Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"We're in trouble..."

Standing in front of the entrance to the webway, Calvin was communicating with Tabos and listening to his conversations with the Ultramarines in real time, while looking up at this ancient creation that seemed to have floated up again from the river of time.

This is a huge building with a height of hundreds of meters, and only the exposed part from the surrounding rocks is tens of meters high.

Extremely concise geometric lines form its main curve, and reliefs composed of complex plant stems, leaves, flowers and inscriptions of unknown meaning fill the huge facade within sight.

This building was exuding an obviously different lively atmosphere at this time, and it was this atmosphere that made Calvin and everyone behind him silent. For a while, no one was willing to break the silence.

This is not the effect of witchcraft or the influence of some supernatural force.

When he saw this building and recovered from the shocking emotions, Calvin understood where his silence came from. This was the result of being a race with only tens of thousands of years of history and seeing the end of time. , a visceral shock.

This is also similar to the first time that human beings looked at the boundless starry sky above their heads after the heliocentric theory was established, and sincerely sighed from their own understanding of the vast galaxy composed of planets as huge as the earth beneath their feet.

This is their awe of the power of another civilization. This is also their sharp sword as humans to fight against all threats. It is also their self-reflection on the fate of these disappeared civilizations.

So he did not disturb the Imperial Guards and Gray Knights, because this in itself was also a spiritual baptism.

He just silently grasped the hilt of the great sword in his hand, and then strode towards the main entrance of the Webway.

boom!

A dull voice woke everyone up, and Nicholas saw the original body walking up to the stone arch and hitting the complex and gorgeous hollow carvings of the arch with a seemingly light punch.

A weak energy vaguely emerged from the stone sculpture. The moment the original body's heavy fist fell, it blocked the original body's temptation with a gentle and just right force.

The dull sound echoed in the silent square, and the Templar knights behind them couldn't help but stop when they saw this scene.

They knew the power possessed by the original body, so they also understood better how terrifying the carvings of this unknown plant possessed under its seemingly fragile structure.

Well, destruction at the physical level is at least impossible, so what about using energy differently?

No way...

Calvin tried to use his power towards this portal, but unexpectedly, this portal seemed to exist independently from reality and subspace at the energy level.

Calvin's powerful psychic power either couldn't find a target to use it in reality, or it was drawn into the webway the moment it entered the subspace.

After thousands of attempts within seconds, Calvin finally came to a conclusion:

If it cannot be completely detonated from the inside outward, then the most effective way to destroy this kind of building is to use the light spear of the battleship to conduct a short-term, saturated energy bombardment.

This was obviously unrealistic, at least after he looked at the dozens of kilometers of crust above his head, he gave up this unrealistic idea.

Do we need to dig up this place bit by bit? impossible!

This portal has completed communication with reality, and just like Calvin can smell the breath of the webway, the countless demons lurking in it will sooner or later notice the flaws here.

Although the current situation seems peaceful, there is actually not much time left for Calvin.

"How did you deal with this kind of thing before?"

Calvin simply stopped the test in his hands, and while continuing to listen to the conversation in orbit, he asked Nicholas, the commander of the Forbidden Army next to him.

"Look at its specific situation. If the internal structure is simple, just detonate it directly from the inside. If the external space is fragile, use a warship to destroy it directly." Nicholas thought for a while and then responded to Calvin.

"What about this kind of thing?" Calvin pointed at the building in front of him and immediately realized:

If it could really be dealt with, the Imperial Guards would not have kept this threat until now.

And Nicholas's answer was indeed the same. He looked at this arch that was huge enough for a Titan to pass through, and he just helplessly said to Calvin:

"This... is a special case. Its existence itself is a natural result of the influence of the nearby space structure. I guess its builder initially took advantage of the situation to achieve this miracle.

We don't have a good way to deal with this naturally formed "portal". We can only use some ancient 'relic-level' equipment in the Throne Courtyard to interfere with their energy circuits and force them to enter a dormant state.

And you see..."

Following Nicholas's fingers, Calvin saw an inconspicuous defect in the center of the arch.

There was a small chip in the stone sculpture there, and although it was difficult to identify with mortal eyes, Calvin could still see that this part of the chip was repairing itself with the supply of energy, undergoing subtle regeneration.

According to the logic of the content of the surrounding sculptures, what is missing in the gap guarded by branches and leaves should be a petal surrounded by thorns.

wrong! Calvin looked at it carefully and felt more and more that the missing part looked familiar.

He suddenly turned around and looked at Nicholas, and then found the answer he had been looking for on the shoulder armor of his power armor - an imperial eagle surrounded by thorns and soaring.

"It can repair itself? And that is your seal?" Calvin asked hesitantly.

This answer is too bizarre, because he would not be surprised by anything on this alien civilization's creation, but the eagle emblem representing the empire is absolutely impossible to appear here.

That can only be the imperial guards' acquired interference with this building, forcibly embedding this emblem into it through some means, replacing its original energy circuit.

And if the answer is true, then he will have to re-examine the technical strength of the imperial guards.

There are good things in the throne room...

I am still young, and next time I have a chance to visit, I must not come out empty-handed like this time...

"Hmm?" In the distant direction of Terra, the imperial guards marshal Trajan, who was in an office deep in the palace area, suddenly felt an abnormal numbness and itchiness at the end of his upper respiratory tract that was in contact with the outside air.

He stopped writing with the gilded quill in his hand, and a powerful aura burst out with his mind, silently stirring in this small room.

"My Lord..." A guard of the Imperial Guard appeared silently in the shadow of the office.

The power armor on his body was black and gold, and the helmet tassel was completely dark like night.

Unlike the model halberd that matched the conventional Achilles power armor, he held a heavy flail with a crystal-like translucent color in his hand.

"Nothing, retreat." Trajan did not look up, but after a brief pause, he returned to the work in front of him.

Since the return of the Imperial Guard, the entire Terra and even the entire defense intelligence has opened up channels for him to circulate.

The establishment of the Eye of the Empire made this strategic vision more complete. At this time, he was worried about Calvin who was far away in Janmorro, and worried about what choice he would make after knowing how difficult the situation he would face...

"Yes, but it will be slow, and that is our seal. Its sealing effect relies on the power of the building itself, and if we can't find the lost part before the building completes its self-repair, it will be almost impossible for us to seal it again." Nicholas replied.

"So, this is why Appius can destroy the seal." Calvin nodded, which was considered to solve a little doubt before.

He had doubts before. If he couldn't destroy the webway and the seal with his power, how could a mere fallen Astartes do it?

And Nicholas's explanation explained this problem, so the next goal was simple.

Find the missing seal, or in other words, find Appius.

Calvin looked at the guards and gray knights around him, and after careful consideration, decided to leave some people to guard.

At the same time, the meeting on the track just ended. He briefly explained the current situation here to Tiberus, and then he led the remaining six people into the interior of the webway.

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