Warhammer: I don’t want to be a can of worms! ! !

Chapter 657 105. Who is the most powerful psyker? Not Magnus anyway

"Magnus—"

The shouts drifted far away along the wind, and the corn seedlings bent down, undulating like waves, revealing a body with auburn hair among emerald greens. Following this Gothic word, the man suddenly froze.

[Go, go quickly. 】

The original body, disguised as an ordinary male, said to the children sitting in a circle around him. Magnus waved his hands and spoke in a strange Barbarian language,

[Come on, my friend is here to find me. 】

Barbarus's child was more flexible than he imagined, and before he could urge him again,

When these children saw the people coming towards them in the stronghold from a distance, they immediately picked up their sickles and got into the endless corn fields.

Magnus only heard a few laughters coming from the emerald green jungle. The original body breathed a little relaxedly. He put the local seeds given to him by the child into his pocket, and then turned around reluctantly.

The red hair burned as he turned around, ignoring the rules of gravity, like seaweed floating in the ocean,

A bright white flash of light lit up around him. The figure of an ordinary man became taller and swelled up like a balloon. The fiery red color climbed onto his skin, his armor shone, and the books hanging on his waist were heavy with shiny gold chains.

[Magnus - what are you - doing? ! 】

Hades shouted, and he trotted over with a smile, followed closely by Ahriman who could not catch up with him, and another primarch who was slowly walking in the distance.

Magnus swallowed subconsciously, even though he had learned to tolerate Hades's warp projection, but when did the Emperor, Mortarion's psychic powers, and his appearance become so scary?

Isn't he - Magnus thought of the old meeting in Nicaea when he denounced the existence of psychic powers - isn't he rejecting psychic powers? !

Although Magnus knew that Mortarion finally surrendered to the embrace of the vast ocean, such intense psychic energy...

The sun is shining brightly, and today is a windy day in Barbarus. The refreshing strong wind blows Magnus's lion-like temples——

But in Magnus's single eye, he saw the fog that persisted all year round without a trace of wind. People's souls were like solitary lamps in the gray fog, faintly shining with fluorescent light.

In the distance of the thick fog, you can vaguely see some kind of black wedge-shaped object tearing through the fog.

The entire planet is the territory of the Pale Lord!

And now, directly in front of him, in the sight of subspace, Magnus saw something like a huge black bacteria squirming towards him. Behind the black bacteria, there was a monster holding a sickle.

Under the hem of the monster's clothes, white mist was pouring out continuously.

Magnus blinked.

Hades was obviously standing in front of him, and the psyker lord behind him also followed.

"How are you lately?"

Hades asked, "I've been busy recently and haven't seen you much."

The corner of Magnus's mouth twitched. For this psionic original, it would be most comfortable if Hades didn't come to see him.

【Everything goes well,】

Magnus raised his head, silently moved away from Hades, and took the opportunity to glance at Mortarion again. He was still in disbelief.

【only,】

He looked at Ahriman behind Hades. Ahriman had indeed given too much these days.

[As you know, I may need to trouble you this time. 】

Magnus glanced hastily at Mortarion again. The primarch's face was covered by a hood, fog, and an insect-like breathing mask, and he could not see any emotion at all.

[If you are in a hurry, then the Gray Knights will not bother you. In fact, I emphasized to them that I can do it myself, but my descendants decided to come to you in the end. 】

[I think I have the ability to recover another fragment. In fact, the Gray Knights are extremely harmonious with my spiritual energy. It may be difficult for me alone, but if I add them, I am confident of success. Although uncertainties exist, it can be It’s not impossible...]

Magnus was talking, but behind Hades, he stopped under the pleading eyes of Ahriman.

【……All right,】

The primarch turned sharply,

[Maybe we need your help - Your Majesty, I just don't want another fragment of me to be scared by you. 】

Hades opened his hand innocently, but showed no apology at all. On the contrary, he was proud of himself.

"I'm sorry for being so ugly to you."

"Then why don't you come in and talk?"

Hades raised his finger and pointed to the stronghold behind him, "The canteen is very good."

Magnus looked away carefully. Could it be that he felt the psychic warning that Mortarion had set up near the stronghold?

In fact, Magnus felt a strong "sense of being watched" from the moment he entered Barbarus' subspace projection.

He suspected Mortarion was cursing him.

It seems that for every psyker powerful enough, Mortarion has set up a warning that they can detect.

The mist rolled within a specific range and formed twisted and screaming skulls. At the moment Magnus approached, the original body watched helplessly as a skull that resembled his image emerged from the large group of screaming skulls. It rushed towards his face, its big mouth screamed ferociously.

Magnus took this as a sign of his unpopularity.

Hades turned sideways, and Magnus and Mortarion met their eyes. The Pale Lord's eyes were like some kind of evil old woman who knew magic, and his eyes were covered with white haze.

【A little greeting gift,】

Mortarion said,

【That’s it. 】

"What kind of meeting gift?"

Hades asked, but Mortarion ignored this sentence and continued to explain to Magnus,

[There is one for each "brother", and there is a special version for our father - but I was happy to see that he couldn't stand up. 】

Magnus opened his mouth, but did not make a sound. Mortarion stopped and walked towards him again, his helmet boots scraping against the weeds on the ground, making a rustling sound.

【Long time no see, welcome to Barbarus,】

The Primarch said with a sigh, standing close enough to Magnus - Magnus suspected that Mortarion seemed to want to give him a welcoming hug or a handshake, but in the end the Primarch just said awkwardly. Stand.

[I'm glad you and I are still loyal. 】

Mortarion said, stepping up again,

[Listen to him and come in and sit down. 】

Magnus watched as the pile of screaming skeletons disappeared.

This may be slightly different from the Mortarion in his memory. Magnus was left in a cold sweat, but at least... He looked at Hades beside him who smiled and told him that the stronghold was suitable for checking in. This guy saw He seemed a lot less aggressive.

……………………

The sun shines in, and there are only three people in the huge reception room.

Magnus sat on the sofa a little awkwardly, with Mortarion sitting on the sofa opposite him, and Hades stood next to the coffee table filled with imported desserts, eating and talking to them.

【You came back too suddenly——】

Magnus spread his hands, [All the best prophets in the empire did not predict your return. 】

【Not good at learning...】

Mortarion said with a sigh,

[There were early signs of my return... Weren't you very skilled in communicating with the greenskins at that time? I want to teach the greenskins to call me by my name. Are you the mastermind? 】

Magnus froze. Next to him, Hades, who was eating snacks, seemed to be killed by the snacks alone, coughing violently.

"You, you can hear me."

Hades chuckled awkwardly.

[I just haven’t mentioned it, but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten it. 】

Mortarion raised his eyebrows, [Very creative. 】

Hades took a deep breath. He believed that the green skin was useful and indeed fished out Mortarion.

"I asked Magnus to discuss this matter together."

Mortarion glanced at Hades, then continued to stare at Magnus,

【So……】

Magnus has already begun silently psychically protecting his body.

【grateful. 】

Mortarion said,

[Next time I hope you will teach me the pronunciation... and clean up the fungi afterwards. 】

Hades and Magnus looked at each other, seeing each other's shock,

[Sorry, my brother, but you, you don't - you're not offended by this? ! 】

As if remembering something funny, Mortarion laughed sadly,

[Not as good as the time I was tied up in the Terra dungeon. 】

The original body continued to speak freely, [It is not as good as what happened in the garden. Only a pampered guy will care about this. 】

Hades suddenly realized that Mortarion had completed the two major achievements of drinking soup in the Garden of Nurgle and being comatose in the Palace of Slaanesh.

Hades decided to be kind to Mortarion next time, so he called the servitor and asked the servitor to serve more of the original's favorite food.

"Don't worry," Hades made a gesture of wiping his neck, ignoring the silver pendant flashing around his waist, "I promise to clean it next time."

"But you misunderstood something else,"

said Hades, with a sincere wink,

"I'm serious about teaching them to call your name - but - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha with with with respect with with my hands!!!"

With his face wide open, Magnus saw the Pale Lord nodding calmly towards him,

Then they got up to engage in a real 1v1 fight. Both sides were very restrained and did not use off-field skills such as black field and numerology, but other than that, it was all underhanded tactics.

Magnus's eyes twitched, and the original body with a pair of wings finally won by a slight advantage. Taking advantage of the opportunity to throw the dessert into Hades's face, the Pale Lord chose to elbow the wings, and Pluto touched it with laughter. There was a gg in his face.

[You didn’t see anything. 】

Mortarion said, sitting back down across from Magnus, his expression unchanged.

Magnus nodded quickly,

[Actually, those who shouted "touch his face" were the inferior orcs he taught. The greenskins I teach will all use the correct pronunciation of High Gothic. I guarantee that the orcs under my command did not shout it wrong. 】

Hades, who had just been knocked to the ground by the big moth's wing elbow, burst out laughing again. Magnus thought that he had cleared his suspicions, but Mortarion's face turned darker.

【Anyway, I'm happy to see you again! 】

Magnus quickly changed the subject. He did not want to confront the Pale Lord. Mortarion's psychic strength was obvious and completely surpassed him.

Magnus realized with horror that the anti-psionic crusader, once a fierce opponent of psionic powers, was now even more psychically powerful than he was then.

Magnus did feel a little angry at first, but the anger quickly dissipated. He was not a perfect body. A perfect Magnus might directly angrily rebuke Mortarion for his shamelessness and double standards, but this man Magnus would only choose to shut up after seeing the Pale Lord's monstrous psychic powers.

Mortarion looked better,

[I am also relieved to see you who have not fallen - I know and infer your deeds from our father's few words...]

Mortari paused and looked away from Magnus.

[I take back my wrong judgment of you. 】

Magnus paused, he was indeed proud of his past feats, but Mortarion made the atmosphere awkward, and it was obvious that the god of death would not praise him.

Magnus was a little angry and depressed. He had indeed made mistakes in the past, but these words were said by Mortarion. He understood that Mortarion wanted to praise him, but the actual effect was not very good. good.

"It's time to move on!"

Hades got up from the ground and said,

"Glory and the past are all nothing! Okay, you two, don't be awkward. If there's nothing else, let's resolve the matter that Xiao Mage brought to me first."

Mortarion was relieved, and Magnus took the opportunity to skip the unpleasant topic.

[This is what Ahriman said,]

Magnus said,

[The Gray Knight discovered "I" on a planet, and there are two Necron active on the surface - so they decided to come to you. 】

"Wait a minute, did you find your fragments, or did you come to me because you discovered the Necron?"

【Both. 】

Magnus said it truthfully,

[Didn’t you go see the new shipyard and weapons assembly line you promoted? Black Ogryn, those mechanical maniacs are going crazy. 】

The solar system is almost the same as every month now. Under the promotion of the Martian Sage, the [Athens School], and the Nirvana System, a large number of weak artificial technologies are being applied. Normally, this would have been found by the Inquisition.

Under the iterative updates of knowledge from the [Athens Academy], the power of guns has generally increased by 0.5% to 16.2%, with better shields, better guns, better ships, and... the number of Martian sages has increased rapidly. Intelligent control robot.

No one has checked them, or in other words, someone has already done so, so ordinary institutions don’t need to check them again.

Among the higher levels, people spread legends about the Ohm Messiah, but only Magnus knew that it was the C'tan - and was certain that Hades was related to the Necron.

"Well," Hades scratched his head, "I think this is a common phenomenon, I mean becoming fanatical or something."

"So is there any other information?"

Hades asked,

"Are there images of the two Necron? Or are there just two Necron?"

[The signal is very blurry,]

Magnus said it matter of factly.

[And due to the psychic interference from my other self, we didn’t capture the scene. 】

Well... Hades decided to tell Trazin, after all, the Necrons were involved.

"Then let's go take a look tomorrow."

Hades said,

"Don't worry, it's no trouble. It'll just happen in a while."

"Sorry, is there anything else? Or should you two continue?"

When Hades next met with the sages to discuss the Endurance, he realized that Magnus' side might not be that important——

And Mortarion seemed to obviously want to talk to Magnus. Hades had never seen Mortarion so "kind".

Between them... Hades thought to himself, but he had already begun to think about how to communicate with the sage later.

... There were disputes among the Primarchs, but it seemed that Mortarion wanted to deal with them alone.

Hades believed that Mortarion could handle it on his own. If it couldn't be solved, it would just be two Primarchs who had a bad relationship, so there was almost no loss.

【No. 】

Magnus said, then looked at Hades, nodded, and left with the plate.

? ? ?

Magnus turned his head and looked at Mortarion, who was silent.

【Well? 】

【I will go first——】

Mortarion raised his hand. He was staring at Magnus seriously, breathing slowly, as if he was making great determination.

【……】

【Magnus,】

The Pale Lord said seriously, and the sound of Hades closing the door sounded in the background,

[I have some doubts. Can we talk about subspace? 】

? !

Magnus thought he should be angry. The bastard in front of him, the greatest executioner in Nicaea and the largest psyker wizard on the planet, wanted to talk to him about psychic powers!

Things are always so absurd. Magnus once swore that he would become the first psychic person under the Lord of Mankind, but Mortarion got there first. The Pale Lord even once criticized psychic powers - he Do you know he is doing double standards? !

Magnus's anger reached its peak when Mortarion took out a notebook with [Numerology] written on it.

[Numbers...numerology? 】

Magnus struggled to squeeze out the twisted word between his teeth. He thought he should have his dignity and not be deceived by the Pale Lord's previous "overtures".

【Mortarion,】

He slowly stood up and prepared to leave,

[If you can't face spiritual energy and the vast ocean...then I don't think I can talk to you in this regard, even if your power is far greater than mine. 】

Magnus left, but Mortarion still sat in his seat uncertainly, breathing heavily, but did not stop him.

[If my behavior offended you, then I apologize. 】

Just as Magnus grasped the doorknob, Mortarion's voice sounded.

The Primarch was annoyed. He realized that Magnus did not respect his numerology, but he also knew the shadow he left on Magnus on Nicaea. In fact, it took him a long time to get over it.

He could use force to make Magnus surrender, or force him to use psychic power. The psychic power gap between him and Magnus fully supported Mortarion to do so.

Mortarion felt his finger muscles twitching. They wanted to clench, but the Pale Lord used reason to force them to relax.

But he didn't want to be like the Lord of Mankind.

Mortarion thought about how to communicate. He didn't want to be like Guilliman, nor Horus... He decided to do it himself.

[My past was also hazy, and my understanding of the Vast Ocean was not as clear as it is now - I have said mistakes before. If those mistakes make you angry, then I admit my mistakes, but I insist that you are also wrong. ]

[I admire your actions back then, Red King! 】

Mortarion raised his voice, his voice hoarse and angry,

[You and I should realize who our real enemy is - instead of arguing about past conflicts! I have suffered for this, and I have come out of it, Magnus, and you? ! 】

The Red King turned slowly, his red hair flowing,

Magnus opened his hands,

[I have served my sentence and washed my sins. 】

[I maintain my opinion of your folklore naming and even studying psychic behavior, but I think... I can talk to you. 】