Warhammer: The Black Emperor
Chapter 654

The Old Man in Yellow, Please Grant Me the Power of Free Riding, Let Me Be Like

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You were freeloading all the same.

On the surface of the rocky planet, Nimrod looked around and soon discovered, to his front right, round stones of golden color.

They were arranged in a tight ring, about ten meters in diameter.

The Primarch keenly sensed that they had formed a cycle—not merely in the physical sense, but some kind of cycle in the immaterial realm as well.

Attached to every stone were Crystal Granules that were half-illusory, half-solid.

Nimrod immediately matched them to the potion ingredients for Sequence 5, "Winner," of the "Wheel of Fortune" pathway on the Blasphemy Slate.

The golden round stones were God-Blessed Stones, and what clung to them was God-Blessed Crystal Powder.

Nimrod did not need to activate Spirit Sight to confirm that they were potion ingredients.

He did not try to activate Spirit Sight again. His intuition told him there seemed to be some kind of danger around him.

Nimrod studied the potion ingredients on the ground, thinking about how to get his hands on them.

Anyone who targeted the rocks would suffer misfortune, much less objects bearing the name God-Blessed.

The automatic shutdown of his spiritual intuition, and the existence of an ancient god, both reminded him that this was definitely not as simple as rolling them up with Telekinesis.

Those who target the rocks will suffer misfortune, and God-Blessed Stones and God-Blessed Crystals are potion ingredients for "Winner." This deity should belong to the domain of fate.

I bear the fate of a person from the "Kingdom of Disorder." Source Essence will isolate misfortune—or rather, the fate imposed by other gods is unlikely to affect me.

But disasters caused by fate can still threaten me.

Nimrod recalled the regular stone spheres around him. In that case, the ancient god mentioned in certain possible records

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