Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 557 Horus Dilemma

"The Lord of Change can't wait to see you."

Samus chuckled. "Interesting..."

Qin Xia ignored Samus and looked at the scene in front of him quietly.

I have seen this place before when I went to the Tzeentch Realm with Angron to rescue Magnus, but the scene here is completely different from the last time. This is normal. After all, Tzeentch is the lord of change. It would be a miracle if it could be exactly the same.

Qin Xia stepped into the Tzeentch Realm and walked in the corridor made of crystal.

After walking underground along the corridor, Qin Xia came to a wasteland. A city was floating in the sky in front of him.

The Tzeentch demons appeared.

Slaves of the great demon level, such as the Lord of Change, emerged one after another, like tap water.

The Demon Lord of All Changes defeated by Qin Xia was just one of these huge number of demons.

Low-level demons have no qualifications to appear here at all. They can only wander around the edge of the Crystal Demon Realm like lonely ghosts.

A crystal staircase gradually condensed in front of Qin Xia.

The demons looked up at the stairs, waiting nearby like spectators, without going forward to attack Qin Xia.

Seeing this, Qin Xia realized that he probably wouldn't encounter any battles on this trip, so he looked at Samus beside him and said, "Whatever you want to do in the Crystal Demon Realm, go ahead and do it. You won't be needed to accompany me from now on."

"I just want to see what you can do." Samus said with a smile.

Qin Xia stepped onto the crystal stairs.

As soon as the bottom of the armored boots touched the crystal stairs, the whole person entered the city in the Tzeentch Realm and came to the deepest part that could not be reached without countless trials.

Qin Xia did not see Tzeentch here. This "unseen" refers to "an entity that can be observed at the visual level." It is not like Samus, which appears as a group of outlines or a certain color without a shell in the subspace.

But if "seeing Jianqi" does not mean seeing him on a visual level, then Qin Xia has seen Jianqi countless times.

The Chaos Gods have become part of the fabric of the Warp, much as natural phenomena such as storms are part of a planet's environment.

"Lord of the White Knight."

A demon appeared out of nowhere in front of Qin Xia.

Qin Xia was looking at the surrounding environment at this time and ignored the devil.

He saw a palace made of crystal, filled with a large number of crystal furniture that only humans would use, and then he realized that everything he saw was made just for him.

"We have seen it," said the demon.

Only then did Qin Xia look at the Demon Lord of All Changes.

This demon king looked like a blue mass, but Qin Xia did sense a familiar part in it—the devil who only told the truth.

The Lord of Change, who only tells the truth, once appeared in the aftermath of the Perfect City incident. At that time, the planet's reality structure was extremely fragile, and it appeared and created a supernatural incident.

Erebus captured it, the Librarians took it over, and then the Demon Lord was used as training material for the Librarians to practice how to exile a great demon.

“You can call me Keye.” The Demon Lord said, “From now on, I will become the spokesperson for the Lord of Change… otherwise you will not be able to understand anything it wants to express.”

Qin Xia signaled the Demon Lord to begin.

The Lord of Change was silent for a moment, and then the whole demon changed.

It no longer felt threatening to Qin Xia, and no longer had the creepy feeling that a great demon should bring to a real creature. It was as if it had turned into a harmless, old man.

Or perhaps the sense of threat was too great, so great that it made Qin Xia numb.

"What do you want to do?" Jianqi asked Qin Xia through the demon.

"I want to see Horus." Qin Xia said bluntly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding environment changed rapidly from a living room filled with human furniture to a crystal dungeon.

Horus is located in the dungeon.

A heart-wrenching wail reached Qin Xia's ears.

When Qin Xia looked at Horus, he found that the warmaster was curled up in the corner of the dungeon, with psychic light in his eyes.

Qin Xia tried to sense what Horus was going through. When this thought came to his mind, he seemed to have become Horus, directly experiencing everything that Horus was going through.

First of all, there is extremely terrible pain.

Pure pain on the physical and spiritual level.

It is as if a patient in the advanced stage of bone cancer is suffering from the pain and not taking painkillers, and his sensitivity to pain is increased hundreds of thousands of times.

Qin Xia sensed this pain through his psychic power, but he could not feel the actual torture that Tzeentch inflicted on Horus.

However, Tzeentch created an illusion to let Qin Xia see what Horus saw and experienced.

Horus' memory was sealed, and he experienced everything again and again countless times as if he was starting the game over again, but each experience was completely different.

In the first half of his experience, he enjoyed happy days as sweet as honey, meeting unforgettable people one after another, and then in the second half of the experience, all these beautiful things were shattered. All kinds of misfortunes created by Tzeentch crushed those beautiful things, and then stuffed them into Horus' mouth and forced him to chew them.

In order to demonstrate, Tzeentch made Horus go through some things again.

It begins when the amniotic fluid cabin lands on the mother planet and Horus climbs out of the cabin.

Horus was then taken away by the Emperor to lead the Luna Wolves to conquer the galaxy, and then became the Warmaster.

Far from being a tyrant, the Emperor was an educator who treated all of the Primarchs, including Horus, like a true father.

The Emperor then revealed his intention to deify himself, killing and sacrificing each of the Primarchs himself, and then forcing Horus to serve as the central medium of the ritual and watch his brothers die.

In the end, Horus was brutally killed by the Emperor. "That's enough." Qin Xia looked away.

The scene in front of me suddenly disappeared.

Horus was still experiencing things that were completely real to him, experiencing torture, crying and laughing.

"I can let him go, but I have a condition." said Tzeentch.

Qin Xia was silent.

"If you cause nine to the ninth power changes, I will send you all out of the High Heavens and never do anything together with my other brothers and sisters again." said Tzeentch.

"That's impossible." Qin Xia drew out the Sirius Sword, "It's more likely that I can kill you with Horus."

"That's not difficult."

Jianqi flashed back and forth in front of Qin Xia.

“Everything you do is equivalent to initiating a change.”

"How difficult is this for you?"

"You just don't believe me, you just resist, you are just ignorant and suspicious of everything you see when you enter the High Heaven."

Listening to what Tzeentch said, Qin Xia looked at Horus again, wondering whether Horus could hold on for that long even if he agreed.

Qin Xia finally decided to give it a try. He killed the demon who was acting as Tzeentch's messenger with a sword, and then opened a portal to teleport himself and Horus out of Tzeentch's domain.

Due to the influence of the subspace storm, Qin Xia could not see the location where the portal opened, so where he would come out was completely random.

But it doesn’t matter. Qin Xia just wants to leave the Tzeentch Realm, and even leave the subspace and return to the real universe.

But when he trudged out of the snow, he saw that he had emerged from the Warp, but Horus had not.

Turning back, they found Horus bound by Tzeentch's power.

"He can't leave." A new Demon Lord of Change appeared in front of Qin Xia and became Jianqi's new messenger.

Afterwards, Jianqi didn't say anything more and released his power towards Qin Xia.

It was an attack from the God of Chaos. The psychic power in the entire warp became restless because it was being pulled by Tzeentch.

Before Qin Xia could react, he was knocked out of the Tzeentch Realm, streaking through the subspace like a meteor, and finally landed in an unknown place.

There was nothingness all around, only the incarnations of the gods projected in all directions, and Samus who was also knocked out.

"If the Lord of Change had just used some strength, your body would have turned to ash," said Samus.

Qin Xia clenched his fists and continued to think of countermeasures.

"You are at least sure that the Primarch is still alive and can continue to hold on for a while. That's enough." Samus seemed to be persuading, "At least he is still controlled by only one Chaos God, instead of giving the gods an opportunity to take advantage of him and then degenerate into a puppet of the gods."

"This subspace storm...is there anything that can calm it down completely?" Qin Xia asked.

"It's impossible to calm it down completely, but there is a way to at least get some of the people through the storm. Use the ritual dagger and the Tuchucha engine." Samus said.

"The ritual dagger is useless in my hands, and it is useless in the hands of others." Qin Xia knew that the ritual dagger could pass through the storm.

But the problem is that when this thing was handed over by Interres, Qin Xia tried to use it and found that it was useless.

Perhaps some way of activating it is needed.

Maybe this damn thing is not as user-friendly as the Tuchucha engine, and it is not meant to be used by others at all.

Samus was silent.

It obviously has nothing else to offer.

The warp storm is nothing, but the problem is that now the gods themselves have created the storm. The storm can never exist or exist forever. As long as Qin Xia enters the warp, he will always be blocked by the storm.

"Don't try to go to the Crystal Realm until you are absolutely sure." Samus gave some advice and disappeared.

Qin Xia thought that the demon would want to ask him something, or ask him to help with something, but it seemed to know that it couldn't help much so it was too embarrassed to ask and just left.

This made Qin Xia subconsciously guess Samus's motives, but he suppressed this thought as soon as it emerged.

There is no point in trying to figure out a demon's motives.

Samus does not belong to any Chaos God, and her existence itself is shrouded in many mysteries, so much so that her behavior cannot even be judged based on the concepts involved.

Qin Xia did not stop there. He found a compass in the subspace to ask for directions and headed directly to Kerr.

After passing through the curtain and entering reality, Qin Xia saw that Mortarion's fleet was staying near the orbit of the planet Kel. Countless transport planes were traveling back and forth between the planet and the fleet, taking people on the planet to the ships.

Qin Xia teleported to the command deck of the Endurance, intending to ask Mortarion why he chose to let the Kel people join the fleet. If it was for evacuation, then with the Warp storm raging now, Mortarion entering the Warp would be tantamount to seeking death.

After entering the command deck, Qin Xia suddenly saw an old acquaintance.

Uslan Eldrad.

"I predict that this star region will become a war zone, and the Keer people must be quickly transferred." Uslan was speaking to Mortarion.

Seeing Qin Xia appear, Uslan immediately left the Primarch and walked in front of Qin Xia: "You must evacuate here, gather the loyal Primarchs and legions, and then find a way to fight."

"We know what to do, the question is how to do it." Qin Xia asked, "Can you Eldar help us walk the webway?"

Hearing the words "you Eldar", Uslan smiled awkwardly but politely: "No, of course it's not us Eldar who will help you walk the webway, but I will."

Qin Xia judged from Uslan's words and his reaction when he said it that helping humans to walk the Internet Road was a great risk for Uslan.

(End of this chapter)