Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 83 Congealing and Stealing

The torrent like the Milky Way continues to pour, but the flood will eventually come to an end.

In the idealistic spiritual world, everything has absolute symbolic meaning.

Since this external disaster finally chose torrents and rainstorms as its form, just like the story of Noah's Ark, seven days and seven nights will be his full power.

And this also happens to correspond to the holy number of the god who is both life and corruption.

Is it really a coincidence?Or is it that his nature has always been a disaster?

No one can tell clearly, and no one dares to explore.

After all, that one existed earlier than the human race.

And there are stories about him that have extraordinary power because of his holy name.

All mortals who dare to explore have already died of the disease and pollution under His boundless power when they turned the first page of the book engraved with His real name.

The name of the gods cannot be said, and the gods cannot be explored.

They may still have a long way to go from being truly omniscient and omnipotent.

But if you take the initiative to mention his name, or explore within the scope of the domain covered by his power.

That is no different from offering Him with hands up your soul.

When it is necessary to use some unique titles to refer to them, it is the safest way for those who really get involved in these things related to the gods.

This is the bloody lesson that human beings have learned after countless attempts to cross the boundary between humans and gods with their weak but tenacious mortal bodies for tens of thousands of years.

Not just mortals, even some existences that have obtained some extraordinary gifts due to accidental factors are no exception.

In the existence of the Chaos Gods, who are detached from the long river of time, a mere trace of extraordinaryness is nothing more than the difference between a northern cockroach or a southern cockroach in their eyes.

It doesn't matter whether it's big or small, they will crush you to pieces.

Only by thoroughly finding your own subspace essence can you have the qualifications to avoid these existences that are indescribable in horror, instead of holy battles.

Fighting is a reciprocal vocabulary between gods and gods.

Perhaps from a personal point of view, it can barely match the word fighting from the perspective of the entire human race and civilization, but it is only barely.

Therefore, compared with fighting, in the eyes of the very few beings in the entire empire who really understand the relationship between chaos and humans, it is obviously more appropriate and appropriate to use the word "struggle" to describe the relationship between humans and the gods of chaos.

Have you ever caught a mouse?I caught it.

When you corner a mouse, even the mouse that knows its own death will shudder and stare.

It will use all the strength in its small body to let out an angry cry at you.

Faced with the opponent's wild attack at that moment, you will inevitably be frightened by the ferociousness brought by the opponent's desire to survive, but this does not affect you to kill him with a single blow with the mop in your hand after recovering.

And this is no different from the resistance of human beings when they face evil gods.

The existence of Calvin probably belongs to something similar to the cry of human beings in this originally desperate game.

But fortunately, his essence is not a mouse, or he is a passing monster who was mistakenly recognized as a mouse because he looks like a mouse and thinks he is a mouse.

This is the luck of human beings, and it is also the cognitive limitation of the Chaos Gods.

After all, you can't ask Truman to understand existence outside his world.

But no matter what, when Calvin entered this world by countless coincidences and joined the human race with the emperor's permission, there was finally a little light for the originally dark future of this race.

The essence of the soul is the foundation beyond the mundane.

Calvin, who has completed the unification of the concept of self in many timelines, naturally satisfies this condition that isolates the vast majority of people.

Power is the bargaining chip and weapon that can really affect the outcome.

Now, however, is the critical moment for Calvin to essentially acquire, or rather steal, a power that originally belonged to the gods.

Countless souls redeemed by him prayed for his name on the promised land in Calvin's spiritual world.

And the power of these prayers finally gathered into the power of faith also accelerated the growth of the concept of salvation in his hands and the final condensation of authority.

Gein Calvin's behavior was actually practicing the righteousness called "salvation", and the faith he gained was just a surprise that came later.

Calvin was extremely cautious about the power of faith.

This stems from the fact that there are two cores in the icy sun he witnessed when he first came to this universe, and they are directly related.

It is necessary to emphasize again that in this idealistic world, apart from reality, the subspace exists in it with strict symbolic meaning, just like the personal spiritual world.

So what do the two cores of that sun symbolize?

Two different wills, or two visions that cannot co-exist.Or what is more serious is that there are two cores in the soul itself.

The sun with two cores in Calvin's perspective, the golden core is its original owner at a glance;
The meaning of the other white core seemed unknown to Calvin at the time, and he failed to understand its meaning at the time.

But at this moment, when he saw with his own eyes these colorful powers of faith gathered from different souls.

When he witnessed these beliefs finally from their different colors, the reverse prism generally converged into the pure white of the sum of all colors.

He understood everything.

It turns out that the seemingly pure white that Calvin saw back then hides such complicated wishes and desires!
All of this became reasonable after he was reborn in the empire and knew the existence of the "State Religion".

After all, the second core in that sun was born carrying the prayers of the trillions of people in the entire empire for that one.

Unfortunately, in some real historical records that Calvin knew, the existence of this kind of prayer itself was something that the emperor who had been pursuing the rationality of the entire human race and rejecting divinity did not want to see.

The emperor, never thought of becoming a god emperor.

So, the bad effect happened like this.

When the power of faith you accept, or have to accept, deviates from your own spiritual will.

what should you do?
In Calvin's view, the best way is to reject or destroy the source of this power of belief in the first place.

But the popularization of the "state religion" happened after the emperor was seriously injured and trapped on the throne.

The troubles that were once within easy reach for the emperor are now really something that he can't reach.

The Emperor was immortal, so Calvin never doubted that the Emperor would be able to recover when he or someone else was able to replace the Emperor himself to sit at the entrance of the webway that was on the verge of collapse.

The Emperor was bound to recover, if someone could buy him a little respite.

But after eight thousand years of accumulation of beliefs, is the dominant will of the sun still the original noble soul?
And if one day the emperor can stand up from the throne again, what is the emperor himself in that heavy (chong) and burly body?
Or is it the existence that is purely made of faith and has no trace of humanity at all?

Such answers to questions that only belonged to the status quo that Calvin knew made Calvin really dare not think about it.

He was terrified of the answer he didn't want to accept.

He is also paradoxically looking forward to the existence of the greatest miracle of mankind, which can once again create new miracles.

The lessons learned from the past are in front of us, and those who come later dare not or forget them.

Therefore, when Calvin himself was about to face such a problem, he was not immediately surprised by the added power.

Because he had learned from the dilemma the Emperor was in that when something was marked as free, usually fate had already marked it with a more expensive price.

Back to Calvin himself, he had to think clearly about three issues:

Is the power of faith produced by the redemption in front of us in line with Calvin's own will?
In other words, could their desire to pray be satisfied by Calvin?
Is the vision produced by such a large group of wills really consistent with Calvin's long-term vision?

Calvin looked carefully at the beliefs gathered in his body, and he had to listen to and discern every prayer in it.

Once again the necessity of the divine soul is revealed, only such a transcendent soul essence can bear these forces without being overwhelmed and at the same time try to hear and answer these prayers one by one.

At this point in the exploration of faith by ordinary people, there is no way forward.

Because one step further, the soul is crushed and torn by the power of countless prayers, and finally falls into the abyss of madness.

In Calvin's reading records, the last madness of the supreme lord Vanke Ridge, who combined politics and religion and monopolized power, is likely to be inseparable from it.

Divine souls also have different abilities to sort out received prayers, but Calvin's group will is naturally good at this.

The first question: Does the soul's prayer correspond to Calvin's:
For these souls that have been devoured and become incomplete, it is the best result to be able to return to them in the promised land.

There was nothing in their prayer but gratitude and a desire to chant Calvin's name, so the first difficulty was easily passed by Calvin.

The second question: Could their needs be met by Calvin?

You know, most gods fall from broken promises.

They were unable to fulfill the promise they made to every believer that they would go to heaven after death, because this is the privilege of a few devout people.

And when they break their promises to mortals, the faith collected in advance becomes a life-threatening debt contract at this time.

Calvin has no such distress, because those who exist in his spiritual kingdom are already dead, and they have indeed been led there.

So the second problem is no longer a problem.

As for the third question, Calvin no longer needs to think about it, because the vision of these souls is the meaning of redemption itself.

The righteousness he is doing now is the vision they aspire to.

So far, Calvin has no doubts.

He finally opened his soul and accepted the people of faith and the spirit of prayer that belonged only to him.

The power of faith condenses on him, and finally finds his place of refuge in the crown on his forehead.

With the blessing of faith, the flame of order seems to have a better burning power.

And a more complete redemption directly goes beyond the process of transformation and directly tends to the condensation of authority.

"Ka...Ka...Ka..."

There seemed to be the cracking sound of some utensils in the void, and it seemed to be accompanied by the angry shouts of some beings.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

Under the turmoil of many factors, Calvin finally took advantage of these opportunities that originally endangered his life and existence, and severely tore off a small piece of the authority that originally belonged to the gods.

Redemption, redemption and redemption.

There is hope in it as well as the concept of transformation and life-giving.

When Calvin's behavior thoroughly and completely practiced the "righteousness" related to redemption in the real universe, this authority that did not exist naturally separated from the different authorities in the hands of the gods and gathered in the hands of Calvin .

In the real world the waves of the Warp around the Wraith Redeemer had begun to calm.

And the moment Calvin's authority took shape, greater power fluctuations began to wreak havoc around them.

The power and energy pipelines of the entire ship began to become unstable under the strong fluctuations like the subspace storm.

The lights in the corridor inside the hull began to flicker, and the creaking Geiger counter also used its own way to remind the crew on the entire ship of how critical the situation was at this time.

This is the wrath of the evil god!
This is even more the wrath of the gods!
Because it's not just one god's authority being stolen at this moment!
But it’s also impotent rage.

Because from the beginning of the timeline, the gods have never observed the existence of Calvin.

So the angry gods never cast doubt on the reality of the mortal world.

After not finding any traces from the river of time for the first time, the two victims among the four gods have already locked their eyes on the other two.

Admitting it is impossible to admit it. I, Dasha Lux, have my own national conditions;

It's even more impossible to explain. When did the Lord of the Skull have the obligation to explain to people?

So, the only thing left is to start the eternal holy war again.

Anyway, the reasons for fighting have accumulated enough in countless epochs, and this one is really not bad...

The eternal and holy war started again like this, and the evil gods who were focused on the group chaos and even prepared to end in person, naturally had no intention of maintaining the previous large-scale subspace wave.

Such is the case with severe trials, which come suddenly and go without warning.

In the depths of the Warp, this small fleet with the Revenant Redeemer as its flagship sailed quietly after the storm.

They finally survived this test, and continued to sail towards the home planet Titan with a full load of gray knights and mortal crew members.

At this time, Calvin, who had just solved his troubles in the spiritual world, also explained some things to his comrades in a brief awakening, and fell into a coma again due to the arrival of a new growth period.

　Ah, something during the day.So update sooner.Then ask for leave during the day and strive for another chapter at night.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)