[{"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-675":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},1511224,1962,"Chapter 675 - 674: Hannibal's Time is Running Out","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-675",675,"\u003Cp>\"Hannibal.\" The Emperor stared at the only Primarch attending the war council in person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hannibal felt a mountain of pressure fall upon him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you know why I had the Custodians bring you back to Terra?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth looked at Hannibal appraisingly. Compared to past psychic projections, he could see more detail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange, green light flickered in Hannibal's brown eyes, like a ghostly specter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cracks ran from the corners of his mouth. Thick, congealed blood pooled in the upward-curving depressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his lips trembled, sharp teeth were visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His cheekbones were prominent. Bone spurs were almost piercing his skin, covered in thumbnail-sized pustules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On his neck, coiled muscles were like writhing insects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Nareth observed Hannibal, he heard the Emperor's stern voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I warned you, but you did not heed me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You raised xenos. You allowed them to devour humans.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flicker of surprise crossed Nareth's eyes. He recalled Hannibal's elegant dining during the Wheel of Fire campaign. It was hard to connect that image with the figure before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he had fed on xenos, but had been rational and composed. Now, he had succumbed to his desires, losing all restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hannibal raised xenos, likely as a food source.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This clearly crossed the Emperor's line. Having lived through the long night, he would never allow xenos to prey on humanity.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The xenos he tolerates are the weak and docile, those that obey Imperial rule and pose no threat.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he thought, the Primarchs looked at Hannibal, unable to believe their brother capable of such evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Horus's eyes held a note of reproach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He blamed himself. His campaigns were in the western galaxy, opposite Hannibal's in the east. He had not discovered this sooner, had not stopped it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\" Hannibal lowered his head under the heavy pressure. His back was cold. Thoughts raced, searching for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a dozen seconds, he still had no suitable excuse. His father had already received reports from the Custodians. Any words would be powerless against the evidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thoughts raced. Finally, he spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Father... I was wrong...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You and the Faceless will return to Lecter. Reflect on your crimes.\" The Emperor ordered coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Custodians will accompany you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Nareth knew Hannibal's time was running out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the next war council, Hannibal would likely be absent. His fate would be discussed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Emperor wanted the Great Crusade to proceed as quickly as possible. Sending Hannibal and his Legion back was equivalent to house arrest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Compared to being ordered to rest, Hannibal is the one truly confined.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the Emperor had lost faith in Hannibal. Sending Custodians was the clearest sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sending Custodians as overseers was a clear sign of distrust. The Emperor rarely used such methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his memory, only after the destruction of the Perfect City had Custodians been sent to the Word Bearers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hmm, Hannibal's situation is fundamentally different from Lorgar's.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Lorgar was urged to quicken his pace. He still had space and opportunity to embark on his pilgrimage.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hannibal was sent back to Lecter. It is a barren world, without xenos. Abstaining from his appetite will be hard. They may become even more desperate.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of the remnants of the purged 2nd Legion. He had just reported heavy losses for Shadows of Order. He thought silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This is in advance laying the groundwork, for when I ask the Emperor for personnel.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I...\" Hannibal's eyes dimmed. He opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his father rise and leave, he could only say, \"As you command.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth looked at the Emperor's cold back, then at Hannibal's ashen face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought of the fate of his predecessor and the 11th Legion. A longing for power rose within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He returned silently to the Shadow's Sovereignty, considering whether to use the Dice of Prophecy to divine the location of Be'lakor's relic fragment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past three years, the six Chapters' fleets, exploring separately, had discovered fifteen systems and twenty-nine worlds once inhabited by the Hrud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, they had found thirty-four worlds rich in various ores, and eighteen habitable worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was satisfied with the progress. But among the hundreds of ruins discovered, none had shown traces of Be'lakor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Be'lakor commands the power of shadows. Are his relics hidden, making them hard to find?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Unlike the Mechanicum's Tech-Priest Kober, I don't have his guidance to find them.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he lacked Be'lakor's cooperation, he could use the Dice of Prophecy to divine the world where the relic fragment lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Hmm, even if I don't use Mortarion's foster father Necare's head, using an ordinary Barbarus Overlord's, I still need a Hrud Source for the potion.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The advancement ritual is also difficult to complete in the short term.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His calm thoughts replaced his fear. He decided to divine something else this time. If he still found no trace of Be'lakor's relic in three years, he would divine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought, he went to the fourth layer of the Kingdom of Disorder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat on his throne. With a turn of his hand, the Dice of Prophecy appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Information about Naktis flashed through his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'An ocean world, Naktis.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Its oceans are home to giant, luminescent creatures and predatory fish.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Only one continent.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naktis was the homeworld of the Dark Krakens, a Primaris successor Chapter of the Salamanders, founded during the Ultima Founding after the Great Rift opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Vulkan, it's time to take from you too.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chose Naktis not only because it suited the Ninth Chapter, focused on the Tyrant Pathway, but also because it might contain the Obnis, needed for the \"Ocean Songster\" advancement ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blasphemous Tablet only showed a simple image of the ritual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Ocean Songster's\" image showed the Obnis and a blue figure drinking the potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that simple information, he could not determine where the Obnis lived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such a large sea monster was most likely to be found on one of two known worlds: Fenris and Naktis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not seen such a monster on Fenris. So, he might find it on Naktis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If Naktis also has none, I will divine 'which world is the Obnis's home.''\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this thought, he silently intoned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Star chart from the Kalium Gate to Naktis.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After intoning it eleven times, he tossed the dice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The triangular pyramid tumbled through the air. A gleaming star chart unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He memorized it and encoded it on a data-crystal. He then extended his spiritual energy, touching Szczesny's deep blue orb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Confirming he was alone, he sent the crystal into the orb with his spiritual energy, instructing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are to set sail for Naktis immediately. Take control of the ocean world. Record all information about its marine life.\"\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>",1126,"2026-06-06T05:05:28.648Z",1,"novelbin.me","1c41388f5dd7445db691b0921b144202cd095269b67e43af67265b967a2b8f81","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-676","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-674",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]