Chapter 57: I Choose You, Hades!
The Endurance, duel cage.
Now.
The originally spacious duel hall now looked somewhat cramped. Without realizing it, the surging crowd stood below the darkened platform, countless gazes fixed upon the duel above.
The primarch's towering figure still sat quietly below the stage, his face, shrouded in shadow and mist, difficult to read.
Yet the soldiers closer to Mortarion could feel the immense pressure and displeasure emanating from him.
And the cause was likely the chaotic psychic fluctuations on the stage.
Aside from the alien lords on Barbarus, no one had ever dared to use psychic powers so brazenly in front of Mortarion.
Flamboyant psychic white light flickered wantily across the stage, the space warping slightly due to the powerful psychic fluctuations, and frost crawled in winding paths all over the duel cage.
Ugo wielded a longsword with hanging icicles. The entire blade was covered in frost, yet white flames ignited by psychic power streamed along the body of the sword like a horned serpent.
The physical attributes and strength enhanced by psychic power made Ugo's entire body glow faintly, and his eyes burned with the psychic sparks of anger.
Such strong psychic manifestation!
Even during routine duels between Librarians, it would never be as exaggerated as this moment. Librarians, who championed wisdom and order, would never bare their psychic powers so without bottom lines. In matters of psychic power, they were mostly stingy stewards; wasteful use of psychic power could lead to exhaustion, or worse—madness.
Yet Ugo was furious to the extreme right now, and he looked at Calas Typhon across from him, who wore a look of dread.
This traitor!
Furthermore, he wanted to tell everyone openly on this dueling platform that the Librarians of the Death Guard were no pushovers; even