Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 407: The Wrath of Caliban

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The White Knight.

A fighter plane belonging to the White Knight carrier-based aviation unit was sent to hangar No. 3.

Before a secret operation is about to take place, there are only a team of engineers belonging to the White Knight Think Tank pilots and the newly arrived Kova in Hangar No. 3.

The former was maintaining the fighter and refilling ammunition, while the latter was waiting.

Kova, who had previously driven a gunboat to transport White Knight combat personnel, was now standing in the hangar looking at the "Lightning" fighter in front of him.

This is a type of fighter aircraft that is often used in the air forces of the Mortal Auxiliary Forces of various legions. It is an advanced fighter aircraft famous for its maneuverability and firepower. Now it has been modified by a team of engineers dedicated to Kova.

"Experimental Thruster X-2133."

A mechanical priest of the Red Order came up to Kovar, his oily appendages waving like octopus tentacles.

"The experimental thruster from Numasa is a long-abandoned project. It was once part of a plan to build a fighter jet for the City Devourer that could hunt down the High Knights in the air. But later the plan was cancelled for various reasons, and the thruster project that had already produced results was also terminated."

"It's going too fast, understand?"

Hearing what the priest said, the slender Kova nodded silently.

The priest then provided Kova with the mission briefing document.

Kova took the document and took a look at it, and found that he had to fly this modified lightning fighter from low-Earth orbit into the atmosphere of Caliban, and then vertically attack a knight's oath hall in the old city of Caliban.

The Oath Chamber is difficult to find, but a Dark Angels Space Marine will be on the ground to provide guidance.

Although Kowa was puzzled by the idea of ​​attacking a place on Caliban under the guidance of the Dark Angels Space Marines, he knew that there were many secrets in this unit after joining the White Knights. Not knowing things that were not related to him was a way of protecting himself.

Kova brought the briefing into the Lightning Fighter, sat in the driver's seat, and started the Lightning Fighter according to the operating instructions he had learned last night.

The World Eaters have never been able to obtain standard equipment such as the Lightning Fighter, but this does not mean that the fighter planes used by the World Eaters are poor. On the contrary, the creations of the Nusa-1 aircraft research department have something better than the Lightning.

But if the fighter model is different, you have to learn it again.

Kova, who had studied for a whole night but still had enough sleep, started the fighter plane skillfully. While getting familiar with the operating feel of the Lightning fighter, he flew the fighter plane out of Hangar No. 3.

Kovar piloted the Lightning fighter vertically into the atmosphere of Caliban at a speed of nearly Mach 8.

The mission briefing recommended maintaining the highest possible speed, but whether to do so would depend on the circumstances.

Kova chose to do this because he wanted to do everything to perfection when flying a fighter plane... If he had the ability, why not do it?

The Lightning fighter entered Caliban's atmosphere. The anti-gravity device on his body and the various characteristics of the humans on the home planet of Kova allowed him to withstand the acceleration at that time.

When the mission began, someone had already informed the Space Marines sent by Luther of the dispatch of the fighter planes. The Space Marines who were supposed to provide attack guidance to Kova rushed there as quickly as possible, but they were still a step too late.

When Kova had entered the atmosphere and saw the gradually abandoned old city of Caliban on the ground, the Space Marines had just begun to deploy the attack guidance equipment.

As the fighter plane dived at a speed of Mach 8 and was about to crash into the large city surrounded by high walls thousands of kilometers long, Kova recalled the features of the Knight's Hall in the mission briefing and searched quickly among the buildings on the ground.

What was supposed to be done by the Space Marines was done by Kova alone. He found the huge Knights' Hall.

The Knights' Hall looked like a small castle, but the old city was full of larger and more magnificent buildings, and it took Kova some effort to identify it from the slight differences in details on the building's exterior.

Then comes the attitude control, ensuring that the fighter jet flies over the auditorium in the best bombing posture.

Then Kova pressed the trigger, and after the fighter plane dropped the bomb, he quickly pulled the nose of the aircraft into the air and headed straight out of the atmosphere.

Astartes on the ground had just turned on the laser illumination function of the guidance equipment and looked up, only to see that the fighter plane was pulling up at an extremely fast speed, and the bomb thrown out was extremely clear under his superhuman vision, both the trajectory and the outline of the bomb.

"Idiot!" Astarte cursed.

The bomb fell forward and flew towards a building next to the target building. When Astarte thought that the mission to kill Cammack would fail, the bomb went straight through the tall tower of the building due to the huge acceleration when it was dropped and Kova's design in the fuse activation program, and drilled into the target from a perfect forty-five degree angle from above.

The bomb exploded only after the second impact.

The Knight's Hall, which was similar to a small castle and required two Astartes combat teams to spend a solar hour to capture, was blown to pieces.

There were many Kavak's guards in the Knights' Hall. They were more elite than the killers that the White Knights had killed on the streets before, and they carried a large number of weapons to ensure that Kavak and all important figures could safely complete today's lectures and strategic discussions.

But now they should all become cannon fodder.

"..." Astarte shrugged, looked away and then back at the Knights' Hall, and whispered, "Not bad."

Astartes continued to watch.

An invisible gunboat gradually appeared from the air, and a knight mecha mounted on an anti-gravity suspension device was thrown to the ground below it.

Then five members of the White Knight Think Tank Force, led by Varis, a total of six people jumped to the ground as the gunship descended rapidly.

The two new recruits participating in the operation were located on the left and right sides of Varis, and the three think tank veterans were located next to the new recruits.

The Lancers marched over the heads of the think tanks, smashing the broken walls and ruins that blocked their way, clearing a path for the think tanks to move forward.

The role of the think tank and this knight mecha is not to attack the huge building of the Knight Hall, but to enter the ruins after most of the enemies are blown to pieces and make sure that Kavak turns into dust or a corpse.

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The Knights Hall, underground.

Kavak's ears were buzzing and everything in his eyes was blurry.

It was not until a moment later that the shouts of the people around gradually drowned out the buzzing sound, and the vision gradually became clear.

Kavak looked around and saw his elite guards. These fanatical believers, all wearing power armor, had no disadvantage except that they were small in number, only a hundred of them... but there was no time for more people to hide underground.

Next to the elite guards was a priest, who directed the guards to spread out and then helped Kavak up.

Kavak was grateful to the priest from the bottom of his heart. If he and the followers of the Elite Guard had not seen the future revealed by God, he would have been blown to ashes along with the hundreds of people. "Leave... leave here..." Kavak gave orders intermittently.

The guards around looked at the priest, who supported Kavak and walked towards the tunnel, preparing to pass through the tunnel of the Knights' Hall and enter the sewer of the old city of Caliban.

After they left, the guards followed them.

"Praise be to the gods."

"Praise be to God for the revelation that saved our lives... He truly loves His followers... Just as we preached to them!"

The priest kept muttering to himself.

But Kavak was in no mood to listen. His small eyes without eyebrows blinked as he looked at the monitor embedded in the arm of a guard member.

There was thick smoke outside.

A moment later six tall silhouettes became vaguely visible in the thick smoke.

Kavak saw the tall figure in the center raise his arm and wave it, and then the thick smoke in the entire Knights Hall was dispersed outside.

"The World Eaters' think tank..." the priest gritted his teeth, "They are just lackeys of the helpers that bastard Luther hired!"

When the priest started to speak, in the image displayed on the screen, the leading white knight suddenly turned his head to look at the monitor. The two scarlet eyes on the helmet should have been falling on the monitor itself, but Kavak felt as if they were looking at himself.

The leading white knight waved his hand again, and after the thick smoke covered the monitor again, he retreated into the smoke with the five people beside him.

Kavak and his group continued to flee and entered the sewers of the old city.

After the path under your feet changed from a wide network to a one-way pipeline, five think tanks appeared in front.

Kavak and others turned back subconsciously, only to see another think tank appear.

Varis approached the group from behind, holding a spear.

Members of the Elite Guard attacked at the priest's command.

Varis stopped and took a moment to consider whether he should slay the White Knight's Lord's chief enemy with his lance, thus completing an honorable deed and bringing his journey to Caliban to a perfect end... or choose a safer approach.

After thinking for a while, Varis raised his hand in embarrassment.

The flames instantly covered the entire underground pipeline, and all Varis could see was a sea of ​​fire.

Kavak, the people around him, and the think tanks in front of them were all engulfed in the sea of ​​fire. Even the branch routes near the pipeline were burned by the flames.

What was left behind after the raging flames was frost, which was the cooling phenomenon caused by the use of psychic energy.

The other five Librarians held up their own psychic barriers, searching for the enemy's shadow or ashes after the raging sea of ​​fire.

Varis stepped forward.

In the very center of the fire, the think tanks saw two people who were still alive.

The priest created an area of ​​cold to block the invasion of psychic fire.

"Fools, you have betrayed the truth of the Empire and chosen to believe in God, so your lives are sentenced to end by the Lord of the White Knights!" Varis strode forward, and while speaking, he was very happy that he still had the opportunity to end Kavak's life with his spear.

Faced with the approaching powerful enemy, Kavak pushed the priest hard in desperation, as if he wanted to at least die behind him.

The priest staggered after being pushed, and the package on his body fell to the ground. He turned his head and cast a puzzled and disappointed look at Kavak.

Varis rushed forward, and the other Librarians released their psychic powers.

The priest also made a countermeasure. His body suddenly floated up and blue light was released from his eyes.

At this moment, time suddenly stopped and then flowed backwards.

When Varis returned to the original place, he found that Kavak disappeared after being covered by a ray of light.

The priest who floated in the air turned into ashes and gradually fell to the ground.

"A psychic powerful enough to control time?!" A think tank waved his hand angrily, dispersing the ashes.

Varis was silent and thoughtful.

The mission briefing did not state that the priest had psychic powers sufficient to manipulate time, nor did it even state that the priest had psychic powers... This was clearly a hidden trump card, and that guy must have never used psychic powers, so it had not been discovered.

Or maybe...

Varis picked up the backpack from the ground.

This was what fell to the ground when the priest staggered after being pushed by Kavak.

After searching, Varis found a colorless crystal that was gradually dimming and a stack of documents inside.

"Perhaps it used this to release the psychic power just now." Varis crushed the completely dimmed crystal, "But there is no doubt that Kavak is not dead, and we still failed."

"That guy is not a psyker. He used the power in the gem." Qin Xia's voice echoed in Varis' mind, without any blame. "We are dealing with people who believe in the gods of the warp. They have methods that we cannot imagine. You should sum up your experience and lessons, and then calmly deal with the next matter."

Qin Xia just had a moment to interfere. He saw that the subspace rift was about to open in the pipe, and Varis and five other people would be thrown into the subspace.

So between killing Kavak and closing the unknown powerful force that tore open the subspace rift, Qin Xia chose the latter.

The think tanks are all psychics and can sense what just happened.

Varis and the think tanks saluted to the air, indicating that they remembered the teachings and were grateful for the rescue by the Lord of the White Knights.

"Send the file back to me, and then you guys go do the next thing."

(End of this chapter)