Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 408 Echoes of Courage and Loyalty ([-]) Webway, and the Lost Seal
"We're in trouble..."

Calvin, who was standing in front of the entrance of the webway, communicated with Tibers and listened to his conversation with the Ultramarines in real time, while looking up at this ancient creation that seemed to float again from the long river of time.

This is a huge building with a height of [-] meters, and the part exposed from the surrounding rocks is tens of meters high.

The extremely simple geometric lines constitute its main curve, and the reliefs composed of complicated plant stems and leaves, flowers and inscriptions of unknown meaning fill the huge facade within its field of vision.

The building was exuding a distinctly different lively atmosphere at this time, and it was this atmosphere that made Calvin and everyone behind him silent, and everyone was reluctant to break the silence for a while.

This is not the effect of witchcraft, nor is it the influence of some supernatural force.

When he saw this building and pulled away from the shocking emotions, Calvin understood where his silence came from. This was the expression of a race with a history of only tens of thousands of years when it saw the end of time. , Shock from instinct.

This is also similar to the first time after the establishment of the heliocentric theory that human beings face up to the boundless starry sky above their heads, and they sincerely sigh from their own cognition for the vast galaxy composed of planets as large as the earth under their feet.

This is their awe of the power of another civilization, and this is also their sharp sword against all threats as human beings, and their introspection on the fate of these vanished civilizations.

So he didn't bother those imperial guards and gray knights, because this itself was also a spiritual baptism.

He just silently clenched the hilt of the big sword in his hand, and then strode towards the main entrance of the webway.

boom!
A muffled voice woke everyone up, and Nicholas saw that the Primarch walked up to the stone arch, and with a seemingly understated punch, he slammed heavily on the intricate and gorgeous hollow carvings of the arch.

A faint energy emanated from the stone carving, and at the moment when the original body's heavy fist fell, it blocked the original body's temptation with gentle and just right strength.

The dull voice echoed in the silent square, and the Templars behind them couldn't help but stop when they saw this scene.

They knew the power possessed by the Primarch, so they also understood better how frightening strength this unknown plant carving possessed under its seemingly fragile structure.

Well, physical destruction is at least impossible, so how about using energy in another way?

neither...

Calvin tried to probe his power towards this portal, but unexpectedly, this portal seemed to exist independently from reality and subspace at the energy level.

Calvin's powerful psychic energy either couldn't find a target to use in reality, or was drawn into the webway the moment he entered the subspace.

After thousands of repeated attempts in a few seconds, Calvin finally came to a conclusion:
If it can't be completely detonated from the inside out, then the most effective way to destroy this kind of building is to use the battleship's light spear to carry out a short-term, saturated energy bombardment.

And this is obviously unrealistic, at least after he looked at the tens of kilometers thick crust above his head, he gave up this unrealistic idea.

Do you want to dig here a little bit?impossible!

This portal has already communicated with reality, and just like Calvin can smell the breath in the webway, the countless demons lurking there will also be aware of the flaws here sooner or later.

Although the situation in front of him seemed calm, the time left for Calvin was actually running out.

"How did you deal with this kind of thing before?"

Calvin simply stopped the temptation in his hands, and while continuing to listen to the conversation on the track, he asked Nicholas, the company commander of the Imperial Army, who was beside him.

"Look at its specific situation. If the internal structure is simple, it will be detonated directly from the inside. If the external space is fragile, it will be directly destroyed by a battleship." Nicholas thought for a while and then responded to Calvin.

"What about this one?" Calvin pointed to the building in front of him, and immediately realized:
If they could really deal with it, then the imperial guards would not keep this threat until now.

And Nicholas's answer was indeed the same. He looked at this huge arch that was big enough for a Titan to pass through, and he just said helplessly to Calvin:

"This...is a special case. Its existence itself is a natural result of the influence of the nearby space structure. I guess its builder also made good use of the situation to achieve the miracle in front of him.

We have no good way to deal with this naturally formed "portal". We can only use some ancient "relic-level" equipment in the throne room to interfere with their energy circuits and force them to enter a dormant state.

And look..."

Following Nicholas' finger, Calvin saw an inconspicuous defect in the center of the arch.

There was a small defect in the stone sculpture there, and although it was difficult to identify with the vision of ordinary people, Calvin could still see that this part of the gap was repairing itself under the supply of energy, and it was undergoing a subtle regeneration.

According to the logic of the surrounding sculpture content, what is missing in the gap surrounded by branches and leaves should be a petal surrounded by thorns.

wrong!Calvin looked at it carefully, and felt that the missing part looked familiar.

He suddenly turned around to look at Nicholas, and then found the answer he had been looking for on the shoulder armor of his power armor - an imperial eagle surrounded by thorns and soaring.

"Can it repair itself? And that's your seal?" Calvin asked hesitantly.

This answer is too bizarre, because he will not be surprised by the content of this alien civilization's creation, but it is absolutely impossible for the eagle emblem representing the empire to appear here.

That can only be the acquired interference of the imperial guards in this building, and forcibly embedded this emblem into it by some means, replacing its original energy circuit.

And if the answer is really the case, then he will have to re-examine the technical strength of the forbidden army.

There are good things in the throne room...

I am still young, next time I have the opportunity to visit, I must not come out empty-handed like this time...

"Huh?" Trajan, Marshal of the Imperial Army, who was in an office deep in the palace area in the distant direction of Terra, suddenly felt an unusual itching at the end of his upper respiratory tract that was in contact with the outside air.

He stopped writing with the gold-plated quill pen in his hand, and a powerful aura erupted with his intentions, stirring silently in this small room.

"My lord..." In the shadow of the office, a guard of the imperial guard appeared silently.

The power armor on his body is black and gold, and the helmet peak is completely black as night.

Different from the typical halberd that comes with the conventional Achilles power armor, what he holds tightly in his hand is a heavy flail with a crystal-like translucent color.

"It's okay, let's get back." Trajan didn't look up, but returned to the work in front of him after a short pause.

Since the Guards of the Forbidden Army officially came back, the entire Terra and even the entire defense intelligence have opened channels for him to circulate.

The establishment of the Eye of the Empire made this strategic vision more complete. At this time, he was worried about Calvin who was far away in Jamolo, worried that he would make another decision after knowing the difficult situation he was about to face. what choice...

"Yes, but it will be very slow, and that is exactly our seal. Its sealing effect is based on the strength of the building itself, and if the missing part cannot be recovered before the building completes self-repair, then It is almost impossible for us to seal it again," Nicholas replied.

"So, that's why Appius was able to break the seal." Calvin nodded, sort of resolving his previous doubts.

He had doubts before, if he couldn't destroy the webway and the seal with his strength, how could a mere depraved Astartes do it?
And Nicholas' explanation explains this problem, so the purpose of the following is simple.

Find that missing seal, or in other words, find Appius.

Calvin looked at the imperial guards and gray knights around him, and after careful consideration, he decided to leave some of them in charge of the garrison.

At the same time, the meeting above the track just came to an end. He and Tabers briefly explained the current situation here, and then he led the remaining six people into the interior of the webway.

　Update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)