Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 170 Spiritual Link
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Resolute Resolve.

The fleet has begun preparing to embark on a journey to continue the search for Corax.

Angron stayed in his office, sitting at his desk, but he did nothing but stare blankly at the desktop covered with messy documents.

It was not until the cabin door opened that Angron's attention was drawn back to reality.

"Hey." Qin Xia walked into the office and came to the desk. He pushed the documents aside to make a space and sat down. He picked up a document and looked through it.

“The party is still being prepared,” Angron said. “Once the apothecary has examined my brothers, the party will begin.”

Qin Xia put down the document and observed Angron's expression. He found that the Primarch was very good at learning. Even when Angron was in deep thought, his expression was like his own, with a frown and squinting eyes.

"While I was fighting on the alien battleship, what happened on the Legion fleet side?" Qin Xia asked.

Standing in the battleship and looking out, Qin Xia could see that the fleet suddenly changed its fighting style. All the warships seemed to be integrated into one, defeating more enemy ships than their own with amazing command response speed.

It's like a handheld computer suddenly becomes a quantum computer.

Even if there were twice as many enemy ships, Qin Xia felt that the final outcome would be victory.

“I suddenly found myself feeling everyone’s feelings, as if I were in their shoes,” Angron recalled. “Then their mixed emotions flooded over me, and I sank into the sea of ​​emotions until, eventually, I found myself becoming each one.”

"I can communicate with everyone, just like I can control my arms and legs."

"I can control the actions of every helmsman in every ship and every gunner on the gun deck at the same time."

“We became one.”

Listening to what Angron said, Qin Xia guessed in his heart that Angron's talent was becoming stronger and stronger.

This was beyond Qin Xia's expectations.

Qin Xia once determined that the upper limit of Angron's talent was the ability to sense other people's emotions, absorb other people's emotions, and then develop to the point where he could control a person.

Just some ability to have emotions and feelings.

Now that seems to be far from the case.

Qin Xia felt that Angron's ability was like an iceberg. The abilities that Angron had demonstrated in the past, such as emotional perception and mind reading, were just the tip of this giant iceberg sticking out above the sea.

"The think tank of the 12th Legion has a unique skill, which is to create giants called integration." Qin Xia suddenly mentioned the think tank affairs, "and when the think tanks work together to use the technique of integration giants, the psychic giants created are enough to suppress a Primarch."

Qin Xia paused.

He actually did not fully describe the full power of the psychic giants created by the think tanks.

If Angron was given the Butcher's Nails, losing his natural abilities and becoming a brutal warrior, Communion could still suppress him or even knock him out.

"The Primarch is not the invincible superman in the universe." Angron talked about what happened on Novsendak V. "If you, father, fight Perturabo with the God-Prime Titan, you can kill him with a few more kicks when he's not on the alert."

Qin Xia couldn't deny this.

As far as he knew, the Iron Hands Legion did a cruel thing during the Horus Heresy, which was to use gunboats to sneak attack the Primarch, making him very embarrassed.

But what Qin Xia wanted to discuss was not the Primarch's combat effectiveness.

"I mean integration. It's amazing that the think tank of the 12th Legion can use this kind of psychic magic." Qin Xia said, "Just think about it, a group of people stand together, their minds are connected, and they work together to create a psychic giant."

"Your ordinary descendants, those without psychic powers, do not have these characteristics that can reflect telepathy."

"Considering that the Librarian has a talent for psychic powers, it is only natural that they resonate more strongly with your psychic abilities and produce better results."

"The fact that the think tanks can create psychic giants means that you must have these... characteristics and abilities."

"Didn't you also 'communicate' with everyone in the fleet before?"

Angron listened attentively, as always.

The worst aspects of the Emperor's humanity, such as partiality, are often reflected in Angron.

The Emperor did not grant Angron any knowledge, which caused Angron to spend a childhood that was extremely vulnerable to danger. He could not use his own abilities to build super shelters or invent super weapons.

But Angron is still a Primarch, albeit a blank slate, but his ability to comprehend is also far beyond that of ordinary people.

“Telepathy.” Angron nodded. “That may be a key part of my ability. I once thought that the ability to sense and absorb emotions was my gift, but now I understand that it is just an extension of my ability, like a side effect.”

"Do not."

“Maybe even telepathy isn’t the key part, it’s also an extension.”

After some thought, Angron asked again: "You once told me that people like me who are called Primarchs have an essence. What is my essence?"

"You have to find the answer yourself. I know a lot, but not everything." Qin Xia stared at Angron.

White light seeped out from Qin Xia's right eye and gradually enveloped the entire eyeball.

In psychic vision, Qin Xia observed Angron.

He could not see what Angron was, nor what he corresponded to in the Warp, as he had before.

Either the Emperor put a layer of "clothes" on the Primarch's essence, or the Primarch's essence already had a layer of "clothes", otherwise it would be bad if it was easily seen by others.

The fluorescence faded away, and Qin Xia suddenly thought of something and said, "After experiencing the void battle, you probably felt that you were not strong enough, so your height has increased a little compared to yesterday. This may also be an extension of your essence, a side effect."

Hearing this, Angron immediately stood up and walked to the wall.

Qin Xia stepped forward and stretched out his fingers to press on the top of Angron's head, then drew a line on the wall behind the Primarch's head, and a horizontal bar to mark the height appeared.

Angron glanced back and saw that it was indeed five centimeters taller.

“Then what is the connection between this and my essence?” Angron looked puzzled, and he seriously speculated, “Why can I grow or shrink like an inflatable ball?”

"I'm not sure, but it's definitely not related to spraying pesticides." Qin Xia thought for a moment and said, "We are now digging into the mystery of you like peeling off a thread. Every time we discover an ability in you, it's like peeling off a thread. One day, the answer will appear in front of us."

"I always saw a giant eye when I was traveling in the warp before. Could it be some kind of part of my existence in the warp?" Angron asked immediately after thinking about it. Qin Xia stroked his chin and thought seriously for a moment, then answered rigorously, "I'm not sure. Maybe it's a creature in the warp that's too bored, or maybe it's a god that's greedy for you. As I said, we have to wait and see what the giant eye is in the future."

Angron pondered for a moment, then nodded in relief.

Some things do seem confusing now.

Qin Xia glanced at the clock on the wall: "Do you know what time it is now?"

“Dinner time.” Angron smiled.

"Eat when you need to eat and drink when you need to drink. Don't forget the time in your heart when things happen. That's right."

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Triumph Hall.

A long table large enough to accommodate hundreds of people for dinner was placed in the center of the hall.

The naval officers' attendants were borrowed and stood against the wall, responsible for serving wine and food to the table.

To others, Angron was feasting with his guide, the Blood Drinker Guards, and a few mortals.

The two brothers, Yochulla and Yochuka, sat on either side of their mother—Angron had taken their mother with him when he left Nuceria.

Qin Xia huddled together with Angron and Crest.

Theseus sat in the corner. She was always a loner, unwilling to talk to others or be talked to by others.

Even Brown, the stone man, attended the dinner.

The others sat arm in arm around the long table, talking and laughing loudly while shoveling food.

"Too bad Cromage isn't here. I kind of missed that bastard's commercials."

"Kro Biotechnology, we will protect your safety and health, and provide you with a safe and secure journey. Blah blah blah, these are the only few words he kept repeating over and over again."

"Everyone's eyes are on me!"

A gladiator suddenly jumped onto the long table, one foot on the bones that had been sucked clean by others, the other on the empty plate, and picked up a meter-high wine barrel and drank it all in one gulp.

Amid the cheers and applause of the crowd, the gladiator who could drink the most finished a barrel of wine, then put the barrel down and stood on the table in a trance.

He found that his once proud skill of drinking a whole barrel of wine had become effortless, just like drinking a belly full of water.

Then he realized that he was no longer the same as before, he was now a superhuman warrior.

The waiters came into the Triumphal Hall in a procession, carrying barrels of wine with great effort.

The gladiator standing on the table immediately increased the difficulty for himself and picked up a bucket of wine and drank it down.

"If that old guy Ono was here, he would definitely tell Keith, that bastard who likes to jump over the table and force people to drink, how much manpower and material resources were spent on brewing those wines, and how much grain would be left if they didn't brew them."

"And once he starts preaching, I'll give him wine. I'd rather hear about his relationship with the High Knight of House Murray than his teachings."

"Back then, a video was circulated in the Fortress Territory. It was found in the treasure house of the Murray family. The video was used for propaganda to undermine the authority of the High Knights. Ono personally went to the propaganda department to have the video deleted."

"I was fighting in the Heros region at that time. Anyone seen that video?"

"I've seen it, and all I can say is... that old bear was very capable when he was young, man."

The hall erupted in laughter.

After the laughter, everyone present suddenly became quiet.

"When we have finished what we are doing, we will return to Nuceria to see them," Angron said. "See Ono and Kromach, and listen to their teachings and advertisements."

Everyone nodded.

At this time, pharmacist Garlan Sulak suddenly walked into the hall and frowned when he saw the messy dinner scene.

"Primarch." Garlan leaned forward to report, "The physical conditions of the Blood Drinker Guard members are all normal. They just transformed into Astartes much faster than others, but there is nothing abnormal."

Angron nodded to show that he understood.

Qin Xia and Nu Weiyi, the two sisters, are both professionals, and they have never stopped paying attention to the health of the gladiators during the transformation process.

Garland saluted and turned to leave.

The dinner continues.

People talked about the time when Qin Xia twisted the neck of the noble gladiator team.

Talking about the interesting things that happened during the uprising war.

Laughing, scolding, eating and drinking to one's heart's content.

Qin Xia calculated the time since he traveled through time and it didn't feel like many years.

Just like the gladiators, they haven't known each other for very long.

But the dangerous living environment forced everyone to open up to each other and build friendships, especially after the principle of not killing was established.

Except for Ono and Cromach, who had already decided what they wanted to do and therefore did not continue to stay with Angron, everyone else accepted the transformation or stayed in the 12th Legion to take on some kind of responsibility.

What did the gladiators fight for?
Smash slavery and oppression? Most of them are uneducated, and they don’t understand or want to study those profound and lofty things.

For the Emperor and the human race? They didn't know the Emperor existed before His coming, nor did they learn the Imperial Truth. They didn't even know what the Great Crusade was.

Qin Xia once thought about why the gladiators continued to fight, and he came up with the answer.

That is, the gladiators established a group with relationships that were even deeper than blood ties. Ninety-nine percent of the people in this group were uneducated and could do nothing but kill. The good things in life only came from other people in this group.

The gladiators wanted to stay in this group, not for anything else, but to maintain an everlasting feast for their brothers and sisters.

(End of this chapter)