[{"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-455":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},1510904,1962,"Chapter 455 - 454: The \"Solar High Priest\"","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-455",455,"\u003Cp>Wilshire's eyes shifted abruptly from their deep, dark depths to a brilliant gold, as though two miniature suns burned within their sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He surveyed his surroundings, immediately opening a comm-channel to send Anger a message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The enemy has established psychic arrays. Their energy convergence is underground.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A reckless, blind assault might trigger unforeseen consequences. Leave the rest to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will lead my team underground to resolve it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wilshire then switched channels, issuing orders to his Honor Guard: \"Disembark!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" disembarked first, his golden eyes scanning the surroundings before marking a hundred-metre-tall grey spire on his divination tablet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This grey structure appeared most frigid and ominous through the Solar High Priest's\" eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honor Guards clad in black armour assembled behind him, raising their bedrock-pattern boltguns. They advanced towards the target building while firing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open a \"door\"!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two bodyguard members, hearing their Lord's command, quickened their pace. Their hands pressed against the grey structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the incorporeal \"door\" was opened, Wilshire entered first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" easily found the underground passage within the grey spire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The team descended spirally. Everyone felt the temperature dropping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One Honor Guard, sensing supernatural cold, said over the squad channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bloody hell, it's freezing in this place!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chapter's Librarian looked around. He saw stairs and grey walls engraved with numerous runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Psychic arrays! Gardinaal psykers established combined psychic arrays here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I cannot determine the arrays' full effects, but they seal this area into an enclosed space.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There should be other arrays, other arrays...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the Librarian could finish, a shuffling sound heralded the emergence of a horde of creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The front ranks raised lasguns, unleashing dense beams of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their hunched bodies had an additional arm extending from their backs, firing swiftly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" saw the humanoid creatures covered in rotten flesh, maggots writhing within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" pondered, then the golden sun in his eyes suddenly blossomed. A sacred crystalline light descended from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The humanoid creatures screamed in agony within the radiance, melting away as if consumed by fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honor Guard members bathed in the brilliant light only felt purity and warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After using \"Holy Light Summoning\" to slay the monsters, the \"Solar High Priest\" felt as if something melted within him, confirming his earlier suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Circi used bio-engineering to modify human bodies.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'He then established psychic arrays to bind expired souls within those bodies.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'He was creating necrotic entities! No wonder he entrenched himself in the biosphere recycling centre, an endless supply of raw materials.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Wilshire pondered, he saw withered monsters flying up from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each bore three heads, twisting to survey their surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the black giant, their heads turned simultaneously towards Wilshire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silken strands of black mucus dripped from their mouths, plopping onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two Honor Guards flanking him raised their bedrock-pattern boltguns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mounted Squat HuntR modules mounted on them instantly locked onto the approaching creatures and roared into action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Diamond-hard bolts shot forth, striking the monsters, blasting their pieced bodies apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A swarm of humanoid monsters approached, their three heads opening in unison to emit a piercing howl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creatures' cries were filled with agony, seeking to inflict their torment upon the black-armored warriors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Painful cries merged into a terrifying screech. Two Honor Guard members' arms faltered; their firing momentarily halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The monsters' six arms, connected by bat-like wing membranes, began to vibrate. Their speed surged abruptly as they lunged towards the black-armored warriors like lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest's\" golden eyes blazed. Golden \"Sun Holy Water\" fell from nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun holy water struck the flying monsters, piercing their bodies like spears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plop-plop...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" strode forward. His thunder hammer gleamed with golden light as he attacked the swiftly falling monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung the hammer in sweeping arcs. Within golden light, bodies were torn to shreds, swiftly vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" descended, using \"Create Sun Holy Water.\" Drops of summoned sunholy water fell, striking and slaying the surging necrotic entities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Wilshire's vision opened up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Librarian followed his Lord. He saw a massive circular platform gleaming with psychic lights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A crimson river churned, green mist billowed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the psychic arrays' central nexus...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roaring bellow interrupted the Librarian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Damn you!\" A figure as tall as a Warhound Titan burst forth, snarling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His form was hung with numerous arms, covered in countless faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You interrupted my great plan. All of you, die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Circi's furious roar echoed with the wails of countless souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using his bio-engineering and psychic arrays, he sought to transform himself into a perfect form, possessing power equal to Straken's metallic body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Circi, driven by his desire and the psyker-caste, spent a millennium constructing the framework within the recycling center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another four hundred and thirty years passed as he gathered the refined essences of recycled bodies onto his own frame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just over a century more, and he would complete his transformation, becoming a powerhouse equal to Straken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these damned invaders had disrupted his plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cyclone missile launchers atop bodyguard members' Cataphractii Terminator Armor struck Circi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook violently beneath his feet as severed limbs and fragments flew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A severed arm struck a guard member, black bio-chemical slime rapidly corroding the Cataphractii Terminator Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Circi lost hundreds of arms, yet thousands remained, forming three slender limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two grey-white arms swept horizontally. One arm smashed downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Honor Guard, whose armor had been corroded by the bio-slime, was struck by one arm and was instantly crushed into paste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another arm crashed into Honor Guards, knocking them aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smashing arm descended directly towards Wilshire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest's\" eyes blazed. Instantly, golden flames ignited from nowhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These flames radiated the sun's vast, pervasive aura, densely coalescing into an ocean that enveloped Circi's massive form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sacred flames ignited by the \"Fire of Light\" consumed the souls bound to Circi like candles, melting them into droplets of liquid that vanished into silent screams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" silently chanted Dunnic. His speed surged. \"Holy Oath\" made him, clad in Cataphractii Terminator armor, faster than Shadow of Order in Mark II Power Armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames ignited upon the Thunder Hammer, radiating brilliant golden light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Solar High Priest\" leapt high, swinging the thunder hammer, smashing onto Circi's body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst explosive reports, Circi's body shattered. Simultaneously, Wilshire felt a star crack within him. He thought inwardly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I have become a true \"Solar High Priest.\"'\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>",1084,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.771Z",1,"novelbin.me","ae966af156ae2abc5789a154217c8f87554b394e2d79d0e2b419e9faf6b471d1","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-456","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-454",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]