[{"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-631":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},1511303,1962,"Chapter 631 - 630: Tripod Walkers Spouting Golden Light","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-631",631,"\u003Cp>Wilshire led his force, carefully navigating around patches of sparkling gems, each the size of a man's palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gems glittered enticingly under the purple light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No black-armored warrior picked them up. Like the giant armored lizards around them, they gave the gem fields a wide berth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tendrils sprouted from the organic spires. Purple light surged from their bases, unleashing energy accumulated over millennia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light spread like a tide. Herbivores' eyes turned bloodshot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They charged at each other, tearing and biting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flesh flew. Blood stained the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Giant armored lizards, as large as hive domes, reared up, slamming their forelimbs down, causing the ground to shake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gentle herbivores, they opened their massive jaws, swallowing entire herds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hissing sounds came from beneath their tough, horny hides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pink flesh buds, like tender shoots breaking soil, tore through their armor-like skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tender buds, like tentacles, reached out, coiling around the battling herbivores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viscous, brightly colored slime oozed from the buds, enveloping the herbivores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the herbivores dissolved, the buds swelled and split open, blooming like flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wave of musky scent washed over Wilshire, making him dizzy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Notary\" sensed the spreading evil. His psychic energy surged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden light radiated from him, growing purer, fnally forming a seal-like projection.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shouted in Dunnic, \"'Notarize,' 'Sun Halo'!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A golden aura rapidly expanded, enveloping his Guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Light Lord saw the gentle armored lizards, rapidly growing as they fed, and shouted into the vox channel: \"Sun Tripod Walkers!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After purifying the daemon world in the Maelstrom and acquiring the Slaughtersong, Wilshire had focused on developing weapons against daemons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Techmarine support, they had created new weapons using \"Sun Holy Water\" and other technologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the \"Notary\" moved among his Guard, performing \"Notarizations,\" the Shadows of Order fired dense barrages at the armored lizards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bolts thundered. Adamantium-tipped rounds struck the blooming flesh flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bright flowers swayed. Flesh fragments scattered, but they were not significantly damaged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clusters of golden flames erupted around the \"Solar High Priests.\" A vast, sacred aura filled the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The enormous, bright flesh flowers, like candles, rapidly burned to ash in the sacred flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Light Suppliant\" raised their bolters. Golden rounds, blessed by ritual holy water, slammed into the thick hides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a roar, ripples spread across the hides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The armored lizard let out an angry hiss, raising a massive foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shadows of Order retreated rapidly, distancing themselves from the behemoth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forty-one black tripod walkers surrounded the bloated lizard monster from the flanks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each walker was accompanied by a squad led by a \"Solar High Priest.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They chanted \"Holy Oath\" in Dunnic. Golden lines and sun runes on the black hulls blazed with warm, bright light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The operators within the sarcophagi felt bathed in warm light, like sunbathing in the new sun gardens of Gardinaal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they enjoyed the comfort, they recalled the brutal legends of the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the era of the High Lords' rule over Gardinaal, the castes who piloted the tripod walkers had lain in cold sarcophagi, like living mummies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last of those pilot castes had fallen in the war against the Rangdan. Their successors no longer needed to lie in cold coffins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Light Suppliant\" sang. Light descended from the sky, illuminating the walkers' cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black walkers raised their arms. Blazing beams leaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beams, bright gold, struck the giant lizard's swollen body like a net.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lizard, larger than a hive dome, was sliced into chunks by the golden light, crashing down onto the plain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Sun Tripod Walkers struck the mutated armored lizards, on the first planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keon, Captain of the Fourth Chapter's Fifth Company, clad in power armor, had felt uncomfortable since arriving on this lush, tropical world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He led his company to the foot of the Fifth Mountain, looking at the clear spring before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his Spirit Vision, the spring was saturated with spiritual luster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said to Okafor beside him, \"This spring must be what my Lord warned us about.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly promoted \"Warlock\" nodded in agreement. His \"Mystic Eye,\" which he couldn't turn off, was filled with dazzling light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The spring itself shows no signs of corrosion, but there is an evil, abnormal force around it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They feed on the creatures it lures. The natural spirits here are exceptionally sparse,\" the \"Spirit Medium\" said certainly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They tell me the evil predators are coming.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mentalist psyker, Okafor, extended his consciousness. It collided with brilliant ribbons of light and rippling sound waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drifting, seductive sounds were pleasant, intoxicating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He instantly ascended to the third level of the Thelema mindstate, blocking the evil influence, and looked into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Horses, moving with incredible speed, galloped towards them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slaaneshi steeds flicked their serpent-like tongues, sensing subtle scents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their swollen sensory organs detected the disgust and battle-lust carried on the breeze. Though less pleasing than the fear of Aeldari or the pleasure of creatures lured by the spring, it still made them tremble with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Medium\" placed his hand on the lush vegetation. Psychic energy surged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He intoned in Dunnic, his voice low: \"Obey my command. 'Rise' and take revenge on the evil creatures that killed you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bones in the soil trembled. Driven by \"Rise,\" they coalesced, pushing through the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Medium\" walked forward. Bones, hidden by the lush vegetation, continuously emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some still had traces of their former forms. Some were skeletal horses, others vaguely humanoid...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skeletal horses charged the ostrich-like Slaaneshi steeds. The steeds' whip-like tongues lashed out, striking them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tongue-Eaters recoiled in disgust. The bones lacked the delicious flavor they had when the creatures were alive, tended by the Aeldari.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barbed tongues scraped off bone fragments. Noxious venom made the bones crackle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If alive, the elegant steeds would have fallen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the risen skeletal horses had no will, no life. They obeyed the \"Spirit Medium's\" command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their gaping jaws crunched, tearing at the lavender-smooth skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the first time, the Tongue-Eaters were treated like food. Large patches of their smooth, elegant hide were torn away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aeldari skeletal warriors, missing limbs or with shattered torsos, moved between the skeletal horses, their fists slamming into the slender heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Slaaneshi steeds shrieked. From the sphincter-like openings of their mouths, long whips shot out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A steed suddenly burst through two skeletal horses, charging Okafor, who was waiting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" raised his hand, scattering red powder. Flames erupted, engulfing the horse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He moved behind the skeletal line, throwing bottle after bottle, plugging gaps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continuously \"rose\" bones, devoured by Slaaneshi steeds millennia ago, forming a shield wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Slaaneshi steeds, wave after wave, crashed against the black-armored warriors, tasting them for the first time, only to be blocked by the tasteless skeletal wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shadows of Order, from their higher position, rained barrages on the steeds, but most of their efforts supported the Fifth Chapter's assault on the third planet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ocean world, island chains dotted the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above the second island chain, inside a black Stormbird,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thomas looked down at the buildings and ruins below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw the local tribespeople, their faces barely recognizable as human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their features were strange. Their skin was pale. Their deep green, round eyes were flecked with flesh tones. They gazed hungrily at the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their long, slender tongues flickered, like snakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief Librarian opened the vox channel, issuing the order:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The locals are corroded by the Dark God. Use the 'Griffin's Roar.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through rotational training, all Legion Librarians had mastered the \"Griffin's Roar.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After personally encountering the griffins on Macragge, the Primarch's sons, with their keen perception, had all successfully mastered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief Librarian had made mastering the \"Griffin's Roar\" a requirement for promotion from aspirant to Librarian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also required for the lowest rank of Codicier were the third level of the Thelema mindstate and the first level of the Enumeration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Slaaneshi cultists flicked their tongues, tasting the delicious meat they had never tasted before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swift as horses, they pursued the descending black iron birds, their deep green eyes gleaming with hunger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Stormbird's gunners, watching the bizarre humans,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>spun their turrets, each with four twin-linked lascannons. Dense beams rained down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blazing beams sliced through pale skin, tearing the horned, bizarre humans into grotesque lumps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cultists lashed their razor-sharp tails, diving into buildings draped with the skins of their kin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stormbirds hovered, turning, aiming in different directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Underwing missiles screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disgusting, abhorrent buildings were blasted into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Stormbirds cleared a landing zone, Thomas stepped off the ramp with two COG drone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excited, bizarre shrieks sounded. Countless cultists in spiked armor, wrapped in skins, surged out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Griffin's Roar!\" Thomas shouted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten Librarians stepped forward, forming a ring with the Chief Librarian, facing the thousands of charging cultists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The psychic circuits on Thomas's Dominum blazed. The runes on his two COG drone lit up in response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Golden light gathered in the Librarians' throats. They opened their mouths. A deafening roar erupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Librarians' ætheric vision, griffins of various sizes, made of gold, surged forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the boost of the COG drone and the psychic armor, the griffin from Thomas, at the ring's apex, was a hundred times larger than any other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AH... ROAR...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Slaaneshi cultists screamed in terror, then were swallowed by the golden light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden griffins, on their path, crushed the cultists instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the golden light touched, pale skin ignited with golden flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The surviving cultists shrieked, fleeing like frightened beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Warlock\" strode forward, leading the Librarians towards the sensed evil.\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>",1603,"2026-06-06T05:05:28.115Z",1,"novelbin.me","425012a06c2d102bd3f383b28a058495717e1c9ea4a884df52ff75ea79cc5b84","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-576","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-575",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]