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<span style="font-weight:400">The morning after the golden beam shines are met with chaos within the empire. <span style="font-weight:400">The sudden abundance of magic creates numerous small rifts in which daemons can enter. <span style="font-weight:400">Hierophants, the light wizards are sent to the every corner of the empire to close them. <span style="font-weight:400">The witch hunters and inquisitors already began their work as soon as the beam vanish at night. <span style="font-weight:400">Hunting witches and hidden covens who let their guards down on the equally auspicious and terrifying event. <span style="font-weight:400">Mutants born from both beasts and men skyrockets overnight. <span style="font-weight:400">Immediately ughtered and burned. <span style="font-weight:400">Even the babies, lest the witch hunters came and drag the parents to the pyre too. <span style="font-weight:400">Unprepared viges gone before dawn. <span style="font-weight:400">Destroyed by the amassing beastmen horde and other creatures that hides within the dark corners of the empire. <span style="font-weight:400">The trees of Drakwald grown. <span style="font-weight:400">More towering and haunting than ever before. <span style="font-weight:400">Mustering call announced from every province to prepare on what is toe. <span style="font-weight:400">The cause of this chaos however are currently sleeping and snuggling between the werewolves. <span style="font-weight:400">One of the werewolf’s dick still knotted inside her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now what to do? <span style="font-weight:400">I thought as I snuggle on the werewolves fur. <span style="font-weight:400">Our base of operation is pretty much secured for now. <span style="font-weight:400">Souls will be delivered to me on its own as visiting beastmen herd will no doubt perform sacrifice on my herdstone. <span style="font-weight:400">We could theoretically stays here and build up until End Timese but banking everything on just one base is a bad idea. <span style="font-weight:400">Then again I need to ascertain the date to know how much time left until then. <span style="font-weight:400">The more reason to try infiltrate the Empire while leveling Facsimile at the same time.
<span style="font-weight:400">I also need allies. <span style="font-weight:400">Allying with the Greater Daemons or the Daemon Princes is of course no go since who knows when they will betray me. <span style="font-weight:400">Temporary alliance with Khornate daemons might be achievable. <span style="font-weight:400">But I doubt Tzeentch will allow it tost long. <span style="font-weight:400">The only possibility thate to mind is Cathay. <span style="font-weight:400">Since they are far enough from here, they might be receptive enough if I help them against Tzeentch.
<span style="font-weight:400">The only problem is reaching there though. <span style="font-weight:400">If taking the safest route. <span style="font-weight:400">First need to pass the Border Princes Confederation to the south which also infested by the Skavens. <span style="font-weight:400">Pass the mountains belong to the dwarves. <span style="font-weight:400">Then crossing the greenskin darnds and the ogre kingdom mountains after that. <span style="font-weight:400">The fastest route if we can pass unbothered is through Sylvania as there is also a mountain pass across the world’s edge mountains between their border with Ostermark. <span style="font-weight:400">But that would risk even further attention from the vampires and Mannfred Von Carstein. <span style="font-weight:400">Regardless, both route will take a few months. <span style="font-weight:400">Might even almost a year.
<span style="font-weight:400">For now it is better to build our base and breed.
<i><span style="font-weight:400">Herd poption: 1669</i>
<span style="font-weight:400">Perhaps when I have more than 2000 beastmen which is soon reached, I can split and create another herd to leave for Cathay in advance. <span style="font-weight:400">I will think of a way to link both herd so I can move between both and assist them. <span style="font-weight:400">After giving birth to a litter of werewolves pup, I exit my camp and check my herd.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now everyone already buffed by the new regeneration, immacte body, and illusory feathers. <span style="font-weight:400">The sight of gold furs entuated with shimmering flow of the feathers are enough to hurt the average human perception. <span style="font-weight:400">But someone that sat on a golden chair might like the color palette. <span style="font-weight:400">The newly captured beastwomen are also slowly turned one by one by Mal. <span style="font-weight:400">Then there are also influxes of small groups of beastmen. <span style="font-weight:400">Each group only a dozen or two at most. <span style="font-weight:400">They are a stark contrast as even theirrgest Caprigors barely on the same height and stature of our Ungors. <span style="font-weight:400">Now that I realize, I have practically made my herd into almost space marine equivalent of the beastmen. <span style="font-weight:400">Which I am also sure pretty much achievable after my blood concept evolve. <span style="font-weight:400">Another thing to look forward too.
<span style="font-weight:400">Returning back to my tent, I shoo away the still sleeping werewolves to make ce. <span style="font-weight:400">I paid the 20 souls required to make my soul forge. <span style="font-weight:400">The souls screamed in agony as they melted into one. <span style="font-weight:400">An 8 pointed star shaped anvil formed in front of me. <span style="font-weight:400">A runic smithing hammer on top of it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Picking up the hammer and touching the anvil, insights on what is required flows into my mind. <span style="font-weight:400">Materials, what kind of enchantment to bestow, and how many souls sacrificed to make it. <span style="font-weight:400">Material is the most important part. <span style="font-weight:400">As it determines the end result. <span style="font-weight:400">Using unsuitable or weak material will immediately broke if a strong enchantment is bestowed or forcing too many souls into it. <span style="font-weight:400">Destroying the materials and the souls spent in the process. <span style="font-weight:400">There are no further guide on what I can do. <span style="font-weight:400">So it will mostly be trial and error.
<span style="font-weight:400">I burst into augh as an idea formed in mind. <span style="font-weight:400">3 rings for rielle, Tyrion, and Teclis in Ulthuan. <span style="font-weight:400">7 rings for the dwarven kings. <span style="font-weight:400">9 rings for each electoral counts excluding Reind. <span style="font-weight:400">Then one for me. <span style="font-weight:400">But I don’t know if that is achievable here. <span style="font-weight:400">Not to mention the amount of souls I need to spend making them and I don''t know how much time I have to work on that. <span style="font-weight:400">I shelved the idea for now. <span style="font-weight:400">Then I put the soul forge within my sanctuary. <span style="font-weight:400">I will try to make one when I get the 1st soul through my herdstone as the trial and error will no doubt burn through the souls I get from the Four. <span style="font-weight:400">In the meantime, I will be gathering ideas on what I need to make. <span style="font-weight:400">A soulbound weapon and armor is a first must if I want to retry the survival mode to farm points. <span style="font-weight:400">I need to make some for Vriel too since I don’t know if she will be pulled into the survival mode when I try it againter just to be safe.
<span style="font-weight:400">With nothing much left to do, I went to find Kal and Lak. <span style="font-weight:400">Notifying them on my n for outing to test my mimicry.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Some distance away from Grimminhagen. <span style="font-weight:400">Markus and ten of his hunters intercepted another small beastmen herd of twenty. <span style="font-weight:400">Bertrand cleave thest beastmen with his newly acquired enchanted greatsword. <span style="font-weight:400">As he sheathed his greatsword, Bertrand rubs his right hand again. Making sure it is still there.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Still not used to it?” Markus asked as he collects his arrows
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yea, still jarring. Just a few days ago there’s only a stump.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Better get used to it fast. That lightst night will attract more. I need you to be ready”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure-sure.” Bertrand sat and drink from his sk
<span style="font-weight:400">“Didn’t you have that bow the emperor gave you? Why not use it?” He ask as Markus used only use a mundane bow the entire time
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, it felt weird to me. The arrow almost always pierce the heart”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Weird how? Isn’t that a good thing?” He asks, confused by the remark.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Almost always Bertrand. <strong>Almost</strong>. Meaning that the bow can fail. The arrow also veered to the heart even when I aimed somewhere else. I can force it if I concentrate enough. But it feels like I am reigning a horse and forcing it to move.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Suppose it’s weird if you put it that way.” Magic is always weird. He couldn’t understand it. Then Bertrand rubs his right arm again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Besides, my skill would rust if I rely on that bow too much.” Markus pulled thest of his arrows
<span style="font-weight:400">“So when will we move out?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We will not. I get the feeling our quarry wille to us instead.” Markus turned east to Tbend direction. Thest reported sighting of Taurox.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now stop idling and help pile the bodies so we can burn them.”