Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 330 "Chaos Mentor" Potion Recipe, Difficult-to-Gather Potion Ingredients

“The Disordered Country,” Ninglu skipped the promotion ceremony and looked at the blasphemous stone tablet in front of him.

Main materials: 1 Sloth, 1 Enslaved One.

Auxiliary materials: 331100 ml of Black Rasfoss, 1 Soul-Eating Bee, 1 Hrud.

After reading the "Chaos Mentor's" potion recipe, Ninglu began to recall the relevant information about the potion ingredients.

Even the Soul-Eating Bees in the auxiliary materials are dangerous species that feed on psionicists.

There are three main species of Soul Eater bees: Mara, Luctorus, and Prospero.

If you want to obtain a large number of Soul-Eating Bees, Prospero is the most realistic and feasible target at present.

Ninglu knew that, based on the territory they occupied, Prospero's true master was the Soul-Eating Bee.

At its peak, the Thousand Sons only controlled one city in Prospero – Tizca.

The vast lands beyond were ruins destroyed by the Soul-Eating Bees during the long old night, their predatory territory.

This is certainly related to the fact that most of the "Thousand Sons" forces were engaged in the "Great Expedition," but the terrifying combat power of the Soul-Devouring Bees was also an important reason.

Carlofis, the future head of the "Fire Phoenix School" temple and the company commander of the Sixth Society.

Among the "Thousand Sons" during the "Great Expedition," he was at least in the top five in overall combat strength, and even the strongest in psionic attack magic below the Primarch. He would still get injured when facing a large swarm of Soul Eaters alone.

Apart from Magnus, only a handful of the "Thousand Sons" could survive for a long time in the desolate ruins of Prospero, facing countless Soul-Eating Bees that preyed on them.

Prospero's psionicists could only hide in Tizka, relying on the psionic defense array built by the Thousand Sons to resist the attacks of the Soul-Eating Bees.

Nimrod then turned his thoughts to another supplementary material—Hrud.

[Hrud possessed entropy abilities, and their massive migration inflicted heavy losses on the "Iron Warriors" upon Peturabo's return.]
After recalling the relevant information in the supplementary materials, Ninglu began to think about the situation involved in the main materials.

The Shloths are the dominant race at the top of the pyramid within the Randan population.

Ran Dan's other nickname is Shlos's killer mind.

Well... at least as the main force fighting Ran Dan, it wasn't all for naught. Besides the technology, we also gained potion materials.

Both Sloth and the Brain Eater are ingredients for potions, and the Bone Eater should be no exception.
Looking ahead to the war, Nimrod knew that Spiral-Morse was just a secondary outpost for Randan.

The First Randan War did not cause any substantial damage to Randan.

He thought to himself silently about the devastation of the Second Randan War.

Besides preparing more Ramirez-class fortresses to deal with more than twelve artificial war satellites, it seems I should prepare some more trump cards.

The Void Claw, a doomsday weapon from the "dark technology era" of Vigilant Star...
Ninglu's mind flashed through one terrifying creation after another before he finally gathered his thoughts and continued to recall the relevant information about the other potion ingredients.

Enslavers are warp beings who use enslaved psykers to create warp portals to the real world and use mind control to enslave other races.

An ordinary slaver can control ten intelligent beings, and their mind control range can reach up to fifty meters.

As Nimrod recalled the emergence of enslaved people during the Great Crusade, the Battle of Druun's Liberation immediately came to mind.

The enslaved ones control all of Druid, and their leader is especially powerful.

During the "Liberation of Druhn", the three Astartes fought a bloody battle for months.

In the final battle, Horus Lupecal, Chagatai Khan, and Mortarion, the three Primarchs, faced the leader of the enslaved and were rendered immobile under mind control.
After recalling the species involved in all the potion ingredients, Ninglu realized that gathering all the potion ingredients was by no means easy.

Of course, just like the brain-eaters of "The Corrupted Baron," they don't necessarily have to be at the Warmaster level; ordinary ones will do.

Ordinary slaves can also be used as potion ingredients. Astartes can deal with them, so simply obtaining potion ingredients is not difficult for me as the Primarch.

However, it's foreseeable that if I were to participate in these battles, I wouldn't be a mere bystander; in fact, Old Man Huang might see me as a threat and send out Pegasus as his main force.
The Soul-Eating Bees and Hrud are a huge problem for "Thousand Sons" and "Iron Warriors".

The Shros are the ruling race of Randan.

The strongest among the enslaved are a threat that even the Primarch must deal with with caution.

Ninglu then returned to the real world, and before rejoining the battle, he sent a communication message to Ryan Ramirez.

“Rian, I want you to join the surface battle and fight alongside me.”

Unlike Wojciech Belik, Nimrod met the technical priests when he was younger and more easily influenced.

The Great Sage had long since become a devout follower of the God of All Machines throughout his long life. Without attempting to manipulate him with his mental abilities, Nimrod could not confirm the other's absolute loyalty, nor could he be certain whether cultivating him into an extraordinary being would expose his true nature.

After all, matters of faith are difficult to ascertain.

But things change after being promoted to "Corrupted Baron".

Given enough time, Ryan will inevitably be "corrupted" into becoming his loyal follower.

The Great Sage had long regarded Nimrod, who had retrieved several sacred templates, as someone favored by the God of Machines, and he quickly sent a reply.

The communication bead in Ninglu's ear carried the impassioned voice of Lian.

"Lord Ninglu, it is my honor. I am willing to follow you in battle."

Nimrod soon met the Great Sage and his army of protectors.

Like the apocryphal armies that forge the world, the Great Sage's apocryphal army is organized strictly according to the sacred number of the god of all machines—twelve.

Each Hongzhi has four brigades, and each brigade consists of three detachments.

Of the twelve major branches of the Great Sage's Guardian Army, ten participated in the battle, and each major branch consisted of twelve detachments.

“Rian, stay by my side,” Nimrod said with a smile. “Your technical priest is capable of leading your guards.”

"As you wish." The logic engine that Ryan sensed concluded: [The Primarch highly values ​​this unit//me.]

As Ninglu moved forward, he always kept the distance between him and Rian within thirty-three meters.

He led his team to the position of the 2nd Company of the 3rd Regiment and immediately discovered that the Vostonia-type Rhino command vehicles had all been destroyed by the Rat-headed Overlord using psionic energy.

Company Commander Mikhailovsky led his soldiers in battle against a slave army led by four Randan overlords.

Ning Lu strode towards Ran Dan, deliberately slowing his pace so that Lian could keep up.

The Primarch was also watching the performance of the Archangel's Guard, and he saw a large number of Guard soldiers raise their flaming muskets and launch an attack.

The flames sprayed out instantly reduced a large number of slave soldiers to ashes.

Ning Lu's pupils contracted. He knew that even the most capable forgers in the world would find it difficult to understand and manufacture explosive weapons.

In the early stages of the Great Crusade, incendiary weapons were relatively common among the Astartes Legion, but they were quickly replaced by easily manufactured explosive muskets.

After the "Great Expedition," incendiary weapons became rare relics in the armies of the Astartes Chapters and the Oilers.

It wasn't until the emergence of Dorakal that explosive weapons were once again deployed in large numbers.

[Hmm, Lian's mechanical ark has impressive forging capabilities; his guards are even widely equipped with explosive incendiary weapons.]
As Ning Lu pondered, he saw the technical priests leading the various detachments all aiming their explosive blasting guns at a Ran Dan overlord.

A deafening gunshot rang out, and the Overlord's personal energy shield crackled and popped.

After several rounds of fire, the individual energy shield shattered, and the overlord was immediately burned to ashes by the destructive ray.

The value of "corrosion" has increased once again.
Ning Lu quickly shifted his attention back to the battlefield, where he saw a rat-headed overlord clapping his hands.

The sound of the impact was amplified a hundredfold, and the devastating shockwave ripped away more than a dozen shadowy structures.

[Telekinesis!]

What a coincidence! I just started learning that too.
The Primarch's brain spun rapidly, and the telekinetic knowledge he had once read, recorded in the Flaoian data crystal, surfaced in his mind.

The "Corrupted Baron" clapped his hands, and under his control, his telekinetic energy condensed into a black spear, which shot straight at the Overlord of Ran Dan.

Amidst the sound of energy colliding, Ran Dan Overlord's energy shield shattered.

The Rat-Headed Overlord looked over and saw the black-armored giant with golden wings on its back. His eyes were immediately filled with terror.

That was the powerful being who killed the War General.

The Rat-Headed Overlord immediately tried to escape, but before he could make a move, the slapping sound rang out again.

Seeing an even more powerful psionic shock coming towards him, the Overlord quickly raised his force field shield.

boom!
The force field shield shattered, and the rat's head fell off. His last remaining thought was: "[The second psionic spell he cast was several times more powerful than the first one.]"
The cleansing of the Spiral-Morse primary star lasted for four sidereal months.

After Nimrod returned to the Shadow of Thrones, he received a request from Lucius's forces, who were fighting alongside the Legion, for the technology to build artificial war satellites.

(End of this chapter)