I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 325 The So-Called "Orc God"

In the biological laboratory beneath Terra Palace, Robert Guilliman returned to the place of his birth.

He was immersed in amniotic fluid, with electric shocks applied to his body, and a brain-computer interface installed on the back of his head, with data cables transmitting his memories to the Thinker Array.

The process of transmitting and resolving memories is dangerous.

The corruption of the Chaos God not only affects the soul and mind, but also corrupts the memories carried by the mind and body.

The three arrays of Thinkers were destroyed by the corruption of Chaos, but fortunately, their sacrifice diluted the corrupting elements in the memories.

During the fourth memory transfer and analysis, the concentration of corruption in the memory had decreased to an acceptable level.

The fourth Thinker array successfully read Guilliman's memories and presented them in a first-person holographic animation.

Macardo and Horus watch the holographic display.

This animation starts quite early, from the time Guilliman was assassinated and seriously injured, and then placed in a stasis field to sustain his life.

In the image, Guilliman is strapped to the throne.

As the static force field is activated, the image freezes.

The Thinkers skipped this lengthy, repetitive scene and jumped directly to the place where Guilliman was corrupted by Tzeentch.

Guilliman heard His Majesty's voice in his ear.

"My son, I have a plan..."

Someone impersonating His Majesty's voice explained to Guilliman the plan for Guilliman to take on the power of the Dark Lord.

Guilliman was unable to move in the static field.

The voice continued:

“Since you have not objected, I will take that as your consent. Rise, my child, fight for Altramar.”

Guilliman's body began to convulse, and the blue light transformed into sharp needles that pierced his eyes.

The Thinker Array issued an alarm:
"Alpha-level chaotic corruption was detected and the chaotic corruption content has been deleted."

The memory scene jumps.

After Guilliman was corrupted, his mental state became unstable, and his memories would sometimes flicker and distort, and at other times be filled with mosaics and censored beeps.

“It’s a sensory distortion,” Makado said in a deep voice.
"The Chaos God distorted Guilliman's senses and cognitive abilities. Everything he saw, heard, felt, and smelled was a product of the Chaos God's distortion. This is a common method used by Chaos to corrupt humanity—simple, efficient, and always effective."

Horus nodded slightly without speaking; he saw his own reflection in the scene of his memory.

In the Rebellion Era sub-universe, the Void Whale forcibly abducted himself and Magnus, among others, and brought them to the Apostate Era sub-universe.

The number of demons inside the Void Whale is staggering.

They fought until they were exhausted and eventually fell into a coma.

When Horus awoke, he found himself in a secret chamber radiating blue light, surrounded by scrolls and books floating in the air.

This scene perfectly matches Guilliman's memory.

So next, the Palu orcs must have rescued him.

The memory unfolds forward.

Orcs clad in power armor appeared on the scene. Their leader negotiated with Guilliman and, in the end, promised to spare the lives of the people of Alterama in exchange for Horus being taken away from the psionic ritual.

Upon seeing this, Makado and Horus couldn't help but sigh softly.

The promises made by the Palu Orcs have not been kept; this is a given fact, and something that could never be achieved from the beginning.

Since the birth of the human empire, there has never been a case where heretics have been forgiven.

This was true in the past, it is true now, and it will be true in the future.

However, the good news is that the Palu Orcs fulfilled their promise in another way.

At the end of the memory, a dark figure appeared in Guilliman's hazy vision.

At this point, Guilliman was evolving into the Chaos Egg, a hideous and sinful creature. Basically, all beings that serve Tzeentch will end up like this, and Robert Guilliman was no exception.

Golden light shot out from the palm of the black figure, and Guilliman's mutation process stopped and reversed.

When Horus led his forces into Hera Fortress and found Guilliman in the Hall of Punishment, Guilliman had already returned to human form.

"Things are going well. Speth helped Guilliman stop the mutation, which can be considered repaying Guilliman's favor." Horus pointed to the black figure in the memory image. The thing was completely black, almost blending into the dim environment, and its complete appearance was not visible.

“Do you know what this is, Macado? Judging from the tone of this figure, he should be Speth himself, but this is the first time I’ve seen him dressed like this.”

Makado said:

"This is a type of orc mech developed by the Palu orcs. It once appeared in a space station self-defense battle of the Holy Light Alliance. It is equipped with large-sized Gauss weapons and has the characteristic of being completely immune to psionic and chaotic forces. Its combat power is extraordinary."

"Hiss—" Horus took a deep breath. "The Palu orcs have something this powerful? It sounds like they can go toe-to-toe with the Imperial Guard."

Makado made some adjustments to the keyboard on the Thinker Array:
"When you brought Robert back to near-Earth orbit, I sent people to check out the Pharos device beneath the fortress. Guess what I found?"

As the memories fade, new images emerge.

Hera Fortress is located halfway up a mountain, with a man-made cavity directly below it.

The hollow high ground has a drop of about 300 meters and a diameter of more than 2,000 meters.

A Pharos device modified by Tzeentch is placed here.

Like the other four devices, the black stone material in this device is also at the critical point between positive and negative polarity.

"The Assassins' Court attempted to destroy this device, but failed. It has three layers of outer shield: a void shield, a conventional force field shield, and the quantum shield that comes with the Pharos device itself. The Assassins' Court was unable to remove the void shield without leaving a trace, and therefore was helpless against the Pharos device."

Horus said:

"But the orc mechs of the Palu orcs can, is that right?"

"Yeah, that's right."

In the scene, the Dark Mechanic, Chaos Ultramarines, and other hostile units surrounding the Pharos device are all killed.

Their corpses turned into a sludge with a faint green glow, an effect of the Gauss weapon.

The three-layered shield of the Pharos device was still intact, but the device itself had stopped working. Someone ignored the barrier of the three layers of shields, walked straight through, and shut down the device.

"It's amazing! How did Speth do that?" Horus exclaimed in admiration.

Makado shook his head slightly:
"I don't know the specifics of the process. But it's undeniable that the orcish sorcery wielded by the Palu orcs is more effective than the conventional armaments of the human empire in terms of anti-psychic, anti-chaos, and anti-warp. I would suggest that His Majesty the Emperor spread the anti-chaos gene fragments of the Custodian Guard and the Silent Sisters to the elite members of the Space Marines. This should be able to bridge the gap between us and the Palu orcs in the fight against chaos."

Horus pondered and asked:

Has His Majesty responded recently?

"He instructed me to invite Speth to the Golden Throne tomorrow night. He will teach the Palu orcs how to summon the orc god."

Makado's words were startling, and Horus was clearly taken aback.

"The Orc God?"

"Yes, the orc god. Surprised, aren't you? I was speechless with shock when I heard the news."

Makado pondered for a moment and said, "His Majesty told me that after the appearance of the orc god, the human empire will withdraw from the Age of Rebellion and the Age of Apostasy and move entirely to the Age of the End."

Horus frowned:
"Why? These two sub-universes have so many resources, are we just going to hand them all over to the Palu Beastmen?"

Macardo, leaning on his cane, walked toward Guilliman's amniotic fluid pot:

"I share your doubts, Horus. His Majesty's answer to me is that population is the Empire's most important resource. The Great Rift of the End Times caused the Empire to lose at least half of its population. The population from the Apostolic Age and the Rebellion Age will be used to replenish the Empire in the End Times. Only in this way can His Majesty curb the spread of the Great Rift, or even shrink and close it."

Horus followed Macardo to Guilliman's amniotic jar and said in a deep voice:

"With the population of two sub-universes crammed into the human empire of the end times, will there be enough food resources? The mortal bureaucrats of the empire will probably be driven crazy by this."

“Therefore, we need Robert’s help.” Macardo pointed with his staff at Robert, who was being repaired by the medical robotic arm.

Horus asked in confusion:
"Is Robert from the Rebellion Era sub-universe not good enough?"

"The Robert Guilliman you mentioned will also be with us in the End Times. He will become one with the Robert before us, merging our memories."

"Oh, that's it."

The two fell silent.

Makado gazed at Guilliman, which was gradually being repaired and perfected, lost in thought.

Horus, based on his strategic intuition, deduced what would happen after the Empire withdrew from the sub-universes of the Rebellion and Apostasy.

It is foreseeable that as humanity leaves the stage of these two sub-universes, aliens and heretics will flourish, and the Palu Orcs will eventually become the rulers of these two sub-universes, just like the current human empire.

What happens next?
The Palu Orcs are unwilling to perish along with the sub-universe; they will choose to march towards the end of the world.

Horus felt a sinking feeling in his heart, and a bad thought crossed his mind.

Given time, if the Palu Orcs advance into the End Age, will there be room in the galaxy to house them?
Having tasted the thrill of having the entire galaxy to themselves, the Palu Orcs probably won't be content to remain confined to a corner of the world.

Horus told Makado about his concerns, but Makado just chuckled and didn't take it to heart.

"His Majesty has also considered the things you have considered."

Makado said:

"Do you remember what I told you? The Palu Orcs are far superior to us in their efforts to combat chaos and the warp. And their method of traversing between subuniverses is precisely related to the warp. By shutting the warp out, the Palu Orcs have also cut off their own ability to move between different subuniverses. Only with Your Majesty's help can they leave the subuniverses. Alternatively, they could abandon their existing anti-warp scheme and become true psionicists. But do you think that's possible?"

Horus gave a meaningful "oh," as if suddenly realizing something:

"In other words, the orc god is merely a name and cannot freely travel between different sub-universes like His Majesty."

"Gulu, Gulu..."

Bubbles rose from Guilliman's mask, and vital signs showed his heartbeat and breathing were accelerating, and brain activity was recovering.

Makado and Horus stopped discussing the Palu orcs and devised a plan to persuade Guilliman, who had gone astray, to willingly return to the right path.

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at the same time.

The rebellion era sub-universe, Paru's backyard.

Li Nuo excitedly browsed through the database of the calculator.

The construction blueprints for the Pharos device were clearly visible among them.

After destroying the Pharos device in the southern sub-district, the work of deciphering the device's blueprints by the Super Imagination Power was all in vain.

However, to everyone's surprise, when Li Nuo guided the Black Knight deep into Hera Fortress to confirm whether the Dark Lord's descent ritual had been interrupted, he unexpectedly discovered a complete set of construction blueprints inside the local Pharos device.

Li Nuo spent some time copying the blueprints before the arrival of the human empire, and then secretly slipped away. This resulted in the Pharos construction blueprints that he now possesses, created by the Dark Oil Man and the Tzeentch followers.

[You have unleashed your super-powerful thinking on Pharos's blueprints.]

[It is estimated that 110 million Universal Psionic Materials and 3 Terra Days will be required to transform this blueprint into an Orcish Mechanical Spellbook.]

The time required has been reduced by 90%, and the consumption of universal psionic materials has been reduced by more than 90%!

Li Nuo was overjoyed.

That's not the only good news.

After Guilliman was captured alive by the Empire of Man, all the important figures of the Church of the Omniscient were either killed or captured alive, and the name of the Church ceased to exist.

The task assigned by the Divine Emperor has come to an end.

At this time tomorrow, I can go to the Terran Palace to receive the psionic ritual and embark on the road to becoming a true god of the orcs.

After a day of anticipation, the following evening, Lino possessed space and arrived at Terra Palace.

Along with him arrived here, along with the psionic ritual materials he had collected over the past period, and a specimen of the ancient orc leader.

The specimen, which was over twenty meters long, left the accompanying guards and motorists in awe, finding it hard to imagine what kind of physique the strongest of the orcs would have possessed during the ancient and distant War of Heaven.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the specimen of the ancient orc leader was placed on the flat ground beneath the golden throne.

The Star Speaker used the ritual materials brought by Li Nuo to arrange the ritual around the specimen of the ancient orc leader.

A few hours later, the ceremony site was set up.

Macado made a request to the figure on the throne, and a golden light shot out from the figure's forehead, condensing into a middle-aged man in golden armor beside the ceremony.

At this moment, the Imperial Guard, the Mechanic, the Space Marines, Horus, and others who were observing the ceremony all knelt on one knee in salute.

The God Emperor raised his palm upwards and slowly lifted it to help everyone up, instructing them to wait outside.

Soon, only the God Emperor, Makado, and Lino remained in the vast throne room.

“Li Nuo, before we begin the ceremony, let me explain the principles of the ceremony to you, so that you don’t mistake any unusual phenomena during the ceremony for an accident and cause the ceremony to be interrupted,” the God Emperor said.

“Yes, Your Majesty, please speak.” Li Nuo nodded in agreement.

The God Emperor pointed to the specimen of the ancient orc leader lying flat on the ground:

“This ancient orc has been dead for many years, and its body is kept intact by the embalming materials of Tarasin. I will use psionic energy to give this ancient orc life, and you can take the opportunity to transfer your consciousness into it and control it.”

The God Emperor had finished speaking.

Li Nuo waited a few seconds to make sure the other person had really finished speaking, then asked with some doubt:

"Is that all?"

The Divine Emperor nodded calmly.

"Yes. This is the entire process of the ritual. The ancient orc chieftain who survived the War of Heaven possesses many magical abilities and can be regarded as the true god of the orcs. By controlling it, you become the true god of the orcs."

what?
Is this what they call the orc god?

It feels a little different from what I imagined.

Li Nuo felt like he had been tricked.

"Um... Your Majesty, may I ask one more question? What level of soul does the Orc God possess?"

(End of this chapter)