[{"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-344":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},1510893,1962,"Chapter 344 - 343: Urian Vendraig Receives His Chance to Prove Himself","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-344",344,"\u003Cp>841.M30, The Coronid Deeps, Grail Abyss\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wearing black power armor, Legion Master Urian Vendraig stood proudly on the bridge of the Invincible Reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the low tactical screens circling the command dais, Vendraig watched the icons of ninety-nine void-black capital ships advance in formation with his flagship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two icons shone especially bright: the Paradigm of Hate and Truth's Razor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The central command platform, constructed from adamantine pillars and insulated cabling, shuddered as the void battle began, flooded with system noise and blinding flashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cogitators chattered in binharic, their voices flavored with the techno-accents of Terra, Mars, and Jupiter. Red-robed Tech-priests whispered canticles in harsh, grating tones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vendraig flicked rapidly through data on his slate, savoring the familiar pleasure of analysis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he had a worthy foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, a chance to prove he deserved command of the First Legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clenched his fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I was not made Legion Master merely because the Hexagrammaton cancelled each other out in their bickering.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The faltering First Legion will return to glory under my leadership.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tactical screens lit with swarms of crimson enemy signals. Vendraig issued his orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both fleets opened fire simultaneously, drowning every display in static.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Void-black Imperial ships exchanged devastating volleys with the crystalline vessels of the xenos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Invincible Reason surged forward through cascading explosions, streams of plasma, and laser fire, tearing viciously at the fractured hulls of enemy vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tactical readouts flashed by too fast to count:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lance capacitor charge: 94%. ]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Starboard shield array #13 overloaded....]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reports from other ships followed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Battleship Invincible Eagle lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Battlecruiser Glory to Terra lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frigate Hurricane Wing lost....]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The First Legion advanced, but at a steep cost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grail Abyss was the Mitu xenos' second most critical stronghold after Manachea. Their sacred Grail Temples were located here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Archeotech energy cannons from Mitu warships unleashed bizarre rippling beams, orange, pink, and colors beyond human perception, splattering across Imperial hulls like spilled dyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their strangeness didn't blunt their lethality. The Mitu arcane cannons were as deadly as any Imperial macrobattery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Void shields flickered, overloaded, and collapsed. The energy waves ripped apart ship after ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the First Legion bled in void warfare, the Eleventh Legion launched simultaneous assaults across five systems around the Cyclops Cluster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Lascal, inside the Mitu Hall of Prophecy, hundreds of anemone-shaped aliens, each with varying numbers of limbs, gathered before a great machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite their twisted heads, Mitu's physiology was broadly symmetrical.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the center stood a tall Mitu seer with twelve tendril-like legs, holding a crystalline arcane staff that shimmered with metallic light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It opened its long, narrow maw, sending ripples through its anemone-like body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Shadows… A vast fleet…Send a warning to Manachea. Request aid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several massive four-legged Mitu entered strange circular metal pods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each device was connected by twenty-five glowing crystal cables to a bowl-shaped array above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside every bowl were two hundred humans, the Mitu's preferred biological fuel source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many had already collapsed into despair, kneeling and waiting for death. Others weakly hurled themselves against containment fields, achieving nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All twenty-five machines activated at once, screaming with a deafening mechanical howl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The humans were shredded into blood-mist as the pods spun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crystals in the center turned red, then fired blinding beams skyward. Warp-energy flared like lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eleventh Legion Arrives\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that same moment, the Throne of Shadow's Sovereignity exited from the warp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the command throne, Diana Pauline drifted through oceans of data, scanning fleet compositions using the Eleventh Legion's auger systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the first sweep, she had a complete view of Lascal:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Enemy warships: 137 total. Capital ships: 29.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Experimental masking test evaluation: SAFE.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Marshall of Ordnance Gabriel and his team had gained little progress on reverse engineering the shadow-blaster technology, but they had achieved promising results in falsifying sensor readings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Vostroya's orbital yards, twelve ships, including the flagship Sword of Vostroya, had been experimentally modified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana had drafted a proposal for a field test, and now requested approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Nareth, I request authorization to begin experimental falsified-reading trials.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rune in Nareth's ear chimed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He considered, then denied it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not while Fourteenth Legion vessels are present. No tests.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth remembered well: in the future, the Fourteenth Legion followed Mortarion into the worship of Nurgle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even without corruption, Mortarion despised psykers more deeply than even Leman Russ.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Russ would at least grumble before cooperating; Mortarion never would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of all, one does not reveal secret weapons when allies are watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when one does not yet know who, in the future, would truly be an ally or an enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the experiment succeeded, using falsified-reading tech in a joint fleet operation would risk exposure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countering falsified readings required prior data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without that, no one, not even allies turned enemies, could react effectively in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diana adjusted her plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, I will order the Fourteenth Legion fleet to attack a detached Mitu formation, keeping them out of our firing arcs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Approved, but without the experiment,\" Nareth answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She obeyed, accepting the Primarch's order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fourteenth Legion deployed, tearing into a Mitu sub-fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their void doctrine was exactly as history described, unyielding endurance, grim determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flagship carved through the enemy like a heavy scythe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First Captain Baracin watched silently, colorless explosions detonate across the screens, like strings of firecrackers around the flagship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Void shields strained under the Mitu's eerie beams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Begin,\" Baracin said calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The prow lance and macro batteries fired. Enemy ships erupted one after another in brilliant fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was watching the spectacle of destruction when vox-chants sounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First Captain, Lord Nareth orders us to break off and make for Zavarich. We are to destroy the Mitu grainnaries.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Navigator, set course for Zavarich. Make ready for transition.\"\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>",964,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.769Z",1,"novelbin.me","4867b0210d0c89b17b16ea741cb1d175447e728062a61ac6587983c97c9d9ea6","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-345","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-343",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]