Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 627 Sublimation

Rain of fire, all-encompassing rain of fire.

It was the 30th minute after the airstrike was launched, and the stranglehold over the 35th theater of Pesma was coming to an end.

With the ground aviation corps suffering heavy casualties, the main area of ​​the air battle has spread and extended to other surrounding war zones.

The main fleet of the Death Guard Legion still occupied the synchronous orbit, and thus the iconic landing operation officially began.

Heavy airdrop pods, Death Claws, Storm Eagles, and even Titan Arks launched by the Black Mechanicus... Thousands of orbital projectiles rubbed violently in the atmosphere, and the ominous green filled the entire sky of the Thirty-fifth War Zone.

As the Warp's magic tide surged, the Warp nodes that spontaneously formed in the void emitted whispers that destroyed people's minds;

The illegal psykers on the ground finally couldn't bear it anymore, so they twisted their voices to resonate with the sky and opened the subspace portal to hell...

  Nurglings of all sizes, wrapped in slime, poured out of the portal, leaping towards the terrified humans around them; giant mosquitoes and flies covered with spikes shook their still wet wings and began to circle impatiently;

The Nagog Beast, which was more burly than Ogryn, staggered, squeezing and cursing the Chaos Spawn that was blocking its way. But before it could stand firm, the bronze Death Claw that fell from the sky knocked it and the latter down, and was trampled by the bronze giant that came out of the Death Claw...

When the dust settled, Talos and the others who had regained consciousness dug the Lord of the Grey Knights out of the mud and sand. Calvin opened his eyes after waking up and saw this scene.

"Contract defense..." Calvin's loose consciousness tightened, and his brain began to work rapidly after waking up.

  He had experienced the standard landing attack of the Astartes countless times in his memory!

When occupying orbital air supremacy, the biggest feature of this three-dimensional attack is that it uses three dimensions to suppress two dimensions, fundamentally ignoring ground defenses.

The traditional ground force's defense line is meaningless to them, and the firepower of conventional forces is meaningless against this large-scale airborne attack.

  The Astartes squads targeting each key node will let the enemy who is waiting for reinforcement know what dynamic precision strikes after division and encirclement are. Even the Death Guard, a notoriously slow-paced legion, has an operational efficiency far beyond that of the Astra Militarum!

He had to shrink his defense! Because his Grey Knights had just been dispersed in the psychic confrontation!

Without the advantage in numbers, let these Death Guards divide and surround them. With orbital firepower support in hand, will the Death Guards let go of their advantage? Especially now that they are standing opposite the Empire, they will not care about accidental injuries caused by large-scale strikes!

One and a half hours! I must get through this difficult hour and a half!

Calvin looked back at everyone and his eyes briefly met with Talos and other senior officers, who immediately understood his intention.

"Defend with confidence! Find friendly forces nearby and hold on until help arrives!"

He habitually used psychic power to give orders, hoping to notify the Grey Knights in other directions, but was shocked to find that his divine soul had entered a strange dormant state.

  at this time?

His heart sank, and his consciousness instantly scanned his soul. But to his surprise, the silence of the divine soul was not due to damage. On the contrary, it was because the divine soul was stimulated by external forces and finally entered a certain form of evolution!

  at this time!

Calvin looked at the giant sleeping in the clouds, and his heart was really a mess.

Every step on the path to divinity is as difficult and precious as a miracle on earth. However, Calvin's soul has never been able to move forward since the unity of all people on the timeline.

Is it simply because the power is not enough? No.

If described using mathematical concepts, then every divine soul can theoretically possess almost infinite power because of the rules.

  And Calvin's ridiculously huge subspace nature also allows him to use psychic power, a "mind amplifier", at a base that is unimaginable to others!

Even in a crippled state, the initial strength he used to drive the power of the warp through his own body exceeded the highest range of the Astronomican's psychic index!

In a word, there are differences above Alpha, and the reason why humans rank Alpha as the top of human psychic power is because the range that humans can observe and withstand is only up to Alpha+! It is cognition, and only cognition.

Cognition is the manifestation of consciousness and the basis for condensing will in consciousness!

And behind every step forward on the path to divinity and the exponential growth of power is the reshaping and optimization of the structure and logic of cognition!

The nearly unlimited power granted by its authority, driven by these different levels of cognition, its utilization rate or the level of exercising authority, naturally has essential differences!

Calvin has tried every possible way to expand the divine soul further, but has not been able to do so, because the existing divinity is already the cognitive limit of him and all consciousness on the timeline.

  The road to the top is not without direction, but the steps that are just around the corner mean the sublimation of the entire soul's cognition!

Cognition, and more cognition!

Calvin, who had already understood this, subconsciously stiffened his whole body, and then relaxed slightly after his consciousness swept through his body.

  It's not that he didn't know the direction of the road. On the contrary, he knew it too well, so he was afraid of the changes that might happen to his entire soul once he took that step!

He was afraid that his soul would stray away from his original vision after achieving further sublimation; he was even more afraid that his soul would lose its humanity as it went further and further on the path to divinity.

And just now, after a direct collision with the power of Nago, a huge amount of inhuman information was injected, and finally, by accident, he got the most lacking information in the process of sublimation of his divinity.

But it was also this step that made him unconsciously take a step that he had never wanted to take.

Fortunately, the power and information from Nagog did not have the upper hand. Among the huge amount of information, only the private goods of the distorted will of the Lord of Corruption were mainstream.

  The divine will, under the filter of the authority of order, received very little information, and could not shake his human dominance;

And during his wandering of consciousness, he found those microscopic changes in perception and reorganized them according to his own memory.

"Huh..." Calvin took a long breath.

Judging from the present, he is still the same Calvin and the same Jiang Wen.

  As for the future... Calvin shook his head. He couldn't guarantee it, so who could?

The power of the soul's essence temporarily fell dormant, which was the fact he was facing at the moment. After finding out the reason, Calvin also discovered another situation:

Except for the large-scale psychic laws of the legion, his most original psychic energy can still be used. The other Grey Knights are not much different. Their external psychic energy has been proven to be unusable, but the laws acting on themselves can still be used.

"Activate the backup communication channel and order the troops to defend and retreat on their own!" Calvin seemed to be thinking about something, but time did not allow him to think any further.

The scattered troops must be defended nearby, but long-term defense will only lead to encirclement and suppression by the enemy. Therefore, there must be one or more mobile forces that can recover all the scattered troops one by one while ensuring their own safety!

Looking at the entire war zone, apart from the team that Sutherland was personally in charge of, there was only Calvin himself.

He had to move now and move closer to the nearest team of Gray Knights!