Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 653 Cause and Effect
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Half an hour later.

Qin Xia and Wu Wei walked along the corridor leading to the throne room.

The imperial guards who had just withdrawn from the battlefield surrounded the two men.

And those mortals, Space Marines, and human allies, the Eldar, gathered on both sides of the corridor from various locations, watching the man who had literally stopped the war.

When they reached the entrance to the throne room, the imperial guards signaled Wu Wei, the White Scar think tank, to stay outside.

He nodded to Qin Xia, then stood obediently outside the throne room.

Qin Xia followed the imperial guards into the throne room.

The Imperial Regent Guilliman, the leader of the Eldar Death Army Evelyne, as well as members of the High Lords Council of Terra, and high-ranking members of the Mechanicus of Mars... all gathered in the throne room.

Behind these high-ranking officials was a golden throne, with the withered body of the God-Emperor placed on the throne.

There are still black ashes falling around the throne...

This kind of black ash is often used as material for anti-psychic weapons. The Chulisas Assassins of the Assassin's Court would use anti-psychic weapons made of this material...if the Chulisas Assassins still exist now.

"Your Highness."

The current Lord Commander of the Custodes limped over to Guilliman and saluted.

Qin Xia stood there and silently glanced at everyone, neither bowing nor explaining anything.

He heard the High Lords whispering about their armor and psychic powers.

He saw Guilliman - the Regent with white hair and beard, his Armor of Destiny was very tattered, his face was covered with wrinkles, and his eyes were so tired that it seemed as if he could fall to the ground and sleep for ten thousand years in the next second.

"How do we know if he is a heretic?" The Pope of the State Church muttered in a low voice with bloodshot eyes.

"Are you crazy about killing? If he was a heretic, we would have been beheaded long ago."

"Hey! Why don't you just wipe out all the enemies?"

"..."

When a high lord questioned Qin Xia why he didn't kill all the enemies, Guilliman glanced sideways at the person who spoke, obviously concerned about this issue as well.

"This reality is full of subspace rifts, including the solar system and above our heads."

Qin Xia raised his index finger and pointed at the roof.

"The real universe is already riddled with holes. Psionic spells will be amplified thousands of times in this universe."

"I can wipe the entire galaxy from reality with just a thought, but you will be wiped out too."

"That's why I just paused time."

Qin Xia said as he glanced Guilliman up and down.

Guilliman took the initiative to speak: "I remember you. When I reviewed the Grey Knights, you participated in the review as a Grey Knight rookie..."

"The Primarch's memory is indeed extraordinary." Qin Xia sighed sincerely, and then went on to talk about business, "This real universe has no possibility of being saved, but you can all leave and find a place to live."

As soon as he finished speaking, Guilliman said two words that surprised Qin Xia.

"You are from another universe, right? Someone has been here before, but we cannot abandon our own universe."

Guilliman stood up from the Regent's throne and spoke loudly.

"If you also want to persuade us to leave, then you might as well do as you said and erase the entire galaxy from the real universe, including us."

Hearing this, Qin Xia looked around and found that everyone here was ready to die. He then thought that this might be the reason why they were not in the Infinite City.

"The end has come!" The Pope stood up and shouted, "The Emperor has promised that we will become one with him after death! So kill us! We will die with the heretics, but we will become one with the Emperor, and they will fall into hell!"

Even louder cheers echoed through the throne room.

Even the elves were shouting wildly, cheering words like merging into one with the God-Emperor.

"How can you be sure?" Qin Xia asked the Pope.

"Father told us himself." Guilliman walked to the Golden Throne and stroked the armrest. "After only the palace was left, Father was resurrected and stepped down from the throne. He told me about his experiences in the Warp and told me that this universe will inevitably be destroyed and that he will welcome our souls in a cold sun."

"Cold Sun?" Qin Xia immediately thought of the super subspace entity formed by all the emperors.

"Don't try to persuade us anymore." Guilliman said resolutely, "You are not the first person to persuade us. If we really wanted to become the Lost, we would have left long ago."

Qin Xia observed Guilliman for a moment, and suddenly asked about another Primarch: "Where is Lion?"

"Killed in action," Guilliman replied. "Ten years ago, at the hands of Fulgrim. Yet he still occasionally appears on the battlefield in his flame form, fighting alongside my other brothers against the traitors."

Qin Xia calculated the general situation of this universe.

Now that Warp rifts are everywhere, it can be inferred that Chaos has mastered some kind of weapon that can tear apart reality.

And when the real universe is full of holes, the fate of the real creatures in it will inevitably be the same as the place where they live - to end.

Lion died in the battle, and the other Primarchs probably died before they could return, leaving Guilliman alone.

People from the Infinite City have also been here, but the people of this universe refuse to leave because of the prophecy left by the Emperor after his resurrection not long ago...

"Okay." Qin Xia nodded, "But I have a request..."

"You want to know about your childhood." Guilliman seemed to have the ability to read minds. "You want to know why you were selected to join the Grey Knights?"

When speaking of "being added to the Grey Knights", Guilliman deliberately emphasized the word "being".

"Of course." Qin Xia nodded.

"Everyone." Guilliman glanced at everyone in the throne room, "Get out of here and go back to prepare."

After everyone started moving, Guilliman looked at Qin Xia again: "He will bring us the end."

Then everyone left, including Guilliman himself.

As he passed Qin Xia, Guilliman pointed to a letter placed on the Emperor's knees on the throne.

After everyone left, Qin Xia walked to the throne, picked up the letter and read it.

"The person who has reached the end of the world personally wrote this."

After a sentence that sounded like an opening statement, the universe was filled with things that had happened before.

Qin Xia watched and finally understood what was happening in the universe from a macroscopic perspective:
Lord Cypher and those who wished to see the Emperor reborn through death achieved their goal.

After the Great Rift opened, these men took advantage of Guilliman's Indomitable Crusade to come to Terra and assassinate the Emperor.

The Emperor died on his throne and was reborn on Terra, creating a Warp Storm that tore reality apart, which is how the rift in the Sol System came about.

After that, nothing can be undone. The real universe is in tatters, and demons can descend freely.

After his rebirth, the Emperor assisted everyone in the battle, and then told Guilliman and others something that caused the people of this universe to be unwilling to leave.

That's about the cold sun, and how everyone in this universe will become one with the cold sun after death.

In the end, the Emperor once again sat on the Golden Throne, with the goal of returning to the Cold Sun and guiding the Sun to find this real universe at the end of the world and take away all humans in this real universe.

At the end of the letter, Qin Xia saw the emperor mentioned him.

Before being killed by Lord Cypher and reborn, the Emperor learned of the Last Man, who could take the power of the Chaos Gods through trials and would also take the power of the Black King, which is why he is called the Last Man.

Before his rebirth, the Emperor's soul met the Cold Sun in the Warp, and the Sun told him that the Man of the End would appear in his universe.

The Emperor's consciousness then drifted back to tens of thousands of years ago in his universe and arranged the fate of the Man of the End so that he could be trained by the more important and powerful Grey Knights.

As a result, for unknown reasons, this man and the two Grey Knights disappeared unexpectedly.

But this person of the end will inevitably come when a universe reaches its end, in order to complete the first step of the Black King's trial and bring the entire universe to its end.

"Hiss..." Qin Xia made a doubtful sound, but put down the letter without thinking about it.

As for my joining the Grey Knights, it is a classic causal problem of "I don't know which came first, the chicken or the egg" due to the interference of the warp factors. There is no point in worrying about it.

Qin Xia thought for a moment and decided to meet Wu Wei again at the end of his life.

……

All the living people in the Terra Palace gathered with their families and gathered around the throne room, but did not enter.

Including Guilliman, the Space Marines, and the Eldar, they all surrounded the throne room and refused to enter.

Except for one person.

That was Qin Xia’s first teacher, the White Scar Storm Prophet named Wu Wei.

The master and the disciple sat opposite each other, holding their breath and concentrating - this habit of Qin Xia when resting or practicing was learned from the prophet.

"Heart...mind...peace...sake..."

Wu Wei completed the meditation with Qin Xia for the last time and exhaled a breath of foul air.

Qin Xia also opened his eyes and looked at the prophet.

"To me, the few years I trained you were just a very short episode in my thousands of years of life." Wu Wei's voice was extremely calm, "But you left the deepest impression on me... To be honest, we didn't look for you because we thought you had been staying well in the Grey Knights..."

"We all thought you would become a Grey Knight, fighting at the forefront of the Indomitus Crusade, and then when the Regent led his troops back to Terra, you would stand in the parade and parade through the streets..."

"It was not until the eve of the Battle of Terra that I met several Grey Knights Grand Masters at the time. They told me that you had disappeared long ago."

"I asked them why they wanted you to become a Grey Knight. Couldn't they foresee this outcome? They said it was the Emperor's will."

After hearing what Wu Wei said, Qin Xia immediately took over and mentioned that he was the man of the end recognized by the Emperor, and that he had the mission of bringing this universe to the end and completing the trial.

So the Emperor warned Avida, the founder of the Grey Knights, ten thousand years ago and took himself to be transformed into a Grey Knight.

However, these things only made Wu Wei feel complicated, without any sense of relief.

"I am very happy to see you grow to this point." Wu Wei slowly raised his right hand, "Don't keep everyone waiting. Bring this universe to an end, but I will let you see the ending of those you care about and those who care about you."

Qin Xia stretched his head over and pressed his forehead against Wu Wei's palm, and asked, "You don't want to leave this universe either?"

“I only want to merge with the Emperor of God, to be immortal and to slaughter those hateful traitors forever.” Wu Wei replied.

Qin Xia began to gather spiritual energy.

Some psykers outside the throne room sensed the surge of psychic energy and told others that the end was approaching.

The people in the Terra Palace leaned on each other, supported each other, or congratulated each other.

They understood what the end meant - they would end with the universe, but they, the creatures, would become one with the God-Emperor.

The chanting of the state religion members resounded throughout the palace.

Guilliman knelt together with the few surviving sons and chanted scriptures as well - he hated witchcraft, but witchcraft and idealism were the fundamental reasons why he and these people were able to survive until now.

In the throne room, Qin Xia, who was accumulating spiritual power, also saw the past through Wu Wei.

Those who played cards with him, those who just laughed it off or played dumb when he changed the cards with his psionics: those who died in the Indomitable Crusade before the Defense of Terra.

The Mechanicus priest who taught him technology in the White Scars Chapter: left when the chapter completed its legionary reorganization, and died in the battle to retake Mars launched within the Mechanicus.

The images of each person dying passed through Qin Xia's eyes.

His emotions became more and more agitated, and the spiritual power he accumulated became more and more terrifying.

"Bring the end." Wu Wei placed his other hand on Qin Xia's shoulder, "Don't suppress that power, let it out as much as you can..."

Qin Xia opened his eyes, and spiritual energy burst out from them, illuminating the entire throne room.

Next, the Terra Palace was illuminated.

The planet Terra is illuminated.

The entire solar system is illuminated.

The authority, power, and concepts that were seized after completing several trials...at this moment, were combined into a terrifying psychic attack.

The destruction that was not bound by the concepts of time and space began with the birth of Terra and spread to the surrounding solar system. The cradle of mankind and all the people in it, whether they were demons, loyalists, or rebels, were all buried in this psychic attack.

In the past and in the future, psychic attacks have spread to most of the galaxy, turning planets and life into flying snow wherever they pass... Of course, with reality riddled with holes, it is impossible for life other than demons and mutants to exist outside of Terra.

This psychic attack also promoted the influence of the subspace on the real universe when reality was riddled with holes, thus causing an even more horrific outcome.

The past, present and future, three time scales are distorted together.

The real universe has returned to its state before the Big Bang - ether.

This is the end.

After the end came, Qin Xia deliberately protected the souls of the survivors of the Terra Palace and stuffed them all into the cold sun that was gradually descending in the subspace.

Another reality universe destroyed.

The cold sun descended upon the ether left behind after the real universe came to an end.

All the demons who were about to rush to the heap of energy to feast on it saw the cold sun slowly turning, and a twisted and hideous human face appeared on the surface of the sun, followed by the roar and unwilling screams from the Emperor of the End Universe that resounded throughout the subspace.

Qin Xia went to the Infinite City after completing the first step of the Black King Trial.

(End of this chapter)