Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Fire rain, overwhelming fire rain.

It was the 30th minute after the airstrike was launched, and the stranglehold over the 35th War Zone of Pesma was coming to an end.

With the ground aviation corps almost completely killed or wounded, the main area of ​​the air battle had spread and extended to other surrounding war zones.

The main fleet of the Death Guard Corps still occupied the synchronous orbit, so the iconic landing operation officially began.

Heavy airdrop capsules, death claws, storm eagles, and even the Titan Arks sent by the Black Mechanicus... Thousands of orbital delivery objects rubbed violently in the atmosphere, and the ominous green filled the entire sky of the 35th War Zone.

As the Warp Magic Tide surged, the Warp Nodes that spontaneously formed in the void emitted whispers that destroyed people's minds;

The illegal psykers on the ground finally couldn't bear it, so they twisted and resonated with the sky in a wail that didn't sound like a human voice, opening the Warp portal to hell...

Nurglings of all sizes, wrapped in mucus, poured out of the portal, jumping towards the terrified humans around; giant mosquitoes and flies covered with spikes shook their still wet wings, and began to circle impatiently;

The Nagog Beast, which was more burly than Ogryn, staggered, squeezed and cursed the Chaos Egg in front of it, but before it could stand firm, the bronze death claws that fell from the sky knocked it and the latter down together, and were trampled by the bronze giants who walked out of the death claws...

The dust settled, and Talos and others who woke up dug the Lord of the Grey Knights out of the mud and sand. Calvin, who woke up, opened his eyes and saw such a scene.

"Contract the defense..." Calvin's loose consciousness tightened, and his brain began to work rapidly after waking up.

He had experienced the standard landing strike of the Astartes countless times in his memory!

In the case of occupying orbital air supremacy, the biggest feature of this three-dimensional strike is to suppress the two-dimensional with the three-dimensional, fundamentally ignoring the ground defense.

The defense line of traditional ground forces is meaningless to them, and the firepower of conventional forces is also meaningless to this large-scale airborne.

The Astartes squad targeting each key node will let the enemy who is waiting for help know what dynamic precision strikes after division and encirclement are. Even the Death Guard, a notoriously slow-paced legion, has an operational efficiency far beyond the Star Army's ability to keep up!

The defense must be contracted! Because his Grey Knights were just scattered in the psychic confrontation just now!

The number is not advantageous, and these Death Guards are divided and encircled. With orbital firepower support in hand, will the Death Guards let go of their advantage? Especially now that they are standing opposite the Empire, they will not care about the accidental injuries caused by large-scale coverage strikes!

One and a half hours! We must get through this difficult hour and a half!

Calvin looked back at everyone, and his eyes slightly collided with Talos and other senior officers, who then understood his intention.

"Contract defense! Find friendly forces nearby to hold on and wait for help!"

He habitually used psychic power to give orders, wanting to notify the Grey Knights in other directions, but was shocked to find that his divine soul had entered a strange dormant state.

At this time?

His heart sank, and his consciousness instantly patrolled his soul. But to his surprise, the silence of the divine soul was not due to damage. On the contrary, it was because the divine soul was stimulated by external forces and finally entered a certain form of evolution!

At this time!

Calvin looked at the sleeping giant in the clouds, and his heart was really a mess.

Every step on the road to divinity is as difficult and precious as a miracle on earth. And Calvin's soul has never been able to move forward since the unity of all people on the timeline.

Is it simply not enough power? No.

If we describe it in mathematical terms, then every soul with divinity can theoretically have almost unlimited power because of the rules.

And Calvin's ridiculously huge subspace nature also allows him to have a base that others can hardly imagine when using psychic power, a "mind amplifier"!

Even in a broken state, the initial power he uses to drive the subspace power by himself exceeds the highest category of the psychic power index of the Star Torch Court!

In a word, there are differences above Alpha, and the reason why humans list Alpha as the top of human psychic power is because the range that humans can observe and bear is only Alpha +!

It is cognition, and only cognition.

Cognition is the embodiment of consciousness, and it is also the basis for the cohesion of will in consciousness!

And every step forward on the road to divinity, behind the exponential growth of its power, is the reshaping and optimization of the structure and logic of cognition!

The almost unlimited power given by its authority, driven by these different levels of cognition, its utilization rate or the position of exercising authority, naturally has essential differences!

Calvin has tried every possible way to expand his divine soul, but he has not been able to do so, because the existing divinity is already the cognitive limit of him and all consciousness on the timeline.

The road to the top is not without direction, but the steps that are just around the corner mean the sublimation of the entire soul's cognition!

Cognition, and cognition!

Calvin, who had already understood this, subconsciously stiffened, and then relaxed slightly after his consciousness traveled through his body.

It's not that he didn't know the direction of the road. On the contrary, he knew it too well, so he was afraid of the changes that might happen to his entire soul once he took that step!

He feared that his soul would stray away from his original vision after further sublimation; he was even more afraid that his soul would wear out his humanity as it went further and further on the path of divinity.

And just now, after the direct collision with the power of Nago, a huge amount of inhuman information was injected, and finally, by accident, his divinity got the most lacking information in the sublimation process.

But it was also this step that made him unconsciously take a step that he had never wanted to take.

Fortunately, the power and information from Nago did not have an advantage. The huge amount of information was mixed with mud and sand, and the private goods belonging to the twisted will of the Lord of Corruption were the mainstream.

The divine will received very little information under the filtration of the authority of order, and it could not shake his human dominance;

And he also found those microscopic changes in perception in the tour of consciousness, and re-adjusted them according to his memory.

"Huh..." Calvin took a long breath.

From the current point of view, he is still Calvin, and still Jiang Wen.

As for the future... Calvin shook his head. He couldn't guarantee it, so who could?

The power of the soul essence temporarily fell into dormancy, which was the fact he was facing at the moment. After finding out the reason, Calvin also found another situation:

Except for the large-scale psychic laws of the legion, his most original psychic power could still be used. The other Grey Knights were not much different. The external psychic power was proved to be unusable, but the laws acting on themselves could still be used.

"Start the backup communication channel and order the troops to defend and shrink on their own!" Calvin thought, but time did not allow him to think any more.

The scattered troops must defend nearby, but long-term defense will only be surrounded by the enemy. Therefore, there must be one or more mobile forces that can recover all the scattered troops one by one while ensuring themselves!

Looking at the entire war zone, except for the detachment that Sutherland was personally responsible for, there was only Calvin himself.

He had to move now and move closer to the nearest Grey Knight team!