Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 507: The Fate of Hrud
"Let's armistice."

The alien signaled the slave to shut up and talked to Qin Xia himself.

"I know you don't have the power to make decisions, but you can share the information you gather from here with your superiors."

"The Hrud have only one purpose in the galaxy, and that is to survive and reproduce."

"The act of war is of no value to us, because it will only result in individuals who should have dedicated their lives to a greater cause to have their lives meaninglessly thrown away on a battlefield on a certain planet."

As he spoke, the alien walked to the wall of the cave.

The history of the Hrud people is engraved on it.

"The Hrud originally lived under the sun. We had a god who cherished us. This god originally had many brothers and sisters who were also gods, but in the end, he was the only one left alive."

"One day, the god told his children that he needed to complete something and that a catastrophe was about to come. In order for his children to survive the catastrophe after losing his protection, he instructed his children to go underground."

"Then the god left, leaving behind a prophecy before he left."

"When God returns, he will lead his children in a holy war."

The alien said this and turned to look at Qin Xia.

"The Hrud have been preparing for the holy war. We survive and reproduce only to provide more warriors when the gods return."

Qin Xia knew about the history of the Hrud people, and he even knew what the god the Hrud people were talking about.

This history is obviously not an ancient legend without any basis.

The god who created the Hrud should be the Old Ones. The Old Ones died in the War in Heaven until only one person was left, and then that Old One turned into a monster called the Umbra.

Taking into account the magical racial characteristics of the Hrud, the legends of the Holy War, and the information about "the last god of the Protoss", it is completely consistent with the experiences of the ancient holy race.

Apart from the Old Ones, no other race was willing to seed the galaxy with life.

"Do you know what the legendary enemy is?" Qin Xia asked, "I don't mean the noun, but what the words you use to describe the enemy of the holy war specifically refer to."

"I don't know." The alien was very frank, "We don't know who the gods are fighting against, nor do we know what we will eventually deal with, but we know that we have a creator, and our mission is to follow the creator."

Qin Xia lowered his head, stroking his chin and thinking.

The Hrud race should have been created by the Old Saints during the War in Heaven, but the War in Heaven was over after they were formed. The "last Old Saint" should be the scientific researcher who was responsible for creating the Hrud race during the War in Heaven.

Afterwards, the Old Saint should have wanted to do something, such as attacking the enemy as the last Old Saint and then dying in battle, but the race like the Hrud was not yet perfect and could not even be cannon fodder on the battlefield, so he was reluctant to bring the biological weapon race he created to participate in the war.

As for the holy war and mission, they are probably just excuses.

It may simply have this purpose: "The race I created lives in the perfect greenhouse I created. They need to be able to take care of themselves after I leave and survive in the cruel galaxy afterwards. So I created a lie that would allow this race to survive and reproduce after leaving the greenhouse."

If the "last Old One" is still alive, when it returns, it will find that the Eldar are now divided. The Eldar in the Ark just want to survive and few people care about the Creator. The green-skinned Orcs have degenerated to the point that they don't even know who created them, let alone follow the Old Ones.

Only the Hrud will abide by the agreements in ancient history. One by one, the loose Hrud tribes will unite, migrate to the side of their creator, and march resolutely towards the war - they have been preparing for this for millions of years.

"Our purpose is to reproduce and prepare."

"We will avoid the aggressive and expansionist power of the Imperium of Man."

“We don’t want war.”

The alien said sincerely.

Qin Xia listened and thought about it. After the alien spoke, he waited in silence for a response. Time passed slowly until one minute later...

Qin Xia snorted and laughed: "Do you mean that your tribe doesn't want war, or that you, the Hrud race, don't want it."

The alien was about to answer when suddenly a sharp and piercing howl was heard.

"They are coming again?" The human slave looked at his master.

"Notify the younger members of my tribe to hide!" the alien waved his hand and gave the order.

The slave immediately ran past Qin Xia.

"If you are not an exterminator, then tell your superiors what I said." The alien took the flintlock from behind and immediately turned around and ran along the underground tunnel.

Qin Xia observed everything with psychic vision.

Outside the Hrud world ship, a warship that was clearly a Human Empire ship was seen hovering out of reach of anti-orbital weapons.

A ship was dropping a large number of black-spot-like creatures towards the Hrud world.

Those creatures landed on the surface of the world ship, drilling through the land plates and heading underground.

When Qin Xia began to look into the dungeon, he discovered that those black spots were actually humanoid war machines.

After the war machines entered the crypt, they immediately used Hrud flintlock rifles to fire at the Hrud warriors.

"Iron Man?" Qin Xia was extremely surprised.

Is there another iron force in this galaxy that I don't know about?

Larger iron war machines were dropped from the battleships and began to use high-energy laser weapons on the surface to destroy the underground structures.

The Hrud seemed to have been invaded like this more than once, so they quickly gathered and began to resist.

In the crypts, the Hrud war machines were useless and could only use their innate abilities and flesh to fight against steel as they did when fighting Space Marines.

The visual fog and entropy field of the Hrud were useless against the Iron Men. The metal on the Iron Men's bodies did not age, and their iron bodies displayed overwhelming combat power when slaughtering the Hrud.

If the Iron Warriors can also neutralize the visual fog and entropy field of the Hrud aliens, then they will have the same combat performance as the Iron Men.

"Dispatch the defense warriors!" The Hrud who had explained the Hrud alien's intentions to Qin Xia ran fifty meters away.

But when passing through an airtight gate, he suddenly bumped into an iron man as tall as a hill. Qin Xia saw the iron man quickly punch out and smash the alien to pieces.

"Don't believe their lies."

In the blood mist, the tall iron man raised his head and looked at Qin Xia.

"They just want to reproduce and survive, but they also need living space and resources. If you really think they are harmless, you will make a fatal mistake."

Qin Xia did not answer, but looked at the iron man silently.

This iron man is taller than its peers and should be a "commander" type of character.

"I know that the Hrud are not completely harmless. They will fight with the Empire many times in the future." Qin Xia was puzzled that the Iron Man did not attack him, but explained the dangers of the Hrud. "As for you..."

The iron man suddenly lowered his head slightly to the left, as if sending or receiving a signal.

Qin Xia saw in his psychic vision that the Hrud were gradually clearing out the invading Iron Men.

Because of the limited delivery capabilities of the warships, the Hruds naturally had a numerical advantage in their own territory, and they gradually eliminated the invaders at a small cost.

"Information exchange." Iron Man suddenly spoke, "I came here for revenge. I have attacked them about thirty times before, and this time I killed the one I wanted to kill. In addition, I came here to obtain the Hrud's hyperdrive engine. What are you doing here?"

"Collect information about the Hrud people, understand the structure of this world ship that is like a land plate, and leave a subspace transmission anchor point for this world ship." Qin Xia said.

The Iron Man nodded silently, signaling Qin Xia to follow him.

Qin Xia was full of curiosity about the sudden appearance of this iron man force, and because he was absolutely confident in his own safety, he followed them.

The two of them used teleportation technology together to leave the underground tunnel and teleport to the battleship outside the world ship.

The Cramer family's warship is right next door.

After Qin Xia gave the order to leave the current galaxy and enter the subspace on standby, the Kramo family's warships immediately teleported away.

Then, Qin Xia looked at the warship he was on.

Not only is the battleship consistent with the Human Empire's battleships in appearance, its internal structure is also extremely consistent. Even the Human Empire's double-headed eagle logo can be seen everywhere.

The people working next to the equipment on the command deck are not humans, but machines with only the upper bodies directly embedded in the equipment.

"You stole the empire's ships?" Qin Xia asked.

"It's a long story." Iron Man immediately walked to the holographic imaging device.

Two Hrud warships appeared in the galaxy. They had just been patrolling around the galaxy and came immediately after receiving the support signal.

The iron man stroked his chin, thinking about countermeasures.

After figuring out the strategy, Iron Man turned to Qin Xia and asked, "Do you have anything that can contain this battleship so that we can avoid the first round of attacks from the Hruds?"

Qin Xia looked at the Iron Man with increasingly meaningful eyes and nodded.

The Hrud warships attack.

Iron Man stopped talking and stood in front of the holographic image, staring at the situation in the galaxy.

Although it does not have facial features like humans, Qin Xia can feel that the temperament exuded by this iron man has become particularly solemn and heavy.

The first round of attacks begins.

The Hrud warship fired two energy beams.

Qin Xia immediately used the pocket universe to house the battleship.

This was his first time seeing the scene in the Eldar pocket universe.

Outside the porthole were stars and void that were no different from the normal universe, except for some strange creatures that were as huge as celestial bodies. When they saw another person coming in, they immediately surrounded them, but were blocked by a layer of energy barrier.

When Qin Xia drove the pocket universe again, the battleship was released.

Iron Man has given the order remotely.

All weapons on the gun deck were aimed at the Hrud warships, firing hundreds of torpedo-like weapons.

These weapons have no propulsion system at all and rely entirely on the propulsion force generated when the launcher releases them to move forward.

When the torpedoes approached the Hrud warships, they were immediately affected by the entropy increase field and began to age rapidly. The material that made up the torpedoes themselves entered an unstable state and eventually exploded, sinking the two warships.

"It's smart to use a substance that releases strong energy over time as a weapon to specifically deal with entropy-increasing force fields," Qin Xia judged.

The Iron Man, who had been exceptionally calm just now, became arrogant immediately after seeing that he had won a small-scale void battle: "It's just a little trick in the material realm. The Hruds are nothing more than powerful in time technology. As long as we find the right weakness, we can easily defeat them."

"To me, the Hrud are not a strong enemy."

"Watch carefully and learn well. This is the experience I have accumulated during this period of time."

"..."

After hearing these words, Qin Xia looked at the Iron Man with an even more meaningful gaze.

"Follow me." Iron Man turned and walked out of the command deck.

There seemed to be a teleportation device inside the battleship. After a ray of light lit up at the exit of the command deck, the two of them instantly arrived in the engine room.

There is a smooth sphere suspended in mid-air.

"You want to know what the Emperor wants from the Hrud?" The Iron Man tilted his head slightly towards the sphere. "Here is the answer."

(End of this chapter)