[{"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-393":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},1511142,1962,"Chapter 393 - 392: The \"Warlock\"","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-393",393,"\u003Cp>Thomas's consciousness swept the surroundings, alerting the warriors of the 3rd Chapter's 5th Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Targets at twelve o'clock, three o'clock, and nine o'clock.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadows of Order raised their boltguns, firing a dense barrage at the Heartkyn warriors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bolter rounds struck the energy cloaks, only to be deflected back and ricochet onto the rock walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Boom! Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" loaded a tube of powdered ammunition into his archeotech pistol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He channeled spiritual energy into it and pulled the trigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" had previously determined through experiments that the ancient weapon, capable of firing, any ammunition, rejected psychic-related materials nor spiritual materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The powder detonated at the three o'clock direction, scattering blue dust outward. The Hearthkyns' energy cloaks rippled like mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadows of Order immediately raised their boltguns, firing dense volleys at the Heartkyn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the roar of explosions, several Shadows of Order and Heartkyn fell at the same time\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" fired another round of ammunition made from spiritual materials towards the twelve and nine o'clock directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual materials were given to him by the Black Emperor after he became a Warlock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" used his ability to analyze these materials and crafted various potions and bullets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Casting a spell was something he could never complete in a single motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the simplest spell required three steps. First, concentrating one's spirituality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like psykers using the warp energy, the \"Warlock\" consumed spirituality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, he had to outline the symbols of the spell within his mind, though spoken incantations could be used as a substitute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Experienced \"Warlocks\" preferred mental visualization, making detection less likely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, utilizing materials to cast the spell. Materials served as mediums or is a part of the spell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A \"Warlock's\" strength directly depended on how many types of materials they possessed and their quantities. Otherwise, knowing a spell was useless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue powder came from Crystal Mirage, made by crushing energy crystals and purifying with spirituality, similar to how psykers craft psychic items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Black Emperor gave him the spiritual materials, each was marked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" raised his hand, firing another blue round towards each of the three directions, covering the Heartkyn in swirling powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadows of Order and the exposed Heartkyn exchanged fire, guns roaring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Explosion after explosion sounded, more Hearthkyn fell, and more Shadows of Order collapsed with them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" pulled a vial from his power armor's chest and sprinkled its contents over himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black armor disappeared like mist, vanishing from sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" stealthily approached the nine o'clock group. At twenty meters, he drew a dark red potion from his waist, and mobilized his spirituality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" visualized the Black Emperor' symbolic glyph in his mind: first, disordered black arcs, then surrounding wings, finally spikes and the abstracted crown above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" also visualized the Aeldari Fire Dragon glyph.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After promoting to \"Warlock,\" he combined the ritual magic he mastered as a \"Mystery Pryer\" with spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Visualizing the Black Emperor's glyph first allowed the \"Warlock\" to borrow a portion of the Black Emperor's power to cast spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After visualizing the Fire Dragon glyph, the \"Warlock\" tossed the powder forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a potion made from Nocturne salamander skin, flesh, and black ore. Spirituality ignited the dark red potion, flames blazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some Heartkyn smelled a familiar scent, the molten rock smell from deep underground mining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas saw their Voidsuits were blazing but they didn't fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The materials our Lord provided noted this, their Voidsuits is threaded with Bastium Alloy, extremely resistant to all forms of extreme environment.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But if one potion doesn't work, I have many more.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still concealed, the \"Warlock\" circled around and hurled a silver potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With crackling bursts, a mass of silver-white lightning crashed down on more than twenty Hearthkyn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a boom, over a dozen Hearthkyn collapsed, smoke rising from their helmets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some Hearthkyn, tough as stone, remained standing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Floating silver powder drifted into the lingering dark-red potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two potions collided, immediately triggering a chain reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive crimson flame surged upwards, sweeping up several Heartkyn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver lightning flashes shimmered, tearing their bodies apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heartkyn raised their boltguns, firing towards the direction the powder came from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the \"Warlock\" had long since moved. After sneaking several meters away, he threw another vial filled with invisible powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoosh!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A violent gale formed out of nothing and swept toward the Hearthkyn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hurricane howled, lifting more than a dozen Hearthkyn and slamming them hard against the rock walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twisting midair, the Hearthkyn fired back in dense barrages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scanned their surroundings, tense, searching for the hidden enemy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" removed the largest vial from his waist, as big as his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The powder inside came from the Kraken of Fenris, refined from its hardened flesh and bone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spirituality surged into the powder; with a crackling burst, it dissolved into blue mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A towering wave rose like a tsunami, crashing into dozens of Squats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flood carried them through the excavation tunnels and smashed them against stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Heartkyn slammed into the walls. Their helmets shattered under the immense impact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their heads then struck the rock, stars swimming before their eyes as they fell unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over a dozen Heartkyn were thrown off balance by the water, slipping and falling into the flow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They tumbled and spun in the water, extending their boltguns, trying to hook onto rocks to stop themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" unleashed spells at terrifying speed, cutting down the Squats, but at the cost of rapidly depleting vial after vial of precious reagents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he could feel something else, a faint dissolving sensation spreading through his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drawing on his experience as a \"Mystery Pryer\" and \"Melee Scholar,\" Thomas knew he was gradually mastering the power of a \"Warlock\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>10th Solar Month, 849.M41. The materials crafted by the \"Warlock\" were exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding his archeotech pistol in one hand and a power sword in the other, he joined the arduous combat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas followed the 3rd Chapter into the Hold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a perceptive Shadow of Order and a psyker of the Telephaty discipline, the concept of silence had never existed for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every moment of his life was drowned in deafening noise, shredded thoughts, chaotic emotions, until he learned the Thelema mindstate and gained the ability to filter them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once he reached the galactic core, he found none of that chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, even when he actively tried to read the Squats' minds, he could hardly do so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were like boulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas ascended into the third layer of the Enumeration. The world sharpened instantly, every detail somewhat glaring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All tiny fragments intertwined intocollective structures. Bright vortex trajectories traced behind the Heartkyn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A heavy hammer smashing towards him was exceptionally clear in Thomas's thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his power sword, meeting the Squat's arm as though the foe had thrown himself onto the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The edge pierced the Voidsuits the disintegration field tearing the Squat's body open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a long and grueling battle, the Third Xhapter finally gained the upper hand in the D-1510 System.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas boarded a ship and returned to the Squat System to report to the Primarch.\u003C\u002Fp>",1188,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.770Z",1,"novelbin.me","e37c31830de50100918fb64900bd3b25e33ff579fc24fab33060803712e73f2f","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-394","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-392",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]