"Wolf Lord Axis, you've found the right person. Back when I was training on Prospero, I studied many psychic techniques with Lord Magnus.
"Among them were several psychic powers that could strengthen the mind. I can cast these on you ahead of time," Mader said.
Over the course of fifteen years, they had learned many things.
Magnus had nearly taught them everything he knew, and the entire Grand Library of Prospero had been open to them.
So, when it came to psychic powers that enhanced willpower or kept someone awake, Mader had mastered quite a few.
This was his very first assignment and he was determined to complete it flawlessly.
"Then you'll be a huge help. Go prepare yourself, we'll depart in a moment," Axis said, patting Mader on the shoulder.
Although Kasha had spent more than a month learning from Magnus, the time was short.
She had only managed to grasp some advanced spells, while many basic and special types of psychic powers still eluded her.
At this point, Magnus hadn't yet begun writing the Book of Magnus. Once he did in the future, Axis thought he might try to borrow a copy for himself.
"Yes, Wolf Lord!"
Two hours later, Axis took Kasha and Mader with him aboard a small landing craft, heading for an uninhabited planet within their current star system.
This place was dozens of astronomical units away from the Space Wolves' fleet, making it the perfect location for training.
The planet was a true dead world as even the core had cooled.
If such a planet was located at the edge of a star system, it could be turned into a defensive outpost.
If it was nearer the center, even in the habitable zone, it could be developed into a mining world to extract metal ores from its crust.
Once they arrived, Axis nodded to Mader.
"Let's begin."
"Wolf Lord Axis, I'll now cast psychic enhancements on you."
Mader immediately raised his psychic staff and began channeling several spells upon Axis: powers to strengthen the mind, keep his thoughts clear, and protect his brain.
The series of psychic buffs made Axis' mind incredibly clear, and his willpower became even more resolute.
Although he himself was also a psyker, most of the past decade had been devoted to training the control of his Ki.
His psychic abilities had only grown passively.
He would have to properly learn psychic techniques one day.
On the side, Kasha quietly memorized the psychic spells Mader used.
To psykers like them, these psychic arts from Prospero were unimaginably precious.
"All right, Wolf Lord! I've cast every mental defense spell I know on you. You can start your experiment now," Mader said.
Axis nodded.
"Now, you both have one final task. Use your psychic powers to shield this entire planet. I don't want anyone knowing what happens here.
"Can you manage that?" Axis asked.
To guard against the prying eyes of the four Chaos gods, this was the only method Axis could think of for now.
"Leave that to us," Kasha replied, nodding.
"Good. Then now, you both need to evacuate immediately," Axis said.
Kasha and Mader both nodded, boarding the shuttle and lifting off from the planet's surface.
This planet had no atmosphere, but after the Emperor's enhancements, Axis could survive for a short time even in open space, without his power armour.
Taking a deep breath, Axis let loose his rage.
A terrifying golden aura of Ki erupted from his body.
First, his hair changed to a mix of blue and red. It was the form that Axis could now control with ease.
After more than a decade of practice, he could wield this state nearly perfectly, with no risk of losing control.
Once he entered this form, Axis started to let loose even more of his Ki.
His muscles swelled further; his golden aura even began to flicker with traces of green.
Roar!
A gutteral roar escapoed from the depths of Axis's soul, sending tremors throught he entire planet.
His power soared skyward, and the entire planet began to shake violently.
As Axis' Ki kept rising, a green light shrouded the whole world.
Heaven and earth changed color in an instant.
The standard issue power armor he wore was completely shattered, and even his battle suit strained to contain him, his body size shot up from 2.1 meters all the way to 3 meters.
His physique had become truly massive, every inch of him bursting with explosive muscle.
A wild, brutish strength surged endlessly from within his body.
A ferocious urge to kill, destroy, and annihilate welled up in Axis's heart.
The urge was so strong, so overwhelming, that he wanted to tear apart everything in front of him.
It was as if only destruction could bring him pleasure, pleasure so intense it was beyond words, a sensation countless times stronger than anything he could imagine!
Axis was swept up in an extreme state of excitement.
'So this was what it felt like.'
Axis couldn't help but think to himself.
It felt so, refreshing.
High above the barren planet, Kasha and Mader worked together to cast powerful psychic wards, temporarily enclosing the planet and concealing the vast disturbances Axis was causing.
At that moment, an unimaginably terrifying gold-green energy appeared, bathing the entire world in a green glow.
This fearsome power spread outward from the planet and continued to grow in intensity.
As psykers, Kasha and Mader felt it acutely.
It was a sensation beyond description.
Their bodies began to tremble.
Their legs wanted to give out.
Medar, couldn't help himself as he collapsed to his knees, sweating profusely, disbelief in his eyes.
An indescribable terror rose from deep within the both of them.
It was a primal fear, as if woven into their DNA. At this moment, they could truly sense just how powerful Axis had become.
The Ki Axis was unleashing was so twisted, so terrifying.
"Th-this—!" Mader tried to support himself with his staff, but the terror had seeped into his bones.
He couldn't even stand, collapsing into a heap on the ground.
Kasha was faring better, but her body still shook uncontrollably, sweat pouring down her forehead.
Why? Why was this sensation so terrifying? Why had Axis's aura suddenly become so violently destructive, so utterly evil?
Right now, it felt as if the being standing on that planet wasn't Axis, but some monstrous prehistoric beast, an apex predator of all.
The terror they felt at the base of their souls at the moment defied all description.
Roar!
The entire planet shook violently, and even their shuttle rocked wildly within it's orbit.
Kasha fought to steady herself and took the controls to keep the craft from spinning out.
The whole world was wracked with earthquakes, ready to crumble at any moment.
Somehow, the sky above the barren planet had grown dark with clouds, lightning crackling down in a mad frenzy.
It made no sense.
It was a dead planet, with no water, no atmosphere, yet thunderclouds and lightning had appeared!
On the surface, Axis pushed his Ki to its limit.
His upper garments burst apart, his hair turning fully gold and green.
His pupils vanished, leaving only blank white eyes.
His face, once gentle, was now twisted and sinister.
"Hahahahaha!" he laughed maniacally, forming a green energy sphere in his palm and slamming it down onto the planet's surface.
Boom! Crash!
A quarter of the planet's crust was obliterated!
From space, it looked as if a giant had bitten off a chunk off the planet.
Power, endless power!
It was an overwhelming feeling, a strength beyond words.
Axis's adrenaline was surging, the sensation of transforming amplified the pleasure he felt infinitely!
Every act of destruction felt like the ultimate release.
No, this feeling was a hundred, a thousand times more euphoric than that!
Axis swung his arms wildly, launching one green energy sphere after another at the planet's surface.
In just a few moments, the world was on the verge of collapse.
Oh how he desperately wished for a worthy opponent!
Deep inside, Axis longed to crush an enemy's skull, to slam them into mountains, to tear them to shreds.
Even transformed into this state, Axis hadn't completely lost his mind.
He remained acutely self-aware, even while his senses ran wild.
In this form, his Ki kept growing by the second.
This was the primal, true nature of a Saiyan.
"I really need to vent…
"Ah, fuck it. Let's fire one off!" Axis gathered a green energy blast in his palm.
He hurled it downward; the blast ballooned into a massive orb hundreds of meters across.
Boom! Boom!
It was on instant.
And in that instant, the entire planet was obliterated by this attack, shattered into cosmic dust!
"Hahahaha!" Axis felt sheer joy, something beyond all words.
The pleasure was so intense, he wanted to destroy another planet to celebrate.
And in the Warp, a certain Chaos God's attention had been drawn by that intense, ecstatic sensation.
Such overwhelming stimulation was simply unprecedented.
...
guys! powerstones!!! were still doing bonus chapter per 200 powerstones!