Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

It was late at night, and the Roman-style terrace was filled with second-hand sunlight that refracted from the moon and turned into silver.

The cool night breeze gently blew the blood-red curtains on both sides of the porch inside the terrace, seeming to express its tenderness.

But the curtains made of thick silk brocade are commonplace and indifferent to this. Only the tassel at the bottom responds to its touch unwillingly.

Calvin sat in the center of the quiet room. The quiet and low heartbeats of the two paladins on duty outside the door were clear and powerful in this night.

With the help of the paladins, Calvin took off his armor and washed himself briefly. Then, wearing a simple linen shirt, he sat in the center of the quiet room and began to meditate for the day.

At this stage, Calvin spends most of his time in daily practice.

In the eyes of the surrounding paladins, the Primarch had too many inhuman characteristics.

There is no need to practice as hard as a mortal. Calvin just sits there quietly, and the strength of his body and combat experience are growing astonishingly at a speed that ordinary people cannot understand.

Considering his special status, everyone around Calvin was accustomed to this.

After all, what is the growth route and principle of the Primarch? Apart from themselves, in the entire empire, probably only the His Majesty on the throne can tell clearly.

So when a "cub" of a Primarch appears in front of you and starts to grow rapidly from a small one in three days to a large one in ten days, all you can do is actually witness it. It’s just this magical process.

But unlike the inhuman look that outsiders gave Calvin, his own family knew their own affairs. Calvin's seemingly relaxing daily meditation actually contained a huge and unknown workload.

From a broad perspective, there are two directions he needs to do:

In the first aspect, he will continue the transformation work at the cellular level that he started after being stimulated in the "Holy Blood Trial".

In fact, as soon as this work began, his body's evolutionary instinct towards a higher level of life form had spontaneously begun to promote this transformation process.

In an unconscious state, the self-evolution of these cells will abandon Calvin's active choice of intentional attention and interference, ignoring his microscopic psychic transformation of the basic energy runes derived from the Emperor's blood. imitate.

Instead, it follows the instinctive pattern of biological evolution and transforms itself accordingly by taking an exhaustive approach to the information in RNA, and ultimately gets closer to the target image in the Emperor's Blood through constant iterations.

It is conceivable that if Calvin just left this process alone after the initial trial, then based on this efficiency alone, the progress of the transformation may still remain unchanged after hundreds of years have passed.

Therefore, active intervention became Calvin's helpless move, but the side effect of the abnormal small batches of high-frequency high-energy cell iteration was the thirst for energy intake.

This is also the main reason why Calvin still needs to maintain a long-term intake of high-energy foods in his daily life after his reconstruction surgery.

And considering the records provided by the mentors about the huge food intake of other Primarchs during their growth period.

Calvin had reason to suspect that they actually had similar abilities, but according to each of them's different progress on the path of spiritual cultivation, their utilization of this gift from the emperor was also completely different.

In contrast, Calvin, who appeared last, was perhaps the luckiest.

Before accepting this gift, one side of his soul had grown to a point where it would have been impossible for anyone but the Emperor to reach it.

The spark of the divine soul can reversely catalyze the high-energy biological cells on the body side, which is probably something that other Primarchs cannot possess.

You can expect a nice paycheck in the future, but working with no end in sight can still be tiring.

Three years have passed since Calvin passed the "Holy Blood Trial", but his transformation and imitation of cells has only now exceeded less than 3%. Coupled with the active cooperation of those cells at the last moment, Calvin The progress of this project will be less than 10%. What a huge difference this is.

Perhaps in the eyes of mortals and even the Astartes, as a Primarch, Calvin was close enough to the Emperor.

But in Calvin's eyes, less than 10% of the reverse structure completion of those first-generation cells has just solved the "to have or not to have" problem.

Calvin's current physical strength is still far, far away from the original owner of those bloods.

Now that I think about it, Calvin himself may not have had as much credit for winning the victory by luck as he originally thought. The emperor's active release of water and the weakening of the holy blood itself may be the real reasons.

But no matter what, one day's hard work will only one day reap the harvest. Since the Emperor has handed the key to the Holy Heaven into his hands, there is no reason for him not to make full use of it.

One day, Calvin will reap his own rewards from this seemingly futile effort day after day.

On the other hand, the work is about the side of his soul, about how to inherit those "own legacies".

This is different from the former. Although it is also long, every reading will bring immediate gains.

The positive feedback he received every day made Calvin much more enthusiastic about this work than the former.

The complete Canticle played a vital role in the initial organization of memories, and now allows Calvin to multi-task and read these memories in parallel.

But such a vast treasure trove of memories reminded Calvin of an idiom from his previous life that seemed to him more symbolic than practical: Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains.

"When a mountain blocks your doorstep, even if your will is strong enough, if you want to move the mountain away, it really doesn't make much difference between one person or several people."

This is his perhaps one-sided understanding of this allusion.

The last task is to develop the ability to simulate the battlefield in the shortest time. As of this simulation, the targets are no longer limited to objects that Calvin can come into contact with in real life.

After completing a memory sorting work, he accidentally discovered that in these completely absorbed memories, the enemies encountered by Calvin could also be pulled into the simulated battlefield.

This also greatly enriched Calvin's possibilities for accumulating combat experience, and also calmed his slightly impetuous mind, which had always wanted to go out to fight before.

In terms of the living habits of the nation where Calvin, or Jiang Wen, lived in his previous life, patience is definitely a virtue.

Concepts like "Shilipo Sword God" are more in line with their aesthetics.

The above three tasks basically fill up all of Calvin's time except for traveling during the day and resting between the left and right brains at night.

And many future gains and possibilities come from these unknown efforts.

Time demonstrates here its most rare and precious quality - fairness. Let these efforts be rewarded, and all gains come from these initial efforts.