Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"So, we finally stopped them, right?"

When everything was settled, Calvin stood in front of the disappearing stone door and heard the old voice behind him.

"Marduk?"

Calvin turned around unexpectedly and saw the old man standing in the mortal camp on the edge of the battlefield.

At this time, the back hall of the bridge was in a mess, with collapsed sculptures and dissolving decks making it difficult to move;

The shocking bullet marks and corpses all over the place silently tell the story of the past tragedy here.

Calvin looked around and saw that there were very few surviving mortal soldiers in the surrounding intersection positions;

Even next to Marduk, who was reinforced later, the soldiers of the Tindaros Legion were still under-organized and suffered heavy casualties.

The weapons of the alien civilization benefited from their weird technology. During the battle, Calvin also observed that most of the soldiers hit by high-energy rays disintegrated instantly after being hit, leaving no whole body behind.

Most of the soldiers who were wounded but not dead on the battlefield were warriors who survived hand-to-hand combat, and the remaining few wounded were from injuries caused by those beetles.

"Your battlefield is not here."

Picking up the warhammer in his hand, Calvin's steel body stepped on the alien metal corpse and walked towards Marduk.

Fully clothed, he stood before the aging, hunched mortal, like an elephant looking down at a hound.

The soldiers of the Tindaros legion retreated silently, knelt on one knee and saluted their monarch;

Only the old man wearing the red robe of the state religion was left. From such a close distance, he could look up at the full view of the demigod in war form in front of him.

“Mortals are ignorant, and faith needs to take place before them in its true form;

Mortals have no wisdom, and can only guide all sentient beings to realize the compassion of the emperor by practicing it personally and preaching in the water and fire. "

In his own unique tone, Marduk explained to Calvin the significance of his appearance.

"You understand the difference between having sex with me and having sex with me, right?"

Calvin laughed, religion and faith, devotion and love.

It is a great blessing for a devotee to become real in this present universe.

In those materialistic universes, there are similar psychological laws.

"You should be careful what you say."

Marduk glanced at Calvin helplessly. His downcast face was all white, but he still had his own stubbornness.

"Faith is by no means so shallow, and as you are, you should understand the emperor's spirit."

After hundreds of years of preaching, his influence is no longer limited to mortals.

Marduk also came to his own understanding of the Astartes and their internal old legends after reading the Ecclesiarchy books.

Just like the sinners who are the most proficient in deception often have the most authentic knowledge, the records of the Astartes in the internal materials of the State Church are closer to those ancient realities.

Since the two met, they have maintained a certain tacit understanding of each other.

As for the identity of Calvin, Marduk, as a senior official of the state church, was also half-aware of Calvin's identity but did not investigate.

Correspondingly, even Calvin never refuted Marduk's theory.

"Yes, I think we did stop them."

He picked up the topic just now, which temporarily resolved this small dispute.

The adventures he experienced in Orpheus and the details of the war were organized and reviewed in Calvin's mind at the speed of light.

After various vague inferences and mutual confirmations, Calvin finally came to this conclusion.

The alien device buried deep in the heart of Colkash should be the last resort of this alien race here. Its successful destruction in this battle will completely eliminate the tragedy that never happened.

"But I don't know if this is the end, because you haven't said yet whether the fate of death you foresee has been changed."

"Death? That's actually not important. What's important is whether the emperor's will is implemented; what's important is whether the original tragedy here is changed..."

Looking at the maintenance personnel who began to appear at the edge of the hall in the distance, Marduk seemed to have completed some kind of mission, and his whole body collapsed easily.

His already stooped body arched even more fiercely, and as he coughed violently, streams of blood flowed out of the corners of his mouth unstoppably.

"Um?"

Calvin instantly noticed abnormalities in Marduk's vital signs.

This mortal, who was originally still stably maintaining the state of human twilight, at a certain point in time, was like a barely mended balloon, losing the remaining life force at an alarming rate.

"You are injured."

The spiritual energy that passed through his body was fleeting, and Calvin quickly found the hidden wound on Marduk's chest.

A metal beetle got into Marduk's body during the previous battle.

In his chest, which had not yet been completely destroyed, this evil presence bit through the old man's fragile heart.

He should have died on the battlefield just now, but the aliens' retreat caused their relatives to fall into a strange slumber.

The attack of the metal beetle always stopped at the last second when its sharp teeth bit through his heart. At the same time, it used its own teeth to block the flesh and blood that was about to burst.

But this is still not the reason for him to live until now. It is the regret of unfinished mission that maintains the life of this old man;

It was his persistence in changing the tragedy of Orpheus that made him endure unimaginable pain and persist in coming to Calvin.

Calvin understood Marduk's state.

The thing that Calvin regrets most now is the affirmation he gave the old man about his change of destiny.

If the extent of his injuries had been known in advance, there might have been a chance to save him.

"No need to regret..."

Marduk raised his head with difficulty and looked at Calvin who was half kneeling.

He struggled to stretch out his hand, which was as thin as a dead tree, and gently placed it on Calvin's shoulder armor.

The silver shoulder armor carved with the sacred imperial eagle wings and the tiny palms of mortals revealed their divinity and humanity at that moment, which gave the soldiers present a huge spiritual baptism.

They stopped trying to help Marduk and whispered the Emperor's name.

“What a… divine being.

My mission has been completed, but as a son of God, you should have a greater vision. but me……"

“And as a loyal servant of the Emperor, you shouldn’t have any thoughts of slacking off!

You should do everything you can to survive to witness more of the Emperor's great deeds become a reality! "

Calvin interrupted Marduk's last words and brazenly wrapped his psychic energy around his bursting heart.

He picked up Marduk's skinny body, turned around and strode towards the medical department.

He did not dare to use psychic teleportation, because it would directly tear this mortal's body apart;

He didn't even dare to run, because his nearly shattered flesh couldn't withstand the slightest shock.

But life was still passing away from this body rapidly. Excessive blood loss was a life-and-death threshold that was difficult for a strong man to overcome, let alone this fragile old man.

In Calvin's perception, Marduk's vital signs were rapidly declining, and the projection of his soul in the subspace was flickering.

Maybe the next second this body will declare death, maybe the next second the soul will leave here and return to the seat of the God Emperor.

"You believe in the Emperor, right?"

Calvin strode forward and said to Marduk, who was already in a semi-conscious state.

He did not wait for the old man's reply and continued talking to himself:

"Then you believe in the divinity of the Emperor, right?"

The old man looked at Calvin's body with half-open eyes and said nothing, but Calvin treated him as if he heard and agreed with his point of view.

"Then do you agree with my existence?

Okay, let me ask directly.

Are you willing to place your faith in the Emperor on me for the time being? "

The silent exchange was completed in the next few seconds, and the empty corridor witnessed the confrontation of faith between the two.

When Calvin almost gave up in despair, he finally sensed the contract between him and the soul he held under his arm through the link within his soul.

The majestic spiritual energy was like a tide that had been accumulated for a long time. The moment the gate was opened, Marduk's soul was baptized and sublimated.

The spiritual energy that comes from within is different from external interference. Against the backdrop of the silver light that is about to overflow from the old man's pupils, the organs in his body have regained their vitality, which is almost that of their prime.

The terrifying wound on the heart began to flow out blood again; from a microscopic perspective, the cells in the hideous gap also began to regain their activity.

Bang!

Calvin, who kicked open the door of the medical room, ignored everyone's surprised looks and walked straight to the medical equipment and put down Marduk's body.

At the last second before the old man fell completely into coma, his dying consciousness seemed to still hear Calvin's sigh:

"Uncle, I finally saved it..."

First update, I don’t know if it’s too late for second update, please vote...forget it, I’m too embarrassed to ask.