Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 543 The crisis has arrived
The fleet emerged from the warp and appeared at the edge of an unknown galaxy far away from the celestial body.

Before the porthole panels rose, the battleship scanned the entire galaxy with capabilities far beyond vision.

"It's within the empire's territory. We're lucky." The captain wiped the sweat from his forehead.

As the fleet commander, what he feared most was that the fleet would be affected by the subspace storm and might appear in a messy place when entering the real universe. This was still the best case scenario. The slightly worse case scenario was that the fleet members would be directly dispersed or appear directly on a planet.

The Tuchucha engine was more reliable than the captain had imagined.

"Report. Friendly warships have been scanned in the system."

An officer stood up to report, and a holographic image popped up in the center of the command deck.

The outline of a Retaliation-class large cruiser is shown above, and after analyzing all the characteristics of the ship, it was finally concluded that this is a "warship under the Death Guard Corps."

"Are we back at the front line of the Horus Expeditionary Fleet again?" the captain frowned.

"Maybe they are here." Qin Xia pointed to the warship outside the porthole, "Approach it and ask about the situation. If necessary, take it with you."

The captain made arrangements immediately.

The remaining warships of the Think Tank fleet began to rest.

The White Knight was gradually approaching the Death Guard friendly warship.

After entering the communication range, the White Knight began trying to contact friendly warships.

"No response."

The captain looked at the double-headed eagle logo that kept rotating on the communication panel, which meant that the other party had not responded for a long time.

Qin Xia directly used his psychic vision to observe the entire warship, but when his eyes reached the interior of the warship, he saw only nothingness.

There are soulless people there, and they are not ordinary powerful soulless people.

"Be careful." Qin Xia ordered again.

The captain then conveyed the orders of the Lord of the White Knights in detail.

The White Knight approached to a position one light second away from the friendly warship. The communication array continued to try to contact the other party. At the same time, the starboard gun deck of the ship received an order to enter a full combat readiness state.

The torpedo room, macro cannon, and light spear, these weapons located on the starboard side are activated after the ship turns and points the starboard side towards the enemy, aiming at friendly ships.

Qin Xia stood there waiting. "If there is no response in half an hour, send the Think Tank Combat Team to lead an auxiliary marine corps to board the ship for investigation."

"Yes." The captain turned around and picked up the communicator to call the Marine Corps commander, "Prepare two boarding regiments."

time flies.

Ten minutes later, there was still no response from the friendly warships.

Qin Xia continued to wait until he received a psychic message from the director of the Great Library, then he was teleported out of the command deck and into the cabin used to store the Tuchucha engine.

Tethys was standing next to the teenager at the engine controls.

"What's the matter?" Qin Xia asked the engine directly.

"We deviated from the normal time point and jumped out of the subspace at a time point that exceeded the limit of the redundancy range. Simply put, the time when we entered the subspace and started our voyage is seven solar months away from now."

"Most of a year?"

After thinking about it, Qin Xia felt that the time deviation was nothing, as normal subspace navigation would also cause time deviation.

But the Tuchucha engine shouldn't let this happen.

"Why is there a deviation of seven solar months?" Qin Xia asked.

"The subspace storm is too strong." The young man controlling the engine spoke like a puppet, "I can't guarantee the accuracy of the timing and ensure that we can break through the storm."

Qin Xia accepted this result calmly.

The Tuchucha Engine is not invincible. Like most creations in this universe, it is in a state of "capable but not fully capable".

The Tuchucha engine could not break through the overly strong subspace storm.

For example, according to normal development, the engine would fall into Ryan's hands, and Ryan would rely on the engine to kill people in the rear of the rebels. But when he wanted the engine to help him go to Terra, the engine said bluntly that he could not break through the storm covering Terra.

"It's nothing. Just do your best." Qin Xia opened the portal, signaled Tethys to continue guarding, and then returned to the command deck.

Half an hour had passed, and the lone Death Guard ship still hadn't responded to the White Knight's call.

A think tank combat team has been assembled under the leadership of Varis. Twelve think tanks are on the hangar deck, together with a large number of mortal auxiliary marines, ready to enter the isolated ship to conduct investigations at any time.

The captain looked at Qin Xia.

The Lord of the White Knights nodded slightly.

The assembled armed men entered the transport plane and headed for the lone ship.

As time continued to pass, various conditions inside the ship were also conveyed to Qin Xia.

“A lot of people died here.”

"The gun deck is empty."

"The entire ship, both Space Marines and mortal sailors, is probably dead."

"Otherwise, as the most important place on the entire ship, the gun deck must be occupied."

Qin Xia mourned for the people inside the ship, and then ordered: "There must be another soulless person alive. Find him and bring him back."

It is not easy to find a Soulless on a city-sized warship, but the influence they can exert on psykers can itself serve as a tracking clue.

Varis only needed to feel the nauseating feeling that made him sick, and go in the direction where the nausea was stronger.

"My Lord, I find the Soulless that can block your psychic vision a little strange." Varis said, "How can there be such a powerful Soulless that its range of influence is enough to cover a warship?"

Hearing this, Qin Xia thought of the powerful soulless being kept on the White Knight. The soulless's anti-psychic talent was extremely powerful, but... it was indeed not strong enough to cover the battleship.

"You mean, that person might not be a soulless person?" Qin Xia stood with his hands behind his back, and after thinking, he ordered, "This will not affect your actions. Find him back."

"Space fluctuations detected."

Before Varis responded, an officer on the command deck reported.

Qin Xia has already looked towards the source of the space fluctuations.

At the other end of the edge of the galaxy, three warships suddenly jumped into the real universe and moved forward.

That is also a Death Guard battleship.

"This is the Resolute." The face of a Death Watch space soldier appeared on the communication panel. "Are you the World Eaters Think Tank Fleet? The Lord of the Twelve Legions has sent people to the front line to look for you for seven months..."

"It's a long story." Qin Xia said, "Why are there your warships in the galaxy?"

"Not sure, we just received an order to come to rescue." The Space Marine glanced at the scene outside the porthole.

The friendly fleet continues to approach.

After arriving at a position almost face to face with the White Knight, all warships opened fire at full power. Thousands of torpedoes and macro cannon shells penetrated the void shield and blew the White Knight into two pieces.

The command deck was destroyed in the gunfire and the heavy cruiser fell in an unknown galaxy.

All of this flashed quickly in Qin Xia's eyes.

This is his predictive ability. This ability can only predict dangers in the short term, but compared to long-term predictive ability, its advantage is that it is always correct.

After waking up from the prophecy, Qin Xia immediately activated his spiritual energy.

The White Knight teleported thousands of kilometers to the left, and the next second the Death Guard battleship opened fire in the direction it originally came from.

"Start the war!"

The captain instinctively shouted out orders before he understood the situation.

All the weapons on the starboard gun deck opened fire, with the White Knight alone firing with firepower equivalent to the combined firepower of the three enemy ships. After a massive bombardment, the three Death Guard ships were paralyzed, losing their ability to move and attack.

When Qin Xia wanted to question the Space Marines on the other end of the communication panel, the three warships exploded and sank at the same time, and the ships, along with the Space Marines and mortal sailors inside, turned into space junk.

"What's going on..." The captain looked dazed, and an answer emerged in his mind as he spoke.

The Death Guard have rebelled.

Qin Xia also figured out the answer, and then he gave Varis a stern order: "I'll give you another twenty minutes. If you still don't get anything after twenty minutes, you'll have to return immediately. The White Knight will sink that lone ship."

"grown ups……"

Varis responded.

"There has been some harvest..."

……

In a cabin in the middle section of the isolated ship.

The mortal marines had sealed off the entrances and exits to the chamber, while the Librarians stood in front of a device, observing it with all their pain.

The device in front of me has a wizardly style, looking like a tall black tower covered with spikes.

On each spike of the tower hangs a corpse - the corpse of a soulless person.

Although he didn't understand the function of this tower, Varis could still guess by intuition that this tower was equivalent to using soulless people to form an anti-psychic field.

The mortal soldiers went forward to check the tower and eventually found a passage leading to the interior.

As they opened the hatch, a Space Marine fell out of the tower and hit the ground hard.

All guns were aimed at the Space Marine's head.

Varis raised his hand to signal everyone not to be nervous, then squatted down and took a closer look, and was quite shocked: "Captain Garo?"

The person in front of him was the captain of the 7th Company of Death Guard—Garro.

Jialuo was also quite surprised to see his good friend who had fought alongside him.

Qin Xia teleported out at this time and came in front of Jialuo. He put his hand on Jialuo's head to sense the information.

Why did the Lone Ship appear in the galaxy? It was a ship that transported the Soulless. The Death Guard had received help from the Sisters of Silence in a war, so they also wanted to form a Soulless force to fight against psychic energy. The Lone Ship encountered an extremely high intensity Warp Storm while sailing in the Warp.

What is the tall tower in front of him - a device made by Garo himself to counter psychic energy. This tall tower with a large number of soulless corpses inserted in it can offset the impact of the warp storm as much as possible, allowing the ship to sail forcedly. But just like the Tuchucha engine, it may not be effective in the event of a strong storm.

A lot of information was transmitted to Qin Xia's mind.

At the same time, Qin Xia also learned a piece of latest news that almost made him panic.

A warp storm that swept across the Empire raged half a month ago.

The human empire's means of subspace navigation were all paralyzed, and each galaxy became isolated like the Dark Ages, unable to communicate with each other.

"..."

Qin Xia took a deep breath and looked at Varis.

The Chief Librarian noticed that the Lord of the White Knight looked slightly pale.

"I... I was discussing with others what to do after everything is settled... discussing fate..."

"What a fate!"

(End of this chapter)