Nimrod looked toward the "Blasphemy Slate," his gaze sweeping over the "Mad Mage" potion formula.
Advancement Ritual: In a chaotic war that swept across at least an entire galaxy, involved more than ten billion people, and saw more than five factions participate, use the rules to achieve one's own ends and seize sufficient benefits.
[As expected, the advancement ritual has become more difficult once again.]
The advancement ritual for Sequence 5 "Mentor of Chaos" required disrupting the order of eleven hundred worlds and seizing benefits, but it did not require the destruction or conquest of entire worlds.
The advancement ritual for Sequence 4 "Fallen Count" required slaying a Daemon Prince.
Because of the unpredictability of The Four Ruinous Powers and Chaos, advancement had no fixed standard.
Yet after sorting through his memories, Nimrod could still roughly discern a pattern:
Creating a large-scale massacre on a single world was enough to advance into a Daemon Prince.
Even without drawing the attention of The Four Ruinous Powers, sacrificing hundreds of millions of souls to Chaos was enough to complete the advancement.
Vashtorr Ghor led the Night Lords in hunting down every native of Haren during the midnight hours over several weeks, sacrificing tens of thousands of souls to the Empyrean and advancing into an undivided Daemon Prince.
The ritual for the "Mad Mage," however, had expanded to encompass an entire galaxy, with requirements for both scale and chaos involving five factions.
After reading the advancement ritual, Nimrod shifted his gaze to the potion formula.
Main ingredients: one Catastrophe-class Warp energy source; one Ork or Ancient Ork over ten meters tall.
Supplementary ingredients: 331,133 milliliters of Helas Volt; eleven Craftworld Aeldari Shrines; eleven Spirit Stones containing Craftworld Aeldari bishops, Autarchs, or Farseers; one body containing the consciousness of a Necron Overlord.
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