Chapter 271 The Prophecy Came True, the Death of Saint Marduk.

"So, we finally stopped them, right?"

When everything was settled, Calvin stood in front of the disappearing stone door and heard the old voice behind him.

"Marduk?"

Calvin turned around unexpectedly and saw the old man standing in the mortal position at the edge of the battlefield.

The back hall of the bridge was in a mess at this time. The collapsed sculptures and dissolved decks made it difficult to move;

The shocking bullet holes and corpses everywhere silently told the tragedy that had happened here.

Calvin looked around and saw that there were only a few surviving mortal soldiers on the surrounding intersections;

Even around Marduk, who came to reinforce later, the soldiers of the Tindalos Legion were also incomplete and suffered heavy casualties.

The weapons of the alien civilization benefited from their weird technology. Calvin also observed during the intervals between battles that most of the soldiers hit by high-energy rays instantly disintegrated after being hit, and not even a complete body was left.

Most of the soldiers who were wounded but not dead on the battlefield were warriors who survived the hand-to-hand combat, and the remaining few wounded were injured by the beetles.

"Your battlefield is not here."

Picking up the war hammer in his hand, Calvin's iron body stepped on the metal corpses of the aliens and walked towards Marduk.

He stood in front of the old and hunchbacked mortal in full armor, like an elephant looking down at a hound.

The soldiers of the Tindalos Legion retreated silently, kneeling on one knee on the ground to salute their monarch;

Only the old man in the red robe of the state religion was left, and at such a close distance, he was able to look up at the full picture of the demigod in the form of war in front of him.

"Mortals are ignorant, and faith needs to happen in front of them in a real way;

Mortals are ignorant, and only by practicing and preaching in water and fire can we guide all living beings and realize the compassion of the Emperor."

Marduk explained to Calvin the significance of his appearance in his unique tone.

"You understand the difference between going to me and going to me, right?"

Calvin sneered, religion and faith, devotion and love.

It is a great fortune for devotees to become real in this universe today.

And in those materialistic universes, there are similar psychological laws.

"You should be careful with your words."

Marduk looked at Calvin helplessly, his hair and beard were all white on his drooping face, but he still had his own stubbornness.

"Faith is by no means so shallow, and your identity should understand the spirit of the Emperor."

After a hundred years of preaching, his influence is no longer limited to mortals.

After reading all the books of the state religion, Marduk also has his own understanding of Astartes and their old legends.

Just like the most deceptive sinners often have the most real understanding, the records of Astartes in the internal materials of the state religion are closer to the ancient truth.

Since they met, the two have maintained a tacit understanding of each other.

Marduk, as a high-ranking official of the state religion, was only half-informed about Calvin's identity but did not pursue it.

In contrast, Calvin never refuted Marduk's theory.

"Yes, I think we did stop them."

He picked up the topic just now, temporarily resolving this small dispute.

The adventures he experienced in Orpheus and the details of this war were sorted out and reviewed at the speed of light in Calvin's mind.

After all kinds of vague inferences and mutual confirmation, Calvin finally came to this conclusion.

The alien device buried deep in the core of Colcash should be the last back-up of this alien race here. Successfully destroying it in this battle is to completely eliminate the tragedy that has never happened.

"But I don't know if this is the end, because you haven't said whether the fate of death you foresaw has been changed."

"Death? That's not important. What's important is whether the Emperor's will is implemented; what's important is whether the original tragedy here is changed..."

Looking at the maintenance personnel who began to appear at the edge of the hall in the distance, Marduk seemed to have completed a mission, and the whole person collapsed easily.

His already hunched body was bent even more, and in the violent coughing, streams of blood could not be stopped from overflowing from the corners of his mouth.

"Hmm?"

Calvin instantly noticed the abnormality of Marduk's vital signs.

This mortal who was originally stable in the state of human twilight, at a certain point in time, was like a barely patched balloon, losing the remaining life force at an alarming rate.

"You are injured."

The spiritual energy that passed through the body flashed and disappeared, and Calvin quickly found the hidden wound in Marduk's chest.

A metal beetle drilled into Marduk's body in the previous battle.

In his chest cavity that had not been completely destroyed, this evil existence bit through the old man's fragile heart.

He should have died on the battlefield just now, but the retreat of the aliens made their followers fall into a strange slumber.

The attack of the metal beetle always stopped at the second before the sharp teeth bit through his heart, and at the same time used its teeth to block the flesh that was about to burst.

But this is still not the reason why he lives until now, it is the regret of unfinished mission that maintains the life of this old man;

It is the persistence to change the tragedy of Orpheus that makes him endure unimaginable pain and insist on coming to Calvin.

Calvin understands Marduk's state.

The thing that Calvin regretted most now was his affirmation of the old man's fate.

If he had known the injury in advance, there might have been a chance to save him.

"No need to regret..."

Marduk raised his head with difficulty and looked at Calvin who was half kneeling.

He stretched out his hand, which was as thin as a dead tree, and gently placed it on Calvin's shoulder armor.

The silver shoulder armor carved from the sacred imperial eagle wings and the tiny palm of a mortal, the divinity and humanity revealed at that moment, gave the soldiers present a great spiritual baptism.

They stopped their steps to support Marduk and whispered the holy name of the Emperor.

"What a...holy existence.

My mission is complete, and you, as the son of God, should have a greater vision. And I..."

"And as a loyal servant of the Emperor, you should not have any slack thoughts!

You should do everything you can to survive and witness more of the Emperor's great deeds become reality!"

Calvin interrupted Marduk's last words and brazenly wrapped his psychic energy around his bursting heart.

He picked up Marduk's skinny body and turned to walk towards the medical department.

He didn't dare to use psychic teleportation, because that would directly tear apart this mortal body;

He didn't even dare to run, because the almost broken flesh and blood could not withstand the slightest vibration.

But life is still rapidly passing from this body. Excessive blood loss is a threshold of life and death that is difficult for a strong man to survive, let alone this fragile old man.

Calvin sensed that Marduk's vital signs were rapidly weakening, and the projection of his soul in the warp was also flickering.

Maybe in the next second this body will be declared dead, maybe in the next second, that soul will leave here and return to the seat of the God-Emperor.

"You believe in the Emperor, right?"

Calvin strode forward and said to Marduk, who was already in a semi-conscious state.

He did not wait for the old man's reply, and continued to talk to himself:

"Then you believe in the divinity of the Emperor, right?"

The old man looked at Calvin's body with half-open eyes and did not speak, but Calvin thought he heard and agreed with his point of view.

"Then do you agree with my existence?

Okay, I'll ask more directly.

Are you willing to temporarily place your faith in the Emperor on me?"

The silent communication was completed in the next few seconds, and the empty corridor witnessed the confrontation of the two people's beliefs.

When Calvin almost gave up in despair, he finally sensed the contract between him and the soul he held under his armpit from the connection in his soul.

The majestic spiritual energy was like a tide that had been accumulated for a long time. The moment the gate was opened, it baptized and sublimated Marduk's soul.

The spiritual energy that came from within was different from external interference. Under the silver light that was about to overflow from the old man's pupils, his organs regained the vitality of a young man.

The horrible wound on the heart began to bleed again; from a microscopic perspective, the cells at the hideous crack began to regain activity.

Bang!

Calvin kicked open the door of the medical room and ignored the surprised eyes of everyone. He walked straight to the medical equipment and put down Marduk's body.

In the last second before the old man fell into a coma, his dying consciousness seemed to hear Calvin's sigh:

"Damn, he was finally saved..."

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