Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 422 Standardized Think Tank Selection Process
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The White Knight.

On the way to the library.

More than thirty Calibans were escorted by the Marines and slowly approached the library.

These Calibans wear collars around their necks that bind their psychic energy. Each of them is suppressed by the power of the collar. In fact, it is different from the collars used by the Empire. This psychic collar will force the wearer's own spirit to fight against his own spirit, which is similar to internal mental consumption.

Psychic collar - a standard Nuxing specialty.

The Marine officer walked in front, explaining the precautions to the Calibans.

"We will head to the Great Library. The library is the office of the Lord of the White Knights. It is also a place on the battleship that no one except the think tank and the Lord of the White Knights' personal followers can enter."

"The Think Tank troops are different from the regular Space Marine troops of the World Eaters. There are no strict military regulations that even stipulate the direction of eye contact. However, the Chief Think Tank Master Varis is a veteran. He tends to make everyone related to the Think Tank abide by the strict regulations of regular troops."

"This means that your gaze should be level with your height."

As the Marine officer spoke, more than thirty Caliban looked around.

There were all kinds of people coming and going in the corridor below. They were neatly dressed and obviously senior executives.

"There is one more thing, you guys..."

The officer stopped talking halfway, turned his head to look behind him, and subconsciously stood against the wall.

More than thirty Caliban people had just been preliminarily selected from all the psychics provided by Luther. They had not had time to be taught etiquette, but they were not fools after all. When they saw the officer standing against the wall, they immediately stood against the wall as well.

A sound of heavy footsteps was heard.

The Calibans saw that everyone in the corridor had stopped, like themselves and the officers, and then leaned against the wall.

Then, a tall and heavy figure appeared from the corner of the corridor ahead.

He was wearing a think tank model Terminator tactical dreadnought armor, and the huge and heavy platinum armor looked particularly eye-catching.

The armor completely abandons convenience and overemphasizes protection, and the head cannot even move left and right.

The Librarian, wearing this heavy power armor, walked along the corridor. When the people standing against the wall on both sides bowed in the Sky Eagle Salute, he walked straight forward without looking around.

The think tank had a silver key hanging around his waist. The key was shining and looked particularly sacred.

The Caliban bowed his head in the Eagle salute.

The Think Tank passed by them.

"That's Thetis, the director of the Great Library." The officer reminded everyone, "Remember this gentleman's face. You will inevitably have to deal with him more in the future."

The Calibans nodded.

The officer glanced at them and added, "Only if you can all pass the test..."

"Wasn't the screening just now an assessment?" asked a Caliban.

"No, that's just killing the evildoers among you. The first batch of Terran veterans of the World Eaters were all former serious criminals, which led to a very bad atmosphere in the early days of the legion. The Lord of the White Knights must of course avoid a bad atmosphere in the think tank."

"You also met a think tank when you first boarded the White Knight. The think tank reviewed your memories, but this was just a preliminary assessment."

The officer said.

Hearing this, a Caliban at the end of the team looked worried and couldn't help asking, "But I did do something bad, but the Librarian didn't kill me."

The officer immediately stopped and turned to ask, "What did you do?"

"I killed an Imperial bureaucrat's entire family." The Caliban man looked worried. "That guy killed my sister, and then I burned his entire family to ashes."

The officer shrugged. "That's nothing. Such acts of revenge are highly praised in the culture of the Nuceria people."

Everyone moved on.

When they reached the fork in the corridor leading to the library, the officer motioned for the Caliban to enter.

Everyone followed the fork in the road until they saw the library with its door open, and more than thirty think tanks standing inside the library, looking at the corridor.

When everyone thought that this was a ceremony to welcome the selected candidates, the think tanks suddenly bowed and saluted.

The Calibans looked back and saw the Lord of the White Knights and a small robed man following him.

"Follow me." Qin Xia said as he passed by the selected candidates.

Everyone entered the library together.

When Qin Xia stopped and turned around with Kang to look at the selected candidates, the door of the library slammed shut.

The Calibans stood shoulder to shoulder, still looking timidly at the Librarians in front of them, as well as the Lord of the White Knights, who was obviously much taller than them.

When everyone thought that the Lord of the White Knights would start to speak, they saw him suddenly close his eyes and raise his hands towards the front.

The Calibans present were all psychics. They could clearly feel the changes in psychic energy in the surrounding environment and realized that this extremely powerful psychic was about to release a psychic spell.

While they were wondering what kind of spell the Lord of the White Knights had cast at them, the battleship where the library was located suddenly trembled.

The White Knight, which had just entered the subspace, began to accelerate rapidly.

The psychics only realized at this moment that the Lord of the White Knights did not release any psychic spells at them, but at the entire fleet, a total of three warships, whose sailing speed in the warp was increased to the maximum.

This is the power of the Lord of the White Knights! Everyone thought.

"The assessment process has not been suspended since you boarded the White Knight." Chief Think Tank Varis said, "A think tank will monitor you with psychic vision and give you an overall performance score."

Everyone in Caliban was shocked and waited anxiously for the chief think tank to announce the result.

But Varis did not make the announcement because everyone present had passed the test.

When the psychics were sent aboard, Kamas read their brains and screened out those who used psychic powers for evil. This was the initial screening. Forty psychics died in the initial screening.

The remaining thirty or so people were taken by officers to the Grand Library. This was the second step of screening, to screen those with extremely strong curiosity.

Compared to being led by a think tank, these mortal psychics will find it easier to talk to the mortal officers who lead them, so they may ask questions, or even be curious enough to leave the team and look around... For psychics other than Qin Xia, an uncontrollable curiosity is a fatal flaw.

But fortunately, no one was eliminated in the second round of screening.

And now comes the third step of screening - think tank discussion time.

In the eyes of the Caliban people, the two scarlet lights on the helmets of these think tanks always fell on them. Their bodies did not move at all, and they stood in place with various weapons, as if facing the enemy.

But in fact, the think tanks have already started chatting using psychic communication.

"More than thirty psykers... When we had ten people of the Nukelian ethnicity come to the Think Tank, together with the veterans, there were only more than thirty people in total."

"What is the strength of Nuceria's reality structure? What is the strength of Caliban's reality structure? It is not surprising that a large number of psychics were born in a high psychic environment."

"Yes, I think this is the result of Luther deliberately helping us screen a lot of people, otherwise there would probably be hundreds of people."

"Let's get down to business. Who of you wants to express your opinion on these Caliban psykers?"

"The guy in the middle looks timid. I don't have a good impression of him, so I refuse to be his mentor."

"..."

The think tanks discussed each psychic one by one, expressed their opinions, and selected apprentices at the same time.

If more than three think tanks express negative opinions about a psychic at this time, then this psychic will be eliminated.

No one has been eliminated in the third screening stage.

The session ended after the think tanks stopped discussing.

Then comes the fourth step, stress testing.

At this time, the Caliban psykers didn't know why the think tanks were silent, nor did they know that the think tanks had just selected their own apprentices.

After selecting the apprentices, the think tank began to release mental shocks to the people they chose.

The psychics immediately wailed, reacting differently when they endured the mental shock.

Some people knelt on the ground and endured it, some collapsed on the ground wailing, and some fainted directly.

This is to test the stability of psychic talent. Qin Xia will stand aside and be prepared to prevent a psychic from collapsing due to being unable to withstand the mental shock, thereby causing a psychic disaster.

But now Kang is also present, so this watcher takes over Qin Xia's duties, ready to calm down the psychic power of a psychic when he is about to lose control.

“They all performed very well,” Kang said.

The Watcher senses the changes in the psychic power of every psychic when they suffer a mental shock at this moment.

"In fact, Luther had already screened them before they arrived." Qin Xia said, "Luther is not a psychic, and he doesn't know how to handle psychic matters, but he thinks that the stability of psychics is very important, and this kind of mental power may be affected by a person's past and psychology."

"So he arranged for people to interrogate all the psykers that were found, and developed a scoring plan, allowing the Space Marines among the Dark Angels to score and evaluate the psykers' performance during the interrogation process."

"Those with low scores were screened out, and the remaining ones were sent here by Luther."

After hearing what Qin Xia said, Kang was silent for a moment, then he sighed and said, "What is it that Luther is not good at?"

Qin Xia thought for a moment and said, "It's about Ryan."

Kang nodded in agreement.

"Stop." Qin Xia flicked his fingers lightly, and the mental shock released by the think tanks was dispelled.

The psychics who were staggering all felt exhausted. It was an extreme mental and spiritual fatigue, and even their bodies felt tired.

But in order to leave a good impression on these think tanks, the psykers still struggled to get up and tried their best to put on a resolute look.

The chief think tank looked at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia nodded silently.

Varis then took off his helmet and held it in his hand, scanning everyone present with sharp and fierce eyes.

"Welcome to join the World Eaters and become a member of the White Knight Think Tank of the World Eaters."

"Also, congratulations on having the honor of serving the Lord of the White Knights and working alongside the likes of us."

The psychics saluted Qin Xia with the Sky Eagle salute, and then saluted the think tanks.

Kamas immediately stepped forward and motioned for everyone to follow him, and then took these psychics to the rooms that had been arranged for them.

These individuals will further their study of psychic powers before heading to the laboratories in the quadrants to become Space Marines after being implanted with Angron's gene-seed and formally trained by their mentors.

But Kamas will become the mentor of all think tank apprentices and supervise other think tanks in training their own selected apprentices.

The mentor is only responsible for teaching knowledge, life and psychological matters under supervision. Those things that a true mentor like a teacher and a father wants to teach to the apprentice are taught by Kamas, the Grand White Knight Mentor.

This is the rule previously set by the Lord of the White Knights.

"Today's process is the standardized think tank selection process." Qin Xia said to the think tank members who were still in the library, "Each of you should summarize your experiences today, remember today's processes, and write them into the think tank's rules and regulations."

All the think tanks bowed and accepted the order.

"That's all." Qin Xia waved his hand gently, "Go away."

The think tanks saluted again and lined up to walk out of the library.

The director of the Great Library, Tethys, walked at the end of the team, gently closed the door of the library and stood guard outside.

(End of this chapter)