Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 634 Debate
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“Technology is a gift from the God of All Machines.”

“No one has the right to monopolize it.”

"..."

Somewhere on Mars.

Sargeras watched the projection being broadcast live from Mount Olympus.

At this time, most people on Mars were paying attention to what was happening on Mount Olympus, but for the Quadrant, Sargeras' attention was particularly meaningful.

Because Sargeras is the deputy of the current Forge General Kelbor Har, the deputy of the Deputy Forge Supervisor of Mars...

Sargeras' thirteen apprentices huddled under their red robes, observing silently with their mentor.

The Quadrant preaches on Mount Olympus.

He and the Guards behind him were bathed in the heavy rain. The rain wet the iconic red robes of the Mechanicus, but it also made the red robes and the Mechanicus symbol on them even more bright red.

When the sermon was over, the projection was turned off.

"Master." An apprentice stepped forward and saluted with a gear. "We have found a way to let the people of Mars see this sermon. Kelbor failed to prevent the information from being transmitted. It is as you wished."

Sargeras turned his head 180 degrees and looked at his apprentice. "If Quadrant had half the emotional intelligence of his mentor, he would come here to pay us respect and kneel down to show us his respect."

The apprentices nodded in agreement.

“Of course, Kelbor’s emotional intelligence is about the same as that of his apprentice named Quadrant. He just has some tricks to win people’s hearts.” Sargeras added, and suddenly chuckled, “Hehehehehe…”

“Hehehehe…” The apprentices also joined in the laughter.

Sargeras suddenly stopped laughing and interrupted the apprentices' laughter with a question: "What do you think of his sermon on Mount Olympus?"

"It's just a ridiculous statement, it's just that simple." Sargeras' favorite apprentice spoke first.

"If the Emperor's emissaries had not stood behind the Quadrant, Kelbor would have executed him on the spot for spreading lies," said another apprentice.

"It's like someone pointed out the quadrants to make him seem less stupid, but it didn't make any sense, he still did stupid things."

"..."

When the apprentices expressed their contempt for Quadrant, Sargeras turned his body 180 degrees and kept his head in the same direction: "The point is that he is still very young. If he becomes the future Forge General, the Mechanicus will not split from the Empire."

"Alongside our Imperial allies, we will remain eternally loyal to the Emperor, and to Om Messiah."

"As long as Quadrant does not peddle anti-Imperial theories and slander against the Emperor, as his mentor did, he is our ally."

The apprentices listened to their mentor's teachings and nodded at the same time and at the same frequency.

"But mentor."

An apprentice standing at the back nodded and spoke.

The large number of logic units implanted in the apprentice's brain quickly deduced the future, and the "now" was just a passing moment in his calculations.

"After defeating Kelbohar, if the Quadrant really intends to follow his new theory, then we will inevitably become the opponent of this new forging general."

"We are supporting an enemy."

The apprentice talks about the future he has deduced and his concerns about it.

Sargeras didn't care at all: "That is just an internal conflict of the new Mechanicus who are absolutely loyal to the Emperor, not a confrontation between us and a traitor like Kelber."

The apprentice nodded.

When the apprentices were discussing the future of the Mechanicus with their mentor, with more emphasis on the interests of the Emperor and the Empire in their words, the door was suddenly pushed open.

Two people walked in.

One of them was particularly conspicuous. She was one of the few people on Mars who was keen on preserving her biological body like Kaur. The bronze armor outlined her graceful figure. As soon as she walked into the room, the pleasant smell of perfume emanating from her body spread, and was analyzed by other people's olfactory analyzers as a rose olfactory factor.

Her name is Zeth, and she has a good relationship with the person in the projection that Sargeras just saw, that is, the Quadrant.

Standing next to Zeth was the current deputy of the Forge General, Deputy Forge Supervisor, Kane, and the leader of the most powerful force among Kelborhar's opponents.

The sudden appearance of the two did not break the relaxed atmosphere created by the conversation. Sargeras immediately saluted to Cain, to whom he was loyal.

"The Sigillite commands us to assist the Quadrant, so we must assist him, no matter what he does in the future... as long as it is the Emperor's will."

Kane walked into the room and spoke to everyone.

"Besides, in my opinion, the quadrant will compromise, give in, and change," Kane added.

Since both Kane and Zeth have a relationship with Kelborhar, they have also witnessed Quadrant becoming an apprentice and growing up.

So when Kane makes a judgment about the quadrant and Zeth remains silent, his words have authority over the logical unit.

"Hum hum……"

Cairne's deputy Sargeras snorted with laughter again.

“That’s my opinion, too.”

"The only difference between Quadrant and Kelborhar on an experiential level will be his allegiance to the Emperor."

"Kelbor Har Quadrant in the service of the Emperor."

……

The Olympus Sermon ends.

A transport plane flew in the sky, and a sage got off it.

The sage said something to the pilgrims, and then someone who absolutely supported the quadrant walked towards the quadrant: "We can go to Olympus to replenish supplies."

Hearing this, Quadrant turned and looked outside Mount Olympus.

There is a huge forging city in sight, with countless forges distributed within it.

This is the largest, most magnificent and oldest forging city on the entire Mars.

Some people say that the very center of the Forge City is where the Emperor descended, others say that the mountain on this side of the Forge City is where the Emperor descended. Anyway, history is too long and the truth has been lost in the long river of history.

Quadrant originally wanted to refuse, but considering that the pilgrims were too large and the supplies were running out, he nodded and agreed.

The pioneers of the pilgrimage team headed towards the city of Olympus first.

Then the entire pilgrim team rushed over.

The Quadrant and the Custodes did not go with the others, but stayed where they were.

Just when almost everyone had left, Kelbohar suddenly appeared in front of the quadrant alone.

And the Kelbo in front of him is the reason why the Quadrant is unwilling to go to Olympus - the city of Olympus is Kelbo's territory. In Qin Xia's words, it is the birthplace of Kelbohal.

"Quadrant." Kelbo did not disgust the person in front of him again, but just made a gesture of invitation, "Shall we talk?"

Quadrant did not avoid and followed Kelbo to the center of the mountain.

A storm was raging on Mars, and the air was filled with toxic industrial dust and red sand. Kelber turned his back to the quadrant and watched the storm.

His whole demeanor no longer gave Quadrant the feeling that he was superior to him. He no longer called him an apprentice, nor did he insult him like he had done every time they met before.

"Here comes the tyrant."

Kelber turned and pointed down.

The Forge General himself admitted a mystery, that is, the place where the Emperor descended was not the city of Olympus, but this mountain.

"I witnessed it with my own eyes thousands of years ago."

Kelber continued.

"That damn deceiver, tyrant, in the rainstorm created by psychic sorcery..."

It was still raining.

Kelbo stretched out his right hand to catch the falling raindrops. He paused for a second before suddenly clenching his fist, and water drops splashed in his hand.

"In the midst of the rainstorm, the tyrant maintained a false and glorious image, with an olive branch in his outstretched hand and a dagger in his hand behind his back."

"His gentle and tolerant words concealed murderous intent: Submit to me, otherwise I will destroy your country with a war, take away everything you have accumulated, and turn you into dust. But if you submit, I can promise you false autonomy and prosperity."

Speaking of this, Kelbohar seemed to recall things from his youth.

I remembered... how he was just an unknown technician when the Emperor came, and then he grew up and gradually gained power.

"After that, Mars served the tyrant's absurd goals. Countless people had to struggle and work in hell from birth. The fundamental reason was not that the management of the Mechanicus under my rule had any evil taste, but that they could not satisfy the tyrant's exploitation of Mars without working hard."

Kelbo finished speaking and waited for the quadrant to give him a response.

Quadrant felt that Kelbo was now equal to him in both attitude and language, as if he was talking to an opponent or ally, rather than a pet who said, "No matter how many times I abuse you, you will still roll over if I pout at you."

This is not an illusion.

At this time, Kelbo was quite in agreement with the Quadrant, not because the Quadrant came to Mars to seize power with the support of Terra and powerful local forces on Mars, but because he saw the intention behind the Quadrant's expression of religious views, an activity that should never be carried out when power did not fall into its hands.

"you are lying."

The quadrant stared calmly at the casting general.

"In the age of the Warp Storm, Moravec came to Mars and announced on Mount Olympus that a prophet would descend on Mars in the future."

"Thousands of years later, the Emperor arrived as predicted."

"He performed the miracle of repairing the Titan on a rainy night. Even if the rainy night and the repair of the Titan were both possible to be caused by psychic power, he came as Moravec predicted. This is the most important thing."

"And just as the prophecy said, the Emperor is a brilliant leader. I didn't see him holding a dagger in one hand and extending a hypocritical olive branch with the other as you said... He wanted to carry out the Webway Project and urgently complete the revival of mankind. No matter what Mars' attitude was at the time, his means would never be robbery."

At this time, the quadrant is talking about history.

Moravec prophecy.

The Emperor has arrived.

Because of the prophecy in the past, the Emperor's arrival on Mars was considered the prophet in the prophecy. Of course, the Emperor did not say it directly, but even if he did not say it, there were quite a few people in the Mechanicus who believed that the Emperor was the Messiah Prophet of Om.

Otherwise, it would be useless to come all the way from Terra and use psychic powers to play tricks... Martians are not fools.

"Heh." Kelbo suddenly laughed and looked at the imperial guards behind the quadrant.

The Forge General told the Emperor to his face that he was a tyrant and how hypocritical his actions were. He didn't even look at the Imperial Guards, including Cole, and was in a completely showdown attitude.

But it really doesn’t matter, because Kelber’s attitude towards the Emperor is not only known to everyone, but also known to everyone.

"Then why can't Moravec be the tyrant in disguise?" asked Kelber.

"Moravec is a saint. If you think he is the Emperor in disguise, then..." Quadrant fell silent halfway through his words.

That would mean that a large part of the Mechanicus would be denied.

Because Moravec has a theory: the unity of man and machine.

This is the foundation of most of the religious theories of the Mechanicus today.

The reason why most people in the Mechanicus are obsessed with physical transformation and mechanical enhancement is because of this ancient theory, not because Martians have special XP and like mechanical men or women.

"Haha. Maybe everything was just a lie?" Kelber said with a smile, "Our fate was doomed from the beginning. We sacrificed ourselves for a tyrant's absurd goal under lies. And while sacrificing, haha, we thought we had a mission. But it turned out to be just a lie."

Kelbo laughed as he spoke, but his expression was distorted and he looked like he was crying.

"They are all lies. There is no Om Messiah Prophet. Our faith only has the God of All Machines and the Original Power. What do you think?"

"It's possible that there is no God of All Things, the original power."

"We were all played, just like them."

Cole saw the Casting General suddenly pointing at him.

"A bunch of fools who keep talking about my Lord."

"Born into a noble family of Terra, the Terrans have fed their blood and sweat to these pig-brains, and in turn, they have been deceived into death by these people with their ridiculous words of liberation, salvation, and rise."

"This bunch of golden-skinned lackeys followed a tyrant who didn't even know if he was human. They literally peed all over the galaxy like dogs, marking their territory, claiming that this was theirs, that was theirs, Mars was theirs, and a planet thousands of light years away was also theirs."

At this point, Kelber looked at Cole's indifferent expression and waved his hand frivolously: "Ohm Messiah, Moravec, they are all lies, all bullshit."

"Shut up!" Quadrant's words finally had a ripple, but that was the result of the sound being amplified and spreading throughout Mount Olympus.

Kelber was really stopped from speaking nonsense and blasphemous words after being yelled at.

After a brief silence, Kelber pointed to the quadrant, "Do you know why I chose you to be my apprentice? Before we sever our relationship."

"Because you want to use me!"

"No, because I think you and I are very similar. We both grew up in the same hell, and we were both unlucky little kids. When I looked at you, it was like seeing myself. As for your talents and abilities later on, that can only be called an unexpected bonus."

The quadrant was stunned.

"You are my most outstanding apprentice, without a doubt. If your dear friend could spare a moment from shaping the rainstorm and read my mind, he would find that I do think so."

Kelber continued.

"I sent you away from Mars because I found that you were fooled like the other fools. You really believed the hypocritical tyrant's words."

"So I want you to leave Mars and see the Milky Way, to see what kind of life the other places in the Milky Way that are under his rule are living. They have become a hell that is even more vicious than the current Mars."

"And you now... Tsk, it doesn't matter. You will follow the same path as me. Even if I die, you will, like me, prevent Mars from being completely controlled by the tyrant."

At the last sentence, Kelber looked around and chuckled.

Captain Cole of the Shield Guards finally responded: "Is this a ridiculous curse, Kelbor Har? Are you so incompetent as to use a curse to distort the path of the future Forging General? Are you so incompetent as to beg the apprentice who has severed ties with you to inherit your will? To make the Mechanicus truly independent?"

"There's still a long way to go," Kalbohar said with a smile.

When Quadrant was about to refute again, the Casting General suddenly disappeared.

(End of this chapter)