Chapter 616: Ahriman is a Robust Man

A star covered in eerie runes spiraled within the webway, blocking the path directly in front of the Silent King's fleet, casting millions of constantly changing rays of light onto the Necron ships cast from living metal.

And before that strange star, an Astartes wearing blue power armor, with a style somewhat like a Necrontyr, stood on a Tzeentchian disc of Tzeentch, overlooking the Silent King's fleet.

The Chosen of Tzeentch, Master of the Rubric, Wizard of Wizards, Librarian of Librarians, the answer to Astartes psykers: Azhek Ahriman.

Through a comparison of the database, the Silent King Imotekh confirmed the identity of the human wizard before him.

Ahriman looked down at the Necron fleet, and that profane star corrupted by the Warp let out a sharp roar, as solar prominences mixed with powerful Warp energy surged out.

Ahriman slowly extended his left arm, which was not wearing power armor; his arm was covered in muscles, and powerful psychic energy surged continuously along his flesh and blood.

This Thousand Son suddenly clenched his fist, which was as large as a mortal's head, and raised it high; psychic energy howled and surged, and the solar prominences sprayed out by the star behind him moved accordingly.

The solar prominences surging on that star and his arm were connected through psychic energy, also turning into a thick giant arm composed of light, heat, and psychic energy.

Then, Ahriman opened his fist, turning it into a palm, and the giant solar prominence arm extending from the star made the same action.

Ahriman's palm slammed down, and the giant solar prominence arm also tore through the void in the webway, slapping toward those Necron ships that had not had time to brake and had fallen into the star's attack range.

In the blink of an eye, those ships cast from living metal were slapped into disarray by the star's giant ear-slap, and one after another melted into molten iron and were swallowed by the star.

Imotekh looked at this scene and tilted his head slightly.

Are wizards these days all this style?

Back during the War in Heaven, didn't those Aeldari wizards all chant, dance, and occasionally conjure soul rings?

How is the style of human wizards so strange? So... robust?

This was still a small problem.

More importantly, how could he appear here? How could he block the way here?

The Silent King had assured Imotekh that this webway had fallen into his hands as early as the War in Heaven, and in the current era where the Old Ones had fallen and the Aeldari were in decline, only he still knew of the existence of this webway and held the map to it.

Even in the Webway Codex explored and compiled by Aeldari Rangers, there was no longer any record of this webway; in other words, no one could find and enter this webway without the Silent King's consent.

But Azhek Ahriman, an existence Imotekh had not anticipated at all, had inexplicably brought an entire star and appeared in the webway, blocking his fleet.

Could it be that the Silent King, that deceiver, had activated his god-like wisdom again, intending to kill the donkey after it had finished grinding the grain, and backstab Imotekh?

Imotekh did not know that the reason Ahriman was able to find this webway was not through Necron technology, nor through the Aeldari Webway Codex,

but through a human technology...

Ahriman lowered his hand slightly, looking at the flesh-and-blood book floating in his hand, made from the skin of a human woman.

This book itself was alive; in the spine, one could vaguely see organs like hearts and lungs slowly squirming, pumping blood and nutrients to every page.

On the pages made of stretched skin, dark blue veins constantly changed and intertwined, weaving a map of the nearby webway.

This was the "Map of Purgatory," a webway map created by humans.

Back then, Magnus's psychic phone call destroyed the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's webway, and a portion of the Sisters of Silence and Tech-Priests were trapped in the webway.

Those Tech-Priests were originally the best batch of scientists among humans and were experts in webway technology; in order to return to Terra and return to the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's side, these Tech-Priests began to look for ways to leave the webway.

It is unknown how much time they spent in the time-disordered webway; they finally succeeded in completing this webway map using the skin of a Sister of Silence.

Unlike the Aeldari "Webway Codex," which relied on the physical exploration of Aeldari Rangers, the "Map of Purgatory" could automatically generate a map of the nearby webway, guiding the user to the place they wanted to go.

But the "Map of Purgatory" was completed too late; those Tech-Priests and Sisters of Silence ultimately failed to leave the webway, and the "Map of Purgatory" fell into the hands of the Harlequins, was collected by Xi Gaoqi, and later obtained by Zhou Yun.

It was precisely with the guidance of the "Map of Purgatory" that Ahriman was able to enter this secret webway and summon a profane star to block the Silent King's fleet.

The Silent King's metal face became gloomy and unbearable; he had to use one of the last two treasures of the Sautekh Dynasty——————

The sound of cold mountain stream water slapping against ancient giant rocks suddenly sounded in the Silent King's ear, several withered broad leaves fell from the shadows, and a power sword shimmering with bright light broke through the air, stabbing straight at the Silent King's neck.

The Silent King turned his head suddenly, looking in the direction from which the blade was attacking.

He saw a beast.

A humanoid beast wearing dark green power armor, his face hidden under a beard and hair mixed with gold and gray, holding a sword and shield.

The Lion, Lion El'Jonson, walked out from the forest holding the Lion Sword. ===== CHAPTER 617 =====