Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 405: The Time of Fate
"I figured it out."

Qin Xia slowly closed the book and cast a calm gaze on the watcher.

"You think too slowly." The watcher spread his hands, and the long sleeves that covered his arms hung on the ground. "It feels like a whole day has passed."

"Illusion." Qin Xia threw the book to the watcher.

The latter trembled when he caught it, then stood the book vertically on the ground and held it in his arms.

"I will not choose to destroy Caliban, because I promised Luther that I would make sure Caliban returns to normal." Qin Xia said firmly, without any intention of giving in. "I can help you destroy the three artifacts, but you will need to come up with something useful to me."

"What do you want?" the Watcher asked calmly.

"You." Qin Xia pointed at the robed man in front of him, "I need a companion like you because I know what kind of abilities you have."

The Watcher's dark head, shrouded in a hood, tilted back noticeably, looking shocked, and then shook his head vigorously: "No... no... I'm not a pet!"

"Listen to me first before you think about it." Qin Xia continued, "In addition to you, I also need to know what you use..."

"You want something else besides me?" The Watcher's voice sounded angry. "Greed is the biggest flaw of human beings!"

"Then not listening to others finish speaking is your biggest shortcoming as Dark Watchers," Qin Xia said.

The watcher was silent for a while, and did not move for a while, as if he had thought it over carefully. Qin Xia saw it slowly nodded.

"I also need to know what methods you use to defend against psychic attacks."

"In addition to these two requests, please give me another gift at random, and it will be considered a gift."

After saying this, Qin Xia waited for the watcher's response.

Time passed by minute by minute.

The Watcher seemed to hesitate for a long time, but he refused when he finally spoke: "I can't fight alongside you because I am not qualified. The rest of the conditions can be discussed."

Qin Xia spread his hands: "No, you are qualified, don't underestimate yourself."

The Watcher tilted his head.

If this little man in the robe had eyes and a face, his face would definitely be full of helplessness and anger, and his eyes would definitely give off a "are you kidding me" feeling.

"Go back and explain my conditions to the person who has the final say among you." Qin Xia said, "It is impossible to decide a matter in the first conversation."

The Watcher thinks so too.

Qin Xia signaled to the man in robe that he could leave.

But before leaving, the Watcher suddenly asked: "Why do you want to help Luther so much, just based on the so-called friendship that we have only known each other for less than a year?"

Qin Xia did not rush to answer. He thought for a moment, and then spoke when the watcher thought he would not say anything and was about to turn around and leave.

"Luther can easily make others feel good about him and trust him. After I was misunderstood in the Randan War, Luther's actions were very considerate of my feelings..."

"Friendship doesn't have to be that deep, so I have other considerations as well."

"In the Dawn Star conflict, the First Legion's joining was a great help in my opinion. After they joined, I could see that the Space Marines from other legions who came to Dawn Star were determined to strive for a good result on Dawn Star."

Having said this, Qin Xia was silent for a moment.

The Watcher said the following words for him: "So you think Ryan is not easy to get along with, but Luther is easy to get along with, and Luther has a lot of weight in the First Legion. No matter what he does, he will not be killed by the easily angered Ryan... Winning over Luther means winning over half of the First Legion."

"Yes." Qin Xia admitted frankly.

The watcher stared at Qin Xia for a while, then turned and left.

Outside the castle, three watchmen stood in the darkness.

Luther and the Dark Angels surrounded the three Dark Watchers, and made way for them when they saw the Watcher who was talking to Qin Xia come out.

Although Luther was not present when Qin Xia talked with the Watcher just now, he vaguely realized that the conversation was the moment when Caliban's fate was decided.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be three more Dark Watchers.

The Watcher who had talked with Qin Xia approached his three companions and communicated telepathically in the Dark Watcher's own language.

Others could not hear what these aliens said, but Luther could see that the watcher who had talked to Qin Xia made a lot of body movements when he spoke, and his body movements seemed close to those of humans.

Its companions are completely different.

Dark, deep, serious.

They stood there like three short statues, their bodies motionless.

However, this is the general impression that the Dark Watchers leave on the Dark Angels. A Watcher who can make body movements like humans when conducting telepathic communication is a very small minority among this unfathomable race.

Luther held his breath.

The watcher who had just talked to Qin Xia finally stopped making body gestures and looked up at the sky.

The three watchmen standing opposite him remained like statues.

"What are they talking about?" Luther thought to himself, and at the same time he was wondering why he thought today was the day when his fate would be decided.

It’s just because every time a Dark Watcher appears, it is closely related to the fate of the vast majority of people on Caliban... In the end, the four Watchers disappeared together.

The dark angels looked at each other in confusion.

"That's how they are." Luther looked at his confidant beside him, "They never explain anything to irrelevant people."

"Then ask the Star Crusher?" suggested the confidant named Kangtan.

"He might tell me, but I don't want to hear it." Luther looked at the place where the four watchers were standing and talking. "I really don't want to know the purpose of these watchers."

Kang Tan nodded silently, thinking: I don’t want to either.

Less than a few minutes later, a watcher appeared again, this time holding a thick and huge book in its arms.

Luther and the dark angels quickly made way for the watcher. After watching the watcher enter the castle and then enter the room where Qin Xia was, they realized that the little man in the robe was the one who had talked to Qin Xia before. Now he suddenly came back, holding a book, and no one knew what it was for.

Luther's heart, which had just been slightly relieved, was hanging in the air again.

Qin Xia in the room was slightly surprised to see the Watcher come back again: "Have you guys come to an agreement so quickly?"

The Watcher said nothing, but held the book high with his two short hands. "We respect your decision. This book is the benefit you can get, and I will also tell you how we can offset the influence of psychic energy."

"What about the gift?" Qin Xia asked, "You can't work for me, so this book replaces you, but in addition to the two conditions of a benefit and a means to offset psychic energy, there is also a condition for the gift."

"Don't be too greedy," the Watcher said.

Qin Xia frowned, but did not force it. He reached out and picked up the book and flipped through it.

The cover of the book is a hideous face.

Qin Xia tried to open the cover, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't.

"This is not a real book, but a Chaos Artifact." The Watcher said in a voice that only Qin Xia could hear, "It contains the true names of all the demons that have ever been to the real universe. If you want to know the true name of a demon, tell the demon on the cover your request."

Hearing that this was a Chaos Artifact, Qin Xia looked at the Watcher seriously, wondering why these guys gave him this thing, but he still wanted to try it, so he said the name of the demon on the cover.

"Sarum."

The hideous face on the cover wailed, and then the book opened, and a page was presented in front of Qin Xia.

There was a long string of text recorded on it. Qin Xia took a quick look and found that there were millions of words on this page.

Millions of words are not neatly crowded on a page, nor are the words so small that they are impossible to recognize. Instead, the page seems infinitely huge, and the words are also large, but you can read them all at a glance.

Even these words are presented in Qin Xia's mother tongue. Obviously, this chaos artifact can follow the language that the user is most familiar with and present text content that is easiest for the user to recite the name.

"Sarum's real name has millions of characters?" Qin Xia shook his head helplessly, "Why am I not surprised at all?"

"You're actually lamenting the number of real names a demon has?" The Watcher spread his hands and tilted his head and asked, "Don't you want to know how this Chaos Artifact, which affects everything around it just by its existence, didn't turn everyone in this castle into Chaos slaves?"

Qin Xia nodded: "I want to know."

"This is the method you want to counteract the influence of psionic energy." The Watcher said, "My race has abilities similar to those of the human soulless. Not only will we not be harmed by psionic energy, we can even make it ineffective."

Qin Xia listened carefully.

"But this is not because we have anti-psychic abilities like the Soulless. On the contrary, we have very strong psychic talents. This strength is not reflected in the strength of psychic powers, but in the control of psychic powers."

"We manipulate psychic energy in a very detailed way, bit by bit... The psychic energy that seeps into reality from the warp is extremely clear to our eyes. We control it, making it dissipate or flow elsewhere... Chaos influence is also based on psychic energy, so I can make everything around this Chaos artifact unaffected by the psychic energy it emits."

After listening to the watcher's explanation, Qin Xia fell into deep thought.

Extremely detailed control of psychic energy, resulting in the effect of suppressing psychic energy like a soulless person...

Qin Xia had thought about this method, but he just couldn't do it. In his experience, spiritual energy was like a torrent flowing into his body or soul, and then he would release spiritual energy spells and release a large amount of spiritual energy just like digging a drainage ditch for the torrent.

It is impossible to force precise control of spiritual energy, at least in the short term.

"Then is there any way for me to study?" Qin Xia asked.

"You are extremely lucky to have a special psychic talent. Maybe one day you can use psychic power to crush a star, but there is no way you can control psychic power as finely as my people. So, it is impossible." The Watcher replied.

Qin Xia thought for a moment, then threw the book back to the watcher.

The body of the watcher was pressed down a bit, and Qin Xia felt for no reason that the little man in the robe gave him a dissatisfied look before he hugged the book.

"I'm busy with other things now and have no time to place this thing. You stay here and help me keep this artifact until one day I take it away from Caliban." Qin Xia said.

The Watcher agreed without hesitation, apparently that was what his dark and gloomy compatriots had instructed him to do.

"What's your name?" Qin Xia asked.

"Kang."

"Kang the Conqueror?"

"Watcher Kang."

"Follower Kang. At least until I have time to place this artifact, you will be Follower Kang."

(End of this chapter)