Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 450 Black and Red, Planning in the Shadows (35) Vision, the empire does not need gods.

On the hills at the edge of Selind Crater, the Emperor Titan, the Borei, fell silent again three hours after entering the Primarch.

All the way back from the cab, Calvin appeared on top of the Titan, reassuring the Honor Guard and Hepper who had been waiting.

But he himself was looking at the boiling lava beneath his feet, recalling the last conversation he had just had with Speyer.

"You should come with me, if your vision is real." Calvin said solemnly to Speyer.

"How would you use me?" Speyer's smile was gone, replaced by a quiet scrutiny.It is good to be able to live, but if the future given by Calvin does not match his philosophy, then he would rather stay here forever.

"No, it's not how I want to drive you, but our ideal needs more companions." Calvin spread his palms.

In the glorious bloom of psionic energy, the pure land of soul in his spiritual world showed Speyer its complete form.

"The empire and mankind do not need a new god." Speyer's expression became more serious.

This is a discussion of ideas, but also a debate on future visions.If the future given by Calvin is not what he wants, then he would rather remain silent forever in this unknown corner.

"Of course! The empire and mankind don't need a new god...but at least for now, it needs a fulcrum." Calvin repeated Speyer's words, which meant he agreed with his point of view.And the second half of his sentence is a crazy guess after a long thought.

The original help to the Blood Ravens was based on this speculation, and now the appearance of Speyer has verified this idea from another direction.

"You, swear?" Spier looked Calvin straight in the eye.

Both of them are showing themselves with the most fundamental posture at this time, and the oath cannot tolerate any falsehood here.

And if Calvin had the slightest possibility of being unwilling to fulfill his promise, this oath from the soul could not stand.

"I swear!" Calvin's words were simple and powerful, while Speyer gradually smiled after careful examination.

He looked at everything around him with some nostalgia, and then made up his mind and asked Calvin:

"Are you leaving here? What do I need to do?"

"You don't need to do anything, you just need to sleep for a while, and wait for the conditions here to mature."

As Calvin spoke, he took out the coat of arms belonging to the Order of Ominous Order from his waist. Because of the Psionic Titan, this coat of arms also contained some rare psionic crystals, which were used as spies. My temporary shelter couldn't be more suitable.

He also made up his mind that after returning to Terra, he must find the home planet of the Storm Lord Legion and ask for the information that Speyer kept there.And if his home planet is no longer there, then go back to Mars to find it, because this legion was originally one of the three Titan legions established by Mars.

And with the style of Mars, the genes of the pilots of the main battle group will definitely have a backup.

He also noticed the regret in Speyer's eyes, so Calvin said half jokingly and half seriously:
"Are you reluctant to part with your old buddy? Don't worry, it will come back to you sooner or later."

"A deal?" Spier asked.

"A word is settled!"

Calvin replied, and then watched as Speyer's soul was taken away by him, and the liquid metal in the solidified state lost its support, turning into liquid and splashing in the Titan's command room...
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On Titan's shoulders, the wind from the Forge World full of industrial waste was howling. Calvin looked at the crimson sea of ​​lava beneath his feet, and the communication from the Forge World rang through the communicator in his ear.

"Is everything going well? Your Excellency."

"It's okay." Calvin answered Mayne's temptation while doing psychological construction for himself.

Letting a living person jump into the magma with a temperature of [-] degrees is really a scary thing to think about.Even Calvin, who is the Primarch, needs to overcome his body's survival instinct.

"Then can we execute the receiving procedure?" Mayne was in the mechanical ark on the orbit.And the scanning array in front of him was seeing every move of the Primarch from a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers.

"Wait a minute, there is still something to be resolved." Calvin opened his eyes again, and the spiritual shield and power armor's life support system that he had repeatedly checked finally convinced him.

And just when Mayne on the track was about to ask again, amidst the exclamations of the high-ranking mechanical priests, the mysterious Primarch from Terra jumped high from the Titan's shoulders, and then with a In the standard diving posture, he jumped heavily into the boiling magma!
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There was silence on the bridge of the Mechanical Ark, and Mayne, who had been dazed for a while, finally came back to his senses.

He wanted to turn his head around and prove from other colleagues that it was his sensory chip that had a problem just now, thus creating some kind of hallucination.

But the same creaking sound of the metal cervical vertebrae, and the same shocking and garbled electronic throat sound made him know that he hadn't made any misjudgment just now—the Primarch, indeed, fell into the The liquid ore veins on the outside of Selind's forge are in.

"Uh..." Mayne moaned, suddenly not knowing what to say.

The master of the forge standing behind him finally came to his senses, and comforted his foundry director in a relatively calm tone:

"That shouldn't be an accident."

"Isn't it an accident?" Mayne clung to Fardin's words as if he had found a life-saving straw.

"That means he jumped down on his own initiative?"

"Should... yes." Solan, the deputy casting supervisor, also came back to his senses, and stepped forward to activate the playback function of the holographic projection.

After the three-dimensional holographic image flickered for a while, Calvin's action of jumping into the sea of ​​lava appeared again.

The movement of the Primarch slowed down frame by frame, finally letting Mayne's hanging heart relax.

But he still confirmed with his colleagues again and again: "He...that lord jumped down on his own initiative, right?"

"Yes." Soran stared at Calvin's movements on the holographic projection, and gave a cautious answer.

"Although I don't know the reason why this adult is so adventurous, but since he can jump, there must be a reason for him to go, and he should have the ability to protect himself."

"Mech God!" Mayne prayed in a low voice.

His particle energy heart has been implanted and has been running stably for centuries, but at that moment just now he clearly heard this machine's frantic alarm!

A Primarch, the last remaining Primarch of the Empire!

If he just died on his planet without any reason, then he and his colleagues can prepare their own ashes from now on.

You don't even need to look for a cemetery, because it is impossible to have the treatment of burial in situ...

"You don't have to worry..." Solan wanted to continue persuading his superior, but Mayne, who closed his eyes and finished a prayer, opened his eyes and interrupted him.

"What about the observation data from other directions? One counts as one! From now on, I will gather them together and store them encrypted! Ah yes! There must be backups! Back up a hundred copies for me, and then hide them in the recently prepared In the cargo hold of a merchant ship sailing!"

"Yes! Your will!" All the high-ranking priests bowed at the same time to show that they had received the order from the foundry director.

Although this order seems a little crazy, it's better to be crazy at this time than to be completely dull...

　One more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)