Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 348 Qin Xia and Qin Xia

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Half a Terran year later.

Qin Xia walked alone in the corridor leading to the command deck of the Resolute.

The guide of this Primarch, the Lord of the White Knights Think Tank, was fully armed, wearing the heavy and tall power armor built for him by the Primarchs. In his left hand he held a bright silver spear upside down, and in his right hand he was grabbing the neck of a mutant creature as if he was grabbing a dead dog. It was obvious that he had just experienced a battle.

No one could see the expression on Qin Xia's face hidden under the gorgeous helmet, but his steps were heavy and fast, making him look aggressive.

The Space Marines and mortal officers who came out of the command deck walked towards Qin Xia. When they were five meters away, they stood against the wall and lowered their heads. They waited until Qin Xia passed by them without looking away before they immediately quickened their pace to do their own things.

The gate of the command deck roared open, and a space as large as a square, but so crowded with various personnel and equipment that only a small open space near the throne remained, appeared in front of Qin Xia.

Angron was standing in front of the star map making the next sailing plan. When he saw his adoptive father come in and was about to say hello, he suddenly saw Qin Xia holding a mutant creature that looked like a dead dog in his right hand.

"Take this thing for research." Qin Xia threw the mutant creature to the chief pharmacist Galan who was standing next to the original body.

Garlan grabbed the mutant with a broken spine, looked at it carefully, and then said, "The flagship was also invaded by this kind of creature during its subspace voyage."

Qin Xia nodded: "You pharmacists want a living one to study, this is what you want."

Others present were not surprised or puzzled by the mutant creature. After all, there had been many crises during the long journey through the warp in this half-Terra year, and this mutant creature was just one of them.

Once the time of subspace navigation becomes longer, there will always be some unexpected events.

One or two people on a certain ship went crazy.

The equipment was damaged for unknown reasons.

All the sailors on a certain ship reported that they heard the sound of a piano.

Supernatural events like these were not uncommon in the warp voyages. Fortunately, Angron had already issued orders to adjust the treatment of the sailors, and the situation that occurred in the past where the Hound's Fang rebels attacked outside the command deck did not occur again.

The mutated creatures brought by Qin Xia have recently appeared frequently during the subspace navigation phase. They are considered to be subspace creatures, but they can easily pass through the Geller Field and directly enter the ship, which shows that they are not actually subspace creatures.

In short, some people think that this creature may be related to the Randan alien that they are going to deal with next, so the pharmacists want to study it. However, because this creature will suddenly disappear after death, there is no way to trap them. Therefore, it was not until today that they finally got a living one after the Lord of the White Knight took action personally.

"We have to stay in the star system for a while before rushing to the assembly point." Angron glanced at the star map, raised his head and said to Qin Xia, "The Fifth Legion will come here. I want to wait for them and launch a diplomatic operation after they arrive."

"The Fifth Legion? Star Hunters? No, they should now be renamed the White Scars." Qin Xia said with some surprise.

Hearing Qin Xia's surprised words, Angron nodded slightly puzzled, not understanding why his adoptive father was surprised when he learned that the Fifth Legion was coming here.

The 12th Legion had joined forces with other legions many times before, but Qin Xia had never shown any surprise.

"Okay." Qin Xia didn't say much and walked to the porthole of the flagship's command deck.

Many ships have gathered in the galaxy.

The fleet of the Twelfth Legion.

The local people's ships.

There are also some ships from the Fifth Legion's Vanguard Fleet.

The entire galaxy became lively as a result.

Qin Xia saw that all the ships were rushing to a planet that was obviously a forge world of the Mechanicus, where there was an ancient star port.

"Forge World 'Shana'." Angron walked up to Qin Xia and pointed at the thirty-odd ships around the flagship that had no paint or honor markings. "Forge World said it could provide a group of priests and servitors, just in time to fill the new ships."

Qin Xia knew that it had just been made.

The engine casting was not idle during the more than half a year of sailing. The ship's production task began three days after the journey began.

If there were no foundry engines, those newly produced ships would have to take more than half a year to sail here before they could join the fleet. But with foundry engines staying in the fleet, after they are produced, the sailors trained in each ship and the officers directly assigned to them can be stuffed into them, and the ships can immediately join the fleet and become a combat force.

"We are in the northwest of the Empire."

Angron glanced back at the star map.

The star map is divided into directions and regions with Terra as the center point, allowing the universe, where east, south, west and north are impossible to have, to have a concept of direction based on human culture and background.

"I heard from the sage who contacted us from the Forge World that we should be more careful after leaving Shana. We should treat any place we go to as a war zone where fighting may occur anywhere, even if it is the empire's territory."

"'Shana' was an important rear base in the first two Randan wars. They know more about Randan than we do."

Listening to what Angron said, Qin Xia looked towards the forging world near the star.

That crimson forge world perfectly fits Qin Xia's stereotype of the Mechanicus.

The natural landscape covered by the giant industrial zone on the surface, the various rail facilities, and the dense red lines in sight, which are the molten iron when the ore used to cast large war weapons is mined and smelted.

Qin Xia raised his hand to block the starlight: "This forging world called 'Shana' is a bit dazzling."

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At night, when the Fifth Legion's "White Scars" fleet entered the star system, the Legion's flagship, the Bladestorm, headed towards the approaching Resolute Resolve, while the rest of the Fifth Legion's warships headed towards the starport.

The two flagships approached each other and maintained a safe distance.

No transport planes flew out.

Snowflakes began to float on the command deck of the Bladestorm, and in a corner a thick blizzard appeared, which became increasingly pitch-dark as it went deeper into the corner. Then, the figures of Qin Xia and Angron, one big and one small, gradually emerged from the blizzard, until finally the two of them left the portal together, the blizzard disappeared, and their figures became clear.

The Lord of the Fifth Legion, the Primarch, Jaghatai, who was also fully armed, walked towards his visiting brother, and beside him were the important figures of the Legion who were currently on the command deck.

The two Primarchs sized each other up.

Qin Xia also looked at the people around Chagatai Khan.

This man was wearing white Terminator tactical dreadnought armor, and the face guard of his helmet was similar to the style of the angry-eyed arhat face guard on the ancient general armor that Qin Xia had seen, but it was bright red, like a beast or a ghost, so it also gave the feeling of an ancient warrior's ghost mask.

"Jaghatai."

"Angron."

The two Primarchs exchanged names and then hugged each other.

"The leader of my personal guard." Chagatai also introduced the people around him, "Qin Xia."

“My adoptive father.” Angron was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly froze and blinked at the man next to his brother. “Wait… your name…”

The leader of the guard named Qin Xia took off his helmet and revealed a tough face: "The universe is really small. I didn't expect that there would be two people with the same name in Chogoris and Nukeria, two places hundreds of light years apart."

Qin Xia smiled and glanced at Chagatai beside him, then saluted Qin Xia beside Angron.

Qin Xia stared at Qin Xia for a second, then returned the gesture.

Seeing the Fifth Legion soldier named Qin Xia in front of him, Qin Xia's memory drifted back to decades ago... no, it drifted back to tens of thousands of years later.

When he was rescued by the White Scars and trained as a Librarian, the Librarian said: "After you join the Chapter, you should abandon the past and choose a name that your brothers will mention countless times in your long combat career. Even if you have not yet undergone the transformation surgery."

Qin Xia hesitated for a moment, and first recalled his former name.

Before coming to this universe, he was still called Qin Xia. This name was given by the welfare home. The meaning of the name was simply "a child was sent to the welfare home during the hottest time of summer." There was no profound story behind the name.

After recalling this incident, Qin Xia told the White Scars think tank who wanted to train him: "How about the name Qin Xia? This is the name I saw in the chapter book. It was the name of the master of the Primarch's guard when the Primarch was still walking in the galaxy ten thousand years ago."

"Quote from the classics, OK." The think tank nodded with a smile, "Then let you inherit the name 'Qin Xia'. You must remember that he is a hero, and also remember that he was killed by a traitor named Eidolon. If you can meet that traitor from ten thousand years ago in the future, you must kill the traitor for revenge."

Next, the think tank talked about Qin Xia.

Qin Xia was already a warrior beside the Primarch Chagatai when he was growing up and fighting on the planet called Chogoris. When the Primarch was found by the Emperor, he became the manager of the Primarch's guard "Qexue", and so was also known as the "Lord of Qiexue".

Recalling this, Qin Xia suddenly said to the leader of Qiexue: "I foresee that you will be killed by someone with a cannon in his mouth."

"You foresaw my fate?" The Lord of Keshig said solemnly, "I never take the prophecies of ordinary storm prophets to heart, because there is an old saying in Chogoris: The road to heaven is always unpredictable. But since it is said by you, the famous Lord of the Think Tank of the Twelve Legions, I believe it, and I will remember it."

Angron on the side was not confused by the terms such as "Road to Heaven" and "Storm Prophet" mentioned by Lord Qiexue, because he could also hear some things about other legions from Qin Xia.

Stormseer is the Think Tank, and Path to Heaven is the Warp... Angron thought, White Scars just like to come up with these flowery little words, and they sound pretty cool.

"The First Legion has arrived at the assembly point." Jaghatai mentioned the business, turned around and walked to the holographic image showing the star map, leaned over the edge of the table and looked up at the star map showing the assembly point and current position, "We must also hurry to the assembly point. In addition, as far as I know, Russ and Corax have also responded to the Emperor's call. The Emperor will personally participate in this war, but we will not start the war after the Emperor arrives."

The star map changed, showing two areas: red and yellow.

The yellow area is around Shana, and the red area is near the assembly point.

"The Randan aliens will not wait for us to attack. They have already captured many star systems and enslaved many people. If we want to annihilate them, we must first thwart their attack."

"..."

Angron nodded after hearing this. "How does the Fifth Legion know so much?"

"The location of the Randan Empire was discovered by the warships of the Fifth Legion." Chagatai pointed his index finger at a mark between Shana and the assembly point on the star map. "So the Fifth Legion will stay at the marked location for one day, waiting for the reconnaissance warships to return to the fleet."

Jaghatai turned to look at Angron. "So when my vanguard fleet arrived, I contacted them through the Storm Prophet and told them to tell you not to wait for us and to go ahead. If our two fleets meet and sail to the assembly point at the same time, we will waste your time waiting for the scout ships at the marked point."

"Our brother named Ryan is not easy to talk to. If your 12th Legion and our 5th Legion are late together, Ryan will inevitably complain about you. Unless you are as good at talking as I am, you will definitely suffer from Ryan."

After saying this, Chagatai seemed to recall some things that happened when he was with Ryan, and smiled mysteriously.

"Brother Ryan is easy to get along with if we find the right way. He was the gift of my adoptive father's flagship." Angron mentioned the White Knight, and then said, "The sage of Shana warned us to be careful after leaving Shana, so our two legions will act together. If there are any troubles along the way, we can help each other."

Chagatai nodded: "That would be the best."

Qin Xia also agreed to go to the assembly point together. Seeing that the two primarchs had almost finished their talk, he gently raised his hand to open the portal.

Angron said goodbye to Chagatai, and was sent into the portal by Chagatai and another Qin Xia along with his adoptive father, returning to the Resolute Resolve.

(End of this chapter)