Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 352: Just a Taste
"We are both psychics. This is what you mean by being in the same storm." Qin Xia could understand what Yesugei said. "But our situations are different. If you want to consult me ​​about psychic issues, my experience will not only not help you, but may even make things worse for you."

Yesugei shook his head: "I am not here to ask about the way to heaven, I just want to exchange some things about all the people in the legions who are in the same storm like us."

Qin Xia narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and then nodded.

"There are some cases of abuse of talents in the Fifteenth Legion...Does their problem also exist in the think tank of the Twelfth Legion?" Yesugei asked bluntly.

Qin Xia realized that Yesugei's words became more blunt, perhaps because he realized that efficient communication should not contain any concealment, or perhaps because he was a little anxious, although this was unlikely.

Yesugei was a calm and composed person, and he appeared calm and composed in front of others. Only in rare cases would he show other behaviors.

"I taught the think tank of the 12th Legion how to exercise restraint." Qin Xia said truthfully, "but our method of restraint is different from your Fifth Legion. We have developed a method of restraint that suits us based on our own characteristics."

"In that case, if the Fifteenth Legion is punished for abusing its talents, our two legions should not suffer as well," Yesugei speculated.

Qin Xia frowned.

From what Yesugei said, it seemed as if he had anticipated the "Conference of Nikea" that would happen in the future.

The so-called Nikaea Conference was attended by the Primarchs of many legions and the Emperor to discuss whether the use of psychic power should be banned. The final result of the meeting was that the legions were prohibited from setting up think tanks in principle. Magnus and the 15th Legion were the real targets and were ordered to curb the legions' increasingly in-depth exploration of psychic power and the warp.

But in principle, prohibition does not mean complete prohibition. Legions that do not hate psychics will still find ways to set up think tanks, such as changing their names.

What? This isn't a Librarian, this is a Rune Priest/Storm Seer...

Thinking of this, Qin Xia knew what Yesugei came here to do, which was to canvass for votes.

Qin Xia thought that Yesugei wanted to convince himself that if the Nikea Conference happened in the future... Of course, Yesugei did not necessarily think that the curbing of the use of psychic energy would be carried out in the form of a conference. It could be many other means. In short, it was to pull some people to stand in the camp with the same ideas.

Just as Qin Xia thought, Yesugei began to explain his attitude towards psychic power.

"The path to heaven... the warp, and psionic energy, they are all of great use, and can turn the tide in times of crisis. But if this sweet power is not contained, it will have consequences that we cannot imagine."

"Since ancient times, there have been people in Chogoris who have used psychic powers, and some who have died tragically while using psychic powers. Therefore, wizards have summed up a lesson in their inheritance, which is that psychic powers can be used and must be used, but one must also be careful and vigilant."

"Perhaps because we have different cultural backgrounds, you don't quite understand Chogoris's psychic philosophy... For example, take sugar. If a disaster victim who is starving and collapsed on the roadside has a bowl of porridge-sized sugar, it is enough for him to survive the famine. The sugar here is equivalent to a sweet power, but eating too much sugar will cause illness."

The example Yesugei gave was hunger and sugar, which the entire human race could understand regardless of cultural background, because the fear of hunger and the pursuit of sweetness are human nature.

Yesugei explained what Qin Xia had already known: "Psychic power is a very sweet power, but it will bring terrible consequences, so it must be used in moderation."

Qin Xia recalled that the word "moderation" could be reflected in many things in White Scars.

For example, people with white scars like to pursue speed and excitement, but they will not be so greedy for excitement that they enjoy it every day. Instead, they will restrain themselves, force themselves to calm down, and never be greedy for anything.

"I understand everything you said." Qin Xia raised his hand to signal Yesugei not to say more.

Yesugei fell silent.

"I understand what you want to say, and I even know what kind of person you are," Qin Xia said.

Yesugei is the embodiment of the principle of "moderation" that psychics must understand.

A long time ago, before Yesugei met Chagatai and when his psychic powers were first awakened, he dreamed that four monsters found him and kept urging and persuading him to drink a glass of liquid that looked like wine.

Yesugei looked at the cup in his hand, a little hesitant.

At this time, a man shining with golden light appeared behind Yesugei.

For some reason, Yesugei felt that if he really drank the liquid, the man with golden light would hate him, but if he didn't drink it, he would offend the four monsters in front of him.

The four monsters and the golden man were confronting each other, and Yesugei could also sense that they disliked each other.

After some hesitation, Yesugei thought... it would not be appropriate for him to drink it all, nor would it be appropriate for him not to drink any at all. He did not want to offend anyone, so he might as well compromise.

So Yesugei took a quick sip of the liquid in the cup and came to the side of the man shining with golden light.

The four monsters saw Yesugei's moderate approach of not offending anyone, and they really had no reason to trouble Yesugei, so they left cursing. This story was a dream that Qin Xia knew Yesugei had during his psychic awakening. He believed that the liquid brought by the four monsters in this dream was a gift, just like psychic power is a gift from the subspace, and this gift will bring not only benefits but also disadvantages.

If you combine the four monsters with the golden man, aren’t they the Emperor and the Dark Gods?

This is Yesugei’s philosophy of using psychic powers.

It is neither completely not using spiritual energy nor overusing it, but a compromise, choosing to use it in moderation.

"If the Fifteenth Legion is criticized by the Empire for abusing psychic energy in the future, and psychic think tanks like us are implicated, I will stand on your side, or you will stand on my side, and we will both support a view." Qin Xia said, "That is to use psychic energy, but in moderation."

Yesugei smiled. He had come here just to get this answer: "Conversations between wise men are often brief and direct, and the results of the conversations are often a happy ending for all."

The Chief Storm Seer of the White Scars Legion had not expected that the World Eaters Think Tank Master in front of him would be able to reach an agreement with him before he even finished his opening remarks.

But Qin Xia still has something to say in advance: "However, if you take a closer look at the World Devourer Think Tank troops led by me, you will find that my people and I are not very restrained. For example, I can use psychic energy to speed up the fleet's advance in the subspace..."

"We all have different characteristics and talents," Yesugei asked. "If you were not unique, or unaffected as one of my old friends said, would you still use psychic power in this way?"

"Of course I won't. After all, I don't want to die." Qin Xia recalled, "I know a man named Caesar..."

Then Qin Xia told the story of Caesar again.

The gladiator named Caesar, who was called the "first victim" in Nuceria and the "landmark event of the beginning of the Nuceria Devourer Uprising", now lived again in Qin Xia's mouth.

Yesugei listened silently and nodded: "It is the behavior of a wise man to make good use of his strengths. You have this characteristic and you should follow your own characteristics. We have differences, but both parties working together often need to find common ground while reserving differences."

"Seek common ground while reserving differences." Qin Xia nodded.

However, Yesugei didn't know that the area where they needed to find common ground while reserving differences was not just Qin Xia's talent.

Qin Xia was not actually planning to focus on expressing his views at the Nikaia Conference. For example, he would go there just to speak in support of the "restrained use of psychic energy."

In fact, his idea was to use Arvida, the future Chief Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights, as a witness and have Magnus punished directly at the meeting. This punishment would not be a warning from the Emperor, but detention, or a more extreme and decisive execution, so that he could not play his due role in the Horus Heresy.

As the only person in the 15th Legion who had truly experienced the transformation of the Warp elves into demons and then suffered backlash, Avida was the one who played a key role and had nothing to do with Yesugei. In addition, Qin Xia felt that if he told Yesugei, he just wanted to make the Primarch of the 15th Legion suffer great misfortune instead of being ordered to restrain himself, and Yesugei might not understand.

Therefore, Yesugei was not informed of this matter.

Fundamentally, just as the Conference of Nikaea was ostensibly about the think tank's use of psychic powers, but was actually a special session for Magnus, Qin Xia believed that Yesugei's main demands did not overlap with his own. Dealing with Magnus was one thing, and how Space Marines should use psychic powers and think tanks in the future was another matter.

"Speaking of the 15th Legion's abuse of psychic energy, I feel that their Primarch is to blame..." Qin Xia turned the topic to Magnus, wanting to talk to Yesugei about punishing Magnus in the future.

But Yesugei believed that he was not the kind of person who could get involved in the major events of the two legions. He was just the chief storm prophet of the Fifth Legion, nothing more.

So Yesugei smiled and shook his head, saying bluntly: "I am neither the foster father who protected and raised the Primarch since childhood, nor the commander who is above the think tank and can directly participate in the decision-making of the legion. I am different from you. So as for the matter of the Primarch of the 15th Legion, even if I want to stop it, there is no way to do it. I will not even be qualified to meet the Primarch of the 15th Legion."

"I am also worried that if I get involved, it will cause trouble for my Primarch and the Legion."

"I just hope that when the abuse of psychic power by the Fifteenth Legion is severely cracked down by the Empire in the future, and the crackdown will spread, the various legions will not completely ban the establishment of think tanks and the use of psychic power, nor will they abuse psychic power. This is something I can care about and something I can care about."

Hearing this, Qin Xia didn't say anything more.

Yesugei untied the hem of his robe that covered his legs and gradually stood up. Perhaps he believed from the bottom of his heart that Qin Xia was one of his own, or perhaps he did not understand the Fifteenth Legion's abuse of psychic energy and did not know how to change it, or perhaps he had tried to persuade them but could do nothing and could only sigh... Perhaps it was both.

So Yesugei sighed frankly:
"Alas... The Primarch of the 15th Legion claims to have studied the Warp thoroughly, but he is like a naive wizard apprentice who has just awakened his psychic powers on Chogoris. He fearlessly ventures into the Warp to study the Warp and even signs a contract with Warp creatures... I really don't know where his fondness for the Warp and naive speculation about it comes from."

When Qin Xia heard this, he stared at the ground in a daze.

When Yesugei straightened his robe and was about to bow and say goodbye, Qin Xia was still staring at the ground in deep thought and said something from the bottom of his heart.

“It’s actually rooted.”

(End of this chapter)