Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"You came?"

"I knew you would come..."

In the abyss thousands of meters underground in the Hall of Fear, in the golden and red psychic seal, an alien giant more than ten meters high was looking up and howling.

Its huge body is made up of lava-like red and basalt-like black. Its ferocious and messy long horns are winding and intertwined, extending outward from all the joints on its body, head and neck.

On the golden seal, the spiritual energy belonging to the emperor and the bearer firmly restrained its actions;

Under the suppression of this huge power, the demon's body also changed between the ferocious giant and the red magic sword.

Calvin had just entered the Hall of Fear at this time.

He passed by the main hall, the apse of this complex of buildings hidden underground, and the meditation room where he had been tested.

During this process, he suppressed his spiritual energy and concealed the essence of his soul.

But the devil still seems to have received some kind of reminder, and got some dangerous omen from his own destiny.

Its crazy and hoarse whispers kept ringing in Calvin's mind, and there was not even a second of pause from the first step he entered this hall.

"But you are destined to fail! Because I am a stubborn disease rooted in your race!"

Calvin silently pushed open the hidden door in the corner of the meditation room, and a corridor extending underground appeared in front of him.

He listened to the demon yelling more and more crazily due to unknown fear.

But his soul and spiritual energy were restrained like never before, for fear that the devil would notice something strange about him before he could reach it.

"Arrogant mortal! The Lord of Humanity can't hurt me either!"

"I am the root of your race! I will live and die with you!"

Calvin continued to move forward silently, and the psychic energy around him was becoming more and more active.

The boundary between subspace and reality almost no longer exists here, but from the perspective of the entire space, it exists independently, making it difficult to communicate with the outside world.

Calvin somewhat understood the nature of this seal:

An independent and closed space.

A fragile but unshakable cage.

A "man-made thing" that violates the rules of reality.

A "subspace bubble" that exists in reality and is fixed by heavy bans.

Calvin was still walking down, his tall body looking extremely small against the huge buildings.

The obsidian stone wall beside him and the steps at his feet were made of the same material. The smooth and flat mirror surface was being replaced by the ice accumulated by psychic energy all year round.

On the lampposts carved out of the rock wall, the light of the flames became increasingly dimmer, until the darkness at the end of the field of vision was no longer visible.

Maybe the real abyss is like this? A thought flashed through Calvin's mind at a certain moment.

And that existence that was far underground but omnipresent in this space also discovered and began to use these distracting thoughts in an attempt to pollute and defeat the arrogant mortal in front of him.

The tiny ash-like emotion was visible to the naked eye in Calvin's spiritual world at the moment it was sensed by the devil.

Eventually it turned into a huge and dark shadow like a mountain range, leaning towards Calvin's soul with laughter!

And then... there was no more.

With a wave of his hand, he crushed and absorbed this foreign distracting thought. Calvin's brows jumped slightly, and a question he had never thought about appeared in his mind:

Are gods afraid?

In other words, will a soul that has reached the divine level still have the ability to generate fear?

Fear comes from the unknown, that’s the truth.

But if this "unknown" is explored, is it an "unknown" about external things, or an "unknown" about one's own destiny?

I'm afraid it's the latter...

After all, from an idealist perspective, if external things do not intersect with the self, then it can be considered that it does not exist;

Upon closer inspection, the "unknown" about one's own destiny due to the influence of external things is the origin of this fear.

The most basic condition for the birth of a god, or a divine soul, is precisely the determination of destiny.

Because the gathering of countless souls on the timeline stems from the integration and unity of the concept of great unity.

Because the concept is unified and there are no more distracting thoughts, you can clearly understand the meaning and mission of your existence!

Because you are clear about your own meaning and mission, you will be able to move forward without distracting thoughts and have a will as strong as stone!

How can such a soul have fear? It’s nothing more than success or failure, life or death.

If I don’t die, I will continue to fight for my vision;

If I die in battle, I can look forward to a spark that will surely start a prairie fire one day!

This is divinity! This is also a god! The so-called gods, gods understand them, and they are nothing more than this.

But this is not something only gods can do.

If a mortal can have great enlightenment, can identify with an idea and give up all self, and be willing to dedicate himself to it.

Then this mortal soul can also bloom with a light comparable to that of a god at a certain moment after accumulating enough power.

This is probably the reason for the existence of the Emperor's Champions, Purifiers, and Living Saints in the history of the Empire.

Calvin's pace quickened slightly. After thinking about these things, the golden divine soul in his spiritual world became a little clearer again.

At the same time, in the orbits of many planets in the solar system, the positions of Saturn and Terra are separated by the sun!

In a theological sense, this happens to be the time when Terra, one of the representatives of human "concepts", is farthest away from here!

This is when this evil rooted in the human race is at its most powerful.

Because the distance of "human beings" symbolizes the disappearance, and this "disappearance" means that the growth cycle of this evil rooted in the human race has come to the final end!

But this is also the demon's most vulnerable moment!

Because if this demon can be defeated head-on at this point in time, the inexhaustible power of recovery it relies on from the human race will also happen to be at this time, which symbolizes that it has "broken out of its shell" The point is cut off!

"I am the dark side of your civilization, I am...yourselves!"

The devil's whispers were still ringing in Calvin's ears, and became more and more rampant as this special time arrived.

Calvin, who strolled to the end of the steps and could already see the sealed demon, opened his mouth when he felt that the Emperor, billions of kilometers away, was on time to block the exercise of divine power over the entire solar system. With his silver teeth, he walked towards the giant with a smile.

The spiritual energy fluctuations that had been dormant in his body for a long time were all released in just a few seconds, and his aura gradually increased, becoming more powerful than the demon in front of him.

The two beings are obviously a small man but a big devil, and their bodies are very different.

But between Calvin's terrifying momentum and the devil's shock at sensing the former's divine soul, Calvin, who strode towards the devil, actually looked more "evil"...

"Stop your steps! Mortal! No!"

Stop in your tracks! No matter what you are! "

The red giant roared loudly, but its retreating body posture betrayed its panic.

Although the being in front of me wears a human body, its essence is not derived from any human bloodline!

He even has a divine soul!

That means that he may still have the "authority" to truly touch its essence and kill it completely!

"You will pay the price for this! The Blood God will let your head hang on the brass throne! Your soul will be tortured for eternity!"

The giants were still threatening, but Calvin was losing patience.

He squinted his eyes, raised the long sword forged by himself, and said to this demon that symbolized the first ray of malice in the birth of mankind:

"Good boy, stop barking and let me take you on your way."

The second update, although it is a few minutes late, but I keep my word and I have made up for the update. That's it, good night.