Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 418: Ouroboros
When he reached Ju Men, Qin Xia reached out and touched it.

Relying on the hearing and touch of a superman warrior, Qin Xia discovered that there was a mechanism hidden in the huge door after a round of knocking.

The Ouroboros artifact no longer led the way, slowly losing its light and falling into Kang's hood.

"I feel that this trip to the northern wilderness is like an adventure, and you know what I hate most about the adventure part?" Qin Xia asked while groping.

"Solve the puzzle?"

"Guessed it right."

Qin Xia no longer fumbled on the door, nor did he look for the key to open the door, or some way to disarm the mechanism.

He took a step back and closed his eyes.

When his eyes opened again, they were filled with psychic light, and then he pushed his hands forward, and with a loud bang, the giant door burst open.

An underground space filled with stars appeared in front of Qin Xia.

This was different from what he knew Zahariel saw.

The entire underground space has an extremely special visual effect. You can see the rock layers, the mottled stars hanging above the rock layers, and the flowing galaxy.

Unlike what Qin Xia imagined, there was nothing here. The entire underground space was filled with nothingness and the visual effect of the stars... a sense of emptiness belonging to the universe.

Kang gently tugged at Qin Xia's arm.

The little man in the robe has sensed that some kind of presence is about to appear.

The emptiness in the underground cavity was only temporary, and then the stars flowed and dripped from the rock formations, eventually converging into an angelic creature.

It was wearing a long robe, had wings on its back, and held a huge sword in its hands.

Looks like a Caliban knight.

But after Qin Xia opened his psychic vision, he discovered that this was not a holy thing at all, but some evil existence from the subspace.

It does not belong to any god of the Warp, but only to Chaos itself.

There is a term used to describe these malevolent entities in the Warp that do not belong to the Four Gods - Chaos Daemons Without Division.

"Is it the Ouroboros?" Qin Xia raised his spear and pointed it at the devil.

“No, Caliban is the Ouroboros,” Kang replied.

"I know, I know this. What I want to ask is whether this guy is an important part of the Ouroboros that must exist somewhere." Qin Xia corrected the question.

Kang immediately raised the book in his arms and said, "Why not ask the magical Chaos Artifact?"

The devil appeared with a sword in both hands, and then walked towards Qin Xia with a momentum as if he wanted to destroy everything.

"Query the real name of the current demon." Qin Xia said to the Chaos Artifact.

The hideous face on the cover of the artifact wailed, the pages of the book turned, and dense text appeared on the pages.

"Sapuetkan, Liwensalaka..." Qin Xia began to recite his real name.

Only at this time did Qin Xia feel like he was a Grey Knight.

When the Grey Knights are fighting against demons, they will recite the demon's real name, but the demon's real name is often breathtakingly long, so the Grey Knights will arrange one person to recite the real name while the others delay time.

Recite while fighting. As long as you finish reciting the devil's real name, you will win the battle.

The demon rushed towards Qin Xia and swung his giant sword, but Qin Xia easily dodged and continued to chant.

As Qin Xia thought about it, he would occasionally wonder if this was a bit too much trouble. He could still defeat the demons in the real universe with the Sirius Sword and psychic power.

But after reciting it for a while, he changed his mind and thought that the Chaos Artifact that recorded the devil's real name was, after all, a gift from the Watchers to him, and Kang had been holding it like a fart spirit holding a bomb from the beginning to the end. Wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't use it?
With this thought in mind, Qin Xia patiently dealt with the devil and continued to chant.

It was not until an unknown amount of time had passed that all the words on the page were read out word for word. The demon who was still trying to hack Qin Xia hard finally knelt on one knee as if he had lost all his strength. His body trembled violently, and he let out a howl that could make the listener's soul tremble.

Qin Xia walked slowly forward with the Sirius Sword in hand. After approaching the demon, he raised the sword and stabbed it into the demon's back, nailing the entire demon to the ground.

The devil's screams echoed through the underground cave, and its entire body quickly changed, suddenly becoming a little girl. It spoke to Qin Xia in pain: "Don't torture me... Don't torture me..."

"Oh..." Qin Xia took off his helmet, frowned and showed a look of pity and tenderness, and then this expression disappeared in an instant, "Do you think I can't see that you are an unclassified chaos demon? Bitch."

A cruel smile appeared on the girl's face, and then she changed again.

Its body was sometimes a sculpture, sometimes a house, a tree, a wild beast... All the things Qin Xia had seen on Caliban appeared before his eyes one after another.

But no matter how it changes, it is suffering and unable to move at this moment.

This is the consequence of having his real name recited. Qin Xia then only needs a few words to banish the demon. Not only that, he can also control the demon to do other things.

"Where is the Ouroboros?" Qin Xia asked.

"Where you are... is Ouroboros." The demon struggled, but couldn't control the desire to answer.

It's like they can't help but be extremely close to the concepts they are involved in in terms of style and personality.

"I'm talking about the most important part of Ouroboros."

"Where you are... is the Ouroboros... I told you."

Qin Xia looked around.

He found that the whole place had changed once, just like the demon, and suddenly became the knight's castle in the forest of Caliban.

The Chaos Demon in front of him turned into Luther.

"You are the spokesperson for Ouroboros, right?" Qin Xia circled the demon in front of him, "Tell us what you know."

The demon whose real name was called out spoke immediately. "Ouroboros controls everything."

"The Empire's bureaucrats have been corrupted and have taken a series of absurd actions to intensify the conflict with the Calibans."

"Hatred, despair, pain... all the negative emotions generated on Caliban became the nourishment of the Ouroboros."

The devil spoke this information without any emotion, and even because the person who recited the real name was Qin Xia, the words he chose were completely on Qin Xia's side.

Kang, who was standing by, said to Qin Xia, "The corrupted imperial bureaucrats want to turn Caliban into a living hell. This is a sacrifice in itself, using the Calibans as materials to harvest negative emotions."

Qin Xia nodded. He had heard this before.

But what the devil said next was a bit new.

"Ouroboros... must control Luther."

"Luther will become its slave and fight against Ryan."

Hearing this, Qin Xia wanted to say that with Luther's willpower, it would be wishful thinking for Ouroboros to use Luther as a slave.

But then he thought again, no matter how strong-willed Luther is, he is still a mortal and has his own fears and hopes. Caliban is an example.

If the problem of Imperial bureaucracy is not resolved, Luther will eventually develop a rift with the Lion, and then fight against the Lion and form the Fallen Angels to launch a rebellion in the future.

This is how Ouroboros drives Luther.

"No one can stop the three artifacts from becoming one."

The demon continued.

"To put it bluntly, Ouroboros just wants to merge with the other two artifacts into one." Qin Xia looked at Kang.

Kang nodded and continued, "We know that the most important part of Ouroboros is here, and Caliban is also a part of Ouroboros. What should we do next?"

“In fact, I also know that Ouroboros is Caliban, and since I choose not to destroy Caliban, I can only find a way to suppress the influence of Ouroboros on Caliban.” Qin Xia slowly told his plan when he came here, “I plan to establish a series of ritual nodes in the northern wasteland, and use the subspace characteristics of Ouroboros to perform rituals, so that Ouroboros can become a real Ouroboros.”

This was a confusing statement, but Kang, who was familiar with subspace affairs, immediately understood Qin Xia's thoughts.

Establish a series of ritual nodes in the northern wasteland, and all nodes cover the entire northern wasteland.

The ritual will draw the power of chaos from the Ouroboros, and then use the power of the Ouroboros to suppress the Ouroboros itself.

But there is a problem, that is, the power of Ouroboros is the power of chaos. Extracting the power of Ouroboros is equivalent to allowing Ouroboros to directly expand its influence without the help of "spokespersons" like the Undivided Demon in front of it.

This principle is similar to the fact that it is extremely difficult for demons to enter the real universe from the subspace, but it would be quite easy if someone in the real universe summoned them.

"Then all your efforts in managing Caliban are in vain?" Kang suddenly thought for Qin Xia. "It is feasible to use the ritual to extract the power of the Ouroboros as the power of the ritual and then suppress the Ouroboros, but the chaos corruption will spread, and then the whole of Caliban will become hell. Even if it is not broken... it is better to break it."

"No." Qin Xia explained, "After the Ouroboros' power is extracted, it will pass through the subspace. I can create a domain with my characteristics in the subspace. The extracted power can be transformed by my characteristics and used for my own benefit."

Kang thought about it carefully.

"If I stay in the northern wasteland of Caliban and do nothing to suppress the Ouroboros, I think I can do it." Qin Xia said, "The psychic energy transformed by my special nature can be completely controlled by myself. But the problem is that it is impossible for me to stay on Caliban and do nothing."

"Then is the principle of this ritual similar to the principle of our race suppressing spiritual energy?" Kang asked.

"Yes, that's it. Suppress psychic energy through precise control of it. I'm a human being and can't be so precise, but I can do it by expanding the scale of psychic energy control and adjusting the details." Qin Xia said.

Kang immediately thought of having surgery.

The way the Dark Watchers suppress psychic energy is like performing a surgery that is delicate to the nanometer level, requiring precision to the "nanometer" level.

Qin Xia's method is equivalent to using a ritual to turn the patient into a giant. The operation does not need to be performed at the nano level. Using excavators and bulldozers to perform the operation is already delicate enough.

"It's feasible." Kang nodded in agreement, "But I thought you had figured it out and would use the Sirius Sword to kill the Ouroboros directly."

"Caliban cannot be destroyed. This place involves the fate of countless humans in the galaxy."

Qin Xia looked at the devil: "I want you to stay here from now on, never be freed, stay in this dark place forever to protect Caliban's darkest secrets, and kill everything that comes close to here except me and the Dark Watchers."

The demon obviously didn't want to agree, but after a fierce struggle, he could only respond intermittently: "I will...stay here...defend this place...kill everything that comes close to here except you and the Dark Watcher..."

After this irrational and unfair contract was concluded because the devil's true name was known, the Book of Chaos Artifacts slowly closed, and the hideous and wailing face on the cover gradually calmed down.

Qin Xia drew out the Sirius Sword.

The demon slowly stood up and walked out of the giant gate, his body trembling due to the violent struggle, but he still stood outside the black gate like a guard, leaning on the giant sword.

Qin Xia sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and began to concentrate on calling upon his spiritual energy, preparing to suppress the Ouroboros before the ritual was established.

The psychic energy that was originally a public resource was extracted by Qin Xia, and then transformed into psychic energy that he could control. He then used himself as an anchor to infiltrate reality and fight against the power of Ouroboros.

Kang stood aside and watched all this, sensing that the Ouroboros's range of influence had suddenly shrunk to the underground ruins, because it had to draw out most of its strength to resist Qin Xia's psychic attack to prevent itself from being destroyed by Qin Xia.

When the ritual is completed, the Ouroboros will, as discussed before, have its own power extracted and used to suppress itself, just like devouring its own flesh and blood, and fall into eternal and endless internal friction.

The Ouroboros is one of the three sacred artifacts created by the ancient saints, but it was easily suppressed by Qin Xia.

At its core, Ouroboros is not known for its strength, but its chaos corruption is its real fear.

At this moment, there happened to be someone who was completely immune to this kind of chaos corrosion, so Ouroboros naturally could not resist it.

"Go and ask Luther to arrange for the staff to prepare for the establishment of the ritual node."

Qin Xia ordered Kang.

"I have sent a psychic message to the Librarians, and they will build everything needed to establish the ritual node aboard the White Knight."

(End of this chapter)