Recaps

Lin En woke in a cave in the Warhammer universe and fled from Chaos cultists and Chaos Spawn. After hiding from his pursuers, he remained trapped underground with no phone or apparent means of escape.

• Lin En fled through the cave as Chaos cultists and Chaos Spawn chased him.
• Lin En squeezed through a narrow crack and hid while a creature sniffed near the entrance, then waited for it to leave.
• Lin En recalled waking alone in the cave and finding his phone missing, with only tissues and half a packet of Skittles in his pocket.
• Lin En found a torchlit gathering where cultists performed a ritual around a mutilated corpse and saw Chaos Spawn nearby.
• A cultist spotted Lin En, and he ran as the group pursued him.

Lin En discovered that he had transmigrated into Warhammer 40,000 while fleeing Chaos Cultists and Chaos Spawn, then activated a Trait Roulette system. After his first draw gave him only a flashlight, he continued running through the cavern, exhausted and desperate.

• Lin En ran from Chaos Cultists and Chaos Spawn and called for a system.
• The Trait Draw System appeared and explained its roulette, including a nearly impossible ultimate trait that could free the Emperor from the Golden Throne.
• Lin En used his first draw and received a common Flashlight trait instead of a weapon or combat skill.
• Lin En used the flashlight to navigate the cavern as he fled, then stopped to catch his breath and called out to the Emperor.

Cornered in a fissure by cultists, Lin En triggered the system’s one-time beginner’s pity and drew the Color-tier trait Thirty Days, which made him impossible to kill for thirty days while fighting an enemy. He planned to escape and use the system to grow stronger, though the trait could leave him suffering or trapped, and he set his sights on reaching Throne Liberation.

• Lin En threatened to kill himself unless the system gave him beginner’s pity, triggering its hidden mechanism.
• Lin En drew the Color-tier trait Thirty Days, which granted him thirty days of immortality while engaged in combat.
• Lin En realized he might extend his survival by switching enemies or restarting combat, but the system warned that he could still suffer, lose limbs, or be captured.
• Lin En decided to leave the fissure and seek a way out, learning that he could draw again in fifteen days or after completing a key Plot Point.
• Lin En steeled himself to face the cultists, convinced that Thirty Days would keep him alive as he pursued Throne Liberation.

Lin En used the Blood-Lock Mechanism and Thirty Days to survive the Chaos Cultists’ attacks while trying to escape their underground lair. Cornered in a dead end, he fought his way through them and escaped into another passage with the cultists still pursuing him.

• Lin En chose a fork in the cave and encountered a Chaos Cultist, then fled as the cultists raised the alarm.
• Lin En ran through passages marked by Nurgle-like slime mold, and the System Angel rapidly healed him after red bolts struck his shoulder and back.
• The Chaos Cultists identified Lin En as a protected psyker and chased him, intending to capture him alive for the Blood God.
• Lin En ran into a dead end and faced the cultists after confirming with Bro System that Thirty Days would keep him alive, though injuries would hurt.
• Lin En charged the cultists, struck one with a stone, slipped through their ranks, and escaped into the passage he had come from.

Lin En escaped the cultists through a narrow passage, rested, and then followed the sound of moving air through the underground caves. He found a human-made corridor and opened a massive Imperium-style door, revealing bright light beyond it.

• Lin En squeezed through a narrow passage that trapped the pursuing cultists, then fled until he was out of their reach.
• Lin En found a quiet chamber, asked the system to keep watch, and slept for four hours.
• After waking, Lin En decided to search for an exit and followed the sound of wind through the cave system.
• Lin En reached a paved corridor with human-made supports and oil lamps, which the system said did not appear to belong to Chaos.
• Lin En opened a massive metal door decorated with Imperium-style carvings and saw bright light pouring through.

Lin En discovered that the cavern opened into a vast, ruined hive city and chose a sturdy storage room as his base. Needing food and supplies to survive, he headed back toward the cultists’ camp to steal from them.

• Lin En found that the cavern connected to an abandoned hive city whose ancient structures were too unstable to climb.
• He searched near the entrance and found a sturdy storage room containing usable cookware, a dagger, a telescope, and old cans he refused to eat.
• Lin En decided to use the storage room as his base and treat the cultists’ camp as a source of supplies.
• After discussing the risks of being caught with the system, Lin En entered the dark cavern and made his way toward the cultists’ camp.

Lin En returned to the Chaos Cultists’ cavern and found their storage room, where he gathered food, water, and Astra Militarum gear. He left with supplies for his escape after scattering a mysterious powder he could not identify.

• Lin En followed the cave passage back toward the cultists’ camp and avoided the Chaos Spawn.
• Lin En found a likely storage room and entered after the system judged that no one was inside.
• Lin En discovered military rations, protein bars, water, and Astra Militarum armor, then took the useful supplies.
• Lin En asked the system about a box of gray powder, and after it warned him not to take it, he scattered the powder across the floor.

Lin En looted a cultist storeroom, carried the supplies back to the abandoned Hive City, and settled in with enough food and equipment to survive. He hid from the furious cultists searching for the thief and waited for the fifteen days needed to draw another card.

• Lin En packed food, water, armor, and a cultist robe from the storeroom, then crept away with his haul.
• Lin En returned through the underground passage to the abandoned Hive City and made a bed from the supplies he had taken.
• Lin En survived for several days on the stolen provisions and carved his name into the Hive City's wall.
• The cultists discovered their supplies were missing and searched the cave for the thief, but Lin En hid behind the closed metal door.

Lin En discovered a lone former Battle Sister in the abandoned Hive City and learned that she had mutated vertical pupils but still seemed sane and prayed to the Emperor. He wondered whether she could become his teammate, though he did not know whether she would trust him.

• Lin En sensed someone nearby and used a telescope to search the Hive City.
• Lin En spotted a woman sitting by a fire, dressed in ordinary clothes without weapons or Power Armor.
• Lin En and the system noticed the woman's vertical pupils and considered whether her mutation meant she had been corrupted.
• Lin En watched the woman pray to the Emperor and wondered whether she could join him as a teammate.

Lin En spent several days observing a stranded Battle Sister before deciding she showed no signs of Chaos corruption. He approached her cautiously and greeted her, leaving their first encounter unresolved.

• Lin En watched the woman by her fire and decided to keep his distance until he knew whether she was trustworthy.
• Over the next few days, Lin En observed her gather supplies, eat his discarded canned food, and pray to the Emperor.
• Lin En asked the system whether a Battle Sister could be trusted, and it confirmed that she showed no signs of Chaos corruption.
• Lin En prepared supplies and approached the woman, stopping about twenty meters away.
• The Battle Sister readied herself for combat as Lin En greeted her, saying, “Hello, Sister.”

Lin En and Cecilia cautiously tested each other before confirming they both served the Emperor. After exchanging names, Cecilia questioned Lin En about how he had ended up in the Hive City and acquired his Astra Militarum equipment.

• Cecilia watched Lin En warily while he kept his distance, and neither spoke at first.
• Lin En asked Cecilia to curse the Four Gods, then cursed them and several xenos himself, convincing her he was not a Chaos Cultist.
• Cecilia and Lin En approached with their hands raised and greeted each other by clasping forearms.
• Cecilia introduced herself as Battle Sister Cecilia, and Lin En gave his name.
• Cecilia asked whether Lin En was alone and what he was doing there; he said he had awakened in the cave and stolen his equipment from cultists.

Lin En learned that he was on Istvaan III and that Cecilia had been exiled there after her eyes changed during a battle with daemons. He accepted her claim that her faith remained unbroken, and the two began to trust one another.

• Cecilia studied Lin En as they shared food, then asked how he had ended up on Istvaan III.
• Lin En recognized the planet as the site of the Drop Site Massacre and said he had been taken from Terra while asleep.
• Lin En admitted he was a psyker, and Cecilia assumed the Inquisition had exiled him for being weak or dangerous.
• Cecilia explained that her altered pupils had led the Inquisition and the Sisterhood to exile her after the Ophelia Crusade.
• When Lin En asked how she knew she was not corrupted, Cecilia declared that Battle Sisters never betrayed and vowed to resist Chaos.
• Lin En remembered Minohr Sebastus’s ordeal, believed Cecilia, and moved closer to her.

Lin En and Cecilia formed an alliance, combining his light with her combat skills to escape the Chaos Cultists and find a way out of Istvaan 3. As they explored the caves, they discovered a passage carrying fresh air that might lead outside.

• Cecilia recognized Lin En's white light and explained how it could help them navigate darkness and briefly blind cultists.
• Lin En and Cecilia agreed that she would protect him while he illuminated their way as they searched for an exit.
• They gathered their supplies, and Cecilia led Lin En into the cave system with a sharpened steel reinforcing bar.
• Cecilia listened for danger as they followed the tunnels, with Lin En using his memory of the route to guide them.
• They felt a breeze carrying the scent of soil and grass from a passage ahead, and Lin En shone his light toward it.

Lin En and Cecilia followed the airflow and found that the exit passage ran through a huge Chaos Cultist lair. After a cultist spotted them, they fled as the lair's inhabitants gave chase.

• Lin En and Cecilia followed the passage and discovered a cavern filled with Chaos Cultists, with the exit passage beyond them.
• Cecilia counted the cultists and their psykers, then told Lin En to follow her and run if she became trapped.
• A Chaos Cultist spotted Lin En and Cecilia and alerted the others.
• Cecilia grabbed Lin En and ran, with the Chaos Cultists chasing them and shouting that they would offer the pair to the Blood God.

Lin En and Cecilia fought their way through the cultists, then fled into a dead-end cavern as the cultists searched for them. The chapter ended with the pursuers stopping just outside their hiding place.

• Cecilia fought off the cultists while Lin En handed her his dagger and swung a steel pipe at their attackers.
• Chaos psykers struck Cecilia with red beams, wounding her as the cultists surrounded them.
• Cecilia charged the cultists to create an opening, then shouted for Lin En to run as they escaped together.
• Lin En led Cecilia through narrow passages until they reached a dead-end cavern and squeezed inside.
• The cultists searched the caves and stopped outside the cavern where Lin En and Cecilia were hiding.

Lin En and Cecilia faced the Chaos Cultists closing in on their cave and agreed to split up so one of them could escape and find reinforcements. Lin En prepared to lure the pursuers away, while Cecilia promised to return for him.

• Two Chaos Cultists found the cave too narrow to enter and went to fetch a thinner companion.
• Lin En proposed drawing the cultists away so Cecilia could escape and seek reinforcements, but Cecilia insisted that she should be the one to lure them away.
• Lin En revealed that his powerful recovery ability could help him survive while pursued, and convinced Cecilia that he had a better chance of lasting until she returned.
• Cecilia took only three days' worth of food and water, leaving the rest of the supplies for Lin En.
• Lin En packed the remaining supplies and prepared to run as Cecilia clasped his hand and dagger, telling him not to stop or look back.

Lin En lured the Chaos cultists away from Cecilia by flaunting the supplies he had stolen, then ran through the tunnels to keep them from catching him. Cecilia escaped in the opposite direction to find reinforcements, while Lin En remained trapped in the cultists’ cave network, hoping she would return.

• Lin En emerged from the cave wearing the cultists’ stolen gear and eating their protein bars, provoking them into a furious chase.
• Cecilia crawled from the cave after Lin En drew the cultists away, then ran toward the opposite exit to find reinforcements and vowed to return for him.
• Lin En led the cultists through the tunnels, using his agility and Thirty Days to survive as they pursued him.
• Lin En smashed a stalactite with a steel bar, bringing it down on the cultists behind him, but they continued chasing him.
• Lin En circled back near the cultist camp and found the lair cave guarded by psychic cultists, leaving him with no clear escape route.

After ten days of fleeing cultists in the underground caves, Lin En received a new card draw and gained the purple-grade Danger Sense trait instead of the combat skill he wanted. Though initially disappointed, he discovered it could warn him of hostile cultists ahead and used it to evade them as he continued running.

• Lin En hid from a group of pursuing cultists and received the system notification that his card draw was available.
• Lin En drew the purple-grade Danger Sense trait, which warned him when hostile units approached within 300 meters.
• Lin En complained that Danger Sense could not help him fight the cultists, then fled when they spotted him again.
• Lin En’s new trait warned him about a group of cultists ahead, letting him stop before running into them.
• Lin En used Danger Sense to detect and bypass a lurking cultist, then kept fleeing while still wishing for an offensive skill.

After fifteen days of fleeing the Chaos Cultists, Lin En was rescued when Cecilia returned in Sororitas Power Armor and drove them back. Cecilia escaped with Lin En, while the Cultists abandoned the chase rather than risk fighting her.

• Lin En complained to the system while continuing to flee the Chaos Cultists, who had pursued him for fifteen days.
• A distant blast shook the passage, and Cecilia appeared wearing Power Armor and carrying a Power Sword.
• Cecilia kicked a Chaos Cultist aside and signaled for Lin En to move behind her before confronting the pursuers.
• Cecilia charged the Chaos Cultists, knocking them down, but their psykers struck her armor with red lightning.
• Cecilia grabbed Lin En and escaped, and the Chaos Cultists withdrew rather than fight her to the death.

Cecilia rescued Lin En from the cultists’ lair and reunited with him in Istvaan III’s underground world. They met Herix Ironhammer, a Mechanicus engineer, and planned to escape together using his map and ship.

• Cecilia led Lin En out of the cultists’ lair and explained that Istvaan III’s surface had been destroyed, leaving only its underground world.
• Lin En reunited with Cecilia, who had built a crude set of Power Armor with Herix Ironhammer’s help.
• Cecilia introduced Herix Ironhammer, a wandering Mechanicus engineer from a Forge World under Ultramarines jurisdiction.
• Herix explained that cultists had overwhelmed his servitors while he searched for Warp-tainted crystals, leaving him stranded until Cecilia found him.
• Lin En, Cecilia, and Herix formed a group and decided to follow Herix’s map through an abandoned mine shaft to his exploration station and ship.

Lin En, Cecilia, and Iron Hammer discovered they were nearly out of food and returned to the cultist camp to steal more, but the supplies were too heavily guarded. Cecilia proposed staying to eliminate the cultists gradually, and Lin En began planning how to use himself as bait while they picked off small groups.

• Iron Hammer revealed he had run out of food, and Lin En shared their remaining supplies, which would not last until they escaped the caves.
• Lin En, Cecilia, and Iron Hammer returned to the cultist camp and found its new supply tent surrounded by guards and patrols.
• Cecilia concluded they could not steal the supplies without a fight and proposed ambushing cultists over time until she could wipe them out.
• Lin En considered using his Thirty Days ability to lure cultists into traps or beneath Cecilia's sword, so the three could defeat them in small groups.

Lin En, Iron Hammer, and Cecilia devised a trap-based plan to defeat the cultists in small groups. Their first ambush succeeded, and they prepared to lure out the next wave.

• Lin En chose to act as bait because he could recover quickly, and Iron Hammer offered to set traps while Cecilia handled close combat.
• Iron Hammer mapped the cavern and planned explosive traps as the three agreed to draw out cultists in groups of about ten.
• Iron Hammer wired an explosive to a stalactite in the passage, while Cecilia hid behind a stone pillar with her weapons ready.
• Lin En returned to the cultist camp and taunted the cultists until around twenty or thirty chased him into the passage.
• The trap exploded among the pursuers, and Cecilia charged through the smoke to kill the surviving cultists.
• Cecilia reported that the first group was dealt with, and Iron Hammer praised Lin En's successful plan.

Lin En and his companions stole the Chaos Cultists’ supplies and escaped their underground lair. Near the surface, Lin En drew a new card and gained the Stamina Enhancement trait.

• Lin En, Iron Hammer, and Cecilia changed tactics after the Chaos Cultists stopped falling for their ambushes, luring them away so Iron Hammer and Cecilia could steal the camp’s supplies.
• The trio collected enough food and water to last until they left the planet, then set off toward the surface.
• Iron Hammer stopped the group near the exit, startling Lin En and Cecilia before explaining that they were almost outside.
• Lin En noticed that more than fifteen days had passed since his last card draw and asked the system for another.
• Lin En drew the blue Stamina Enhancement trait, which increased his stamina, endurance, and carrying capacity by about fifty percent.

Lin En, Cecilia, and Iron Hammer found a Greenskin Ork scavenging outside the cave and discovered a camp blocking their escape. They rigged explosives and lured the Orks toward the narrow passage, where Cecilia killed the first attacker as more Greenskins charged.

• Lin En spotted a Greenskin Ork less than half a meter from the cave entrance and retreated to warn Cecilia and Iron Hammer.
• Cecilia counted five Ork Boyz near the entrance and spotted a larger Greenskin camp nearby.
• Cecilia and Iron Hammer planned to funnel the Greenskins into the narrow passage while Iron Hammer assembled bombs from Warp Crystals.
• Cecilia fired at the Orks, drawing their attention and prompting a tide of Greenskins to pour out of the camp.
• Cecilia killed the first Ork that poked its head into the passage, and the Greenskins dragged its body aside as another attacker shoved a weapon inside.

Lin En, Cecilia, and Iron Hammer lured the Greenskin Orks into a cave and destroyed them with bombs, then burned their remains to prevent them from growing back. While they cleared the battlefield, Lin En's system unexpectedly announced that he had reached one hundred kills and earned an extra draw.

• Lin En and Cecilia defended the cave entrance by cutting the Orks' reaching hands and fingers.
• Cecilia fired at the Orks to provoke them, then she and Lin En retreated around the bend as Iron Hammer counted the Orks entering the cave.
• Iron Hammer detonated the bombs, killing most of the Orks, and Cecilia finished the survivors with her Power Sword.
• Iron Hammer collected Ork teeth to sell, while Lin En explained that all living Ork tissue had to be destroyed to prevent new Orks from growing.
• Cecilia burned the corpses and surrounding area, and Lin En's system announced that he had killed one hundred enemies and received an additional draw.