Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 30 The Long War

"In the distant Warhammer universe of 41K, war will be everywhere."

Well, Calvin didn't have the chance to see this sentence in his previous life, but a war waged at the level of cells in his body was indeed beyond his expectation.

When the blood first entered Calvin's body, his energy was still focused on how to solve his "data redundancy" problem.

And after the blood entered Calvin's chest, it was not active enough to take any action because of the cryopreservation.The two sides of this body spent a short and peaceful period in this way.

As time went by, the cold blood was slowly activated by the temperature in the chest cavity, and the cells in these blood began to show some instinctive viciousness.

The cells in the blood don't have a will of their own, they only have a little bit of instinct.

And these instincts will drive them to invade this body, copy their own RNA and snatch as many nutrients as possible to copy and spread them.

Until the entire body is eroded and replaced, as for the completely replaced body collapsing because there is no corresponding will coming, it is not a problem that these cells can consider.

In a sense, if the will of the host is not strong enough to achieve a certain symbiosis with them.

Well, they are cancers.They are viruses.

These cells are not in a hurry to announce their existence to the original owner here.

On the one hand, they covertly infiltrate from the pleura, spread and begin to replicate themselves; on the other hand, after completely replacing the original cell functions of the pleura, they did not expand wantonly, but launched a new round of penetration to the deeper heart .

When the arterial bypass closest to the pleural tissue began to be infiltrated by these golden cells and spread all the way to the ventricle, Calvin's original heart was gradually replaced by the tissue composed of these foreign cells without his knowledge.

The whole heart is dyed from the original red to gold stroke by stroke from the inside to the outside like an invisible paintbrush.

Until this time, Calvin had just escaped from the inner spiritual world, and the invaders who had power in their hands and benefited from the sufficient nutritional supply of the heart arteries finally gave up their disguise and exposed their ferocious fangs.

They wantonly intercept the nutrients carried in the blood flowing through the arteries of the heart, and then kill and transform these nutrients and the red blood cells responsible for transporting them into one of them.Then these newly born golden cells joined Calvin's circulatory system along the arterial circuit of the heart, sweeping all the way down.

Both the lungs and the liver had no nerves, which made Calvin's reaction a bit dull.

It wasn't until the gallbladder tissue and the cells of the digestive system represented by the stomach died and replaced on a large scale, and the electrical signals of severe pain from the neurons were captured by Calvin's brain, and Calvin, who felt the abnormality in his body, subconsciously turned his spiritual vision Turn to the inside of your body.

He was shocked to find that these intruders were centering on the heart in a grand manner, and were attacking all the organs in his body along the aorta of the heart.

The cells and tissues of blood vessels and organs along the way were all necrotic under the attack of these golden invaders, and then absorbed and replaced by new golden cells on the spot.

The rapid spread of the trend made him have no time to think, so he could only use his spiritual energy to concentrate on the undefended organs instinctively, trying to delay this sudden defeat through resistance at the cellular level.

However, the effect was not satisfactory, Calvin had absolutely no experience in the application of psionic energy at the cellular level.

Even benefiting from the compulsory education in his previous life, his knowledge of biomedicine is lacklustre.

To describe Calvin's medical knowledge in one sentence, "Only the cubs of Ruth in the wolf group are more illiterate than him."

The liver, lungs, gallbladder, pancreas, digestive system, and kidneys were lost one after another, and the flames of war quickly spread to the outer peritoneum and muscles closer to the body surface, cutting off Calvin's connection with his limbs.

It also declared that his last territory was only the head above the neck.

The above situation is actually what every gray knight will encounter during the transformation operation, and it is also the last difficulty: how to survive the invasion of these mysterious and sacred blood.

It's easy to say, after the initial collection of gold, the back door has been prepared for these future "hosts".

Behind their semblance of aggression is a magnified telepathy.

When a Gray Knight apprentice is cornered by these invaders and is about to die, what are they most likely to do at the end of their lives, if their allegiance is true?

It is prayer, praying with determination and awareness that I have never had before.Their souls, as well as their psychic frequency, will be closer to the Emperor than ever before, and such psychic fluctuations are the key to unlocking this mortal situation.

These golden invaders will gradually fade away after sensing the corresponding spiritual energy fluctuations, leaving the second or third generation or even weaker descendant cells as the final result of this transformation.

And the most aggressive ones are also the first-generation cells that are closest to the main body, but because the cells of high-energy organisms must have the support of high-energy host will.

In the end, they will lose the support of the divine will for a long time and all die.

All of the above have the most basic condition, that is, the candidates for the Gray Knights must believe in their Almighty Lord wholeheartedly.

On the contrary, mortals who do not believe in Him will be unable to resist His will and the invasion of these cells.

And if it is a high-energy race such as demons and spirits, if they dare to try like this?
Then this blood will be like promethium, or even far higher than promethium, and immediately use the flames that burn its body and soul to compensate for this blasphemy.

Calvin did not belong to either, he never believed in the emperor like he believed in gods, so he would not choose to ask others for help when encountering difficulties; Cells rummaged through his body but could not find a trace of filth from the Warp.

As a result, he, who was tough-headed, could only fight the intruders who were equally dull and only knew how to achieve their instinctive goals.

From the first step of defeat, even being killed without armor and armor could not eliminate an enemy; when retreating to the neck, it could accidentally bring a little damage to these golden cells.Calvin's psychic ability has progressed rapidly in microcosmic operations.

And when the first golden cell was killed, Calvin also noticed the other party's powerful secret: from a microscopic perspective, the outer wall of each golden cell was engraved with symbols representing the sacred and pure spiritual energy of human beings. imprint.

Following his example, Calvin also began to upgrade and iterate his existing cells. Starting from the first imprint, he patiently made the initial transformation of his cells.

With the addition of these new cells, the hopeless war gradually revealed the dawn of victory.

In the real world, the screaming monitor was turned off by the impatient pharmacist.

After discovering that this battle still failed to completely threaten Calvin's life, the pharmacists couldn't do much except increase the supply of energy and materials to the medical cabin.

The great mentors who were urgently called also left after a brief understanding of the situation on the scene.Only Aidan, who had brought Calvin here, was still waiting here.

Calvin's battle continued, but with growing optimism.He found that these intruders really only fought according to their instincts.

Even when he was in the most critical situation of guarding his head, these cells never thought of cutting off the nutrient supply in this direction, but simply charged Calvin wave after wave.

The body's own cells are strengthened over time.Although they were still unable to compare with these invaders, with the support of Calvin's divine will, they gradually gained the upper hand in the war.

Starting from the cervical spine, collarbone, shoulders, heart, lungs... the battles are getting shorter and shorter.

Finally, after reaching a certain critical point, Calvin, who seemed to have fulfilled a certain hidden condition, found that the golden cells on the opposite side no longer resisted.

As a result, the fierce war between the two sides turned into a takeover after unilateral surrender.From the perspective of external observation, his body also quickly returned from the original pale gold to the original white.

Calvin, who was overjoyed, had no time to think about it, but watched his own cells instinctively attack and metabolize these lost grounds.

Relaxed, he fell into a long-lost black sleep, unable to maintain his exhausted spirit and nearly dry spiritual energy.On the monitor, his physical signs finally stabilized slowly.

What a tough day...

(End of this chapter)