Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 484: The Destruction of the Perfect City

time flies.

Qin Xia saw that the Word Bearers fleet behind the Invincible Faith was no longer gathering.

After a while, the World Eaters fleet stopped gathering and remained dispersed.

Erebas couldn't help but let out a long sigh. The feeling of relief after the crisis was over made him subconsciously lean against the wall, his chest under the armor rising and falling vigorously.

"We avoided a civil war," Erebus said.

"Yes." Qin Xia stood up from the table, thought of something, and added in his heart: temporary.

Erebas' mood gradually calmed down, and he slowly became like a normal person, and immediately walked out of the command deck.

The Word Bearers immediately aimed their weapons at Erebus.

"Stand there for me." Qin Xia stepped forward.

Erebus looked back blankly.

"You think you're safe, don't you?" Qin Xia looked at the man in front of him. "You're still not cleared of suspicion. Your fighting brothers didn't rush in to take you away just now because I was sitting here. Do you know what the consequences will be if you walk out of here?"

Erebus nodded: "I know that I may never be able to clear my suspicion, and I may be executed."

Qin Xia was stunned.

"But it doesn't matter. It's good that the civil war didn't happen." Erebas looked as if he was talking about the fate of a person who had nothing to do with him. "The Emperor will arrange my fate. If my fate is to be executed, then I can only say..."

The man of strong faith smiled and shrugged easily: "It is an honor. My soul will continue to fight for the God-Emperor under his protection, no longer bound by the shackles of a mortal body."

"..."

Qin Xia was speechless.

Erebus turned and walked towards his battle-brothers, throwing away his weapons as he walked.

"I didn't mean to resist just now. I just have a mission to nip the civil war in the bud. You won't let me leave here to spread the truth, which I can't accept. You want to take me away and execute me, which is fine."

"Take me away!"

Erebus knelt on the ground, his posture submissive, but his tone was passionate.

"The Emperor will pronounce my sentence..."

Before he could finish his words, Erebus disappeared in the wind and snow along with the second half of his sentence.

Qin Xia led the people with firm faith to appear on the command deck.

Angron looked at Erebus and instantly knew everything the man in front of him had just witnessed.

When Erebus was about to salute, Angron immediately stepped forward and held Erebus's shoulders, conveying to him what he knew and felt.

Erebus gradually learned everything.

original……

According to the prophecy of the Lord of the White Knights, Erebus of the Word Bearers would be a man of great evil.

This person killed the real Erebus when he was young and took Erebus's name and identity.

For this reason, the Lord of the White Knights arranged an assassination attempt, in which an agile man used his physical body to cross the void and sneak into the flagship of the Word Bearers Legion to kill Erebus.

But because Erebas is now a kind-hearted man with firm beliefs, the assassination attempt ultimately ends with the killer using ancient relics to resurrect and kill the target.

After knowing all this, Erebus looked into the Primarch's eyes and said, "Erebadi, he is not dead."

The name that Angron and Qin Xia gave to the evil version of Erebas, namely Erebati, was also noticed by Erebas in his perception just now.

"I saw that guy when I was a kid. He looked exactly like me. I killed him then."

"I thought this person was dead, but I didn't expect..."

Erebus fell into deep thought.

"If you hadn't killed that bad guy, you would have been replaced by him, and then he would have done all kinds of evil things in the name of Erebus." Qin Xia said, "Just as you have sensed... your fate has changed, and the reason is not yet clear."

"So, Aribati is not completely dead yet, and will appear in front of me one day in the future?" Aribati asked.

Angron and Qin Xia nodded at the same time.

But Erebus didn't understand one thing, which was why that guy jumped out from the darkness and did something that was doomed to fail, which was to provoke a civil war in the Invincible Faith.

Neither the Word Bearers nor the World Eaters are fools.

The fleets of both legions have assembled and are rushing towards each other, but that is only a necessary strategy to be used when necessary. Both legions still want to communicate and resolve misunderstandings.

If the misunderstanding cannot be resolved, then the two sides will naturally end up fighting to the death due to the misunderstanding and the blood debt committed against each other in the conflict caused by the misunderstanding.

But even if Qin Xia didn't teleport over, the two sides would definitely communicate before the war, and the misunderstanding could be resolved by then.

“Perhaps he just wanted to shine in front of you.” Angron sensed Erebus’s confusion and took the initiative to explain, “No one can understand the idea of ​​those who are born bad. Their existence is like filling an ecological niche at the personality level.”

Erebus recalled the confusion he felt when he was stabbed for no apparent reason as a child, and agreed from the bottom of his heart.

“The charges and suspicions against you will never be resolved until Eribati is captured,” Angron continued. “But I can at least vouch for you and ensure that your legion does not execute you.”

Erebus thought silently and finally nodded.

If possible, he certainly didn't want to die because the truth of the matter had not been found out yet.

Even if you are bailed out and survive, there is a high probability that you will be marginalized or even abandoned in the legion, but as long as the truth can be found out, misunderstanding is not unbearable.

"Wait for your Gene Father to arrive." Angron waved to the officer on the command deck, signaling him to arrange accommodation for Erebus. "Stay there until that day, otherwise you will have no chance to clear your name."

……

The rest of the Word Bearers' warships arrived in the system one after another. When they left the warp, Lorgar stood on the command deck of the flagship, staring at his father's back.

The Emperor stood in the center of the command deck, silent and expressionless.

This made Lorgar believe that the Emperor was a god, because the lack of emotion was precisely part of divinity.

But it was precisely this lack of excitement that made Luo Jia suspicious.

What was he thinking? Why on earth would he deny that he was a god? What sin was there in the existence of the Perfect City that would warrant the destruction of the most sacred place in the galaxy?

Amidst his doubts, Luo Jia felt a variety of complicated emotions.

Incomprehension, confusion, pain, sadness...even dissatisfaction.

"Primarch."

The communications officer stepped forward and reported to Lorgar in a low voice what had happened in the galaxy some time ago.

Lorgar looked solemn when he heard that the World Eaters and the Word Bearers almost had a civil war.

And after hearing something...Erebus killed Erebus, Lorgar became even more confused.

At this moment, a holographic image popped up from the command deck communications device.

Angron and Erebus, the figures of these two people appeared in the eyes of the Emperor and Lorgar.

"Brother," Angron said, "I have seen into Erebus's heart and confirmed that a man who looks exactly like him did appear a few days ago and almost caused a civil war. I will provide him with guarantees."

Lorgar nodded silently.

Regardless, he was willing to trust Angron.

Even though the World Eaters wanted to destroy the Perfect City, and the Word Bearers were extremely dissatisfied with this, Lorgar knew very well that it was not Angron who gave the order, and it was not this brother who he had supported who suddenly fell ill and wanted to destroy the Holy Land of the Word Bearers.

Someone else gave the order.

Angron, who has become the Warmaster, naturally can no longer disobey the orders of the Empire or even the Emperor himself as he did in the past.

"Whatever the truth may be... spare Erebus," Lorgar said to a Word Bearers officer.

The officer saluted.

After dealing with Erebus, Angron looked towards the Emperor.

The Lord of the Empire remained silent and his gaze was always fixed on the planet Kul.

It was not until the flagship approached the planet Kuer that the Emperor slowly spoke: "Take your children to the surface."

Lorgar saluted silently and turned to leave the command deck.

The Word Bearers began to land on the planet Kul.

While waiting for the arrival of the Word Bearers flagship, the people of Perfect City had been forced to evacuate and were now in a newly built settlement on the planet Kul.

The World Eaters still enforce control as before to ensure that no trouble occurs.

So when all members of the Word Bearers Legion arrived on the surface and gathered in the mountains ten kilometers away from the edge of the Perfect City, what they saw was an uninhabited city.

The perfect city is still holy and magnificent, but there is no longer the sound of never-ending chanting.

There were no explosions, no smoke, and no ruins, indicating that the World Eaters had not committed any atrocities after their arrival.

"Take a look." Lorgar said in the communication channel, "This will be the last time we admire this holy place."

The Space Marines gathered together and stood in scattered positions among the mountains, gazing at the Perfect City like their Gene Father.

No one cared if they were too close to the city and would be affected by the World Eaters' orbital strikes.

The Word Bearers simply watched.

The emperor on the flagship slowly raised his hand and made a downward motion.

Oppression comes quietly.

The armor on Lorgar's body hummed, and he could even hear the slight sound of his bones under the heavy pressure.

The Space Marines were the first to kneel under the invisible pressure.

Luo Jia held on for a while, then knelt down.

The outline of the giant ship, the HMS Resolute, was clearly visible on the surface, as were the flashing lights on the hull.

On the bow of the flagship, high-powered light spear weapons were firing at full power.

A red beam of light descended from the sky and instantly landed in the center of the Perfect City.

The Word Bearers subconsciously lowered their heads in the bright light. Only Primarch Lorgara could see in the strong light.

The very center of the city was completely obscured by light.

Beyond the light, spider-web-like cracks first spread to all directions of the city, and then the city was "lifted up" from the center as if something was about to arch out from the ground.

After that, even Lorgar couldn't see anything.

It was only after the light faded that the Word Bearers and their Primarch discovered they were unharmed.

None of them were hurt being so close to the city.

Only the mountains where they were located turned into the smooth and flat edge of a huge circular pit on the surface.

That's it.

(End of this chapter)