Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 145 War (7) Attempts and memories
"I am Legion Commander Horn Chavez, Major General. I saw you on the Mothership."

Horn walked out from the crowd, fastening the half-tie belt while walking.

"Any orders? Honorable angels."

"Your communication, why can't you get in touch?"

After Calvin entered the hall and looked around for a week, he actually knew the reason why the headquarters lost contact.

But the armed officers in front of him and the communication equipment behind him that were about to be destroyed made it difficult for him to say what he originally blamed.

He took a breath and said in a more relaxed tone:

"I need you to buy us half an hour so that we can destroy the equipment in the ruins. But now it seems that this request is a bit redundant."

The veterans heard the sound and continued to arm themselves. Major General Horn said to Calvin after a pause:

"I can't guarantee whether it will last half an hour, but if you see a devil's cub appearing in front of you, it must be after we all died in battle."

"clear."

Calvin turned around and left. At this juncture, time was already so expensive that he could only exchange it with his life. He could not let down the sacrifices of these soldiers.

Passing through the already empty heavy artillery positions and logistics camps, Calvin arrived at the entrance of the ruins in the smoke that had not dissipated after the last roar of these heavy artillery.

From a long distance, he could already see the golden figure that separated from them as soon as they landed.

It was a seemingly ordinary canyon pass, except for the steep and narrow mountains on both sides, there was nothing unusual.If it weren't for the Empire and Chaos fighting for this place regardless of the cost, Calvin couldn't see anything special.

Jin's figure was facing away from them at this time, as if he was missing something.

"You shouldn't have come." Jin didn't look back.

"I'm already here." Calvin stood still and said indifferently.

Well, the real situation is not so much gossip, here is just a cleverness that the author simply couldn't hold back.

The real and normal situation is: King, who heard the footsteps, turned around and saw Calvin, who had been waiting here, said "Please follow me.", and then walked in the direction of the inside.

Calvin led the gray knights behind him, followed Jin's footsteps through the gravel and ruins in front of the pass, and walked into the valley within the valley.

"What a spectacular scene."

After passing through the pass, Calvin's vision instantly widened, and the magnificence of the valley space clearly exceeded his expectations.

What surprised him even more was that unlike the remoteness outside the valley, the rocks inside the valley were full of traces of artificial carvings.

The rocks of the entire mountain are carved into huge rock seats, and only the handrails of the rock seats are 30 meters high. You can imagine how tall their owners are.

Six of these seats lined the sides of the view, which ended in the wreckage of one of their owners.

Yes, when he really saw these towering giants standing up like towers, Calvin was extremely grateful, thankful that there are only wrecks left here.

The giant knelt on the ground on one knee, head bowed.The long and narrow battle blade of the right hand, which is more than 30 meters long, is on the ground, maintaining the posture before death together with another huge arm. In the center of the bone-white breastplate, the heart or the energy core is broken down. This is probably The reason it died.

This place is no longer known as a battlefield thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. The white body has been damaged and almost has no luster. Most of the huge gemstones inlaid on the joints are also dim and cracked. did not prevent Calvin from imagining their power in their heyday.

"Alien Titan?" the gray knight behind Calvin exclaimed.

"Yes, and it's not just that. There's more in it." Kim continued on.

Calvin was as surprised as the gray knight behind him, but he controlled his emotions better.He was also shocked by the creations in front of him, and he knew how powerful these incarnations that could represent the gods in a certain sense walked the world.

What kind of war is worthy of the appearance of these final weapons, which can be called a race?

What kind of existence can destroy the six giant spirits that once existed here?

Calvin's pride in the small victories he had just experienced in battle seemed all the more ridiculous in this context.

He continued to walk forward with a straight face, self-examination and self-blame were entangled in his heart at the same time.

Calvin and the others continued to walk, and after passing through the corpses of the five titans standing or kneeling, or intact or broken, they finally saw the place that was called the site of the webway by Jin, and at the same time knew how to destroy these alien titans. Yes, what kind of existence is it?

The towering giant colonnade is full of alien civilization and spirit.The exquisite carvings and eye-popping specifications made the Chaos Gate that Calvin had seen before seem like a crude joke.

And right in front of this once gorgeous portal, there is a huge crystal that is still shining with light. It was the energy core of this portal, and it is also the source of this relic enchantment to this day.

The functional equipment of the portal has been damaged, and the link connecting the huge crystal and the portal was destroyed by some kind of energy attack, and the instigator was the same tall black and red steel figure facing the portal.

Its height is only slightly smaller than the Alien Titan in the valley, but its wider shoulders and thicker armor make it no less powerful than the former.

At this time, it also maintained the posture it had fought to the last moment:
The one-handed black giant sword was stuck on the ground, and only half of it exposed could still be looked up to. The dark black gun barrel exposed in the palm of the power glove at the end of the other huge arm was facing the destroyed portal.A long and narrow sword mark on the steel visor was the reason why it stood here after death.

"Warlord Titan!"

This is the second time the Gray Knights have exclaimed, but Calvin breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the unknown power of destruction, at least the previous terrible massacre was caused by his own forces, which is indeed to a certain extent Fixed Calvin's state of mind.

"Correct." Jin turned to the Gray Knights.

"It's a warlord-level titan, but to be precise, it is a specially modified version of the Order of Ominous Order, a warlord-level psionic titan. You can tell this from the exclusive logo of the Order of Omen on its chest. But their secret level is very high, the same as yours, but their number is rare, so it's normal not to know."

"Oh? That's right." Calvin said calmly, looking at the somewhat familiar lion's head on the titan's chest.

"Why wasn't it recycled?" he asked.

"This place has already been buried underground, and the Order of Ominous Omens has no new pilots. Their personnel demand standards are more stringent than yours." Jin replied.

"Can this thing still move?"

Calvin asked, his attention was attracted by this giant, and a voice seemed to be telling its story in his ears, and in the driver's cab behind the severed visor was even more Something caught his eye.

"In principle, yes." Kim said hesitantly.He recalled the records in the mission background materials he saw before he set off, and said to Calvin:

"The power source is intact. His damaged parts are the melee weapon in his left hand and the mechanical transmission device in his right leg. The fatal injury is the cab. The untouchable pilot and his psychic crew are desperately trying to destroy it. After the entrance of the webway, they died together under the revenge of the spirit clan artifact."

"That means it can move? As long as someone drives it?"

Calvin seemed to think of something, and his speech speed began to speed up.

Along the way, there was always some kind of inspiration in his mind. He knew that it was not the whisper of the subspace. If the demon dared to provoke so recklessly, he would naturally not be stingy to destroy it.

But the sense of revelation was too vague for him to be sure of the direction.And after entering this valley, this feeling became more and more intense, until he saw the remains of this titan, the direction of this revelation became extremely clear, pointing directly to this sleeping giant!

start it!Activate its power!Control its machine spirit!You can change the current situation!
"No!" Jin replied firmly.

As if he was afraid that Calvin would not understand the difficulty, he explained to Calvin the working principle of this technological pinnacle product with both Terra and Mars:

"It needs at least three psykers of alpha level or above to drive it, and in order to avoid the strong interference of subspace and psychic energy, only untouchables can resist this pressure and operate as a driver. Finally, its activation And the operation is based on the sacred Martian mechanical language, without relevant knowledge, you can't pry a single screw of him!"

Jin finished speaking in one breath, then looked at Calvin regretfully and added:

"Let's dispose of that crystal. This is our task. Don't worry about the sacrifices of those mortals. As long as they are valuable, their sacrifices are not considered waste."

But Calvin turned a deaf ear to King’s words, and he slowly walked towards the giant as if possessed, answering the precondition question that King had raised before:

Ten meters away!
He said to himself: "Psychic power? I have it! I'm not enough, and they are!"

Five meters away!
He ignored Jin's stop: "Untouchable? As long as you can withstand that pressure, it doesn't really matter if it's really untouchable, right?"

Two meters away!
He slowly stretched out his hand, as if comforting a frightened cub, and also like the most primitive communication when contacting a different kind of soul:
"Knowledge? That should be a last resort compromise to communicate with the unyielding soul in this steel body!"

When his hand pressed the black and red steel giant's icy skin, the whole giant roared like it was waking up from a big dream!
Ring the bell once!
Push the lever, activate the piston and pump...

Ring the bell twice!
Press a button, start the engine, ignite the turbo, breathe life into the...

Ring the bell three times!Sing in unison!Praise the God of all opportunities!
The ion reactor starts automatically!The dull eyes on the visor are shining again!

The liquid metal cooling device opens the valve!
Secondary cooling duct liquid release!

Driven by the water vapor, a huge bell chiming sounded from the steel body!

The machine soul is waking up!
No complicated binary language required!The fluctuation of the soul made Calvin understand that it was roaring the oath from the beginning of the ancient birth!

The machine spirit is roaring!
In ancient memory, from birth to countless battles, every pilot has watched Calvin in time, and issued a warning motto to him!

The Emperor's will has not yet been fulfilled.

The blood of the enemy chieftain has been offered to you, may you fill it at the Emperor's feet.

The service of protection has been inscribed upon you, may the prayer of protection protect your soul.

You should be respectful!Walk the world as the Om Messiah!

Be humble!Do your best for the Emperor's Wish!

The lingering sound of the forerunner's earnest warning is still there, but the furious soul in the machine soul is impatient!

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Annihilate all enemies of the Emperor!"

Amidst the huge roar, Calvin didn't let go of his hand, and just stood at the feet of this steel giant and looked back.

Amidst everyone's astonishment and Jin's dumbfounded, he said with a smile:

"You see, the communication between souls is sometimes as simple as that."

Is it really that simple?how is this possible!

When Calvin took off his power armor and struggled to climb into the driver's cab from the entrance under the Titan's feet, the mess here still made him frown:

The instrument panel and the frontal armor were torn apart, and almost all the unknown equipment pipelines behind them were violently torn off and mixed together.

When passing by the first floor of the cab, Calvin glanced out of the corner of his eye, and saw that the three survival cabins for psykers were all in a damaged state.

The same is true for the cockpit on the second floor. The ashes of the original crew members can still be seen in the driver's seat and in the crystal life-support cabin of the two spare psykers behind him.

"what should I do?"

Calvin asked the giant spirit in his heart.Except for the thought transmission device on the driver's seat, he was familiar with the equipment in front of him, the rest of the components, good or bad, were all wood in his eyes.

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Annihilate all enemies of the Emperor!"

The real link between the machine soul and him has not been established yet, and the words of the machine soul are exactly the same as before, without any valid information.

"...Can't you say something else?"

Calvin was a little speechless, but still bit the bullet and searched for all available information.

"?"

After several searches, his eyes focused on the armrests on both sides of the driver's seat. Apart from some complicated mechanical buttons on the left armrest, there is a small ring-sized depression, which should be certified equipment.

Calvin had no choice but to skip the former.

However, there was also a significantly larger depression on the armrest of the seat on the right, which made him have some kind of bold conjecture while recalling it.

"Alonso, you are such a fan..."

He hurriedly climbed to the seat and sat down. After inserting the connection of the transmission line behind his head, he took out the coat of arms that was in the same shape as the depression from his close-fitting pocket, and tentatively put it in.

Silence... one second, two seconds, three seconds,

Just when Calvin began to laugh at himself for being paranoid, under the driver's seat that had been silent for an unknown amount of time, the Thinker servo began to emit the sound of program startup!

Under his amazed eyes, the core servo belonging to this titan began to work again after it fell ten thousand years ago.

"Drip! The parameter *** number *** code is starting..."

"Drip! The self-test program is started! The operation authority is started!"

"Drip! Permission authentication failed! Not from the same unit!"

"Drip! Emergency program self-test! Confirmed that it is in a disconnected state!"

"Drip! The second activation of the operating authority!
Confirmed to belong to the Order of Omen, number ***,

Permission level authentication passed!The operation permission is approved!

Self-test procedure in progress! "

hum!
With the influx of huge amounts of information, Calvin's eyes went dark, and then he completely lost the perception of his body, and fell into the first zero-distance communication with the machine soul...

　Two more, two in one.ticket! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)