Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 308 Sarum

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"For Mankind! For the Emperor!"

“My fellow human beings! Don’t be afraid of anything that we shouldn’t be afraid of. Don’t let fear kill the courage and creativity of our race!”

"..."

As the broadcast sounded, the battleship quickly rested and entered the subspace, and soon ended its subspace voyage and entered the real universe again.

This time they arrived directly at the target location, which was the galaxy with the Forged World of Salum.

Compared to the previous galaxy, the White Knight went deeper into the area near the Maelstrom, but this time when it came out of the subspace and the moment Geller's stand was closed, only a few Sons of the Void saw the illusion and committed suicide or killed someone.

However, in this galaxy, what the White Knight has to face is a thousand times more terrifying than illusions.

"The White Knight is expected to enter the engagement site in ten minutes!" The officer who was monitoring the information reported loudly to Qin Xia.

Then various reports were sounded one after another. According to the naval combat regulations, the people on the command deck reported everything from the engagement distance to the number of enemy ships, scanning results, galaxy environment... and even the various types of enemy warships.

The captain who was stabbed into the hospital needed this information to assist in his judgment, but Qin Xia's right half of the eye, which was flashing with a bright white light, had already helped him see all of this information.

Amidst the reports, Qin Xia walked towards the towering floor-to-ceiling porthole in front of the command deck and stood with his hands behind his back.

There are more than thirty enemy ships of various types in the galaxy, including warships of the Brotherhood of Destruction and warships of the green-skinned orc mercenaries.

As a sub-human empire, their warships naturally look a bit human-like, such as the left-right symmetrical structure, but they don't look as sharp as today's human empire ships.

As for the green-skinned ship... Qin Xia had already tasted it and didn't pay any attention to it now.

"Sir...how should we respond?" an officer asked.

"Prepare for landing operations." Qin Xia ordered calmly.

Although it is a pipe dream to prepare for landing operations without conducting a void battle, since this is an order issued by the Lord of the White Knights, things will develop as he said. If he says there is no need to conduct a void battle, then there is no need.

When preparations for the landing operation began, Qin Xia reached to his waist and took off the book given by the emperor.

Qin Xia held the book in his left hand and flipped the pages casually with his right hand.

The rapidly turning pages of the book stopped when the page about the Lord of Change appeared.

The pages of the book were like a piece of transparent glass. The demon king sealed inside hit the pages hard but to no avail. He opened his mouth as if to make some kind of mocking sound or scolding. However, no matter how he moved his mouth, not a single sound could be heard outside the pages.

As Qin Xia loosened his grip on the book, the book floated in the air.

After taking a deep breath, Qin Xia closed his eyes, clasped his palms together, and concentrated all his attention.

The book floating in the air glowed, and the Lord of Change sealed in the pages hit the surface of the pages even harder, but it was still useless. Finally, it seemed as if he was squeezed dry and turned into a painting on the pages.

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The Lord of Change can only slowly accumulate strength, and then transform from a painting sealed on the pages of the book into a dynamic picture, but that is a matter for later.

At the moment, Qin Xia wanted to take advantage of the Lord of Change's affinity for the subspace rift environment and the extremely fragile reality structure here, as well as the abundant psychic power and his latest psychic spells... In short, he wanted to perform a psychic miracle when multiple factors came together.

"Open." Qin Xia muttered to himself, and slowly opened his clasped palms.

And in the void, a crack opened in the center of the fleet of the Brotherhood of Destruction and the green-skinned orcs, and blue tentacles stretched out from it and wrapped around each warship.

The rift grew larger and larger until it eventually expanded to cover the entire fleet, and all the warships were pulled into the warp by the tentacles.

This is a spell that can move an entire enemy fleet directly into the warp and then throw it out. It will not directly destroy the entire enemy fleet, but it can disperse their fleet and make their future uncertain.

The only drawback of this psychic spell is that it has strict requirements on the strength of the reality structure and requires the use of the sealed Lord of Change.

"Prepare for landing operations!"

Seeing that the enemy fleet outside the porthole had completely disappeared, the officers prepared for the landing operation more efficiently.

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Beneath the surface of Sarum.

In a very hidden secret room.

The Mechanicus members wearing scarlet robes gathered around a man named Redjack.

The people in this secret room are the highest leaders of the Mechanicum of Salum. If the enemy finds a way to detect and destroy this place, the last underground fortress of Salum's Forge World will be lost, and the entire Salum will become the property of the Brotherhood of Destruction of the Sub-Human Empire.

The atmosphere at the scene was extremely solemn.

Sarum left Mars in the era when the Warp Storm destroyed human civilization and came here to establish a new Mechanicus, gave himself a new name, established a new academic system and traditions, and was hostile to everything about Mars.

Therefore, it is certainly impossible for Salum to get help from his fellow Mechanicus, and the distress signal sent to the Empire a few months ago has not received any response.

The Red Order has been fighting to this day without any external assistance. Large tracts of territory have been lost, and one space station after another has been destroyed. Now there is only one last Forge World called Salum and the war fortress underground in Salum near the center of the earth.

The leader named Redjack and his top team called the Crimson Priests saw no hope of winning.

But fortunately, although they are in a secret room, they don't have to wait for death here meaninglessly. At least they can put up a resistance.

For example, adjust the strategic deployment in the face of attacks from the Brotherhood of Destruction and the Greenskins.

That was all. Half an hour passed in silence, and then the Crimson Priests found themselves no longer qualified to adjust their strategic deployment, because the last defenders in the fortress had become confused in the war, and even if they could receive orders in time, they could not act immediately according to the orders, but could only be dragged into the battle by the enemy until they were killed.

"We have to protect our secrets." All of Redjack's appendages stretched out from under his blood-red robe, and all of his appendages were connected to weapons.

"We will destroy all ancient technology before we die," said a priest.

"No, that's not our secret." Redjack put down his battle axe and knocked the ground. "The one below is our secret."

The priests looked at each other.

In the end, Red Jack opened the door of the secret room and led everyone to join the battle.

The moment the gate of the secret room opened, the soldiers and combat priests outside saluted Redjack and others.

The sounds of gunfire and killing also reached the priests' radio devices.

Redjack walked forward under the protection of a small void shield.

Arriving at the last line of defense on the fortress's wall, Redjack looked down.

Below are the warriors of the Brotherhood of Destruction.

The Brotherhood of Destruction is a sub-human empire, but they are not beastmen, nor are they sub-humans in the biological sense like cat-headed people or Ogryns, but rather a kind of robot.

An army of robots that had been modified to look like no living humans advanced under the inner wall of the last line of defense.

The interior of the fortress, which serves as a battlefield, is very vast. You cannot see the outer wall of the fortress when standing on the inner wall, but you can see the large war machines of the Brotherhood of Destruction.

There are even green-skinned war machines mixed in there, the kind of huge things that are not called "Gao Ge/Mao Ge Kong" in the minds of the Red Robe Order.

Green-skinned mercenaries hired by the Brotherhood of Destruction marched forward with the King Kongs.

While Redjack was observing, the large artillery placed on the inner wall opened fire, and many of the war machines were knocked down... but it was useless. The fortress had never lacked the means to fight against large war machines. The only thing it lacked was manpower to deal with the army of robots and green-skinned orcs.

A large number of enemies united in attacking the inner wall.

In the chaos of the battle between the two sides, a group of green orcs climbed up the city wall and immediately hid under the noses of the defenders.

Their means of concealment is to hold up a metal sign with the image of a priest commonly seen in the Red Robe Order.

These green-skinned orcs hid right under the noses of the defenders, and some of the defenders even saluted them. No one present could reveal their poor disguise.

The reason they were not discovered was simply because the orcs believed that their disguise was not only not poor, but also too safe and hidden under the cover of the exquisite priest patterns drawn with the help of the subhumans.

Until those green-skinned orcs rushed to the void shield generating device on the inner wall and suddenly threw away the wooden sign.

"Tu Tu Suicide Squad! Kill!" The green-skinned boss rushed towards the device with a bomb in his hand, "To get rid of Brother Mao!"

The explosion echoed through the inner walls.

It was then that Red Jack noticed that a mushroom cloud was rising where he had been looking.

That section of the inner wall was blown up, and a large number of enemies poured out from the gap.

Redjack immediately teleported down from the middle section of the inner wall, and came to the street opposite the gap, as well as to his subordinates and servitors who had gathered to intercept the enemy.

When the people led by Redjack were about to engage in battle with the attackers, a sudden snowstorm came, and the reinforcements that Redjack had no longer expected suddenly appeared at this time.

The gladiators guarded Qin Xia and he was the first to walk out of the wind and snow to fight against the greenskins and robots.

The Librarians were scattered among the gladiators, providing protection with psionic barriers and attacking the enemy with psionic spells.

With close coordination, the reinforcements that suddenly arrived advanced to the gap in the inner wall. Then Redjack saw the Space Marine in gorgeous armor and holding a spear leap up among the crowd, and killed a greenskin boss the moment he fell from the sky, and then raised his hand towards the damaged area.

The destroyed city walls began to be repaired gradually along the path they were taken.

The flying debris and larger pieces were pieced together, connected out of thin air, and finally the inner wall appeared again.

The Space Marines, wearing distinctive armor, gathered together and released a barrier to protect the inner wall. No matter how the robots and greenskins attacked, the barrier remained motionless.

"I'm still a little late." Qin Xia looked around and thought to himself.

Under normal circumstances, if this was the first stop of the Great Crusade, those robots and greenskins would be wiped out after they were airdropped in. But now, the Red Order only had one last fortress stronghold left. If it was any later, these people would become prisoners of the aliens.

"Who is your leader?" Qin Xia walked towards the Mechanicus personnel who were in a daze behind him and asked loudly using psychic power.

Redjack immediately took a step forward and saluted in the unique way of the Mechanicus's Sarum branch.

Then all the Mechanicians present saluted.

"So, you are the king of the Forge World of Salum, Red Jack?" Qin Xia looked down at the man in front of him, "It seems I have to call you King Red."

"I am Redjack." Redjack responded, "But I am not a king. I am just an ordinary leader."

Hearing this, Qin Xia smiled, then recalled something, and suddenly raised his spear.

Under the nervous gaze of the Red Robe Order's warriors and crimson priests, the raised spear was slowly lowered, with the tip of the spear resting on Redjack's neck.

"I'm here to rescue you, but I have to say something first."

"If you and your Red Robe Order are unwilling to accept any changes, then our relationship will definitely not be pleasant."

(End of this chapter)