Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 479 Case Study
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"Is that what the Emperor said?"

"No wonder he wanted to destroy the Perfect City. It turns out he was afraid of being worshipped by Lorgar and promoted to a higher level."

The White Knight's Great Library.

Qin Xia and Angron sat on the ground. The white light cast by the gorgeous chandelier on the ceiling made them feel like they were sitting in the Milky Way.

Angron had repeated the Emperor's words verbatim.

After his adoptive father expressed his feelings, Angron sighed, "So Lorgar is right in a way. The Emperor is not really a powerful human psyker. He may just be a Chaos God larva who thinks he is human."

"Not necessarily."

Qin Xia analyzed calmly.

"There are eight Chaos Gods in total. The first four already exist, and the last four are just empty gods."

"Some demons call these eight positions the Eightfold Trial."

"It's true that the Dark Lord is a Chaos God, but he is not a Chaos God who already exists and disguises himself as a human. Instead, there is a vacant position."

"The Emperor can be promoted to the Dark Lord. This position has some connection with him."

"Once he ascends, the human race will be the same as the Eldar... no, worse than the Eldar. The Chaos God's concept of race will directly lead to the death of every human being."

"This kind of death doesn't mean entering the warp to serve the Chaos God as a demon. Instead, it means directly becoming a consumable item for the Chaos God at the moment of his ascension to godhood, just like fireworks."

After listening to his adoptive father's analysis, Angron nodded slowly.

"I said that there is a future where the Emperor becomes a god-like being, a god of mankind who can bring benefits to mankind. But in fact, he is not a god, but he maintains a state of being dead but not completely dead."

"Faith increases his power, but it does not elevate him to the position of Dark Lord. A typical Emperor-style two-birds-with-one-stone move."

Angron nodded again. The words his adoptive father had said were exactly what he had sensed.

The emperor was afraid that if he accepted too much power of faith, he would be directly deified.

It is still unknown whether the Webway Project can succeed. If it does, and he becomes a god before the Webway Project succeeds, and all humans are wiped out, then we are doomed.

And when the Webway is completed, even if something unexpected happens and causes the Emperor to become a god, humanity will not be completely destroyed because of the Webway's protection, and will be able to survive in the end.

"Nurgle, Khorne, and Tzeentch, could it be that these three were once real creatures similar to the Emperor, and then because of some connection with the godhead, they gradually became gods?" Angron suddenly had an idea.

"Who knows? I can't go ask those three." Qin Xia shook his head.

Angron thought about it, and finally chose not to think about how those existing Chaos Gods became gods. The Emperor was related to the Black King, but that didn't mean that every race in the real universe would have an individual related to a Chaos God.

"He forced you to destroy the Perfect City, and you agreed?" Qin Xia asked the question he cared about most.

“He said I could take Russ with me,” Angron recalled the Emperor’s final thoughts.

That is, the Emperor also thought that the plan of letting the new Warmaster destroy the Perfect City was too tyrannical, so he thought to himself, let Leman Russ go. Although Angron was the leader, he was not the judge of the Perfect City on the surface, but was the supervisor...

"Do you agree to take Ruth with you?" Qin Xia asked.

"No," said Angron. "To manipulate this secretly in the name of some Overseer and let the Space Wolves take the blame is too despicable."

"And besides..." Angron recalled another thought of the Emperor.

He could clearly feel that the Emperor sent him to destroy the Perfect City not to achieve the best warning effect as stated at the beginning, "let the Primarch who least wanted to destroy interpersonal relationships inflict the most cruel punishment."

Rather, the Emperor wished to force a break between the World Eaters and the Word Bearers.

The Emperor still believed that the Horus Heresy was inevitable and that Lorgar would inevitably fall into Chaos.

As for the Emperor's initial reason, it was actually a conditioned reflex of deception. He had used this method to deceive everyone, including the Primarch, so that he could find a reason to get away with it without having to explain things that he believed should never be known to others.

"Actually, you can go. We can try to find the best result and then make the whole process public." Qin Xia put his hand on his adopted son's shoulder and said earnestly, "First, we must get the emperor's will, the kind of real document that can leave a trace of our work."

Work leaves traces.

This was an extremely important matter in Qin Xia's view. Even the plan in the Perfect City Operation was not as important as leaving this trace.

“The Emperor will send his decree to us from the Custodians when we leave the Ullanor System,” said Angron.

Qin Xia nodded with relief: "If he doesn't send it, we won't go."

“That’s what I plan to do.” Angron was silent for a few seconds, then asked in a doubtful tone, “You said that the Perfect City would be destroyed by the Ultramarines in the future. How did the Ultramarines do it?”

"We will hold a meeting after the decree arrives, and I will tell you about this matter at the meeting."

Qin Xia stood up.

"But don't take the Ultramarines' approach as a model."

“That’s a negative example.”

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The war room of the Resolute.

Officers above the rank of company commander of the World Eaters sat in neat rows, staring at the very center of this conference hall-like place, where there was a holographic image.

Angron and Qin Xia sat near the front of the conference table.

The Emperor had sent his guards to the World Eaters to present his personally written edict to the World Eaters. Therefore, after the Emperor's Dream left the Ullanor system, the World Eaters fleet set out on its journey to the City of Perfection.

Now the entire fleet was shuttling through the webway, and Uslan said that he would not leave until the fleet reached the star system where Perfect City was located. He would help people to the end. Uslan had indeed left a very deep and very good impression on Angron.

"We will be sent to destroy the Perfect City, as your Primarch has just spoken of."

Qin Xia's voice echoed in the conference room.

"I have detected another fate, that is, what would they do if it was not us who were ordered to carry out this mission, but the Ultramarines."

"Let's see."

Qin Xia waved his hand, creating a psychic illusion.

The entire environment of the operations room changed. The officers were still sitting in their chairs, but they seemed to be watching the destruction of the entire Perfect City from a third-person perspective. The only difference was that the protagonists of the event were not the World Eaters who would go to the Perfect City in the future, but the Extreme Marines.

The World Eaters all knew that the Lord of the White Knights could glimpse the development of different destinies, so they were not surprised. They just thought that the Ultramarines were singled out perhaps to be used as a reference textbook.

The illusion begins with a star map perspective and gradually zooms in.

Eventually they entered a planet called "Kul".

The holy land of the Word Bearers is the City of Perfection, which is not located on Lorgar's home planet Colchis, but in Kour.

When the view zoomed to a square, everyone saw an airborne capsule falling from the sky.

That's the Ultramarines' drop pod.

Many mortals gathered, and they walked towards the drop pod with interest and admiration, thinking that it was the "angel" named the Word Bearer.

The people of the Perfect City use the religious term "angel" to refer to Astartes, and in their perception, the Word Bearers are real angels. These angels did not conquer Kuer through war, but brought Kuer under their rule through negotiation and missionary work.

Those holy angels of civilization not only helped the Kurds improve their living conditions, but also spread the truth.

But the people soon discovered that it was not the drop pod of the Word Bearers Angels.

A team of Ultramarines walked out of the airdrop pod, raised their bolters at the mortals in front of them, and announced loudly, "Everyone must evacuate the Perfect City, there are only seven days left", requiring everyone present to go home immediately, pack their bags and leave.

Up to this point, Angron did not see anything wrong with the Ultramarines' actions.

The Ultramarines did not kill indiscriminately, leaving enough time for the people of Perfect City to evacuate. Although the city had a huge population, the Ultramarines' transport fleets and even the gunboats used by the Space Marines were flying in the sky, ready to join the operation to relocate the residents.

However, the people of the Perfect City are fanatical believers. They are unwilling to evacuate this city closest to God, so they appear very excited and resistant.

The more the Ultramarines fired warning shots into the air, the more the mortals resisted.

At this moment, a wine bottle flew from somewhere and hit the shoulder armor of one of the Extreme Warriors.

The Ultramarines pointed their skyward-pointing bolters at the mortals before them and began to unleash ammunition.

And then came the killing.

Tanks rammed through temples and fighter planes bombed cities.

The people of Perfect City and the Ultramarines fought in the streets and buildings, although this fight could be more accurately described as a one-sided massacre.

The illusion disappeared when the spear of light fell from the sky.

This is the entire process of the destruction of the Perfect City.

It is not appropriate to call it a bloody murder caused by a wine bottle. There was something else besides the wine bottle... The extreme resistance and excitement of the people of Perfect City, and the stress-like reaction of the Extreme Warrior who opened fire first, were the key reasons why only seven people survived in Perfect City in the end.

"Mass incidents are like this, one small move can affect the entire body."

Angron stood up and looked at his children.

"The Ultramarines who opened fire first were obviously immature. Perhaps his company and chapter were filled with veterans who were smarter and more stable than him, but it was useless."

"Once a bloody conflict breaks out, it will be a fight to the death. Suspicion and panic will gather into a vortex, tearing apart everyone's reason and restraint."

As he spoke, Angron suddenly recalled the Battle of Mach City during the uprising.

The Machs were described in reports by the local Guards Marshal as "as docile as livestock."

The result was that when someone roared and bit the throat of the Guards as recorded in history, conflicts occurred and escalated, until finally the Machs seemed to have formed a killing machine and fought with the Guards before the arrival of the City Devourer.

This is a group conflict incident where one move can affect the entire body.

"Father." Kiel stood up and asked, holding his helmet. "I'm sure we will be in the same situation as the Ultramarines. The people of Perfect City are too resistant and excited. Even if we don't open fire because of a bottle of wine, the bottle will gradually be replaced by incendiary bombs or even explosives. Unless we choose to stand still and let the locals vent their anger, otherwise it is inevitable..."

Keel omitted the last few words.

"Father! I cannot understand the Empire's orders!" An officer stood up and growled in a rough voice, "You have been tripped up from the beginning. It seems that the Empire does not want you to become the Warmaster at all, so the title that should belong to you has been shared, and now you are sent to destroy the Perfect City... We just fought side by side with the Word Bearers! I even want to ask the Empire on behalf of the Word Bearers: What does this mean!"

The officer's words resonated widely.

This sentence did not even explicitly mention the word "Emperor". If it were in another legion, they would have been executed long ago.

Angron knew that his offspring was more emotional than the Ultramarines... but even if they were not emotional, would they stand there and be a target for the people of Perfect City? What Kiel said was not without reason. Unilateral tolerance was absolutely not advisable.

"I want to make this perfect. Those who can survive can survive, and those who can be preserved can be preserved." Angron said, "I have a way to calm people down and evacuate the Perfect City honestly."

The officers gradually quieted down.

"Know this matter, and then tell your brothers in the legion. This is the meaning of today's meeting." Angron continued, "I will come up with a perfect plan. Let's adjourn."

(End of this chapter)