Warhammer: The Black Emperor
Chapter 463

"Biologist"

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The Head of Gardinal.

Hill Deka entered the interrogation room. He walked to the railing and looked down at the Warrior whose armor had been stripped off. His head was the same size as the Mediator's torso beside him.

His smooth skin was somewhat pale due to blood loss, but his body still showed remarkable resilience to injury.

His body was bound in golden amber, both arms crushed by industrial clamps, yet he still looked stronger than an hour ago when he brought him back.

His body is slowly recovering.

He squinted and looked down at the jewel-plated, radium-painted instrument panel with its flat lining.

Deka looked at the Shadow of Order and thought of the testosterone-driven, extremely angry Warrior caste and the emotionally deficient law enforcement caste.

They share the same ideal of obedience, but without such obvious innate defects, a design that is clearly superior even for the mental abilities of their genetic caste.

The Mediator removed the leather sheath from his leg, which held the spiked club in place, and prepared to attack the giant.

But Deka smiled slightly and used his Psionic Energy to force him to retreat.

Time is running out, and High Lord Uria is waiting for his answer, hoping to get a solution to the current crisis from him.

The Librarian watched as the Mediator stepped back, then turned its gaze to Deka.

Aside from the Primarch and the Chief Librarian, he had never encountered such a powerful Psyker.

As Astropathic Officer, he was defeated by his opponent after a series of mental battles.

I won't tell you anything.

His voice was deep, with a faint echo.

Deka walked down the stripped metal of the railing, bending over as if the weight of his thoughts were pulling him toward his goal.

His thoughts flashed, and with his permission, the key to his subconscious opened his consciousness.

Deka's thoughts expanded and spread, and he then sensed a bright consciousness, radiating a dazzling light.

The Librarian member frowned slightly; he felt something touching him.

The Librarian immediately ascended to the Third Mindset of Thelema's mental state, constructing a psychological defense.

Deka focused his thoughts and concentrated intently.

When the full weight of Deka's consciousness fell upon the mind of the Shadow of Order, he immediately felt as if he had hit an iron wall.

Following the ribbon of trembling, pure thoughts, he concluded that the Warrior had undergone special training, enough to withstand his attack.

Deka focused intently, pursing her lips and trying to put mental pressure on him, her voice soothing like a hypnotic soothing whisper.

"Let's start here. What are you?"

Dirac increased the pressure on the corresponding area of Shadow of Order in thinking and repeated the question.

A tiny aneurysm ruptured in the Librarian's left eye, splattering red blood, but he still didn't answer.

"Huh!"

Deka was slightly hoarse. As the strongest member of the Psyker Caste, he hadn't expected that the Shadow of Order could resist his mental lashes.

His mind was designed to be more rigorous and resilient than any of Gardinal's senior consuls could comprehend.

Deka's green eyes grew increasingly cloudy as he walked step by step up the stairs.

His spine Distortion, and his skin was covered with age spots and wrinkles.

My name is Hill Dekahl.

As the old man stepped onto the ground, he placed his hand on his chest and bowed gracefully.

"I am High Archon in Gardinal, representing the High Lord and the Eleventh World."

He straightened up, his long gray hair tangled with his beard and the silver hair around his ears and nose.

Deka's beard had been cut into a square shape and replaced with a small black "X" mark with a flashing red diode in the center.

He paused, then asked for the third time:

"What do you?"

As the old man approached the surgical trolley, the Shadow of Order felt it more strongly than ever before. Every word the old man spoke carried immense weight, even more oppressive than his lord, though not as much as his Primarch.

The Librarian felt an itch in his temples. Just as his lips were about to move, an image flashed through his mind: the Primarch opening his palm and picking up the medicine.

The scene shifts, and he sees his father standing on the deck, pinning a medal on him and gently patting him on the shoulder in encouragement.

Librarian mind, which was about to be overwhelmed, suddenly cleared. He clenched his teeth, and the blood vessel in his right eye burst under the pressure, staining his eye socket with blood.

Deka's eyes were filled with shock, his gaze flashing like lightning, and his temples Shoota.

The Librarian struggled to stay afloat, and he felt as if his brain was on fire, his consciousness even becoming somewhat blurred.

At that moment, a buzzing sound came from the Mediator's earpiece. He answered it, his expression changed, and he quickly walked over to Deka.

"My lord, we have been ambushed; the guards have been overrun."

The lightning in Deka's green eyes subsided. He took a deep breath; compared to intelligence, the High Lord's safety was more important.

He strode out, no longer caring about the prisoners behind him. His pace quickened, and he sensed a change in his surroundings.

As Deka Door Opening, his green pupils dilated sharply. He was astonished to see countless vines spreading into the room like giant pythons.

The entire gray building has been transformed into a green space.

Deka saw several vines shoot up from above, wrapping around the guards and binding them tightly.

Deka heard the sound of their bones cracking, but he didn't have time to think about the reason. He found the High Lord among the survivors.

Deka breathed a sigh of relief. He quickly untied the staff hanging at his waist, gripped the staff head tightly, and the runes shone brightly.

Deka pointed his staff at a figure clad in black armor, branded with green patterns, with plants swaying beside him.

Malena Scarla's brown eyes flashed; she felt a heavy pressure emanating from the gray-haired old man.

She immediately ascended Thelema the Third Mindset to resist the mental attack.

Deka felt his consciousness crash into a flesh-and-blood door.

During the continuous collisions, lightning crackled in his green pupils.

Deka's consciousness materialized into a giant hand, slamming it heavily against the door, again and again.

Bang bang bang!

The gate shook violently, and chunks of flesh and blood fell to the ground.

Deka saw the open heart and thought to himself.

[Breaked through their mental defenses!]

Just as a feeling of joy flashed through Deka's mind, suddenly, tendrils of vines spread out from the crack in the door and wrapped around his consciousness.

As Malena withstood the attack using the multi-layered Mindset constructed by Thelema, she recalled that the gray-haired, green-eyed old man in front of her was Hill Deka, whom the Black Emperor had mentioned, and knew that he was a powerful Psyker.

His powerful Psionic Energy can even briefly affect the Primarch.

Malena knew that her mental defenses wouldn't hold for long.

Although her current Psionic Energy are focused on building mental defenses, she is still a "Biologist".

With a thought from the "Biologist," the plant that filled the space she had reserved on her side grew wildly under the nourishment of Spirituality.

At the same time, driven by her hybrid creatures, they pounced on the gray-haired old man.

The snake slithered and writhed, opening its foul-smelling mouth to bite Deka.

Deka immediately felt a tearing sensation in his thigh, followed by numbness throughout his body.

[Poisonous!]

Deka pulled a potion from his side with his left hand and plunged it into his neck, while simultaneously lowering his staff to aim at the swarming snakes.

As soon as the Psionic Energy shockwave struck the snakes, their bellies swelled up.

Deka suddenly stopped, feeling something wriggling rapidly inside him.

The "Biologist" felt the psychological shock lessen and realized that she had successfully injected the larvae into the other party's body after creating the mutated creature.

The "Biologist" created a hybrid creature by crossing the venomous snakes of Catachan with vein worms. It only has the appearance of a venomous snake, but when it bites an enemy, it injects a secreted mucus into the enemy's body.

The enemy will initially feel numbness, thinking it's just poisoning, and then they will lose all sensation.

The worms burrow into the enemy's skin and enter the bloodstream to lay their eggs.

At this point, the enemy is doomed, because once the venous worms enter the bloodstream, there is no known treatment.

As Biomancy- Psyker, Malena could already sense that the eggs had begun to spread throughout Deka's body.

"Ah!"

Accompanied by screams, the larvae hatch.

Deka felt excruciating pain in his brain, heart, and bones throughout his body, while his neck was tightly wrapped, and he immediately lost consciousness.

Malena watched as Deka's body crashed heavily to the ground, let out a sigh of relief, and raised her hand to unleash a bolt of lightning that struck Uria.

As Malena retreated with the captured High Lord and the rescued, heavily wounded Librarian, Arsena Dunn launched an attack on Beliso, the High Lord who controlled the Psyker Caste.

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