[{"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-637":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},1511316,1962,"Chapter 637 - 636: Once Searching Desperately for Specters, Now Having an Entire World of Them","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-637",637,"\u003Cp>Aboard the Fourth Chapter's flagship, the Black Mercy, in orbit around Sondheim VIII.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams stared at the hololith on the strategic table. Beside him, Nicholas spoke, his voice deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Auspex matrix scans show it could be classified as a temperate world, but I see only fire and death. I hear only the terrifying shrieks of the dying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The howling storms are more terrifying than the storm that reshaped Fenris when the Foundry of Creation turned.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nicholas examined the hololith. Unlike Fenris, where the Storm Ocean covered almost the entire planet, Sondheim VIII had only a narrow sea around its equator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This world is suitable for me.\" The \"Spirit Guide,\" clad in armor, standing in the deliberately dimmed shadow of the lumen lights, spoke, his voice icy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams recalled the Black Emperor's words: \"Two highly advanced xenos races, ruling the system together, rotted from within, ultimately unleashing a devastating war.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After years of war, they finally destroyed each other with terrible weapons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Within minutes, every intelligent being on the planet died. Those were the terrible shrieks you heard in the Warp.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have them to thank for their final decision.\" The Death Lord's emotionless, cold words made it impossible for Nicholas to grasp his meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The weapons they used left a treasure for my Chapter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he spoke, Adams rapidly marked the hololith. He would personally go to the largest hive, near the equator.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine other \"Spirit Guides\" would target the second through ninth largest hives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One thousand four hundred seventy-three \"Spirit Mediums\" would lead teams to the other hives and the ruins of industrial complexes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavy transports tore through the clouds, smashing apart floating debris of various sizes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wreckage of a suspended church, once dedicated to xeno gods, burned and crashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black ships ignored the rolling hills, landing on the plains at nightfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams stepped off the ramp, looking at the distant hive dome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The collapsed dome's ruins still towered over most hive domes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Low exclamations sounded in his ears, from non-Court Brothers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They saw moonlight and lightning outlining the forms of spectral airships above the cracked dome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams was about to order action when strange whispers sounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seasoned \"Spirit Medium,\" with a shift of his thoughts, distinguished two different sounds among the vox channels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One was sharper, like a bird's cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other was lower, like a beast's roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not afraid, but pleased. His eyes lit up. His icy voice held a hint of joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Praise be to my Lord.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He and his battle-brothers had once painstakingly sought specters lingering in reality. Now, they had an entire world of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams immediately ordered a \"Gravedigger\" adjutant to remain with the Court Brothers granted other powers by the Black Emperor and the other Order's Shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He led the \"Gravediggers\" and \"Corpse Collector\" towards the dome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The group moved through grass taller than themselves, swiftly approaching the hive ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When his helmet was still 6.1 kilometers from the dome's edge, the \"Spirit Guide\" heard the hallucinatory echoes of gunfire and the screams of the dying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then saw the tormented xenos specters, fighting each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The larger group, roaring like beasts, carried man-high guns that sounded like sawing wood when fired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their melee weapons were heavy: some like axes, some like hammers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The smaller group, likely the attackers, slid down from spectral airships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had bird-like beaks, and wing-like membranes extending from their arms to their ribs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They carried pistols in one hand, and lighter weapons like swords in the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the deafening gunfire, two spectral airships burst into flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of xenos specters glided down, raining barbed rounds on the beast-like xenos.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beast-like xenos raised their heavy guns, their piercing roar growing sharper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spectral armies replayed their millennia-old war, again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" activated his Spirit Vision, examining the specters. He immediately noticed each radiated a deep black with green tint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wraiths.\" He did not speak on the increasingly whisper-filled vox channel. His voice came directly through his speakers, instructing the less experienced Court members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most often, the souls of the dead go directly to the Warp. Many \"Gravediggers\" and \"Corpse Collector\" had never encountered specters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Specters may linger in special places, but if they were extremely resentful before death, or cannot find peace afterwards, they become wraiths.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They became wraiths by reliving the agony of their deaths, over and over.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams quickened his pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only slowed when, after watching the battle replay four times, he was less than a hundred meters from the battlefield's edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" extended his spiritual energy, chanting \"Words of the Dead\" in Dunnic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Warring spectral armies!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the words left his mouth, his spiritual energy touched over a dozen wraiths at the battlefield's edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swung axes and dodging figures halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They ceased their billion-cycle battle, turning to look at the black-armored giant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" continued his \"Words of the Dead\": \"Obey my command. Submit to my will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he finished, the wraiths began walking towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He no longer needed, as on Medusa, to patiently communicate with specters as a \"Spirit Medium.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a \"Spirit Guide,\" he could directly control unclaimed or similarly powerful spectral entities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only specters, but wraiths, even banshees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Adams approached the wraiths, he felt ice melt, flowing slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew, from past experience, that he was gradually mastering the power the Black Emperor had granted him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he examined his own feelings, a piercing shriek sounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" turned. A xenos specter, its body torn, bones exposed, wings ablaze, hurtled towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A \"banshee.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Obey my command. Submit to my will,\" Adams said calmly, extending his spirituality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The banshee slowed. Its vengeful eyes softened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It landed before the \"Spirit Guide,\" bowing submissively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued forward. The \"Gravediggers,\" their bodies utterly cold, walked on the outside. The \"Corpse Collector\" walked inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wraiths attacked them. The spectral beings saw the black-armored warriors as fellow dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" repeatedly recited \"Words of the Dead,\" selecting banshees to subdue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, wraiths would have been acceptable targets. Now, he ignored them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His spiritual energy drained rapidly, approaching depletion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His face grew pale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his temples throbbed, his intuition stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He followed the intuition, looking at the ruins ahead. A colossal creature, larger than a Titan, burst from the rubble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook. The banshee, with ten thousand arms, some thick, like beasts', some slender, emerged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pale arms waved like branches. Thick and thin arms collided in intersecting areas, producing a series of dull thuds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When it roared, it simultaneously produced piercing shrieks and beast-like howls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its massive form dove, swift as the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An avalanche of palms sent hundreds of specters flying in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" extended his spiritual energy. \"Banshee, obey my command. Submit to my will.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten-thousand-armed banshee paused. Adams dove and rolled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his spiritual energy drained, the avalanche of palms slammed down.\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>",1171,"2026-06-06T05:05:28.115Z",1,"novelbin.me","8146017f1fd88ef70bab9591a495d5032f35dc69d84b9ae36e4e16e4f1c0bd3d","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-583","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-582",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]