NOVEL NEXT Chapter 28
You know... Maybe utterly drenching the panties of an entire squad of Sisters of Battle via religious nirvana wasn't the smartest of plans.
On the one hand, those Sisters and the Canoness were looking at me with a zealous light that wasn't tainted by suspicion due to an Inquisitor and a literal Custodian acting as further proof of my status as being 'blessed' by the Emperor.
On the other hand... Those Sister's looked ready to do 'something' to me, and in Warhammer 40k someone giving a hungry look could mean they wanted to disembowel me so they could have me stuffed and then paraded around battlefields across the Galaxy for the next couple millennia.
Oddly a specific reference for a good reason... As they did that to one of their saints and by carrying the coffin their saintess was entombed within. It acted as holy napalm to any demons in the area as they strode into battle while blaring funeral hymns.
I coughed as I shoved, really slammed down that horrible thought and said. "Alright, Sister now that our first prayer to cleanse our mind and body has been completed. I need your help in another prayer to purify a heretical item."
When I went to stand up and take back my rosary, the Canoness for a split second held onto the rosary refusing to let go but she hurriedly let go as though burned with her bowing her head as I walked away to Barghest's sealed container.
"During our purges of the heretical filth filling this world and doing our holy work, I came across an artifact of power from the pagan god of filth and despair. I wish to use his holy flames to burn the filth from the relic, and then use its purified form cleansed by 'His' holy might to make a weapon to eradicate the heretic." I spoke as I then opened up the sealed holy chest and the compressed essence of Nurgle briefly flowed out from the sealed chest but I waved my hands throwing the flames of Sol onto the book to push back the disease.
I then clicked a button on my data pad turning on a small projector as the Sisters of Battle looked on as I pulled up the prayer/ritual I wanted them to participate in.
It was a multiple-verse prayer and with my Light, I would use their zealous fervor to amplify the Emperor's automatic distribution of his purging light that would be used to burn away the filth filling this Book of Nurgle.
The ladies grimaced seeing me take out the Book of Nurgle but as they looked at the prayer they stiffened their backs as I had given them something few if any Sisters of Battle could ever feel in gaining the Emperor's gaze... Now I was demanding they step back into his light, with holy fire behind their gaze as they prayed for his deliverance to smite an evil relic.
Their fanaticism behind their eyes grew ever fiercer and the Canoness carefully placed her hands together in prayer as she remained kneeling and spoke. "To purge heresy with holy flames is our very core of existence Blessed One, please be our conduit for his holy wrath to be washed over this foul relic!"
I nodded and then sitting down I took a deep breath as this prayer 'ritual' had two parts, one with myself doing the first chant, and their chorus that combined their faith and zealous hatred of the unclean to do the next chant with myself doing the next chant and vice versa as we continued the prayer.
"In the God Emperor's name, we sing his fiery wrath, our cleansing king. From pestilence and filth, we use sacred flames, we find purity in his flames." I spoke with my voice creating echoes in the large storage room that had been made into my own room.
The shadows within the room were banished, and hushed whispers lying within the corners were silenced as one and all. All the Sisters of Battle including Adelith and the Canoness together with their hands coming together as even with their eyes closed the words of the following prayers came from within themselves as we shared a soul-deep bond for a short while.
"Oh, Emperor, with flames divine, burn away the taint of the plague's sevenfolded sign. In your light, we stand reborn. From darkness and decay, we're torn and birthed anew in your light." The Custodian shifted ever so slightly as they stepped closer to watch as primarily rotting green smoke burned away from the unholy book of Nurgle.
And see we continued to pray with each stanza, the Sisters of Battle had a fiery golden glow enter their eyes until finally, we finished the prayer with a loud shriek escaping the Book of Nurgle, and as dark shadow escaped the book the Custodian's Guardian Spear sliced through the demonic apparition of the essence of a Nurgle demon which was bound into the book.
The Sisters of Battle now released from their religious fervor one and all held their eyes as pain filled their form and I grimaced hoping they hadn't been blinded but the Canoness held out a hand as her single uncovered eye looked at me reddened but still seemingly working despite small tears of blood rising to the surface.
"Ah, holy one, your blessing and acting as a conduit was too much for our mortal form. I beg your forgiveness but we will need but a few days to recover, our eyes haven't been burned away but we will need some rest after this trial of shouldering his divine will." She spoke with her voice thick with repressed emotions and I couldn't imagine just how... Blitzed out she was after having so much power running through her.
So looking at Adelith I saw that she was also holding her hands over her eyes so I said. "Alright then please take my side storage area to begin making your quarters, you will not be called for active duty for a few days nor does our group have plans to attack another facility for another few days anyway," I spoke with the Canoness nodding and leading the Sister's of Battle away by hand as she with her extreme zealotry was able to channel the power better.
Lastly... I beheld the burnt remains of the Book of Nurgle and still, I could feel the power within the book's remains. But it was not of the Plague Grandfather's no it was power unfiltered and burned away of all designs and mine to do as I saw fit.
Now it was a relic that I could use at my will to form the core of a 'holy' weapon that could have some actual supernatural power that would be very useful against demonic or otherwise chaos-enhanced entities whose mortality wasn't exactly so easily touched upon.
'Alright... So I can make the Thorn from Destiny which will still keep some of its conceptual rot ability but it will be of holy decay. Or I can use this to make a holy greatsword from like Elden Ring that can buff myself and allies close around before I get into melee.' I thought as schematics filled my mind of some of the better things I could use this for.
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