Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 272 Harmful Hope

Avida held up a barrier to intercept the creatures that were shot at the World Eaters like ammunition, then raised his other hand and released psychic lightning that cleared out all the enemies in front of him in an instant.

When facing organic enemies, psychic lightning is a simple and efficient attack method.

At the same time, Avida's power allowed the World Eaters present to see the strength of the psychics, but they just looked back at Avida and continued to move forward.

It's not that there are no think tanks within the World Eaters, but unlike the Thousand Sons, most of their people are psykers.

"I found something." After killing a group of enemies casually, Avida put down his hands and said to Qin Xia, "I saw something on the battleship... I didn't run down on a whim... I saw those aliens..."

When a person who can predict the future tries to explain something complex, his speech becomes incoherent.

Qin Xia raised his hand to signal Avida to speak slowly.

Avida was silent for a moment, organizing his words, and then spoke again: "I saw the past of those aliens on the thread of fate. I saw that they were once an extremely pathetic and ridiculous race, just like all the aliens in the galaxy."

"They live on a hellish planet. Their evolution is always dangerous, ugly and flawed. Their genetic code stinks and rots like shit."

"In the process, they gave birth to a religion, an evolutionary religion, and believed in the god of evolution. At the same time, they also experienced flesh and blood mutations, which were more serious than the flesh and blood mutations of our Fifteenth Legion."

"It is a genetic disease. Just as the gene-seed of the XVth Legion brought the Sons of Magnus, the genes of the xenos brought them genetic diseases."

“But ultimately, they cure their own genetic disease.”

"..."

Avida, the future Lord of the Grey Knights and loyalist of the Thousand Sons Legion, now tells Qin Xia about his understanding in a torrent of words.

After listening halfway, Qin Xia concluded that Avida believed that the blood and flesh mutation problem of the Thousand Sons was a genetic problem and had nothing to do with anything else.

But Qin Xia knew very well that the problem of flesh and blood mutation was caused by Tzeentch's servants, and was catalyzed by the magical elves in the Warp who now served the Thousand Sons like dogs. From the very beginning, Avida and his brothers' understanding of flesh and blood mutation was wrong.

Qin Xia tried to persuade Avida with his eloquence, but failed.

Because at this time, persuasion seems meaningless to the person involved.

The mutation of flesh and blood earned the Fifteenth Legion the name "Thousand Sons". This horrific disease, which they believed to be a genetic disease, tormented every descendant of Magnus. Those who had not yet undergone the mutation of flesh and blood would be like Asar, who was smiling before but now could not smile anymore.

In Avida's eyes, a very optimistic and knowledgeable person who could bring warmth became gloomy and locked himself in the room... When he pushed the door open, he could only see Asar cutting his own mutated flesh with a dagger, and his whole body was covered in blood...

It’s like a suffering cancer patient who sees another cancer patient cured of his cancer. The desire to survive drives him to search and learn. No matter how effective the cancer treatment technology is, it is the hope of this dying person.

Anyone who tries to persuade him will be regarded by him as an obstacle standing in the way of hope.

"Qin Xia." Avida glanced at the World Eaters that were gradually moving away, hunched over, took off his helmet and held it in his hand, and said sincerely, "I know that your previous warnings were correct. I know that it is true that those Warp Elves have bad intentions. I listened to everything you warned me..."

A light appeared in Qin Xia's somewhat confused eyes, as if he saw a turning point.

"I realized that our entire 15th Legion was doing something wrong."

Avida continued.

"I believe everything you say... I believe it without reservation..."

"Once I have cured my Asar brothers of their mutations and we return to the Legion, I will immediately do everything I can to persuade my Gene Father and my brothers to be more vigilant against the Warp."

"If GeneFather...if Magnus doesn't believe what you told me and what I passed on, I will denounce him in public at the Society!"

After hearing what Avida said, Qin Xia became a little confused again, and had already anticipated what the man in front of him would say next.

"But could you please not take away and store the technical data on how to treat mutations?" Avida hunched over, looking up at Qin Xia, and asked eagerly and sincerely, "You can just let me take a look, at least let me see what their thinking is... let me see a little hope..."

"Please. It's not just Asar. My brothers are waiting for the day when their genetic defects can be cured. Those who are still alive are waiting to die in a dark place on Prospero, just like the lepers who were expelled from cities or villages and waited to die in one place a long, long time ago when humans had no way to cure leprosy."

"..."

Qin Xia did not decide to retain or store all the technology of the alien civilization.

Unlike some ancient forbidden technology, ancient ritual spells... the biotechnology used by this alien race is more like a product of pure chaos.

An evil relic or spell used to summon demons, or to control and banish them.

Some ancient forbidden technology, it has nothing to do with chaos, but is related to artificial intelligence or too powerful ancient weapons, so it is banned.

Qin Xia will keep all of the above.

But for certain technologies that are completely based on the power of chaos, Qin Xia would treat them with an attitude like burning books and burying scholars, because even if those things cannot affect or corrupt him, their continued existence will have no other purpose except waiting to see the light of day one day and corrode others.

"..." Qin Xia looked at Avida and couldn't think of any way to persuade him, until he realized that for a "cancer patient", pathological analysis and persuasion that required rationality were of no value...

He nodded.

Avida breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Xia walked past Avida and the World Eaters, and past the aliens who were trying to intercept the attackers.

He used all of his psychic powers to influence the minds of everyone, including Avida, so that they could still see him.

Then Qin Xia rushed towards the depths of this maze-like haunted place.

A moment later, Qin Xia himself had reached the deepest part of the underground, and in the eyes of Avida and others, he still stayed beside them, following them slowly forward.

This is the holy land of the alien race.

The holy place of the Evolutionary Religion mentioned by Avida.

The statue of the god worshipped by the alien is among them, and all the clues within the holy land will reveal to Qin Xia what kind of god the alien believes in.

But Qin Xia did not rush into the holy land. Instead, he leaned against the wall and thought with his head down.

He recalled Avida's attitude just now.

Qin Xia just felt helpless now. He didn't want to blame Avida at all, nor did he want to say that the people of the 15th Legion were short-sighted or stubborn.

Because Qin Xia put himself in their shoes and thought that if someone he cared about had a genetic disease that was related to chaos, and there was a chaos technology that could potentially treat them, he might make the same decision as Avida.

Those who are in control are not necessarily confused, but they are definitely anxious.

But these days, words about the Dark God, about Chaos, about Demons... these words are all bullshit to a person who has been instilled with firm beliefs in the Imperial Truth. The Thousand Sons may not have the beliefs in the Imperial Truth, but they have seen the "real" Warp, and they will believe that the Warp they have seen is the real one.

Qin Xia thought about it and realized that these days, apart from the Emperor himself who created the Imperial Truth, there might be no Space Marines or Primarchs who would believe in the existence of Chaos Gods and Demons.

"Oh." Qin Xia sighed.

When revealing the truth cannot convince a person, the person who wants to persuade will only feel powerless.

Qin Xia recalled his first conversation with Avida. He was very angry at that time, as if asking: "Why don't you believe the truth I tell you?" But now he was angry at all. He felt that he had become an obstacle between a group of people with terminal illnesses and what they believed to be hope.

"I want to help them...if I can...if I have the ability to cure the disease of the Fifteenth Legion." Qin Xia thought.

Then he took off his helmet and scratched his head in distress.

He was silent for a moment, thought for a moment, and then put the helmet back on silently.

After a psychic impact shattered the gate in front of him and the guards inside, Qin Xia stepped into the holy land. This place was the same as what he saw outside with his psychic vision, but it was clearer and more detailed... For some reason, some things here seemed blurry to Qin Xia, and were not as clear as the naked eye.

Qin Xia stepped on the fragments shattered by the psychic impact and moved forward in the alien's blood that exuded the beautiful red crystal color.

In this holy place, everything the aliens believed in was left with clues, and these clues revealed their beliefs to Qin Xia.

On the murals, the history of the alien race is presented.

It is indeed as Avida, the man with powerful prophetic abilities, said. This alien race was plagued by diseases at the beginning. Its evolutionary path and living environment caused their genetic code to be like a pile of shit.

The genes of humans are ten thousand times worse than those of humans before the genetic modification in the Golden Age.

The congenital disease makes these aliens believe that all living things in the universe can only live for a dozen years and can only survive in pain and suffering.

So the aliens regard death as a good thing. Their race does not celebrate the birth of an individual, but celebrates the death of an individual.

Because in their eyes, death means liberation.

"I think it's the influence of the god of corruption."

Qin Xia recorded it in the book given by the emperor.

"Disease. This is the characteristic of the god of corruption."

"In my experience, every planet I've seen that has been affected by the power of the God of Corruption has been plagued by disease, and people suffer from the disease until they can no longer bear it."

"This alien race may be a race with strong psychic potential, so their connection with the warp is very strong. Even before the power of the Dark Gods has penetrated into reality in large quantities, this race has already become a corrupt lackey."

"but……"

“That’s what I thought before.”

Qin Xia turned his head and looked at another part of the mural.

"Now I don't think this race has anything to do with the God of Corruption."

In Qin Xia's eyes, the evolutionary path of this alien race was completely marked out.

From a race that looked like giant rats that were rotting and emitting a foul smell, they changed into a race that no longer rots, and then until now they have imitated humans and become a three-meter-tall, extremely muscular race.

This doesn't mean much to someone who doesn't have a deep understanding of chaos.

But Qin Xia understood Chaos. He saw the changes in this alien race - from weak and rotten to strong and perfect. Their genes were improved step by step, and their biotechnology developed step by step. Their civilization had undergone earth-shaking changes just like their body shape.

Variety.

This is Tzeentch's power and the main source of his strength.

Technology, conspiracy.

These two are the inherent impressions that Tzeentch has left on people, but technology and conspiracy are far less important than change in Tzeentch.

Tzeentch's nickname is - The Lord of Change.

This name is enough to show what is the most important thing to Tzeentch, that is change.

Aliens pursue evolution, they become different from what they were before, they become better, this is change.

On this planet, humans have been transformed from their original form into diseased creatures, and this is also a change.

Humans organized a resistance army and began to fight against the aliens. This is also a change.

One day, humans came, and the Space Marines beat up the aliens who had become arrogant, and then killed them all. This is also a change.

As long as there is a turning point and change in things, Tzeentch will benefit, and he will also take the initiative to promote change.

For example, the history of the human resistance army on this planet. When they ran out of the pasture, they didn’t even have clothes, but they were able to build a city in the desert, and then develop a production system and make weapons... Tzeentch must have helped.

Likewise, humans certainly received help from Tzeentch during the Great Crusade.

These are the Dark Gods, the Chaos Gods.

Khorne, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaanesh.

The four gods have no stance and are neither good nor evil. They will bless the weak with great power to overthrow the strong, and they will also bless the strong to enslave the weak... They do not distinguish between good and evil, but only influence reality intentionally or unintentionally due to the influence of the relevant concepts that constitute themselves.

"Even uprisings and reforms will benefit Jianqi." Qin Xia thought.

This was the most helpless thing for him.

Even bringing change to an oppressed group would benefit Tzeentch.

Qin Xia's gaze moved away from the wall and fell on the statue.

The great pedestal of the statue was empty.

This made Qin Xia even more certain that the aliens believed in Tzeentch, not Nurgle.

Tzeentch is formless and changeable. It is neither bird-like like its demonic servants, nor does it have a definite appearance, so its believers cannot give it a clear image.

Qin Xia withdrew his gaze again and walked to a device behind the statue.

The device made of flesh and blood was breathing. After sensing someone approaching, an organ similar to a mouth slowly opened. The tooth structure inside seemed to be some kind of means of extracting and verifying DNA.

Qin Xia stretched out his hand and placed it on the surface of the device. His eyes glowed with psychic energy and a trace of surprise appeared on his face.

This device was modified by humans and is considered wetware.

Qin Xia sensed it again, then destroyed the device, allowing it to rest in peace.

Then, just like the lock on a warehouse door fell off, the walls inside the entire holy place slowly rose up.

Qin Xia discovered that the underground part of the tower was actually the interior of a device. He felt like he was in a flesh-and-blood computer. Those maze-like structures were actually computer circuits, but they were circuits used to transmit nerve signals.

This creation that used biotechnology to its fullest reminded Qin Xia of Nurgle, because he had personally seen Nurgle's almighty mechanical flesh-and-blood creations, such as tanks and transport planes made of flesh and blood...

The technical information that Avida wanted to obtain was undoubtedly among them.

Qin Xia thought about it, and finally felt that this matter itself was most likely a trap set up by Tzeentch instructing a certain demon, which was another conspiracy against the Thousand Sons.

Whatever technology was stored here to cure the xenos and the same flesh-mutations that the Thousand Sons share, learning this blessed technology from Tzeentch was tantamount to begging an antidote from a poisoner.

So there is only one thing to do.

Qin Xia raised his hand.

No psychic blasts or flames were unleashed to sear this underground world of flesh and blood.

Just after a loud bang, the spear of the God Titan pierced through the ground and stabbed in front of Qin Xia.

Then, just like a creature being hunted, the cry shook Qin Xia's ears, and everything around him began to tremble and finally collapsed.

(End of this chapter)