vncnus Chapter 14 Trap
Chapter 14 Trap
That afternoon, the twelve knight lords signed their oaths of allegiance in the hall of St. Oak Castle. The moment the silver quill touched the parchment, the handover of the entire planet officially began.
Magnus became very interested in this planet, which bore a striking resemblance to the one that made Olmuzd famous.
He ordered the entire army to rest on the spot for half a month, and mobilized all the legion's scribes and data scanners to access the eight thousand years of accumulated knowledge in the main library of St. Oak Castle—
From family chronicles to ancient star maps, from knightly mech forging techniques to primal psionic doctrines—all were copied and packed up and shipped to the library of his flagship, the Fortep.
"Knowledge is humanity's most precious treasure." Magnus stood among bookshelves piled high with ancient texts, his eyes gleaming with fervent light. "These lost psionic legacies may help us to further understand the nature of the warp."
Li Wei stood aside without saying a word.
In the past two weeks, he had explored every corner of St. Oak Castle, scanning all the information he could find, and his system points soared to over 23,000. But his unease grew heavier and heavier.
That's perfectly normal.
It's so normal it's unbelievable.
The knights, though arrogant, strictly adhered to their oath of allegiance, showing no sign of disobedience; the common people, though curious about the Empire's arrival, showed no resistance; psionic energy swept across the entire planet, finding not even a trace of unusual warp fluctuations.
But this is the Warhammer universe.
There is no peace without a reason, especially for a legion like the Thousand Sons, which are inherently and deeply bound to the warp.
When the Emperor was in Prospero, the golden light that traversed the planet was enough to suppress all restless warp energy, and no one dared to make a move under his nose.
But now that they have left the Emperor's protection and ventured deep into the unknown starry sea, the malice lurking in the depths of the warp has no reason to let such a good opportunity pass.
"What are you thinking about?" Ahriman walked up to him, holding a newly copied manuscript of runes. "I've noticed you've been distracted these past few days."
"It's nothing," Li Wei smiled. "It's just that this planet is going too smoothly, so smoothly that it's unsettling."
Ahriman paused for a moment, then frowned. Having experienced the darkness of flesh-and-blood mutation, he knew better than anyone what kind of whirlpool might be hidden beneath the seemingly calm surface.
He paused, but he didn't expect that there was anything abnormal about this knight planet that had already submitted to the empire.
"I think you're overthinking it, my chief think tank officer."
Then, he lowered his voice and said, "I was just chatting with the old lord's steward, and he said that deep in the forest outside St. Oak Castle, there is an abandoned, hidden library that is said to contain the most ancient psionic knowledge. It has been sealed for over a thousand years, and even successive lords have not dared to go in."
Li Wei's heart skipped a beat.
coming.
There was indeed a problem.
"Do you want to go and take a look?" Li Wei asked.
"Hmm." Ahriman nodded, a hint of anticipation in his eyes. "Olmuzd also discovered a similar hidden library on the planet Varnum, where he found a lot of lost psionic knowledge. I want to see if we can find the same thing here."
"Okay, let's go together tomorrow." Li Wei readily agreed, but he was already making plans in his mind.
He turned and went back to his room, immediately opening the system store.
[Holy Light and Holy Water of Wizarding World (Concentrated Version): 50 points/bottle, can purify low-level abyssal pollution]
[Secondary Purification Rune Array: 200 points/each, releases large-area purification energy in one go]
[Silver Exorcising Bullet: 10 points/shot, deals extra damage to Abyss entities]
[Holy Light Crystal Grenade: 300 points/grenade, the holy light generated by the explosion can scorch the Abyss Projection]
Without batting an eye, Li Wei spent 5,000 points in one go, buying a whole bunch of purification items he could get, filling up his system's storage space.
No matter what kind of monstrosities are hidden inside, let's blow them up first.
I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go.
The next morning, the two, along with dozens of the most elite warriors, arrived at the hidden library deep in the dense forest.
In front of a moss-covered stone wall, Ariman followed the butler's instructions and turned the hidden oak leaf stone carving on the wall.
With a heavy scraping sound, the stone door slowly opened, revealing a pitch-black passage.
A cold wind blew from the depths of the passage, carrying a faint smell of dust, but there was nothing unusual about it.
"It looks like an ordinary abandoned library," a soldier whispered.
Li Wei shook his head and reached out to stop Aliman from going in.
"Don't rush."
He took out three Holy Light Crystal grenades from his storage space, pulled the pins, and threw them directly into the depths of the passage.
"What are you doing!" Ahriman exclaimed in surprise.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three violent explosions rang out from the depths of the passage, and a dazzling golden light swept across the entire passage.
The expected shriek and burning sound did not occur.
After the golden light dissipated, the passage was intact, and the moss on the walls was not even scorched.
Instead, at the deepest part of the passage, on the originally dark ground, a circle of extremely complex golden runes lit up, slowly rotating and emitting a gentle and pure soul fluctuation.
Ahriman frowned, his psionic energy cautiously reaching out. "There was no malice, on the contrary... it was very warm."
The group followed the passage to the end, only to discover that there was no library at all.
The entire underground space consisted of only a circular array in the center, ten meters in diameter, with runes layered upon each other, each line flowing with a faint golden light.
The instant my gaze swept over it, there were no words, no sounds, but a message suddenly pierced my soul—
resurrection.
Li Wei frowned and scanned the formation with the system.
The next second, a system notification made his pupils shrink sharply:
[Ancient Soul Resurrection Array Detected (Complete): A forbidden array constructed from pure abyssal energy, capable of recalling complete souls that have been gone for no more than a hundred years and reshaping their physical bodies.]
Exchange Price: 120000 points
120,000 points!
And... is it really possible to resurrect the dead?
Before Li Wei could recover from the shock, a "thump" sound suddenly came from beside him.
He turned his head and saw that Ahriman had taken off his helmet and was kneeling on the ground, his hands clenched into fists and his shoulders trembling violently.
The usually calm and composed leader of the Black Crow School, at this moment, was like a child, tears silently streaming down his face.
"He can be resurrected... he really can be resurrected..." he murmured, his voice hoarse and barely audible. "Olmuzd... I can bring you back..."
Li Wei's heart skipped a beat.
He had never seen Ahriman like this before.
Thirty years have passed, and his brother's death remains a thorn in his heart, a regret he has tried everything to make up for.
Now, there is suddenly hope of removing this thorn.
But for some reason, Li Wei's unease only intensified.
What a coincidence!
It happens to be a planet similar to the one where Olmuzd made his name, and it happens to have a secret chamber that has been sealed for thousands of years, which happens to contain a formation that can resurrect the dead.
All of this seemed like a gift specially tailor-made for Ahriman.