[{"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-96":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},1511195,1962,"Chapter 96: A Gift, One Explosive Round","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-96",96,"\u003Cp>Through his visor, the recon squad's sergeant locked onto the attacker, a black-armored Ogryn wielding a black metal staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment he locked onto the target, he pulled the trigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the three recon troops and two veteran astartes further behind also fired in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ogryn psyker raised one hand. The bullets halted mid-air, meters away from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a swipe and a push, he sent them flying back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The returned bullets pierced power armor, and one recon trooper collapsed into a pool of blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a black blur shot forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hunter reacted instantly. Sanchez launched a high-speed charge, now faster than ever, his body under even greater control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While sprinting, his form flickered, dodging a massive falling boulder from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone smashed down, shaking the entire cavern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Ogryn's psychic attack missed him, it cut him off from his squad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the tremors didn't faze the Sanchez. He charged directly at the psyker and slashed down with his chainsword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The psyker, though a psychic Ogryn, was still an Ogryn, and an exceptionally strong one. He raised his staff to block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sanchez didn't try to clash strength for strength. With razor-sharp instincts, he judged from the force of the swing that even with his enhanced strength, he couldn't overpower the Ogryn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sidestepped swiftly, dodging the blow, then, with a supernatural awareness, spotted a brief vulnerability, the neck area, where the armor was thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably designed that way to allow easier breathing and eating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quickly spun his chainsword and, recalling the 23rd form of the Otsberg-Vaya technique he'd witnessed from his Primarch, unleashed a swift, precise strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>RrrrrrrrRRRRRT!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a roar, the chainsword bit into the Ogryn's neck, severing the psyker's head in a single blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Sanchez was using Spirit Vision to find and eliminate the enemy's weakness, Arsena and the legion's psykers had also found a solution with the tech-sergeants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They inscribed mystic prayers with special runes onto their eye-screens, disabling the spy fly's projection function.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth immediately distributed the spy flies to all ten companies, issuing the command to scatter them across the region and begin an active forward search.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arsena and the five psykers of the First Company each held a polyhedral eye-screen device, channeling psychic energy into it to establish a psychic link.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hundreds of mosaic-like micro-displays lit up across the screens, activating the spy flies' vibration crystal mechanisms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They buzzed into the air like a swarm of flies, rising with a faint hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six swarms dispersed in all directions, rapidly covering a 20-kilometer radius in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth's black eyes scanned the six screens, his superhuman perception processing the hundreds of video feeds each screen displayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of images surged through his mind, and within five seconds, his powerful brain had already compiled and analyzed the data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spy flies' aerial imagery revealed that the terrain formed a fan-shaped region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth stood at the outer arc of the fan. The terrain narrowed inward as jagged black rock formations converged toward the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If signals are disturbed here, then there must be a source of interference located at the center.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having made his assessment, Nareth issued his order:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Three o'clock direction, advance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The First Company moved forward, leaving hill after hill in their wake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other Companys, after decoding the data, also locked onto the center and advanced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a bird's eye view, ten black serpents, the legion's companies, were converging on the center of a nearly circular mountain zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, they encountered increasing numbers of Ogryn psykers, at ever-shorter intervals, and their powers kept growing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Shadows of Order quickly realized: while the Ogryns had psychic powers, they lacked matching combat intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They cast spells following rigid, predictable routines. Once those patterns were identified, they could be countered and crushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Progress accelerated sharply, especially for Nareth's personally led First Company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the fifth cycle day of entering the mountain, Nareth and his forces reached the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There lay an immense, bottomless pit. Even a Primarch's senses couldn't gauge its depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Nareth detected something strange: the shaft below trembled with a subtle frequency, gradually intensifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also noted an ultrasound radiating from the pit. While it was faint at the surface, deeper below, it was much clearer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his head and visualized the landscape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ogryns crawled like ants, some ascending, some descending, inside what resembled a giant black cauldron, where curved rock paths spiraled downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Move out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth gave the order and stepped forward, descending the black crystal slope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After descending over a thousand meters, the psykers and officers like Cezak and Dixon simultaneously furrowed their brows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They felt a tremor underfoot and a subtle vibration in their ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's magnetic resonance,\" Arsena explained after finding the term in a book. \"In areas with magnetic enrichment, natural resonance phenomena occur.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's commonly associated with signal interference, ultrasonic vibration, and seismic tremors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maybe this resonance affected the Ogryns… gave them psychic powers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shrugged. \"It's not written anywhere, but it's possible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're partially right,\" Nareth replied, shaking his head. \"But not entirely.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the center of this pit lies a massive black crystal. After eons of resonance, it underwent a peculiar transformation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's a psychic resonance material. That's what gave the Ogryns their powers.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Nareth's tone shifted sharply. He shouted:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Psychic shields!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The five psykers reacted instantly, unleashing full psychic barriers at the Nareth's command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arsena was slightly slower, but managed to activate a forcefield shield just in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>FWOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a volcanic eruption, a blast of psychic flame surged upward from below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it clashed with the shields, the air cracked with a violent snapping sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth's gaze locked onto a towering black Ogryn emerging from below, as tall as Horus himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the strongest psyker in the pit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Propelled upward by rocket-like psychic fire, the massive Ogryn drew ever closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth sensed the creature was channeling power directly from the crystal; it had to be destroyed immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nareth leapt into the pit, diving headfirst like a missile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In mid-air, the Briber shouted at the giant Ogryn, still shorter than himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey runt, here's a gift: one explosive round!\"\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>",1047,"2026-06-06T05:05:10.768Z",1,"novelbin.me","ecbcfd63817d4e64ce369bb20b7d5537eb022d53306b4074c5b58d1d06385b02","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-97","warhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-chapter-95",698,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarhammer-the-11th-primarch-the-black-emperor-cover.jpg"]