Hades, he didn't understand, he was shocked, his brain stopped working, his cerebellum atrophied, his brain stem disappeared, his worldview collapsed -
This purgatory-like scene did move him a little, but what really shocked Hades was the red figure in the brutal psychic array.
He really didn't expect to meet an acquaintance in such a scene.
Magnus again.
In a trance, Hades' eyes flashed across the prison cell on the Emperor's Dream. Magnus was still imprisoned, and he was still standing outside the cell.
So is Magnus a traitor or not
The moment Hades saw Magnus, he used the Black Domain to scan the ship inside and out again.
He was sure that there was nothing strange anywhere else except here, and inside the magic circle, because of the spiritual energy accumulated over the years, Hades was unable to tell Magnus's condition for the time being.
Hades looked at Magnus. He saw Magnus's expression twisted to the extreme by pain. The magic circle tortured Magnus, and the pain was far beyond the limit that a Primarch could bear.
Could this be a conspiracy? An ambush
Hades thought, he stared at the nine spirit pillars thoughtfully, this was obviously related to Tzeentch, did Tzeentch send Magnus to plot against him
No, Hades thought, now he has covered this area with the black domain. To Tzeentch, everything about Pluto is darkness. Can he really calculate all the steps
If Tzeentch could really calculate everything, then the Lord of Change would not have been outwitted by Hades on Cadia.
Just as Hades was thinking, Magnus screamed again, painful enough to almost break. Hades could see that Magnus's psychic energy was extremely unstable, which caused the instability of the magic circle -
He seemed to understand why the hive lord was so eager to invite Black, the son of Pluto.
Hades glanced at the skeletons of the soulless ones.
[Help—Help me!]
Magnus's wailing like a drowning man sounded again, [Or just kill me!!!]
Amidst the countless violent arcs of psychic energy, Magnus screamed, [Kill me!]
He almost gave up all his dignity - just asking for relief. Magnus stared at the figure outside the magic circle, and he saw an extremely indifferent existence.
Magnus uttered a whine.
[Believe me—Pluto—believe me.]
Magnus trembled, he looked at Hades desperately, and slowly, slowly began to pace clockwise around the altar.
Hades walked around the circle and was sure that it did not involve some ingenuity in the physical structure, and that destroying it would not cause the entire ship to disintegrate, or anything else.
As for the psychic side… Hades checked it and found that the explosion would be caused by not removing the psychic power.
Hades slowly walked in front of Magnus again. Because he was firmly nailed by nine pillars, Magnus could not move at all and could only struggle slightly.
Magnus, who was almost unconscious, had begun to talk nonsense. Hades heard him swear to himself - he had never done anything bad in front of Hades - but as long as Hades rescued him, or simply let him die, Magnus would offer his loyalty to Hades.
But most of the words were simple and meaningless requests for help and cries.
Hades sighed and looked back. The skeletons of the soulless people had annoyed him, and he was ready to judge those ignorant people.
As for Magnus in front of him...
Hades once again assessed that even if he released Magnus, with his current Black Domain abilities, Magnus would not be able to resist him.
Besides, Hades thought about it and finally met an acquaintance.
He looked at Magnus, and Hades was sure that he felt a kind of sadness and reluctance. He remembered his own abnormality when he mentioned Magnus. Hades really wanted to know what had happened.
This can be considered as a relief for Magnus.
Magnus was still calling for help. The pain accumulated over thousands of years made him desperate, and he was unwilling to give up this opportunity - Hades in front of him was the first outsider who had successfully walked up to him in thousands of years.
[Save... I will give you all my wisdom... ]
Magnus's fierce struggle was recognized by the magic circle, and violent arcs of psychic energy leaped up and pierced through the Primarch. No! He was already a broken fragment. In another thousand years, Magnus would be completely absorbed by the magic circle and merged with it!
No!
He would rather go to hell and bow to his enemies than just melt into a monster!
Magnus pleaded and struggled, the increasingly bright psychic arcs blurred his vision, and he saw the shadow slowly raise his hand -
Dark flashes!
[save-]
Magnus' cry for help suddenly stopped. The moment passed very quickly, but Magnus still felt it clearly. He was still in shock and fell to the ground completely exhausted, gasping for breath.
Cold sweat slowly flowed down his forehead and dripped onto the dim ground.
The magic circle that was originally flashing with extremely bright light had already dimmed at this moment, and the white like burning runes turned into scorched earth. The rising arc disappeared in an instant like an illusion, and time passed in just a moment!
Magnus stared down at the black soil beneath him. The Primarch was gasping for breath, and he even began to shrink back subconsciously. Another kind of fear gripped him. No, no, no, no!
Heavy footsteps sounded, like a death knell, and his instinct was to scream and flee - but the nine pillars nailed firmly to the ground held him back, and at the same time, Magnus used all his willpower to prevent himself from escaping.
After all, he had already made a vow to the monster in front of him!
Crack, crack, a pillar that had penetrated the flesh and deeply rooted in the ground loosened,
[Don't move.]
Hades spoke and pulled out the extremely long lock pillar. The Pluto was a little surprised. He could feel that there were countless skeletons of powerful psychics in each lock pillar.
These people really put in some effort to imprison a psychic Primarch.
Once the lock pillar was pulled out, it immediately began to crumble, and the rubble fell from Hades's hand, one, two, three... eight.
Hades grasped the last lock.
[Wait…] Magnus's voice was barely audible and extremely weak. [I will be unconscious for a period of time, about thirty minutes to forty-six minutes and five seconds. That gem is my body, you can do with it as you like.]
"At my disposal?"
Hades's careless voice came,
"good."
The sound of the last lock pillar leaving the ground was heard, and among the rustling gravel, not surprisingly, the figure of Magnus in front of Hades disappeared after flashing a few times, like a holographic projection with poor signal.
clatter,
There was a crisp sound of landing, and a stone was lying quietly in the place where Magnus had originally been. After confirming that Magnus had not run away and that the stone was not threatening, Hades bent down and picked up the Magnus Stone.
He looked at the dull little stone. The red stone was rough and dull at the moment, like a pebble picked up at random beside a dry riverbed.
The stone was even incomplete. Hades frowned. Just as he pulled out the nine pillars, Hades discovered that something was wrong with Magnus in front of him.
Was the Magnus he knew so weak
This is too weak!
Hades was puzzled, spinning the stone in his hand. He even felt the brokenness of Magnus. No - it cannot be said to be broken. The Magnus in front of him was almost a piece of debris cut off by the main soul.
What happened to Magnus
Hades was silent. Magnus would wake up soon anyway, he thought, there was no rush.
Hades looked around but couldn't find a suitable rope. Finally, Hades had to leave the dark room first.
He planned to interrogate the people on the floor.
(End of this chapter)