After the flames burned through the chapel, Hades once again asked Tis's opinion - in the end, they unanimously decided to visit Mauro's ship.
According to the psychic Barry, the Zerg shadow here will soon drop to the point where a warp jump can be made.
Therefore, in order to navigate the warp more safely, Tis needs to attach himself to Mauro's large ships no matter what.
Hades wanted to go and see a larger ship. According to Tis, there were some small boats anchored on Mauro's ship, so Hades decided to "borrow" one.
Borrow one, then find a planet in this star field that is suitable for Hades to develop technology, stay there for a full year, and wait until the Empire sends someone to pick him up.
Or find a planet occupied by Nurgle and start killing them directly.
Kill until Nurgle spits out Mortarion.
Unfortunately, after continued harassment of the psykers, Hades was met with a frustrating discovery: only the shadows of the Tyranids and the greenskinned Waaghs existed in this star region.
In front of these two forces, Chaos does not seem to want to show up.
Hades had to find another way.
As for those mortals, Hades only hopes that they can fly out of this star region—
Then help him tell the Death Guard about his return.
Under Hades' instruction, Blake informed Tis of a Death Guard stronghold. After jumping out of this star field in the warp, Tis will first find the Death Guard and the Mechanicus.
In order to increase the credibility of the Death Guard to the noble lady, Blake wrote a letter for Tiss.
The letter also included a photo - Hades' hand was on Black's shoulder armor, and two people who looked very similar smiled at the same time. The background was the messy bulkhead of Ms. Tis's ship, and Ogryn could be seen popping out of the corner in a trance.
Blake seemed reluctant to send the photo, so Hades quickly took a second, similar one for Blake to keep.
Then, with Hades' permission, Tis sent a message to Mauro's ship - there was now a son of Pluto on her ship, as well as a respected elder in the chapter.
Unexpectedly, Mauro quickly sent the coordinates of their ship to Tis and urged them to rendezvous quickly.
Hades was curious as to why the Lord of the Hive was interested in the Son of Hades, but Blake puffed out his chest with pride and told him that this was the Son of Hades.
Hades saw that Brother Tianshi behind Blake was almost unable to hold back.
"Barry, go ahead."
Hades waved his hand and interrupted Blake's words. Blake turned around, and Barry was sure that at that moment he saw a burning desire to fight in Blake's eyes.
Barry briefly recounted the meeting between the Celestial Lions and the Lord of the Hive Prime.
However, from Hades' perspective, the evidence provided by Barry only shows that the lord is a coward... He can't hear anything wrong with anything else.
As for the fleet that plundered Tis, Hades glanced at the female noble who was busy commanding the crew. If Tis could defeat Mauro... he estimated that the two parties in this matter would switch places.
He didn't intend to preside over this matter. All Hades hoped was that these people could help him convey the message - the more people who got out alive, the better.
Correspondingly, the Death Guard will give them some monetary compensation.
During the voyage, Hades continued to teach Ogryn how to count, and also instructed the crew to strengthen the ship's defense.
Sometimes, he would take Blake to see the church that was almost completely burned down. A raging fire burned up all the combustibles, leaving only the solemn sculpture in silence.
Blake stood silently behind Hades, who was staring at his sculpture in a daze. He wanted to know what his genetic father was thinking - or maybe, in fact, Hades was thinking nothing
After coming out of the chapel, Hades continued to teach Smart Head to count. Sometimes this fun would be done by Blake. With the sound of one, two, three, the two ships met.
The ship of the Lord of the Main Hive City is a Tarasque-class transport ship. It looks much more orderly than Tis's ship, with many turrets installed on both sides of the ship.
Hades was confused as to why the ship wasn't shielded, it didn't even look like it had void shields deployed.
Tis had no intention of boarding Mauro's ship, so Hades and Blake said goodbye to the old and dilapidated ship and the people on board.
Barry the Lion chose to stay on Tis's ship, and Hades also expected the Space Marine to stay. It was obviously too useless for him to have a weak psyker with him.
And even if Noble Tis might change his mind later, fearing the Inquisition and his ilk and not fulfilling his promise to Hades - Barry would still do it.
That's what Hades liked about the son of Dorne.
Hades also thought about letting Blake follow Tis and his group to make a subspace jump out of this desolate star field, but later, he thought that Blake could be placed on Mauro's ship.
It would be safer to have two groups of people spread the news of his return.
Although Blake might not be happy to do so.
Hades decided to do some psychological work on Blake afterwards.
But none of this matters. At this moment, Hades is standing casually in the reception room of this Tarasque-class ship, looking around lazily.
Blake glanced back inconspicuously and was a little surprised by the performance of Hades, the father of genes. He thought that Hades would treat this mortal lord more politely like he treated Tis.
Blake was confused. He was not sure how to act according to the attitude of the Father of Genes, so he could only simply answer the words of the two nobles in front of him.
In front of them was Mauro, an obese nobleman who was almost completely curled up in his throne because of fear, and another psychic man who looked suspicious and skinny with the symbol of the Inquisition hanging around his neck.
Blake couldn't understand why Mauro was so frightened after seeing Hades that he was unwilling to leave his throne and kneel
According to his understanding of these mortal nobles, these cowardly guys would generally kneel down at the first opportunity and pray to save their lives and status.
As for another psychic, Blake had some respect for him. Even when facing Hades (although they claimed that Hades was a big man who was the son of Hades, they did not directly say that he was Hades), this mortal seemed to still retain his reason and backbone -
He even tried to go against the views of his two visitors.
"We hope that Your Excellency can provide us with a ship for us to leave, and I hope that you can send a message to the Death Guard for us. Of course, the Legion will definitely reward you heavily, and you will have a more comfortable life than your previous life in the hive city."
The psychic showed his rotten teeth and said with a grin,
"Sir, we can return you to Death Guard territory."
Blake subconsciously turned around to look at Hades who was still looking around. Hades frowned slightly and was staring at the reception room.
Although it is called a reception room, it is actually Lord Mauro's private room. It can be seen that it is in this room that Mauro accepts people's worship and manages his subordinates.
Compared to Mauro's pot-bellied appearance, the reception room was more pleasing to the eye. The bookshelves rose from knee height to the ceiling, and were filled with densely packed books.
Blake pondered over the spines of the old-looking books. They might be the wealth left by the lord's ancestors, or the lord might just use them to show off his wealth.
After all, Mauro looked wealthy—at least he was wealthy before he fled. Blake remembered that Mauro's family was a well-known wealthy family in this star region.
"We don't need warp travel for now."
Blake said, but then the psychic said something that surprised Mingzi.
The psychic bowed slightly and said respectfully,
"In order to serve the two adults, we can temporarily not make the subspace jump."
The lord next to him who seemed to be frightened also spoke hurriedly, "Yes-yes, yes, sirs from the Sons of Hades, as long as you stay on this humble ship, it will be our honor to serve you."
Blake frowned. This was different from what the Gene Father had envisioned. He just didn't know if Pluto was willing to command this ship.
However, behind him, Hades, who had been looking around the room, moved.
Ignoring anyone in the room, Hades walked straight to a bookshelf and pressed down on a blue book.
As if pressing a button, the book sank between the bookshelves.
But Hades didn't even turn his head, and the psychic and the noble collapsed together. The light of the psychic shield even appeared on the noble's chair - but it was all in vain.
The first guard who rushed into the reception room also fell straight down and hit the floor.
Blake was sure the unfortunate fellow's nose was completely broken.
The machine gun in the corner also spun in circles of green electric arcs for a few times, and finally lowered its head in dejection.
"Father?"
Blake turned to look at Hades and asked at a loss,
Hades ignored him and continued to walk around the bookshelf with full concentration, pressing a book off the shelf every few steps.
Soon, Blake realized that there was a secret room hidden here.
The people lying on the ground were not dead. The psychic stared at Hades with gritted teeth, spitting out curses, and the pot-bellied lord was already crying with fear.
"alright."
Hades pressed down the last book and watched with satisfaction as the lord's throne suddenly moved, revealing the steps leading to the dark room below.
"… All right,"
Hades said, walking over and picking up the noble like a chicken and throwing down the chair, "It looks like this passage isn't very friendly to Hades' size?"
The screaming psychic suddenly shut up like a chicken with its neck strangled.
Hades ignored him and slowly raised his hand, aiming at the narrow secret passage.
The moment he boarded the ship, Hades, who was scanning the entire ship through the black domain, immediately realized that something was wrong.
Unlike other ships, this ship is equipped with huge psionic circuits. Circuits with abundant psionic energy flow around the entire ship, providing a powerful psionic shield for the ship.
The flowing spiritual energy is so abundant that it can even keep the shield on all the time.
But when receiving them, Mauro turned off this psychic shield.
Hades raised his eyebrows, and green arcs of electricity flashed in his hands. In the electric light, the metal channel in front of him began to melt and expand.
And now, in Black Domain's perception, the source of all psychic energy channels gathered in the secret room under their feet.
Runes and spells are integrated layer by layer. This is an extremely sophisticated psychic formation. The psychic energy ripples through one layer of psychic energy. From the perspective of the Black Domain, Hades sensed that the psychic energy was cleverly transformed and then used to power the fleet.
This might be a good psychic array. Hades doesn't understand psychic stuff, but he can at least see one thing -
This psychic array that is continuously supplying energy to the ship must have some extremely powerful psychic being at the center of its array to provide energy for the array.
The secret passage was dissolved, and Hardis walked in calmly amid the horrified and desperate gazes of the mortals.
"Blake, stand guard outside."
Hades spoke casually, and the dark aura was formed. The frost produced by the abundant spiritual energy dyed the stairs layer by layer. Going down, the frost almost replaced the steps.
Hades was silent. In the layers of spiritual energy, he felt a familiar feeling, but he couldn't remember where this familiar feeling came from.
Which psychic was this that he had devoured
Outside the secret passage, Hades' heavy footsteps faded away. Blake stood beside the psyker, squinting at the mortal.
"I knew something was wrong,"
Blake suddenly squatted down, and under the psychic's gnashing gaze, he drew out his dagger and picked up the Inquisition necklace from his neck.
"You're not from the Inquisition," Blake said. "You killed an Inquisitor?"
"More than one," the psychic sneered, then spat a mouthful of blood foam on the ground, "Have you been eyeing us for a long time?"
Blake shook his head and turned to look at the door again. The unfortunate guy lying face down on the ground began to bleed.
He was not worried about rushing in to guard at this time, because Blake believed in the power of the Father of Genes.
"I don't know you," Blake said honestly, "I guessed."
After hearing Blake's answer, the psyker in front of him suddenly began to twitch. Blake initially thought that this was some kind of witchcraft - but he later discovered that the psyker was simply shaking with anger and despair.
"How did you find out? The secret method to open this door is hidden in nine different worlds," the psychic twisted his body and suddenly raised his voice, "Did Seined tell you?!"
Blake estimated that the name the psychic was talking about was probably the name of the Inquisitor he had killed.
As for the nine worlds... Blake had heard that some crazy people (mostly psychics) were used to hiding some kind of artifact, and then leaving a bunch of riddles for people to discover.
So, Blake suddenly became excited, and Pluto discovered the treasure
What an unexpected surprise, he is worthy of being the father of Pluto's son.
Seeing Black's eyes light up, the psychic cursed even more harshly.
Blake frowned and glanced in the direction of the secret passage. He didn't want Hades to hear this.
And why is this psychic so tenacious
Blake thought, "Shut up, wizard, I'm only saying this once."
"How on earth did you find him?!"
The psychic let out a hoarse scream, and Blake immediately covered his mouth. He hoped to say something to make the psychic feel worse before he passed out.
Blake thought about it and remembered the strange words of his comrades in the regiment. Jin had recorded all the strange words that Pluto had said in his video, and these words were also smoothly inherited by Pluto's son.
"Have you ever heard of... perspective cheating?"
Hades stopped.
In the empty hall, the psychic pathways of the entire ship covered the walls, twisting and converging here, like a thousand-year curse.
The strange arcs of psychic energy illuminated the armor, crackling and mixed with bursts of desperate wails and roars.
Countless chains flashing blue and white light stretched out from the other magic circles in the outer circle of the main magic circle and entangled the prisoner, seeming to bring great pain to the prisoner.
The main magic circle flickered violently, brutally draining the prisoner's spiritual energy. Papers covered with blasphemous prayers were wrapped around nine pillars, which stabbed down fiercely, piercing through the struggling being in the center of the magic circle.
Outside the main magic circle, countless corpses of soulless people were piled up, at least hundreds of them. These skeletons were delaying the leakage of violent psychic energy to prevent it from destroying the magic circle.
Hades opened his eyes wide in surprise, and in his black pupils he reflected the being who was collapsed in the magic circle, wailing in pain, and he also saw Hades.
Magnus struggled and reached out his hand towards Hades.
[Save...save me...]
Hades was shocked.
(End of this chapter)