Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

The door of the conference room hall was opened, and Calvin and 10 paladins, who had been waiting outside for a long time, filed into the conference hall.

The moment all the officers present saw Calvin, they all stood up and looked at him to show respect.

A group of high-ranking officers headed by the Supreme Mentor Walden stared at the young man in front of them.

They seemed to see in him the hope of the Legion, the possibility of the Emperor making one last strategic decision on the direction of humanity before he sat on the throne.

He is not only the hope of the Gray Knights, but more likely the hope of the human empire in the future.

Walden walked through the crowd and walked to Calvin and said to him: "Young man, maybe you don't know the significance of your arrival to us, but now you should understand that you are special to us in a certain sense. I don’t require you to understand this now, but with the common will of all of us, we hope to witness your final trial into the group. So, what is your opinion on this?”

Calvin looked at the people in front of him with solemn faces like pilgrims, and vaguely understood that this was an important event beyond his imagination.

He didn't hesitate much. His soldier's instinct allowed him to straighten his already huge body and responded to the Supreme Master in front of him: "This is also my honor!"

This was what the Supreme Master Walden was waiting for. He looked back at the people behind him, and then waved his hand concisely: "Let's go, Hall of Fear."

After speaking, he took the lead and led Calvin and the officers and paladins (champion swordsmen of the battle group) behind him towards the last obstacle, or procedure, before Calvin joined the battle group.

The Halls of Dread are located on the same deep level as the Boneyard guarded by the Ferrybrothers. Except for the occasional trial of new recruits, few people visit here.

Like the Boneyard, they are the closest places to the location of the unspeakable demonic seal beneath Titan.

This is a special place that was discovered only after the Gray Knights established their army and came to Titan.

Also because of the special nature of this place, the evil thoughts and fragments emitted by the unique demons here are naturally used as a place to identify the purity of new recruits.

A Gray Knight recruit who successfully persists here for 48 hours will have his faith recognized by the entire Chapter.

Therefore, this is the last threshold for recruits to lead to the recruit welcome dinner in Victory Hall; or, it is also a convenient way to the burial ground separated by a wall.

Today is different from the past. Under the leadership of the Supreme Master Walden, a luxurious team consisting of 10 highest-ranking officers of the Gray Knights, 10 champion swordsmen (paladins) and our protagonist Calvin came to... Got here.

Before entering the hall, in order not to interfere with the ceremony, everyone except Calvin put on special cloaks that blocked psychic vision.

Then, led by the Supreme Master, the entire team filed in, formed a circle and sat down at the edge of the hall.

The center point within the circle is Calvin's position. Here they accompany and monitor Calvin for 48 long hours.

During this time, no matter what temptations the devil tried to interfere with Calvin, they would not interfere.

Only in the worst-case scenario, when Calvin was confirmed to have fallen, would they swarm in and carry out his final execution.

But everyone in this hall is well aware of the upcoming test. For those who can complete the "Holy Blood Trial" head-on, the 48 hours of difficulty experienced in this room will probably be easier than sitting in meditation. .

This is also true. Not long after Calvin sat down, there were fragments of devils who did not know whether to live or die and tried to get close to Calvin.

Then, the moment the protagonist noticed it, he was annihilated by his gaze...

There were greater temptations, but only a few times. After resisting Calvin's gaze, they barely made contact with his body, and then undoubtedly made a valuable contribution to the restoration of Calvin's soul.

They were shattered in the wail, and the souls and energy attached to all the fragments were plundered.

Something even more interesting happened when they attempted to regenerate from the imprint of themselves left in the warp.

In the eyes of these low-level demons, this plunder was originally just a short-term setback. As long as they could return to the subspace, they could be resurrected there with the help of the remaining marks.

What they can't see is that in countless timelines, the same Calvin has carried out the same plunder on the same them.

Therefore, when all the possibilities represented by all timelines are all reduced to one point by Calvin, who is like a beam, they disappear forever because there is no possibility of resurrection in cause and effect.

The night was uneventful, and the demon sealed underground did not feel threatened, as if these fragments had never existed.

It just instinctively felt that the guy in human skin above him was not an existence that he could try to transcend.

As one of the representatives of the countless power fragments of the Evil God in the subspace, its sudden weakening naturally caused the Evil God himself to take a peek at reality.

But after several rounds of touring and searching with no results over time, the evil god finally had no choice but to retreat reluctantly.

He could not find any man-made traces in the long river of time, and in the end he could only conclude that he either never had the power represented by these fragments, or he fell into the calculations of his "peers".

So, in the distant depths of the subspace, with the angry howl of a huge figure on a certain brass throne, an eternal holy war between gods began meaninglessly.

No reason is needed, just like their countless previous wars.

48 hours passed by in a flash, and in the eyes of the Gray Knights whose bodies were stronger than mortals, this was just a short period of meditation.

In their eyes, Calvin's counterattack against the demon invasion did not seem to be any different from theirs.

As the brass clock at the door rang, everyone slowly stood up. When Calvin heard the noise, he also woke up from the meditation that he had been doing in the second half.

Calvin was taken by Walden to the auditorium on the top of Titan facing Terra.

After entering the chapel, everyone spontaneously stood in order along the red carpets on both sides, waiting to witness the arrival of that great moment.

Here, under the witness of the sacred Titan Sword in the center of the auditorium, he was given the original Holy Shield Power Armor. (In order to find parts suitable for his massive size, the Chapter's equipment sergeants temporarily disassembled some suitable parts from the vacant Aegis Dreadnought armor.)

Then, Walden pulled out the dagger he always wore on his waist and inserted it into Calvin's waist.

Walden turned around, facing the Titan Sword on the relic shelf, and solemnly recited the oath that had been passed down for thousands of years:

“Armor with faith!”

"Armor with Faith"

"Use faith as a shield!"

"Use faith as a shield!"

"Arm our souls with pure nature!"

"Arm our souls with pure nature!"

"I would like to use this body to show the majesty of the emperor!"

"I would like to use this body to show the majesty of the emperor!"

"I am the Holy Gray Knight!"

"I am the Holy Gray Knight!"

"I am the enemy of Chaos!"

"I am the enemy of Chaos!"

When the last words of the oath resounded through the chapel, behind Calvin, everyone in the chapel also knelt down collectively in a solemn atmosphere.

In the solemn and sacred candlelight in the chapel, they and Calvin coincidentally repeated the last sentence of the oath:

"I am the enemy of Chaos!"

Book friends, please don’t imitate me. I really feel sorry for affecting you because of my routine in the underworld. I still want to say it again here:

Don't stay up late. Staying up late is the "privilege" of us coders

Good night, everyone who likes this book.

The quiet Huolin River

2022/05/17

02/46 early morning