Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 490 Information Acquisition
"Why are you here?"

Horus raised his hand and pointed to the world outside the energy barrier on the hangar deck.

The giant spider monster's hometown.

"Is that also your allied race?"

When the leading Intresian looked in the direction of the Primarch's finger, he heard the Primarch ask this question.

"No, they are certainly not an ally of Inters." The man looked at Horus again, "They are an extremely brutal and uncommunicative intelligent species, and Inters deals with such intelligent species by imprisoning them."

"Essentially, the alien homeworld you call the Giant Spider is a space prison."

Hearing this, Horus was slightly surprised at the moral level of the Intres civilization.

The way to deal with an alien race that cannot communicate is not to kill them all, but to imprison them in a planetary prison.

At the same time, Horus also realized one thing, that is, Interres was very powerful.

The giant spider monsters on that prison planet were particularly difficult to deal with, and were also considered powerful among the various alien creatures that humans faced during the Great Crusade, but they were just prisoners of Interseth.

Thinking so, Horus looked at the other party again.

The Intresians wore centaur-like combat armor, and the weapon hanging on their "horse's back" was a bow and arrow.

Compared to the Imperial Astartes, their equipment seems to emphasize tradition, as if they choose the latter between "practicality" and "aesthetics" in the research of military equipment.

But experience told Horus that it was precisely this kind of force that was difficult to deal with.

Everyone knows exactly what the situation in the galaxy is like at this point in the Great Crusade.

They can survive in this galaxy and engage in cosmic unity of species, performing benevolent acts like the Savior and Virgin Mary, and they can choose practicality over beauty in terms of weapons and equipment. This shows that the level of their weapons and equipment is so strong that they don't even need to abandon aesthetics, let alone morality.

"Warmaster." The leading Intres saluted again in the style of the human empire. "That planet is a prison we built for the giant spiders. They still have the right to survive, so I hope you can withdraw your troops from that planet."

"Of course." Horus called Sejanus over and gave the order to evacuate.

Then, while his descendants were puzzled, Horus said to the Intres people in front of him: "When you arrived, I learned that the alien world was your Intres territory. I never wanted to attack Intres, and the human empire has no plans for Intres territory."

The Intresian saluted again and introduced himself again: "Mithras Tours."

"Horus Lupercal." The Primarch also stated his own name.

Qin Xia witnessed the whole process. In his opinion, Horus's handling was completely appropriate. Inters is very powerful and is also a human-led alliance. Perhaps its ideology is different from that of the Human Empire, but Horus's conciliatory attitude is completely in line with the strategic policy of the Great Crusade.

Even if the emperor who hates aliens the most were here, he would probably deal with it in the same way.

A micro-empire like Intersera can naturally be conquered through diplomatic means. If the Human Empire attacked whoever it caught, the progress of the Great Crusade would certainly not be as fast as it is now.

After Tur received the news confirming that the Luna Wolves had evacuated from the giant spider planet, he and Horus each assigned some people to exchange information.

Cyjanus was naturally the first choice, followed by some non-Abaddon-type talents that Horus thought were suitable for diplomatic missions.

Inters assigned a linguist, who was supposed to lead the aliens on a diplomatic mission, but Tur changed the order and only allowed the linguist to lead humans on the mission.

Then, Cyjanus followed Tur away to the Intersean warship, while the linguist and the Interseans remained on the Luna Wolves flagship.

The Legion fleet was led by Tours' warships into the territory of Interres.

After the diplomatic process of this first meeting was completed, Qin Xia was able to go to the conference room with Horus to discuss internal affairs of the Human Empire.

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"We should share information with each other as we did during the Ullanor War. This is what Angron proposed."

Qin Xia sat in the conference room and said only one sentence.

This sentence was the diplomatic mission he came here to complete on behalf of the World Eaters. In essence, it was just a formality to show that the two Warmasters had a close relationship and close cooperation. The Parliament of the Human Empire did not need to worry about the expeditionary force's inability to unite and cooperate after the Emperor withdrew from the Great Crusade.

Horus knew this better, so he ordered a document to be drawn up and signed, and then ordered a mortal servant to deliver the document to Cyjanus' office to be presented to the Council at the next Terran Council in the future.

When Qin Xia signaled Erebus that he could speak, the Word Bearer said, "The Word Bearers will work with the World Eaters to deal with the aftermath of the Perfect City incident. It will take some time before we can set off to visit you. My father wants me to convey his apologies for being late."

“…” Horus looked solemn.

When hearing about the Perfect City, the Warmaster was silent for a moment.

In his opinion, the World Eaters should not have been tasked with destroying the Perfect City. The Emperor's order must have been very difficult for Angron to do. But since it was an order from the Emperor, there must have been a reason and a great strategy behind it. Just execute it.

After thinking for a while, Horus said, "The other legions and my brothers haven't come to me yet, so the Word Bearers are not late."

Qin Xia, who was listening, frowned slightly.

He had already noticed that Horus only had one legion, the Luna Wolves. Logically, the other legions should have dealt with Interles together with the Luna Wolves, but they were not doing so now.

The Warmaster was chosen, and the Primarchs' legions were assembled. It was obvious that there was a process, and Horus probably didn't wait for the other legions. As for the reason... it must be because there was someone he needed to compete with.

Qin Xia then thought that the war in which Loken would witness Horus killing the "Emperor" had not yet begun, so Cyjanus would not die at the hands of an invisible assassin in that war for the time being...

"I have to pay more attention to Cyjanus. He can't die." Qin Xia thought to himself, "It's not easy to choose a member of the Astartes Council that everyone is satisfied with... and I don't have time to stay in Terra..."

Qin Xia had something in mind, while Horus and Erebus were thinking about the Perfect City and staying in the Luna Wolves waiting for the Word Bearers Legion to arrive, so they all remained silent.

At this time, the door of the conference room was pushed open.

The Space Marine who had just learned information from the Interres linguist walked into the conference room, saluted the Father of Genes, and then quickly explained some information about Interres.

The Intersians have already demonstrated their pursuit of peace, working together, and high moral behavior, so what the Space Marines are talking about is something more crucial - what the Intersians are afraid of.

After the human empire approached Inters, it attacked the prison world on its territory without hesitation. This was not taboo. Even linguists said, "Even if an Inters citizen died in your hands, it would be considered a misunderstanding caused by the lack of information transparency."

Even this behavior is not taboo, let alone some other minor offenses.

There is only one person that the people of Interres fear.

"Kaos. The word they wrote on the paper sounded like Chaos," said the Space Marine. "The linguist asked if we knew what Chaos was. They said it was a thing that existed in the Warp, an abomination that had a strong destructive power over reality. Then he mentioned some religious terms like gods."

chaos.

This word emerged in Qin Xia's mind.

"We have no connection with Chaos, and we don't believe that there are gods in the universe. Continue communicating and tell the scientist the truth of our empire." Horus ordered.

The Space Marine saluted and left.

After the door of the conference room was closed, the Primarch looked at Qin Xia and said, "I really don't know what the people of Intres mean by Chaos. Such a small empire with advanced technology and high moral standards actually believes that there are gods in the universe."

"chaos."

Qin Xia spoke calmly.

"This is what the Intres call Chaos. It does exist, but the Emperor has concealed this fact with the Imperial Truth."

"Gods do not exist in the real universe, but they do exist in the subspace. Similarly, where there are evil gods there are demons. What the Intresians say is the truth."

Horus froze in his chair.

Since Angron's adoptive father was a man with a sharp tongue and liked to joke, Horus, who had heard about this before, thought Qin Xia was joking at first, until he realized that although Qin Xia had a blank expression on his face, his eyes were exceptionally deep.

"Chaos Gods, demons." Qin Xia emphasized, "Erebus has seen demons and dealt with them before. This happened before we came to the Luna Wolves."

Erebus, who had personally fought against demons, was also stunned, but not because of the information he had just learned, but because Qin Xia was so direct and spoke the truth that was completely contrary to the truth of the empire without any preparation.

It's like two good friends sitting together for dinner, and one of them takes a bite and blurts out, "Your father died yesterday."

Qin Xia didn't think it was a big deal. He had already planned to take advantage of this opportunity to deal with the affairs of the Moon Wolf and the Chaos Gods of Horuskop.

Imperial Truth is a lie, not a fact. The Emperor created Imperial Truth because he wanted to use thought weapons to keep humans who were not yet able to migrate to the Webway from being affected by Chaos as much as possible.

This behavior seemed normal to Qin Xia. After all, it was dangerous for mortals to know the existence of the Chaos Gods. The result of revealing the truth would be that the empire would be filled with "Martian soldiers" created by the gods.

But the Primarchs should know, and can know, that they are masterpieces of the Emperor's biological engineering, and their souls are powerful beings in the Warp.

Mortals will be corrupted by the gods and used as pawns to manipulate and play with them because of their weak will. This may be the key reason why the Emperor concealed the existence of Chaos from everyone.

But the Primarch would not go crazy just because he knew the existence of Chaos and the Gods, as Guilliman later proved.

More than ten thousand years later, the Milky Way was torn in half by a Warp rift. The structure of reality was as rotten as a sieve. The gods had to take turns to deal with Guilliman, but they ended up losing more than they gained, and the Garden of Nurgle was burned.

(End of this chapter)