Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"I can finish it right here..."

Deep in the earth's crust, 70 kilometers above the surface, Calvin stood in front of the entrance to the web, a majestic building that was older than human history. He looked at the demon in front of him and the fallen behind him and said to Tybus on the communication channel.

After seeing the full picture of Calvin's soul, the demon in front of him also used psychic communication to inform Appius behind him of its current situation:

"As much as I hate to say this, I can probably only help you delay a few breaths..."

"How many breaths? How is that possible?" Appius looked at the demon's back and asked in disbelief.

You must know that although the demon in front of you is not well-known, it is rare in the temple of the Lord of Changes to be famous for its ability to fight.

In order to get its true name, Appius and the dark apostle who tempted him to fall paid a huge price.

And what is this demon doing to him now? How many breaths? Are you kidding? Could it be that the person in front of it is a being like the father of its genes?

Not sure...

Looking at Calvin's super-sized body and eyes filled with thunder, Appius also fell silent.

This level of body shape can no longer be explained by genetic mutations or extraordinary talents...

Appius has served for more than 300 years. He has been lucky enough to meet someone like Moloch from the Tauren Chapter, or someone from the Man-eating Shark Legion active in the Ghoul Star Territory.

It's not like he has never seen what kind of effects their powerful bodies and super-modified Terminator power armor can achieve together.

But the existence in front of him is obviously not within this category. His terrifying aura does not come from the strength of his body. To put it bluntly, the aura that makes him tremble just by seeing it is being controlled by this physical body. limit……

Is it really the Primarch?

Then why...have you not come until now...

Reason gained the upper hand in Appius's heart for a moment, and was immediately filled with the distortion of chaos and the hatred filled in his heart.

He laughed at himself in a low voice and then clenched the scepter in his hand. While activating the spell that he had prepared countless times, he also said to the demon in front:

"I see……"

The battle ahead had already broken out. The demon watched Calvin gradually walk in and chose to attack first, aiming the gorgeous double-headed snake spear in his direction.

boom!

The beam of light formed by the blue spell spanned a hundred meters of space in an instant and hit the psychic shield that automatically appeared in front of Calvin. The violent shock wave blew up air waves around Calvin, causing the ancient stone ground beneath his feet to shed its dust and reveal itself to the sky, revealing the carved traces of a foreign civilization.

And an explosion-like roar immediately sounded on these stone slabs. The huge force pressed down vertically from the steel boots to the stone slabs, causing these stone piles that resembled stone slabs to crack in the scream, and at the same time, the same force was exerted on the original body itself. .

Buzz!

Calvin, who had disappeared from the spot, suddenly appeared on the demon's head. The sword of the Empire's truth crossed the barrier of space and appeared on the demon's head with layers of air waves and explosions.

The devil's golden, reptile-like snake eyes suddenly narrowed, reflecting the increasingly larger adamantine sword blade. Veins sprouted on his arms that were thicker than a human waist, and a double-headed snake spear as thick as a goose egg was underneath. Head to head in one second!

boom!

A harsh roar exploded between the inhuman bodies, and the invisible air turned into tangible air waves, surging around with the weapons of both sides as the center.

The moment the thick ceramic steel gauntlet collided with the threads of the sword hilt, the latter was bitten like a steel pliers without shaking at all. The gilded scales on the alien snake spear were broken by the blade, and sputtered out while moaning. Dazzling sparkle.

The tiny blood vessels collided with each other due to the extreme strength, bursting into pieces of blood mist on the demon's arms.

The hair on the original body's forehead was also blown straight back as the air scrambled to escape.

It was only then that the harsh sound of metal clashing filled the ears of everyone watching the battle.

And this is just the surface of the battle.

The Imperial Guards and Gray Knights stood far away on the edge of the battlefield. From their perspective, more confrontations were still taking place in this millisecond, at both the physical and spiritual levels.

The two gilded alien long swords slashed at Calvin more than a dozen times at a cunning and unbelievable angle while breathing;

The evil words sounded in the ears of the original body with dirty power. While trying to loosen Calvin's will, the vicious spells and spell-like spells seemed to have no cost. This high-level demon cast them like instinct. Down, densely sprinkled towards the original body.

However, the devil did not feel any joy of victory due to these attacks. On the contrary, its heart continued to fall downwards with each attack.

Because it knows that those are useless attacks, and everything it does now is just to delay.

The spiritual energy that could knead steel in the past was like a breeze blowing in front of that golden soul, not even his hair was blown;

After the vicious curses and blasphemous spells were projected onto Calvin, they were like a mud cow entering the sea, without a trace of response or echo.

The time spell that has been tried and tested in countless battles has also failed. In a short span of time, it has tried hundreds of times to predict the movements of the original body, and it has also jumped several times in the river of time.

But these attempts had no effect. All the attacks were lightly blocked by the heavy sword, and all the prophetic spells were cast at the cost of two broken magic eyes, only to receive a mocking response from the original body's face.

One second...

Two seconds...

Three seconds...

The demon was still waving the weapons in his hands tirelessly. The slashing and stabbing attacks of the snake spear and the war blade that seemed unbelievable to mortals did not pose any threat to the original body.

Imperial Truth's simple but powerful block was like a wall of sighs, standing still in the face of the demon's tide-like offensive.

And just like all real battles, the suffocating attack and defense will only last for a moment, and then under the scale called war, strength and weakness, superiority and inferiority, victory and defeat, and life and death will be determined immediately.

"Does the skill stop here?" Calvin suddenly asked.

However, before the demon could respond, after a certain peak of confrontation, the demon's frantic resistance, supported by the desire to survive, finally reached the limit of the body given to it by the physical universe.

puff……

After the snake spear in its hand accidentally broke and the two swords failed to block, the huge head carried by its burly body was finally chopped off by the powerful and heavy sword of Imperial Truth, and then turned into ashes in the fierce burning.

This was the first time that Calvin used his full strength in martial arts after experiencing physical growth. It was also a cautious attempt by him to deliberately suppress his psychic powers and explore the strength of his body.

The strength of Calvin's soul and the nature of his powers make all the subtle and complex spells cast by demons seem like a joke.

And after deliberately restraining his spiritual energy, he finally touched the edge of his body's strength after several seconds of slashing the sword weighing hundreds of kilograms with all his strength nearly twenty times per second.

"Fashionable..." Calvin, who relaxed, landed on the open space behind the demon. With the sound of the demon's headless body falling to the ground, he said to Appius in front of him.

This is his evaluation of the demons behind him and all the wizards who rely on the manipulation of magic.

Because in his eyes, all the so-called knowledge and power obtained from the gods can only be as illusory and fragile as a sand tower in the end.

This was also his evaluation of the fallen man in front of him. When he gave up on himself and placed his hope on the gods, today's failure was already doomed.

As the devil's contractor, Appius had lost the ability to refute at this time.

The life form created by his contract with the devil, which can be called a two-headed snake, is destined to make both him and the devil prosper and suffer.

The soul trauma caused by the demon's fall left him convulsing and falling in front of the entrance to the Webway, waiting for his disintegration.

Calvin took a step forward, the Imperial Truth in his hand already raised high.

However, something strange about Appius made him alert again - a mark that was familiar but unfamiliar to him lit up on Appius' body.

Calvin's mind was rapidly searching for relevant information, and a second later, a document from the Inquisition allowed him to recognize the meaning of the mark in front of him:

"The shepherd of chaos, the apostle who walks in darkness and sows the seeds of disaster - the Word Bearer."

A large amount of magic power flowed back from the dead demon to Appius, and the latter's already awake eyes, enriched by this power, had a madness similar to a flashback.

A stream of air blew from the void, and the heavy canvas behind the former chief priest of the Sons of Guilliman was blown up in place. The piles of explosives that were originally hidden also revealed their hidden threats at this time.

"I'm... guilty!" Appius groaned as he looked at Calvin walking in front of him.

He struggled to raise his head and looked at the ruins remaining on the battlefield in the distance. All the betrayals and blasphemies of the past hundreds of years flashed through his mind again.

Calvin looked at Appius in front of him without saying a word, but the storm in his eyes was already gathering rapidly.

"But I must go back!... I must go back!" Feeling Calvin's spiritual energy, Appius turned his head to look at the entrance of the Webway, and then looked at the demigod in front of him again, his tone turning from regret to madness.

His broken soul was visibly forcibly brought together by the blessing of the Dark Apostle through the gathering of will. Powerful and dirty spiritual energy overflowed from him. After completely leading this former Ultramarine to corruption, he was transformed in some unknown way. Waves of waves are shot towards the web tunnel behind him!

Um? Calvin, who sensed the abnormality, did not hesitate and threw the spiritual energy accumulated in his hand in a thunderous manner. However, the fallen Appius seemed to have been prepared and took the initiative to cut off his own arm and throw it out to lure Gal away. Wen disappeared instantly after the fatal blow.

boom!

A violent explosion sounded from the place where Appius disappeared. After the blazing fire flashed, the stone door leading to the Webway remained motionless under the protection of the energy shield.

But Calvin and the people behind him did not feel comforted, because at the moment of the explosion, they clearly heard a crisp sound in their ears through the huge roar.

There was a crisp sound like glass or crystal cracking.

The former priest of the Sons of Guilliman has disappeared, and what is left to Calvin and others is this ancient portal that was once again connected to reality after the seal was destroyed.

"We're in trouble..." Galvin said to Tybus in orbit.

Update, no more explanation, continue coding.