Chapter 329: Unleashed, a Monster that Transcends Time and Space
Iverson...
Calvin's eyes were filled with mixed emotions. He had an understanding and memory beyond the imagination of ordinary people for this word that often appeared on his desk.
The relationship between the two was irrelevant in the eyes of others.
On one side was the newly promoted giant of the Holy Hammer Order;
On the other side was the once glorious Assassin's Court, which was now in decline, and a branch under the control of the "Assassin's Order".
Yes, the Assassin's Court was now dead in name only.
The seven major orders of the past were thoroughly controlled from top to bottom. For some unspeakable concerns, the Temple of Callidus and the Temple of Iverson, which were famous for close combat, were also severely technically blocked.
The situation of the former was relatively stable, because the blocked technology did not involve the core.
As long as the ability to change as the core value of the Callidus was still there, the dignity of the Callidus could be maintained.
The Temple of Iverson was not so lucky, because in a sense, the suppression of the blocked technology was targeted at them.
They showed too terrifying fighting power in the war of faith in the Terra Palace.
In the subsequent statistics, the assassin team led by Iverson had a 1:4 exchange ratio on the front battlefield when facing the Astartes warriors of the war group level.
This brilliant record undoubtedly stimulated a powerful group, and in the previous purges and assassinations, the Assassin Court became the enemy of all members of the Senate.
So when the purge of the losers came with the rebellion of the Supreme Lord, the once glorious Assassin Court was surrounded by enemies and no one excused it.
The core technology related to Iverson Assassin has been sealed since then, and the training technology for high-level members in the two training mechanisms of its branches is completely missing, leaving only the technology for training low-level consumables.
"Iverson is dead, because there will never be a new top assassin, Eslon Dan." (The internal rating of personnel in the Assassin's Court is the same as that of the normal departments of the Empire, both using five Roman letters, but the sequence is opposite, and the highest level is Eslon. Dan means level.)
This sentence comes from a paragraph in the routine report of the Assassin's Order, a direct unit of the Inquisition that controls the Assassin's Court.
Calvin had seen this document before, but after knowing the role that the Assassin's Court in this world had played in history, he had no interest in saving these people.
It may be a pity that the peak of a branch disappeared in the long river of history, but from the perspective of the overall interests of the human empire, this can be a necessary sacrifice and cost.
What's more...it has not been lost.
Memory is a very wonderful thing. Its size and flow rate actually depend not only on your familiarity with it, but also on whether you have an obsession with it.
Calvin closed his eyes slightly in the face of the Phoenix Lord's attack, but his attention turned back to his career as an assassin:
One of the most unforgettable memories among his countless memories, the "story" that does not exist in this world, belonging to Calvin the Assassin.
Rage, or anger...
The Iverson Assassins have been fighting against anger all their lives. The martial arts that they are famous for, which are so tyrannical that even Chaos is stunned, also rely on this anger to exist.
From students to apprentices; from apprentices to masters, or from apprentices to goods.
The game between the Iversons of all generations and anger has never stopped, and since the apprenticeship, they have each gone to a completely different fate based on the results of the game with the essence of this power.
The losers have been completely controlled by anger from then on, becoming an expensive one-time gift from the Empire to traitors and aliens.
They cannot control the desire for self-destruction, and can only use cell inhibitors and ice cellars to seal them, so as to maintain their lives until the day they are allowed to bloom.
Do the successful people have it all once and for all? No, a more painful fate awaits them.
Because only after they adapt to and master the low-level, chemically manufactured anger, they are qualified to come into contact with the anger agent that affects their genes.
The power brought by this agent is so strong that it can easily transform a mortal with weak bones into a monster more terrible than Astartes;
But this agent that mutates from the genetic level is so violent that once people who are not strong enough to withstand it are injected, they will only face the fate of disintegration and melting.
It has a strong residual effect. As long as there is a record of its use, even dozens of generations of reproduction cannot erase its toxicity at the genetic level. Therefore, every high-level member of Iverson is destined to have no offspring of any form.
It is more polluting. As long as there is experience of using it, even if uncontaminated frozen cells are used for cloning afterwards, the transferred spirit and memory can also spontaneously synthesize this agent in the new body.
This secret medicine is both the core source of the Iverson's power and the darkness they fear;
It is both the unparalleled blade that the assassin masters rely on to become famous, and the curse that accompanies every high-level member of the Iverson throughout their lives - the madman's hydra.
It is the best gift from nature to the empire, because only through its transformation can the assassin masters control their anger with a cold perspective and enter the supreme fifth stage.
But it is also a kiss of darkness that is destined to be invincible. Because even if every assassin master successfully reaches that realm, the number of times he can endure the "Ice Rage" state - the number of missions he can perform, is also clearly limited.
Calvin was naturally one of those Iversons who mastered the power of "Ice Rage"; and because of his outstanding physical talent, he is likely to be the one who has gone the furthest on the Ice Rage Road among all the Iversons of all generations.
But that's all, because the mortal Calvin in that time and space is outstanding enough.
But first of all, he did not have the opportunity to open his psychic talent in his soul, and he was not fortunate enough to receive the transformation of "Holy Blood Baptism" in his body.
The end of his martial arts and body ultimately only stayed at the level of being able to kill two Astartes head-on.
So the question is, what about Calvin in this world?
What if Calvin in this world is willing to use this kind of tyrannical power;
What if he is willing to bring this martial art, which is limited to the level of mortal heroes because of the potential of the user, to the strength of the Primarch level?
Does that mean that among the Primarchs that the Empire once had, in addition to the Night Ghost's Path of Terror and the Shadow Lord's Path of Shadow, there is another new assassination path composed of pure tyranny?
No one knows the result of this hypothesis, because no one has had a similar experience except for a certain Phoenix Lord who unfortunately encountered a Primarch in that state...
"Hmm?"
The Phoenix Lord, who was falling rapidly from mid-air, instinctively detected abnormal signals from the changes in Calvin.
The body that once belonged to the Aspect Warrior Sanatan, every cell in the sensory head was screaming to warn their master.
But Annasur was unmoved and insisted on her own judgment of the enemy. It was not that she ignored the instinctive warning, but in her opinion, changing posture when meeting the enemy was actually the same as changing generals on the battlefield, both of which were taboos in fighting on the battlefield.
Compared with this, she would rather use her skills to fight the enemy in close combat, rather than retreating in embarrassment after sensing the crisis, and being chased and chased by the enemy to the north and die on the spot.
This is her confidence as a bishop of the tribe, and also her confidence as a legendary Phoenix Lord.
But unfortunately, this confidence or arrogance did not last long.
When she descended close enough, she could see the madness in Calvin's eyes with amazing dynamic vision.
Even the Phoenix Lord who had experienced thousands of years of fighting was terrified by what kind of monster Calvin released from his heart.
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