Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 421 Black and Red, Planning in the Shadows ([-]) Unexpected Responsibility: Faith and Soul Belonging
After waking up, Calvin and Golden returned to their residence together, and then returned to their private chapel as soon as the door was closed.

Calvin, who had ensured his privacy from prying eyes, closed his eyes and entered his spiritual world again.And this time his target is very clear, that is, that Kerbers who inexplicably appeared in his "Pure Land of Soul".

Rising... Converging... Philosopher... Detachment...

Projection... Condensation... Cloud... Present world...

The speed of light crossed the boundary between these levels of the supreme heaven and the spiritual world, and Calvin pointed his gaze to the city in the center of the pure land of souls, and then outside the gate of the huge palace made of steel, he saw Cerberus at the end of the crowd.

"Kerbes..." The revelation from the clouds awakened the Astartes in his prime from his quiet prayers.

He looked up at the sky above his head, with a look of surprise flashing across his eyes.

"Kerbes..." Calvin called him again, the world of idealism changed with his thoughts, and the two appeared face to face in the empty temple in the next second.

"My lord." Cerberus looked at Calvin in front of him and saluted, but he knelt down halfway and couldn't continue.

"Don't kneel!" Calvin's words were like a supreme edict. Under his will, every inch of space here, including Cerberus himself, obeyed his orders.

"Obey." The tall Astartes warrior stood up straight and looked at the god in front of him seriously.

At this time, Calvin was also worthy of this sacred title. Standing in front of the tall warrior, he was even taller in a white robe and a crown on his head.

The icon of the emperor stands tall behind him, and a beam of light shoots down from the top of the emperor's head to cover him, and on the back of Calvin's head, the halo that appeared a long time ago is still very appropriate in "Holy, holy!" "Singing...

"Shut up!" Sensing Kerbers' thoughts, Calvin turned off the "sound and light effects" behind him with a little embarrassment.

When the echo of "Holy, holy" in the temple dissipated, he had time to face the uninvited guest in front of him:
"Why are you here, Cerberus?" This was Calvin's biggest doubt, and it was also the approach of some kind of ominous premonition lingering in his heart.

At this moment, Cerberus is neither the mortals who entrusted their faith and hope to him, nor the gray knights who made a contract with him.

His history and whereabouts have nothing to do with Calvin. A son of the Thirteenth Legion who clearly belonged to the Emperor, a son of Guilliman who believed in the truth of the Empire or the "God-Emperor Ascension Theory", where would he go?How could he appear in his "Pure Land" after death?
"My Lord, in the midst of endless despair, you have given us salvation. In the midst of endless darkness, only you are willing to send down the light of mercy..."

"All right, all right..." After listening to the first sentence, Calvin waved his hand and interrupted Cerberus.

It is enough to have the first sentence, and there is no need to listen to the subsequent words of praise. There are already enough people who praise him, and he does not need this kind of affirmation.

Mess up!It's all messed up!

Calvin turned around twice, while Cerberus quietly waited in front of him.

Shouldn't you be like the gods of the state religion of the empire said, after death, the glorious soul returns to the golden throne?

The emperor is short of people!Food and housing are included, there is staffing, labor insurance (can be resurrected), you don't go to his old man's house, what are you doing here with me!
redemption?Is redemption worth it?How many throne coins?

That's just his Calvin job duty, okay?

Well, even if we took a ten thousand step back, Calvin really wanted to save these dark souls out of his acknowledgment of the Emperor's vision and his conscience.

But it can't, as long as it is a soul that has been redeemed by his hands, it must rely on him with a shameless face, right?

You obviously have more choices!
Also, isn't this the Emperor's father's job?Why did it fall on his head in a daze?
He was originally worried about those people in his private plot, but now it's good. If it goes on like this, wouldn't it mean that he would recruit a group of people after a fight?

What if his private land is a compound?Just highlight one and come when you want?Is it over yet?

The influence left by Orpheus before was enough to give him a headache.The people there did not know where they had arranged for him the title of "Ambry of Ashes", claiming that he was the Emperor's apostle walking in this world.

Citizens of the empire throughout the Orpheus sector are praying to him, including but not limited to Lyak, Hassan, Yuldis, Orpheus, the entire sector, spread over the decades About the title of "Ambry of Ashes"!

This group of rammed goods is even spreading outward!

According to the authorities of the Storm Star Region afterwards, the wars in the four star regions including Orpheus, Hassan, Yurdis, and Layak ended early, so that the star region government, which is fighting for other wars in the star region at the same time, , relieved the great pressure.

Moreover, with the fact that the four star regions including Orpheus merged into one sector, the powerful sector government recovered the vigor lost in the previous war within a few decades.

And the state religion of the empire also played a very important role in this.

The pilgrims from the direction of Ophelia 7 can bring huge economic benefits to the entire Orpheus sector every year, and at the same time, they are also continuously sending the elite population of the entire Storm Star Field here .

In the following decades, the Orpheus sector not only recovered its ability to export industrial products with abundant manpower, but also paid tribute to the No less than 3000 million star troops were sent to various battlefields in the entire Storm Star Field!
This is a good thing!But the bad thing is that the name of the "Ash Angel" is also expanding to various battlefields in the entire Storm Star Field through these channels of population and material diffusion.

Among them, Calvin's "contractor", the "living saint" officially conferred by the empire, and the great confessor Marduk even contributed to the flames, wandering on various battlefields throughout the Storm Starfield.

The state religion of the empire not only did not stop the behavior of the "Grand Confessor Marduk", but on the contrary, he was happy to see his arrogance of promoting the emperor and "Saint Calvin" at the same time.

They sent more than 7 priests from Ophelia No. [-] Seminary to join Marduk's team.

These fanatical believers who witnessed Calvin's redemption of the entire Ophelia 7 used their professional theological knowledge and fanatical evangelism to add to the bonfire full of "accidents". Counting the firewood...

The Holy Hermitage, located on Ophelia 7, also participated in this armed pilgrimage.

A large number of Battle Sisters appear in companies among these mortal forces.With their excellent fighting qualities and powerful weapons and equipment, they successfully assumed the responsibility of the core force in the tide-like mortal army.

The authorities of the Tempest region were quite surprised by this, because they tried to mobilize these "Emperor's Daughters" more than once.

But because they accept the dual leadership of the Empire State Church and the Inquisition at the same time, and their profound backgrounds, the generals of the Star Border Army and the Imperial Navy have no choice but to let them decide to participate or withdraw from any battlefield.

But now that was gone, and the Battle Sisters followed the armed pilgrims to crush the enemy with overwhelming force, carrying victory from one battlefield to the next.

Regarding this "miracle" phenomenon that happened in the Storm Star Field, the top-level structure of the empire kept a weird silence.

The court supervised the whole process of the situation in the Storm Starfield, but did not express any opinions.This is probably because they never thought that one day, the source of privately spreading the empire's beliefs would be their own supreme lord.

It is not that no one tried to question this phenomenon, but as the source of this phenomenon, the current Supreme Lord Judge of the Imperial Tribunal, the head of the Holy Hammer Order, and the Lord of the Gray Knights Legion are themselves the eyes of the new Empire. creator.

Although his every move on Terra was strictly kept secret, after he left Terra, the news that he entered the Throne Chamber to meet the Emperor was deliberately disseminated by the Custodian and the Tribunal. All over Terra, and then to the Inquisition through internal channels throughout the Empire.

No one can question his loyalty, just as no one can question the Gray Knight's record of never falling for thousands of years;
No one can question his purity, because this is a man who can walk out from the depths of the throne room alive under the witness of the imperial army...

The Astartes battlegroup kept a cautious wait-and-see view on this, perhaps because of the isolation of information, otherwise their attitude might be more radical.

And even in this situation of information isolation, these pragmatic soldiers will not reject the free soldiers spontaneously organized by the pilgrims.

Although the results of this kind of belief spread endorsed by the state religion of the empire are unknown, at least it has indeed brought a huge amount of available troops.And the average quality of these free soldiers is quite impressive.

At least in the eyes of these Astartes who have been cooperating with the Imperial Star Militia for a long time, the average quality and equipment of the former is far higher than the mixed good and bad of the latter...

Only the upper echelons of the Astral Army and the generals of the Imperial Navy have expressed their opinions, but in the face of these "rich" troops who have purchased their own weapons with the support of the Forged World of Gria, they can't use their own unsightly record to refute the existence of the opponent...

Yes, the Forge World of Gloria and the Krieger Forge Alliance hidden behind it supported the equipment of these armed pilgrims throughout the process.

But they did not suffer any losses because of this. Even in the face of self-purchase orders from pilgrims and a large number of heavy equipment orders from the Orps sector, these two industrial systems still have a lot of profits...

As a result, the spread of Calvin's faith lost its last resistance in the Storm Star Field.Without any control or accusation, they spread rapidly in a strange way during the more than ten years of war.

And a hidden knowledge is that the more war-torn the place, the less able the desperate people are to resist the salvation and hope brought by faith...

So of course, many years after Calvin left Orpheus, the souls who died in various wars still came to him in a steady stream.

And until the major battlefields in the Storm Starfield gradually calm down, this tide of souls is still moving towards a higher peak, with a prairie fire that will intensify.

Calvin has long suffered from the influx of these souls, because as a gray knight, no matter how special his status is, he is only doing what a warrior should do.

In his eyes, the ownership and whereabouts of the soul and faith are the exclusive responsibility of the emperor.

This kind of too metaphysical matter has little to do with him, as long as he fulfills his promise to the emperor, as a warrior or at most a commander, he can fight to the death to defend the interests of the human race up.

This is his simple and unsophisticated thinking, and this is what he has been doing.He has always had an evasive attitude towards the souls coming from the direction of the storm star field.

Because seeing these souls who pinned their hopes and beliefs on him, he actually felt confused and fearful...

But the appearance of Kerbers obviously broke his false peace.Using the fact of its own existence, this unexpected soul slammed Calvin's head stuck in the sand.

He had to accept that if he continued to fight, then more souls would definitely come to him. What happened in the Storm Star Field and Orpheus was not accidental, but a kind of destiny led by fate the result of.

Calvin broke the defense!Calvin was in tears!
What is he capable of? He wants to fight in the empire's borders while he is alive, to work hard to protect the living imperial citizens, and to become their god after death, to provide rest for the souls of the dead imperial citizens. where?

Made!After bowing and dying, right? 996 and 007 are not so excessive!
Thinking of Calvin here, he couldn't help crying for his "beautiful" future...

At this time, Kerbers still couldn't understand his suffering, but stood in front of his savior with a simple and honest face.

　renew!Hey!I actually caught up!The previous leave does not count!not count!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)