Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 419 Ceremony
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Rainy.

Luther and Kang stood on the castle helipad, watching the transport plane slowly descend from the sky.

The transport plane was silent and highly maneuverable, and was obviously the anti-gravity aircraft from the White Knight.

When the gates rose, Luther saw Varis first.

"Chief Think Tank." Luther stepped forward and exchanged the Sky Eagle salute with Varis.

Varis was as cold as ever, turning to look inside the transport plane.

Some mortal workers accompanied by construction machinery escorted down a sharp monument-like object.

Luther went forward to examine the monument.

The material used to make this thing is crystal. Luther had seen this kind of crystal on some people in the White Knight Think Tank. They would use this crystal to power their own think tank model Terminator Tactical Dreadnought.

I heard that this crystal came from the Lord of the White Knight, who created the crystal and infused it with his own psychic power... As an outsider, Luther only knew this.

The crystal monument is about 19 meters tall and is shaped like a triangle.

The stele is engraved with dense text.

"A kind of Nuceria language?" Luther looked at Varis with a smile, "I have learned the language of the Nuceria people, but I still can't understand these words."

"This is the language of the Lord of the White Knights himself." Varis looked down at the characters on the inscription. "This language is used for internal communication within the think tank."

Hearing this, Luther turned to look at Kang.

Kang silently looked at the words on the crystal tablet, but his attention was not there at all.

As a Dark Watcher, Kang could see Qin Xia's idea of ​​ordering the think tank to build these crystal tablets.

These crystal tablets are actually a kind of ritual hub, and some words are used on them to play some metaphysical role.

For example, there is a sentence in those inscriptions: "Forever suppress the snake that bites its tail."

These are the words Qin Xia ordered his people to engrave. He will tell the think tanks that the words I taught you have a magical power. The think tanks will believe so, and then the words engraved by them will really have mysterious power and play some role in suppressing the Ouroboros.

If this text was engraved by an ordinary person instead of a psychic, it would be just like "Blessings to you", which would be of no use other than sounding nice.

"We have built three hundred and thirty-three of these crystal monuments," Varis said. "Lord Caliban, you must plan an operation that will allow us to deploy three hundred and thirty-three crystal monuments across the wasteland."

"Why three hundred and thirty-three?" Luther asked.

"The Lord of the White Knights likes the number three." Varis told the truth.

After hearing this answer, Luther felt that Varys was trying to fool him. In his opinion, a truly true answer should be: the number three involves Caliban, and its own meaning is also extraordinary.

But that doesn't matter much.

"I have made all the preparations." Luther told the Chief Think Tank his plan. "There are about 10,000 Dark Angels on Caliban. I will lead them to go deep into the wasteland with you. No mortal will participate in this operation..."

"Do not."

At this point, Luther changed his mind because he suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Kavak, who was undercover among the evil believers, and Kavak's like-minded people.

The willpower of these people is unusually strong.

Kavak will be used in some things in the future.

"I will also involve some mortals with extremely strong willpower in the action," Luther said.

Varis remained silent.

Luther looked at Varis, waiting for the chief think tank's response.

After silence lasted for a few seconds, Kang on the side spoke up: "The Lord of the White Knights has already told his subordinates that your opinion is the most important from now on, so the Chief Think Tank will not express his opinion."

Hearing these words full of trust, Luther smiled slightly and saluted the Chief Think Tank: "I will make sure everything goes well."

"How much time do you need to prepare?" Varis asked coldly.

"I'm ready and can go now," said Luther.

When Varis heard that they could set off now, he was stunned for a moment, because in his opinion, if he wanted to mobilize more than 10,000 Space Marines to a dangerous place like the wasteland, it would certainly require extremely complicated preparations.

In order to not worry Varis, Luther explained: "In fact, I started making preparations when the Lord of the White Knights left the castle, because I thought there might be a war in the wasteland, and some terrible existence would appear and we would need to mobilize the army to fight against it... The war will not happen, but the various mobilizations I made in advance can still come in handy."

After hearing this explanation, Varis looked at Luther with admiration in his eyes.

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Unlike Qin Xia and Kang when they went deep into the wilderness, the large army led by Luther used something called "Colossus" when they went deep into the wilderness.

The full name of the Colossus is "Colossus Command Vehicle/Command Hall".

All the materials, supplies, and participants needed to carry out the ritual operations are concentrated in this command vehicle.

The vehicle is ninety meters high, and from a distance it looks like a mountain moving across the mountains of Caliban that intercept the cold currents of the northern wasteland. "Colossus command vehicle."

On the command deck, Varis looked out the window at the complex terrain that the Colossus was crushing like flat ground, and turned to look at Luther.

"Your First Legion's recruitment world actually has a Colossus command vehicle."

Hearing the Chief Think Tank's sigh, the Dark Angels who were discussing specific matters around the tactical table simply raised their heads, then lowered their heads and continued talking.

Luther said to Varis, "The First Legion is not so wealthy that it would allocate a command vehicle to its own recruiting world."

“Then this command vehicle was coordinated to Caliban by you when you left the Legion,” Varis guessed.

"Haha." Luther smiled and shook his head, "Not really. This command vehicle was paralyzed during the Second Randan War. The Legion reported it to Mars, and Mars sent two more, and then repaired this paralyzed Colossus."

"The Primarch felt that the Colossus was too big and that it might have hidden problems that had not been discovered and repaired after being paralyzed by the explosion. It would be bad if the command vehicle that was supposed to carry the command level had a problem, so he asked me to arrange this paralyzed command vehicle on my own."

At this point, Luther pointed his index finger at the panoramic view of the wasteland on the tactical table and said, "I brought it to Caliban."

Varis frowned.

Although he had seen with his own eyes how wealthy the First Legion was, he had never expected that a Colossus command vehicle could be replaced with two if one broke down...

When the 12th Legion had not yet welcomed back its primarch, it was extremely poor.

But fortunately, many things got better afterwards because of the return of the Primarch. The XII Legion had Numata and many industrial worlds of Greater Nuceria as sources of logistical supply, and there were also enough knight mechas to distribute to each chapter.

"Sir." A dark angel came over with a cup of hot water and handed it to Varis.

After Varis took the cup of water, the dark angel carried the tray to the tactical table and distributed the remaining hot water.

Since Luther chose not to bring mortal servants, the ones delivering water now were Astartes.

"Two options." Luther raised his head after exchanging a few words with the surrounding Dark Angels and said to Varis, "The first option is that we take the command vehicle to the deployment locations of the crystal monuments pointed out by the Lord of the White Knights, and then the command will be handed over to your think tank. In this way, we will rush to one location after another together."

"The second option is to divide the troops into several routes. Your White Knight's think tank should also divide the troops into several routes. The advantage of this method is that it is fast."

After listening to Luther, Varis chose the second option without hesitation.

"I also tend to lean towards the second option." Luther then began to plan.

The command vehicle continued to move across the wasteland.

Varis suddenly heard a Dark Angel driving a command vehicle loudly report: "We have found traces of suspected human activity ahead... They are not zombies from the Eco-City."

"Are you sure?" Luther asked, "The Northern Wasteland. You are from Caliban. You should know how absurd it is to have traces of human activity in this place."

The Dark Angel shrugged, then nodded.

"Then..." Luther suddenly hesitated, his eyes became deep, and after pondering for a few seconds, he shook his head, "Don't worry, just keep going."

The Colossus command vehicle continued to move forward in the snow and ice.

A pile of broken stone walls, a still burning bonfire, some photos, some food... everything on the road in front of the command vehicle was crushed by this magnificent man-made giant like a mountain.

Only Kang, in the shadows of the command deck, knew who had left these things, and what had lived among them.

After a moment, Luther ordered the command vehicle to stop.

The giant slid over the wasteland for more than a hundred meters before slowly stopping.

The Dark Angels prepared themselves in the various chambers at the base of the Colossus.

When Luther's order was passed down again, the Dark Angels in the cabin stood up in unison, put on their helmets, and turned on the safety of their bolters.

Red lights flashed in all the cabins, and then the cabin floor slowly fell down, sank out from the bottom of the Colossus and landed steadily.

When the Dark Angels left the Colossus, the White Knights' think tank assigned to them was already in place.

Like Qin Xia, these White Knight think tanks use psychic power to control a knight mecha, with a crystal tablet mounted on the back of the knight mecha.

Qin Xia once taught the think tanks how to control unmanned war machines like himself. He called this psychic spell that allowed the think tanks to work part-time as knights or Titan drivers "puppetry".

The think tanks accompanied the Dark Angels, who were divided into thirty groups, to various deployment locations. The superhuman warriors moved extremely quickly, rushing in all directions at the maximum speed that their strong bodies could burst out.

A task that might take a mortal a year or two to complete can now be completed in just a few days by an Astartes.

"Chief Think Tank, look back at the command vehicle." Luther walked from the tactical table to the place where Varis had just stood, looking out the window at Varis' figure standing on a knight mech and driving it to run.

As the chief think tank, Varis also had to personally accompany a team of Dark Angels to deploy the crystal monument.

The White Knights are few in number.

"If you White Knights had a Colossus, how would you use it?" Luther said in the communication channel.

"Use it as you do." Varis glanced at the towering giant.

"Yes." Luther nodded slowly, "Then this Colossus and the priests who maintain it will all be yours. It will be sent to a cruiser afterwards."

(End of this chapter)