Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 503 Hrud

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A month later.

The front line of the Saktrada Abyss Battle, the Waterkan galaxy.

The Librarian fleet leapt out of the warp.

The detection array scanned the entire galaxy. Apart from the celestial bodies, there was only one Iron Warrior battleship parked alone near the asteroid belt of a giant planet.

"Try to contact them."

Inside the command deck, the captain turned to the communications officer and gave orders.

After the attempt, the communications officer looked up and reported: "There is no response from the Iron Warrior battleship."

The captain frowned and turned to look at the Lord of the White Knights beside him.

After Qin Xia used his psychic power to observe the battleship, he ordered the captain: "Keep your distance from the Iron Warriors battleship. They have been boarded by aliens."

After giving the order, Qin Xia turned and walked out of the command deck.

Brown and ten elite think tank warriors were staying outside the command deck. When they saw Qin Xia coming out, they immediately raised their weapons and prepared for battle. The next second, they were teleported to the Iron Warrior battleship together with Qin Xia.

The Librarian fleet surrounds the Iron Warriors warship.

The captain arranged a fleet of transport planes to stand by, and ordered all warship weapons to aim at friendly warships, preparing to pick up the living people and then destroy the warship after the Iron Warriors completely lost control of the warship.

All the torpedo launcher covers of the warships were opened, and the macro cannons and light spears were aimed at the Iron Warrior warships. Qin Xia had just teleported into the friendly warships with the think tank and the stone man.

As they walked in the snow, they heard the sound of bolter fire and the rustling of aliens.

Qin Xia cast a psychic spell to enhance the senses of the think tanks, which allowed them to not only hear sounds, but also hear the sound of the atomic structure being affected and aging rapidly.

After trudging out of the snow and wind, a battle scene unfolded before them.

The Iron Warrior is fighting a group of aliens on the command deck.

In the vast command deck, both sides occupied a part of the area as their position, and the huge equipment became their shelter.

It is impossible to tell what the aliens fighting the Iron Warriors look like.

They appear blurry in the field of vision, just like the elite Randan warriors who used shadow defense fields in the Randan battle.

Each alien seems to project a stance that can influence the surroundings. Everything within the affected area will age rapidly, and even light will be distorted in time.

"This is vision fog." Qin Xia reminded the think tanks, "This is a characteristic of the Hrud aliens. Every Hrud alien has vision fog around it, so we can't see what they look like. If we get too close to them, we will be affected by the vision fog and age very quickly."

While Qin Xia was speaking, an Iron Warrior who rushed forward for hand-to-hand combat because he had run out of ammunition was affected by the visual fog.

He first ran forward at a very fast speed, then his steps gradually became as weak and slow as an old man, and finally he knelt on the ground, unable to move. His body was so old that it turned into powder and fell out from the gaps in the power armor.

Even the power armor was affected. The surface of the ceramic steel soon became bumpy and pitted until it became like a weathered rock that had stood in the desert for thousands of years. A bomb shot over and turned the power armor into a pool of dust.

Not only humans and power armor are affected by the Hrud, but also explosive shells.

The bombs that flew past were either extremely fast or extremely slow, and some would even age into residue while flying in the air.

Relying on their natural strength, although the Hrud were blocked in the command deck, judging from the situation, they were undoubtedly suppressing the Space Marines.

While Qin Xia was observing, the think tanks had already released psychic spells.

Only psychic energy that is not affected by the rules of the real universe can have miraculous effects. Psychic lightning easily penetrates the influence field called visual fog and bounces between the Hrud people.

Some of the Hrud fell to the ground before being hit by the psychic lightning, while others recovered from their wounds so quickly after being hit that it was as if they had not been attacked at all.

They themselves seem unable to precisely control their innate powers.

The Librarians' effective attack attracted the attention of the Hrud.

These aliens released a ray-like attack, which immediately hit a think tank. The ray easily penetrated the think tank-type Terminator's defensive force field, which was no different from that of a normal Terminator, but was blocked by the psychic barrier released by the think tank itself.

Qin Xia saw that the moment the alien opened fire, the weapon in his hand, called the "Hrud Flintlock", released heat energy higher than the temperature of a star.

"Let your men evacuate!" Qin Xia ordered the commander of the Iron Warriors, while raising his hand to release a psychic shock.

The offensive of the Hrud was contained in an instant, and psychic power surged through them like electric current, not only making them stiff in place like puppets, but also causing disorder in the positions around them.

Several Hruds revealed their true colors due to their confused positions.

A slime-like body, huge dark eyes, sharp fangs, and limbs that are weirdly long.

Anyone who sees their true form will shudder with disgust.

The psychic force eventually disintegrated all of the Hrud.

And in the last few seconds before all these horrible aliens died, some strange things happened because of their disordered positions.

A servitor whose body had aged so rapidly that it was about to turn into dust suddenly became intact. The various mechanical parts on its body gradually disappeared, and even the organs that had been removed by the Mechanicus grew back, until it finally turned from a servitor into a complete person.

The battle ended twelve seconds after Qin Xia led Brown and the think tanks to arrive.

The Iron Warriors immediately prepared themselves.

"Are there any more aliens in other places?" The think tank beside Qin Xia asked the Iron Warriors.

It was the Lord of the White Knights himself who answered the think tank: "There are only Hruds here on the command deck." "Report your experiences." Qin Xia walked towards the Iron Warriors.

The commander stepped forward: "We are from..."

He wanted to say the name of the line directly, but realized that the World Eaters in front of him might not know the battle zones that Perturabo had drawn in this war, so he changed his words: "We just withdrew from a line of defense that was penetrated by the aliens. There was an entire fleet when we evacuated. Now the other warships were destroyed by the Hrud aliens with time weapons. Only our warship jumped into the warp in time and survived."

While Qin Xia was talking to the Iron Warriors, Brown stepped forward to observe the corpses of the Hrud aliens.

The reason why the stone man was brought here was not for fighting. Even if he was extremely skilled in fighting, he would be catalyzed into dust when facing the Hrud alien.

Brown's responsibility was only to observe the corpse of the Hrud alien, and then return to the White Knight to develop biological weapons tailored to the Hrud's physiological characteristics.

After crouching next to the alien corpse, Brown took out a box with psychic powers, extracted the alien biological tissue and placed it into the box.

At this time, the biological toxins secreted by the Hrud aliens killed by psychic power suddenly take effect because the influence of the psychic power on them has dissipated.

The alien corpse began to dissolve and emit a foul odor.

"The Hrud aliens are not on the expedition route." Brown put away the box and turned to look at the Iron Warriors. "Ancient humans also encountered them, but they were not exterminated because they had little desire for expansion and could cooperate with humans in trade... Why would the Empire let you come here to destroy them?"

The Iron Warriors were silent. They came here on Perturabo's orders. As for why Perturabo didn't go to Nuceria to join the assembly, but insisted on coming here alone to fight... I guess only the Tridents knew.

"Whose subordinates are you?" Qin Xia asked.

"We belong to the 34th Battalion commanded by Dantioch." The Iron Warrior replied, looking towards the entrance to the command deck.

Qin Xia turned around.

Dantioch was seen being helped into the command deck.

With every step this man, who is both strong inside and out, takes, the power armor on his body will fall off.

Qin Xia was stunned for a moment.

Dantioch was helped to walk in front of Qin Xia, and slowly raised his hand to take off his helmet.

When Qin Xia saw Dantioch again now, it felt like a lifetime ago.

In the previous Ullanor War, Dantioch looked very young, and the angles of his face seemed to be filled with "strength inside and out", and his eyes were bright and sharp.

but now……

Dantioch's face was extremely sagging, his eye sockets were sunken, and his eyes were dull and lifeless.

The two wrinkled bags under his eyes almost fell to his cheekbones.

"When they... came to board..." Dantioch began weakly, his yellow teeth shaking with the breath he exhaled, "I was... on the command deck..."

"Were you illuminated by their force field?" Qin Xia frowned, thinking that this was impossible.

Was Dantioch turned into an old man by Hrud's entropy-increasing weapon so early?
And the degree of aging is not right.

"Something strange happened..." Dantioch said. "We were on our way back... and responded to a call for help from two ships... We were ambushed along with those two ships..."

"It's the butterfly effect." Qin Xia sighed helplessly.

Dantioch's legs were shaking.

When Qin Xia saw this, he immediately used his psychic power to move a chair over from the air and motioned for Dantioch to sit on it: "Please take a seat."

"I'm not...not that old yet..." Before Dantioch could finish his words, his legs trembled a little, and he was finally helped to sit down by the Iron Warrior beside him.

"He's not dead yet, he can still be saved." A think tank who is good at biochemical psychic spells stepped forward, "I will help you restore your youth."

"Don't join forces with him." Qin Xia signaled the think tank to step back, and he stepped forward, put his hands on Dantioch's head, and personally used psychic magic to restore Dantioch.

This process is extremely long.

Qin Xia needs to use psychic power to restore every aging cell in Dantioch and restore the broken gene chains.

All the Space Marines present, whether they were Iron Warriors or World Eaters Librarians, looked at Dantioch with serious expressions.

Before they saw the Hrud alien, they thought the Astartes were immortal.

And now, they know that the so-called immortality is just meaningless speculation and boasting.

"He is at least four thousand years old." Qin Xia said, "He who died of old age in the Hrud manpower field is equivalent to being five thousand years old."

"So the maximum lifespan of an Astartes is 4999 years, right?" Brown asked.

"You haven't considered the differences in life span caused by individual physiological differences." Qin Xia closed his eyes and repaired his aging body.

The Hruds were indeed difficult to deal with. Qin Xia even wanted to ask Perturabo, "Why did you provoke them?"

At the same time, he also sympathized with Dantioch.

Dantioch had lost the battle, lost his defense, and didn't have many survivors left. He would definitely be punished when he met Perturabo later.

The transformation from Iron Warrior to Iron Lord was only the worst of Dantioch's misfortunes.

I hope he won't be demoted to guarding a sentry post later.

(End of this chapter)