Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

"A prophecy?"

When the adjutant and deputy head of the guard left, Calvin picked up the documents on the table and thought noncommittally.

There is no shortage of people in the empire who can use psychic vision to peek into the future, but apart from the emperor's Tarot cards, there are not many people who can be believed.

The Gray Knights have a systematic way of analyzing the Emperor's Tarot, which is their unique secret method.

This secret method has a very accurate prediction effect on the demon invasion, and it is one of the sharp weapons in the hands of the Prophet Brotherhood in charge of prophecy.

In addition to this, the Judgment Chamber and Death Watch are also high-frequency users of the Emperor's Tarot.

It's just that they lack the secret technique in the hands of the gray knights, and their prediction accuracy is far inferior to that of the fellows of the Holy Hammer Order.

State religion?

In Calvin's impression, the state religion did not have a relevant professional unit, so putting aside the possibility of a wild prophetic master appearing with a small probability, Calvin was more inclined that this was another conspiracy and inducement from the subspace.

The closed door was opened again, and in Calvin's vision, following Alan Janus was a skinny old man in a red robe.

Calvin looked at the slow pace of this frail old man, and his expression became unusually serious.

"Mortal, I seem to smell something familiar from you."

Alan Janus stopped when he heard the sound, his muscles tensed within one breath, and the electromagnetic muscle bundles in the power armor responded to the weak signal from the nerve interface, and repeatedly confirmed the full output with low-frequency expansion. performance.

The psionic fibers in the holy shield power armor were slowly lit up, and a thin layer of psionic shield, like a crystal being born in a cave, expanded secretly and rapidly from his back.

His right hand, which had been straddling the hilt of the sword at his waist, was clenched tightly, waiting for Calvin's eyes to explode and kill the mortal behind him on the spot.

"No... don't be impatient, what he brings is not the pollution of chaos."

Calvin stopped the adjutant's vigilant behavior, and then carefully looked at the mortal with a calm expression.

"I already know your mission.

I can answer you right now, the spread of state religion will not change in Hassan or Leyak.

The subjects of empires need the guidance of faith, and I have no problem with that. "

"God Emperor bless! Your loyalty to the Emperor will be known by Him."

Marduk muttered a prayer in response to the former's generosity.

"Then the official duties are over, next, please tell me your true purpose."

Calvin's voice stopped Marduk who was praying. At this moment, the seemingly peaceful and humble servant of the emperor finally raised his head to face Calvin.

"I bring the omen of disaster."

Marduk's first words made Calvin raise his eyebrows.

The former also carefully observed Calvin's reaction after saying this sentence.

Although his colleagues in the state religion had given enough hints before he came, when he actually faced this figure that seemed to come out of the mural, he still couldn't help but want to pray to the emperor.

Astartes?

Gray knight?
Lord of the Inquisition?
High Lord?
The moment he saw Calvin, these labels were torn apart by Marduk, who fanatically believed in the Emperor, and threw them aside.

A more sacred concept flashed through his mind, but he couldn't believe it.

Primarch!

A demigod who has never appeared in the annals of the empire!
At this time, Marduk was worried about gains and losses. He was afraid that the huge existence in front of him was just the product of some dark experiment of the Tribunal;
He was also afraid that the belief he had insisted on all his life would actually appear in front of him.

"Yes, a revelation from the Holy Emperor."

Marduk deliberately pronounced the Emperor's vocabulary in order to test the opponent's reaction.

"oh, I understand now."

Calvin knew Marduk's hidden worries at this moment, his spiritual energy stirred from within, and resonated to the depths of the flesh that was originally connected to this world.

The "permission" that the existence once gave him felt this stimulation, and was actively awakened for the first time after sleeping for a long time.

The icy black lightning condensed from Calvin's palm, which not only contained the power of that person, but also condensed the belief of the entire human race.

"Emperor!"

Marduk knelt on the ground, shocked and overwhelmed by the mighty power he witnessed;
This familiar feeling fit so well with his memory when he was revealed, which made him immediately believe in the jurisprudence of Calvin's existence.

"Say the prophecy you saw, I think we still have time to solve this problem."

Matters on Orpheus were coming to an end, and Calvin had already begun preparations for returning to Terra.

But the arrival of this old man obviously interrupted his existing itinerary, and out of respect for him, Calvin had to listen to his reasons seriously.

Especially, after Calvin felt the traces of the Emperor's power on his body.

Calvin already knew the special title of "Confessor" on the other party, and his deeds of touring and preaching throughout the Storm Star Field for hundreds of years.

But this priest, who has been reported to Terra by the state religion and is about to be canonized before his death, actually has such a heavy and secret mission on him, which is indeed the first time he knows.

St. Marduk is the great honor that this mortal is about to receive;
The Great Confessor is an affirmation of his behavior of continuing to spread the belief in the emperor and guiding the subjects of the empire with the lifestyle of an ascetic monk within the territory of the empire.

"I was inspired by the Emperor a hundred years ago!"

Marduk slowly got up from the ground and said to Calvin.

"The golden figure told me that Orpheus hides the seeds of disaster, and I have an obligation to destroy it."

"please continue."

Calvin said that although Marduk did not have as obvious miracles as Saint Celestine, the golden flash of the other party's soul was conspicuous enough in Calvin's eyes.

And now that Orpheus is in his hands, it can be regarded as the end of the cloud.

"I mistakenly thought that those disasters were the destruction brought by Chaos and Orcs.

But after you reclaimed two sectors, the bells of disaster still ring in my soul. "

"So it still exists, right?"

Calvin understood the purpose of Marduk's visit, and he believed in the emperor's revelation. Since this omen still exists, it means that there is still a hidden crisis.

What kind of crisis will it be?

Calvin's thoughts were running fast, massive amounts of information and past memories were being filtered and screened at high speed, and finally a thing that had been ignored by him was remembered again.

Undead?And only this.He looked at Marduk and asked:
"What did you see?"

"Death, my death, in a world called Korkash."