If You Get Stabbed, You Go Numb Too!

The Scepter of Agony, this Chaos artifact, had once belonged to the Daemon Prince, Marquis Sha Laiklak.

Fabius Bile had defeated and destroyed him, and that Daemon Prince's body and power had fused into the scepter.

The blasphemous evil power of an entire Daemon Prince slammed into Primarch Prime's back. Primarch Prime let out a muffled grunt as a crack was torn through his Power Armor, exposing his flesh before the spike at the Scepter of Agony's tip.

Warp-tainted power drove the agony amplifier within the vicious scepter, injecting unbearable, searing pain into Primarch Prime's body.

Fabius Bile did not wish to kill Primarch Prime. He was a valuable specimen and an important hostage. Fabius hoped to trade him to Cawl for the Source Blood Repository. Even if Belisarius Cawl refused the exchange, Primarch Prime himself possessed extraordinary wisdom.

Thus, Fabius chose to subdue Primarch Prime with pain. The agony amplifier within the Scepter of Agony was not merely powered by Warp-tainted force; it also incorporated technology Fabius had obtained from the Dark Eldar Blood-Actors. No one in the galaxy understood how to create pain better than the Blood-Actors.

Fabius Bile's Scepter of Agony had never failed him.

He took a slight step forward, intending to claim his prize.

Primarch Prime struggled to rise from the ground. With a bang, the Scepter of Agony dropped from his back, leaving only a small wound in his flesh.

"..." Fabius Bile took a small step back.

There was no sign whatsoever that Primarch Prime had been affected by pain. This completely exceeded Fabius Bile's expectations.

Bile hurriedly drew the needle pistol at his waist. It contained anesthetic drugs Fabius had discovered in the ruins of Nuceria. He aimed at the wound torn open in Primarch Prime's Power Armor by the Scepter of