The first thing I felt when waking up was a slight tug on a piece of myself I had never known existed, the second thing was me rolling over and seeing a massive mural on a wall depicting a large battle with a being in golden armour at the head.
The moment that registered in my brain I went from my previous state of groggy and half asleep to fully awake and horrified in less than a second.
"Fuck" I was frozen as I looked at the massive painting hanging on the wall of the room I was in before I noticed that it was the only was left intouched in the crumbling building I found myself in.
Take quick stock of what I had (the clothes on my back and a lighter) I hurriedly tried thinking about why I might be in a church of the Emperor when I got a splitting headache and felt something connect to me.
When the connection was established I was completely overwhelmed as more information than the entirety of earth history and everything humans had ever seen or done was unceremoniously dumped in my head with the finesse of a out of control 16 wheeler.
When I finished having a seizure from information overload I got to my feet shakily and hobbled my way into the kitchen area I could see past a crumbled wall of the church.
From the kitchen I grabbed all manner of chemicals that to anybody else would just be a random collection but with my new connection to what was calling itself Amrmourment in the back of my brain would allow me to make a one time use casting mould the would dissolve into toxic gas when used once.
When I finished creating the mould I grabbed three silver coins from the donation basket and a single gold Aquila from the Bishop's? Office. I pulled apart the stove and jury rigged a furnace that had a chance to explode but I ignored that possiblity so it didn't exist (I'm delusional).
I melted down the silver coins and the gold Aquila into an alloy of three parts unblessed silver to one part blessed gold and used the aforementioned casting mould to cast it into the shape of a nail.
As the molten metal slowly formed the nail I changed under my breath, "in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit. Amen" when it had cooled even only just to the point of being solid I grasped it, ignoring the pain I held it above my chest with the point aimed at my heart.
"Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, When his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him" I held the still burning hot replica of Helena's nail in a trembling grin before stabbing myself through the chest and into my heart.
POV change 3rd person
As the nail that pierced Christ's body ripped its way through Michaels chest and into his heart, all the way across the galaxy on the throne of Terra the mangled corpse that was once the Emperor twitched it's still connected arm.
With a sigh at his hopeful plain failing Michael tipped back and fell onto the floor of the church into a pool of his own blood.
For a long moment nothing happened as the corpse of Michael lay there motionlessly until a faint thump could be heard, and then another but now it was louder and echoed it an unnatural way. From the hole in Michaels chest a cascade of vines and thorn's burst their way out of his body and wrapped him in a cocoon.
With a gasp the once dead body awakened again now irrevocably changed into that of God's monster.
Change back to 1st person
"Holy fuck it worked" I say as I pat the spot my heart sat in my chest as it's beat echoed loudly, 'i banked on the lack of God meaning that I would retain my consciousness but I still had my doupts' I thought as I watched the wound heal in real time.
Getting up off the floor I almost stumbled as the force I would normally have used to just get up instead launched me a full metre off the ground.
By before now non-existent instinct alone I was able to catch myself and land on my feet while not making a fool of myself.
"Ok super strength, cool" I added it to the list of abilities I had as God's monster (so far the list only contained two things, hyper-regeneration and uncorruptability).
It took a while to get used to the new strength but now that I wasn't going to be corrupted by Chaos I could actually take a moment to do so.
While I worked out how my new body worked I also probed the thing in my head giving me all this knowledge and from what it told (it was like translating interpretive dance) me it was a Shard like from the Worm webnovel but it was instead created entirely to help me survive and nothing else.
It was a tinker Shard who's specialisation was in all things that could used to fight or used to aid those fighting, basically it was Armament and equipment.
I shook my head to rid myself of the headache having to listen to a Shard speak had caused before starting to look the church I found myself in.
When I was done I had found two auto-pistols, a thermometer and a large assortment of scrap metal. I gathered all of the junk into the centre of the room and as I looked over the pile I got a ping from my Shard in the form of a blueprint for a weapon specially made to kill those of unholy origin.
I stripped the auto-pistols of everything but its base structure before going through the painstakingly long process of cold forging the metal scrap into the shapes I needed.
The finished product of my hard work was a pair of black pistols much to oversized for any mortal to use, apon their side the normally added words had been replaced by the phrase 'the angel of baal rests at his father's side'.
I grinned as I picked up the two Hellsing ARMS 13 mm Auto Anti-Freak Combat Pistol aka the jackals, and holstered them in the underarm holsters I had made from some scraps of leather in the Bishop's room.
With the body of the guns build I got to work on creating the bullets the beast of a weapon the jackals fires, grabbing the thermometer and cracking it open to get the mercury out I put it in a bowl and sliced my finger to draw a bit of blood to mix with the lethal metal to bless it.
I used the blessed mercury and the bullets originally from the auto pistol to create the 13mm holy explosive rounds the jackals fires.
Apon my completion of only one of the magazines another appeared completely without my input and my Shard informed me that when I had completed a weapon disign (both the weapon itself and the ammunition it requires) the Shard was able to create ammo ex nihilo so I didn't have to spend time making more ammo.
"Oh this just got so much easier" I say with a grin when I hear a sound I had heard only once before.
"Pox walkers" I felt a growl in my throat at the thought of the puppets of nurgle and decided they were perfect test dummy for my new weapons.