[{"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-605":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},1511255,1962,"Chapter 605 - 604: The Resilient Death Guard, Their Will is No Match for My Endurance","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-605",605,"\u003Cp>881.M30.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In orbit around Drune, Ethan, having just met his gene-father and become a \"Pugilist,\" gazed from the black Stormbird at the dead-grey warships and vehicles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Death Guard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He whispered, instinctively clenching his fist. He remembered being chained like an animal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mortarion, dragging him stumbling forward, intending to burn him before the people of Barbarus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lost in memory, Ethan felt his eyelids grow heavy, his mind sink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately recognized the presence as the Enslavers described in the materials his Father had issued to the participating Shadows of Order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were trying to infiltrate his mind, to control him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Enslavers lived in the Warp. They were drawn to psykers, especially untrained ones, whose shadows drew them like beacons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was a resilient psyker, personally taught by the Chief Librarian. He had faced the Psychneuein on Prospero, which fed on psykers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Ethan ascended to the third level of the Thelema mindstate. His blurred consciousness cleared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resilient psyker drew his force staff. A mountain peak appeared in his eyes, his personal Warp manifestation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His unwavering will infused the surging Warp energy, coalesced at the peak, and shot from his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A searing blade of mental energy raced along the invading consciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, it crossed 2.5 kilometers, striking a jellyfish-like creature with one eye and twelve tentacles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK, CRACK, CRACK...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mental attack killed the jellyfish creature and the ten human puppets attacking the landing pad a hundred meters away, who fell simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resilient psyker confirmed his first kill, a new gift for his Father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His primary abilities involved the mental and Prophecy domains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the mental domain, unlike the Thousand Sons' Athanaeans, which focused on telepathy and mind-reading, he specialized in mental attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike mentalists and diviners, his will was paramount in his use of psychic power, not the amount of Warp energy he could channel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'A good start.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan understood why his Father had deployed Librarians to Drune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They and the Enslavers would detect each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Psychic attack was also an effective way to kill Enslavers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After deducing his Father's intent, he realized this was another trial for the Librarians, after the Rangdan War.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Fortunately, Lord Thomas has always emphasized the training of the Librarians' will, with increasingly higher standards.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Now, apprentices are required to master the first level of the Thelema mindstate, Codiciers the second, and Codiciers and above all master the third.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'More than two-thirds of the Librarians, after rotating through'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Mancora, have also mastered the \"Griffin's Roar.\"'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought, he felt the ground shake. Descending the ramp, he looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dead-grey Stormbird spiraled out of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Mind control!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Ordinary Enslavers can only control puppets within fifty meters, but my Father said Drune is now an Enslaver world.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Powerful individuals can reach targets kilometers away, as that one just tried to control me.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan watched the crashing dead-grey Stormbird. \"The Death Guard, resilient?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the fourteenth day of their arrival on Drune, Ethan, with the Eleveth Chapter's 3rd Company, attacked the north side of Roehampton.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third Company Captain Chambers said to the Librarian beside him: \"The Death Guard's 7th Company is also targeting Roehampton, attacking from the south side of the hive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan gripped his force staff. 'Finally, we meet?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to reach the city center before the Death Guard, but he didn't voice this to Chambers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the Death Guard had seven Great Companies. The 7th was a battle company, nearly seven thousand strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The 11th Chapter, after the Rangdan War, had recovered to twenty-eight thousand five hundred, but it had ten companies. The Third numbered twenty-nine hundred, less than half the 7th Company's strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vostroya-pattern Rhinos rumbled. Ethan looked out the window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahead, the Sicaran tanks, which had not yet entered the other eighteen Legions besides Shadows of Order and Iron Hands, were not only in large-scale service, but a new variant had appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vostroya-built Sicaran tanks led the line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the hive fortress, the Enslavers' puppets poured dense fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But they couldn't hit the swift Sicaran Arcus tanks, which flashed past, the shells falling behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook. Smoke billowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neutron flux warheads, which the Mechanicum refused to use, soared, screaming into the hive's iron walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames engulfed the entire wall. It shook under the neutron shockwaves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan saw cracks appear in the iron wall, rapidly spreading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the base of the hive, gaps appeared, wide enough for armored vehicles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sicaran Arcus tanks rushed forward. Neutron flux warheads pinpointed fortifications. Bunkers and strongpoints turned to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vostroya-pattern Rhinos followed into the Roehampton hive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan dismounted, looking around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black vehicles raced down wide avenues. Side-mounted lascannons fired dazzling beams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puppets, their movements either stiff or like clumsy dancers, fell in droves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sicaran Arcus's famed speed was like an arrow: attack, then retreat unscathed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roehampton is clean and bright, very different from the hives of other worlds.\" Chambers looked around, glimpsing the city's former splendor in the buildings that had survived the fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A beacon of the Great Crusade, a lighthouse of human civilization. No wonder the Emperor sent three Legions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan watched the towering buildings, far cleaner, more orderly, and brighter than the crowded, chaotic upper hive of a hive world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded in agreement. \"Only Vostroya's Paradigm City, Ar Rija, and Calth compare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of other Legions. \"And Tizca and Macragge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forward!\" Chambers withdrew his gaze and gave the order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Briber\" ran. The sooner they cleared the xenos, the more of this beacon of civilization would remain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pristine white buildings flew past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, a black Sicaran tank exploded without being hit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its black armor shattered. The driver and gunner, seemingly unaware, had fused with their seats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Enslaver!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan, the resilient psyker, was the first to sense an Enslaver. The mountain peak appeared in his eyes. He raised his staff high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mental collision erupted in the supernatural realm. Waves crashed in the Sea of Souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tentacles reached up from the sea, wrapping around the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Ethan engaged the Enslaver in a mental duel, Chambers moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maintaining the third level of the Thelema mindstate, he felt evil tentacles wrapping around his head, like drills trying to force their way in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Briber,\" having undergone three mental enhancements, swayed slightly, then steadied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He threw his head back, unleashing a deafening \"Savage Howl.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadows of Order keenly heard a faint movement from behind a building on the left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately charged in that direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he saw was a shimmering creature, like a pouch suspended above a crowd, as if floating in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was pear-shaped, like the giant ticks in Vostroya's underhive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also like an embryo, but with a mandible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tentacles hung from its face-like tissue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Briber\" raised his bolt pistol and fired a burst at the Enslaver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bolts struck a shimmering screen. \"Bribe: Weaken\" propelled the adamantium-tipped rounds through the psychic shield like water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Enslaver slammed into over twenty human puppets. Chambers turned away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadows of Order had already sensed that the puppets fell dead the moment the Enslaver died, their enslavement ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Indeed, as my Lord said, no need to consider the lives of the people of Drune.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'They were already walking puppets the moment they were enslaved.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment, on the edge of the city center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nathaniel Garro of the Death Guard's 7th Company led his squad, following the Battle Captain in a charge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their Captain's voice echoed on the company's vox channel. \"Steadfast, Death Guard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Swift and decisive, leaving the Shadow of Order witch-boys in the dust.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro listened to the synchronized roars on the vox channel, frowning slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his bolt pistol. Four rounds roared, striking leaping humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He switched to his squad's channel. His voice was calm and firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We are the Death Guard. We are artisans of war. We seek no vanity, only duty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His squad's pace was steady, not as rushed as other Death Guards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He watched the dead-grey armor charge through the blood mist, boots crunching over mangled limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Two o'clock, five hundred meters.\" Garro shouted. He saw two Death Guards suddenly fire wildly, killing their battle-brothers, as a shimmering creature appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his bolt pistol, firing a burst at the abhorrent xenos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bolts struck an invisible distortion field, bending and twisting, detonating in mid-air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRACK, CRACK, CRACK...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cover me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro shouted, charging forward, slipping past two squads, diving into a building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>CRASH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He burst through a wall in his dead-grey armor. Blue light slashed at the jellyfish creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disassembly field shrieked, tearing the xenos into drifting shreds of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro landed, not slowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Support!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, he saw a massive creature with seven eyes, floating in the air. It was far larger than the two-meter-tall xenos, as tall as a four-story building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath it stood fifteen humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the humans spat a blinding arc of lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sweep of its hand, the arc coursed through two dead-grey figures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Armor shattered. Bodies split.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Captain's Guard fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another human, wreathed in light, raised its hands. A psychic barrier rose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst a series of cracks, the Battle Captain charged, scythe raised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro watched in shock as the Battle Captain seemed to move in slow motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dead-grey figure slowed. The scythe slowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The Battle Captain is being controlled.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro caught up to the Guard members, charging towards the Captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A streak of flame blazed towards him. He rolled to evade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames consumed over a dozen Death Guards. Fire churned in the dead-grey armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion threw Garro. Tumbling in the air, he looked at the Battle Captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He twisted the scythe, bringing it down on his own neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment Garro thought the Battle Captain would sacrifice himself, in Ethan's mind, twelve tentacles rose from the sea, firmly wrapped around the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's open mouth stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chains flashed through his mind. Mortarion's merciless back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I will not surrender to the Enslaver!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar sounded in the resilient psyker's mind. His will enveloped the entire mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mountain shook. The tentacles shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The resilient psyker opened his mouth, unleashing a deafening roar: \"ROAR!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden light blazed from his throat. The \"Griffin's Roar's\" thunderous cry drowned out the bolt explosions, echoing in the minds of every being within a kilometer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ethan's gaze shifted from the Enslaver's body, which had crashed onto the corpses of its fifteen enslaved psykers, to the Battle Captain. He saw the scythe fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The poisoned blade tore through power armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The resilient Death Guard, their will is no match for my endurance.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro struggled to rise. He saw the Captain's Guard raise their scythes, charging the xenos corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's mine.\" The voice suddenly sounded in his mind. He saw Ethan, force staff raised, standing before the xenos corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Move. I'll blast it to pieces, avenge the Captain.\" The Barbarus-born Guard Captain shouted, glaring at the Librarian and the xenos monster's corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have already avenged your Captain.\" Ethan's voice was calm and firm. \"Are you just going to vent your anger on a corpse?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Garro saw the black-armored figure approaching in the distance. He saw the Guard Captain raise his scythe in fury. He frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward and said to the Guard member: \"As he said, he avenged the Captain. He has the right to claim his trophy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Witch-boy, don't get too pleased.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Guard Captain lowered his scythe. He and the other Guard members lifted the Battle Captain's body and turned away.\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>",1924,"2026-06-06T05:05:28.115Z",1,"novelbin.me","7b1ba588a86c09589585eb3adb3b1a7dc8c68dcf57e7f669f90c3f1bad561c45","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-554","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-553",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]