Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 296 Out-of-Control Belief and the Shocking Truth
Humans are a special race, something Calvin always knew and took pride in.

The short life cycle makes this race have a reproduction speed unmatched by the Eldar; also because of the short life, the colors and changes in their souls are particularly intense in the unit of a hundred years.

The vast and boundless space of the Milky Way has experienced the rise, rise and fall of countless races and civilizations.

But among the three races that really dominate this galaxy, only humans have such a special nature.

The souls of the Eldar have more intense colors and desires, but the speed of population reproduction and the basic model of civilization determine that they are destined to self-destruction;
The Necrontyr civilization relies on external forces, and from its very beginnings it was not a sentient being.

Only human beings, under the irreversible background of the universe going towards the cycle of extinction, can use the soul to provide the possibility of more variables for the universe.

This is a blessing, because life is short and eager to bloom its glory, and the progress of civilization is thus accelerated.

It is also a curse. In the ebb and flow of order and chaos with the time unit of world reincarnation, only the soul output of human beings on this scale is worthy of the gods as the tentacles of the two camps. Get the prize for the final victory.

Faith is the best nourishment for their growth, and the soul is the cornerstone for them to move to a higher dimension after unifying theocracy.

Calvin was not yet clear about the relationship of the gods to sentient beings.

But when the psychic halo he set up to protect the confidentiality of his identity aroused fierce reactions among the millions of people watching the ceremony, he also passively experienced the offering of faith and soul.

The viewing area of ​​the ceremony is huge but narrow. Although nearly a million spectators can be called a sea of ​​people, but with a population of tens of billions on Ophelia 7, only the true believers and the elite population of the star area can Eligible to attend.

More people are not eligible to enter the inner city of the City of Grace, and can only participate in this important celebration ceremony under the video broadcast of the outer city or satellite cities.

The atmosphere of the military parade had been paved to the extreme before his appearance, and the emotions of the majority of the believers on the viewing platform had also been heightened to the highest peak.

When 300 gray knights wearing red power armor (painted by the Exorcist Chapter), with an average height of 2.7 meters after wearing power armor, holding a battle halberd and stepping forward, they guarded his body like stars. When the throne comes on stage.

The psionic halo on his body lifted the atmosphere of the entire ceremony to a direction that no one could predict.

The crowd of devout people became the fuse of this storm of faith, and they were the first to kneel down after seeing Calvin.

The celebration in their eyes was sacred enough. When Calvin appeared on the throne in the eyes of everyone's anticipation, under the refraction of the halo of spiritual power, they seemed to see that 8000 years ago again, he personally led the Imperial Army and the Imperial Fist The existence of land recovery.

The crowd was shocked by the holiness they saw, and the enthusiastic cheers and holy carols were silent for a moment.

The devotees were the first to kneel on the ground in tears of emotion, praying wholeheartedly in the direction of Calvin to worship the emperor.

Under the guidance of the pure faith of the believers, huge spiritual power surged towards Calvin like a torrent.Calvin also sensed this gathering of beliefs, but he never thought that the end point of this force would be himself.

Massive beliefs belonging to others came to suppress his soul by chance and coincidence. While Calvin felt the familiar pain reappear, a powerful external spiritual force was mercilessly impacting on his divine soul.

Holy Emperor!Lord of mankind!
Emperor Weizai!Save humanity from the darkness!

Countless voices prayed in an overlapping manner, and countless spiritual powers of faith gathered in Calvin's ears along with these voices.

His divine soul is like standing in front of a reservoir that has opened its gates to release the flood, bearing the impact of faith from millions of imperial subjects on the viewing platform.

Calvin also believed in that divine being, but as an outsider, he never had the idea of ​​becoming one with it.

The impact and assimilation of the torrent of faith on the soul can only create strong pressure in the face of the golden and stone-hard nature of his divine soul, but cannot assimilate or erase his personality.

Calvin's psychic magic ring began to shine, and when the legion mode was activated spontaneously, the defense mechanism in his soul was awakened and resisted.

The city of souls in the spiritual world sensed the erosion of external forces, and those redeemed souls spontaneously stopped their work, and under the leadership of the soldiers in the central hall, they began to pray and support the gods they believed in .

The hymns echoed from that continent, and the huge sound waves surged to the sky and finally pierced through the clouds, appearing in reality.

The subjects of the empire living in the distant Orpheus sector were also strongly influenced by certain emotions under a certain spiritual inspiration. They put down the things in their hands one after another, and stood next to the nearest emperor icon down, reciting the holy names of the Emperor and the Ashbringer.

Calvin's head hurt even more, and the outline of the real universe in his eyes was almost filled with the light of faith.The chants in his ears made him extremely irritable and painful, but later the addition of the City of Souls and the voice of the Ash Angel chanting in his ears eased his pain a little.

Two sources of support from different directions saved his body. At that time, a halo like a sun wheel appeared behind Calvin from the perspective of psychic power, and the prayers singing his holy name were also integrated into one place towards the crowd on the viewing platform. diffusion.

But the frenzied crowd can no longer distinguish the difference between the holy name in this voice, and their emotions have reached a climax under the guidance of the devotees.

At the moment when these mortals may have the purest faith in their lives, they can also vaguely see the looming halo behind Calvin.

The miraculous response made all the people on the viewing platform kneel down, and the greater emotional resonance caused the tens of billions of people watching the ceremony on this planet to pray together outside the city of grace.

A stronger torrent of faith began to generate and gather in the world of Ofelia 7.On the domes of countless Gothic churches above the City of Grace, bells began to ring spontaneously.

Numerous cloisters, chapels, and confessional rooms have shining relics and statues of saints. The state priests have never seen such a magnificent and real miracle. After being shocked by their souls, they knelt down to pray and joined the carnival of faith among.

The emotions of tens of billions of human beings complete epic resonance and synchronization at this moment.

This is probably the first time in the history of human beings that such a large-scale collection of group wills has been completed.

This huge force gathered and hovered over the City of Divine Grace, and after dispelling all the clouds in the sky, it descended towards Calvin's body along the ray of light that the sun was shining on the ground.

The golden beam of light from the far end shone on Calvin, and the Astartes on the balcony in the distance looked at each other with the Anglican nun, and then looked at the cardinal beside him.

After sensing the doubts of his colleagues, the latter could only spread his hands innocently.

They paid enough courtesy to Lord Terra's visit, but it was absolutely impossible to create an artificial "miracle" for him.

Calvin had already completed his state adjustment at this time, and the pure faith of the devout acted as the forerunner of this force, giving him precious time to react.

After switching to the soul projection mode, he no longer bears this too huge power with his fragile body.

While a silver moon the size of a star silently appeared in the subspace, it also accepted all these external forces without rejection, and after filtering out and absorbing the impurities of desire and emotion, And then refracted in the direction of the distant Terra.

Yes, Calvin was not allowed to have beliefs, at least he did not need beliefs that did not belong to him.

This erratic carnival of faith was a crisis he had never expected.

With no way to retreat, he can only passively accept these erroneous emperor beliefs that lead to him first, and then sort out and derive his ideas.

This is a catastrophe exclusive to him, because if another mortal was present, he would not be able to touch the essence of faith at all.

This is also his opportunity, because the emotions and desires generated by the tens of billions of soul resonances are exactly what he needs to supplement his own soul.

The scars on Calvin's soul core were objectively repaired under the tens of billions of emotions;

The gain of this basic disk corresponds to the land in his spiritual world, which will expand outward again after receiving these emotional nourishments.

Large tracts of land rise violently in the sea of ​​souls, and the changes of the vicissitudes of life appear from this ideal land in a short period of time.

From a theological point of view, the crisis caused by this riot of faith and carnival eventually turned into a win-win situation for him and the emperor.

A huge amount of pure, unimpured faith will greatly benefit the god on Terra;
And the massive and innumerable emotions and desires catalyzed the growth of the continent in Calvin's spiritual world again, making it a tiny step closer to becoming a reality.

The voice of prayer finally calmed down after Calvin's figure disappeared.

And this wave was set off by Calvin and occurred at the soul level. Apart from pushing his psionic energy to a climax at a certain moment, only the Astartes think tank in the distance and the psykers had a slight perception.

The astropaths are also affected, but the prayers that fill the entire Ofelia galaxy have been heard once in decades. Apart from avoiding this particularly violent wave in time, they have not noticed the level of belief everything that happened.

The Ofelia 7 star in the subspace became extremely bright at a certain moment.

In the eyes of the navigators on all the spaceships that passed through the Storm Star Field, there was a flash of psychic brilliance that was no less than that of the Star Torch Court.

"No! Impossible!"

Stewart, the company commander of the Ultramarines Garrison, looked seriously into the distance. His strong will made him break through the outer circle of Calvin's psychic halo.

In a moment of astonishment, he saw some truths hidden under the halo.

The meaning of Calvin's huge body made him creepy. The epic silver power armor without camouflage on his body, and the regulations represented by the gorgeous carvings on the shoulder armor and chest made him instinctively think of a certain A still sleeping figure.

And when he concentrated on looking at Calvin again, the figure sitting on the throne reverted to the Terminator power armor wearing the red livery of the Exorcist Chapter.

"My friend, have you found anything?"

The company commander of the Imperial Fist, Hounthorne, noticed Stuart's abnormality, and walked up to him with the heavy steps of the Terminator power armor and asked him in a low voice.

"No...no..."

Stuart shook his head in denial. He slowly took off the Mark IV helmet he was wearing, and looked into the distance thoughtfully while breathing the cool air around him.

The throne in the distance has already passed under the terrace, and those unfamiliar Astartes warriors who are obviously high and average have also guarded the huge throne, walking farther and farther under uniform footsteps.

Hounthorn also took off the bright yellow consul's helmet with mane decoration, and the eyes of the two collided for a while and then separated immediately.

There are too many details worthy of scrutiny in this military parade, not only Calvin's occasional appearance and his identity are worthy of scrutiny; those unfamiliar Astartes warriors are also suspicious.

Against the backdrop of the average height of 2.3-2.5 meters for the soldiers of the Astartes under the empire, their height after wearing armor obviously reached 2.7 meters, which has also clearly exceeded the growth limit brought by normal gene seeds.

Not one or two exceptions, but all Astartes in line!

This couldn't be the Exorcists Chapter, at least not the Exorcists they knew!
The emblems and weapons of their chapter were firmly remembered by the two captains at this time, and the speculation about their identities formed a vague contrast with some information known only to the Astartes.

After returning to their own chapter station at a later time, the application for investigation and understanding of this chapter will be sent by the two to their respective parent station together with this information.

There are still many questions, but they cannot be discussed here.

At this time, besides the monks of the state religion, only the fighting nuns were left beside the two of them. These armed sequences under the dual leadership of the state religion and the court of justice were instinctively not included in their trusted list.

The accumulation and background of the original battle group made them believe in each other's position. On this planet where multiple imperial high-level armed forces are stationed, they only have true respect for each other.

Both of them decided to communicate privately with their thoughts and guesses after returning to the station.

After observing the strangeness of the two, the chiefs of the Sisters of Battle also had subtle eye contact.

The grand military parade gradually came to an end. Behind the terrace, a low-ranking priest belonging to the state religion quietly appeared beside the blood-red curtain, making subtle gestures to the managing cardinal.

"The top management has a call, if I leave."

The cardinal remained expressionless, and after apologizing to the commanders in a low voice, he held a sermon scepter covered with scriptures and walked inward accompanied by a group of entourages.

And when his gorgeous scarlet robe disappeared at the corner of the corridor, another cardinal took over the reception task, smiled and stretched out his right hand to invite everyone:
"The supreme judge will meet with the supreme administrator in the temples later, there is still time to rest, please come with me..."

　Two in one, update and ask for tickets.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)