Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Keng! Clang!

The blades of two similar-style halberds collided with each other. After making a dull impact, they collided again under the swings of the two men.

Superhuman physical fitness and reaction speed make the transition between offense and defense between the two giants like a storm, which can only be detected by beings of the same level.

In the hands of Shield Captain Nicholas, the Paragon Halberd fully demonstrated its designer's intentions;

In hundreds of timeless blocks and thunderous attacks, the martial arts of the Imperial Guards were fully demonstrated.

This is the accumulation of thousands of years of fighting by the Imperial Guards. It is also the experience they faced when they fought against the entire galaxy under the Emperor's command.

On the other hand, Calvin on the other side was even more special. He deliberately suppressed his strength and reaction and was calm at this time. He seemed to be able to withstand the continuous offensive of the Forbidden Army Captain with ease.

Learning from the skills of his various incarnations in countless timelines, Calvin has no fixed routine.

The unwavering focus between advance and retreat, like an antelope hanging its horns, often frustrates the long-planned goals of the Forbidden Army Captain invisibly.

The martial arts of the two supermen have exceeded the limits of ordinary people's imagination. Against the background of the frequency of more than ten slashes per second and the violent fighting that lasted for several minutes, the moves that ordinary people imagined lost their inherent meaning in front of them.

Seconds are no longer the time unit for their confrontation. Millisecond-level confrontation and neural link-level tactical strike goals are the real level of struggle between the two war machines.

The complete personalized genetic modification of the Imperial Army makes each Achilles-type power armor extremely expensive to build;

But in return for this expensive investment, the neural interfaces on their bodies are modeled on the personal characteristics of their bodies and connected to the power armor in optimal positions.

This kind of adjustment, which is often only a few centimeters off on the specific carapace, represents a few milliseconds of lead in neural reaction speed when actually confronting units of the same level.

The power armor, which is completely made with reference to personal body parameters, also implements this fighting spirit regardless of the cost.

The size of each of their nail leaves has been carefully calculated. On the basis of ensuring the user's protection requirements, it is also confirmed that the user's joints are not blocked at all.

Even their servo is a custom-made product. The data in these tiny chips is implanted into the brain of the Imperial Guard to collect data from the time when an Imperial Guard is selected as a child.

They accompany the growth of these forbidden troops, recording their body data from the most intuitive angle, and also collecting the host's habits of using martial arts and the curves of muscle power.

Based on the collection of these data, the electromagnetic muscle bundles and power backpacks have been continuously fine-tuned by the craftsmen of the Imperial Palace District for decades. While ensuring output intensity, priority is given to the best response time with the host.

And when all of this finally manifested itself in front of Calvin, it was the ferocious claws of Nicholas, the war beast, revealed in front of him.

"This is really the pinnacle product of human technological civilization regarding killing!"

Calvin looked at the sweaty Nicholas in front of him and admired.

Outside the empty training ground, all the Gray Knights who were linked by the psychic channels and were able to experience this skill first-hand also agreed.

Nicholas, shrouded in a golden helmet, panted violently. The oxygen his powerful lungs fought for him quickly restored his physical fitness under the distribution of adrenaline and electrolytes injected automatically by the servo.

When he heard Calvin's admiration, his eyes hidden behind his visor glared upward.

"I am the pinnacle, so who do you think you are?"

This kind of complaint flashed through his mind, and he was summarizing his own gains from the battle just now, but his personal summary was far less efficient than the Gray Knights discussing in groups.

The Gray Knights who were watching the battle gradually became quiet in the psychic link. They also benefited a lot from the details shown in the confrontation between the two;

The scenes that Calvin saw in the battle were completely transmitted to their minds from the link, and his collection and judgment of various detailed information in the battle were also constantly moving on the punctuation marks on Nicholas in the servo eyepiece. It is clearly annotated.

In the eyes of Nicholas, this battle was just a battle between Calvin's whim and his accidental rise.

But in the eyes of all the Gray Knights watching the battle, through this battle, they could be said to have completely understood every physical detail of the Forbidden Army creature.

Their martial arts, weapons, and even physical qualities were all marked by Calvin with his brain that was far beyond ordinary people;

Even their martial arts and the offensive logic hidden in them are explained clearly by temporary inference text in the sub-level annotations.

The two people's goal of destroying each other's bodies has reached the neurological level, and under this level of confrontation, the Gray Knights also know how to use the Imperial Guards to fight for their own brothers during the ten thousand years of renovation in the palace. What kind of killing weapon are we preparing?

"This point!" Marvin, the arbiter of the third company of the Silver Blade, pointed to a certain moment in the battle record and deliberately made an inference.

"This attack on the armpit nerve occurred ten times after the frontal confrontation was concentrated on the right arm. The target was the nerve interface on our shoulder armor."

"Probably correct."

Arbiter Boris, who is also the team commander of the third company, agreed.

"The Astartes' standard black carapace, the instability caused by the release of high-intensity signals on the shoulders, has obviously been discovered by our brothers."

"Same here!" Another non-commissioned officer from the first company also participated in the discussion.

He pointed to a moment when Calvin turned back and Nicholas's instinctive reaction was to attack Calvin's right foot.

"The Holy Shield power armor is no different from the Mark series in terms of servo. In addition to the anti-pollution prayer coating, our leg electromagnetic muscle bundles also have the problem of performance attenuation."

"Why are they all coming after us?"

An arbiter who, judging from his coat of arms, served in the Second Company, questioned.

The entire channel went silent for an instant, and then started discussing the next detail as if nothing had happened...

Calvin's expression remained motionless, as if he had not heard the conversation within the war group.

He reached out to help Nicholas in front of him and pulled him towards the edge of the training ground.

This successful "teaching-level" stealing made him very satisfied. Many details of the battle have benefited the new sons of Calvin a lot after Nicholas performed them;

Even some of the special handling methods in the battle were not clear to Nicholas himself. However, through the deduction of Calvin's brain with terrifying computing power, he also found the original prototype by comparing it with the battle history of the Forbidden Forces.

"Your skills are amazing. From every detail of your body, I can feel the golden ambition that represents the human spirit!"

"Ashamed..."

Nicholas answered a little perfunctorily, obviously not yet divorced from the previous battle.

Calvin's martial arts skills were very different from his expectations, and he could still retain power throughout the entire process without using psychic powers.

This was the result of him deliberately suppressing his physical fitness and fighting with all his strength.

Of course the original body was extremely powerful, this was something he had expected.

But this kind of abnormal and purely martial suppression made Nicholas doubt the results of his training over the years while recalling the resume record left by Calvin in the throne room.

There are nearly complete records of the existence of every Primarch in the Throne Court.

In these records, each of the sacred Primarchs has more or less obtained a part of the Emperor's power that is different from mortals.

Each of them has several powerful powers, but there must be a core strength that cannot be achieved by other original bodies.

So the question is, what are Calvin’s core qualities?

Is it possible that psychic abilities are not his core specialty?

This is very different from the inference of the Tower of Hegemony!

Nicholas sorted out the messy information in his brain, and for a moment he lost interest in being polite to Calvin...

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