Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 9 Letters from afar

"The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying! The chainsaw sword is chopping him cold!"

The first day of training: On the empty training ground, in front of the phalanx of the political commissar training class.

An instructor who obviously came from the Storm Starfield in the northwest of the empire, spoke passionately with his rich accent.

Saliva and breath gushed out of his big mouth under his messy beard at the same time, completely uncontrollable.

Speaking of the climax, the instructor even ignored the winks of his colleagues behind him, and danced and sang the lyrics of the above nonsense in front of the entire student phalanx.

Calvin stood at the head of the political commissar phalanx on the training ground, his strong body like a rock "sheltering the wind and rain" for his comrades around him.

While the instructor turned his head, Calvin quickly wiped the spittle off his face with his sleeve.

He continued to maintain a serious expression in the eyes of his comrades paying respects to him.

And the speech goes on:
"On the battlefield! What is your most reliable companion?"

"Did you have psionic powers that didn't work at all? What to do when you run out? Surrender? The motherfuckers are only living on psionic powers!"

"The most reliable person on the battlefield is yourself!"

"At any time, the biceps are the most trustworthy weapon! The chainsaw sword is your most secure wife!"

Under the rising sun at 6 a.m. Terra time, Calvin and his classmates went blank.

The only thing I can remember is the crystal clear saliva hanging from the instructor's messy beard...

Until the instructor began to order: "Target left front runway, 20 kilometers sprint! There is no time limit, but the last 10 people have no dinner!"

Run, run, run to death.Running from morning to night, even lunch is settled in the temporary mobile canteen set up next to the playground.

This is the first lesson the teacher gives them.In his own words:

"You can't lift your legs and you want to kill someone? You think too much!"

Many trainees collapsed and passed out from violent vomiting, and were carried down by medical staff.

But there are still some clever students who started to cheat by using psychic power, using psychic power to relieve the lactic acid accumulated on the muscles while running, or trying to use psychic power to calm the already chaotic breathing rhythm, and also use psychic power to give themselves direction during running. forward thrust in order to reduce physical exertion...

In short, the Eight Immortals crossed the sea to show their magical powers, but the instructor ignored them all, which made the students finally understand the instructor's intention:

The instructor wanted them to understand that the application of psionic power was far from limited to fighting on the battlefield.

What's more, it can be applied on the battlefield and in every aspect of daily life in order to strengthen oneself and reduce consumption.

So the cheating behavior began to be completely publicized.All kinds of spiritual energy applications began to appear openly among the running crowd.

Calvin was unremarkable among them, but his service life in his previous life gave him sufficient experience to distribute his physical strength reasonably.

After staying until someone started cheating with psychic power, Calvin suddenly realized.

He began to observe and reflect on the application of psionic energy to running.

At the very beginning, Calvin tried to relieve muscle fatigue with psychic energy, but immediately found that the efficiency of doing so was too low.

Dynamic psionic usage consumes much more than static ones.

So he began to imitate the running shoes he saw in his previous life: he set up a curved elastic force field under his military boots, which greatly relieved the pressure on Calvin's ankles.And the consumption of psionic energy in this process is almost negligible.

Then, he began to imitate the exoskeleton of the artillery unit in his previous life, allowing the burden of his own weight on the skeleton to be fully distributed on the transparent psionic skeleton outside the body.

In the last hour, he even benefited from the basic compulsory education in his previous life, and began to try to use fluid to reduce the frontal wind resistance and then try to use the wind resistance.

Calvin's running efficiency has greatly improved.Especially after the positive psionic cone he constructed was formed, he was even able to maintain a [-]-meter sprint speed for long-distance running with extremely low consumption.

The instructor, who had been ignoring the small movements of the students, laughed angrily when he saw Calvin who was leading the crowd.

"He's just a bunch of smart guys!"

He raised his hand and looked at his watch, then blew the whistle in his mouth.

"Commentary!"

After all the students had assembled, the instructor stood in front of the phalanx and said loudly with a grin.

"It's not an example to play smart like this today! It's okay to open your minds, but it's not okay to take smartness as the right way! Starting tomorrow morning, in all physical training subjects, the use of spiritual energy is limited to recovery, dismissed!"

The above was the whole of Calvin's first day in the Psychic Seminary.In the following days, under the training of instructors, Calvin became more and more inclined to use psionic energy as a tool for physical development.

Using psionic energy to repair at the muscle fiber level made Calvin's body stronger.

And the rapid recovery ability also gave Calvin more opportunities to push his physical fitness beyond the limit.

His muscle fibers were, of course, made stronger as they were constantly being torn and repaired.

The aftermath of the developmental tide brought about by the second mutation is also silently strengthening his bone strength.

In the simple training life of the next month, Calvin enjoyed the simple military life that he had dreamed of in his previous life for a long time.

This is the life he has been looking forward to in his dreams, and it is also a rare and beautiful memory when he will face various extreme environments on the battlefield in the future.

Maybe this kind of strength training is too simple for him, he is not unaware that it is a waste to use this huge strength in his hands only as a tool to restore and develop the body.

But compared to his asymmetrical psychic power, it is indeed a helpless choice for him to develop some physical upper limit as much as possible with limited means.

The political commissar class began to teach weapons courses in the second month.During this period, Calvin had fully mastered most of the weapon parameters and routine operating procedures involved in basic infantry tactics.

In the third month, when the political commissar class began to really involve the core technology training, that is, the knowledge of the use of psionic energy, Calvin received a package from afar.

Calvin, who was called out in class, looked blankly at the black package with the golden double-headed eagle badge in his hand, and a line of gold-plated writing on it:

"Salute to the brave sailor Sylvie Alonso." This is followed by the emblem of the Inquisition.

The scene fell into an awkward silence. He didn't recognize the name on it, and he didn't know what relationship he had with the name.

The person who delivered the package seemed to see his embarrassment, but apparently misunderstood the reason for his embarrassment. He said to Calvin:

"There is a letter in the package, you can read it when you are free. Although this is not good news, but on the throne, every soldier who has dedicated himself to the empire has the right to give his property , leave it to your own family.”

After finishing speaking, the sender left accompanied by the staff sent by the academy to monitor.

But what he left made Calvin even more puzzled. It was obviously not the name of any of his parents.

After class, Calvin finally had the opportunity to open the package in the dormitory.

The package was not light. After opening, a badge was pressed against a letter, and further down, a black relic box was the entire contents.

The badge was the size of a palm, and a ferocious lion was roaring with its mouth open on the blue gold-plated badge.A variant of the ancient Latin letter Ψ, Puxi, in the middle of the lion's forehead.

Calvin weighed it, and it was not light.But he has no impression of the meaning of this thing that is more of a coat of arms than a badge.

He put the badge in his hand and continued to read the letter below. After opening the envelope, a piece of light gray letter paper slipped out:
"To my lovely little friend, when you read this letter, I should have already returned to the throne of the emperor. I hope that the short time we spent together didn't make you forget our relationship. We got along quite happily on the black ship. Now that the war is imminent, I really have no other relatives or friends. After thinking about it, since things are not needed after death, they are always given away. I hope you will not dislike them. Your eternal navy friend... Signature: Searle Via Alonso."

　So this chapter was actually rushed out, and it was revised as it was posted... But I was flattered by your enthusiasm. Just 5 minutes after it was posted, someone followed it... My friend, you didn't see what I changed before, did you?

　　——From a dead author

　　
　
(End of this chapter)