Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

After a short wait of half a day, Calvin and his party left the main building complex of the Titan Monastery after a brief exchange of greetings with the veterans of the Grand Mentor Council.

After passing through the secluded underground corridors and the rugged walkways between the mountains, Calvin finally arrived at a castle that stood alone under the protection of the mountains-the Temple of Purity.

This is where the Gray Knights' core secrets are stored, guarded by the most special units of the Gray Knights - the Purifiers.

The Purifiers of all ages would give up their original identities and leave their company to go here alone after receiving the emperor's revelation and awakening their powerful power.

The level of secrecy here is extremely high. If it weren't for the holy book of the sword of the oath, even if the supreme teacher Walden himself came, he would need to communicate with the guards here in advance.

"How is the condition of the recruits?" Calvin stood in the chapel on the upper floor of the castle, talking with Roswell, the great mentor of the Fifth Order, the Order of Pharmacists beside him.

"Overall, it's going well. The purity of gene seeds solves the mutation problem of most psykers. And..."

Roswell looked at Calvin beside him, his eyes slightly weird.

"And you really don't think about coming back to stay for a while? The grassroots pharmacists are very curious about your status.

They listened to your advice and injected your stem-like cells into the recipient at a ratio of 1:500 and 1:100 before and after the organ was implanted.

After this injection procedure, the phenomenon of psychic runaway almost does not require comparative experiments, and it has dropped to below 0.005%.

The number of soldiers and the failure rate of operations can no longer be the shackles that limit us. On the contrary, the number of pharmacists is our biggest obstacle at present. "

"I can't help you with that. And compared to this, I'm more interested in that 0.005%." Calvin shrugged and explained helplessly.

The pharmacist training period is fixed, and the secrecy level of the Gray Knights prevents Calvin from speeding up the process by mobilizing other warband pharmacists.

The imperial guards did not have the issue of confidentiality authority, but unfortunately, after the establishment of the Eye of the Empire, their recruitment of soldiers also entered a peak period, and there was no extra personnel to deploy.

After thinking about it, Calvin could only put his hope on the will of his legion in the end.

After all, in the state of the legion's will, the stable transmission of a large amount of memory no longer has extremely high requirements for the tacit understanding of the souls of both parties.

But this also requires a basic "seed", at least until the first batch of new generation pharmacists complete their training, all they can do is wait.

"You said that part of the source of soldiers that still has a tendency to go berserk?" The chief pharmacist was not surprised by Calvin's focus, and simply gave an explanation:

"As you know, our first criterion for selecting soldiers is purity, and the second is stability.

And the third principle on the basis of these two is intensity. "

"Indeed..." Calvin nodded in approval, Roswell also waited for Calvin's signal and continued:

"However, this standard has been greatly relaxed after your appearance. The first generation of gene seeds allows us to appropriately add unstable elements to the scope of transformation under the condition that the first principle remains unchanged.

The change that this will inevitably bring about is that the β+ level soldiers, which were extremely rare and have a chance to appear in almost a thousand years, have begun to appear within our field of vision.

And this is just the beginning. According to our prediction, the psionic abilities of these outstanding people will have further growth after completing the genetic modification surgery. "

"How many?" Calvin leaned forward slightly, showing full interest in this surprise.

"One." Roswell said, as if he was afraid that Calvin would be disappointed, and then added an attributive:
"It's just on the list of thousands of people in this batch.

In fact, there were three at the beginning, but after receiving your cell injection, the other two seemed to have reversed the bloodline at the spiritual level, and finally failed due to the bloodline pollution of a certain generation of ancestors. "

"That's really not low..." Calvin lowered his head thoughtfully and calculated.

In terms of the huge base of psykers in the empire, the probability of β-level psykers appearing will not be higher than one in a million;

And among them, after excluding the mutated blood of the wizard and the "secondary growth" interference personnel from the subspace, what is left is a number infinitely close to 0.

This is not an exaggerated description, but different from the stereotype of ordinary people, the strength of the Gray Knights first comes from the stability of their souls.

The threshold of their laws and knowledge of demons dedicated to combating demons does not lie in the strength of psionic power, but in the purity of the soul and complete control of the self.

Without these two prerequisites, they would not be able to defeat the demons and their own desires in the war at the soul level.

And it is for the same reason, if they cannot have a complete understanding of themselves and absolute calmness, then they will get lost in the endless temptations of the Supreme Heaven, and go to the same tragic fate as the Thousand Sons who have already failed.

But this is by no means to say that the strength of psionic power is not important.

On the contrary, power is power, at least it will not receive any preferential treatment because of justice when killing on the battlefield.

And psionics is the psychic—the embodiment of the power of the soul.

Whether it is psionic laws or witchcraft, its essence is the echo and amplification of the voice of the mind in the warp.

This also leads to a rather harsh reality:

That is to say, no matter how big the multiplier caused by the acquired knowledge and equipment is, it can't change the initial base, which determines the effect of all psionic release.

The gray knights fought against enemies of the lord level, and the sacrifices caused were as many as the same.

They are like children holding poisoned sharp swords. When facing the devil, they know the difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves, but they still have to fight to the death.

It is the best result to die together, and in most cases, the assassination in exchange for life can only be avoided by the enemy;

The Gray Knights had no choice but to let go of the mourning over the death of their comrades and continue looking for new opportunities for the next assassination.

So the question is, does Calvin need such a powerful psionic qualified person?

The answer is certainly yes.

Of course he needs it!No one will refuse a stronger comrade-in-arms and colleague.

It is even blunt to say that in his "legion blueprint", these powerful psykers already have an indispensable position!
Because only these psykers exist, he can ensure that after the legion is scattered to various star regions, there will still be a mainstay when he is not there, to bear the heavy burden brought by the "legion will"!

And only after these real commanders are in place, can the legion he envisioned really get rid of his own shackles and run rampant throughout the galaxy!

But he really didn't have a method for cultivating such special members.

In other words, the only person in his hands who meets this standard is Alan Janus, and there is no value that can be copied at all.

It's not that he doesn't want to create another "Alan", but that the existence of the latter is a last resort and expensive attempt.

You must know that the strength of the soul is actually the embodiment of its essential strength.

And in order to transform the Fire Eagle Chapter Leader who had no spiritual talent at all into a useful deputy, Calvin almost exhausted the accumulation of souls he had accumulated over the years.

This kind of loss and degeneration at the soul level is extremely painful, and Calvin would never want to do it again if he had the choice.

But he couldn't wait, because the construction of the legion was here, and he couldn't stop the expansion of the legion because of the absence of a commander.

And it was also for this reason that according to his original plan, the newborn Second Battle Group would be under his direct control for quite a long time.

Before someone who can bear the will of the legion appears, he can't safely send this army out to fight independently.

The news Roswell brought was too important, and the news he brought gave Calvin considerable confidence in the source of the "commander".

This is only the first batch of soldiers, and this is only the beginning of decades of accumulation and construction.

If it is true as the chief pharmacist said, there will be more pure, stable and powerful qualified soldiers among the future soldiers.

This will have an immeasurable positive effect on Calvin's corps construction!
"Well, the ceremony has begun."

Chief Pharmacist Roswell looked at the Sword of Oath in the hands of the Supreme Master, and the 35 Purifiers winding behind him.

This is the whole generation of purifiers of the Gray Knights Chapter, and it is also the "bell ringer" they originally used to carry out the emperor's final purification mission when the defeat of the empire was irretrievable before Calvin appeared.

His complicated eyes wandered between Calvin and these warriors who originally symbolized despair, and Calvin also raised his head under the reminder of Roswell, just in time to see them surrounded by the Supreme Master, single-handedly to the holy sword in his hand. Kneeling scene.

Loud and clear hymns were sung in this quaint hall. Behind the Roman-style circular stands, countless sculptures of saints and martyrs witnessed this sacred scene.

All the gray knights present spontaneously poured their spirits into it, and after the huge soul resonance merged into one place, it pierced through the spell left by the Saturn palm-printer and shot towards the center of Terra.

"I'm waiting for your good news!"

Calvin said to Roswell heavily before putting all his energy into it.

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