Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 89 New Life
The books Calvin ended up seeing were not quite what he had come for.

He saw something unexpected in the bookshelves on the transparent walls of the library's perimeter.

At the end of Calvin's sight, there is a whole shelf of bookshelves that stands out.

Their all-metal material and the spines that reflected the metallic luster let Calvin know that this was a batch of books specially prepared for the Astartes.

This is a rare thing. After Calvin became a gray knight, he really hadn't seen what kind of books were prepared for the Astartes except for the demon book.

And the books in front of him, which were obviously prepared for them, made him feel the rare but real breath of life in him.

Yes, it is the breath of life.

Calvin was reluctant to call his present life of service a life.

Because in his eyes, from the moment he woke up and became a gray knight, he no longer belonged to the category of common people.

Therefore, Calvin had his own awareness of the emperor's most expensive currency, which was cultivated by the worship of countless people in the empire:

As a Gray Knight, he could live and live, but he didn't live.

This is fundamentally different from other Astartes, because even the angel Astartes have their own non-combat state and private time.

Private time, private hobbies, private aesthetics, private consciousness.

What do all of the above mean?It means that even if it is as powerful as an Astartes, there are personal likes and dislikes.

That is to say, cutting apart the appearance of these nine-foot-high god-like warriors in heavy armor, the essence of their souls is still human.

At least, subconsciously, they still see themselves as human beings.

The good and evil that human beings should have, black and white, joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, they are not bad at all, and they have everything they should have.

So the shortcomings brought about by these emotions are not bad either.

Perhaps these shortcomings are not a problem when facing aliens and heretics, but when their enemies appear among their enemies are those evil gods who originate from the subspace and are capable of manipulating people, their shortcomings will be infinitely magnified.

Sora has a god-like body but no corresponding will, that is to say, them.

And if we continue to deduce it from this point of view, the subsequent rebellion and betrayal will seem logical.

But the Gray Knights are different.They were born to face the chaos and evil of the warp.

They must arm themselves with faith every moment, without a moment's slack.

Whether fighting on the battlefield or training on the titans, the Gray Knights never had time to themselves.

In essence they have given up their identity as human beings, the goodness of human nature and the shortcomings that come with these goodness.

They choose to completely abandon themselves, embrace divinity and animality after abandoning humanity, and use inhuman cruelty to resist the pollution and corruption of evil gods.

As long as a Gray Knight is aware that he is alive, his will is only prepared for the battle against the demon.

No rest, no hibernation.

Their spirit and will are in a state of vigilance all the time, so that even the slightest bit of pollution cannot take advantage of it.

Are you tired?Perhaps so, but life is so short that after death one should sleep forever.

This is Calvin's idea, and in fact, it is also the idea of ​​all Gray Knights.

That is why death is for them liberation, and for them death is the fulfillment and end of duty.

It is also for this reason that the Holy Dreadnoughts of the Gray Knights Chapter, also belonging to the Codex Astartes, are the rarest of all the Chapters Astartes.

Because there are really few gray knights who are willing to drag their bodies to fight for the emperor again after a lifetime of intense fighting against chaos.

That was really too cruel for them.

Compared with such endless suffering, they have the right to choose eternal sleep.

Calvin turned away from this uninvited "trouble" and chose to walk towards his goal.

And the trainee demon judge behind him also chose to stay away after receiving Calvin's intentional gesture.

The huge library was unexpectedly quiet.

During his inward travel, Calvin never met another person, only the servo skulls that occasionally flew past silently in response to calls in certain spaces, indicating that there were more than two people here.

The architectural structure of the library is very delicate.The designer seems to classify them into independent spaces by latitude and longitude coordinates according to different content orientations.

The size of each independent space is just right, and it is enough for one or two people to read and study quietly again.

And each independent space can be dismantled and ejected at any time under the overall structure.

This design made Calvin once again determined to borrow books and leave, never to read here.

After he arrived at the area obviously prepared for the Astartes, he quickly found the summoning authority of the servo skull according to his original study abroad experience in the City of Vision.

But unlike his expected quick response, the servo skull here did not start searching for books immediately after he made the request.

After confirming Calvin's borrowing authority and level, the other party called out to the "colleagues" on the entire floor.

Not long after, these little guys who floated on the miniature anti-gravity engine carried out the books Calvin needed one by one in groups of two.

With the hard work of 150 servo skulls, a total of 30 heavy metal-encapsulated classics were placed in front of Calvin, who was already stunned.

"Careless, this belongs to..." Calvin looked at the little guys in front of him apologetically.

He doesn't know the internal structure of Mechanicum, so he doesn't know whether each of these servo skulls has its own consciousness, or if they are all the body of a certain main consciousness.

But such an invalid command obviously made him apologetic when facing these skulls, but he didn't know how to express it.

So, in the quiet air, Calvin looked at the skulls, and the skulls also looked at Calvin quietly.

"It's so stupid..." Calvin patted his head.

So he selected the two books he wanted to read recently in the order he had set, and then watched the little guys in front of him lift up the remaining books one by one in groups of two again. went back.

Having achieved his goal, Calvin tightened his grip on the books under his arm and walked out quickly.

This library gave him a really bad impression, and in this cosmic environment where psionic energy is the embodiment of ideal power, if it doesn't feel good, it's not good.

An instinctive feeling seemed to be telling him to stay away from this place as soon as possible, otherwise something bad would happen.

He strode away from the library area on the cableway he came from, and this strange feeling disappeared from his heart until he passed through the huge gate and watched the heavy door panel close in front of his eyes .

"Strange thing..." Calvin shook his head and put the matter behind him.

This kind of old ship that has grown in age likes to do such strange things, even the ship of the gray knight is no exception.

This has nothing to do with the pollution of chaos, otherwise the Geller force field detectors all over the ship would have discovered it immediately.

Even if it is a more stealthy invasion, the pure marks and rituals that have been carried out from the steel smelting process in the early stage of manufacturing will never be unheard.

What's more, this entire ship of gray knights is themselves the sufferer of the subspace.

"Invasion of a Gray Knight battleship?"

If you say this kind of idea, the bloodletter will probably think you are heartburned after hearing this.

However, such things did happen repeatedly on warships that had been in service for too long in the various fleets of the empire.However, after repeated investigations by various parties, no recognized results could be obtained, and in the end it could only be classified as chaos caused by machine spirits...

The priests and bishops of the Mechanicus had no objection on the surface.

Because this does increase the mystery of the Om Messiah in the empire in a sense, but only the almighty Om Messiah knows whether the binary language in the belly of the bishops and priests is cursing.

After leaving the library area, Calvin returned to his living area and started his new life on the ship.

The concept of time in the Warp is chaotic and disorderly, but this has little to do with the crew living inside the Supreme Decree.

The true state of the Supreme Decree in the subspace covered by the Geiger force field covering every inch of the entire hull is actually a bubble of the real universe floating in the water flow of the subspace.

The space inside the hull is the space in the Geiger force field, where the laws and laws of time and space are no different from reality.

Calvin, like all the crew members, maintained his schedule and training by adhering to the precisely corrected time in the ship from Terra.

But unlike ordinary crew members, he needs to shoulder more responsibilities and obligations.

As the top 20 quasi-high-level personnel in the actual command sequence in this space city with more than 5 crew members in a fully prepared state.

Whether Calvin is willing or not, he needs to be deeply involved in the command of the entire ship.

This is not to say that the whole ship is really lacking in him.

Rather, as a large-scale military organization equivalent to a standard military region of ours, all the staff and combat personnel of the Supreme Decree are preparing as detailed as possible for the various situations that may be encountered in the entire battle every second before entering the battle. , Safe plan.

Of course there will be questions about the orderly transfer of command positions when the highest command staff is no longer able to perform their duties.

So even if the probability of this happening is very small, Calvin must spend at least 4 hours a day to understand the entire battleship's command and operation system and its principles from the middle-level staff.

This job is undoubtedly complicated and heavy, but fortunately, Calvin is not a pure newcomer.

The previous service experience on the Wraith Redeemer saved Calvin's quality of life on the ship at this time, so that he would not be entangled in these systematic tasks and affect other training and learning.

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(End of this chapter)