Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 302 Mind Control, Who Controls Whom?

In the Osiris system, the Eleventh Legion launched an orbital bombardment of nine inhabited planets within the system.

Ninglu led the Honor Guard to launch an airdrop to the main star.

As the airdrop pod plummeted, the Primarch's consciousness spread outwards.

He quickly brought the situation in the drop zone under his control: the defensive facilities vaporized by the orbital strike, the mangled corpses of the Sons of War, and countless human corpses outnumbering those of Astartes...

The Primarch's consciousness continued to spread outwards, covering a five-kilometer radius around him, and continued to expand outwards.

Immediately, his thoughts collided with an inhuman mental shock.

The Primogen sensed thirteen icy threads attacking the gates of his mind.

His thoughts seemed frozen, and a chilling voice echoed in his heart: "Submit to me! Submit to me!..."

A bright flame suddenly erupted from Ninglu's spine, and he ascended to the first level of the Thelma Mind.

His soul burned with a flame, like the earth's core.

The chill vanished instantly.

The Primarch's consciousness followed the consciousness that launched the mental attack on him and immediately saw a strange creature.

He was entirely human-shaped, with a head shaped like a heart, as clear and translucent as ice crystals, shimmering with a dazzling spiritual light.

Threads of icy coldness spread out from his heart, thirteen of which extended toward his soul and were burned by the flames of his soul.

The ice crystal heart also has countless threads that spread to and control other creatures.

[Controlling the mind, who controls whom?]
As the Primarch's thoughts surfaced, the Mind Flame destroyed the Mind Defense Gate of the Osiris Mind Controlling Species.

At the same moment, across the planet, countless mind-controlling beings felt a burning pain and severed their mental links with their fellow beings who were also suffering from the mental attack.

"I command you, come out!"

The airdrop pod crashed onto the surface of Osiris, the primary planet.

The moment the hatch opened, Ninglu said to Arsène Dunn:
"I have mind-controlled an Osiris mind-controlling seed. After landing, I will collect its 3D image and upload it to the Legion Tactical Network."

“Yes, my lord.” The Primarch’s servant’s narrow blue eyes were filled with astonishment as he looked ahead at the rising alien creature.

The alien creature was surrounded by a field of spiritual energy, which freed him from the constraints of gravity and allowed him to float in the air.

The alien creature had a heart-shaped head with more than a dozen ice-blue threads, and it held a blue staff like a hand.

He also saw countless icy blue threads shrinking back around his heart.

Meanwhile, the armed humans stopped, their faces showing confusion, as if they were in a dream.

The Primarch's servant recorded the image of Osiris's mind-controlling seed, thinking to himself.

The Thirteenth Army suffered over 10,000 casualties without even realizing that the mastermind behind it all was an alien.

The Black Emperor, however, located the alien that was controlling humans and launching a rebellion the moment the airdrop landed.

The mind-controlling seed tumbled and floated in front of Ning Lu. He felt as if he were being plunged into a blazing furnace, the threads hissing and swaying.

The Primarch's eyes were deep, and his consciousness traversed the minds of the Mind Controlling Species, uncovering the secrets within their minds.

He knew that the Osiris Mind Controlling Race was a psionic race, and as their name suggested, they were skilled in mind control.

Ninglu also knew why the Mind Controlling Seed of Osiris could manipulate minds on a large scale.

Besides their talent, it was also because of the blue psionic staffs they wielded.

The psionic staff of the future empire is somewhat different from what I remember.

The Empire's psionic staff is a black staff originally from the hands of the Xenomorphs, powered by a psionic battery.

Psionicists can store their psionic energy in their psionic staffs, which will serve as an additional energy source during combat.

In melee combat, the psionic staff can be used as a powered weapon, and the user can also enhance their attack power by absorbing the energy stored in the psionic battery.

The Osiris Mind Controlling Species's psionic staff can not only be actively charged, but also draw energy from the mind of the mind-controlled being and store it.

They are able to control humans on a large scale precisely because of the power of the psionic staff.

[Osiris's mind-controlling species truly operate in a self-perpetuating cycle, drawing energy from manipulated minds and then using that energy to manipulate others.]
The Primarch incorporated the mind-controlling techniques of the Osiris into their minds. Compared to the Flao people's comprehensive but not spiritual psionic skills, they were far more proficient in the realm of mind control.

He immediately made a breakthrough in the field of mind control, forming thought impulses from the information about the Osiris mind-controlling species and sending them to the Primarch's servant.

"Upload it to the Legion's tactical network, and simultaneously send a separate order to the think tank: I want to control the mind seed."

Ninglu did not order the entire legion to capture the Mind Controlling Seeds, as this would put them in danger.

However, once he has a grasp of the situation regarding mind control, he anticipates that think tanks will be able to capture it.

Osiris's mind control system uses telepathic links to create a vast network covering the planet, enabling them to share information in real time.

This is both their strength and their weakness.
The original gene then began to spread its consciousness once again.

Ok?
The Primarch's eyes flashed. He knew from the mind of the mind-controlling species that, due to their different innate abilities, the mind-controlling species had different mental powers and different distances between each other.

The one closest to him, the mind-controlling being, was over a hundred kilometers away, already within his conscious reach.

Hiding?

The Primarch's eyes flickered with light as he manipulated the power of the warp. He located four Osiris Mind Controlling Species, all lurking in the dark underground.

The Primarch controls his own mind, resonating with the mental fluctuations of the Mind Controlling Species of Osiris, and his consciousness permeates the mental network.

He sensed the entire planet, densely packed with tens of thousands of individual minds.

The progenitor donned the "Howling Mask," opened its mouth abruptly, and let out a psychic scream.

The screams and tremors of the mind spread rapidly throughout the mental network.

Centered on Ninglu's position, terrifying screams echoed in the minds of each mind-controlling being, and they fell helplessly to the ground.

A squad of soldiers from the 13th Army Corps faced a massive, overwhelming attack.

Their ammunition was long gone, so they brandished their melee weapons and launched an attack.

Only four Warbringers remained in the squad, their power armor stained crimson with blood, flesh and entrails covering their armor.

Their supplies had long been cut off, and their communication links had long since lost the rune markers of friendly forces.

The enemies are endless, and they attack without ceasing.

New recruit Bourne brandishes his chainsaw sword, hacking at the fanatical enemy.

The engine roared, and severed limbs and broken arms flew everywhere.

Despite witnessing the hellish scene, the rebels did not falter in the slightest; they charged toward the Son of War as before.

The bullet struck Bourne's power armor and bounced off.

"Be careful," Captain Eddie warned.

He knew that these people were only attacking him to exhaust his strength.

Once they discover a breach in the front line, they will immediately launch a heavy attack.

Eddie couldn't understand how the enemy was monitoring the battlefield situation in real time.

Of course, this was only a minor perplexity among the events he couldn't understand; what he couldn't understand even more was why the rebels' morale was so high.

He had never encountered an enemy force with such a tenacious fighting spirit before, especially considering that the company commander, leading half of his company, had destroyed the local command system, rebel officials, and key strategic points in the first wave of attacks.

The rebels should have already lost their morale, or at least fallen into chaos.

As Eddie pondered, his goggles detected a threatening rune flashing wildly at the three o'clock position.

"Three o'clock position, artillery firing point, charge!"

Even though he believed annihilation was inevitable, Eddie was still looking for a chance to win; he had to eliminate the enemy's newly exposed firepower threat.

The remaining four sons of war immediately charged toward the artillery position, with Eddie as their spearhead.

Artillery fire covered the spot where they had been standing, and if they hadn't left, shells would have been hitting them.

The threat rune flashed once more, and cannonballs unleashed a barrage of fire upon them.

Bourne lagged behind, his back to Eddie, wielding his chainsaw sword to fend off attacks from behind.

Suddenly, threatening runes began flashing wildly in front of Bourne.

"Enemy attack!"

He only had time to utter a word before the artillery fire instantly covered a four-kilometer radius around the squad, bringing all the rebel humans into the attack range.

Boom boom boom!
A dense barrage of bullets covered the four sons of war.

Several shells blasted into Bourne's eyepiece.

With a loud explosion, Bourne's body crashed to the ground.

Eddie noticed that Bourne's runes had disappeared, and he immediately realized that the enemy had deliberately exposed the artillery positions before launching an attack from the surrounding area.

This is an open strategy, but they don't want a slow death.

Even in death, the sons of war must do their utmost to inflict casualties on the rebels before they perish.

The three continued forward toward the marked artillery position.

Suddenly, the eyepiece lit up with a screen full of threatening rune dots, and the rebels launched an artillery barrage from all sides.

[The rebels have deployed more artillery.]
Just as Eddie realized this, another of his men fell to the ground.

[We could only hold on until now.]
Just as the thought crossed Eddie's mind, the gunfire suddenly stopped.

The rebels who were charging towards them from afar also stopped in their tracks.

After killing the Mind Controlling Seed of Osiris with the mental scream of the "Howling Mask," Ninglu immediately ordered the Shadow of Order to gather them together.

He moved the Osiris Mind Controlling Seeds, which he had killed with Mind Scream, to the "Land of Chaos".

Meanwhile, the Staff of Osiris was also gathered and sent to the think tank.

The Honor Guard discovered fifty-two surviving sons of war on the surface and, following Nimrod's orders, placed them aboard the Judgment.

(End of this chapter)