Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 398 Choice
"later……"

Qin Xia looked at the tombstone.

Time seems to be flowing backwards.

It seemed as if everything had returned to the period of the uprising war.

In the heavy rain, the traitor hid and fled, and finally came to a street.

The traitor wanted to keep running forward, but a tall figure holding two axes walked out of the building. The traitor desperately wanted to choose another way, but a gust of wind and snow swept past, and Qin Xia with cold eyes and fierce face appeared on another road.

More gladiators appeared.

They dropped from the sky, or teleported out.

Cromach carried Salin's body and stared at the traitor after teleporting out.

"The First Rebellion Army will not be able to reach the Ridge area before my brother falls asleep." Cromach took out the medicine he prepared from his pocket and gently stuffed it into the mouth of the dying Salin behind him. Then he picked up the brass broadsword and pointed it at the traitor. "But fortunately... at least I can give him a gladiator funeral while he is asleep."

"Cut off your traitor's head and use it as his pillow when he is buried, and use your body as his bed!" said another gladiator fiercely.

The traitor stood there in panic, hesitating and wanting to run in a certain direction, but eventually realized that he definitely couldn't escape.

So the traitor knelt down and begged, "I don't want to betray... I really don't want to... If I knew that the High Knight would lose so quickly, how could I not tell you that he was poisoned?"

The traitor still believed that the High Knight had a chance to fight. His fear of the High Knight was deep in his bones, so he did not think that the rebels could win from the beginning.

He ran away from the arena with the others only because Brown took him along when he picked them up.

"I never thought you could win!"

The traitor wept bitterly.

Looking at the gladiators approaching him, he seemed to realize that no matter how much he begged for mercy, he would not be forgiven.

The traitor cried bitterly, but his words were not so humble.

"How can you win?"

"You guys...either you were fighting like dogs in the arena a while ago...or you are in danger of losing your job..."

"How did the High Knight lose to you?!"

"How the hell do you think you can win?"

"If I had known you could win... I would have reported it to you when I saw Saleen being poisoned..."

"You can't blame me for this..."

"I really didn't know that the uprising would be successful!"

"..."

Hearing the cries, the gladiators approached.

Angron punched the traitor through the chest.

While Qin Xia was reading the traitor's memory, Cromach, who was standing by, glanced at his homemade vital signs monitor and shouted, "No time!"

According to tradition, if a gladiator who died due to betrayal could be buried with the body of the traitor at the last moment of his life, his soul would not linger in reality in the anger and pain caused by the betrayal.

Qin Xia immediately teleported everyone back to the vicinity of Desia City.

There were already coffins prepared there that had been made by other gladiators themselves.

The gladiators stuffed the traitor's body into the coffin.

Cromach put Salin's body down and held Salin's upper body.

Sadness arises in everyone's chest, gathers on Angron, and is then transmitted out by Angron, forming a more powerful resonance of pain.

“I’m sorry…” Angron stroked Salin’s face. “It will take the rebels another two hours to capture the Ridge District… But we will definitely not bury your coffin in Desia. We will send you back to the Ridge District, back to your hometown, after the battle…”

"What are you talking about... Angron... Aren't we in my hometown..." Saleen said weakly.

The gladiators were stunned.

Salin's dim pupils stared at the night sky, and intermittent words came out from his trembling lips.

"I saw... I saw us kill all the high knights... and then return to my hometown together... to the place called Saleen..."

"The uprising has been won... We are... We are walking amid the people's welcome... Everywhere... Everywhere there are flowers and... and cheers..."

Angron sobbed.

Cromach wiped away his tears, picked up the monitor, and looked at the gladiators.

Angron lifted up Salin's body and placed it in the coffin, resting his head on the traitor's head and his body on the traitor's body.

"Before Saleen breathed his last, the coffin was closed."

"We rushed to the front line, carrying Saleen's coffin to fight..."

Qin Xia said this and looked at Avida: "This is what happened next."

Avida stared at Salin's tombstone and observed a three-minute silence for him. Then he asked in confusion: "But Salin was not buried in his hometown named after him. Why is that..."

"Before his death, a high knight turned that place into a sea of ​​fire in a deep pit, and the people living there had long been killed by the guards." Qin Xia said, "Afterwards, we pinned the high knights and the guards' captives to the ground and beheaded them one by one, letting their blood fall on the land, providing nutrients for the seeds of flowers, plants and trees that we would sow next."

"When the place becomes a place full of birdsong and flowers in the future, Salin's coffin will be moved there."

Arvida nodded silently after hearing this, and said after a moment: "If the traitor could make the right decision, he would not die without dignity, and the rebels attacking the ridge area would not lose Salin's command... Perhaps the high knights and guards there could be eliminated before Salin's hometown was ravaged into a living hell..."

Qin Xia nodded in agreement.

Avida looked at the handkerchief still in Qin Xia's hand, the thing that could be used to hide his identity.

But he didn't take it.

"Astartes will be questioned and despised if they participate in the Imperial Parliament. If I continue to hide my identity, I am afraid that the accusation will not go smoothly." "So I will not use this thing."

"I will bring the accusation against Magnus openly before the Terran Senate."

Avida touched his chest.

Branded on the chest of the power armor is the name Arvida used during his time in the Achaemenid Empire.

"I was once a fool who explored the warp without restraint. Arvida signed a contract with the devil and trusted the devil... He was a person who questioned everything, so I think his behavior and cognition were influenced by me. It was me who made him trust the devil."

"I have to atone for my mistakes."

Arvida recalled the words he had said in the warp before his soul perished from his body. He wanted to atone for his credulity in trusting the devil and causing his closest superiors and brothers to mutate beyond redemption.

"Will the Legion hunt me down, or will I commit suicide... those are things I will have to think about later."

"I only regret one thing, and that is that I would bring shame upon the name of Avida if I were to be called a betrayer."

Avida looked at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia stood up.

The two shook hands.

"When will Cyjanus arrive?"

"Very soon. It's a long way from Nuceria to Terra. You guys go there first, and I will go to Terra later. But before that, I will go to Caliban first."

"it is good."

Avida thought that besides himself, Qin Xia was also a person who witnessed the entire incident in the subspace and was also a strong witness.

"See you Terra."

"See you Terra."

……

After the anniversary of the uprising war.

The White Knight began preparations for an extremely long distance warp voyage.

The destination is Caliban.

"Contact the star port and execute the departure procedure."

"Be more efficient. When I was a communications officer, I had to do the work of ten people alone. I was much more efficient than you and your team combined."

The captain walked on the command deck with his hands behind his back, urging everyone he passed by.

An officer who was promoted from the lower deck asked in confusion: "Sir, when I first boarded the ship, didn't you say that you started from scratch and climbed up step by step to the position of captain? I remember you said you were a gunner at that time?"

"Before I became a gunner, I was a communications officer." The captain stopped in front of the officer, put his hands behind his back, held his head high, turned around, and turned 45 degrees to look at the officer. "Any other questions, sir?"

The officer shook his head. "No more, sir."

The captain was silent for a second and hooked his finger at the officer.

Because the captain was very short, the officer had to bend down to whisper to him.

After the officer leaned over to whisper, the captain said mysteriously, "Go back to your post and carry out the departure procedure."

"Yes, sir." The officer saluted and sat back in his seat.

The command deck gate suddenly opened.

The Lord of the White Knights stepped onto the command deck.

The captain, who was patrolling with his hands behind his back, immediately trotted over and followed Qin Xia to the porthole of the command deck.

"Have you brought enough supplies?" Qin Xia glanced at the interior of the starport outside the porthole.

"Yes, sir."

"Execute the departure procedure."

"Yes, my lord."

The ships began to sail out of the starport.

The heavy cruiser White Knight headed for Point Mandeville.

"Our destination is Caliban." Qin Xia looked at the captain and said, "Your home planet."

The captain subconsciously glanced at the officer who had asked him the question earlier.

"You started from scratch, from a servant to an attendant of the Primarch of the First Legion, and then started from scratch again, climbing step by step to the position of captain on a ship with your wife who once fought alongside the Lion King... Now you are finally going back to your home planet, how do you feel?" Qin Xia asked.

The captain smiled awkwardly: "I miss my hometown. Now I can finally go back to Caliban..."

"Well, just miss it. When you get to Caliban, you can go down and do what you want to do." Qin Xia said.

"Thank you, sir." The captain thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered something and asked in a low voice, "Will we be in any danger? I heard that Caliban is not peaceful recently."

Qin Xia looked at the captain without saying a word.

This guy is really capable, but his shortcomings are as prominent as his strengths.

That is, I can be timid and curious at times.

Seeing the Lord of the White Knights remain silent, the captain smiled awkwardly, then immediately turned around to urge others to work.

The White Knight's porthole panels gradually fell and jumped into the warp.

(End of this chapter)