Chapter 168: Extraordinary Abilities at the Sequence 1 Level

At the end of the summer of a Fenrisian Great Year, a gunship flew against the storm toward the sky above the Sea of Storms.

Most Fenrisians see the vast, continuous ocean from childhood to adulthood, so they naturally imagine the world they know to be an ocean, calling it the Sea of Storms.

The world of the living for the Fenrisians is nothing but the Sea of Storms, save for the only permanent continent, Asaheim.

Inside the gunship, two figures walked to the hatch.

The Wolf King took off his furs, wearing armor forged by Fenrisian blacksmiths, engraved with runes carved by the Sons of the Storm.

Ninglu glanced at them, keenly sensing the primitive and savage Warp energy contained within the runes.

He wore a suit of armor forged in advance by a Techmarine; its defensive capabilities were far inferior to the top-tier craftsmanship of the Adeptus Mechanicus, but it was more flexible and lightweight for moving in the sea.

The Emperor watched his two sons ahead, golden light flickering in his eyes as he probed the threads of fate, foreseeing the outcome of the Primarchs' duel.

The hunt proposed by Ninglu had disrupted the results he had deduced using Sympathetic Magic; the previous results could no longer be used as a reference.

Both Sympathetic Magic and Psionic Prophecy are ways to probe the future, but their difficulty of use and effects are completely different.

Prophecy probes the millions of threads of fate, using the present as a node.

Sympathetic Magic, however, is dynamic; the Emperor adds variables when formulating plans to deduce the future.

It is precisely because the Emperor relies on Sympathetic Magic to formulate a series of plans that it is more trustworthy than prophecy.

Every factor included in the plan's consideration will cause changes by influencing the plan, making it more difficult to use, even though the Emperor feels pain every time he uses it.

A moment later, the golden light in his eyes dissipated, and after the two Primarchs leaped down, he asked Alpharius at his side.

"Vostonia is like Terra, covered in Hive Cities and Wastelands, while Leman Russ is more adept at hunting in the ice seas."

"Ninglu will win."

The first image the Emperor saw in his foresight was Ninglu hunting a larger sea monster and winning the victory.

And among the millions of changing threads, the two Primarchs had their own wins and losses, but he believed in the first image he saw.

As the Emperor and Alpharius spoke, Ninglu and Leman Russ simultaneously plummeted heavily into the sea like cannonballs.

The Wolf King let out a loud howl, roaring a declaration of victory to Ninglu in the Fenrisian battle language—Wogen.

"The one who wins will definitely be me; those sorcerous tricks of yours are useless."

Ninglu was just about to speak when a Mind Pulse suddenly flashed through his mind, and the voice of Huang Laohan rang out.

"Do not use your psionics; you must win in the Fenrisian way."

As Ninglu frowned slightly, Huang Laohan's voice sounded again.

"I will gift you a Relic-class Warship."

Hearing this, he gladly agreed and sent a Mind Pulse to Huang Laohan in the high-altitude gunship.

"Good."

Subsequently, Ninglu closed his eyes slightly; he no longer used any psionics, nor did he use the "Warp Insight" closely related to the Sea of Souls.

He would not use psionics, but he still had a Magical Item he could use.

During this time, he had successfully established a connection with the Power Fist with the help of the third layer of Real Space in the "Kingdom of Disorder".

He thus knew that it corresponded to the "Hand of Order" of Sequence 1 of the "Judge" pathway.

Now, Ninglu poured his Spirituality into the Power Fist, using the Sequence 1-level "Arbiter" extraordinary ability, "Detect Evil".

Generally speaking, a Sequence 7 extraordinary cannot mobilize the items of a high-sequence level with their Spirituality, but the "Hand of Order" is one of the two pathways corresponding to the "Kingdom of Disorder".

The status of the Source Essence has absolute suppression over the Magical Items of the corresponding pathway; after Ninglu established a relationship with the Power Fist, he could use high-level extraordinary abilities to a limited extent.

In an instant, Ninglu's perception touched the entire Sea of Storms, and countless things related to evil, chaos, and madness that were not shielded leaped into his mind.

The giant Ice Worms burrowing in the glacial fjords of Asaheim, the sea dragons hunted by nomadic tribes, and the target of his own hunt, the octopus-like giant creature—the Kraken...

A massive flow of information that would burst a mortal's brain poured into the Primarch's mind.

The Primarch received and analyzed the information at superhuman speed, then locked onto the largest Kraken in the Sea of Storms.

The condition for victory agreed upon by Ninglu and Leman Russ was to hunt the largest Kraken; at this moment, the outcome was decided.

After confirming the direction, the Primarch exerted his strength and swam toward the target with all his might.

The Primarch's muscle fibers vibrated at a frequency of 3,311 per instant, and the ocean currents of the Sea of Storms were converted into propulsion kinetic energy by his superhuman body.

The airflow dragged behind the Primarch was like an explosive shockwave; sea fish that could not dodge in time were instantly torn to shreds upon impact.

Above the gunship, the Master of Mankind, watching the duel, shifted his gaze from the Wolf King to the blood-red line in the Sea of Storms.

He frowned; in that instant just now, apart from Ninglu, only the Emperor had sensed a faint energy fluctuation.

It was not psionics, but another peculiar type of energy.

The Emperor recalled the captured energy fluctuation, trying to figure out what it was.

A moment later, the Master of Mankind gave up helplessly; that energy lasted only for an instant, did not belong to a field he was familiar with, and was extremely weak, so he could only draw some vague conclusions.

【Its effect seems similar to an Auspex or an Auger Matrix.

Given the victory conditions of the duel, what Ninglu used should be an ability related to biological detection.

Does the Primarch possess some item capable of detecting the oceans of Fenris?】

Based on the limited information, the Emperor determined the item's ability and began to ponder what that item could be.

【To complete a detection of the vast oceans of Fenris, it should be an item from the Dark Age of Technology; what could it be?

The Power Fist I gifted him, apart from attacking, only has some peculiar ability that forces the surrounding environment to produce regular changes; it should have nothing to do with this.

Although the Power Sword is sharp, it has no other effects.

...】

After pondering for a moment, the Master of Mankind reached no conclusion.

【Regardless of what it is, if Ninglu can detect the location of the largest Kraken, he will win the victory.】

The Emperor nodded with satisfaction, 【The result deduced by Sympathetic Magic was indeed correct; although the process had slight deviations, Ninglu did not disappoint me.

I should reward him with a few more Relic-class Warships.】

In the Sea of Storms, Ninglu, moving at Rapid speed, suddenly felt a slight melting sensation within his body; the Briber Potion had digested a little more.

His nearly exhausted Spirituality recovered by about one-tenth due to the digestion of the Briber Potion.

【Hmm?

What did I do? How did the Potion digest again?】

Ninglu thought in confusion; through the feedback from the Potion, he had already grasped the requirements of the acting code for the Briber Potion.

He must perform acts of bribery, regardless of whether he does so actively.

Just now, he had not actively bribed anyone, so it must have been subconscious, yet it satisfied the behavioral requirement of bribery and yielded a certain degree of feedback.

【The feedback can only come from the Emperor, but what could that be?】

Ninglu's train of thought was interrupted in an instant, his attention shifting back to the real world.

He had already sensed the existence of a giant sea monster even larger than the Shadow of Sovereignty.

The giant beast in the sea swam slowly, stirring up a Storm in the ocean.

The airflow formed between its breaths stirred up an ocean current.

The sea monster of Fenris—the Kraken!

(End of this chapter)