[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor":3,"chapter-warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-322":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Warhammer: The 11th Primarch - The Black Emperor",{"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},1510871,1962,"Chapter 322 - 321: “The Apprentice”","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-322",322,"\u003Cp>Advex–Mors System, Planet VI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After returning to the 5th Chapter, Santiago Borgkamp was promoted to lieutenant. Leading fifty Shadows of Order, he advanced deep into the frozen caverns beneath the planet's surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike those of the 4th Chapter, they were not as adapted to the extreme cold, but with the life-support systems in their powered armor, they pressed forward steadily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The squad moved cautiously through the labyrinthine tunnels carved out by the Rangdan xenos. Slave-soldiers could appear from any direction at any time to attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they advanced, Santiago kept scanning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew that to end this battle quickly, they had to eliminate the Rangdan overlords who controlled the slaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Santiago, my squad's down to one magazine of ammunition,\" reported the rearguard captain, who had been enduring repeated slave attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My unit's got two left,\" said the forward captain. \"I suggest we fall back from the ice caverns and resupply.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've found them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Santiago's gaze deepened; his Warp Insight had pierced the ice wall, detecting a powerful life signature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the other lifeforms around, this one was clearly far stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed his hand on the ice wall, and the other Shadows of Order immediately understood his signal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn it! The xenos were hiding this close, commanding their slaves to attack us from cover!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Should we use a melta charge?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two captains spoke one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Santiago shook his head firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. That might cause a cave-in and bury us alive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can your door take us through?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can only move five people at once; we'd risk being surrounded.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then we'll just have to use power swords and cut through the ice wall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Santiago rejected that too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too slow. The xenos reinforced this maze when they built it with some kind of alien tech.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The overlords don't want a direct fight. The moment they sense movement, they'll flee and send more slaves to wear us down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the Apprentice suddenly brightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have a better idea. I'll open a door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Prepare for a focused volley!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pressed his hand to the ice wall, his psychic energy spreading outward, activating his beyonder ability: \"Open Door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the squad's eyes, a hazy blue spectral gate appeared on the surface of the ice wall, shimmering like a curtain of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fire!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All forty-nine Shadows of Order pulled their triggers at once, unleashing a concentrated storm of bullets through the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rangdan overlord, who had been toying with his prey, was caught completely off guard. His personal energy shield shattered instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Santiago lowered his left arm and drew his ancient sidearm, firing a searing beam powered by the planet's radiation belt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The overlord's body was vaporized in an instant. The spectral blue gate faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rangdan warriors' counterattack struck only solid ice, sending shards scattering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Santiago quickly led his team onward. He placed his hand against another section of wall and opened another \"door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadows of Order slipped through and launched a surprise assault from behind the enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before his psychic reserves ran dry, the Apprentice dashed through the blue gate, drawing his power sword to join the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, in orbit above, another ambush was taking place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Rangdan fleet launched a surprise attack against the expeditionary forces around Planet VI.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their spiked, flail-adorned ships had disguised their energy signatures to mimic Imperial vessels. Like a pack of wolves, they lunged forward, hurling dense white lightning into the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Imperial cruiser and twelve escort ships exploded in eerie silence, turning into drifting shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shrill alarm echoed across the bridge of the Black Mercy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain Keon, commander of the 5th Company aboard the Gloriana-class battleship, issued calm orders:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Identify all ships in orbit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He strode into the Simulus Chamber and seated himself in the web of neural cables.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he connected to the data ocean, Keon saw it: the fleet had identified thirty-eight enemy ships, including thirteen capital vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The void behemoths had awakened. Their black hulls loomed out of the darkness like monsters bursting through a curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Black Mercy's batteries opened their maws, its Punisher-class reactor feeding boiling plasma capacitors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should have been blind and deaf, fooled by the enemy's false readings, but it wasn't.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Targeting systems locked on. Weapons aligned. Ammunition was requested.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gloriana-class battleship's vast magazines rumbled to life as shells and missiles were raised by cranes and magnetic lifts through the decks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fire filled the void, sweeping the enemy like a blizzard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main prow-mounted lance beam fired, releasing a blinding bolt of energy that struck a xeno warship and tore it apart in an incandescent flare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Rangdan flagship, the wolf-headed overlord stared in disbelief as thousands of missiles rained down like steel needles upon one of his cruisers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without void shields, the ship was riddled with hundreds of holes; flames ripped through its inner decks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the core detonated, splitting the ship apart like a blooming flower, beautiful and brief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Impossible!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Even if the humans have cracked part of our reading masking secret, every ship was refitted to re-randomize its readings every three seconds! They shouldn't have been able to identify us in time!''\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Call the war-moons! Launch drones for cover! Retreat!\" the overlord shouted bitterly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ambush, planned for so long, had failed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had hoped that their newly modified ships could slaughter the Imperial fleet before being identified, gaining a numerical advantage, and crushing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he hadn't anticipated the sheer computational power of the enemy ships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fall back to satellite range,\" he ordered grimly. \"We'll have to rely on the war-moon for defense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battleships of the 4th and 5th Chapters, centered around Black Mercy, launched a full pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using the collective computing power of their Simulus Chambers, they identified each Rangdan vessel before it could re-mask its signal and struck with pinpoint precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Imperial ships, outnumbering their prey, tore through the retreating fleet like blood-hungry sharks, unleashing devastating light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Capital ships rammed through wreckage, their lance beams spearing into enemy hulls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when the Rangdan drones swarmed in like locusts and destroyed one advancing battleship did Keon give the cautious order to halt pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the Ramilies-class fortress's endless torpedo reserves, continuing the chase would risk heavy losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the assaults on the other three planets pressed on, Nareth himself set foot upon the core world of the Rangdan outer defenses, Advex-Mors Extremis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>.....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you enjoy the story, my p@treon is 30 chapters ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[email protected]\u002FDaoistJinzu\u003C\u002Fp>",1082,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.769Z",1,"novelbin.me","5afb06281c69e0e111d893f72121251dd93a002b7f0363f5c2dabe9654b07925","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-323","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-321",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]