Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 164 Light! Twin Stars and Supernova Explosions

Light, as far as the eye can see, Calvin's eyes are full of light.

The extreme energy is released in an instant, and in Calvin's remaining sanity, only the dazzling light fills his vision.

The energy from the center of the planet Tavara is collected from the pipelines of the ruins like plant roots, and finally gathered in this device located at the north pole of the planet.

The shackles of space are shattered by this energy that accumulates to the peak and is released instantly, and the light representing the flow of time is torn into fragments here.

Calvin, who is in it, is dizzy. He tries to use his psychic power to support himself with a shield, but he can only go with the flow in such a surge of energy and can do nothing.

This is obviously not a device prepared for living things, and Calvin is naturally not its transmission target.

The original builder of the ruins is no longer traceable, and the original intention of the construction is naturally unknown.

But what we know is that it must be able to transmit an object to a certain place through some means, and then spread it throughout the star region.

Calvin was still drifting in the space corridor opened by the energy tunnel, but the energy barrier around him used to protect the "integrity of the cargo" was getting thinner and thinner.

When the barrier was broken, he didn't know how long his own spiritual energy could last.

One second, or several seconds, or even longer.

In short, in this space where time was meaningless, Calvin finally arrived at the destination of the transmission channel with difficulty, a building he had never seen before.

The house-like building was made up of dozens of unprocessed boulders, and it looked primitive and simple.

Except for the obscure energy fluctuations that spread from the stones from time to time, this building was like the product of primitive people's totem worship in Calvin's eyes, without any technical content.

But the reality was like this. Calvin, who had just arrived here from the space tunnel, had to believe that there was alien technology in the building he was in that he could not understand, even if he was unwilling.

Especially after his eyes passed through the gap between the boulders and saw the scenery outside the building, it was even more so.

What a terrible scene it was!

Two dazzling, unknown-sized light balls occupied Calvin's entire field of vision.

Endless light and heat gathered there, squeezing and colliding with each other every moment, and then more energy burst out, generating more dazzling rays.

The temperature there was so hot, and the energy reaction was so violent that the overflowing radiation was full of high-energy particles.

And this ancient building containing alien technology was actually suspended in the two oceans of energy, ignoring the surrounding environment.

Compared with the comfort of this building, Calvin, its first visitor in tens of thousands of years, was not so lucky.

Even under the protection and isolation of the megalithic building, Calvin almost paid the price of his eyes being burned for his careless gaze.

The psychic shield had already spontaneously protected his eyes as soon as it felt the impact of high-energy particles.

But the violent spasm of the nerve cord caused by the large number of visual cones that were instantly burned to death still made him unable to help but cover his eyes with his hands and howl in pain.

Korakel!

Calvin instantly knew his position. He was now in Korakel's most famous iconic scene, located in the middle of the twin stars in the center of the entire galaxy!

Is there really a civilization that can achieve such a spectacle?

This is to insert into the gravitational balance of two stars with terrifying technical capabilities!

And then after rebuilding and establishing a new balance, the gravitational tides of the two stars are used to maintain the existence of this building?

What kind of technical background is this! Unfortunately, the pain in his eyes made Calvin have no time to think about the meaning behind this technical appearance.

Until this time, he felt the strangeness of his body belatedly - his whole body was exposed to the terrifying high-energy radiation field here, and was decaying and disintegrating at a speed that frightened him.

The skin is the first checkpoint of the body, but it starts to wrinkle and age in just a few breaths under saturated radiation.

The black carapace under the skin takes a little longer, but it eventually collapses and fails after a few seconds.

When Calvin's muscle cells and internal organs are completely exposed to the impact of high-energy particles, the overall collapse of the body's circulatory system occurs irreversibly.

Calvin half-knelt on the stone floor. The power armor parts that were burned red by the rays and melted together were the last support to maintain his posture.

The skin on his body had already ulcerated and fallen off. After the muscles of his limbs were decomposed, only the brown-yellow bones were left reflecting the metallic luster.

The eyeballs on his face hung empty in the eye sockets after losing the support of the eyelids.

The face full of light yellow tissue fluid had long lost its original appearance. Only the withered optic nerve cords were still hanging two shriveled balls and refused to let go.

Pain was no longer a feeling at this time, but a normal state after the peak, which made Calvin numb.

The exposed light red muscles and yellow trachea on his neck were still spasming. The slower and slower heartbeat and the gradually stopped expanding lungs proved that he was still alive, but also indicated that his death was approaching.

Was he going to die? In this unknown corner?

Such thoughts flashed through Calvin's mind, which was already filled with pain, and then disappeared in more desire to survive.

No! I have to live! I have to live!

He was not struggling for himself, or rather, his life had long belonged to more than just himself.

As long as he thought of so many people pinning their hopes on him, Calvin was unwilling to give up so easily!

It was so easy to die, but living was a skill!

Calvin's heart beat again, as if his will had taken effect, or perhaps some conditions had already reached their limit and began to turn.

From a microscopic perspective, his heart began to change.

The first batch of high-energy cells that were simulated when accepting the "Holy Blood Trial" and then evolved for countless generations, finally got stuck at 39% of the simulation progress and stagnated. Finally, after absorbing enough high-energy particle impacts, some subtle changes occurred.

There were parts of the RNA chain that were broken, and the information hidden in it spread to the entire cell under the impact of high-energy particles. Chain reactions began to appear on the DNA spiral, and ultimately pointed to the change in the state of the entire cell!

His cells began to absorb these high-energy particles! More advanced runes appeared on his cell walls! At this moment, his cells finally completed another evolution and began to transition to a higher life energy level!

Cells began to divide and multiply with the support of energy, and the speed of spread was far beyond any medical common sense.

In just a dozen breaths, Calvin's heart completed another round of complete replacement, and began to use hematopoietic function to spread to the whole body starting from his arterial system!

First, the circulatory system began to repair, and then the internal tissues outside the organs began to recover;

When the black shell was replaced by a new white chitin structure and psychic guide, Calvin's life signal finally began to stabilize.

The power armor servo that re-established the connection with the main body dripped, and after finding Calvin's vital signs again, it couldn't wait to mobilize the stored nutrients to inject from his waist.

After another dozen breaths, Calvin, who was supplemented with nutrients, accelerated his recovery:

The muscles of the trunk and limbs were rebuilt from scratch, like a net, and fixed between his bones one by one. The nerve cords and connective tissues began to develop again, and then hid in the new muscles.

Finally, even new skin grew again with the support of these substances.

Huh! Calvin took a deep breath. He felt a great pressure from the baptism of life from birth to death and then to death in a few minutes.

Calvin stood up from a half-kneeling position and tore the armor on his body and threw it under his feet.

The power armor that had fulfilled its last mission was completely scrapped and no longer worth wearing.

He stood naked in this building that he had not had time to observe carefully. While looking at the mysterious rune veins on the surrounding stone walls, he felt the baptism and supplement of his new body by the particle storm like the solar wind.

"Fear... of the prisoner of death?"

He instinctively interpreted some affixes at the end of the program from these obscure runes.

But before he could interpret more, the surrounding environment changed again!

Outside this stone building, the originally stable, almost transparent and unobservable energy isolation position was beginning to disintegrate in an orderly manner!

As the whole building began to shake violently, Calvin could clearly see that the cracks on the boulders began to appear irreversibly!

A huge amount of thoughts instantly passed through his mind. Among countless possibilities, he finally locked onto the figures of those Nurgle believers before he came here.

The original purpose of those Death Guards was not as simple as sending him here. Their original idea was to send the disease here and then spread it to the entire star region by some means.

Then there is a reasonable explanation for the current situation!

When the ruins teleported him through the space channel to arrive here, they must have also sent the self-destruction command at the same time!

"Fuck Mortarion! Your kid didn't play so well when he didn't betray!"

The surrounding stone walls were cracking rapidly. Calvin only had time to prop up his psychic shield before he was swept into the energy tide again.

And this time, he was not protected by the ruins...

"Haven't you found it yet?"

Captain Tibers' voice echoed on the bridge of the Supreme Decree, and he was responded to by silent silence and the silent self-blame of Captain Nicholas of the Imperial Guards and many Grey Knights.

It has been sixteen hours since Calvin lost contact with the Supreme Decree. The intelligence forces of the entire galaxy have searched everywhere, but still failed to find the unique beacon of Calvin's power armor.

"We may have to leave here."

Without getting a response, Tiberus clenched his palm into a fist and slammed it hard on the corner of the command desk.

"No! The Primarch has not been found yet! We can't just leave like this! How can a mere Orpheus compare to the safety of the Primarch!"

Nicholas raised his head first and said to the highest person in charge of the Supreme Decree.

He could never accept that the person he was ordered to protect would disappear completely due to his negligence.

This was a complete denial of his service qualifications for centuries! It was also a huge emotional blow to him personally!

The same was true for the Grey Knights behind him. They also could not accept that the future Lord of the Legion would disappear in front of them.

As long as they think about the way the new legion soldiers will look at them in the future, they will never accept this kind of shame!

"Search again! This time I will lead the team and search here again."

Gavins looked at Tibers with hope. As the leader of the Honor Guard, he was undoubtedly the first person responsible for this incident.

In order not to let his rest of his life fall into regret, he still wanted to drive the Thunderhawk to search every inch of Tavala again, even if he knew that there was little hope.

"I will go too! The Imperial Guard can also contribute to this operation."

Nicholas turned his head and looked at Jin and others. The tacit understanding of many years made him know that his compatriots in front of him were the same as him, with unshirkable self-blame in their anxiety.

"You only have 6 hours. The war ahead does not allow us to stay any longer. We must go to the border of the Lyak sector."

The veteran captain looked deeply at Gavins and Nicholas, and then gave his last condition that could be allowed.

It's not that he doesn't care about his own gene original.

But from the overall situation, whether it is the Astartes or the Guards, they must obey the interests of the entire empire.

Even if Calvin himself was present, he would make the same choice in front of the lives of hundreds of billions of people in Orpheus.

This is their obligation, and it is natural and their awareness.

This awareness is a tacit understanding between them that does not need to be stated.

So after Tiberus gave the final deadline, no one argued to buy more time, but turned away in silence, trying not to waste this last search opportunity as much as possible.

But this is destined to be a futile action.

Six hours later, on the ships of the Grey Knights fleet hovering in the orbit of Tavala, the hundreds of search ships that had originally scattered all returned from the surface with reluctance.

The battle ahead is scorching, and tens of thousands of soldiers fall in the stranglehold of aliens and chaos every moment.

Compared with these outsiders, the human empire, as the home defender, is naturally in a passive position.

Their fleet was already scarce after decades of fierce fighting. With the limited manpower, every mobile force that could travel back and forth between the stars seemed extremely precious, not to mention the battleship-level Grey Knight battleships and strike cruisers?

Calvin's identity was far from being revealed, and the interstellar court's request for assistance had arrived several times.

From the perspective of them and the interstellar government authorities, allowing this precious combat formation to stay in Tarvala for so long inefficiently was already the greatest restraint they could do to maintain respect for the Holy Hammer Order.

The fleet finally left unwillingly.

The responsibility they carried was too heavy, and there were too many people waiting for their salvation.

When the fleet began to leave with the Supreme Decree at the head, and the last engine light disappeared in the Manzeville point of the galaxy, from the macro perspective of the entire galaxy, the Corakel twin stars in the center of the galaxy had just burst out with a bright light that belonged only to supernova explosions...

Second update, please vote.

I have been revising it since noon, but I still feel that there are too many things that need to be discussed.

But unfortunately, my eyes are so tired that I can't revise it anymore. If there are any mistakes, please forgive me.

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