After a short half-day of waiting, and after a brief exchange of greetings with the veterans of the Grand Master Council, Calvin and his party left the main building complex of the Titan Monastery.
After passing through secluded underground corridors and rugged walkways between mountains, Calvin finally arrived at an isolated castle protected by mountains - the Temple of Purity.
This is where the Gray Knights chapter stores its core secrets, and is guarded by the most special units among the Gray Knights, the Purifiers.
After the Purifiers of all ages received the Emperor's instructions and awakened their powerful power, they would give up their original identities and leave their companies to go here alone.
The level of confidentiality here is extremely high. If it were not for the sacred book of the true name of the Sword of Oath, even if the Supreme Master Walden himself came, he would still need to communicate with the guards here in advance.
"How is the status of the new recruits?" Calvin stood in the chapel on the upper floor of the castle, talking to Roswell, the Grand Master of the Fifth Order - the Apothecary Order.
"Overall, it's going well. The purity of the gene seeds has solved the mutation problems of most psykers. And..."
Roswell looked at Calvin next to him with a slightly strange look in his eyes.
"And you really don't think about coming back and staying a little longer? The grassroots pharmacist is very curious about your status.
They listened to your suggestion and injected your stem cells into the implant at a ratio of 1:500 and 1:100 before and after the organ was implanted.
After this injection process, the phenomenon of psychic runaways requires almost no comparative experiments and has been reduced to less than 0.005%.
The number of soldiers and the failure rate of operations can no longer be a shackle that limits 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 the 0.005%." Calvin shrugged and explained helplessly.
The training cycle of an apothecary is fixed, and the confidentiality level of the Gray Knights prevents Calvin from mobilizing other chapter apothecaries to speed up the process.
The Imperial Guards did not have any confidentiality issues, but unfortunately after the Eye of the Empire was established, their recruitment of soldiers also reached a peak period, and there were no extra personnel to deploy.
After thinking about it, Calvin finally had no choice but to put his hope above the will of his legion.
After all, in the state of legion's will, the stable transmission of a large number of memories no longer places high demands on 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 soldier sample is still prone to psychic violence?" The chief pharmacist was not surprised by the direction of Calvin's attention, and gave a simple explanation:
"As you know, our first criterion for selecting soldiers was purity, and the second criterion was stability.
And the third principle based on these two is intensity.”
"Indeed..." Calvin nodded in approval, and Roswell also waited for Calvin's signal before continuing:
"However, this standard has been greatly relaxed after you appeared. The first generation of gene seeds allows us to appropriately add unstable molecules to the scope of transformation while the first principles remain unchanged.
The change that this will inevitably bring is that β-level soldiers, who were originally extremely rare and only had a chance of appearing for almost a thousand years, began to appear within our field of vision.
And this is just the beginning. According to our expectations, the psychic abilities of these outstanding people will further grow after completing the genetic modification surgery."
"How many?" Calvin leaned forward slightly, showing full interest in this unexpected surprise.
"One." Roswell said, as if he was afraid that Calvin would be disappointed, and added an attributive at the end:
"It's just among the list of thousands of people in this batch.
In fact, there were three at first, but after receiving your cell injection, the remaining two seemed to have traced back their bloodline at the spiritual level, and ultimately failed due to the bloodline contamination of a certain generation of ancestors."
"That's indeed not low..." Calvin lowered his head thoughtfully and calculated.
Considering the huge base of psykers in the empire, the probability of a beta-level psyker appearing is no higher than one in a million;
Among them, after excluding the mutant bloodline of wizards and those who interfere with the "secondary growth" from subspace, what is left is a number infinitely close to 0.
This is not an exaggerated description, but unlike ordinary people's stereotypes, the strength of the Gray Knights first comes from the stability of their souls.
The threshold for their laws and demonic knowledge dedicated to combating demons is not the intensity of psychic energy, but the purity of the soul and complete control of the self.
Without these two prerequisites, they would not be able to defeat the devil and their own desires in the battle at the soul level.
And it is for the same reason that if they are unable to have a complete understanding of themselves and absolute calmness, then they will be lost in the endless temptations of the Supreme Heaven and lead to the same tragic fate as the Thousand Sons who have already declared failure.
But this does not mean that the intensity of psychic energy is unimportant.
On the contrary, strength is strength, at least when it comes to killing on the battlefield, it will not receive any preferential treatment because of justice.
Psionics are the manifestation of the power of the mind-the soul.
Whether it is psychic law or witchcraft, its essence is the echo and amplification of the voice of the soul in the subspace.
This also leads to a rather cruel reality:
That is to say, no matter how big the multiplier caused by acquired knowledge or equipment is, it cannot change the initial base number, which determines the effectiveness of all psychic energy releases.
The Gray Knights fought against demon-level enemies and suffered many sacrifices like this.
They are like children holding poisoned swords. When facing the devil, they know the disparity in power between the enemy and ourselves but still fight to the death.
Death together is the best result. In most cases, the assassination in exchange for life can only be avoided by the enemy;
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Gray Knights have no more choice but to put aside the grief of their comrades' death and continue to look for new opportunities for the next assassination.
So the question is, does Calvin need such a powerful psychic qualifier?
The answer is of course yes.
Of course he needs it! No one will refuse stronger comrades and colleagues.
It is even blunt to say that in his "legion blueprint", these powerful psykers have an indispensable position!
Because only these psykers exist, he can ensure that after the legion is dispersed to various star regions, there will still be a mainstay in his absence to bear the heavy burden brought by the "will of the legion"!
Only after these real commanders are in place can the legion he envisioned truly get rid of his own shackles and run rampant throughout the galaxy!
But he really doesn't have any method to cultivate this kind of special members.
In other words, the only person he has who meets this standard is Alan Janus, and there is absolutely no value that can be copied.
It's not that he doesn't want to create another "Ellen", but the existence of the latter itself is a last resort and expensive attempt.
You must know that the strength of the soul is actually a reflection of its essential strength.
In order to transform the leader of the Fire Eagle Chapter, who had no psychic talent at all, into a useful deputy, Calvin almost exhausted all his years of soul accumulation.
This kind of loss and degradation 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 legion's expansion just because of the absence of a commander.
And it is precisely for this reason that, according to his original plan, the new second battle group will be under his direct control for a long time.
Until someone capable of shouldering the legion's will appears, he can't safely send this army out to fight independently.
The news brought by Roswell was so important, and the news he brought gave Calvin considerable confidence in the source of the "commander".
This is just the first batch of soldiers, and this is just the beginning of decades of accumulation and construction.
If it is true as the chief pharmacist said, there will be more qualified candidates who are pure, stable and powerful among the future soldiers.
This will play an immeasurable positive role in the construction of Calvin's corps!
"Well, the ceremony has begun."
Chief Apothecary Roswell looked at the Sword of Oath in the hands of the Supreme Master and the 35 Purifiers walking behind him.
These are all the Purifiers of this generation of the Gray Knights Chapter, and they were also the "bell-ringers" who were originally used to carry out the Emperor's final purification mission before Calvin appeared when the Empire's defeat was irreversible.
His complex vision wandered between Calvin and these warriors who originally symbolized despair, and Calvin also raised his head at Roswell's reminder, just in time to see them surrounding the Supreme Master, attacking the holy sword in his hand.
The kneeling scene.
Loud hymns were sung in this ancient hall, and behind the Roman-style circular stands, countless sculptures of saints and martyrs were witnessing this sacred scene.
All the Gray Knights present spontaneously put their spirits into it, and the huge soul resonance merged at one point, piercing through the spell left by the Palmist outside Saturn, and shot it towards the center of Terra.
"I'm waiting for your good news!"
Before putting all his energy into it, Calvin said seriously to Roswell.