Shadow of the Throne, flight deck.
Nimrod walked up to the enormous coffin. Overall, it was extraordinarily huge, large enough even to hold a Primarch's body.
The stasis coffin glowed a ghostly green, its material looking as if it had been piled together from earth.
Dense double-helix patterns were engraved across it, as if they were weaving something.
The "Fallen Count" activated Spirit Sight, and the stasis coffin before him rapidly became illusory as deathly screams flooded into his mind.
The color of decay entered his vision, and even his thoughts grew sluggish, slowly dissipating.
Nimrod instantly entered the Thelema mindset state, and as his sluggish thoughts gradually recovered, the World Eaters' Chief Apothecary, Galan Surak, slowly walked up behind the Black Emperor.
"My lord, this coffin is somewhat strange. Staff within ten kilometers of it die abnormally. Even apothecaries can only last fifteen hours."
"Therefore, in the past, we established a research base underground on Bodt. We entered at intervals, conducted research quickly, and left within fourteen hours."
"In accordance with your command, I brought it to the Voidship. Its influence has lessened, as if its effect weakened after leaving the earth."
Nimrod nodded. [Coffin, Evil Spirit, death dissipating, earth—far from the void—
"Mother" pathway Sequence 3, "Pallbearer."]
He stepped forward, raised his arm, and gently stroked the coffin.
The stench of decaying earth rushed into his face, and he felt as though he had returned to the embrace of Mother Earth.
A thin black mist quietly rose from Nimrod's right palm and covered the stasis coffin.
Dreager stared as the stasis coffin vanished into thin air without a sound, as if it had never existed.
The scene on Nuceria, where his father had exploded into blood mist and dissolved into shadow, surfaced once more.
[Psionic Energy?]
Nimrod looked