It was thirty minutes after the air strike was launched, and the strangulation over the 35th theater of Pesma was coming to an end.
With all the casualties in the ground aviation regiments, the main area of air combat has spread and extended to other surrounding theaters.
The main fleet of the Death Guard Legion still occupied the synchronous orbit, so the iconic landing operation officially began.
Heavy airdrop pods, death claws, storm eagles, and even Titan Arks delivered by the Black Mechanicus... Thousands of orbital delivery objects rub violently in the atmosphere, and an ominous green fills the entire sky of the 35th War Zone.
Under the surging demonic tide of subspace, the subspace nodes spontaneously formed in the void exude nonsense that destroys people's minds;
The illegal psykers on the ground finally couldn't bear it, so they twisted and resonated with the sky in a wail that was not like a human voice, opening the subspace portal to hell...
Nurglings of all sizes, wrapped in mucus, poured out of the portal and jumped towards the frightened humans around them; giant mosquitoes and flies covered with spikes shook their still wet insect wings and began to circle impatiently;
The Nagagobeast, which was even bigger than Ogryn, staggered, squeezed, and cursed the Chaos Egg in front of it. But before it could stand firm, the bronze death claws falling from the sky knocked it and the latter down together.
, and was trampled by the bronze giant that walked out of the death claws...
After the dust settled, Talos and others who woke up dug the Lord of the Gray Knights out of the sand. Calvin, who woke up, opened his eyes and saw this scene.
"Shrink defense..." Calvin's loose consciousness tightened, and his brain began to work rapidly after waking up.
He had experienced the Astartes' standard landing blow countless times in his memory!
When occupying orbital air supremacy, the biggest feature of this three-dimensional strike is that it uses three dimensions to suppress two dimensions, fundamentally ignoring ground defenses.
The defense lines of traditional ground forces are meaningless to them, and the firepower of conventional forces is meaningless against such large-scale airborne landings.
The Astartes squads targeting various key nodes will let the enemies waiting for reinforcements know what dynamic precision strikes after segmentation and encirclement are. Even the Death Guard, a notoriously slow-paced army, is far more efficient in its actions.
The Astra Militarum cannot keep up!
The defense must be reduced! Because his Gray Knights were scattered during the psychic confrontation just now!
If there is no advantage in numbers, let these Death Guards divide and surround them. With orbital fire support in hand, will the Death Guards put aside their advantage? Especially since they are now standing on the opposite side of the empire, they will not take into account the accidental damage caused by large-scale coverage.
!
An hour and a half! We must survive this difficult hour and a half!
Calvin glanced back at everyone, and the eyes of Talos and other senior officers slightly collided, and the latter understood his intention.
"Shrink the defense! Look for friendly troops nearby and wait for reinforcements!"
He habitually used his spiritual power to give orders, wanting to notify the Gray Knights in other directions, but he was shocked to find that his divine soul had entered a strange dormant state.
At this time?
His heart sank, and his consciousness instantly patrolled the 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 finally entered some form of depression after being stimulated by external forces.
Evolution!
This time!
Calvin looked at the sleeping giant in the clouds, and his heart was really in a mess.
Every step on the path to divinity is as difficult and precious as a miracle on earth. And Calvin's soul has never been able to take another step forward since the reunion of all people on the timeline.
Is it simply not enough strength? No.
If we describe it in terms of mathematical concepts, then every divine soul can theoretically have almost infinite power due to rules.
And Calvin's ridiculously huge subspace nature also allows him to use psychic energy as a "psychic amplifier" with a base that others can hardly imagine!
Even in a mutilated state, his initial power to control the power of subspace through himself exceeded the highest range of the Star Torch Chamber's spiritual energy index!
In a word, there is no difference above Alpha, and the reason why humans rank Alpha as the top of human psychic abilities is because the range that humans can observe and endure is only Alpha!
It is cognition, and only cognition.
Cognition is the embodiment of consciousness and the basis for condensing will in consciousness!
Behind every step on the path to divinity and the exponential growth of its power is the reshaping and optimization of cognitive structure and logic!
Its authority confers nearly unlimited power. Driven by these different cognitions, its utilization rate, or the person who exercises authority, naturally has essential differences!
Calvin has exhausted all methods, but has not been able to further expand the form of the divine soul, because the existing divinity is already the cognitive limit of him and all consciousnesses on the timeline.
The road further up is not without direction, but the steps so close at hand mean the sublimation of the entire soul's cognition!
Cognition, still cognition!
Calvin, who had already understood this, subconsciously stiffened, and then relaxed slightly after his consciousness spread throughout his body.
It's not that he doesn't know the direction of the road. On the contrary, he just knows it so well that he is afraid of the changes that may occur to his entire soul once he takes that step!
He fears that his soul will stray far away from his original vision after achieving further sublimation; he is even more afraid that his soul will wear away his humanity as it travels farther and farther on the path to divinity.
And just now, after a direct collision with the power of Nagou, a huge amount of inhuman information was injected, and finally, through a combination of circumstances, his divinity was able to obtain the information that was most lacking in the process of sublimation.
But it was this step that made him unconsciously take the step he had never wanted or wanted to take.
Fortunately, the power and information from Nagou did not take advantage. Among the huge amount of information, there was a lot of mud and sand, and the private goods belonging to the corrupt lord who twisted the will were the mainstream.
The divine will, filtered by the authority of order, receives very little information and cannot shake its human dominance;
And he also found those micro-level changes in perception during the tour of consciousness, and reshaped them according to his own memory.
"Huh..." Calvin took a long breath.
Looking only at the present moment, he is still the same Calvin and the same Jiang Wen.
As for the future... Calvin shook his head. He couldn't guarantee it, but who could?
The essential power of the soul was temporarily dormant. This was the fact he was facing at the moment. After finding out the reason, Calvin also discovered another situation:
Except for the large-scale psionic law based on the legion that cannot be used, his most primitive personal psionic powers can still be used. The other Gray Knights are also similar. The external psionic powers have proven to be unusable, and instead act on themselves.
The laws can still be used.
"Activate the backup communication channel and order the troops to defend themselves and shrink!" Calvin thought thoughtfully, but time did not allow him to think anymore.
Scattered troops must be defended nearby, but if they stick to it for a long time, they will only be surrounded and suppressed by the enemy. Therefore, there must be one or more mobile forces that can recover all scattered troops one by one while ensuring their own safety!
Looking at the entire war zone, apart from the detachment that Sutherland was personally in charge of, he was the only one left.
He wants to move now and move closer to the nearest Gray Knights team!