Chapter 258 True Name and Authority
The concept of true name and related knowledge, among the many departments of the Empire involving the Warp, probably belongs to the exclusive domain of the Grey Knights.
Other departments naturally have "lucky ones" who have come into contact with it by chance, but if we really want to say that the Grey Knights are the only ones who have consistently studied this concept for thousands of years.
These "lucky ones" are extremely happy about the knowledge they have gained in various information asymmetric environments, but they don't know that this knowledge that belongs exclusively to the gods is so vast that it can't see the end, and in a sense it has life, which is a curse for all those who know it.
They are destined to be unable to transform this knowledge into substantial power in their short lives, but because of the fragility of their souls, they are repeatedly polluted by this taboo knowledge, and they can only repent at the end of their lives.
In comparison, the Grey Knights are much luckier. Their pure souls are born with the control of psychic energy, and the blood of the Emperor solidifies these souls firmly, so that the thickness and strength of their souls finally barely reach the minimum bottom line of touching it.
Calvin didn't know the secret of the true name for the time being, but like all the subspace knowledge, some concepts are alive in themselves.
When Calvin recalled the appearance of the Sword of Covenant in his mind, the concept of the true name also took shape in his mind spontaneously.
This abnormality immediately aroused Calvin's vigilance. In the training he received, there was a clear explanation for this situation:
When a certain concept itself has vitality, it will try to spread its existence all the time.
The fire of order ignited at Calvin's fingertips, and the psychic fluctuations that reverberated throughout the dome hall swept through, but no trace of malice or pollution was sensed.
Well, the concept of neutrality is not malicious pollution.
Calvin made a cautious evaluation of this, then looked at the members of the Honor Guard in the hall and said what he had just said.
The paladins belonging to the Victory Hall are core members of the Grey Knights, and naturally have the authority to know some core secrets.
But this scope is limited to the Lord of the Victory Hall-the leader of all paladins knows everything.
As for the other paladins guarding the Victory Hall, as candidates for the true name holders of all generations, they can only know the name of that power after they have truly passed the test.
So when Calvin asked them, the paladins looked confused, and Gavins, the leader, hesitated to speak.
"Well, I understand. You don't have to say it."
Calvin saved Gavins from embarrassment and immersed himself in his own thoughts again.
Yes, the Grand Master Council is extremely cautious about this kind of knowledge involving the nature of the warp.
After all, there are precedents of the fallen primarchs in the Great Heresy, and it is understandable that the veteran Calvin has a conservative attitude towards growth.
But Calvin also has his own thoughts. As another attempt by the Emperor, the Grey Knights have the mission of racial dimensionalization.
Calvin became their genetic primarch by mistake, and this mission naturally fell on his head.
The veterans of the Grand Master Council have their own reasons for being conservative, but Calvin also has his own little secrets.
His soul has no corresponding foundation in this universe, and naturally there is no corresponding true name.
And this special existence, in cooperation with the Blood of the Emperor, cultivated a new generation of Grey Knights, which was also a product that the veterans had never understood.
Yes, the relationship between the new Grey Knights and Calvin is far more than the relationship between Astartes and genetic blueprints that the veterans believed.
Due to the special nature of Calvin's soul and the special positioning of the Grey Knights' psychic power, the souls of these new sons of Calvin are also closely connected with him beyond imagination.
This can be proved by the Grey Knights whose souls were taken in his spiritual world after they died in battle:
In the legion mode, Calvin and the new generation of Grey Knights can support each other with the power of psychic power and the sharing of the cost after using psychic power.
But when fighting with the Khorne Legion on the planet Malus, Calvin also added his power to psychic power in a hurry and delegated it to the psychic power of the entire legion.
This accidental attempt, in Calvin's recollection now, clearly has the possibility of operating more complexly on the basis of basic psychic sharing.
He has consulted some specific information about the predecessors with real names in the regiment.
The descriptions of the incredibly powerful fighting in the warp were clearly an application of power in his eyes.
Although the principle was unclear, Calvin at least knew that these Grey Knights used this power called "True Name" to achieve a function similar to the power he possessed in a certain sense!
The role of chanting the true name of the devil is a training that every Grey Knight has experienced.
He also learned from past records about the effect of exploring and capturing the foundation of the devil's existence.
So what about the true name of the Grey Knight?
Is it also the embodiment of a concept like the devil?
Considering the power of order that Calvin possesses to purify the opposite power of chaos, is there the same principle behind it?
Can it be considered that the so-called true name is to use the power of the corresponding concept to attack and offset the opposite concept?
Isn't this just a crude imitation of Calvin's power of order?
Yes, only this possibility is closest to the truth;
Only in this way can those demon princes and princes whose essence is at the conceptual level be completely annihilated.
But unfortunately, they are different from Calvin. The mortal nature of their souls prevents them from having the uniqueness of Calvin in the long river of time, so every time they destroy the demons, they leave the possibility for the evil gods to resurrect them in the subspace.
The doubts in Calvin's eyes gradually became clear. Once this inference is established, many puzzled things will have a reasonable explanation.
His top priority at this time is to truly obtain a true name to confirm whether his inference is correct.
And if this inference is confirmed to be true, then a crazy idea will immediately appear in his mind:
The true name is power, the true name is the source;
The true name of the same kind is complete enough, which is the prototype of the authority of the gods.
This is very likely the truth of the existence of the gods in the subspace, so what about the other way around?
If Calvin also splits his power into sufficiently subtle and specific concepts, then are these true names one by one?
And if he goes a step further, decentralizing these forces that are already subtle enough to be carried by mortal souls and transmitting them to every son of Calvin?
Then will the newly born Grey Knights, like the demons to the gods, be a manifestation of a certain aspect of his authority?
Cognition is also a kind of power. When Calvin's mind reaches a complete logical closed loop about the relationship between authority and true name, the power of destiny begins to undergo a huge transformation invisibly.
This change did not immediately appear in reality, but whether it was the ancient gods deep in the warp or the existence in the direction of Terra, they all opened their tightly closed eyes at this moment and looked towards the distant Orpheus.
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