Chapter 212: The sense of ceremony
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The day when the power armor and weapons were forged.
The White Knight, which had previously delivered Qin Xia to the surface of Little Nuceria and then evacuated, has been engaged in guerrilla warfare to contain the scattered greenskin fleets in the Onus sector.
Until the White Knight destroyed its pursuers in recent days, it rushed to join the main fleet and docked outside the orbit of Little Nuceria.
Inside this warship that belongs exclusively to Qin Xia, there are residences exclusively for the top brass of the ship on the upper deck.
The residence includes a single-door mansion, a large public bath, a hall... In short, it is like a high-end residential area in the city.
Qin Xia, as the Lord of the White Knights, has a private audience hall, private bedroom, private dining room and bathtub in this residence, but he has never used these facilities before today.
On this extremely unique day today, Qin Xia was soaking in the bathtub, facing up to the sky.
The "water waves" flowed, driving Qin Xia's body to flow in the bath.
On the shore not far away, men and women held paddles and vigorously stirred up the stagnant water in the bathing pool to create artificial waves.
These people are hired service personnel.
According to the requirements of the Lord of the Twelve Legions, everyone on the ship should have a job and be registered.
Of course, the White Knight did not have that many jobs since it was full of personnel, so those who could not find regular positions for the time being were sent to the upper deck to work as service personnel.
This is more or less a position. At least these people will not live on the lower deck because it is difficult to survive on the battleship, and make the situation on the lower deck a mess.
"Shenjun."
"Six points, six minutes and six seconds are almost here."
A young man ran over and reminded softly.
Qin Xia was floating in the pool with her back to the boy. She just raised the hand sign for six to show that she heard him.
Then under the gaze of everyone, Qin Xia stood up from the pool.
The strong body trudged onto the landing platform in the current, and the water flowed between the outlines of the muscles.
Those present can see Shenjun's toned figure, but it is impossible to see everything about Shenjun at a glance, because from the perspective of others, part of Shenjun is hidden in the shadows.
Qin Xia stood on the desk and spread her arms.
People came forward to dry Qin Xia's body, and then put an extremely loose black robe on Qin Xia.
This robe is a gift - sewn by the captain's family.
Such gifts are meant to be used on this very special day.
After wrapping herself in a robe, Qin Xia walked out of the bath and walked to the equipment warehouse.
When the Lord of the White Knights was walking in the corridor with a solemn face, the sailors, officers, and marines who had been waiting here stood on both sides of the corridor and bowed in salute.
Qin Xia walked through the corridor and came to the heavy gate leading to the equipment warehouse.
In front of the gate engraved with the double-headed eagle logo of the Empire, the White Knight think tanks stood on both sides of the road. When they saw the arrival of the Lord of the White Knights, they all saluted, and then silently followed behind the Lord of the White Knights.
The gate began to scan Qin Xia's irises, and after passing the verification, it opened suddenly.
The people present were scattered on both sides of the straight red carpet passage in the circular hall of the equipment warehouse, just like the ministers and distinguished guests of a lord.
The senior officers of the White Knight, the senior officers brought their family members to join in the fun.
The captain himself, as well as the engineers and honorary sailors whom the captain used to win over with "extra meals" rewards to support the scene.
These people are the most numerous.
Then there are Qin Xia’s beloved relatives and friends.
Sisters Olina, Quadrant, Brown, Angron, the Gladiators of the Blood Drinker Guard.
The Primarchs were also present, standing around Angron.
After all, Qin Xia still didn’t want to make the scene too grand.
There is no doubt that he is a person of spectacle, but the ostentation always feels too much.
Angron had proposed that the ceremony be performed in the Hall of Triumph.
But Qin Xia thinks about it...it's just wearing armor, it's not necessary.
“It’s just to wear the equipment we made. There is no need to make these arrangements.” Ferrus whispered to Fulgrim.
"The sense of ritual." Fulgrim whispered, "I understand."
Ferrus reluctantly moved his eyes away and looked at the other brothers.
Vulkan smiled, Perturabo still had the same bad face, but Angron looked excited, as if he was the one who was about to get new weapons and armor.
There was no way, it was already here, Ferus had no choice but to continue waiting in silence.
Qin Xia walked slowly to the center of the circular hall, which had just been renovated by Quadrant and Brown and became a dressing place exclusively for Qin Xia.
After Qin Xia stood on the platform, the servo skulls in the quadrant began to wear armor for him.
Starting from the leg armor, pieces of equipment were installed on Qin Xia's body.
The black carapace used to connect and control the power armor was already possessed by Qin Xia after he was transformed by the Gray Knight. Qin Xia did not need to undergo any further transformation to wear the armor.
In addition, Qin Xia will use psychic energy to indirectly assist in controlling the Terminator Tactical Fearless Power Armor, so there is no need for the pharmacist to implant memories or habits into him while he is sleeping, or to spend time Specialize in learning how to control power armor.
The structures of the silver-based armor were placed on Qin Xia's body one by one.
As the last two servo skulls flew over with their cloaks in their mouths, and hung the cloak on the back of Qin Xia's power armor, the armor part was completed.
Everyone present was amazed by the gorgeousness and thickness of this piece of power armor.
There is one link left.
Quangrant walked towards Qin Xia holding a heavy spear, and then raised the spear butt with his appendages and arms.
Qin Xia held the spear, waved it to test the flexibility, and then nodded with satisfaction.
He then used his psychic vision to observe himself from a third-person perspective. He stood on the platform, wearing thick and gorgeous power armor, looking majestic.
In a daze, Qin Xia felt like he had returned to his days in the White Scars.
At that time, a new Space Marine recruit was undergoing an armor awarding ceremony, and this was how he watched.
Then I really look forward to having my own armor conferment ceremony in the future when I become a Space Marine. I have been looking forward to it until I was taken away by the Gray Knight, until I traveled through the subspace to the thirtieth time. millennium.
Nowadays, Space Marines also perform armor conferring ceremonies, but perhaps because they are not as poor as they were ten thousand years ago or for some other reason, it is not so solemn and the sense of ceremony is not the same. It will be so sufficient after ten thousand years.
“Now I finally got my own armor and weapons, and went through the armor conferment ceremony held for myself... It’s really not easy.”
Qin Xia thought to herself.
No one could hear the sigh in Qin Xia's heart, let alone know that the Lord of the White Knight had just fulfilled a wish he had been holding back for a long time.
When Ferus thought there would be other procedures and routines in this ceremony, Qin Xia chatted with everyone for a few words, and then most of the people present dispersed.
The ceremony is completely over, and there are no other routines or procedures.
Just performing a ritual to put on a new piece of armor was something Ferus found difficult to understand.
"Thank you all." Qin Xia walked up to the original bodies and saluted.
Angron excitedly looked at the power armor on Qin Xia's body and the weapons in his hands, as if these two things were worn and held in his hands.
Although Angron could not sense Qin Xia's emotions, he felt the same for everything Qin Xia got at this moment.
"You're welcome, it's conditional anyway." Perturabo said coldly.
“The conditions for my agreement are also conditional.” Qin Xia said, “I can’t do things that are too outrageous, and I can’t help with things that are as difficult as climbing to the sky. If any of you let me go Slaughtering civilians is even more impossible.”
"Wait. Wait." Ferus raised his hand to interrupt the conversation between Qin Xia and Perturabo, looked at the Lord of the White Knights, and said seriously, "It's just a set of armor, don't worry about us putting forward unacceptable conditions. "
Fulgrim answered: "At least we can see that you are an expert in fighting greenskins. Suppose that our respective legions encounter strong greenskin enemies in the future, you only need to be like this. Just give us a helping hand as the Eighteenth Legion gave us a helping hand."
Perturabo did not speak, but Angron sensed that Perturabo had the same idea.
It was even Perturabo who privately unified the opinions of the various Primarch brothers.
The reason is very simple. In this war against the greenskins, Qin Xia can be said to have changed the direction of the war.
"Of course it's no problem." Qin Xia nodded, "Now I can't wait to test this set of armor and weapons. Remember what I said before that I could single-handedly annihilate the Eldar aliens wearing this set of power armor? Isn't that a big lie?"
After saying that, Qin Xia looked at Angron, patted his chest, and turned to leave.
"In two hours we will release extermination weapons on the surface." Perturabo warned.
"I know." Qin Xia responded without looking back, and then motioned to the think tanks and Brown and other team members to follow him.
Angron also turned and left, heading to the flagship to provide fire cover for Qin Xia's ground operations. It was really not possible to wait for two hours before teleporting people out.
Soon there were only four Primarchs left in the equipment depot.
Vulkan, Fulgrim, Perturabo, and Ferrus.
The four original faces looked at each other with different expressions. After looking at each other for a few times, Perturabo spoke first: "You have also met Angron's adoptive father now. When each of us came, his father Let us observe the wizard Qin Xia and then make a judgment."
"Judge what?" Vulgan Ban asked.
“Didn’t my father give you a dream to observe Qin Xia?” Fulgrim asked in surprise.
Vulkan looked confused, obviously he had not been given special responsibilities by the Emperor.
The Fire Dragon Lord then asked: "Observe Qin Xia and then make a judgment like Perturabo said? But what judgment should we make?"
Fulgrim was silent .
That's the problem, the Emperor didn't say directly what judgment he wanted to make, just that he wanted to make a judgment.
Whether it was Perturabo, Ferus or Fulgrim, the orders the three of them received from the Emperor in their dreams were vague.
"Then give an objective judgment."
Ferrus said.
“A wizard who knows all about aliens. Considering that the Twelve Legions have never had contact with green-skinned aliens before, Qin Xia’s mastery of the characteristics of green-skinned people has to suspect that he has an extremely secretive past. "
"Maybe he has gotten along with green skins, or at least fought for a long time. For some reason, the past has become a secret. In short, he definitely did not grow up on a certain planet, then transformed into a space warrior, and then Then he met Angron inexplicably."
"In his past, there was at least a long history of contact or fighting with the greenskins."
Ferrus's statement was met with tacit approval by the other Primarchs.
This is an objective evaluation, based on what the Primarchs silently observed.
A wizard who knows all about aliens.
Has a secret past that is unknown to everyone.
It’s that simple.
"I have a question." Ferus continued, "That is where did Qin Xia's gene seeds come from? He doesn't seem to belong to any legion."
"Thousand Sons." Turabo said with a rich voice, "At first I doubted it, but then I thought it was impossible."
When Perturabo said the name of the Thousand Sons legion, Fulgrim and Ferru Si looked at each other and almost immediately felt that Qin Xia's gene seeds came from Qianzi.
But Perturabo denied himself.
Combined with the fact that although the Thousand Sons Legion is good at matters related to psychic energy, but the gene seed mutation is extremely serious, Fulgrim feels that Qin Xia cannot be the Thousand Sons.
"Maybe he belongs to some secret legion?" Ferus said bluntly.
“It’s hard to say.” Fulgrim shook his head slightly.
The four original bodies are all thinking about Qin Xia, including Vulcan.
Even without the "observation" order given by the Emperor to Fulgrim, Ferus and Perturabo, they would still think about Qin Xia's affairs.
A psyker with great supernatural powers, who knows everything about aliens, and was a Space Marine before raising Angron, but he doesn’t know where the gene seed comes from... These are enough for anyone with any purpose to have any doubts about Qin Xia interested.
(End of this chapter)