Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 188 Psychic Battleship
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Inside the library.

The pendant lights on the ceiling make the library look like there is a layer of glowing liquid flowing on the floor.

Qin Xia sat cross-legged in the fluorescent light with his eyes closed.

Quadrant and Brown were either sitting or lying in front of Qin Xia.

The two men's duties are to record and ensure that various parts of the warship respond immediately when orders need to be conveyed quickly.

But Qin Xia has not made any movement.

The quadrant's arthropod-like chassis lay on the ground, its electronic eyes staring straight at Qin Xia.

Brown's eyes were fixed on the plate-wrapped porthole.

The White Knight is traveling through the Warp, heading for the next system on the edge of the Onus Sector.

Brown retracted his gaze and looked at the quadrant, sensing how many implants there were in the quadrant, and occasionally making some fine adjustments to the implants that the quadrant itself could not perceive and that did not have much impact.

"Ready to record."

Qin Xia suddenly spoke.

The Quadrant's servo skull immediately floated over at the master's command.

This is a skull specially used for recording orders. A roll of imperial official writing paper is installed on the removed lower jaw, which is the most formal form of recording and sending orders.

From Qin Xia's subjective perspective, he could not see the quadrant, Brown, or the interior of the library.

He closed his eyes but was able to look around, and saw himself floating cross-legged in a turbulent space, with chaos everywhere.

Soon, Qin Xia saw another person sitting cross-legged in front of him.

That was the astropath of the Resolute.

The Astropath closed his eyes tightly.

Angron stood behind the astropath and put his hand on the astropath's shoulder, using this method to communicate with Qin Xia across astronomical distances.

"Onus... Onus! Sector... Sector! Onus——"

Qin Xia's voice sounded vague to the astropath.

The sound was like the growl of some ferocious beast.

Chaotic, majestic and extremely impactful.

As the conversation began, the Astropath seemed to be swept by a gust of wind, his whole body trembling and his clothes floating.

The severe pain in his brain made the Astropath grit his teeth and persevere in agony.

This is all due to Qin Xia's amazing spiritual power.

But what Qin Xia said sounded extremely clear to Angron.

"The situation in the Onus sector is critical. Most of the soldiers of the Eighteenth Legion have lost contact with their Primarch Vulkan."

"Too hasty. The greenskin invasion was too sudden. They didn't have much time to prepare. They could only disperse to various parts of the star region and find ways to evacuate the locals."

"But judging from the fact that there are no ships to pick up the Space Marines and civilians in this world, the Eighteenth Legion's fleet is probably fighting a fierce battle with the Greenskin fleet."

The words Qin Xia said were transmitted to Angron's consciousness in an instant.

Angron's words were also instantly transmitted to Qin Xia through the astropath.

"Please help the XVIII Legion evacuate the Space Marines and civilians, Father."

"The Legion fleet will arrive soon, and we will be the first to support the Eighteenth Legion."

“But we still need time.”

"The Eighteenth Legion's battle line can only be reduced...if they still have a battle line. Giving up most of the worlds is inevitable, even if I lead the legion to arrive."

"But as long as we can retain the Space Marines and civilians, once I and the other brothers arrive, we can launch a counterattack and recapture worlds one by one, and the Onus Sector will be able to resume normal operations."

Angron's brain was working rapidly, and he had already analyzed the situation in the Onus star region from Qin Xia's words.

The greenskin invasion was so fierce and powerful that the 18th Legion was forced to fight hastily, but it was impossible for them to abandon the civilians, so the legion soldiers were very scattered.

Under such circumstances, it would be impossible to defend against the enemy at the border of the Onus sector. The situation could even be worse, and humans must be prepared to lose most of the world.

The only way is to survive and hold out until all the reinforcements arrive.

At that time, Perturabo's Fourth Legion will set up a defense line in the world that the greenskins have not yet touched to resist the greenskins' offensive.

Ferrus Manus's Iron Hands Legion, Fulgrim's Emperor's Children Legion, plus the World Eaters... As a counterattack force, it doesn't matter what order they arrive, as long as they are there.

This should also be the emperor's idea.

The key still lies in Perturabo. The greenskin offensive is so powerful that it would be difficult to establish an effective defense relying solely on the 12th and 18th Legions.

After a moment of thought, Angron sighed, "I hope Perturabo won't do anything troublesome right now and arrives soon."

"He should be looking forward to fighting alongside you, so he will definitely come over soon." Qin Xia said after thinking for a while.

Angron recalled the photo shoot on Novsendak V and felt that his father was right, but Perturabo's behavior was impossible to predict...

"Anyway, I will help the 18th Legion gather its troops and evacuate civilians like a guerrilla fighter," Qin Xia said. "Please come as soon as the legion fleet is resupplied... I'm really worried that I'll fail here."

“We will be there in a week,” Angron responded quickly. “Be careful, father.”

Qin Xia nodded and opened his eyes.

Communication ends.

"The legion will arrive in a week." Qin Xia looked up at the quadrant and said quickly, "Before that, we will help the Eighteenth Legion gather its troops and evacuate civilians."

Quadrant looked toward the servoskull.

The document paper mounted on the skull quickly extended downward, printing out a short command.

In fact, Qin Xia can do whatever he wants, but some orders still have to be recorded and go through the process, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with the Imperial War Committee.

"Surprise inspection!" Qin Xia suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Brown, "Bai..."

"It's a psychological term." Brown spread his hands helplessly. "I'm not a member of the think tank. Why are you conducting a surprise inspection on me?"

"I asked you to conduct a surprise inspection of the White Knight's gun deck and void shield maintenance team." Qin Xia frowned and said, "We are likely to fight a void war next. Use your invincible stone man ability to quickly check the ship's condition."

Brown became serious and immediately walked out of the library.

The quadrants also had similar responsibilities, so they followed them out. …

The White Knight jumped out of the warp and entered the real universe, arriving at one of the border galaxies on the star map where Onus was invaded by greenskins.

The scanner immediately scanned the galaxy.

Librarians use psychic vision to assist in gathering information.

"There is only one habitable world in the system, and the Space Marines of the Eighteenth Legion have already evacuated the local civilians."

"The Eighteenth Legion's warship is being besieged by two Ork Barbarian warships!"

"Friendly warships are asking for help. They said that the Space Marines and evacuated civilians are all on the only warship!"

"..."

Varis and some people on the command deck reported the situation one after another.

Qin Xia stood in front of the tactical table with his hands behind his back, silent.

The White Knights' chief think tank, Varis, stood beside Qin Xia, silently waiting for the order that he expected would be issued.

On the other side of the tactical table, the captain stared at the battle situation presented on the holographic image.

The 18th Legion cruiser was besieged by two green warships.

Human ships are not particularly beautiful, but compared to the green ships, they are so exquisite and beautiful that they look like works of art.

The two greenskin ships, one looked like a fish with a big mouth, and the other looked like a rectangular box with a greenskin head embedded in the front.

Qin Xia thought that these two ships seemed abstract compared to the green-skinned ships ten thousand years later.

"Approach the friendly ship, and the gun deck gun crews on both sides must ensure that the macro guns are in the ready state."

"Yes, my lord."

After giving the order, the captain continued to stare at the holographic projection on the tactical table, and couldn't help but sigh: "This ship looks even cruder than the building blocks my son built, but it can still operate normally... I really want to go in and see what it looks like inside."

"Varis, prepare the portal." Qin Xia spoke immediately.

"No, no." The captain shook his head vigorously, "That's what I said."

"Whether you go or not, I have to prepare the portal." Qin Xia turned slowly and looked at the two enemy ships in the distance. "I have come up with a trick to use psychic spells to assist warships in fighting in the void recently. Now it's a good opportunity to try it out on the enemy."

Varis saluted and closed his eyes.

The Chief Librarian entered into psychic vision, gaining more information, his sight piercing the fabric of reality, observing everything from a perspective different from all personal perspectives.

There are ten think tanks on each of the three decks, upper, middle and lower.

The think tanks on each deck are scattered, from the bow to the stern of the ship. They look very scattered, but in fact they are all held together by psychic energy.

Psychic light flows around the White Knight ship.

All the think tanks brought by Qin Xia formed a living psychic structure similar to mechanical parts.

Just like a magic circle, the think tanks are the core of the circle.

All it takes is the presence of a powerful psyker to churn reality through the Librarians.

To stir reality in deeper, more surprising ways.

"Surprise test!" Qin Xia suddenly asked, "Excuse me..."

"White Knight is a psychological term!" Varis opened his eyes, held his head high and answered loudly.

"Ahem." Qin Xia cleared his throat, pretending not to hear, and continued to ask, "Excuse me, if a psychic wants to propel a ship, what should he do under normal circumstances?"

The captain looked at Varis.

He knew he didn't understand, but he just wondered and wanted to listen.

"To use psychic energy to propel a ship, the most basic way under normal circumstances is to use psychic energy to release enough force to propel the ship." Varis still held his head high and answered seriously.

"Yes."

Qin Xia nodded.

"I want to propel the ship. Normally, I can only do as Varis said. But psionic energy is a complex spiritual energy that comes from a spiritual dimension. Its operation effect is affected by many factors."

"For example, is the current reality structure of the galaxy stable and solid? If it is, then the effect of the psychic spell will not be as expected. On the contrary, the psychic can easily do things that cannot be done under a stable reality structure."

"This is a complicated matter, but we don't necessarily need to do what we want to do directly. We can be more roundabout and tactful."

Qin Xia raised his hand.

Varis closed his eyes again.

The chief think tank saw a white psionic energy shining and overflowing on the command deck.

Then the psychic energy rushed to all parts of the ship, along the positions of the think tanks, and along the connections between the think tanks.

The White Knight's speed suddenly increased by more than two times.

This is not like when Qin Xia forcibly pushed the Hound's Tooth out of the subspace. It is not equivalent to the psychic power turning into an invisible big hand that directly grasps the ship and moves it quickly. Instead, it is equivalent to a part or organ that can be used to increase the speed growing inside the ship, thereby speeding up the speed.

"What I am releasing now is not enough to propel the ship, but to pull the think tank's psychic energy, like a formation, to increase the speed of this battleship."

Qin Xia said again.

Varis understood this teaching-like speech.

Along the way, Qin Xia studied these things with the think tanks, not only to increase the speed of the ship, but also to use psychic energy to assist the ship in void combat.

At its core, there is only one purpose - to study psychic power and find more efficient and safer ways to use psychic power.

Under this purpose, forcibly creating psychic power sufficient to propel the ship would be a waste. Although this approach may seem like a shortcut, it is indeed convenient and useful.

"Hiss..." The captain slapped the back of his head and grinned in confusion, "Then you asked the chief think tank to prepare to open the portal... What does that mean?"

Qin Xia walked up to the captain.

The captain looked up at Qin Xia's face, his desire for knowledge evident in his words.

Qin Xia raised his right hand and placed it on the captain's head, then gently turned the captain from facing himself to facing the tactical table.

"You're not a psyker!"

"Just focus on commanding the battle!"

(End of this chapter)