Chapter 546: The Blue Horror
With a creak, Kian pushed open the great door of the castle keep and stepped inside.
The castle keep held an enormous space packed with rows upon rows of bookshelves, crammed with books of every kind.
At a glance, Kian could see a great many books from the days of the Imperium.
Those books told him that this planet's Sons of Heaven had definitely known about the Imperium of Man.
The Son of Heaven's family had simply wanted the realm all to themselves, so they'd deliberately hidden that knowledge.
That was why the planet's technology had kept slipping backward until it reached this backward feudal age.
As Kian walked between the crowded shelves, he felt it. He felt an evil Warp disturbance!
After all the times he and Silentium had secretly studied Warp daemons, Kian recognized the scent at once. This psychic disturbance belonged to some kind of Warp daemon, and it smelled Tzeentchian!
He'd only just thought this when he heard a rush of air behind him.
Kian spun around and saw a ninja dressed all in black leaping high into the air, slashing a shuriken down at his neck!
Kian dodged quickly to the side, and the shuriken grazed past his shoulder.
When his first strike missed, the ninja raised the shuriken again and swept it at Kian's neck!
Kian dropped into a crouch to dodge it, then swept the ninja's legs out from under him.
The ninja hit the ground and kipped up, but before his feet had settled, Kian swept him down again. The ninja kipped up again, and Kian swept him down again.
The ninja was so dazed at being swept down every time he got up that he got angry!
He kipped up once more, and once more Kian's leg sweep dropped him.
This time, before he hit the ground, he pulled a round object from his robes and smashed it on the floor!
With a hiss, white smoke billowed up everywhere, and Kian instantly lost his sight!
But the smoke cleared as fast as it had come. When it was gone, Kian was no longer in the castle keep's library. He was in a strange space filled with mirrors.
He narrowed his eyes and studied this unknown space carefully.
It was like the hall of mirrors at an amusement park, with mirrors reflecting mirrors, making the whole space seem endlessly deep and bizarre. If you weren't careful, you'd walk right into one.
Kian could sense that this space was really just an illusion, built with a psychic spell.
And the one who'd built it was the black-clad ninja who had just ambushed him.
"Kehehehe!!"
A strange laugh suddenly echoed through the mirror-filled space.
In hundreds of mirrors in front of him, Kian saw a horribly twisted daemon appear.
It was blue from head to toe, with three arms and two legs, and it looked like a teardrop.
In the middle of the teardrop body were two slit-pupilled eyes and a huge mouth, with a snake-like tongue flicking around inside it.
"Ever-changing, ever-mysterious. Mortal~ you've fallen into my Domain of Ten Thousand Mirrors~
"Now that you've entered my domain, you'll never get out, unless you can find my true self among the ten thousand mirrors, hee hee hee hee hee~"
Amid a peal of eerie laughter, the blue daemons in ten thousand mirrors began to move.
It was dizzying to watch. An ordinary person really could never have found the real blue daemon among ten thousand mirrors. But Kian was no ordinary person.
He recognized the blue daemon at once. It was a Horror, the most numerous, lowest-ranking, and most chaotic of the Chaos God Tzeentch's daemons!
A Horror's shape wasn't fixed. Its appearance was wild and bizarre, which suited Tzeentch's way of change perfectly.
Even the nine-metre Giant Yōkai Kian had just killed was probably some form a Horror had taken.
This blue Horror in front of him was probably the castle keep's guardian.
Kian didn't know what it was guarding here, but any intruder who came in without its permission would be dragged into the Domain of Ten Thousand Mirrors and left to wander until they died!
"Kehehehe, mortal, do you feel fear?
"If you can't find my true self, you'll be trapped in the Domain of Ten Thousand Mirrors until you die~
"Kehehehehehe, want a hint? Get down on your knees and bow your head to me a few times, and maybe I'll give you a little hint to help you find my true self~~"
The blue Horror was extremely cocky, taunting Kian over and over.
Its body darted among the ten thousand mirrors, appearing in several at once, with no pattern at all.
Kian rolled his eyes and simply opened his Warp-sight.
His eyes filled with golden psychic light, and in an instant he found the blue Horror's true body among the ten thousand mirrors.
"Kehehehe, foolish mortal, you'll never find me. Give up, you... GAK!!"
The blue Horror, which had been taunting nonstop, suddenly let out a croak and went silent, because Kian had walked straight up to it and was staring right at it with his golden eyes.
"Found your true self!"
Kian said.
The blue Horror gulped.
"Nuh-uh~ That's just a mirror in front of you. Why would you say that to a mirror? That's really dumb!"
Kian raised his hand as if to hit it, and the blue Horror jumped back a step in fright.
Kian: "Did you just fucking flinch?"
"Nuh-uh~ You're not standing in front of my true self. That's just a mirror in front of you~"
The blue Horror kept denying it. Kian clicked his tongue, reached out, grabbed one of its arms, and snapped it with a crack.
"Ngh, ngh, ngh..."
The blue Horror's arm was broken. Searing pain shot through its head, but it still didn't scream. It just stared at Kian, its face covered in cold sweat.
"Why are you doing all these weird things in front of a mirror? You're really dumb!
"Okay, stop standing in front of a mirror. Hurry up and go look for my true self somewhere else!"
Seeing that the bastard was still denying it, Kian raised both hands and gathered a crackling golden psychic lightning blade between them.
The blue Horror felt that terrifying golden power, something that could actually kill it, and its face changed. It dropped to its knees with a thud.
The Domain of Ten Thousand Mirrors vanished completely, and they were back in the castle keep's library.
"Good sir, let's talk this out! All this fighting and killing is so uncivilized. Come, come, it's past three o'clock. Tea first, tea first!"
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