Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 260: Wisdom of Future Generations

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The White Knight.

Qin Xia ordered the director of the Great Library, Tethys, to arrange people to stand guard at the entrances and exits, and then took some people he thought would be useful, as well as Avida and Asar, into the library.

Sister Orina stood aside and adjusted the inspection equipment they brought with them.

Qin Xia signaled Avida to bring Asar to his bed.

Avida immediately helped his best friend and superior to the narrow lounge in the inner compartment of the library.

After helping Asar lie down on the bed and pulling up the quilt for him, Avida looked around and found that although the room was narrow and a bit shabby, it was brightly lit.

The starlight outside the porthole spills into the room, and together with the metal bricks used to pave the floor and walls, creates a visual effect like flowing silver spring water.

"It's so cold." Asar's teeth kept chattering, "Avida... use the fire to warm me..."

Avida raised his hands, and flames formed by psychic energy appeared on the wizard's hands. Then he pressed his hands on Asar's body to create warmth for him.

But Asar's condition did not improve at all. Even though Avida kept stopping to control the temperature of the flames until the bed was almost burning, Asar did not feel warm.

"The more you use your psychic power, the colder he gets." Qin Xia sat on the bed, took out a lighter, lit a candle, and placed it on the head of Asar's bed. "You even have to use psychic power to make fire?"

Avida said nothing, but held up the candle to illuminate his superior.

The temperature brought by the candle flame was not as high as the temperature emitted by the chandelier on the ceiling of the room, but it seemed to have magical power to improve Asar's senses and make him no longer feel cold.

Asar finally regained some of his sanity.

Qin Xia glanced at the two sisters, Orina, who were debugging equipment outside the room, then reached out and lifted Asar's robe.

Under the robe is Asar's black shell, with frost already appearing on the shell.

The feathered fingers that Qin Xia had seen on the flagship before... Now not only were there feathers on the fingers, but even Asar's legs were beginning to grow feathers.

Blue feathers.

Element awareness.

"He is possessed by evil spirits." Qin Xia said this hesitantly with a complicated expression.

Avida looked dazed. He was stunned for a moment, then looked at Qin Xia with disbelief.

He didn't expect that the Lord of the White Knights, who attached great importance to knowledge, would actually say... say such an ignorant and foolish word as "possessed".

In the pre-space age when humans were struggling in ignorance and darkness, people used words like being possessed by evil spirits and losing one's soul to describe a person's illness that could not be explained by medicine for the time being.

"He is possessed by evil spirits." Qin Xia emphasized again.

He really didn't want to use that word.

But there's nothing we can do about it, that's the truth.

Among the White Knights, some lower-ranking White Knights would communicate in jargon, one of which was "possessed".

To put it bluntly, it is similar to the situation of being corrupted by the evil spirits of the subspace, but it is not actually corrupted. The reason why this situation is called possession rather than corruption and degeneration is because the possessed person is often because of a "collision" with a demon, or something related to the demon, and then becomes stuck with mysterious things like cause and effect.

There is another possibility, that is, he has been targeted by some kind of warp creature, and then the warp creature is affecting his soul projection... and this influence is slow and continuous.

Although Asar's condition is more reminiscent of flesh and blood mutation, a genetic seed defect unique to the Fifteenth Legion, Qin Xia feels that the feathers growing on his body alone cannot determine that Asar is a flesh and blood mutation, because the flesh and blood mutation caused by the power of Tzeentch would not be so minor.

"Is there a cure?" Avida asked.

Qin Xia thought about it and nodded: "Let's take a look at the test results first."

At this time, the two sisters Orina walked into the room. One of them operated the equipment, and the other picked up the searchlight-like tool on the equipment and aimed it at Asar.

After pulling the switch, a light that could be used to explore the soul enveloped Asar.

"What is this?" Avida was immediately attracted by the device.

"It's a product of soul research." Qin Xia said, "We study psychic energy, and we also study the possibility of using psychic energy in other fields, because I think we will encounter diseases caused by psychic energy sooner or later, so we need this kind of thing."

Avida stared at the device for a while, then saw Qin Xia stand up and walk to the two identical women, exchange a few words with them, and look at the data on the device.

The data displayed by the device is not quantitative, but it is perceptible. It tells a person the test result through the intuition or premonition generated when a person touches the device.

"He's possessed." Qin Xia turned his head and emphasized again, "He's being affected by a Warp creature. You can think of it as some mosquito-like Warp creature sucking blood from his soul. It's possible that when we were on our soul journey, he almost lost control, and then quickly returned to normal, but a Warp creature still found an opportunity to take advantage of him."

Avida breathed a sigh of relief.

"Save this data." Qin Xia said to the two sisters.

Orina and the others nodded, carried the device out of the library, and talked about how the experiment went more smoothly than expected.

Qin Xia pulled Asar up.

"where are we going?"

"Is there any need to ask? Go find a master who can cure evil spirits."

"Grandmaster?"

……

White Knight's storage compartment.

Under the control of a sailor, the huge gate slowly rose, and cold air poured from the cabin into the corridor outside.

The sailor saluted Qin Xia and then stepped aside.

Qin Xia and Avida carried Asar into the cabin together.

In the storage room that was filled with supplies because it had just received resupply, two sturdy men with frost all over their bodies sat on the far steps.

Gray Knight.

Arvida recalled that he had entered this cabin that day and was almost killed by these two Grey Knights. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the elves he was bound to, his soul would have been shattered by the torrent they created.

"Can they...can they do it?" Avida asked with a frown.

Considering the mental state of the two Grey Knights, as well as that of his best friend Asar, Arvida really didn't think these two lunatics could save anyone.

It would be fine if the problem of being possessed was not solved, but if he suddenly suddenly attacked and punched Asar twice, he would be really finished.

"They are professionals." Qin Xia said from the bottom of his heart. As far as Qin Xia knew, the Grey Knights were a professional anti-demon force, but that didn't mean they could do anything else except killing demons.

On the contrary, these two Grey Knights have many talents, such as the witchcraft of various civilizations in ancient Terra, exorcism rituals, and how to make things to ward off and exorcise evil spirits.

Qin Xia even planned to start recording what the two Gray Knights knew in the near future while they were still sane, and then compile it into a book specifically for fighting against demons.

In short, in the current situation, the two Grey Knights are truly a perfect match in terms of professional skills.

"Are you awake?" Qin Xia closed his eyes and explored the souls of the two Gray Knights.

The next second the two Grey Knights suddenly opened their eyes.

Both of them had calm expressions.

Obviously a sane state.

Qin Xia thought that Asar was really lucky. He had originally thought that he was just a passerby, cannon fodder, or a thousand-man. But he turned out to be quite lucky...

This is not the first time Qin Xia has misjudged someone's fate.

At first he thought Caesar was a ruthless character, a future big shot, but Caesar ended up blowing his own head to pieces and did not get the same ending as a big shot with the same name as him - becoming a tough guy.

"He's possessed?"

This sentence was not said by Qin Xia, but by one of the Gray Knights.

The Grey Knights were very experienced and could tell Asar's situation at a glance.

Although feathers were visibly growing on the Aesir's body, the Grey Knights did not immediately assume that this was the influence of Tzeentch.

the reason is simple.

The Grey Knights, like Qin Xia, believed that if this was really the influence of Tzeentch, then this unfortunate guy named Asar would have turned into a Chaos Egg by now.

The two grey knights thought about it for a moment, and then came to the same conclusion as Qin Xia - about the feathers on Asar's body.

Perhaps this is the part of the power of the four Chaos Gods that exists in the Warp, and its unconscious influence on a real creature, just like if a person likes to kill people and kills a lot, he can get some unintentional blessing from Khorne.

Theories and the like can be discussed later; the most urgent task is to save people, the two Grey Knights thought, then stood up and walked towards Asar.

Then, while walking, one of the Gray Knights went crazy again, put his arms behind his back, and ran wildly in the cabin like a ninja.

The remaining sane Grey Knight was no longer surprised by this situation.

"Sit this man down."

"Please."

The Grey Knight walked up to Arvida, saluted subconsciously, and used an honorific title.

Avida wondered why this guy would use a respectful title to address him and bow, but he didn't think about it too much. He still cared more about Asar's life, so he immediately did as he was told.

Asar was dragged by Avida's shoulders and slowly placed on the ground.

The Grey Knight turned around and looked at his companions who were running wildly in the cabin behind him. He sighed, raised his hand, and used his psychic power to search for a piece of chalk in the cabin.

That was the captain's education and planning supplies at the starport.

The sailors will not leave the ship and return to a planet unless the ship is destroyed.

So they were going to reproduce on the ship. Those idealists who had happily joined the White Knight for the "imperial ideal" were now living a miserable life on the ship, and their only fun was probably carrying out biological activities.

So the captain planned to purchase these, and send those already born to the "Sons of the Void" school to study, and let those not yet born wear something to prevent the battleship's population from exploding in the future.

It can be considered as a precautionary measure.

And now, this chalk used to educate children has become a blessing in disguise in the hands of the Grey Knight. Without this thing, there is really no way to achieve what the Grey Knight wants to achieve.

"This chalk is made of white pigment mixed with gunpowder and metal powder." The Grey Knight looked at Qin Xia and put the chalk in front of his nostrils and sniffed it hard. "There was once a village in a world that made money by producing this stuff. Then that village was the only one in the entire galaxy that was not tainted by evil and blasphemy."

"So?" Qin Xia shrugged.

The Grey Knight crouched down and began to write and draw around the Asar.

"In some ancient Terran books I once read, gunpowder was used to exorcise demons."

"Metal powder... because it comes from the quenched metal that falls off during the processing process, it is related to concepts such as flames."

“Both of these things are very useful.”

The Grey Knight explained as he carved a magic circle.

It was a circle around Asar, with circles within circles.

The Imperial Eagle and the Emperor's motto are engraved near the arc of the ring.

"What is going on?" Avida was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

The Grey Knights are a little too mystical, which is not the Imperial truth at all.

"Those who do not doubt, ask, or think, will be blessed by the throne."

“Thoughts breed heresy, and heresy breeds evil.”

The Grey Knight recited maxims while jumping around Asar, dancing and gesticulating with an extremely serious expression. This made others feel that he was not trying to fool people on purpose, but rather that this man actually believed in these things, which was somewhat pitiful.

At this moment, Avida resisted the urge to drag Asar away, and forced himself to watch this weird guy in front of him dancing and shouting like a wizard.

But the next scene soon shocked Avida greatly.

Asar no longer felt the cold, he began to sweat, and at the same time the feathers on his body began to shrink gradually. In the end, although they still existed, they were not as obvious.

Qin Xia watched calmly from the side. He felt that it was not surprising that what the Grey Knights did was really effective. In essence, whether it was witchcraft or anti-witchcraft rituals, they were all some kind of means of using the power of the warp.

But Qin Xia still didn't want to see the Grey Knights' approach work, because it meant that the future had not been changed. Otherwise, the Grey Knights would not be able to call upon the spiritual power of metaphysics and faith generated by future humans' worship of the God-Emperor.

"This..." Avida was incoherent, "This is... this is... what?"

“The wisdom of posterity.”

Qin Xia said.

(End of this chapter)