Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Light, as far as the eye can see, Calvin's eyes are full of light.

The extreme energy is released in an instant, and in Calvin's remaining sanity, only the dazzling light fills his vision.

The energy from the center of the planet Tavara is collected from the pipelines of the ruins like plant roots, and finally gathered in this device located at the north pole of the planet.

The shackles of space are shattered by this energy that accumulates to the peak and is released instantly, and the light representing the flow of time is torn into fragments here.

Calvin, who is in it, is dizzy. He tries to use his psychic power to support himself with a shield, but he can only go with the flow and is powerless in such a surge of energy.

This is obviously not a device prepared for living things, and Calvin is naturally not its transmission target.

The original builder of the ruins is no longer traceable, and the original intention of the construction is naturally unknown.

But what we know is that it must be able to transmit an object to a certain place through some means, and then spread it throughout the star region.

Calvin was still drifting in the space corridor opened by the energy tunnel, but the energy barrier around him used to protect the "integrity of the cargo" was getting thinner and thinner.

When the barrier was broken, he didn't know how long his own spiritual energy could last.

One second, or several seconds, or even longer.

In short, in this space where time was meaningless, Calvin finally arrived at the destination of the transmission channel with difficulty, a building he had never seen before.

The house-like building was made up of dozens of unprocessed boulders, and it looked primitive and simple.

Except for the obscure energy fluctuations that spread from the stones from time to time, this building was like the product of primitive people's totem worship in Calvin's eyes, without any technical content.

But the reality was like this. Calvin, who had just arrived here from the space tunnel, had to believe that there was alien technology in the building he was in that he could not understand, even if he was unwilling.

Especially after his eyes passed through the gap between the boulders and saw the scenery outside the building, it was even more so.

What a terrible scene it was!

Two dazzling, unknown-sized light balls occupied Calvin's entire field of vision.

Endless light and heat gathered there, squeezing and colliding with each other every moment, and then more energy burst out, generating more dazzling rays.

The temperature there was so hot, and the energy reaction was so violent that the overflowing radiation was full of high-energy particles.

And this ancient building containing alien technology was actually suspended in the two oceans of energy, ignoring the surrounding environment.

Compared with the comfort of this building, Calvin, its first visitor in tens of thousands of years, was not so lucky.

Even under the protection and isolation of the megalithic building, Calvin almost paid the price of his eyes being burned for his careless gaze.

The psychic shield had already spontaneously protected his eyes as soon as it felt the impact of high-energy particles.

But the violent spasm of the nerve cord caused by the large number of visual cones that were instantly burned to death still made him unable to help but cover his eyes with his hands and howl in pain.

Korakel!

Calvin instantly knew his position. He was now in Korakel's most famous iconic scene, located in the middle of the twin stars in the center of the entire galaxy!

Is there really a civilization that can achieve such a spectacle?

This is to insert into the gravitational balance of two stars with terrifying technical capabilities!

And then after rebuilding and establishing a new balance, the gravitational tides of the two stars are used to maintain the existence of this building?

What kind of technical background is this! Unfortunately, the pain in his eyes made Calvin have no time to think about the meaning behind this technical appearance.

Until this time, he felt the strangeness of his body belatedly - his whole body was exposed to the terrifying high-energy radiation field here, and was decaying and disintegrating at a speed that frightened him.

The skin is the first checkpoint of the body, but it starts to wrinkle and age in just a few breaths under saturated radiation.

The black carapace under the skin takes a little longer, but it eventually collapses and fails after a few seconds.

When Calvin's muscle cells and internal organs are completely exposed to the impact of high-energy particles, the overall collapse of the body's circulatory system occurs irreversibly.

Calvin half-knelt on the stone floor. The power armor parts that were burned red by the rays and melted together were the last support to maintain his posture.

The skin on his body had already ulcerated and fallen off. After the muscles of his limbs were decomposed, only the brown-yellow bones were left reflecting the metallic luster.

The eyeballs on his face hung empty in the eye sockets after losing the support of the eyelids.

The face full of light yellow tissue fluid had long lost its original appearance. Only the withered optic nerve cords were still hanging two shriveled balls and refused to let go.

Pain was no longer a feeling at this time, but a normal state after the peak, which made Calvin numb.

The exposed light red muscles and yellow trachea on his neck were still spasming. The slower and slower heartbeat and the gradually stopped expanding lungs proved that he was still alive, but also indicated that his death was approaching.

Was he going to die? In this unknown corner?

Such thoughts flashed through Calvin's mind, which was already filled with pain, and then disappeared in more desire to survive.

No! I have to live! I have to live!

He is not struggling for himself, or his life has long been more than just his own.

As long as he thinks about the fact that so many people have placed their hopes on him, Calvin is not willing to give up so easily!

Death is so easy, living is the key!

Calvin's heart beat again. It seemed that his will had taken effect, or that certain conditions had reached their limit and a turning point had begun.

From a micro perspective, his heart began to change.

The place where the first batch of high-energy cells were simulated when they first accepted the "Holy Blood Trial", and after countless generations of evolution, finally got stuck at 39% of the simulation progress, and finally absorbed a sufficient amount of high-energy particles. Some subtle changes occur after impact.

Some parts of the RNA chain are broken, and the information hidden in it spreads toward the entire cell under the impact of high-energy particles. Chain reactions on the DNA helix begin to occur, which ultimately leads to a change in the state of the entire cell!

His cells became able to absorb these high-energy particles! More advanced runes appeared on his cell walls! At this moment, his cells finally completed another evolution and began to jump to a higher life energy level!

With the support of energy, cells begin to divide and reproduce, and the speed of proliferation far exceeds any medical common sense.

In just a dozen breaths, Calvin's heart once again completed a complete round of replacement, and began to use his arterial system as a starting point to spread its hematopoietic function throughout the body!

First, the circulatory system begins to repair, and then the internal tissues other than the organs begin to recover;

When the black carapace was replaced by a new white chitin structure and psychic cord, Calvin's life signal finally began to stabilize.

The power armor servo that re-established the link with the main body was beeping. After rediscovering Calvin's vital signs, it couldn't wait to mobilize the stored nutrients to inject it from his waist.

After another dozen breaths, Calvin, who received nutritional supplements, accelerated his recovery:

The muscles of the trunk and limbs were created from scratch, like a web, rebuilt and fixed between his bones piece by piece. The nerve cords and connective tissue began to develop again, and then were hidden in the new muscles.

In the end, even new skin grows back with the support of these substances.

call! Calvin took a deep breath. Going from life to death, and then to the baptism of life from death within a few minutes really made him feel great pressure.

Calvin stood up again from the half-kneeling position and casually tore the armor on his body into pieces and threw it at his feet.

The power armor that had fulfilled its final mission was now completely declared scrapped, and had no further value in wearing it.

He stood naked in this building that he had not yet had time to observe carefully. While looking at the mysterious rune veins on the surrounding stone walls, he felt the solar wind-like particle storm baptizing and replenishing his newborn body.

"A prisoner who is afraid of death?"

He instinctively decoded the affixes at the end of some programs from these obscure runes.

But before he could do any more interpretation, the surrounding environment changed again!

Outside this stone building, the originally stable and almost transparent and unobservable energy isolation position is beginning to disintegrate in an orderly manner!

As the whole building began to shake violently, Calvin could clearly see that irreversible cracks were beginning to appear on those boulders!

A huge amount of thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. Among countless possibilities, he finally locked onto the figures of the Nurgle believers before coming here.

The original purpose of those death guards was not as simple as sending him here. Their initial idea was to deliver the disease here and then spread it to the entire star region by some means.

Then there is a reasonable explanation for the situation at hand!

When the ruins sent him through the space channel to get here, he must also send the self-destruct command at the same time!

"Damn it Mortarion! Your kid wasn't so good at playing before he rebelled!"

The surrounding stone walls were cracking rapidly, and Calvin only had time to prop up his psychic shield before he was once again involved in the tide of energy.

But this time, he doesn't have the protection of the ruins...

"Haven't you found it yet?"

Captain Tybos's voice echoed on the bridge of the High Order, and he was responded to by silent silence and silent self-reproach from Captain Nicholas of the Custodes and many Gray Knights.

This is already the sixteenth hour since Calvin lost contact with the Supreme Decree. After exhaustive searches by the intelligence forces of the entire galaxy, they still failed to find the unique beacon of Calvin's power armor.

"We might have to get out of here."

When Tybus received no response, he clenched his palm into a fist and slammed it on the corner of the podium.

"No! The original body has not been found yet! We can't leave like this! How can a mere Orpheus compare to the original body's safety!"

Nicholas was the first to raise his head and said to the top person in charge of the Supreme Edict.

He could never accept that the person he was assigned to protect could completely disappear due to his own negligence.

This is a complete denial of his centuries of service! It was a huge emotional blow to him personally!

The same goes for the Gray Knights behind them. They also cannot accept that the future Lord of the Legion disappears in front of them.

As long as they think of how the new legionnaires will look at them in the future, they will never accept this humiliation!

"Let's search again! This time I will lead the team and search here again."

Gavins looked hopefully at Tabers. As the leader of the Honor Guard, he was undoubtedly the first person responsible for this incident.

In order not to let himself sink into regret for the rest of his life, he still wanted to personally drive the Thunder Eagle to explore every inch of Tavala again, even though he knew that the hope was slim.

"I'll go too! The Imperial Army can also contribute to this operation."

Nicholas turned back and looked at Jin and others. Years of tacit understanding made him know that the compatriots in front of him were just like him, carrying unshirkable self-blame in their worries.

"You only have 6 hours. The war ahead does not allow us to stay any longer. We must go to the border of the Lyak sector."

The veteran captain looked deeply at Gavins and Nicholas, and then gave him the final conditions for being allowed.

It wasn't that he didn't care about his Primarch.

But from the overall perspective, both the Astartes and the Imperial Guards must obey the interests of the entire empire.

Even if Calvin himself were present, he would have made the same choice in front of hundreds of billions of people in Orpheus.

This is their obligation, and of course it is their consciousness.

This awareness is a tacit understanding between them that does not need to be stated.

Therefore, after Tabos gave the final time limit, everyone did not protest to gain more time. Instead, they turned around and left in silence, trying their best not to waste this final search opportunity.

But this is destined to be a futile operation.

Six hours later, on the ships of the Gray Knight fleet hovering in the orbit of Tavara, hundreds of search ships that originally scattered in all directions finally returned from the surface unwillingly.

The battle ahead is raging, and tens of thousands of soldiers are falling to the strangulation of aliens and chaos at every moment.

Compared with these outsiders, the human empire, as a home-keeping party, is naturally passive.

Their fleet is already sparse in number due to decades of fierce battles. With their stretched troops, every bit of maneuvering power that can travel between the stars is extremely precious, not to mention the gray warship-level fleet. What about Knight battleships and strike cruisers?

Calvin's identity has not yet been revealed, but the Sector Tribunal's request for help has arrived several times.

From their point of view and that of the sectoral government authorities, allowing this precious combat formation to remain ineffectively in Tavara for so long is the greatest degree of restraint they can exercise in respect for the Order of the Hammer. .

The fleet finally left unwillingly.

The responsibility they bear is too heavy, and there are too many people waiting for their redemption.

When the fleet, led by the Supreme Decree, began to leave, and the last engine light disappeared in the Manzeville Point of the galaxy, from the macro perspective of the entire galaxy, the twin stars of Korakol in the center of the galaxy had just burst out. The shining light that belongs only to supernova explosions...

Second update, please vote.

I have been revising and revising it since noon, but I still feel that there are too many areas that need to be discussed.

But unfortunately, my eyes were really tired and I couldn't change it anymore. If there is any wrong way, I hope you will find it.