Chapter 157 Black and Red, Plans in the Shadows (7) Unexpected Responsibility: Belief and the Belonging of the Soul
After waking up, Calvin returned to his residence with Golden, and then returned to his private chapel as soon as he closed the door.
Having ensured that his privacy was protected from prying eyes, Calvin closed his eyes and entered his spiritual world again. This time, his target was extremely clear, that is, Cerbos who inexplicably appeared in his "pure land of the soul".
The speed of light crossed the boundaries between these levels of the supreme heaven and the spiritual world. Calvin pointed his gaze at the city in the center of the pure land of the soul, and then outside the door of the huge palace made of steel, he saw Cerbos at the end of the crowd.
"Cerbos..." The revelation from the clouds awakened the Astartes in his prime from his quiet prayers.
He raised his head and looked at the sky above his head, a look of surprise flashed across his eyes.
"Cerbus..." Calvin called him again. The world of idealism changed with his thoughts, and the two of them appeared face to face in the empty temple in the next second.
"My lord." Cerbus saluted as he looked at Calvin in front of him, but he was unable to continue kneeling halfway.
"No kneeling!" Calvin's words were like a supreme edict. Under the control of his will, every inch of space here, including Cerbus himself, obeyed his orders.
"As ordered." The tall Astartes warrior stood up straight and looked at the god in front of him seriously.
At this time, Calvin was worthy of this sacred title. Wearing a white robe and a crown, he stood even taller in front of the tall warriors.
The statue of the Emperor stood tall behind him, and a beam of light shot down from the Emperor's head to envelope him. On the back of Calvin's head, the halo that appeared a long time ago was still in place, saying "Holy, Holy
"Singing...
"Shut up!" Sensing Cerbers's thoughts, Calvin turned off the "sound and light effects" behind him in embarrassment.
After the echoes of "Holy, Holy" in the temple dispersed, he had time to face the uninvited guest in front of him:
"Why are you here, Cerbus?" This was Calvin's biggest doubt, and it was also the approach of some kind of ominous premonition that lingered in his mind.
At this moment, Kerbos is neither the mortals who have entrusted their faith and hope to him, nor the Gray Knights who have concluded a contract with him.
His history and whereabouts have nothing to do with Calvin. A son who clearly belongs to the Thirteenth Legion under the Emperor's command, a son of Guilliman who believes in the truth of the Empire or the "Ascension Theory of the God Emperor", where should he go? Why is he dying?
And then appeared in his "pure land"?
"My Lord, in the midst of endless despair, you grant us salvation. In the endless darkness, you are the only one willing to send down the light of mercy..."
"Okay, okay..." After hearing the first sentence, Calvin waved his hand to interrupt Cerbers.
The first sentence is enough. There is no need to listen to the subsequent words of praise. There are already enough people praising him, and he does not need this kind of affirmation.
It’s all chaos! It’s all chaos!
Calvin turned around twice, while Cerbus waited quietly in front of him.
Shouldn't your glorious soul return to the Golden Throne after your death, as those sects of the Empire's State Church said?
The emperor is short of people! He has food, shelter, work, and labor insurance (can be resurrected). If you don't go to his old man's house, why are you here to me?
Redemption? Is redemption worth it? How many throne coins?
That's just his job as Calvin, right?
Well, even if we take a step back, Calvin is indeed out of agreement with the emperor's vision, and out of conscience, he wants to save these souls who have fallen into darkness.
But it can't be done. As long as the soul has been redeemed by his hands, it must rely on him shamelessly, right?
You obviously have more choices!
Also, isn’t this the emperor’s father’s job? Why did it fall on his head inexplicably?
He was originally worried about the people in his private land, but this was a good time. If he kept going like this, wouldn't he have to recruit a group of people in a fight?
What if his private plot of land is a compound? Just one person who can come here whenever he wants? Is it going to be over?
The influence he had left on Orpheus was enough to give him a headache. The people there didn't know where they had arranged for him to be given the title of "Ashbringer", claiming that he was the emperor in this world.
The walking apostles.
Imperial citizens throughout the Orpheus sector are praying to him, including but not limited to Leyak, Hassan, Yuldis, and Orpheus, and the entire sector has been spreading for decades.
About the name "Ashbringer"!
This group of hot goods is even spreading outwards!
According to what the Storm Star Territory authorities said afterwards, the early ending of the wars in the four star districts of Orpheus, Hassan, Yuldis, and Leyak made the star domain government, which was preparing for other wars that were continuing at the same time in the star domain,
, relieving great pressure.
Moreover, with the de facto merging of Orps and other four star sectors into one sector, the powerful sector government restored the vitality lost in the previous war within a few decades.
The imperial state religion also played a very important role in this.
The pilgrims coming from the direction of Ophelia No. 7 can bring huge economic benefits to the entire Orpheus sector every year. At the same time, they also continuously send the elite population of the entire Storm Star Territory here.
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In the following decades, the Orps sector not only restored its ability to export industrial products with abundant manpower, but also paid tribute to the "Armed Pilgrimage" and "Salute to the Redemption of the Ashbringer".
No less than 30 million Astra Militarum troops were transported to various battlefields throughout the Storm Star Territory!
This is originally a good thing! But the bad thing is that the name of "Ash Emissary" also uses these channels of population and material diffusion to expand to various battlefields throughout the Storm Star Territory.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Among them, Calvin's "Contractor", the "Living Saint" officially canonized by the Empire, and the Great Confessor Marduk added fuel to the fire and traveled throughout the Storm Star.
on various battlefields in the domain.
The Imperial State Church not only did not stop the behavior of "Marduk the Confessor", but was happy to see his transgressive behavior of fanatical propaganda of the emperor and "St. Calvin" at the same time.
They sent more than 100,000 priests from Ophelia Seminary No. 7 to join Marduk's team.
These fanatical believers who had witnessed Calvin's redemption of the entire Ophelia 7 used their professional theological knowledge and fanatical evangelism to add another incomparable addition to this bonfire full of "accidents".
Counting firewood…
The Holy Hermitage Monastery on Ophelia 7 also participated in this armed pilgrimage.
A large number of Battle Sisters appear in companies as units among these mortal troops. They use their capable combat skills and powerful weapons and equipment to successfully assume the responsibility of the core force in the tide of mortal armies.
The authorities of the Storm Sector were quite surprised by this, because they had tried to mobilize these "Emperor's Daughters" more than once.
However, because they accepted the dual leadership of the Imperial State Church and the Inquisition at the same time, and their profound backgrounds, the generals of the Astra Militarum and the Imperial Navy had no choice but to allow them to decide to participate in or withdraw from any battlefield at their own discretion.
But now this situation is no longer the case. The Battle Sisters follow the armed pilgrim army and crush the enemy with massive force, bringing victory from one battlefield to another.
Regarding this phenomenon that can be called a "miracle" that occurred in the Storm Star Territory, the top-level structure of the empire has invariably maintained an eerie silence.
The Inquisition supervised the entire situation in the Storm Star Territory, but did not express any opinions. This was probably because they had never thought that one day, the source of privately spreading the Empire's faith would be their own supreme lord.
It is not that no one among them has tried to question this phenomenon, but as the source of this phenomenon, the current Supreme Lord Inquisitor of the Imperial Tribunal, the head of the Holy Hammer Order, and the Lord of the Gray Knights Legion is himself the new Eye of the Empire.
creator.
Although his every move on Terra was kept strictly confidential, after he left Terra, the news that he entered the throne room to meet with the Emperor was also deliberately spread by the Custodes and the Inquisition.
It spread throughout Terra, and then spread to the Inquisition through internal channels throughout the empire.
No one can question his loyalty, just like no one can question the Gray Knight's record of never falling for thousands of years;
No one can question his purity, because this is a man who can walk out of the depths of the throne room alive under the witness of the Imperial Army...
The Astartes warbands are cautiously waiting to see this. This may be due to the isolation problem of information, otherwise their attitude may be more radical.
And even in this situation of information isolation, these pragmatic soldiers will not refuse the free soldiers organized by the pilgrims themselves.
Although the result of this spread of faith endorsed by the imperial state religion is unknown, it has at least brought a huge amount of available troops. Moreover, the average quality of these free soldiers is quite impressive.
At least in the eyes of these Astartes who have long-term cooperation with the Imperial Astra Militarum, the average quality and equipment of the former are far higher than the uneven quality of the latter...
Only the senior leaders of the Astra Militarum and the generals of the Imperial Navy have put forward opinions, but in front of these "rich" armies who have the support of the Forge World of Grea and purchase weapons per capita, they cannot use their less glorious weapons.
record to refute the opponent's existence...
Yes, the Forge World of Grea and the Krieg Forge Alliance hidden behind it have supported the equipment of these armed pilgrim troops throughout the process.
But they did not suffer any losses as a result. Even in the face of the self-purchase orders from the pilgrims and the large number of heavy equipment orders from the Orps sector, these two industrial systems still had considerable profits...
As a result, the spread of Calvin's beliefs lost the last resistance in the Storm Star Territory. Without any control or criticism, they spread rapidly in a strange way during more than ten years of war.
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And an obscure knowledge is that the more war-torn places, the less desperate people are able to resist the salvation and hope brought by faith...
So it stands to reason that many years after Calvin left Orpheus, souls who died in various wars were still coming to him in a steady stream.
And until the major battlefields in the Storm Star Territory gradually calmed down, this tide of souls was still moving towards higher peaks, like a prairie fire, getting more and more intense.
Calvin has long suffered from the influx of these souls, because as a Gray Knight, no matter how special his status is, he is only doing the job that a warrior should do.
In his eyes, the ownership and whereabouts of souls and beliefs are the exclusive responsibility of the emperor.
Such metaphysical matters have little to do with him. As long as he fulfills his promise to the Emperor and fights to the death to defend the interests of the human race as a warrior or at most a commander, he will be fine.
That’s it.
This is his simple and honest idea, and this is what he has been doing. He has always had an attitude of evasion towards the souls coming from the direction of the Storm Star Territory.
Because after seeing these souls who placed their hope and faith on him, he was actually confused and afraid...
But the appearance of Cerbos obviously broke his false tranquility. This unexpected soul used the fact of its own existence to slap Calvin's head stuck in the sand hard.
He had to accept that if he continued to fight, more souls would surely come to him. What happened in the Storm Star Territory and Orps was not an accident, but a destiny dominated by fate.
the result of.
Calvin's defense was broken! Calvin was in tears!
How virtuous and capable is he? He wants to fight in the empire's territory and work hard to protect the living citizens of the empire while he is alive. He also wants to become their god after death and provide rest for the souls of the dead citizens of the empire.
Where?
Marde! You have to work hard and die, right? 996,007 is not that much!
Thinking of this, Calvin couldn't help but shed tears of emotion for his "beautiful" future...
At this time, Cerbos could not understand his pain, but stood in front of his savior with an honest face.