Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

The torrent like the Tianhe River continues to pour out, but the flood will eventually end.

In the idealistic spiritual world, everything has an absolute symbolic meaning.

Since this external disaster finally chose torrent and heavy rain as its form, just like the story of Noah's Ark, seven days and seven nights will be where all his power lies.

And this also happens to correspond to the sacred number of the god who is both life and corruption.

Is it really a coincidence? Or is it that his nature has always been disaster?

No one can tell clearly, and no one dares to explore.

After all, that One existed before the emergence of the human race.

And the stories about Him have extraordinary power because of His holy name.

All mortals who dared to explore had already died from the disease and pollution caused by His boundless power as early as they recklessly opened the first page of the book with His true name engraved on it.

The name of God cannot be spoken, and the gods cannot be explored.

They may still have a long way to go before becoming truly omniscient and omnipotent.

But if you take the initiative to mention His name, or explore within the realm covered by His power.

That is no different than having your soul lifted up in your hands and dedicated to Him.

When you have no choice but to use some unique names to refer to them, it is the safest way chosen by those who are really involved in these things related to gods.

This is the bloody lesson that mankind has learned after trying countless times to cross the boundary between man and God with its weak but tenacious mortal body for tens of thousands of years.

Not just mortals, even some beings who have received extraordinary gifts due to accidental factors are no exception.

In the Chaos Gods' transcendent existence that spans the long river of time, just a hint of transcendence is nothing more than the difference between a cockroach in the north and a cockroach in the south in their eyes.

Big or small, they will crush you to pieces regardless of whether they are bigger or smaller.

Only by completely retrieving your own subspace essence can you be qualified to escape from these existences that are indescribable with horror, rather than fighting holy battles.

Fighting is a word of equivalence that only exists between gods.

Perhaps if we zoom in from a personal perspective, and from the perspective of the entire human race and civilization, we can barely match the word battle, but only barely.

Therefore, compared with fighting, in the eyes of the very few beings in the entire empire who truly understand the relationship between Chaos and humans, using the word "struggle" to describe the relationship between humans and the Chaos Gods is obviously more appropriate and appropriate.

Have you ever caught a mouse? I caught it.

When you force a mouse into a corner, the mouse that knows its death is imminent will also become terrified, baring its teeth and staring.

It will use all the power in its tiny body to scream angrily at you.

At that moment, facing the opponent's wild attack, you can't help but be frightened by the ferocious desire of the opponent, but this does not affect you in the slightest when you come to your senses and kill him with a blow with the mop in your hand.

And this is no different from the resistance of humans when facing evil gods.

The existence of Calvin is probably something like a human cry in this originally hopeless game.

But fortunately, his essence is not a mouse, or in other words, he is a passing monster who was mistakenly recognized as a mouse because he looks like a mouse and thinks he is a mouse.

This is the luck of mankind, and it is also the cognitive limitation of the Chaos Gods.

After all, you can't ask Truman to understand the existence outside his world.

But no matter what, when Calvin entered this world by countless coincidences and joined the human race with the emperor's permission, there was finally a little light in the originally dark future of this race.

The essence of the soul is the basis of transcendence.

Calvin, who has completed the conceptual unity of himself in many timelines, naturally meets this condition that isolates most people.

Power is the bargaining chip and weapon that can truly affect results.

Now, it is a critical moment for Calvin to truly obtain, or rather steal, an authority that originally belonged to the gods.

Countless souls who were redeemed and liberated by him prayed for his name in the promised land in Calvin's spiritual world.

And the power of faith that the power of these prayers finally gathered together also accelerated the growth of the concept of salvation in his hands and the final condensation of authority.

Gein Calvin's behavior was actually practicing the righteousness called "redemption", and the faith he gained as a result was just a surprise that came with it.

Calvin's attitude towards the power of faith was extremely cautious.

This stems from the fact that there are two cores in the cold sun that he witnessed when he first came to this universe, and it is directly related.

It is necessary to emphasize again that in this idealistic world, apart from reality, subspace, like the personal spiritual world, has a strict symbolic meaning in it.

So, what do the two cores of that sun symbolize?

They are two different wills, or two visions that cannot coexist. Or even more serious may be that the soul itself has two cores.

The sun from Calvin's perspective has two cores, and the golden core is clearly its original owner;

The other white core seemed to have an unknown meaning to Calvin at the time, and he was unable to understand its meaning at the time.

But at this moment, when he saw with his own eyes the power of these colorful beliefs gathering from different souls.

When he witnessed these beliefs finally turning from their different colors, the reverse Mitsubishi mirror generally converged into the pure white that is the sum of all colors.

He understood everything.

It turns out that the seemingly pure white that Calvin saw back then contained so many complicated wishes and desires!

All of this seemed reasonable after he was reborn in the empire and learned about the existence of the "State Religion".

After all, the second core in the sun was born with the prayers of trillions of people in the entire empire for that one person.

Unfortunately, in some real historical records that Calvin knew, the existence of this kind of prayer itself was something that the emperor who had always pursued the entire human race toward rationality and rejected divinity did not want to see.

The Emperor never thought of becoming the God Emperor.

As a result, the consequences occurred.

When the power of faith you accept, or have to accept, goes against your own spiritual will.

what should you do?

In Calvin's view, the best approach was to reject or destroy the source of the power of faith in the first place.

But the popularity of the "state religion" only happened after the emperor was seriously injured and confined to the throne.

The troubles that were once easily overcome by the emperor were now truly beyond his reach.

The Emperor was immortal, so Calvin never doubted that the Emperor would be able to recover one day when he or someone else was able to take the Emperor's place at the crumbling Webway portal.

The Emperor would surely recover, if only someone could buy him some breathing space.

But after eight thousand years of accumulation of faith, is the dominant will of the sun still the original noble soul?

And if one day the Emperor can stand up from the throne again, who is the Emperor himself in that heavy (chong) and burly body?

Or is it an existence that is purely made of faith and has no trace of humanity at all?

This kind of answer is only caused by the current situation that Calvin knows, and Calvin really doesn't dare to think about it carefully.

He was afraid of the answer he was unwilling to accept.

He also paradoxically hoped that the being who was the greatest miracle of mankind could once again create new miracles.

The lessons learned from the past are right in front of our eyes, and those who come after us will not dare or forget them.

Therefore, when Calvin himself had to face such a problem, he was not immediately surprised by the power of these bonuses.

Because he already knew deeply from the emperor's dilemma that when something is marked as free, fate has usually marked it with a more expensive price.

Back to Calvin himself, he had to figure out three questions:

Are the powers of faith generated by salvation in front of us consistent with Calvin's own will?

Or, in other words, can their desire to pray itself be satisfied by Calvin?

Is the vision generated by their collective will really consistent with Calvin's long-term vision?

Calvin carefully looked at the faith gathered in front of him, and he had to listen and distinguish every prayer among them.

The necessity of the divine soul is revealed again, so that the transcendent essence of the soul can withstand these forces without being overwhelmed, and at the same time try to hear and answer these prayers one by one.

But when ordinary people's exploration of faith reaches this point, there is no way forward.

Because if you take one step further, your soul will be crushed and torn apart by the power of countless prayers and eventually fall into the abyss of madness.

The final madness of the supreme lord Vancolic, who combined politics and religion and monopolized power in Calvin's reading records, is likely to be inseparable from it.

Divine souls also have different abilities to sort out the prayers they receive, but Calvin's group will is naturally good at this.

The first question: whether the prayer of the soul is consistent with Calvin:

For these souls that have been devoured and become incomplete, being able to return to the Promised Land is the best outcome.

There was nothing in their prayers other than gratitude and a desire to chant Calvin's holy name, so the first problem was easily overcome by Calvin.

Second question: Can their needs be met by Calvin?

You know, the fall of most gods comes from broken promises.

They were unable to fulfill the promise they made to every believer that they would ascend to heaven after death, because this was the privilege of a few devout people.

And when they broke their trust with mortals, their belief in receiving money in advance became a debt contract that urged their lives.

Calvin had no such distress, because these people who existed in his spiritual kingdom were dead people, and they had indeed been led there.

So the second question is no longer a problem.

As for the third question, Calvin no longer needs to think too much, because the vision of these souls is the meaning of salvation itself.

The righteousness he is doing now is the vision they long for.

At this point, Calvin had no doubts.

He finally opened his soul and accepted these people of faith and the spirit of prayer that only belonged to him.

The power of faith concentrated on him, and finally found its home in the crown on his forehead.

The flame of order seems to have better burning power with the blessing of faith.

And a more complete redemption directly skips the process of transformation and goes directly to the condensation of authority.

"Kah...kah...kah..."

There seemed to be the sound of something breaking in the void, and it seemed to be accompanied by the angry shouts of some beings.

But it no longer matters.

Under the circumstances of many factors, Calvin finally took advantage of these opportunities that originally endangered his life and existence to tear off a small piece of the authority that originally belonged to the gods.

Redemption, salvation and redemption.

There is hope within it, as well as concepts of transformation and the gift of life.

When Calvin's actions completely and completely fulfilled the "righteousness" related to salvation in the real universe, this authority that did not originally exist naturally separated from the different authorities in the hands of the gods and converged in Calvin's hands. .

In the real world, the waves in the subspace around the Revenant Redeemer had begun to calm down.

The moment Calvin's authority took shape, greater power fluctuations began to rage around them.

The entire ship's power and energy pipelines began to become unstable under the strong fluctuations like this subspace storm.

The lights in the corridor inside the ship began to flicker on and off, and the creaking Geiger counter also used its own way to remind the crew of the entire ship how critical the situation was at this time.

This is the wrath of the evil god!

This is even more the anger of the gods!

Because at this moment it was not just one god whose authority was stolen!

But it’s also impotent rage.

Because from the beginning of the timeline, the gods have never observed the existence of Calvin.

Therefore, the angry gods never cast doubt on the real world.

After not finding a single trace in the river of time for the first time, the two victims among the four gods had already focused their scrutiny on the other two.

It is impossible to admit that our country has its own national conditions;

It is even more impossible to explain. When did the Lord of the Skull have the obligation to explain to others?

Therefore, the only thing left is to start the eternal holy war again.

Anyway, we have accumulated enough reasons for fighting over countless epochs, and this one is really not missing...

The eternal and sacred war has begun again, and the evil gods who are focused on the mass chaos and even preparing to die personally have no intention of maintaining the previous large-scale subspace wave.

Severe tests are like this, they come suddenly and go without any warning.

Deep in the subspace, this small fleet with the Redeemer of Souls as its flagship was still sailing quietly after the storm.

They finally survived this test and continued to sail towards their home planet Titan, loaded with Gray Knights and mortal crew members.

At this time, Calvin, who had just solved the troubles in his spiritual world, also briefly woke up and explained some things to his comrades, then fell into sleep again because of the arrival of a new growth period.

Ah, I have something to do during the day. So I updated it earlier. Then take time off during the day and try to write another chapter at night.