Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 550: Loyalist Barbarus
The Think Tank Fleet's joining the void war immediately turned the tide of the battle.

Although the number of this fleet was less than one-tenth of the Death Guard's 2nd Company fleet, they appeared too suddenly and were located directly behind the 2nd Company fleet as soon as they appeared, forming a straight line and firing at the best shooting angle.

With the assistance of the think tanks, the battle quickly became one-sided.

Both the Think Tank Fleet and Mortarion's fleet chose to attack the enemy with non-destructive tactics without any communication.

Given that Mortarion is in urgent need of warships, boarding and seizing the ships is a viable option.

"Can those warships still be used after they are recaptured?" Mortarion asked.

"There are ways to ensure they can still be used," Qin Xia said.

Mortarion then let his men capture the ships with confidence.

The Think Tank Fleet has also organized a boarding force, and each Think Tank combat team will assist the Death Guard boarding team in fighting and seizing the ship.

Jialuo was also one of the participants in the boarding war.

Although the Eisenstein frigate was not released by Qin Xia because it was severely damaged and could not participate in the battle, Jialuo did not choose to stay on the ship and wait, but took the initiative to request to join the battle.

He couldn't just sit back and watch the current state of the Legion.

Whatever the reason the Second Company attacked the Primarch's fleet, they deserved to die.

Garo was taken by the think tank team led by Varis and teleported to the cruiser headed by the Second Company.

After walking out of the portal, Garo looked around and saw hundreds of battle brothers who had just boarded the ship by torpedo.

On the ground were the bodies of some soldiers from the Second Company.

The fratricide among siblings made Jialuo feel painful.

"Captain Garro!" A Terran Space Marine stepped forward and asked, "Where is my brother? He is serving in the Seventh Company."

"The Seventh Company is gone," said Jia Luo, "I am the only one who survived."

"May his soul return to Albia." The Space Marines did not grieve, but returned to their company and moved forward with the company.

Hearing the name Albia, Garo recalled his past.

He was once a native of Terra Arbia, a land that had belonged to a tyrannical warlord before it came under the Emperor's rule, who destroyed the warlord and restored freedom and dignity to the people.

To die for the Emperor is indeed an honor.

"How come you didn't die in the anti-psychic device made by the Soulless?"

As Varis asked, the ten think tanks he brought with him joined the boarding team.

The two forces belonging to different legions were able to cooperate together without much communication, because the Death Guard had previously cooperated with the World Eaters in the Battle of Ullanor.

When dealing with the greenskins at that time, the think tank also cooperated with the Death Guard space warriors. They cooperated in the same way now as they did then.

"I don't know either." Jialuo followed the company and walked in front with a long sword in hand.

Varis asked no more questions and put up a psychic barrier to accompany his old friend.

With the assistance of the think tank, the boarding team advanced at an extremely fast speed.

The positions formed by the enemy Space Marines were easily broken through by psychic spells, and all kinds of heavy firepower dispatched by the enemy could also be intercepted by the think tanks.

In addition, boarding torpedoes would occasionally hit the hull of the ship, releasing more soldiers, so the battle went extremely smoothly.

While heading towards the command deck, Garro suddenly grabbed Varis and said, "Read my mind. I know where that bastard Grugol will be commanding the battle. Then we will go over and kill him."

Varis thought for a moment and placed his hand on Garo's shoulder.

Some abstract information poured into Varis's brain. The chief think tank tried to interpret it and was able to separate and understand some fragmented information.

Although the information is fragmented, it is enough.

Varis explored the ship with his psionic vision, and saw the enemy in the place in Garro's mind where Grugol, the Second Captain of the Death Guard, habitually stayed, only two Death Guard company officers.

Grugol stayed in that narrow secret room, planning a plan for the fleet to escape the gravitational influence of the celestial body and make an emergency jump into the warp.

After doing all this, Varis took another look at the boarding team members who still needed to control the important areas of the ship, and immediately opened the portal and went to where Grugol was with Garo.

The moment he walked out of the portal, Varis raised his hand and released psychic lightning, turning the two officers into ashes.

Garo rushed towards Grugor with a long sword in hand. The two fought in close combat. After several consecutive attacks, Garo suddenly pulled out a bolt pistol and fired at Grugor's head.

The bomb exploded, and shrapnel hit Garo's armor.

The rebellious captain of the second company was not hurt at all. He quickly retreated in the smoke of the suicide bomb and confronted Gala, the captain of the seventh company.

When Varis was about to kill Grugor instantly with his psychic power, Garo raised his hand to stop him.

The White Knights' Chief Think Tank could see that Garro had some issues with Grugol, but he only knew Garro as a person and knew nothing about other captains of the Death Guard.

But it doesn't matter. You don't need to know Grugor's past. All you need to know is that he is an officer of the Death Guard Legion who has rebelled. It doesn't matter whether he is called Grugor or any other weird name.

Varis was willing to give Garro a chance, but was also prepared to end Grugor's life in ten seconds.

It took Garro less than ten seconds to kill Grugor, using only two moves. First, he scattered the ashes of the soulless man, and then he cut off the head of his former colleague with a sword.

Varis was no longer on guard and turned to check the pile of documents on his desk.

"Where is the 0901 system?" Varis asked.

Garro was also searching through the documents, and answered subconsciously: "When the Primarch sent me and the Seventh Company to search for the Soulless, the Legion was stationed in the 0901 system. That place was once occupied by aliens, and then occupied by the Legion."

"Grugor's purpose is not to kill your Primarch." Varis showed the document to Garro, "He is going to the 0901 system."

Jialuo immediately took the document and looked at it carefully.

That was Typhon's order to Grugol.

In the order, Typhon mentioned that a company of Barbarus-born Space Marines suddenly rebelled. After secretly investigating Typhon's true intentions, they went to war with other companies that were also lost in the warp and appeared in the 0901 system.

The document also contained a message: Typhon had asked the Emperor's Children for assistance in eliminating the remaining loyalists.

Varis has passed the contents of the document to Qin Xia, who then informed Mortarion.

Mortarion was quite pleased when he learned that there was still an organized group of loyalists of the Barbarus descent.

After delivering the message, Varis and Garo continued to collect intelligence.

Grugor was standing aside and watching the two men work.

He also looked at his headless body lying on the ground.

The second captain, who knew Typhon's plan from the beginning, realized that he was dead.

After a brief stagnation in the real universe, the soul rises uncontrollably into the subspace.

Piercing the veil, entering that sea of ​​souls, and being torn apart by the power of the Warp.

When he was about to be annihilated, Grugor suddenly felt that he was protected by something, and then he appeared in a garden again.

A green figure was humming a song and stirring something beside a crucible.

As soon as he appeared here, Grugor sensed many things that he didn't know before.

For example, before arriving at the Kerr system, although his fleet was able to navigate freely in the warp, it still encountered a storm and was forcibly drawn into the system. During this process, he saw Mortarion and was ready to kill the Primarch.

And this is the arrangement of the gods before us.

The purpose is to sacrifice the lives of an entire company so that one of the preferred ones can be upgraded to a higher level being.

Grugol even knew what god he was in front of him - Nurgle.

That was the god that Typhon had mentioned when he had instigated the Barbarus to rebel.

The second captain thought it was all nonsense from the chief captain and didn't believe it really existed at all. Or even if it existed and gave Typhon more powerful power, it didn't exist in the form of a specific god, but something more advanced and powerful.

Only now did Grugor realize how ridiculous and stupid his previous thoughts were.

"come over."

Grugol heard the call and approached the Crucible, seeing Nurgle pointing at him and exerting some kind of power on him.

The power filled Grugor's soul, shattering and reshaping it countless times.

Although Grugor didn't know much about the Warp itself, he could sense that he was receiving blessings and obtaining the power and eternity promised by Typhon.

But the happiness of being promoted to a transcendent existence soon disappeared, and Grugor felt that everything was wrong. Then his soul broke away from the cycle of reshaping and shattering, and began to twist and mutate in an uncontrollable direction.

He could not bear the influence of the supernatural power, began to be distorted, and gradually lost himself.

"Poor little fellow, you can't bear my grace."

Before Grugor completely lost himself, he heard what the green figure said. Even the words themselves shocked his soul and made him fall into an even more terrifying situation.

The Second Captain eventually turned into a Chaos Spawn in the garden.

A disgusting creature that looks like a mass of rotten meat and tentacles being mixed together in a meat grinder.

The God of Chaos will bless those he chooses and promote them to a higher level of existence, but not everyone can bear this grace. Those who cannot bear the grace will become something called Chaos Egg.

It has no self-awareness and is incapable of figuring anything out. It can only kill or vent certain feelings.

But turning into a rotten mass of flesh was clearly not the intention of the god who summoned Grugol here.

A tiny soul belonging to Typhon was injected into Grugor. The function of that tiny soul was only to give Grugor a little bit of self, but it was enough.

The reborn one kneels down before the god before him.

He is neither Typhon nor Grugor, but a completely new being that has been upgraded.

If we have to give it an objective and neutral name, it would be "Demon Prince".

The Demon Prince did not return to the real universe to kill the enemies of his predecessor, and the body of his predecessor in the real universe did not undergo any corresponding changes. It just served as a chess piece, quietly waiting to be used in the future.

(End of this chapter)