[{"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-52":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},1511151,1962,"Chapter 52: Beasts of Tzeentch","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-52",52,"\u003Cp>Kivior-2 stepped before Nareth and spoke solemnly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"On behalf of all altars of Vostroya, I accept your terms. The Mechanicum shall support your ascension as this world's sovereign.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please act immediately, cleanse the blasphemous heretics.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rosicky and Wojciech exchanged shocked glances. It was unthinkable that the Magos would accept Nareth's terms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the initial shock, they calmed down and understood Kivior-2 had no other choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Skitarii and many noble houses had suffered devastating losses fighting the xeno raiders, and now the mutants. Vostroya lacked the sacred Titan legions. Faced with a sudden heretic outbreak, there really was no better option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had they refused Nareth's conditions, Vostroya would have faced annihilation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Magos had considered more than just the current crisis. Piotek's corruption and Kapustka's fall had destroyed his faith in the ruling bloodlines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mechadendrites danced across data-slates, inscribing vows in Lingua Technis and Low Gothic before stamping them with electro-seals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth reviewed it and nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As you wish. I'll move immediately.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Nareth strode out. Maria and the others hurried to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting outside, Rogninho quickly rallied his forces to follow the giant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few kilometers into the march, they encountered a horde of Beasts of Tzeentch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their squad numbered less than a hundred, while the monsters numbered in the thousands. Yet no one showed fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the front, Nareth dove into the horde. With a single charge, he cleaved dozens of bird-shaped beasts in half; hundreds were flung away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rogninho shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled the trigger on his newly equipped Vostroyan lasrifle. The beam pierced through a beast's right eye and shot out its skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This gun's insane, way better than the junk we used to trade with sea folk.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Piontek watched the unstoppable colossus from afar, his blade dripping with the blood of fleeing royal guards. The whispers from his ascension ritual echoed anew:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Piontek Swidelski, I grant you enlightenment. This noble form bears my wisdom.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You shall prove yourself with the power I bestow. Strike him down!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure shown to him by the God of Wisdom overlapped with the image of Nareth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Piontek trembled, recalling the god's command:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Use the blade in your hand. Cut his flesh. Make him bleed!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Make him bleed, and you will ascend. You will forever serve by my side!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes lit up. He felt the call of the god and the touch of destiny.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhelinski's earlier words echoed in his mind:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've undergone the sacred transformation. From now on, you're tied to fate. You'll instinctively perceive strands of destiny, like beasts sniffing prey on the wind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike those who went mad from the god's enlightenment, Piontek remained aware.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was special. He knew what he sensed would happen. Just like how he killed Kapustka with one strike... Just like now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhelinski let out a shriek and charged at Nareth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, Zhelinski also noticed Nareth slaughtering the Beasts of Tzeentch he had created through sacrificial rites, as if sweeping trash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhelinski's gaze deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If I can subjugate such a being, I will complete my enlightenment.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And if I offer him up to my god... surely I will be blessed even further.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his staff and summoned the power granted by the God of Wisdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waves of energy lifted him into the air. Twin wings burst from his back, tearing his blue robes apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just after Nareth swung his halberd, he felt a javelin-like psychic will shoot toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Primarch, his mind vastly outstripped mortals. \"The Lawyer\" and \"The Barbarian\" had both enhanced him—his will was iron. The thought that someone would try a mental attack on him was laughable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked toward the attacker, Zhelinski, airborne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man's face still retained some human features, bruised and purple, before collapsing mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Leave him to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a casual wave, Marlena caused several Beasts of Tzeentch to convulse violently before exploding under her psyker power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth turned to Piontek, who was charging toward him. Compared to the others, this beast was massive, second only to Fangjaw in size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mid-charge, Piontek suddenly veered right, then, after two steps, lunged left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Destiny had shown him this was the way. Only then could he complete the god's mission, spill the giant's blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as his blade came within an arm's reach of Nareth's black armor, he saw a flash of dark light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An instant later, pain exploded in his abdomen. He was sent flying, coughing blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No! Destiny showed me—I will succeed! I will complete the task!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two laughs echoed in his mind, one was a whisper, a mocking laugh from the God of Wisdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other belonged to the giant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth appeared before him in a blink and brought his halberd down, nailing him to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth knew, even the most powerful seers couldn't glimpse all of fate's secrets. Beasts of Tzeentch, granted only a sliver of destiny-sensing instinct, had even less chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worse yet, what they saw might be fake, an illusion for some demon's amusement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled his halberd free and noticed Rogninho's forces pressing the left flank, steadily advancing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the other side, Maria and her team were perfectly synchronized, injecting combat stimulants at just the right times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead, Marlena was crushing Zhelinski completely. The backlash from his failed psychic attack rendered him helpless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth thought: Even at his peak, he couldn't break Marlena's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shamaness had the strongest will he had ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'It's over.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As that thought formed, Marlena raised her pale hand and pushed forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bolt of lightning, thick as a finger, shot into Zhelinski's face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a scream, the Tzeentch cultist collapsed, his face charred beyond recognition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With both Zhelinski and Piontek dead, the Beasts of Tzeentch lost all command and fell into savagery. They were swiftly annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth ordered Rogninho to regroup the surviving Mikhailovsk forces and seize the unguarded Hive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth himself descended to the lower hive, where he hunted and killed a millipede serpent. He also captured five more and threw them into the second level of the Kingdom of Disorder, a simulated lower hive space he had built.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Returning to the upper hive, he entered the palace of the Spire to begin brewing the Assassin potion.\u003C\u002Fp>",1039,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","e7d4c7f35977f1804c6af83ec6491127f05c5c50a1ab66514b22c8318bf06015","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-53","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-51",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]