Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 565 Absolute Rationality

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Eleven galaxies.

There were still two months until the Battle of Chemos.

within subspace.

Primarch No. 11 is in a stranded warship.

All the crew members on the battleship had been killed.

Geller stand is out of service.

Subspace creatures flashed all over the ship, biting, fighting, or doing all kinds of things that seemed unreasonable and extremely terrifying to creatures in the real universe.

The command deck where No. 11 was located had been completely turned into flesh. His offspring, his naval officers, his alien brothers... these people or creatures who had accompanied him for many years made up the flesh and blood deck. Their heads were hung in front of No. 11 by tentacles, and they kept wailing.

Number 11 was wrapped in a cage made of flesh and blood. He looked calm, blinking his eyes, and was extremely cool.

Judging from his reaction alone, Eleven seemed to be in a daze. Only those who could integrate their psychic energy into their vision and observe the essence could find that the Primarch was suffering torture.

Flesh infected by the virus of Nurgle.

Every cell of the original body was endowed with senses and self-awareness, as if No. 11's body had turned into hell, with countless No. 11s in his body being tortured in hell, and the pain generated was shared and resonated.

The physical pain reached such a level that it was unbearable even for the Primarch.

But what is more terrible is the torture of the soul.

In the Realm of Slaanesh and the Realm of Khorne, No. 11's soul was tormented repeatedly.

The evil god whispered in his ear.

Give him punishment and pleasure.

The duration of torment at the soul level is - eternal, infinite.

But until the four gods were tired, No. 11 still had no reaction. Not only did he not give in, he didn't even seem to feel pain.

"Why don't you react?"

A blue demon appeared on the command deck, pacing the flesh and asking questions.

"Because I know that the pain and suffering will eventually end, and I will not be controlled by you forever. According to the various judgments and calculations I have made, there is a high probability that I will be rescued or killed."

Number Eleven's voice was cold and calm.

Physical or spiritual pain is just a feeling for Eleven. In Eleven's view, "feeling" is meaningless, and even wailing or struggling because of painful feelings is meaningless. It will consume physical or mental strength and waste the mental and physical strength that should have been used at the critical moment.

Although he was still suffering, No. 11 had already started thinking: If someone came to rescue him, how much mental and physical strength he would be able to have at that time, and how he should cooperate.

"It's just wishful thinking." The devil sneered, "How dare you still wish someone could help you in this situation?"

"It's all possible." said Eleven.

The devil was helpless.

The gods were helpless against Eleven.

Finally, at a certain point, all the torture inflicted on Eleven's body dissipated.

The blue demon is still here, but it has become a spokesperson for the Chaos God.

The demon hands Eleven a mirror.

"What is this?" Number Eleven took the mirror.

"You can use your absolute rationality to come up with the absolutely correct answer, so... stop trying to get words out of me."

"..."

Number Eleven fell silent, sitting on the flesh and looking at the mirror.

He called upon his own powers.

Innate strength.

Just like Angron, who discovered his true nature while navigating the Warp, did not resist the power of his nature, Eleven did not resist either. When he discovered that he could become stronger by contacting something familiar in the Warp, and that there was no harm in contact, he chose to contact and even merge the two into one.

All the foggy difficulties were broken through, allowing No. 11 to directly observe the essence of the object in his hand.

This is an ancient creation, created by the most brilliant race in the galaxy, and it can be used to answer all questions and get to the truth.

After the birth of the God of Chaos, this mirror was given a certain concept and became a collection of the God of Chaos, to which the concept belonged. This concept is "truth".

After sensing everything, Eleven asked: "Even the truth is one of Tzeentch's powers?"

Number Eleven in the mirror nodded.

"Why?" asked Eleven.

"The truth is often covered up by lies, but the truth is often needed by people. Around the truth, real people are engaged in a huge game that spans the past and the future." No. 11 in the mirror answered.

Eleven put down the mirror and looked at the demon: "You are the incarnation of Tzeentch, puppet, you are representing it now, right?"

The demon nodded like a real creature.

"Will you kill me?"

"No, of course not. I can't kill you at all. At most I can only destroy your body... As long as you tell me that you want to leave, I will let you return to the real universe right now."

When the puppet controlled by Tzeentch personally promised to "send him back", No. 11 did not immediately ask to go back.

The Primarch lowered his head and looked into the mirror: "Take me to a place where I can know the truth."

"Go to the Well of Eternity," said the Primarch in the mirror. "Let Tzeentch take you there, and there you will learn things that even the Chaos Gods do not know."

The Primarch looked at the demon and said, "Take me to the Well of Eternity."

The surrounding environment changes rapidly.

No. 11 and the demon came to the most core and forbidden place in the realm of Tzeentch, which is the Well of Eternity.

Number Eleven in the mirror explained what the Well of Eternity was. It was a place that existed in the center of Tzeentch's domain, but did not belong to Tzeentch.

It connects the past and the future, and has an elusive power.

Tzeentch himself did not dare to enter the Well of Eternity to find out what was inside, so he threw his great demon Carlos into it. After Carlos came back, he became a demon with two heads, one head only told the truth, and the other head only told lies. They could see the past and the future respectively, but could not see the present.

"The truth lies within," said the demon.

Number Eleven came to the Well of Eternity and stepped on the edge of the well.

"You are committing suicide." The devil stopped No. 11.

"I will not sacrifice myself for the truth." Number Eleven stood on the edge, looking down into the Well of Eternity.

He saw nothing.

He saw everything.

The most fundamental reason for such a contradictory situation is change, which is unpredictable and has no certainty.

Just like fate.

But just by standing next to the Well of Eternity and looking down at it, No. 11 saw the essence through the contradictory phenomena and gained a lot.

The demons on the side, and Tzeentch who controlled the demons, realized that the Well of Eternity was responding to Number Eleven.

Tzeentch tried to find out how it responded to Eleven, but even with his power he could not find anything through the foggy waves in the Well of Eternity. He could only stand aside and observe Eleven's reaction.

Number 11 seemed to be elevated to a transcendent existence in a short period of time.

He can go wherever he wants.

You can watch whatever you want.

Everything in the real universe and the subspace is like a book that can be freely taken and read by No. 11.

Number Eleven first saw the origin of Qin Xia.

Qin Xia suddenly appeared in the subspace. No one knew where he came from. He just fell towards the real universe after he appeared. When the thought of "I belong to the real universe" emerged unconsciously in his mind, a child who looked like Qin Xia when he was young was born in the real universe.

This child has no past, no future, only the present.

Qin Xia entered the real universe and became one with the child, just like the merging of soul and body, but the feeling No. 11 got from the Well of Eternity told him that it was not the merging of soul and body.

After that, Qin Xia's experience went from ordinary to extraordinary, with psychic talent, the White Scars, and time travel...

A future timeline that could not possibly become the future was presented to No. 11. Only then did he understand why Qin Xia was particularly concerned about Primarchs such as Angron and Perturabo.

Number Eleven looked at the Emperor again.

The Emperor's past is revealed within the Well of Eternity.

A child born in Asia, crushed the heart of his uncle who murdered his father at his father's funeral, and then tried to change human society, trying every means, whether it was faith, power, truth, or any other means... all failed.

Number Eleven also saw the Emperor's past, which seemed like a split personality.

The Emperor was not always a cruel tyrant. He was cowardly and mean at times, and strong and brave at other times. He was a witty, tough guy. In short, the Emperor's growth process was extremely long.

For fun, he had done some pretty obscene things, such as pretending to be a woman who had adopted two orphans and chatting up passers-by on the street. When he was discovered by a former immortal partner who passed by, he awkwardly explained that it was not easy for him to raise two boys. In the end, he became angry and told the immortal partner to either take care of the business or get out.

The Emperor had even visited the Eldar Webway City.

Whenever the Emperor showed a certain character at a certain stage in history, this character would gradually disappear over decades or hundreds of years, until the Emperor eventually became a cold-blooded overlord who only thought about playing big chess.

For an ordinary Primarch, these experiences would make him disenchanted with the Emperor. For example, Perturabo despised the Emperor when he realized how outrageous things this cold-blooded father had done for fun.

But No. 11 wouldn’t, because he didn’t have any filters on the Emperor.

Number Eleven is more concerned with what the Emperor did afterwards.

The Emperor went to a place called the Moro Star Gate and entered the Warp to make a deal with the Four Gods. The Four Gods helped him find some powerful Warp entities, but the Emperor eventually took those entities away by force.

Only then did No. 11 know the origins of himself and his brothers.

After reviewing the Emperor's past, No. 11 looked at many things in Kia Space.

Including what kind of existence the Four Gods are, what kind of power they possess, and what functions they have.

After checking everything, No. 11 left the Well of Eternity and thought carefully.

He is comparing the real universe and the subspace.

Compare humans, Eldar, Necrons and many other real creatures and warp creatures.

Put your perspective higher than that of the Emperor to look at the great crusade that the brothers are currently carrying out and the ultimate fate of the human empire.

"Everything will inevitably return to chaos," said Eleven calmly, "Only those who adapt to the future can survive."

When Tzeentch heard this, he realized that his strategy had succeeded.

There is no need to torture, corrupt, or force No. 11... You only need to show him the most real things, and he will make a judgment based on absolute rationality.

"Let me out of here," Eleven demanded.

Everything around me disappears.

No. 11 returned to the battleship, and the battleship's subspace engine started, bringing him back to the real universe.

In a certain galaxy, the patrol fleet of the 11th Legion discovered the battleship, and the Space Marines entered it and rescued the Father of Genes.

The fleets of the XI Legion and the Imperial Fists were piled up in the system.

Rogal Dorn finally met his brother number 11 again.

He did not blame No. 11 for setting an example by personally leading a warship through the warp storm in order to allow the fleet to launch a suicide reconnaissance operation. He just told No. 11 something.

"The Eldar aliens have been here."

"We can use the Webway to get through the storm and support Mortarion and Corax as they fight Fulgrim."

(End of this chapter)