresy, deceiving Baal’s inhabitants and luring them into corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon learning of this blasphemous cult, every Blood Angel was consumed by rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, on Baal—the homeworld of the Father of Genes, the Blood Angels’ mother world—these twisted aliens had birthed such a blasphemous sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Blood Angels had never noticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Mephiston understood: this was almost inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hive Fleets had clearly been watching Baal in silence for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among these infiltrators were powerful psykers who had evaded the Librarium’s detection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Baal itself was blanketed in desert—beneath endless sands lay countless caves, tunnels, and ancient ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gene-Stealers expanded their influence with extreme caution and slowness, remaining entirely hidden in the desert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Angels could never have imagined such blasphemous aliens lurked among them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had they not attempted to corrupt refugees from the Underworld System, the Blood Angels might never have discovered this Gene-Stealer cult until the Tyranids descended—let alone located their stronghold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Mephiston, through the Blasphemous Prophecy of the Eight-Faced One, foresaw that a Lictor would appear in the Gene-Stealers’ stronghold—and pinpointed its exact location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hidden deep within Baal’s desert, beneath a dune in a labyrinthine tunnel system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These tunnels may have once been a sewer system from tens of thousands of years ago—unknown even to the Blood Angels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston stood at the entrance of that tunnel system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eight-Faced One’s prophecy not only revealed the Lictor’s and the Gene-Stealer cult’s location,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but also unveiled the identity of the so-called “Saint Doraemon”—a candidate existing across multiple locations in the Warp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston chose to investigate the Gene-Stealers first, for he judged Saint Doraemon far more dangerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still remembered the Eight-Faced One’s head exploding before his eyes—that alien sorcerer the Blood Angels had spent three millennia trying to kill, who died instantly merely upon uttering the name “Saint Doraemon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Mephiston, with his psychic power far beyond reason, dared not investigate Him recklessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A breeze suddenly stirred, scattering radiation-laced sand against his unique power armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His armor was unlike any other—it resembled the exposed muscle tissue of a flayed man, every muscle fiber carved from ceramite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston’s armor color was darker than the Blood Angels’ standard, a deep crimson that pulsed like living blood, shimmering with a bloody sheen under Baal’s crimson sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Mephiston was not concerned about exposure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Astartes physique, unless disguised as one of those mindless mutants, could not be concealed by any physical means he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Mephiston employed the Ascendant’s psychic power, layering his body with multiple complex layers of cognitive distortion, ensuring the Gene-Stealers would perceive him as one of their own, unnoticed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mephiston stepped into the tunnel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1422,"2026-06-19T20:02:14.192Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3fc96683d5fd01f8be10da465ca43cd8cdad69cd46a49ac2cf658bd505a69aa1","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-167","i-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-dora-te-chapter-165",711,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-m-in-warhammer-please-don-t-praise-the-doraemo-cover.jpg"]