Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 312: Those who enjoy freedom

The Crimson Priests stood by, the objects they wore protecting them from any harm the Great Daemon of Khorne could bring.

They lowered their heads and refused to look directly at the servants of the Power of Destruction.

The communication between Qin Xia and the bloodthirsty demon was incomprehensible to them. It was just a bunch of chaotic and painful horrifying sounds.

Qin Xia could see that this was not the first time the Red Robe Order had sent people to contact Salum.

But Salum did not kill them, which shows that Salum can communicate with these mortals and even coexist with them.

Sarum is a different kind of Khorne Daemon, and what makes him special is not just that he can communicate, but that he does it through language rather than swinging his axe.

“If you interrupt me again, mortal.” Sarum raised one arm from the lava, like a mountain rising from the red ocean, “I will chop you into pieces along with space and time here.”

"If you dare to do anything, I will send you back to the warp." Qin Xia said, "I used psychic spells when I appeared near Sarum. You have seen my ability, demon."

Salum was silent for a while again, and slowly lowered his arm.

"Are you imprisoned in this world named after you?" Qin Xia paced on the rocks and asked.

"But I can escape from this prison any time I want," answered Sarum.

"Then why don't you leave? Leave this place, enter the Great Whirlpool, and return from the Great Whirlpool to the place where you were born?" Qin Xia asked knowingly, "Return to the Blood God's side."

Salum thought about it.

This Warp creature exists in the overlapping area of ​​the real universe and the Warp near the Maelstrom, so it not only has a clear appearance, but also clear movements, rather than just a mass of abstract force.

Salum said, "I don't want to be enslaved. On the premise that I won't be enslaved again, we can talk. That's why you haven't been beheaded yet."

"You are very special." Qin Xia stopped, sat on a stone and began to think.

Sarum is a Khorne Daemon, imprisoned in a world it could leave but would not.

Qin Xia knew all this, and he also confirmed from Salum's confession just now that these things had not changed because of the changes he had caused.

Salum, then, is a prison enjoyer, and that will not change.

The Great Daemon of Khorne named Sarum was happy to be imprisoned on a world near a great vortex, as it believed that this would prevent it from ever having to return to the Warp and continue to be enslaved by the Powers of Destruction.

It believes the Blood God is enslaving it.

Qin Xia felt from the bottom of his heart that Salum was special.

The existence of this Great Demon of Khorne seems to show that demons also have diversity.

The demons under Khorne, who worship war and the most important discipline in war, actually feel that they are enslaved and want to break free from slavery.

But the fact is, Salum is the core of the Red Order's forge world and the foundation of this world. It was imprisoned here for some reason, but it also enjoys this life that it believes is not enslaved.

It is difficult for Qin Xia not to analyze what is behind a phenomenon.

After the analysis, Qin Xia said to Salum: "Your desire for freedom is false. How can demons like you have any self and pursuit? You are part of the dark gods, representing an extension of a certain power of the dark gods. You are born to be slaves and will never be freed."

"I think you might represent some concept...like resistance."

"You are driven by this concept, and then you behave in accordance with the concept... Everything about you is controlled by this concept-driven principle, including your false pursuits and false self-awareness."

Qin Xia pondered over Salum's motives as if he were conducting a scientific analysis.

Salum is indeed special, extremely special.

But Qin Xia also did not think that Salum's situation was not what he had known before, that is, the behavior of all creatures in the subspace was controlled by the concept of nothingness in the subspace or some kind of behavior or mental control.

For example, Tzeentch is made up of concepts like change, so it will pursue change.

It's not just the demons who have false self-awareness, the same is true for the Four Gods, they are also slaves of the Warp.

"Your analysis is correct, so can you now leave with satisfaction?" Salum said calmly.

"The reason I analyzed you is because I want to determine the best way to deal with you." Qin Xia looked up at Salum's terrifying face, "I can't just leave you here, because humans will come here later, and they will be influenced by you just like the Red Robe Order."

"I know you're not actively influencing anyone, but your mere presence has an impact."

"A demon planet near the Great Whirlpool, near the future Badab Sector, with a Khorne Daemon restrained in the middle. How could I just turn around and walk away and pretend I had never seen you?"

"..."

Upon hearing this, Salum stretched his arms out from the lava.

A battle axe with a giant eye was held in its hands.

The entire planet began to shake, and natural disasters such as earthquakes that had never occurred since the establishment of the Red Order occurred at this moment, and the reason was simply that Salum was moving.

Sarum realized that the mortals before him wanted to deprive him of a life without slavery, so he stopped communicating in a human way and prepared to solve the problem in a way that was applicable both in the subspace and in the real universe.

When this particular Daemon was no longer speaking, it looked just like any other Daemon of Khorne.

A ferocious and bloodthirsty expression, a force that shook the earth...

Qin Xia immediately turned around and opened the portal, reminding the Crimson Priests who didn't know why Salum was angry: "Leave here." The Crimson Priests were teleported away. The moment Qin Xia turned around to deal with the Great Demon of Khorne, he saw the battle axe in the Great Demon's hand falling from the sky.

The moment the axe blade fell, Qin Xia teleported to avoid it, but everything under his feet and behind him bore the destructive force that was supposed to fall on him.

In the midst of the devastation, Qin Xia realized that the demon Salum was a Khorne demon after all...

……

The White Knight.

Olina and Olya were in the restaurant, eating while sitting near the porthole.

The two sisters were silent; recent events had strained their relationship.

Olya put a forkful of food into her mouth and looked at her sister carefully.

Olina felt the gazes coming from her, so she looked away and out the porthole. Then she suddenly stood up from her seat, standing at attention like a wooden chicken.

The restaurant quickly became chaotic.

The crew rushed to the porthole and looked outside.

On the ugly planet called Salum, the northern hemisphere facing the battleship's porthole suddenly trembled violently, and then an entire land plate separated from the middle and drifted to both sides.

There are bottomless canyons in the middle of the divided land plates.

It was as if something had cut apart the land plates that were originally connected.

Then magma gushed out from the canyon. In the eyes of the crew, the magma gushed out like waves, and then swept very high... so high that the highest waves could even touch the low-Earth orbit.

This horrific scene continues to unfold.

The land plates separated, magma spewed into the sky, and then shock waves emerged from the canyon and pushed the clouds above the land plates into the sky over the Southern Hemisphere.

Everyone in the restaurant was just looking at this sudden spectacle, and they hadn't realized something very scary was happening.

The terrible thing is that everything they saw was caused by the blow that would have fallen on Qin Xia.

"Come to the port gun deck." Quadrant's voice came through the communicator worn by Orina, "We need you to control the sailors here so that they can operate the terrorist bomb from Nuceria with the highest efficiency."

……

Qin Xia, who was facing Salum deep in the center of the earth, was teleported to the other side so he was not hit. He just saw the surging lava being chopped up like a tsunami by Salum's axe. From a microscopic perspective, he could not see what kind of damage Salum had caused.

Even if he saw Qin Xia, he wouldn't care, because the Red Robe Order's fortress was not in the northern hemisphere anyway.

"Amazing fighting power." Qin Xia applauded Salum.

Salum raised his arms with the axe again: "My companion is stronger than me. I don't know how you, a damn ant, escaped from its hands!"

"The environment is different." Qin Xia said calmly, "Your companion was summoned from the ship and was in the Geller Field. And you are near the Great Vortex, where the reality structure is extremely fragile and the psychic energy is abundant... But this is not the only reason why you are so powerful."

Salum raised his axe again.

Qin Xia continued, "The most important point is that this planet belongs to you. You can do whatever you want with it. So when you want to scare me, you can do it like a god with an axe that makes such a big noise. If you expect me to be scared away by you, you will be disappointed."

When Salum heard Qin Xia say "scare", his body froze.

It did control the environment of the Forge World of Sarum in the attack just now...

But Salum still didn't plan to stop. He felt that he was a great demon after all, and there was no way he would lose fighting in an environment like the one near the whirlpool.

Salum raised his axe high and chopped down with all his might.

The demon's bloody mouth was full of fangs. A roar that sounded terrifying even to Qin Xia came out of it, accompanied by a breath that was hotter than lava...

"I will tear out your tendons and skin you alive and hang you on the surface of Sarum! Let the other ants in the world see what happens to them if they disturb me!"

People all over the planet heard Salum's roar.

Facing the axe that was about to fall on his head and the roar that made his armor and cloak rustle, Qin Xia just very calmly took out a device, which displayed the message sent by the Quadrant: the vortex bomb is ready.

"This bomb can tear reality apart and send you and everything around you into the subspace in ten minutes." Qin Xia pressed his thumb on the red button on the device.

Salum put away his axe and raised his hand: "Don't be impulsive."

Everything around him that was originally frenzied calmed down in an instant.

Lava no longer surges.

The split continental plates are reunited.

As Qin Xia guessed, everything in the world of Salum is controlled by the great devil.

Qin Xia also guessed something.

If the reason Sarum is so unique is because it is influenced by concepts such as "rebellion" and "rebellion", and has committed acts of disloyalty to Khorne and believes that being driven by Khorne is enslavement, then this creature of the Warp will certainly do whatever it takes to avoid being enslaved again.

(End of this chapter)