Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 378 Emperor Confession Bureau
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"I made a deal with Salum, and I can't blame you for making a deal with the Void Dragon. I just want to know why."

The flames jumped, releasing warm light.

Qin Xia and the Emperor sat on the ground in the cave with a burning bonfire between them.

Qin Xia confessed first and told the story between him and Salum.

"Just a demon. They are affected by the concepts and emotions of the Warp. You can play with them at will if you know what they fear and desire. This is not enough to exchange for the secrets of me and the Void Dragon." said the Emperor.

But after a moment's silence, the emperor spoke.

"Just now, the Void Dragon was not awake and was still in a state of confusion. It just happened to be in the memory that was most beneficial to us."

“This memory is of when I used to work with it.”

The Emperor explains things like a cold narrator.

"When I defeated the Void Dragon on Mars, it did the same thing as now, suddenly going from crazy to being able to communicate with me."

"It asked me if I knew who it was. It was then that I learned that the legendary evil dragon was actually a humanoid being with two hands and two feet..."

"I made up a myth and told it that it was a human god."

"It said no, it felt that it was incomplete, and how could a god be incomplete?"

"This just gave me an opportunity. I said I helped you become complete, and you have to repay me with benefits."

"I just said it casually at the time...but becoming whole seemed to be the ultimate pursuit of its life, and it quickly agreed."

The Emperor added a log to the fire.

"But this peaceful period didn't last long. It started to go crazy again, killing and eating people everywhere. I built a maze and locked it in."

Qin Xia listened to the story with doubt.

Then Qin Xia began to tell the Emperor what he knew: "The Void Dragon had been imprisoned underground on Mars. It would intentionally or unintentionally affect technological creations. Some people in the Mechanicus worshiped it as a mechanical god... even though those people didn't know that the Void Dragon existed."

"How else can I make a belief in the worship of machines spread and last for tens of thousands of years, so that believers are willing to fight for their beliefs and dare to run out in the warp storms to explore the unknown?" asked the Emperor.

Only then did Qin Xia realize that the Emperor had actually always been aware of the impact that the Void Dragon had on the Mechanicus.

And they are using that influence to make the Mechanicus regard the influence exerted by the Star God as a miracle, thereby supporting their beliefs.

Only lies require the evidence they create.

The Mechanicus itself is a lie, there is no such thing as a God of Mechanics.

The Prophet was the Emperor in disguise, and the God of All Things was fabricated by the Emperor, but this time his methods were more clever and he did not get himself nailed to a wooden stake.

"The Void Dragon is still useful to me," said the Emperor, "otherwise I would not have to come down and would have simply dropped the entire planet into the Warp from my ship."

"Just now the Void Dragon said that it wants to continue cooperation." Qin Xia recalled the scene just now, "Maybe it wants to use the Mechanicus to do something."

The emperor thought for a moment and raised two fingers.

"There are two possibilities. The first is that the Void Dragon has confused memories and thought it was the time when he first started working with me."

"Another possibility is that the Void Dragon really wants to use the Mechanicus to do something as you said."

After saying this, the emperor put down his hand.

Qin Xia nodded.

The Emperor continued: "Whatever, who cares about something that is going to be abandoned anyway? As long as the Void Dragon doesn't do anything in a short time... it can't do anything. That's enough."

Qin Xia sighed and started thinking about other things.

He wanted to confirm something, about the Thousand Sons, about the Grey Knights.

He did not tell the Emperor these things because he was sure that the Emperor knew all of them.

When Avida was trapped by the Great Demon Tzeentch in the Warp, a golden light appeared and saved Avida. That was the trace of the Emperor's intervention.

Later, when the Mechanicus' Martian Fabricator-General Kelborhar visited Nuceria, the Emperor made it clear that he knew about Arvida and even knew about the two crazy Grey Knights in the White Knight.

"Thousand Sons Legion..." Qin Xia had just said a word when the Emperor already knew what he was going to say.

"I will deal with the Thousand Sons Legion," said the Emperor. "I have arranged a meeting to discuss the prohibition of the abuse of psychic powers. I will use the best means to prevent the Fifteenth Legion and Magnus from further exploring psychic powers."

"You and Avida will appear at the meeting to testify then."

The Emperor added another log to the fire.

"Okay." Qin Xia nodded. "Magnus must be strictly controlled. I know you want him to sit on the Golden Throne, but in the future I know, not only did he not sit on the Golden Throne, he also dealt the most fatal blow to your ideal."

The Emperor nodded.

After a few seconds of silence, the Emperor suddenly spoke again: "Don't rely too much on your understanding of the future. In the real universe, the past has already happened, the present is happening, and the future has never happened. This is the iron law of the real universe."

“To attach too much importance to the future is to fall into a false circle and become a person who causes more damage than those who will cause damage in the future.”

Seeing Qin Xia opening his mouth to refute, the emperor stated his reasons.

"We are not Warp creatures living in the Warp."

"You have a unique psychic gift that allows you to freely enter and exit the real universe and the subspace. You should know that a person's fate on the web of fate is not a single line, but a large tangled mass of lines entangled together." "I can see the future of anyone, any possible future."

"For example, the person I trust the most, Imperial Chancellor Malcador."

"I can see Malcador die on the Golden Throne. I can see Malcador live in obscurity. I can see Malcador being dragged into the endless abyss by Chaos in pursuit of something and becoming my greatest rival. I can also see Malcador leaving me one day and becoming the emperor of a human force in the universe..."

"If I put too much emphasis on the future, I can't even say a word to Makhado, because I'm not sure whether this guy will be my enemy or friend in the future."

Seeing that Qin Xia had listened carefully, the emperor continued.

"Lian, do you think he is loyal enough? But I can also see his various futures. On one thread of fate, he fell into chaos and strangled his brothers with his own hands. On another thread of fate, he died at the hands of the Randan alien, and on another thread of fate, he was murdered by one of his brothers..."

"If I believe that his future is inevitable, what should I do? Clean up everything that is harmful to him? Then I should find his brothers and kill them the moment they leave the amniotic fluid tank."

The Emperor glanced overhead again, his eyes piercing through the cave to look at the Resolute.

"I can even see the future of Angron and you. He challenged me because of the miserable current situation of human beings. He was committed to building a country that could truly make people live a good life. Then, because of this desire and persistence, he was lured by Chaos and became the one who brought the most serious casualties to the human race."

"In that future I can still see you guys facing each other with swords."

Hearing the emperor say this, Qin Xia couldn't help but ask: "How can you see my future? I don't have a soul projection. I left the real universe before to confirm that there is no web of my destiny on the curtain."

Qin Xia recalled that Koz had seen himself in the prophecy as well.

"You will appear in the destiny of others." The Emperor said, "How you are in the eyes of others will determine what you will do in their destiny, so you can be seen. But this has no reference value, because the you in the eyes of others is not necessarily the real you. You can understand it as the you imagined by the prophet."

Qin Xia nodded, finally understanding.

The Emperor felt that he had made everything clear about the future, so he stopped talking about things that should not be overly emphasized.

For some reason, he felt that Qin Xia, who seemed to know everything, was not only not dangerous, but also somewhat familiar.

Like someone you can share secrets with.

"Magnus's unrestrained use and exploration of the warp, and his extreme desire to explore the unknown, are inherited from me."

The Emperor looked into the flames, remembering the past.

"I once explored the warp in a way that seems almost insane now, and then I got help from some benevolent entities. There really are benevolent entities in the warp."

"Everything there is essentially a collection of spiritual projections of real creatures. Since there is kindness in reality, there will be corresponding entities in the subspace."

"I naively believe that there is a god in the subspace that belongs to humans. It belongs only to humans and will help humans grow and survive at all costs. It..."

The emperor's voice suddenly began to tremble.

Excitement, sadness, and all kinds of emotions that the emperor had never expressed were revealed at this moment.

A distorted expression similar to crying but also similar to laughing appeared on the Emperor's face, which never showed any expression.

"I have really seen such a God. At least that's what I thought the God I saw was..."

"It shone with golden light, and the light it emitted was as warm as the sun. It helped me a lot, taught me how to use my talents, taught me how hateful and ugly the aliens were, and taught me how to elevate the human race."

"But...but one day I suddenly realized that none of the gods are good."

The Emperor looked up at Qin Xia, his voice trembling: "Do you know how disappointed I was when I discovered the truth and realized that what we now think of as the Warp is the truth?"

Seeing the emperor's true feelings, Qin Xia was surprised and nodded in a trance.

The expression on the Emperor's face gradually disappeared, and he turned back into the human Emperor who usually showed himself to be cold and rational. His voice was also calm and cold: "I hope you can cooperate with me on some things, instead of becoming my enemy, so I explained so much."

"You named your think tank the White Knight, which is a psychological term for an altruistic person who is eager to save others. So I'm sure you want to save everything just like I do."

Hearing the emperor say this, Qin Xia suddenly remembered.

When I was very young, a teacher from the orphanage held my hand and walked on the street.

Passing by a construction site, the teacher said: "You must study hard when you grow up, otherwise you will work under the scorching sun like them."

Qin Xia looked at the workers.

A worker stood in front of a constantly turning concrete mixer, reading a book.

Others were carrying steel bars further away.

"When I grow up, I want to invent a robot worker so that these people can earn money without having to work," Qin Xia said. At the time, he wanted to save these workers from having to work under the scorching sun.

At this time, a gust of wind blew over, and the book in the hands of the worker who was reading fell in front of Qin Xia. Qin Xia saw the title "In-depth Explanation of Structural Mechanics" on the cover, which he couldn't understand.

After Qin Xia picked up the book, the worker came over and said with a smile: "Remember, little brother. If you don't study, you may not be able to work on the construction site, but if you choose the wrong major, you will definitely be able to work on the construction site."

At that time, people in the welfare home always said: Xiao Qin is a kind child.

When Qin Xia later returned to the welfare home and took out a lot of money to improve the environment of the welfare home, the teachers who were still working said the same thing, but Qin Xia just felt guilty because these teachers didn't know what they had done to defeat their competitors.

"You are a man who sometimes contradicts himself. You are not a pure person," said the Emperor. "But it is fortunate that this is the case. Otherwise, Angron would have been trained by you to be a waste that even the enemy would not have the heart to kill."

Qin Xia stared into the emperor's eyes: "Kindness and cruelty need to coexist. This is the experience I have summed up."

"I have also learned from experience, just like you. And then I became who I am now." The Emperor extinguished the flames and opened the portal. "When I have some free time like I have now, we will discuss the matter of Magnus."

(End of this chapter)