Warhammer: Angron Training Manual
Chapter 291 Come and get RTS
Chapter 291 Come and get RTS
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Today, the Desia City Arena is a bustling entertainment area, where gladiator stars are invited to participate in competitions every month.
There are commercial streets and entertainment venues everywhere near the Colosseum, as well as the headquarters building of the Colosseum operators and the most luxurious hotel in the entire Nuceria.
Guilliman was assigned a penthouse suite in one of the tallest hotels, and the level of comfort here was no less than that of the resort that Cromacher had opened in the mountains.
In the open-air bath, Guilliman soaked in the hot spring water pumped from underground, looking down at the gladiatorial contest taking place below.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the team of gladiator stars made their grand appearance.
These gladiator stars are dressed very exaggeratedly in order to attract attention and allow the audience to tell at a glance who their favorite star is during the fight.
Guilliman dislikes gladiatorial combat, nor duels.
In his view, this was a waste of military resources and had no value.
"I hate the arena in Desia."
"I once wanted to destroy this place, leaving only the cave where I, my adoptive father, and my brothers and sisters lived. But later, when I found that even the youngest slaves asked me after being rescued by me: Lord God, will I be qualified to enter the arena as a free man to watch the fights in the future? I had no choice but to keep everything."
The voice came from behind.
Guilliman looked back and saw Angron and Qin Xia enter the room and sit on the sofa.
"Sometimes we have to follow the will of the people. When people crave fighting as much as they crave drama, we can only follow them." Guilliman stood up from the bath and walked out of the hot spring step by step. "But education will bring civilization, and civilization will change people's minds. After people's minds change, they will question the past."
Angron thought for a moment and said sincerely, "You are a truly civilized man, brother."
“A civilized environment can shape civilization.” Guilliman shook his head slightly, sat down opposite Angron, and picked up the wine glass filled with wine. “And I can’t see any trace of civilization in the pre-Nuceria era.”
Guilliman took a sip of Nuceria's wine and reached out to flip through the pages of a book.
The book is a history book that records the uprising war.
"You carried out an extermination operation against the High Knights, eradicating their roots and digging up their graves."
"You killed them all, young and old, men and women."
“It’s written here.”
Guilliman said as he looked towards Qin Xia.
Qin Xia's face was calm, and he simply admitted: "This book doesn't record everything. We also carried out a massacre of the Guards, eradicating the roots and digging up graves. There is a place called Fortress Territory on Nu Star. Back then, my brothers and sisters Angron and I started a massacre there. The canals were cut off, and finally the blood of the slave owners' running dogs flushed the canals open again."
Qin Xia did not shy away from talking about what happened back then.
Even now, he never shy away from talking about the cruel acts of the past in any occasion or in front of anyone.
Because Qin Xia wanted the people of Nuceria to remember what once existed here and how cruel it would take to destroy that existence.
Angron did not shy away from these things. He also believed that these things were proof that he was not kind enough and that he could only empathize with the weak. Therefore, he would say in front of his descendants that he was not a saint or a truly kind person.
He felt that... a truly kind person might be able to directly influence others like Sanguinius did, or like Guilliman... If it were Guilliman, he should have a better way to deal with the High Knights and the Guards.
"I am not trying to make a moral assessment of your actions. I am just trying to prove my point. A civilized environment can foster civilization." Guilliman put down his wine glass and flipped through the book on his knees. "If you allow me to make an assessment of the past of Nu Star..."
"It seems to me that the High Knights, the Guards, and the slaves have been transformed into different creatures."
"There is no chance to ease the conflict and sit down to talk. All you can do is kill the High Knights and the Guards, or be killed by them."
Guilliman pondered as he expressed his opinion.
"Nu is a peculiar planet. The High Knights, the ruling class, derive their legitimacy and power from objects rather than people."
"The high knights are also divided into different levels according to the strength of the items they possess."
"As a result, as nobles, they have not even evolved a way to get along with each other by resolving issues at the negotiation table instead of killing each other."
"You should have noticed this. The way the High Knights solve problems is to exterminate the other family, exterminate the other family members, or exterminate their own family members..."
A hint of sarcasm appeared on Guilliman's face.
"They haven't even evolved a way to solve problems without talking too much."
Qin Xia and Angron listened to Guilliman's analysis and recalled that they had also conducted a sociological analysis of the pre-Nu Star era.
Just as Guilliman analyzed.
Because of the existence of this ancient technological creation, the High Knights' ruling foundation is not human, and power is from top to bottom.
The High Knights had never resolved anything through negotiation. Not with slaves, not with each other. They had always relied on using ancient technological creations to resolve everything.
Even the form of governance that humans were able to evolve in the tribal civilization period before the space age - solving some problems by talking rather than killing each other - has not evolved on Nuxing.
The reason is that the ancient technological creations not only lead to a huge disparity in power between the High Knights and the slaves, but also a huge disparity in power among the High Knights themselves.
such as.
After Tark, a madman, got possession of those ancient technological creations, he killed whoever he wanted. After he killed his nephews with a clumsy conspiracy whose truth was obvious to everyone, the family members were also angry but dared not say anything.
"The strong prey on the weak, there is no order, and there is no reasonable way to resolve differences and conflicts..." Angron said solemnly, "This influence even continues to this day. When a Nu star is treated unfairly, the first thing he will do is not to accuse or seek help, but to pick up a knife and kill the person who bullied him."
Guilliman nodded. "Like the Nu people and the High Knights of the past, the Nu people have only two states of being: servile and dormant, or violent and fierce resistance."
The two Primarchs reached a consensus.
"We need enlightenment. We have known this for a long time." Qin Xia said, "We promote education at all costs. There is a man named Ono, who was originally one of us. He got a school, but he found that one school was not enough, so he traveled around to spread education and enlightenment."
"You need time." Guilliman glanced at the prosperous city outside. "Low civilization level plus high technology level led to the pre-Nu Star era. It is still the same now. Your people have advanced technology, but the level of civilization has not caught up with the level of technology. But in time, they will be educated and know what civilization is."
It was hard for Qin Xia not to agree.
After saying this, Guilliman suddenly imagined what kind of decisions he would make if he was born in this world, without the love of his adoptive father and mother, and without the relatively civilized environment like Macragge, for example, how he should deal with the High Knight.
What to do? The only option is to kill.
Guilliman sincerely believed that the High Knights, who even considered pleasure and body modification as entertainment activities, could not be tolerated. Only the most despicable, the worst, the most insane, the most ruthless damned slave owners and tyrants would sympathize with the High Knights and associate with them.
Only the basest, the worst, the most insane moral performance artists would show sympathy to the High Knights and grant them tolerance.
Not killing people is not civilization.
Those who deserve to die will be punished with death, and those who abide by the rules and are kind can live free from fear and humiliation. That is civilization.
"..."
There was silence for a while as Guilliman pondered.
By the time Guilliman had finished thinking, he realized that the topic he had brought up was inappropriate and very heavy.
All three were silent.
Guilliman was silent for about two minutes, and suddenly couldn't help but break the silence.
Now we should use some light-hearted suggestions to liven up the atmosphere again. After all, this is a meeting of brothers, not a grievance-filled gathering.
"Come and get rts?"
Guilliman suddenly suggested.
Angron was stunned for a few seconds. "What? RTS? What is this?"
Guilliman rose immediately.
Soon, when Guilliman returned, a device was placed in front of Angron and Qin Xia.
"This is a game console, a game console from ancient times."
“When players connect to it, they can enter a virtual world and play a war game.”
"I played with this with Corax... and I brought it with me when I decided to visit you some time ago."
Guilliman said as he began to debug the gaming equipment.
Qin Xia recalled that this was something used by Guilliman and Corax. The two played a war game, and Guilliman was defeated by Corax three times. After that, a special strategy was formulated and Corax could no longer defeat Guilliman.
Perhaps thinking that this thing could bring them closer together, Guilliman brought this thing along as well.
War games, real-time strategy, that's rts.
“Consciousness stealth?” Angron pointed at the device and said, “It’s like putting on the device and instantly entering a world that’s exactly the same as the real world, and then you can do whatever you want.”
Guilliman nodded. "How do you know so much? Do you have it here too?"
"We have plenty of this stuff here." Angron gestured to a square box. "We use it to treat mental illness, but if patients use it too much, they may develop a new mental illness called reality degeneration."
Guilliman looked at the device in his hand, was silent for a few seconds, then smiled bitterly and said: "I have to say, Nuxing is indeed a good place in some aspects."
The equipment was gradually debugged.
Guilliman pulled three wires from the device.
Angron stepped forward, Qin Xia also stepped forward, and Guilliman came last. The three of them connected to the equipment together and entered an illusory and unreal world.
A LOGO written in an ancient language emerged.
Then the three of them appeared in a wilderness.
"Welcome to the customizable war game!"
"Here, you will play the war game that suits you best."
The loud prompt sound rumbled in the sky like thunder.
Then came a disclaimer, spoken extremely quickly and quietly.
"This game will use a program to automatically generate game content based on the information in the player's brain. Any similarities are purely coincidental. In addition, this device is in the initial version stage and may cause epilepsy and reality disintegration problems. Please play under the guidance of a private medical AI."
After a disclaimer that almost sounded hot, a row of game options appeared in front of the three people.
Guilliman clicked a few times with familiarity, then looked at Angron and smiled.
Angron sensed Guilliman's thoughts.
Guilliman came prepared.
He had originally intended to use this war game to bring them closer together, and after just discussing Nuceria's heavy past, Guilliman used this game to lighten the atmosphere.
Angron also wanted to play this game.
In particular, he wanted to see the differences in fighting styles between Guilliman and Perturabo and the rest of his brothers, and what he could learn from each other.
"Let's begin." Angron looked at Qin Xia, then at Guilliman, and nodded vigorously.
"I will attack in psychic state!" Qin Xia took a deep breath and prepared himself.
Guilliman nodded and looked ahead.
A huge loading box popped up.
1 percent, 2 percent…6 percent.
"..."
"..."
"..."
The three of them fell silent again, waiting for the loading box to reach the end.
(End of this chapter)
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