Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 275 The Last Resort

Qin Xia, who had been anxiously standing outside Geller's position, was finally able to enter the battleship.

But this is not a good thing, because the failure of Geller's position and engine means that the battleship will be paralyzed in the subspace, and it will be paralyzed here without any protection.

At the same time, Avida got up from the ground, and after seeing the situation around him, he immediately raised a barrier to resist the impending invasion of the subspace creatures.

"My Lord!" The blue bird stood up and rushed towards Avida, standing behind his master and releasing psychic power to assist Avida.

Arvida glanced at Bluebird.

From a crow to a big bird with wings on its back, holding a scepter and covered with blue hair... this change is really shocking.

Arvida felt that something was wrong, but now he was anxious to get to Asar's side. A warp creature had already set its sights on Asar, and Bluebird had helped him in the first place. He also knew that this was his own spirit, so he did not respond immediately...

As Avida held up the barrier and rushed towards Asar, the blue bird suddenly stretched out its sharp claws and pierced Avida's heart.

No blood flowed.

No wounds appeared.

It was as if two objects were superimposed in an impossible way, with the claws and chest overlapping each other.

Even so, Avida was in so much pain that she couldn't make a sound.

He could still feel that something had been destroyed by his own spirit, but it was not something visible such as his flesh and blood body, armor and equipment, but his soul, consciousness... or something similar that had been destroyed.

"My servant..." The barrier maintained by Avida dissipated in an instant. He gasped in pain and looked at his servant in disbelief.

This elf who saved him many times, taught him many things, and even told him stories and covered him with quilts when he first joined the legion... A smile appeared on that distorted face: "Servant? You should call me Demon Lord!"

Then some information came into Avida's mind.

It was a show-off reveal of the mystery.

The crow... no, it's a demon. Its master is not a real creature named Avida, but a being called the Lord of Change.

Creatures like it are called Lords of Change, servants of the Lord of Change.

It is very powerful, and a servant as powerful as it is just one of countless servants.

Avida, whose soul and vitality were fading, didn't care about the truth. He first took a look at Asar's condition. When he saw that Asar had just fainted and was not eaten by the warp creatures, he immediately prepared to release a spell.

But in front of a great demon like the Lord of Change, Avida's psychic spells would have no effect.

"Do you remember that I was the one who taught you?" The terrifying voice of the Lord of Change was accompanied by a sinister laugh of success.

Avida racked his brains to get out, but everything happened too fast and too suddenly, almost in an instant, and at the same time, the loss of his soul and vitality made it impossible for him to remain sane.

But an asteroid fell from the sky and smashed the demon and the battleship down.

The sharp claws pulled out of Avida's heart. The latter was exhausted and fell to the ground. He raised his head and saw Qin Xia's back.

Qin Xia's body was somewhat illusory, so the one who appeared here was obviously not his real body.

Now is not the time to worry about where the main body is.

Qin Xia erected a psychic barrier that included Avida and Asar. Then, without saying a word, he held his breath and remained alert to his surroundings.

The asteroid that just hit the big demon was thrown by him, but in the subspace, this level of attack is obviously not enough to defeat a big demon.

Sure enough, the Demon Lord of Change soon appeared in front of Qin Xia again.

The Great Demon looked at Qin Xia and waved his scepter to condense a psychic storm that was large enough to encompass several galaxies in the real universe.

Qin Xia put his palms together, and when the storm was about to rush towards him, he compressed the big demon and the psychic storm it had condensed into the size of a palm. Then he waved his hands to summon two asteroids, and squeezed the compressed big demon between the two asteroids.

Any psychic in the real universe would find this scene incredible.

Whether it was Qin Xia or the Great Demon, they both burst out at this moment with terrifying power that was enough to destroy several galaxies in the real universe with just a thought.

But no matter how strong you are in the subspace, it is fake.

Just like a fish can swim in water, if it can jump a few times when thrown onto land, it is considered tenacious.

Seeing that he had delayed the big demon, Qin Xia felt that the situation was not as serious and difficult to deal with as he had imagined, and he suddenly became less serious.

"Qin Xia?" Avida called out, "Is it you?"

"Then who do you expect to help you? Cardo Diego?" Qin Xia said unhappily.

Just now, Qin Xia thought that Kaldor, the legendary Grey Knight who caused trouble in the Warp, might really appear. After all, there is no time in the Warp... But obviously Avida did not have such good luck.

"No... What I want to ask is, was the sudden psychic shock just now caused by you?" Avida asked.

"No." Qin Xia was sure.

The psychic impact just now did not come from the devil, nor from Avida or Qin Xia himself.

But although the psychic shock paralyzed the engine and Geller's position, it delayed the invasion of the subspace creatures and was a last resort.

Plus, it was golden psychic energy.

Qin Xia could guess with his toes that this was the emperor's work.

The big devil appeared again and interrupted Qin Xia's thoughts.

The man and the demon fought again.

The two sides fought until the warp storm gathered, the planet collapsed, and some of the strange landscapes in the warp were wiped out.

Avida could only worry as he watched the frightening battle scene. Unable to find any help, he rushed towards Asar and dragged Asar into a small wreckage of a battleship within the psychic barrier.

When Avida calmed down and observed his brother, he saw that Asar's mutation not only did not improve at all, but became more serious.

Feathers have begun to grow on its body... and it is becoming more and more similar to the ghost thing that calls itself the Lord of Change.

But this change was not permanent, the surface of Asar's body continued to change, but no matter how you looked at it, it seemed to be able to form wings and feathers.

"Brother..." Avida tried to call.

Fortunately, Asar still had some self-awareness left.

"You almost killed me." All the mouths on Asar opened at the same time, "You almost killed me! Avida! If it weren't for that psychic shock, I would have been taken away by those abominable things! I would never be freed!"

Anger filled Asar's soul.

At the moment when he was almost taken away by those horrifying creatures that descended upon his head, he felt a lot of things. He couldn't explain the specific dangers he felt, but his intuition told him that if he was really taken away, his end would be neither able to live nor to die.

Avida took off his helmet and wiped away his tears, wanting to tell him everything that the demon had just forced him to perceive.

"Let's go."

Asar's mutated body slowly stood up, and his hands, which had turned into bird claws, tried to find the grenade launcher, before he remembered that his armor had been swallowed by the flesh and blood.

"I can help you while I can still..."

Asar stopped fumbling for the gun and just moved his new limbs quickly, trying to adapt to this body quickly.

The subspace creatures had just been dispersed by the battle between Qin Xia and the big demon. As the man and the demon fought further and further away, they now swooped back.

Asar moved his body and tried to make a swinging motion, obviously trying to help Avida delay some time.

Arvida could also realize that Asar's sanity was almost worn out, because there was no escape now, this was the warp, it was obvious.

"I can never leave." Avida placed one hand on his temple, strengthening the psychic barrier that Qin Xia had just cast, and then pointed to his heart, "I feel a part of my soul flowing out from here. Even if I can leave, I can't survive. You know that the loss of the soul is more terrible than mutation..."

Asar wanted to say something, but Arvida continued speaking eagerly. "Listen to me, brother."

"I have another method, a method that I think has a success rate that is infinitely close to zero... But, as you can see from the current situation, the attempt that I thought had the best chance of success has failed."

"My method is a ritual. It was not taught to me by that damn stupid bird, but by our genetic father..."

bang bang-

Asar pounded the ground anxiously and roared, interrupting his brother's words: "Witchcraft again! Witchcraft again! Magnus is not much smarter than you and my past self! You almost made me a slave of the warp creatures, what else do you want to turn me into now!"

Avida hesitated to speak and continued to mobilize his spiritual energy.

The nearby psychic energy was attracted by the subspace creatures, and Avida's manipulation of the psychic energy gave him a dying experience.

Realizing that he couldn't mobilize his psychic energy here, Avida reached into the armor compartment and pulled out two crystals.

Crimson crystal.

Asar now knew what it was, too.

One of the crystals Qin Xia was researching, used to store spiritual energy.

"I can still use this. Haha."

Avida's face was sad because of the painful torment, but he was laughing.

"Don't interrupt me, listen...listen to me, Asar."

"I once worked with the Primarch to research ways to cure flesh and blood mutations. I came up with a method that, while not curing the disease, might allow the mutants to survive."

"But this research has failed. I don't know the exact success rate... It may be very small... The probability is very small..."

"But there is no other way now. I have to try. If I succeed, your mutated flesh and blood will no longer be able to torment you."

"..."

Asar looked away in despair, silently choosing to wait for death.

Avida began to perform what he called a sorcery that had a very small chance of curing mutations.

He crushed the psychic crystal, used the crystal residue to carve a formation, and then called upon Qin Xia's pure and safe psychic energy to give the formation vitality.

"I remember when I first joined the Corps, I was naive, young, and I missed my family, so I tried to run away."

"When I was recaptured and likely executed, you showed up with the Primarch and saved my life."

"And then you told me that if a person makes a mistake, he should pay the price."

Avida rambled on.

"That damn crow is not my teacher. You are my teacher. You are also my best battle brother. Of course, you haven't saved my life as many times as it did, but if you hadn't guided me in the battle, I'm afraid even ten elves wouldn't be able to save me."

"I always question this and that, habitually refute everything. Others can't stand it, but you can... Damn it, why do I question so many things but not the subspace?"

"..."

Asar's gaze had already shifted back to Avida's face.

More than twenty eyes all over his body were looking at Avida.

In a trance, Asar saw a child who had just been led into the hall by the legion recruiting officer, the child Prospero.

"Use the psychic power of the Lord of the White Knights to tear open a rift and leave here." Asar said, "No matter how long you can live... you must live, you must return to the legion and tell our brothers everything you have seen and known."

Avida shook her head.

The ceremony is almost complete.

Avida sat in front of Asar and crushed the last crystal that stored Qin Xia's spiritual energy.

"Perhaps in the eyes of the Lord of the White Knights and you, I am just a damn lunatic."

"I just want my brothers and superiors to live... I..."

Avida took a deep breath.

"I made a mistake, and I don't make excuses for myself."

"I think it's even possible that I was the catalyst for the mutation of your flesh and blood, because that damn crow demon has been next to us..."

"Everything I did destroyed your body, and almost caused your soul to suffer a result even more horrible than destruction."

"Now I make up for it all."

"..."

Asar looked at the white light in front of him and frowned: "What do you want to do?"

“I give you my body,” Arvida said. “That’s what the ritual does. I believe the ritual fails because one party is unwilling to give up the body.”

Hearing this, Asar was so stunned that he couldn't speak.

Avida used his psychic powers to complete the ritual, but failed no matter how he tried. He said to Asar anxiously, "There is no way I can leave alive. Even if I leave, I won't live long. I don't want to become a person with a damaged soul, who one day can't even control his shit and piss, and dies madly without dignity. Don't let me have this ending."

Asar's huge head slowly lowered.

"You know what it's like for those who have lost their souls or whose souls are damaged." Avida continued to persuade, "While I am still sane... I can still choose my own ending like a human being..."

Asar looked up.

The ceremony could finally go on.

After Qin Xia's white spiritual energy was used up, Avida and Asar opened their eyes at the same time.

Avida stood up and looked painfully at Asar in front of him, whose flesh and blood had mutated to the size of a hill.

"Don't leave my short life to them." The eyes on Asar's body looked at the warp creatures around him that were frantically attacking the barrier. "Please."

"Avida..." Avida knelt down, took a deep breath, and raised his hand tremblingly.

"No, you are Avida." Asar said, "Don't let others know about you, otherwise when the time comes when witchcraft is banned as we predicted, you will be investigated or even eliminated by the Empire."

Avida nodded slowly.

"Do what you can," Asar said again. "Don't leave me here to them."

Avida took a deep breath.

The flames consumed Asar's body.

The soul separated from the mutated body, and the creatures of the warp and demons swarmed towards the soul.

However, a golden psychic energy protected the soul, and the soul was eventually annihilated in the psychic torrent of the subspace, becoming a part of the subspace, a space of consciousness... This is the original fate of a real creature after the end of the physical body.

Avida remained kneeling on the ground, watching his brother's ashes drift between the cracks of his left hand.

"From now on, I will bring glory to your name at all costs and make your name known to the world."

Avida murmured, slowly standing up.

The extremely strong emotions in his heart caused waves in the warp space.

Anger, grief, hatred... these strong emotions from psychics draw upon the abundant psychic power in the High Heavens.

(End of this chapter)