I, Hades, Have Returned Again!!!

Chapter 26 25. I, Hades, have returned!!!

Barbarus, Northern Mountains, the old stronghold.

Now.

A cloud of dust billowed out of the house.

"Cough, cough, damn it, how is there so much dust?"

Hades, covered in dust, held a broom and struck a grand pose in the middle of the room!

Anyway, it was his room, and there wasn't any furniture.

Watch this, monkey reaching for the moon, golden rooster standing on one leg!

Seeing that the more he swept, the more dust there was, Hades simply gave up struggling and started waving the broom around randomly.

Once the dust is stirred up, it'll settle on its own, Hades thought nonchalantly.

Taking advantage of the dust storm inside, Hades walked out of the house and stood there with his hands behind his back like an old man, lost in thought.

After a month of trekking and hitchhiking, Hades had finally returned to his old home.

With the southern lords subdued, Mortarion and Calas Typhon had led a portion of the Death Guard from the south back to the north.

Hades had tagged along at the tail end of the northbound force, stopping and starting, and if he encountered villagers migrating behind them, he'd shamelessly ask them for a ride.

"Hey, old timer, give me a ride, give me a ride~ I'll help you watch out for monsters and stuff."

And so, carrying a bunch of odds and ends he'd scavenged in the south, Hades returned to his little shack.

It had been five years since he'd last been home.

The once-small stronghold had long since developed into a jewel of human civilization on Barbarus. The stronghold had undergone an expansion. Thick walls, meticulously constructed from rocks cut from the mountainside, stood seamlessly. The main roads were clean and bright, paved with fine black cement.

The initial sketches of the city that Mortarion had planned had long since come to fruition. The combat department, medical department, logistics department, communications department, community department, construction department, and craftsman department each had its own appropriate location in the stronghold. In the future, space was even reserved for a market and gardens.

Tsk, tsk, tsk, what you'd expect from a Primarch.

Hades still remembered when Mortarion had first arrived, pulling him and Calas Typhon into all-night drawing sessions and discussions.

That nearly killed him, since Primarchs could live and breathe on just an hour of sleep a day.

Every day, people from different regions flocked to this stronghold, famous for its "resistance." Some had their homes destroyed, so they came here. Others came for the Death Guard's reputation, and still others hoped to find a new beginning for themselves here.

The residential area expanded rapidly, and the good news was that because Hades's old house was so remote, in a place that the expansion completely ignored, Hades's house had survived and hadn't been demolished.

Although even if it had been demolished, the construction department would have sent people in advance to help clear out the house and keep things safe.

So thoughtful, Hades thought.

Once the dust in the house had settled, Hades took a broom, went inside, and carefully swept up the dust on the floor.

By evening, Hades had finally managed to clean up the house a bit.

Hades took out a gas lamp, carefully lit it, then went into the yard and hauled the several huge packages he'd dragged back from the south into the house.

In the lamplight, Hades opened the packages and began to sort out the supplies.

First, there were the bags of dry rations he'd been gnawing on these past few days, which he took out and threw onto the stove.

Then there were some herbs that Hades had collected in the south, as well as their corresponding seeds and rootstocks. Hades had tested these herbs, and most of them were very useful for filtering the poisonous gas on Barbarus.

Stacks of thick maps, carefully fumigated with insect repellent, were also pulled out of the bundle. Various sizes of parchment were neatly organized according to their specifications and the information recorded on them.

Some of these were swiped by Hades from the Alien Lord's house, and some were designed and modified by Hades himself.

In fact, Hades could already draw most of the patterns from memory, but out of rigor, and for the sake of sharing knowledge, Hades still took them all.

Knowledge is power!

(Tzeentch gave you a thumbs up, Magnus gave you a thumbs up, the Adeptus Mechanicus gave you a thumbs up.)

Next to the maps, of course, were various parts and small components, a whole bag of them, clanging all the way. Even though it was already packed full, these parts always managed to find empty spaces and then start colliding and making noise.

Following these parts was a simple protective suit that Hades had made from the Alien Lord's skin. After making a protective suit the size of a Primarch, the remaining materials were barely enough for Hades to make another one for himself.

Of course, this protective suit was not yet finished. Hades had his own ideas for it, but unfortunately, due to his physical condition, he couldn't complete the mechanical parts yet.

The frustrating thing was that Hades found that if he used his Null Field to shroud these Machine Spirit-infused devices, there were only two possibilities. The first was that the Machine Spirit would be completely gone and the machine would be scrap. The second was that the Machine Spirit would be displeased.

--Machine Spirit displeasure, on his side, meant that the weapon would misfire or explode. On the enemy's side, it was likely that the enemy's weapon would shout, "Give it to that cable-pulling bastard over there!!!" and start firing like crazy.

However... if his Null Field was strong enough, then he could probably directly devour the Machine Spirit, and then both sides would engage in real close-quarters combat.

But with Hades's current abilities, it would probably just cause the Machine Spirit to be displeased.

What kind of ability is this! What kind of golden finger gives you a debuff and gives the other side a buff?!

Refund!!!

In the previous battles in the south, Hades had gradually become familiar with and grown into his own nature as an Untouchable.

Simply put, he could make his Null Field bigger, darker, and stronger by "devouring" the souls or Psychic Power of other creatures!

But on the other hand, the control over the Null Field will be further weakened.

For example, Hades's Null Field previously had a maximum diameter of seventy-five meters and a minimum diameter of ten meters. In the process of absorbing the Psychic Power of the Alien Lord in the south over the past few years, this maximum diameter has gradually increased to about one hundred meters.

Logically, the minimum diameter should also increase.

In fact, it did.

But at the same time, Hades discovered that as long as he consciously used the Null Field continuously, deepening his familiarity with it, he could control the Null Field to shrink further.

This is why Hades has always firmly believed that one day he will be able to use all sorts of strange machinery from Warhammer.

Because Hades persistently uses the Null Field whenever he has nothing better to do, he can now compress his Null Field into a circle with a diameter of one meter.

At this time, the Null Field is like a pure black hole, as if a single glance would suck a person's soul into it.

Hades couldn't shrink it any further, no matter what he tried.

But that's okay, a one-meter diameter is already pretty good!

Yes, one meter! This means that most of Hades's social activities will not be affected!

This distance is already the minimum distance that a shut-in from his previous life could encounter.

Wuhu, let's go!

Currently, Hades's Null Field has two main uses: suppressing the enemy's Psychic Power and using it for his own stealth.

Generally speaking, for the former, as long as Hades compresses the Null Field to within a diameter of six meters, anyone within that range will experience a noticeable sluggishness. For the latter, Hades only needs to compress the Null Field to a diameter of ten meters to completely conceal his tracks.

And expanding it to one hundred meters is mainly used to scout the living creatures on the other side.

It was late at night, and Hades finally finished sorting out these miscellaneous "scraps." Looking at the room full of things, Hades had a sense of accomplishment as if he had successfully collected a lot of junk.

Not thinking about it anymore, time to go to sleep! Tomorrow he'll go chat with Herrela!

Besides the guards guarding the city gate, Hades hasn't told anyone that he, Hades, is back!

Next, some background settings: the protagonist is "similar" to an Untouchable.

Later, it will be explained what exactly the protagonist is.

On the recommendation list, one more chapter!!!