Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 35 Witness and Inheritance

The door of the conference hall was opened, and Calvin, who had been waiting outside for a long time, entered the conference hall with 10 paladins.

When all the officers present saw Calvin, they all stood up and looked at him to show their respect.

A group of senior military officers headed by Supreme Mentor Walden stared at the young man in front of him.

They seemed to see in him the hope of the Legion, the possibility of the Emperor's last strategic decision on the direction of humanity before sitting on the throne.

He is not only the hope of the gray knights, but more likely the future hope of the human empire.

Walden pushed aside the crowd and walked up to Calvin, saying to him: "Young man, maybe you don't know what your coming means to us, but now you should understand how special you are to us in a certain sense. I don't ask you to understand these things now, but through the common will of all of us, we hope to witness your final trial for joining the group. So, what is your opinion on this?"

Calvin looked at the solemn-looking crowd in front of him, and vaguely understood that this was an important event beyond his imagination.

He didn't hesitate too much. The soldier's instinct allowed him to straighten his already huge body, and responded to the supreme mentor in front of him: "This is also my honor!"

The supreme mentor Walden was waiting for these words. He looked back at the crowd behind him, and then waved his hand concisely: "Let's go, Hall of Fear."

After speaking, he led Calvin and the officers and paladins behind him (chapter champion swordsmen) towards the last obstacle before joining the battle group on behalf of Calvin, or the procedure.

The Halls of Fear are located on the same deepest floor as the Burial Grounds guarded by the Ferryman Brothers.Except for the occasional recruit trial, there are rarely people visiting here.

Like the Boneyard, they are the closest to the unspeakable demonic seal beneath Titan.

This is a special place that was only discovered when the Gray Knights came to Titan after the founding of the army.

Also because of the particularity of this place, the evil thoughts and fragments emitted by the unique demons here are also logically used to identify the purity of recruits.

A Gray Knight recruit who manages to stay here for 48 hours will have his faith recognized by the entire Chapter.

Therefore, this is the last threshold for the recruits to the welcome dinner of the recruits in the Victory Hall; or, it is also a convenient way to the burial ground separated by a wall.

Today is different from the past. Under the leadership of the Supreme Mentor Walden, a luxurious team consisting of 10 highest-ranking officers of the Gray Knights, 10 champion swordsmen (Paladins) and our protagonist Calvin came here we go.

Before entering the hall, in order not to interfere with the ceremony, everyone except Calvin put on a special cloak that isolates psionic vision.

Then, led by the supreme mentor, the whole team filed in and sat in a circle at the edge of the hall.

And the center point of the circle is Calvin's position.Here they accompanied and monitored Calvin for 48 long hours.

During this time, no matter what kind of temptations the demons tried to interfere with Calvin, they would not intervene.

Only in the worst-case scenario, if Calvin was confirmed to have fallen, would they rise up and carry out his final execution.

But everyone in this hall is well aware of the upcoming test, and those who can complete the "holy blood test" head-on, the 48 hours of difficulty in this room may only be easier than sitting quietly .

The fact is also true, not long after Calvin sat down, there were lifeless demon fragments trying to approach Calvin.

Then, the moment the protagonist noticed it, he was obliterated by his gaze...

There were also more temptations, but only a few.After resisting Calvin's gaze, they barely touched his body, and then made valuable contributions to Calvin's soul restoration without any suspense.

They were shattered in howling, and the soul and energy attached to all the fragments were looted.

Even more interesting things happened when they attempted to regenerate from their imprints left in the Warp.

In the eyes of these low-level demons, this plunder was originally just a short-term setback. As long as they can return to the subspace, they can be resurrected there with the remaining marks.

And what they don't see is that in countless timelines, the same Calvin has carried out the same plunder on the same them.

Therefore, when all the possibilities represented by all the timelines are all attributed to one point by Calvin, who is like a threader, and they have no possibility of resurrection in the cause and effect, they disappear forever.

The night was safe and sound, and the demons sealed underground did not feel threatened, as if there had never been these fragments.

It just felt instinctively that the guy on his head in human skin was not an existence that he could try to transcend.

And as one of the representatives of the countless power fragments of the evil god in the subspace, its sudden weakening also naturally caused the evil god himself to peek at reality.

But after several rounds of touring and fruitless search attempts over a long period of time, the evil god had no choice but to retreat unwillingly.

He couldn't find any man-made traces in the long river of time, and in the end he could only conclude that he had either never had the power represented by these fragments, or he had fallen into the calculations of his "peers".

Thus, in the depths of the distant warp, with the angry howl of a huge figure on a brass throne, a meaningless eternal holy war between gods and gods began.

There is no need for any reason, just like their countless wars before.

48 hours passed by in a flash, and in the eyes of the gray knights whose physical strength surpassed that of ordinary people, this was just a not-so-long meditation.

In their eyes, Calvin's counterattack against the demon's attack did not seem to be any different from theirs.

With the sound of the brass clock at the door, everyone slowly got up.And Calvin, who heard the sound, also woke up from the sitting meditation that started in the second half.

Calvin was taken by Walden to the auditorium on the top of Titan facing Terra.

After entering the chapel, everyone spontaneously stood in sequence along the red carpets on both sides, waiting to witness the arrival of that great moment.

Here, under the witness of the sacred Titan sword in the center of the auditorium, he was given the original power armor of the holy shield. (In order to find parts to match his gigantic size, the chapter's equipment sergeants improvised a few suitable parts from vacant Aegis dreadnoughts.)
Then, Walden pulled out the dagger that he often wore around his waist and stuck it in Calvin's waist.

Walden turned around, took him to face the Titan's sword on the reliquary, and solemnly recited the oath that had been passed down for thousands of years:

"Use Faith as Armor!"

"Armor of Faith"

"Take faith as a shield!"

"Take faith as a shield!"

"Arm our souls with pure nature!"

"Arm our souls with pure nature!"

"I would like to use this body to demonstrate the majesty of the emperor!"

"I would like to use this body to demonstrate the majesty of the emperor!"

"I am, the Holy Gray Knight!"

"I am, the Holy Gray Knight!"

"I am, the enemy of chaos!"

"I am, the enemy of chaos!"

When the sound of the last oath resounded through the chapel, behind Calvin, everyone in the chapel knelt down on one knee in a solemn atmosphere.

In the solemn and sacred candlelight in the chapel, they repeated the last sentence of the oath in unison with Calvin:

"I am, the enemy of chaos!"

　Book friends, don't learn from me, I really feel sorry for affecting you because of my work and rest in the underworld.Here I still want to say it again:
　　Don't stay up late, staying up late is the "privilege" of us coders

　　Good night, everyone who likes this book.

　　the quiet holin river
　　2022/05/17
　　02/46 am
　　
　
(End of this chapter)