Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 546 Typhon
In the dormitory.

The original body and Qin Xia sat side by side against the wall.

Mortarion mentioned what happened earlier.

"Angron sent men to Horus to look for you. You have been missing for seven months."

"The warp storm started a month ago. I happened to come to Kerr to recruit soldiers. Some time later, several warships of the Blood Angels Legion appeared in the Kerr system and were being chased by warships of the Emperor's Children."

"I helped them out, and left the Emperor's Children and Blood Angels ships in the fleet for repairs."

"I killed all the people in the Emperor's Children's warships, and almost all the people in the Blood Angels' warships were killed. That's why I sent people to take over their ships."

"And you, you damned bastard, actually thought I robbed their ship?"

Mortarion glared at Qin Xia.

Qin Xia was calm and composed, and just defended himself by saying, "Your army attacked me, otherwise I couldn't think you were rebelling. Besides, even if I thought you were rebelling, I still wanted to confirm it when I came here, but you started to hack me without saying a word."

"If I hadn't predicted that you would come to kill me, would I have killed you?" Mortarion pointed his index finger at Qin Xia, "I predicted that you would come to kill me, and you actually came!"

"Then why don't you confirm it? Is there something wrong with you?" Qin Xia tapped his head. "Can I be a traitor? Think about it. If I were a traitor, could I still teach someone as good as Angron?"

Mortarion was silent for a moment.

It's not that I was convinced, but I was thinking.

Then the Primarch spoke up: "If you ask me, Angron is kind because he can empathize with others. You... you praised him when he tricked people into dying. If you ask me, it would have been better if you hadn't raised Angron."

"Get out of here!" Qin Xia gritted his teeth.

Then I wanted to talk about things like the Butcher's Nails.

There were also some extremely kind people around Angron, but what Angron needed was decisiveness and a little ruthlessness.

But then I thought about it.

Forget it.

What never happened never happened.

The Primarch and Qin Xia were both silent.

After a moment, Mortarion took the initiative to break the silence: "I didn't mean to say that, but seeing that you are here and you are not a rebel, I feel very... fortunate. I am really going crazy these days."

"The warp storm is raging. I can't leave and I can't receive astropathic messages. I don't know what to do."

"And the Emperor's Children Legion rebelled. I don't know why they rebelled and attacked friendly forces, and I don't know if other legions are like them."

"Anyway, it's a good thing you came."

Mortarion's words made Qin Xia raise his right eyebrow slightly, surprised by the words of the Lord of Death.

But when you think about Mortarion's experiences and state of mind during this period, it is understandable. After all, he met a person who could communicate with psychic powers and had great magical powers in a very critical situation.

After Mortarion expressed his emotions, he became cold again.

"Contact other brothers."

"I can't get in touch with you. Chaos is targeting me."

"Then you have something else to do."

Mortarion said this, leaning his head back against the wall, staring at the ceiling, deep in thought.

Qin Xia said that the Death Guard fleet attacked the Think Tank fleet, but Mortarion was skeptical.

Qin Xia knew what Mortarion was thinking, but did not use psychic power to recreate the scene, because Mortarion was more suspicious of psychic power than he was of his brother's adoptive father.

"If someone in your legion rebels, it must be Typhon's fault." Qin Xia said firmly.

Mortarion stood up immediately: "My legion will never betray me, and Typhon will be even less likely to betray me."

"I don't think so. Actually, that's not the case."

"What do you know? You're not my adoptive father?"

"I just know it."

Mortarion spoke more and more anxiously, and his tone was no longer as cold as before.

Qin Xia immediately stood up and stopped arguing: "I will investigate it myself and give you the evidence. Then I hope you..."

Qin Xia suddenly paused halfway through his words.

The bedroom door was pushed open, and Typhon walked in and saluted to Mortarion: "The investigation results have been found."

Mortarion looked towards where Qin Xia had just stood.

There was no one there.

The Primarch withdrew his gaze and looked at his son, friend and chief captain, who had a suspicious look in his eyes. "Take me there."

……

The two men walked through the corridors of the Endurance and made their way to the command deck.

When the gate opened automatically, the Primarch saw two of Typhon's trusted warriors standing solemnly with bolters in their hands, with an old man kneeling between them.

The third eye on the man's forehead indicates his identity - a navigator.

Mortarion remembered this Navigator, an elder of the Navigator clan of Zegenda.

Because he is the elder of the Zegenda family, he is not like other navigators who stay in the Navigator's Sanctuary all day and never go out. This is why Mortarion remembered him.

“Your Highness…” The elder seemed to have seen a savior and wanted to crawl to the Primarch’s feet, but he stopped immediately after seeing Typhon and shrank to the ground.

Typhon walked up to the elder and faced the Primarch: "He is the culprit."

The matter that Typhon was ordered to investigate was: two months ago, when the Legion fleet was sailing in the Warp, it plunged into the Warp storm.

At that time, the warp storms were not everywhere and the waterway was still safe and clear, but as the lead ship of the fleet, the Endurance plunged into the waterway with the warp storm and brought other warships into the storm.

Although they finally arrived at the current galaxy successfully, the fleet suffered the loss of at least twelve cruisers and millions of Space Marines.

The results of Typhon's investigation were right in front of the Primarch. The trembling elder of the Zegenda Navigator family... As a Navigator, it didn't surprise Mortarion that he was the culprit.

"Why did you lead your fleet into the storm?" Mortarion stepped forward, grabbed the elder by the throat, and lifted the old man off the ground. "None of the alien races in the Great Crusade could have caused casualties of more than a dozen warships and tens of thousands of Astartes like you did."

"It's definitely not me... Your Highness..."

The elder did not dare to struggle and just trembled. Mortarion did not use much force with his hands, which gave him the possibility to speak.

"Yes, of course it's not you. It's the navigator of your Zegenda family. Maybe there will be someone else to take your place."

"I don't know... I swear by the third eye on my forehead..."

"Even if you really don't know, you are derelict in your duty."

Mortarion pressed harder and harder.

But in the end, the Primarch did not choose to kill the Navigator Elder, and let go of his hand and let him fall to the ground.

The First Captain stepped forward and the Primarch turned.

The elder looked at Typhon approaching him, then at the Primarch's back, and considering that this might be the last chance to speak to His Highness, he rushed to speak.

"I have examined the family members by reading their brains!"

"The family member who was piloting the Endurance... He also had no idea what was happening at the time. He just felt that some kind of power had invaded his brain..."

"I……"

Before he could finish his words, a Space Marine at the side knocked the elder to the ground with the butt of his rifle.

The elder couldn't withstand the blow. He was dizzy, his mouth was full of blood, his jaw completely lost sensation, and he could no longer get up.

"You're talking nonsense." Typhon scolded, "The Navigator has already mutated, and you didn't detect any clues from him? Nonsense!"

Typhon then presented Mortarion with a data-slate.

The datapad played a video of the navigator who was leading the Endurance crouching in a cell, his body mutated and covered in pustules.

Typhon swiped the screen again.

Several photos appeared one after another, showing various ritual items found in the navigator's room.

He has found evidence that the Navigator was corrupted by the ritual.

"The navigators of the entire fleet are from the Zegenda family. Chaos corruption is pervasive. We must capture the navigators immediately." Typhon advised.

Ever since Horus knew about Chaos, the Primarchs also became Chaos-stricken. Because they had to do something about the influence of Chaos, the Primarchs of each Legion and their close associates also knew of the existence of Chaos.

In the Death Guard, Typhon is the one responsible for dealing with the influence of Chaos because he is a psyker.

"..."

Mortarion withdrew his gaze, said nothing, and left silently.

Typhon signaled his trusted warriors to imprison the elders.

After the elder who had been beaten speechless was picked up, Typhon turned and looked at a mortal officer.

The officer immediately stepped forward and handed over a document with both hands.

Typhon signed his name on the document and motioned for the officer to take it away and send it off.

That was an order to capture the navigator of the entire fleet.

The navigators will be taken away, investigated, screened, and ultimately only those who can be used will be kept, while all those who cannot be used will be executed.

At least on paper, Typhon would do so.

……

There is a place called the Navigator's Sanctuary on every warship.

It was a spherical structure, so large that it could extend from the top deck to the bottom deck of a battleship.

This spherical structure is the sanctuary. It was not built together with the battleship, but was built separately and was not placed inside until the battleship was completed.

The navigators live in the sanctuary, and most of them will never leave the sanctuary in their entire lives.

Typhon enters the giant spherical structure.

All captured navigators were imprisoned here, and Typhon's trusted men watched over them.

Regardless of age, gender or child, everyone huddled under the Space Marines' guns, trembling.

Typhon said nothing, but just gave a few looks to his trusted followers.

The Space Marines immediately dispersed and made their own preparations.

Some people forced the navigators to stand up and gather together, while others took out large and small bags filled with materials.

Typhon came in front of the crowd and raised his hand gently.

The Navigators stared at the Chief Captain.

"..."

Typhon snapped his fingers.

The sound of a navigator's head exploding and fingers snapping could be heard at the same time.

Blood splattered all around, floating up before hitting the ground, gathering into a ring that surrounded all the navigators present.

The sudden death caused panic. People screamed and ran wildly trying to escape, but when they rushed to the edge of the blood and tried to step over, they were blocked by invisible energy and were pushed back.

Typhon continued snapping his fingers.

Another navigator died.

Fear spread throughout the sanctuary.

The psychics' fear surged in the space.

(End of this chapter)