Chapter 47: No One in Charge and Being Forced to Stay Home
On the waterways within the solar system, there are still countless merchant ships and warships coming and going. The starport on the moon is still busy receiving these ships and goods from all over the empire.
The journey back to Titan was safe and sound. A blank waterway temporarily opened up by the authorization of Mars allowed the cruiser to reach the periphery of Titan quietly. After passing through the heavy fog of war, the Grey Knights finally returned to their church fortress Titan, or as they affectionately call it: Titan.
After returning to the base, Calvin handed over the soldiers brought back from this outing to the custodian brothers of the Fifth Company, and temporarily had no other tasks in his hands.
According to the original plan, he will also end his one-year adjutant career after reporting to the Supreme Grand Master.
He will be transferred to the Third Company, the company of the Shaper Guardian Order, as planned, and follow the best think tank brothers in the regiment to learn about the practical application of psychic power.
The specific length of learning time depends on his learning speed.
In short, in the next year or even several years, diligently studying the knowledge of the warp and psychic energy will be the main content of his life.
There are always unexpected things. The return trip originally planned by the Supreme Grand Master Walden was slightly delayed due to the unsuccessful war.
According to the information replied by the front-line fleet, the date of the Grand Master's expected arrival on Saturn will continue to be delayed, and there is no specific date.
So Calvin is now in a state of no one, with a new position not confirmed and the old position not reported.
Calvin also thought about saving some administrative procedures that may be unnecessary.
He went directly to the headquarters of the Shaper Order, found the Grand Master Eric Urdas in charge of the order, and told him frankly that he did not want to wait in vain. If he could get his permission and start the next stage of study directly, it would be a very good thing for Calvin.
But Urdas refused Calvin, and he explained to Calvin frankly: Unlike what Calvin expected, the training of the Grey Knights recruits on the psychic side of the Shaper was completely different from the training subjects Calvin had seen in other companies.
Unlike the common general subjects such as strength, purity, will, stability, etc., the core subjects of the Shaper's training for the Grey Knights recruits are divided into two types: one is the identification and corresponding treatment of demons; the other is the group psychic skills that must be used when the Grey Knights fight in a team and it is necessary. Or as they call it - the command.
But unfortunately, the identification of demons and the memory of their true names, as well as their corresponding treatment methods, must use a valuable core property of the regiment - the Exorcism Book.
It is a book that has been kept by the Shaper for a long time, recording 666 demon forms, treatment methods and the most important information - the true name.
The conditions for using this sacred exorcism book have always had strict authority requirements. Every time it is taken down from the holy shelf by the think tanks of the chapter, it must be approved by the chapter's supreme master.
In the absence of the supreme master himself on Titan, the Shaper has no right to take it out and use it privately.
If it is taken out without authorization because of Calvin's request, it will be regarded as a serious blasphemy. Urdass said he could do nothing about it.
As for the second training subject, the team application of psychic power, Calvin, accompanied by Urdass, tried it briefly with the think tank brothers of the chapter.
But unfortunately, this training, which was often interrupted due to excessive loss in the past, has a problem that they have never encountered and have no chance to think of with Calvin's participation: no one can withstand Calvin's psychic power.
Any psychic release with Calvin's participation always fails at the first moment of coordinating the psychic fluctuations of each other. The huge psychic power always makes them completely unable to coordinate the use of everyone's power at this step, not to mention the specific step of directional gain for a certain brother.
The same is true in reverse. No one's psychic power can produce the expected enhancement effect on Calvin. After several attempts, the expected results were not achieved.
In the final experiment, eleven brothers, including Grand Master Urdas, launched a joint spell that was unprecedented in terms of intensity.
But unfortunately, after the seemingly majestic psychic wave entered Calvin's body, it was like a drop in the ocean, and no response was seen.
After trying in circles, a whole day passed. Even if Calvin didn't need to rest, the Shaper brothers who were tormented by him also needed to enter a recovery state after their psychic power dried up.
Looking at the tired faces of his comrades and predecessors, Calvin really couldn't insist on continuing to try to increase the number of people. In the end, he could only walk out of the Shaper's residence accompanied by Urdas.
Calvin, who had nowhere to go, could only return to his private dormitory at the bottom of Titan.
That's right, he has his own private living area, and it is next to the Trial Hall.
This arrangement was originally proposed by the Grand Masters to let Calvin choose a residence out of respect for their own Primarch.
Calvin, who had just gone through the induction ceremony, obviously would not forget the harassment from the demon under the Titan that he encountered in the Trial Hall.
After asking all the mentors present, Calvin roughly knew the origin of this demon and its significance to the entire Grey Knights.
The history of this great demon can be traced back to the earliest history of humans on Terra in the recorded materials.
According to legend, this is a special demon born because of humans.
After consulting the information about it, the predecessors of the Brotherhood of Prophet speculated that it was probably born because of the psychic projection of one of the first few crimes of mankind.
It is precisely because of the concept of original sin that he represents, which is unique to humans, that he cannot be expelled and eliminated like other demons.
Even in some unreliable records, the Emperor himself once tried to eliminate this stubborn demon, but in the end, because of its special nature, he could not be killed by the Emperor as a human.
Of course, such information is pure nonsense in the eyes of the Grey Knights! So after consulting this information, after careful consideration by the mentors, this information was destroyed on the spot.
In short, due to various reasons, this demon eventually became more and more powerful over time, and Terra's treatment of it was to find a suitable place in the orbit of Saturn to seal it.
This seal has probably lasted for nearly 20,000 years.
It was not until the Grey Knights were ordered to build an army here that they arrived on Titan and accepted the fortress monastery prepared for them by the Emperor, and also accepted the long-term task of stationing here to guard the seal of this demon.
And this is also one of the biggest reasons why the Grey Knights can only be trapped on Titan with insufficient manpower even though they have no shortage of places to recruit soldiers (all the empire's territory in the galaxy can be recruited by the Grey Knights) and no shortage of weapons and equipment (not just Mars, in fact, the entire Mechanicus is within the scope of the agreement to provide equipment for the Grey Knights).
They must ensure that the vicious curse deliberately cast on humans by the Chaos Gods in the Warp in a sense is not accidentally released.
In the case of being unable to destroy the other party, sending reliable people to garrison here and seal it for a long time is actually a helpless move by the Grey Knights and the entire human empire.
In the nearly 40,000-year history of the empire, the end of the world has never been far away from her. It's just that there are always people who sacrifice themselves in exchange for the continuation of her life.
Sacrifice has never stopped, and the war will continue.
To Sun Hanwei, who has been selflessly dedicating himself to the management of our book club, I would like to recommend his book:
Title: "Interesting Boredom"
A very interesting book, suitable for you to read from the perspective of a stand-up comedy. Interested friends can move to learn more.
Thank you again, Sun Hanwei, for your silent dedication. It is you who accompanied and encouraged me to go through the difficult days when I first started writing. Thank you!