Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 371 The Emperor Arrives, But Not Completely
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"He actually suspected that you took his bomb?!"

On the command deck of the Resolute Resolve, the Primarch's angry voice echoed throughout the deck.

Qin Xia had just finished telling about his experience on Randan III, and Angron, who was about to go to Randan II to seize the void facility himself, changed his mind and changed his destination.

"Lion is insulting us!" Angron paced back and forth, his hands on the double axes at his waist. After thinking for a while, he said to the Blood Drinker Guards present, "Follow me to the Indomitable Truth."

The gladiators, who had just experienced a bloody battle, drew their weapons and prepared to go to the Indomitable Truth as "guests" with Angron.

"I haven't finished yet." Qin Xia looked at Angron and the others and continued, "I dragged the bomb to the Indomitable Truth to find Ryan and asked him to retract his previous doubts about me, and he did."

After hearing what Qin Xia said, Angron thought for a moment, then asked in disbelief: "He actually took it back? Did he really say that?"

The gladiators didn't think it was strange that Ryan took back his doubts, but Angron, who knew other people's hearts very well, didn't think Ryan would take back those doubts. He thought that his adoptive father came to the Resolute Resolve just to drag him along to settle accounts with Ryan.

In Angron's opinion, Ryan was not someone who would compromise in a dispute.

"He really took it back." Qin Xia controlled the armor, and under his operation, the helmet projected a video.

It was recorded that when Qin Xia was questioning at gunpoint, Ryan said "I take it back" after a period of silence.

After reading it, Angron was even more surprised.

The video was recorded from Qin Xia's first-person perspective. He held a spear and pointed it at a dark angel in front of him and Ryan behind the dark angel, and asked Ryan in a very tough tone to withdraw his doubts.

If he hadn't seen Ryan's performance at the end of the video, Angron would have believed that his adoptive father had already fought with the Dark Angels on the Indomitable Truth before he returned.

Angron stared at Ryan in the video. Although he could not sense what Ryan was thinking in the Indomitable Truth thousands of kilometers away, he could still guess Ryan's mental activities based on his past experience.

Ryan was very angry. When Qin Xia pointed a gun at him and his offspring, he had already put his hand on the hilt of the long sword at his waist.

Angron also observed that Ryan's body was accumulating strength at this time. Ryan had been accumulating strength since Qin Xia found him.

This was obviously a preparation for an attack on Qin Xia.

But Ryan's face was uncertain and his eyes shifted. Angron could see that Ryan was thinking.

Finally, Ryan took his hand away from the hilt and said, "I take it back."

“He probably thought about your great contribution in the battle of Randan III, and that he would have to deal with the other two planets like he did with Randan III,” Angron speculated, “so he surprisingly chose to compromise.”

After the analysis, Angron removed his hands from the handle of the weapon called Widowmaker.

Perturabo had designed a sensing system when modifying the two weapons, so that when Angron's hand was removed, the two chainsaw axes no longer emitted the ultra-low frequency hum produced by accumulating energy.

"You should have taken us with you when you went to the Indomitable Truth," Yochura said. "We can support you and help you if a fight really breaks out. Otherwise, you will have to face a Primarch alone."

"You're facing a Primarch and a bunch of First Legion soldiers alone, brother." Yochuka reminded.

"That's not the case." Yochula looked at his brother, "The First Legion is quite martial and will probably fight in a duel."

Qin Xia nodded, agreeing with Yochula's judgment.

If a fight really broke out, it would be one-on-one, it couldn't be a bunch of dark angels beating me up.

If all the Dark Angels present at the time had drawn their weapons and attacked together, Lion would have taught his own offspring a lesson first.

"Anyway, this matter has been resolved." Qin Xia spread his hands, "But if it had not been resolved, we would have to be prepared to face an internal conflict, and we must not yield in this conflict."

Everyone nodded.

Angron pondered for a moment and then said, "You said before that Lion intended to become the leader among the Primarchs, but he can't even use people he doubts. I can't imagine the day when he will become the leader of all our Primarchs. By then... heh."

Qin Xia agreed with what Angron said, but he also thought that Ryan did indeed use the person he doubted and do not doubt him at certain times.

For example, in the future Luther may be driven away by the Lion because of something, but Luther will not become a marginal figure in the First Legion. Instead, he will be given the responsibility of managing the entire Caliban and even the logistics of the First Legion by the Lion... Isn't this a kind of trust in people?

"At least the Lord of the First Legion handled the war matters very well." Qin Xia turned his head to look at the holographic image in the center of the command deck.

Randan No. 2 and the surrounding void facilities were presented in three dimensions through projection. The tactical table surface glowed green and displayed a large amount of information.

This tactical table was found at the High Knight's home. Although it was not as good as the tactical holographic device Ryan used on the Indomitable Truth, it also displayed various real-time information very clearly.

There are also some strategic suggestions floating around the projection.

One of the strategic recommendations is: Silvervine is not recommended.

This is because the information obtained by the tactical table from the tactical eyepieces of the front-line Space Marines shows that the Randan aliens use a variety of mental technologies, and these technologies are diverse, including subspace psionic energy and real technology.

As a weapon that uses mental connection as its technical basis, the Tactical Table believes that the Silver Vine may be controlled by the Randan people, thus causing adverse effects on their side.

Angron also agreed with the strategic suggestions analyzed by the tactical table, so the World Eaters did not use the Silver Vines that they had previously equipped in this war.

"Lian is a very strong military leader."

Angron leaned over and looked at the holographic projection, recalling the attack of the 12th Legion on the defense line of Randan No. 3 Void Facility under Ryan's arrangement. Although Ryan's suspicion of Qin Xia made him dissatisfied, he would not completely deny a person because of an unpleasant incident.

"To be honest, I learned a lot from Ryan in this war."

"He seems to be able to predict the future. He can foresee what arrangements the Randan aliens will make."

"When the 12th Legion dispersed to attack the void facility, the Randan aliens used some strange tactics. When I was ready to readjust my strategy according to the enemy's tactics, Ryan would take the initiative to connect to the communication and tell me that one of his reserve teams was specifically responsible for dealing with such tactics, and asked me to find a way to support the reserve team."

"When the Randan aliens' defenses are exhausted, Ryan will tell me where they are most likely to make mistakes... This probability is often 100%."

Angron spoke the truth.

If his adoptive father had not been suspected, his attitude towards Ryan would be one of respect.

"He did nothing wrong in the war," Qin Xia said.

Then Qin Xia began to think, if Ryan could be as perfect in interpersonal relationships as he was in warfare... then Ryan would be truly invincible. In the future, no matter how much Horus was valued by the Emperor and how much experience he had, he would probably not be able to become a war commander.

During the conversation, the void facilities of Randan II were gradually being occupied or blown up, and the human empire's control over the near-Earth orbit of Randan II had become an unstoppable trend.

Qin Xia used his psychic vision to see that the situation on Randan No. 2 and Randan No. 3 was similar. The allied races of the Randan Empire, spherical creatures that were good at psychic powers, appeared in large numbers on Randan No. 2, as if they were ready to help their allied races defend Randan No. 2 at all costs.

But Qin Xia, who had defeated them before, did not find it difficult. It was just that this time he needed to make more psychic preparations and needed more psychics to participate in the psychic confrontation.

Qin Xia then told Angron not to let the suspicion affect the battle, then left the command deck and teleported to the White Knight.

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The think tank troops in each legion were assigned to a ship, and these ships carrying the think tanks approached the White Knight under the orders of their respective think tanks.

One transport plane after another flew in and out between the White Knight and the surrounding warships, delivering crystals containing Qin Xia's psychic energy to other legion think tanks for use in the subsequent psychic confrontation.

Qin Xia sat down in the White Knight's library.

The white knights who had temporarily withdrawn from the front-line battle sat on the ground around Qin Xia.

The consciousness of all think tanks were linked together the moment Qin Xia entered into meditation and released his psychic energy.

The think tanks came from various legions, and were on the warships assigned to them by the legions. They seemed to be thousands of kilometers away from each other, but at this moment they were within a stone's throw of each other on the psychic level.

"Those psychic aliens look like they're ready to fight us. They're not as easy to deal with this time as last time."

A white fox ran to Qin Xia's soul and spoke in human language.

From the voice, it was Yesugei, the chief storm seer of the White Scars.

There was a huge wolf next to the fox. Qin Xia knew without even looking that it was a Rune Priest from the Space Wolves.

The think tanks Qin Xia could see were of all kinds.

This form can be seen as a spiritual incarnation, like a physical body created based on psychology.

For example, Malcador looks like a very young boy on a psychic level... and he really just looks old. Among the Eternals, Malcador is the youngest.

"But we still have a solution." Qin Xia said to the think tanks, "Don't draw psychic energy from the subspace, draw psychic energy from me, and turn the warship you are on into a ritual node. The crystals containing the psychic energy I use are used for the final step of the ritual after the warship becomes a ritual node."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?" The giant wolf in front of him raised his paw, holding a white crystal in it.

"It's okay... as long as you don't use it all." Qin Xia gave the Rune Priest an awkward yet polite smile, then waved his hand.

All think tanks in ritual connection are dispersed.

"Listen carefully, I will tell you what kind of ceremony this is and how we complete it." Qin Xia said.

Think tanks are beginning to listen carefully.

Qin Xia took some time to plan a psychic ritual, which would play a huge role, enough to speed up the progress of the war, and at the same time put the Randan alien, who only had one psychic alien ally and whose psychic power was generally weak, into an absolute disadvantage.

Just when Qin Xia was about to explain his exquisite ritual, his whole body suddenly trembled.

At the moment of the tremor just now, Qin Xia sensed that a powerful existence was casting his gaze towards the Randan galaxy. This powerful existence had reached the pinnacle of using psychic power. The moment he cast his gaze towards the galaxy, the psychic power, as a public resource, began to become restless.

The consciousness of the psychic aliens in the subspace gathered together and flickered like a candle in the wind.

Qin Xia also sensed that this powerful being had a physical body, which was located in an imperial star port thirty light-years away from the Randan Galaxy.

It's the emperor.

"We don't need to prepare." Qin Xia swallowed the ceremony he was about to say and said to the think tanks, "Because the emperor is coming."

Although his physical body is still dozens of light years away, his consciousness has already arrived at the Emperor of the Randan Galaxy. Although he is in a state of arriving but not completely arriving, the Emperor's intervention at this time means that the think tanks no longer have to engage in mental struggles with the psychic aliens.

(End of this chapter)