Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 12 The Dangers of Psychic Powers

The body was still at the door.

Not all gladiators cared about Caesar's life or death, but Caesar's sudden death still cast a shadow on everyone's hearts, and everyone was more or less sad.

After all, in this damn place, a living person might die in the arena, under someone else's axe, or at the hands of some other damn thing.

But while he was speaking, his head exploded. This way of dying is so shocking because it is so fresh.

"Just now, the Maggot Eye seemed to say...that Caesar was the only wizard here."

"Angron, did I hear wrongly or..."

Ono stood beside the body and talked with Angron.

Angron kept his eyes on Qin Xia, who was huddled in the corner with a dull look, and responded: "I am sure that this is what the Maggot Eye said."

"Okay." Ono nodded. "Although we cannot rule out that they are playing tricks, it is possible that people outside really don't know that Qin Xia is also a wizard. I can't understand, how is this possible?"

Angron did not respond to this sentence. He looked at Qin Xia and felt Qin Xia's emotions.

After having non-combat encounters with more people, Angron was quite sure that the complex and contradictory emotions he felt came from others, not from himself.

What Angron felt from Qin Xia was confusion, worry, and fear.

These emotions from Qin Xia were not directly acquired by the Primarch's talent, but because they were too obvious, so obvious that they seemed to be written on his face, Angron could see it.

Qin Xia is indeed like that.

After Caesar's death, Qin Xia, who was sitting in the corner, was not thinking about Caesar's death, but the reason for Caesar's death - because of psychic power.

"Some people will encounter uncontrollable situations after embarking on the road to heaven, including but not limited to sudden explosions, random release of abilities, and opening channels to summon filthy and blasphemous things."

Qin Xia recalled what the chapter commander had told him when he was with the White Scars.

"The Road to Heaven, this is the name for the Warp in the Chapter." The think tank explained beside him.

"I understand." Qin Xia still remembers responding to the regiment commander like this.

As a time traveler, Qin Xia knows the dangers of psionic power and the subspace better than anyone else in this universe.

A full ten thousand years, ten thousand years.

From 30k to 40k, everything in the human empire has changed. The only thing that remains unchanged is the vigilance against psykers.

Because there is a high probability that psychics will lose control, and loss of control will cause a psychic disaster.

Blowing up your own head is only the most insignificant disaster, and the trouble you cause to others is just a matter of wiping blood.

The truly terrifying psychic disaster is to summon a warp storm that interferes with inter-galactic space travel, or to blow up a flesh gate, opening a passage for the demons in the warp to cross the curtain that isolates the warp and let the demons descend into reality.

"Use psychic energy with caution, and do not use psychic energy on my warships." The Chapter Master warned. "To put it in an inappropriate way, using psychic energy is like gambling. You bet that you will not cause a psychic disaster. If you win, it's fine. If you lose, you will... Ha, ask the Librarian about these things."

As the Chapter Master has warned, the use of psionics is a dangerous thing for any psyker.

But some things are known, but when you really feel them, they are not that serious.

Because every psychic Qin Xia met after coming to this universe, including himself, looked quite reliable. These people all used psychic powers, but none of them did anything wrong.

Come to think of it, the psykers I have seen are either Astartes Librarians of a Chapter or Grey Knights. If these people use their psykers to blow up their heads and open their flesh gates, then even psykers with stable psykers will only end up being executed. Isn't Caesar an unstable psyker?

Today's real example has once again raised Qin Xia's gradually relaxed vigilance towards spiritual power.

Qin Xia began to doubt and fear his own psychic talent. There was only one way to dispel this doubt and fear, and that was to deepen his understanding of his own psychic talent.

Know whether your psychic talent is stable enough to be completely assured.

But unfortunately, Qin Xia didn't know if he could be completely assured. He only felt that the stability of his psychic talent was just... the probability of others' heads exploding was 90%, and the probability of his own head exploding was 10%.

At the root of the matter, Qin Xia has not received any systematic training on psychic powers in the past decade.

He knew that the Grey Knight mentor had prepared a sixty-year education for him, but there was an age requirement for undergoing the transformation surgery, and it was impossible to wait until the education was completed before the transformation.

Therefore, Qin Xia himself did not have a deep understanding of his psychic talent. He just underwent some inexplicable tests, passed the tests, and underwent transformation.

As for further exploration and research, the Grey Knights are also prepared.

Qin Xia would have received an education, would have been studied one by one by the mentors and predecessors among the Grey Knights, and would have had a clearer understanding of his own abilities - if the ship he was on had not been swallowed by the Warp.

"You comforted me before, now it's my turn to comfort you." Angron came over and interrupted Qin Xia's stormy thoughts beneath his calm surface.

"You come over and say 'I comfort you', but that doesn't really comfort me." Qin Xia looked at Angron, "Besides, you don't know what my problem is, and I can't be comforted unless this problem is solved."

"Caesar's death was random and sudden, but it had already happened," Angron said.

Qin Xia took another look at Caesar's body and shook his head: "I'm not so fragile that I would be depressed after witnessing death."

"This guy was just trying to help us gather information, and then his head exploded."

"I have the same chance as him, it's just a matter of probability."

Listening to what Qin Xia said, Angron was silent. He didn't know what to say to ease the atmosphere, because he could feel that Qin Xia's mood became heavier because of the meaningless conversation with him.

At this time, Ono came over and said, "Can your wizard's talents be trained and explored? I also had a wizard friend who faced a similar situation. Another wizard's head exploded and my friend became terrified and depressed because he also felt that his head would explode."

"Is there any way to investigate?" Ono cast a concerned look. "If the result of the investigation is that you might be the same as Caesar, then you really shouldn't use witchcraft anymore."

"Investigate? There is a way." Qin Xia replied, "But it's not something that can be done by just sitting cross-legged somewhere, nor is it something that a senior can do for me if he's here. It requires a ritual, a large number of ritual items, and the presence of an experienced and powerful psychic."

"The detection itself is not difficult to do, what is difficult is to detect safely."

"Someone needs to make sure I'm protected if something gets to me, someone needs to make sure I'm sane if I lose control."

"My teacher could have done this when I was little, but he didn't. He thought I should wait until I was mentally mature before doing it. Then I was taken away by others, and then, before I could fully explore my abilities, I came to this damn place."

Aono didn't understand what Qin Xia said.

But after all, Ono was knowledgeable and after thinking for a long time, he finally figured out Qin Xia's general meaning.

That is, even the act of exploring the ability to use "witchcraft" is dangerous and requires a lot of preparation.

But obviously, this arena does not have such conditions.

(End of this chapter)