Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Otto?

Calvin seemed to be aware of something while he was meditating. He opened his eyes slightly and looked towards the north of Gian Moro.

The design advantages of the Retribution-class battleship were once again revealed. Under the influence of the super-power engine, the Endless Crusade had reached the edge of the Hepper Forge World.

And the disposable toy he gave to Otto a week ago was obviously sent to qualified users by the Gray Knights.

Just now, Calvin saw that familiar light spot in his meditation.

Responding to the call of the Legion's will, Calvin followed the coordinates given by the medal and projected a ray of his own will to the distant Otto.

This is enough. There is no distance in the physical sense in the subspace. With clear coordinate guidance, the power he projects is almost instantaneous.

The will of the legion along the way continues to track this seed, and every warrior contributes his or her own strength to it.

When the seeds grow into fruits, when the dagger expands into a sword, the door opened by the medal just takes shape.

So in front of Marsh and the inanimate person, all this happened in an instant.

At the moment when the medal fell to the ground and glowed, a stream of incandescent flames appeared from the void. The demon did not have time to make any reaction, and died under this precise targeted killing.

The flames that consumed the Word Bearers' souls and true names burned fiercely in the Word Bearers' body, and the demon possessing the Word Bearers was already swallowed up by Calvin's soul.

The contaminated armor returned to its original color again, and then was modified by the physical rules, becoming scrap iron corroded by time;

But after the twisted body lost its soul, it didn't even have a chance to collapse. It just turned into ashes silently, and then was blown away by the whistling air current on the snow-capped mountains...

And this is just the beginning.

Because the preciousness of the Blessed Sons is beyond the imagination of anyone except the Word Bearers Legion itself.

It is no longer rare to be selected as a person suitable for transformation, not to mention that there are very few creatures in the void who are willing to combine with mortals.

The process of merging two souls is even more dangerous. Without the direct intervention of the gods, every newly born blessed son is a core member of the legion.

They are the leaders of the legions of warriors, and the power brought by the Inanimate makes them sharp spearheads on the battlefield;

They are also the main components of the Dark Council, because after all, only a few are lucky enough to accomplish the feat of becoming a demon.

The Legion's power struggle can last for hundreds of years. In order to gain a long life, the path they represent is the necessary choice for most Word Bearers.

And such a precious warrior died on Otto's battlefield. His fall obviously triggered a certain mechanism that allowed the fallen Primarch to detect it even though he was thousands of miles away.

It was precisely because of this opportunity that the masters of the two legions finally completed their first special contact a week after the war began, separated by hundreds of light-years of physical space.

The Dark Lord's eyes followed the traces of the Blessed Son, and Calvin's will did not have time to retreat.

The arrival of the two wills is based on this blessed son, so the collision between the two wills in reality and the void is inevitable.

No sound appeared, but the power of the latecomer was disintegrated by the power of the former as soon as it came. The prying stopped at the touch of a button, and Calvin looked towards the source of the power.

A dark and twisted thing, this is Calvin's intuitive feeling about Luojia.

After the fall of this once golden son, except for a little bit of subspace essence, there is no trace that he once belonged to the Empire.

That is another kind of distortion that is different from the gods' dependents. It is a more primitive disorder and darkness that comes directly from chaos.

He has never seen Luo Jia.

His identity can be distinguished entirely from the appearance of the Word Bearer and the other party's unique power characteristics that belong to the original body.

The appearance of the fallen demon primarch surprised Calvin, but he was not shocked, because the sense of crisis that had always appeared in his intuition finally found its true source at this moment.

Black hole...or black abyss, this conclusion is Luojia's feeling towards Calvin.

He never imagined that a being who was the work of the Emperor and who was also a Primarch would have more obvious psychic qualities than Magnus.

What made him even more amused was that his essence turned out to be even more inhuman than the Magnus he once was.

what is that? The sense of crisis made him, Luojia, restrain his desire to test.

And just from a face-to-face observation, the information obtained exceeded his greatest expectations.

A danger greater than death.

"Well, that's interesting..."

The Prayer of the Three Saints, in the near-eternal darkness of the Temple of Despair, the king sitting high on the obsidian throne was murmuring.

This was definitely not the work of his cheap father, at least not entirely.

Pragmatism, or utilitarianism, is that man's style, which can be seen from his attitude towards himself and other brothers.

It's no surprise that the Rebellion's destruction of the Imperium caused a change in his psychic powers and attitude towards the Warp;

But is something more difficult to control than Magnus really suitable as a tool for him to realize his ideals? Not necessarily...

Thinking of the information previously collected from the legion, the monarch hidden in the darkness couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

It’s not just you who makes cognitive errors.

Even the Eye of Fear didn't notice anything unusual about this man, so his cheap brothers thought this was another failed tool.

You all thought wrong...

The whispers of the Demon Prince echoed in the empty hall, while the consciousness in his soul carefully avoided touching those "names".

Omniscient and omnipotent, huh...

It was another mockery of unknown meaning, but it was a pity that there was no possibility of this harvest being shared.

The aura of the gods was broken again. After Luojia truly ascended to the devil, in addition to his unchanged belief in chaos itself, he already had a more urgent and greedy thirst for power.

Or maybe the real him has never changed, and his current change of attitude is just a further step in the pursuit of power.

First he betrayed because of his worship of destruction, now he abandons because of his understanding of the nature of Chaos.

Same people, same logic.

The difference is that before the first change, he still needs someone to "seduce" him across the moral and human bottom line.

And there were only zero and countless betrayals. Now when he gave up worshiping the gods, he no longer had any psychological burden, let alone any reason.

Under the throne in the darkness, two rows of blessed sons stood quietly.

They don't know why their monarch is laughing, but they also feel the death of a similar person from the link of their souls.

That is another kind of death different from the physical body. It is a complete death from the fundamental existence.

Fortunately, there is Erebus.

The Dark Lord, who had completed his "alternative contact" with Calvin, was thinking with satisfaction.

There is no one more suitable than him to test the quality of this "brother" on his behalf.

renew.