Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 144 A Very Bad Person
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"The aliens suddenly began to flee and lost control."

"At first I thought they just stopped attacking, but I didn't expect them to completely collapse."

“The defense line is no longer under attack.”

"Even our troops who have penetrated deep into the lair are no longer being pursued and blocked."

Kiel reported to Angron the strange things that had suddenly happened.

Angron listened and thought, leaning on his chainsaw axe.

The sudden situation reported by the legion commander now is exactly the strategic effect that Angron wants to achieve.

By destroying the nests, the aliens in one area after another collapsed, lost control, and turned into a group of ferocious beasts, rather than the mechanical creatures that had obedience and discipline engraved in their DNA.

This process may take several years or even more than ten years. If the Iron Warriors become allies again and fight side by side with the XII Legion under unified command, it will be faster, but it will definitely not be as fast as this.

"Decapitation is the ultimate way to deal with creatures with a gestalt or hive mind."

Hearing the familiar voice, Angron turned his head quickly.

Qin Xia and ten think tanks from the 12th Legion were seen walking out from the ice and snow.

The warrior named Dantioch of the 4th Legion Iron Warriors and the pharmacist named Galan Surak followed behind them.

Dantioch, who had complained about the action just now, even carried a living bug on his back.

"Wait..." Angron was a little surprised. "The place you went to is really the hiding place of the enemy's chief creature?"

"Although I didn't have much hope when I went there, it's true," Qin Xia said. "It's not surprising. The brain creature can create a shadow. In my psychic vision, it looks like it says: I'm here, come and kill me."

"It went surprisingly smoothly..." Angron was not particularly surprised.

A creature with a hive mindset, running into Qin Xia, who is good at revealing the enemy's position and conducting decapitation operations, is like running into a gun.

Accepting that the war would be over once and for all within a few days, Angron looked toward Dantioch.

The Primarch was about to say something, but was stunned by Dantioch's complex thoughts and emotions at the moment.

"If the Fourth Legion and the Twelfth Legion had gone to war before..."

Dantioch was thinking about this.

Then he thought the consequences were unthinkable.

Both the 12th Legion and the 4th Legion have fleets in the Novsendak system. The former is at a numerical disadvantage compared to the 4th Legion, but they have think tanks and psykers.

Fortunately, there was no civil war.

As he was thinking, Dantioch suddenly remembered another legion in the Great Crusade - the Thousand Sons.

The Thousand Sons were the Fifteenth Legion, led by a Primarch named Magnus.

I heard that they are all wizards... Dantioch didn't think the news was true. He felt that it was more likely that the Thousand Sons Legion was characterized by sorcery wizards, so other people would mistakenly believe that all the Thousand Sons were wizards without knowing more.

Dantioch remembered that he had once wondered why the Thousand Sons would wield such terrible power.

Now he knows.

Because that kind of power is just too convenient.

Why.

Dantioch thought.

The Fourth Legion has been fighting in this galaxy until now, and the battle process has remained unchanged: stay in the defense line until it is time to attack, artillery fire, and then the soldiers rush out of the defense line, find the nest, destroy the nest, advance, and occupy.

This cycle goes on and on, never ending.

Even finding the nest itself is difficult.

However, when the Primarch of the XII Legion arrived, he brought some wizards with him. The wizards easily found the location of the enemy's lair, and even had an unexpected gain, directly finding the location of the enemy's chief creature.

Then everyone went straight to killing with the information transparent.

And then... the battle was over.

Because the enemy's leader creature is dead, although it was killed by a tactical nuclear bomb, but without psychic power, it would be difficult to find it, let alone a dozen people walking up to it in the sea of ​​insects.

"warrior."

As Dantioch pondered, Angron suddenly called out, bringing the Iron Warrior's attention back to reality.

"We still need to conduct some military operations until we ensure that all enemies on this planet are collapsed and lose their combat effectiveness." Angron said, "But I think it is time for our two legions to start negotiations."

"Negotiate?" Dantioch frowned. Angron nodded. "If the enemy we face leaves behind spoils, we should discuss how to divide them. We did join the battle halfway, but we also contributed, didn't we?"

"The 12th Legion obtains ownership of Novsendak-5." Qin Xia made the most important request on behalf of Angron. "We can discuss the rest slowly."

Dantioch remained silent.

He wondered if Angron sensed what he was thinking just now, sensed that he had questioned this victory in his heart, so he deliberately punished him?
"I negotiate on behalf of the Fourth Legion, or I return to the Primarch and tell him that the outcome is death. He has fought in this system for so many years, but he still has to negotiate with the Twelfth Legion because the Twelfth Legion has the final say, and he won't be convinced."

Dantioch appeared to be as calm as a rock, but he was screaming in his heart.

However, Angron had absolutely no intention of cheating or punishing Dantioch: "How about this, I will go find your Primarch myself..."

"The Lord of Steel sent me and the two battalions out to die. If I go back, he will kill me." Dantioch interrupted Angron and expressed his opinion. "But it is precisely because of this that you helped us when we were desperate, so I should be the one to pass the message."

Angron felt more and more that something was wrong.

But there was no way. The communication between the 12th Legion and the 4th Legion Iron Warriors had been terminated. Just now, the 12th Legion used the method of fleet calling fleet and army calling army, but the 4th Legion did not give any response.

Dantioch's fearless attitude made Angron even less willing to send him back to inform Perturabo.

"I'll go." Qin Xia suddenly stood up.

Dantioch suddenly turned his head and looked at Qin Xia.

Angron shook his head, deciding that it would be safer to go find Perturabo himself.

"I'll go with you." Qin Xia said again.

Angron suddenly felt embarrassed.

He didn't know whether Perturabo would be angry because he felt that his honor was taken away by others, whether he would cause trouble, whether he would fight again like last time, and they almost fought to the death.

"..."

Little did anyone know at this point, there was an Iron Warrior waiting for Dantioch outside.

The Iron Warrior himself didn't know when his communication system was adjusted to receiving mode.

This means that every word of the conversation taking place at that moment was transmitted several kilometers away without being missed.

In a defense line that is far larger and more magnificent than the defense line built by the 12th Legion and a small number of Iron Warriors, in a secret room under a fortress that even detection waves cannot penetrate.

The Fourth Primarch Perturabo crouched in a corner and listened to the voices coming from the communication system.

The secret room was littered with debris and remnants.

The Lord of Steel was furious after learning through eavesdropping that the war was quickly ended by the people of the Twelfth Legion.

And now, the Lord of Steel was squatting in the corner listening, but he didn't look calm at all.

If Angron were in this place, he would be shocked by the complex and changing emotions in the Lord of Steel.

"Dantioch is such an idiot."

"He doesn't understand what I mean at all!"

"Damn it, idiot!"

Perturabo crushed the fortress model in his hand and cursed the offspring he had driven out.

And after hearing that they had ended a long war, but were arguing over who would see Perturabo, Perturabo leaned against the wall.

Disappointment and sadness filled the Lord of Steel's heart.

He slowly raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the secret room, muttering to himself, "It seems that I am a very bad person."

There is no more anger, no more disappointment and sadness.

The Lord of Steel listened silently as his brother, his beloved offspring, and the strange wizard came to an agreement - to come together to find him.

Perturabo lowered his head and pondered how he should receive Angron.

Based on his experience, he immediately made a judgment, but he also immediately realized that no matter how he disguised himself in front of Angron, it was meaningless, just like putting on a hundred pieces of clothes to meet someone with X-ray vision. It was meaningless.

What if I don’t go to see him?

If I don't go to meet him, I'm afraid the relationship will continue to deteriorate.

Recalling the strange dream, Perturabo felt that he really should not have broken up with Angron. Perhaps he should have been gentler and more tolerant from the beginning, instead of putting himself in a dead end like now.

After much hesitation and struggle, Perturabo decided to meet Angron in person.

(End of this chapter)