Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 233 The Development of the Association

Stock really didn't dare to joke anymore.

Honestly plan the building structure to help Qin Xia realize a perfect stronghold.

Originally, the Iron Warriors thought that they would have to work after coming down, just like when they followed Perturabo to fight everywhere before. Not only did they have to fight, but they also had to clear dust, always doing the hardest and most tiring work.

But now they all stood together, shooting the nearby greenskins while waiting for the construction of the stronghold to be completed.

The stronghold was built quickly, and everyone moved into the stronghold and used the defensive weapons on the city walls to fire at the greenskins.

Those defensive weapons are all energy weapons made with rings. A portable energy device carried by Qin Xia provides energy for these weapons and the entire stronghold.

Finally placed within the stronghold was a creation with power equal to that of the Soulless.

The greenskins are originally psychic creatures, and they will hate this kind of creation, but they will still approach the stronghold under control, and then the connection between them and the controller will be cut off, and eventually they will become no threat to the stronghold.

"The ancient creations in your hands are all very powerful."

"I'm a little confused. If that's the case, why do you need us to come here to assist you?"

Dantioch stood outside the shooting point, replacing the ammunition for the grenade launcher in his hand while asking Qin Xia.

"Because including me, the people in the 12th Legion are not as professional as you in how to defend against the enemy." Qin Xia said, "Thank you for your help. Next, I will give you some rewards, and then you can choose to stay or return to the legion."

"Reward?" Stoke came up and asked, "Is the ring a reward?"

Without waiting for Qin Xia to speak, Dantioch quickly looked at his best friend and said, "When you are hungry, I will make you a meal, and then you give me your life, okay?"

"No problem." Stock said with a smile.

Dantioch gave Stoke a stern look.

The others brought here by Dantioch had the same reaction.

In front of Qin Xia, a member of the 12th Legion, all the Iron Warriors except Stocker himself felt that Stocker had brought shame to the th Legion.

Qin Xia was already very helpless, with only doubts left in his mind, that is, he felt that Stoke's joining the Fourth Legion was really a coincidence and inappropriate thing.

Stoke might be more suitable to join Guilliman's legion, or Rogal Dorn's legion.

Ultramarines or Imperial Fists.

Rogal Dorn was a very serious Primarch, even more serious than Dantioch and Perturabo, but this seriousness was not because he wanted to make himself a cold person.

Judging from temperament alone, Rogal Dorn and Perturabo are quite similar.

But Rogal Dorn had a talent for humor. Sometimes he would make everyone laugh with a casual remark, and his serious and meticulous expression would make the comedy effect even more dramatic.

And Guilliman is simply a humorous person.

Anyway, Stoke was an outlier in the Fourth Legion, but he was still a battle brother of everyone, a weapons master, a blacksmith, and a master builder, so there was no way to find a reason to kick him out.

"We are friendly forces. This operation is just a piece of cake. I have nothing to ask for, and nothing I want to ask for." Dantioch said.

"Then do you want me to help you test whether this thing can be used?" Qin Xia pointed to the detection device embedded in Dantioch's arm.

Dantioch still had doubts, but after carefully recalling his previous experience, he came to a conclusion with an accuracy rate of about 80%: "Suddenly I remembered my previous experience. I once heard the words of the green-skinned creature that controlled all the greenskins. I thought he should have appeared at that time, but the detector still didn't respond at all."

Qin Xia wanted to say that this was not necessarily the case.

Qin Xia knew that Dantioch had heard the voice of the psychic orc before, because he also heard it when he was teleported to the surface.

But it's just conveying a voice, which doesn't mean that the person who made the voice has to be present at the scene.

After thinking for a while, Qin Xia suddenly patted Dantioch's arm and said, "Don't worry about it. It doesn't matter whether this thing is useful or not."

"No, it's very important." Dantioch shook his head. "If there are problems with the Lord of Steel's invention, then if we encounter a similar situation next time and he wants us to die with a half-finished product, then I will have a reason to refute him."

Qin Xia looked helpless. He knew what would happen to Dantioch if he really refuted Perturabo, or directly confronted Perturabo.

That is to be exiled to another place by the furious Perturabo, and never be able to follow the legion to fight again.

"You'd better not do that." Qin Xia advised.

Dantioch remained silent.

There is no doubt that the people who could be brought by Dantioch were people who were close to Dantioch in terms of ideology. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, and regardless of what the purpose was, Perturabo gathered people like Dantioch together and gathered them under Dantioch's command.

So when Dantioch spoke out to refute the Father of Genes, they did not have any extreme reaction.

"It suddenly occurred to me what I should ask of you."

When everyone was silent, Dantioch suddenly spoke again.

Qin Xia immediately nodded and listened attentively.

“A way to reach you anywhere, anytime.”

Dantioch took off his helmet, and on his iron-like face, a pair of bright eyes stared at Qin Xia.

"In fact, I want to say that I would like to contact the Lord of the Twelve Legions anytime and anywhere, but I know that is not something that an ordinary soldier of the 4th Legion can afford. It is better to contact you. As long as I can contact you, it means I can contact the Lord of the Twelve Legions."

"If the entire legion encounters an incident in the future, an incident that may cause the entire legion to pay a heavy price because of the Lord of Steel's willful behavior, I hope I can contact you and ask the Lord of the 12th Legion to help."

"I know there is only one person who can control the Lord of Steel, and that is the Lord of the Twelve Legions."

Dantioch said sincerely.

And Qin Xia agreed without hesitation: "Before our war with this galaxy ends, I will give you a creation that will allow you to easily contact me, no matter where we are."

Dantioch nodded slowly, accepting hesitantly, his mind contemplating other things.

Qin Xia looked at Dantioch and felt that Dantioch was actually quite contradictory and complicated.

On the one hand, this warrior is definitely not a rebel, and he does not want to question or challenge the authority of the Primarch.

But he couldn't accept some of Perturabo's behavior and couldn't just sit back and watch.

A loyalist with a reformist bent.

There is no way to completely hate Perturabo, and there is no way to completely trust Perturabo.

He was psychologically very disobedient to Perturabo, but he had no way to firmly refuse when Perturabo gave him an order.

Just like on the Nofsendak V, Dantioch did what Perturabo ordered him to do after stealing Angron's weapons, even though he was extremely reluctant.

"You once told me in a casual chat that you had founded an organization called the Human History Research Association to collect relics and knowledge, and asked me to help you keep an eye out for what you were looking for." Dantioch said, "Perhaps I should join this organization. In return, I can give you some information about ancient relics and ancient knowledge. If I can find what you are interested in directly, I will also give it to you."

Qin Xia was very surprised to hear Dantioch suddenly mention the association.

Dantioch explained: "I know how difficult the Lord of Iron is to deal with. I also know that he really wanted to kill you and the Primarch you raised. We only helped you with a small favor, but asked for a lot, so we used this method to balance it."

"Okay then." Qin Xia nodded.

Qin Xia never imagined that the association he established to collect ancient relics and knowledge was actually just an organization set up under a clever name, and the name was used to deceive people.

Although it is indeed as the name suggests, it will indeed record and preserve the authentic history of the Great Crusade, but this is not its main business after all...

Such an organization would actually have a Space Marine from the Fourth Legion joining it.

"Hiss...you reminded me."

As he was thinking, Qin Xia suddenly froze for a moment, and then he immediately had a good idea.

The good idea is that since the main things the association does have nothing to do with the name of the association, why should it be limited to a single cause?

Why can't an association be an organization with many individuals participating, who can come from anywhere and have any identity?

As long as everyone has the same goal, can help each other, and has consistent interests, that's enough.

Then the organization can grow larger and contribute to a bigger cause.

For example, in order to deal with the Horus Heresy which may still occur in the future, we should find ways to recruit important loyalists from each legion to join the association.

Then, at some point in the future, when a Primarch's corruption is irreversible, an assassination attempt on that specific Primarch can be arranged through loyal warriors who have joined the Society.

Or something similar.

For example, collecting evidence of the legion's corruption to alert the imperial high-ranking officials, or organizing and mobilizing loyalists in advance to prevent the loyalists from being quickly purged after the legion's corruption, and retaining the loyalists' vitality in a corrupted legion.

What is more important is to prevent the corruption of a legion or a primarch from the source.

Just like now.

Looking into Dantioch's eyes, Qin Xia thought that Angron's ability was the nemesis of the unreasonable Perturabo.

If Perturabo is a balloon that keeps inflating without letting anyone know it's inflated, then Angron is a needle that is 100% sure to find the balloon and deflate it.

And because of Angron's existence, perhaps the entire Fourth Legion, the Iron Warriors, a large legion that was the main force of the rebellion after the Horus Heresy, would be able to avoid going down a path of no return.

Just like he had prevented Angron and the World Eaters from going down a path of no return.

"Good idea." Qin Xia immediately extended his hand to Dantioch. "But you really don't need to help me find knowledge or relics as a supplementary part of the transaction conditions, because this is not a transaction at all. In any case, Angron will not watch the Lord of Steel become more and more brutal and elusive."

"Remember when some of you were about to be killed by Eleven, and Angron stopped the Lord of Steel with a flying kick?"

"He felt any pain or struggle, so he would never sit back and do nothing."

"..."

When Qin Xia mentioned Angron's kick that saved six hundred Iron Warriors, the soldiers present stood straighter, with solemn looks appearing on their faces under their helmets.

The warriors under Dantioch's command were all among the six hundred men that Angron had saved.

Angron's help saved them from having to do such a ridiculous thing: nine men tearing a battle-brother's limbs apart with their bare hands, ripping out his organs, and completing the tithe.

"That is settled then," said Dantioch.

Qin Xia nodded again.

After looking around, Dantioch frowned and asked, "What is the purpose of this base?"

"It's like a research station located in the death world that specializes in studying the environment of the death world." Qin Xia said, "But I arranged it to be a weapons testing station. Some powerful weapons will be tested here."

"Can those powerful weapons really be effective against psychic powers?" Dantioch recalled the prophecy that live ammunition extinction weapons should never be used to attack a planet.

"I'm talking about a psychic weapon, so of course it's effective." Qin Xia took out the pocket universe generator he had obtained in the Ark World before, "This is a way to break the deadlock. Before the Emperor really arrives and personally leads the army to attack the enemy, we still have a way that may be able to change the direction of the war."

Dantioch did not recognize the alien creature in Qin Xia's hand.

He and the other Iron Warriors present simply saw Qin Xia reach his hand into a strange device, touch it twice, and then shake the device in his hand, and a pile of weapons poured out.

Perhaps it was some kind of ancient Nuceria technology, some kind of wisdom of human ancestors. Dantioch thought so, so he didn't think about what the creation in Qin Xia's hand was that could store weapons much larger than the device itself.

Compared to the ring that can shape objects at will, this device for storing things is not that amazing if we don't know the principle it uses.

"Conventional weapons, used to deal with psionic creatures. They are much more effective than explosive bombs against green-skinned bosses wearing armor."

Qin Xia showed everyone a weapon that looked similar to a grenade launcher.

Then he picked up a one-meter-long heavy weapon.

"Armor-piercing weapons are very effective against creatures that can use psionic defenses."

"..."

The Iron Warriors picked up their weapons and examined them.

One of them asked: "If the greenskins launch an attack here, will these weapons make it easy to defend this place?"

"Of course not, these are just test pieces." Qin Xia shook his head, "This base is still useful... I also have other ways to protect it in a way that is impossible to be breached."

The method Qin Xia mentioned is the soulless person.

The super soulless civilian who was rescued in the war before, the guy who used his soulless talent to sink a green battleship.

It would be more convenient if he could bring the Soulless Man with him directly, because the greenskins really have no way to hurt him.

But the problem is that it is impossible to bring the soulless person here.

Previously, this guy was placed on the lowest level of the White Knight. Then, when dealing with the Eldar Prophet, the bow of the White Knight was pierced and demons infiltrated the ship.

The Soulless Man was so frightened at that time that he probably ran away to a deserted place, because the sailors on the lower deck had never seen him.

The battleship is so huge that it is not easy to find a missing person in the ancient areas on the lower deck where no one may have been for hundreds of years, but the captain and think tanks are already trying their best to look for him.

Qin Xia could only wait and do something else while waiting, such as what he was doing now.

(End of this chapter)