Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 641 The Powerful Evil Spirit That Voluntarily Entered the "Gatekeeper's" Body
Sonem 8, the trench that encircles the equator.

Nimrod only brought Chief Pharmacist Mikel, Death Lord Adams, and Storm Psionicist Nicholas.

He walked along the end of the gleaming diamond-gold vein to the cliff edge, looking down into the deep trench.

He saw tentacle-like vines entwined around the church, and heard the shrill cries of ghosts.

The Primogen's eyes shimmered with light and shadow, taking in the entire planet's structure.

The trench beneath our feet is the center of the entire world, both the real world and the supernatural realm.

In reality, its depths are endless, its stillness without a ripple, making it a true Dead Sea.

The "Chaos Mentor" activated his spiritual vision, and all he could see was a pale white expanse.

Nicholas walked to the edge of the cliff, stood a step behind the Black Emperor, and gazed at the abyss below.

“My lord, this place reminds me of Krakagard, and of the legends of Fenris, the underworld.”

"On the last day of a clear summer, at the moment when the eye of the wolf is closest and the wolf moon rises, the ghost of the Hero's Tomb will return to the world where they wrote their legends."

"Legend has it that if you pass through the Hiltyr Gate of Krakagard at this time, you can go to the underworld, the realm of the dead."

Ninglu nodded; he knew that the Wolf's Eye Nicholas was referring to was a star in the Fenris system.

The last day of summer is Fenris's perihelion.

He also remembered that passing through the gates of the underworld was not easy.

During the Great Birthday Celebration, Ruth returned to Fenris in search of a way to defeat Horus. Almost all the Storm Priests of the Wolves sacrificed their lives to open a passage for him to enter.

Could it be that this ghost world also has an underworld?

Alternatively, the entire underworld could be a dimension of the subspace, only in worlds like Fenris and Sonnem VIII, the veil is thinner, and death and reality are layered together.

If it is truly related to the underworld, then it's not surprising that psychic phenomena could cause people to perceive themselves as aliens. After all, one of the powers of "Death" is enslavement; He is the enslaver of all things.
The "Necromancer" drives and enslaves the undead, which is the manifestation of authority at Sequence 6.

After making some guesses about the trench, Ninglu immediately decided to go and explore it.

Both the ghost and the diamond of Sonem VIII are extremely valuable. Considering the poor relationship between himself and Ruth, and the fact that the "Grim Reaper" pathway extraordinary "Gatekeeper" is "Grim Reaper", it would be more convenient to keep it on his own territory.

Once it is confirmed that there is indeed an entrance to the underworld in the trench, Adams and the others will be able to advance in a short period of time.

Thousand-armed evil spirits have been discovered in every dome, and he no longer lacks potion ingredients for the "Gatekeeper".

"Get down." As Ning Lu gave the order, living metal rapidly spread, enveloping the black armor.

With a flap of his wings, he leaped first into the deep trench.

As soon as he entered the water, a bone-chilling cold swept over him, and his body trembled slightly.

With a thought, Ning Lu felt the warmth emanating from the fragments of the Burner dispel the icy chill.

The necromancer Adams was completely unaware; his body was colder than ice.

Nicholas trembled; the supernatural chill made his thoughts sluggish.

The "Wind's Favorite" spreads its spirituality, seeking to control the surrounding seawater.

As soon as his spirit touched the seawater, he felt that it was like ice, heavy and cold.

A piercing shriek rang out, and countless faces covered in sharp beaks lunged at them.

In his line of sight, vicious faces drew ever closer, their beaks swelling like icicles.

The seawater controlled by the "Wind-Centered One" slowly began to rotate around him.

The bird's beak struck the seemingly invisible curtain of water, producing a harsh, scraping sound.

In an instant, the evil spirit that had attacked him vanished from his sight, and the surrounding seawater receded as well.

He arrived in the nest city, where the warm sunlight shone on his trembling wing membranes.

The calls from the surrounding birds were warm and familiar.

I "grew" wings, and I transformed into an alien.

I am caught in a psychic vision.
A surge of emotion welled up in Nicholas's eyes as he instantly entered the third level of Thales's state of mind.

The illusory, towering building shattered like a mirror, and he returned to the icy seawater.

Apart from Nimrod, the Legion's only Sequence 5 Beyonder, "Crimson Scholar" Mikel, felt his body stiffen and his terrifying speed slow down.

The "Crimson Scholar" activated his spiritual vision and gazed at the surrounding sea. He saw a dense, green-tinged spiritual energy all around him.

Having gained some understanding of the moon, Mikel knew that this was the time to make it disappear.

The "Crimson Scholar" spread his spirituality, and the moon reflected in the sea immediately disappeared.

In everyone's spiritual vision, the green color quickly dimmed, and the evil spirit disappeared.

The vines that had been binding the alien church loosened and were unable to untie themselves, drifting in the sea.

The icy chill receded, and the "Crimson Scholar" consumed his own spirituality, causing the greenery in the surrounding area to fade.

The group's speed suddenly increased; they avoided the church and accelerated downhill.

The water pressure rose rapidly in the goggles of Adams and the other two, but they were all extraordinary individuals whose bodies had been enhanced, far exceeding the range of Astartes, so the pressure of the natural realm did not cause much of an obstacle.

The "Wind's Favorite" moved with the agility of a fish in water, closely following Ninglu.

Ninglu noticed that, after entering the water, apart from vines and ghosts, there was nothing else in the sea associated with the same word.

There were no marine life, not even corals.

In the solitude, when the readings on the three eyepieces exceeded four thousand meters, a pallor appeared in Ninglu's eyes.

A chilling aura swept over the decaying church, its walls cracked, and vines wrapped around mummified corpses.

The Primarch sensed the supernatural aura of decay and decay emanating from him, and he immediately realized that he had found it.

An aura of the underworld. With a thought, Ninglu immediately ordered the space ape to begin working at lightning speed, using the crystal core and remaining powder left behind by the Thousand-Armed Evil Spirit to concoct the Sequence 5 "Gatekeeper" potion.

The "Crimson Scholar" suddenly felt his spiritual energy being depleted more rapidly, at a rate more than twice as fast as before.

As he felt a slight throbbing in his temples, a flash of black mist appeared in Ning Lu's right hand, and a bottle of illusory liquid potion appeared in his palm.

The Primarch's eyes flashed, and his telekinetic hand slammed down on Adams.

An overwhelming, mountain-like pressure weighed down on Adams.

He shot off like a torpedo, arriving in front of a pale figure in an instant.

Adams had never felt cold since becoming the "corpse collector".

Decades later, he felt cold for the first time.

A bone-chilling cold enveloped his body, and his thoughts were frozen in place when a bottle of potion suddenly appeared before him, and at the same time a voice rang in his mind.

"Drink it."

Adams suddenly realized that although he didn't know why the Black Emperor had made him drink the potion here, he had clearly received another blessing.

The sound array link had long been broken, so he couldn't thank the Black Emperor. He calmly took the potion.

A dark vortex extends from the bottle's mouth to its bottom, slowly rotating.

Adams opened the potion and immediately poured it into his mouth.

As soon as the medicine entered his mouth, Adams felt as if his body was being torn apart.

Not just the physical body, but also the spiritual body.

Adams also saw a pale whirlpool suddenly appear in the silent trench.

Within the vortex, thousands of alien faces emitted piercing screams.

The whirlpool extends directly into the depths of the seabed, and its range widens as you go deeper.

His gaze pierced through the entire vortex, revealing a land of death.

The living dead roamed among them, and evil spirits screamed in unison...

The vortex within Adams grew larger and larger, and an illusory gate appeared.

The evil spirits around him involuntarily surged toward Adams.

From the depths of the vortex, a pale body shot out rapidly and rose upwards.

Just as the first evil spirit approached Adams' body, the pale body's arms suddenly reached out, extending and rising higher and higher.

In an instant, his fingers reached down to the ghost near Adams.

It let out a terrified cry from its sharp beak, its wing membranes vibrated, and it frantically tried to get away.

The horde of evil spirits fled in panic, their pale hands eagerly reaching for the illusory gate.

A pale hand rested on the illusory gate and pulled hard.

Its pale body flew up like a spring and crashed into the gate.

Adams trembled, and the door closed.

Adams sensed a powerful evil spirit within him, and combined this with the information he had just acquired in his mind, he immediately understood his abilities as the newly appointed "gatekeeper".

The "gatekeeper" uses his own body as a cage to create a small underworld that belongs only to him.

His body can contain a certain number of souls, the dead, and nature spirits, and he can obtain various unique abilities from them, thus possessing powerful helpers.

He no longer needed to lead a formidable army of undead, as he had done in the past ten days.

As Adams sorted through the information in his mind, a chilling aura swept over him.

The “Crimson Scholar” has become spiritually barren and can no longer sustain the surrounding area.

A bone-chilling cold enveloped Nicholas and Mikel, freezing them almost solid.

Upon seeing this, the Primarch used its telekinetic powers to sweep around and envelop the three of them.

The “Chaos Mentor” immediately spread his spirituality in all directions. He took steps forward, sometimes rising a hundred meters, sometimes crossing a thousand meters.

Within seconds, it leaped out of the sea.

Adams stepped onto the cliff and immediately knelt down on one knee.

"Thanks be to my Lord."

Ning Lu nodded slightly, his gaze fixed on the trench, and gave the order.

"Within five kilometers of the equator, no one other than those who possess the power of death is allowed to approach."

"Obey Your will." Adams accepted the order and immediately descended the cliff, heading towards the army of the dead who were lingering in obedience to his command.

The "gatekeeper" spread his spirituality and commanded his army of the dead to come toward him.

One evil spirit after another poured into his body.

The following day, Ninglu, alone with Company Commander Oliver, Company Commander Keown, and fourteen others, ventured into the trench, where they were promoted to "gatekeepers" upon sensing the aura of the underworld.

Ninglu knew that he did not yet have the ability to control the Underworld, even though the Underworld that the sea passage led to was limited to the Sonem system.

Therefore, having become an immortal and opened the eleventh level of space, possessing a certain "self-destructive" ability, he would not continue to explore.

The premise of "courting death" is that there is a certain possibility of success, rather than that it is completely impossible.

Ninglu decided to head to another place along his journey, a place he had already chosen to court death.

(End of this chapter)