[{"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-638":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},1511319,1962,"Chapter 638 - 637: The Treasure of Sondheim VIII is Not Only Specters","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-638",638,"\u003Cp>As Adams rolled to evade the slamming hands, he calmly activated \"Eye of Death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" immediately entered the spiritual realm, overlooking the ten-thousand-armed banshee from a higher plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Guard members, seeing their Death Lord fail to suppress the enormous specter for the first time, raised their weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bolts screamed into the ten-thousand-armed banshee, exploding flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two \"Gravediggers\" raised their shock weapons and slammed them down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook. The massive banshee crashed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams pushed off the ground, rising. His \"Eye of Death\" remained fixed on the banshee, thrown by the shockwave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its deep black light showed no sign of fading. No specter had been truly killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" realized the banshee hadn't been truly harmed. He pointed forward, shouting in Dunnic: \"Attack!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dull bullets from the heavy stubbers hammered into the massive body. Green powder rained down like dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The damage was clearly less than that of bolt guns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in the \"Eye of Death\" of the \"Spirit Guide\" and \"Gravediggers,\" it was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cracks appeared within the banshee's body. Though insignificant compared to its massive size, they were more effective than the bolt and shock weapons, which only affected the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The banshee roared. A thousand pairs of wing-membranes sprouted from its body, beating to lift it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its malevolent, deep green eyes fixed coldly on the enemy before it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The specters under the \"Spirit Guide's\" control immediately stopped, standing frozen like statues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" did not use his newly restored spiritual energy to contest control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His \"Eye of Death,\" through the cracks in its body, found a clump of deep black gas within the chaotic, pieced-together mass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faces surrounded it, like prisoners looking out from a cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" raised his archaeotech pistol, aiming at the weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A beam from Serpentis Alpha, collected in the Serpent's Cradle, lanced out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to other stars, the blue light was the least nauseating, at least before he encountered a green star.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dazzling blue light made the \"Gravediggers\" and \"Corpse Collector\" feel sick. Their helmets adjusted, dimming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue light reflected in the banshee's deep green eyes, awakening memories of its past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had once had a brilliant realm, a glorious civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our kind is different from yours! We come from different realms!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Part of the forcibly merged souls roared in anger at the other part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their mutual hatred filled the deep green eyes with black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The banshee, enraged by the blue light that had stirred its memories and made it suffer, grew more resentful of the light and its source.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body twisted bizarrely. Countless hands slammed down like centipede legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thousand hands slapped at the blue beam. Another thousand slammed at the black-armored figure below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue light pierced the layers of slapping hands, producing a piercing sizzle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light dimmed, finally becoming scattered points of starlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bolts roared, tearing the massive body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The banshee did not evade. Hating itself, and the black-armored figures more, it dove, thousands of hands slamming down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Spirit Guide\" did not dodge. He activated his shock weapon and leaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung the heavy hammer, slamming it into the banshee's chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a crack, the shockwave spread. The banshee shrieked in terror, freezing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adams's arm spun. The hammer fell again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cracks in his \"Eye of Death\" grew larger. Then, like a mirror, it shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He flipped back, landing in the ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked ahead, thinking regretfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Unfortunately, my spiritual energy was depleted controlling specters earlier. Otherwise, I could have tried to command it.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He noted the specters under his control had not been directly controlled by the banshee. Its death power, though stronger than his, could be resisted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the banshee, which used its power instinctively, he had the advantage of technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought, a flash caught his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up. A crystal, one meter in diameter, four meters tall, with deep black threads within, fell through the green powder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He intuitively knew the crystal and powder left by the dead banshee were not ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'My Lord would like this.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Adams collected his spoils, on a wide plain, moonlight fell on Mikael in his black robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him were metals and gems in various lunar phases: moon-shaped metals from the third planet of the Serpent's Cradle; crescent-shaped yellow gems from the first planet; full-moon-shaped purple gems from the sixth planet; moonstone from Vostroya's moon...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Potion Professor's\" nose twitched. The blood in a dozen bottles made him swallow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could identify most: Fenrisian kraken blood, pungent; Nocturne salamander blood, searing hot... Omegon's blood, the most delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth, bathed in full moonlight, walked over. He raised his hand, palm open, holding the \"Scarlet Scholar\" potion, concocted by the space simian using green Nephilim and other materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mikael.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Open the bottles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drink the potion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank You, my Lord, for Your gift.\" Mikael knelt on one knee, thanking the Black Emperor, then took the nearly solid, crimson potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His pale hands rapidly opened the crystal vials of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood of supernatural creatures made every cell in his body thrum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the full moon, he poured the potion into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The still, crimson liquid had no taste. It slid down his esophagus like a lump of meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt everything around him grow quiet. He seemed trapped in a stasis field, his thoughts slowing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the silence, the surrounding metals and gems reflected discordant, eerie light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mingled scents of different blood made his head spin, like a mortal taking a hallucinogen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this quiet, dreamlike state, his pitch-black eyes slowly turned deep red, ruby-bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moonlight reflected in his eyes. His body flushed with red, rapidly fading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his body, like hazy moonlight, seemed about to dissipate from reality, the black-armored, golden-winged figure reflected in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His consciousness snapped back from the silent dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moonlight shattered, turning into patches of red scales, vanishing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Scarlet Scholar\" rapidly re-formed, his form flickering, sealing all the vials in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling his new abilities, he bowed joyfully to the Black Emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, my abilities have increased. I can serve You better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth nodded, then instructed the \"Scarlet Scholar's\" acting direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your abilities depend on your knowledge of the lunar domain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Studying the moon is the key to becoming a 'Scarlet Scholar.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mikael looked up at the night sky. The blue giant's light fell on the moon, casting watery moonlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lowered his head, thoughtful. \"As You instruct.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next day, at the temporary command base outside Hive One on Sondheim VIII,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Death Lord Adams, his icy voice tinged with barely concealed joy, spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, last night, the Chapter's Court Brothers achieved great gains.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Viscounts each gained at least ten servants. The Barons, through communication with specters, have varying degrees of improved mastery over the power You granted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sondheim VIII is better than any other place for us to master the power You granted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth nodded slightly. \"This world's treasure is not only specters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The hilly regions contain precious metals and gems. Adamantium veins stretch for hundreds of kilometers, extending towards the equator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Adamantium is not only hard, but also a rare natural psychic metal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered that when the Sondheim system was discovered, it was initially classified as a death world of little value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when surface deposits of precious metals and gems were discovered did it attract Imperial factions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were ultimately forced to abandon the world due to continuous spectral attacks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fourth Chapter's development would not be a problem. \"Spirit Guides,\" as they acquired servants, would naturally weaken the specters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With them present, the specters could not disrupt the mines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Control the pace of development. Every mine must have a Viscount with death power present.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By Your will.\" Adams acknowledged, then continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My Lord, last night I encountered a powerful banshee. Unable to command it, I exhausted my spiritual energy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I killed it by striking its weakness. It left behind a crystal and a large amount of powder.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I offer them to You.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, Nareth examined the crystal and powder, immediately matching them to the main and supplementary ingredients for \"Gatekeeper\" on the Blasphemy Slate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hmm, I now have all the ingredients for \"Gatekeeper.\" Adams will also complete digestion in a few days.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'To advance to \"Gatekeeper,\" he needs an underworld. Fenris's underworld should qualify. What else?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fourteen solar days later, as Nareth was about to order the fleet to depart, he received a report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Techmarine assigned to explore the mines had gone mad.\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>",1436,"2026-06-06T05:05:28.115Z",1,"novelbin.me","88abfe2656a4d13c1ad12bb90af814806383db6fb2ac231b9e9a4ec829a86bd8","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-639","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-584",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]