Chapter 421 Black and Red, the Plan in the Shadows (VII) Unexpected Responsibility: Faith and the Belonging of the Soul

After waking up, Calvin and Golden returned to their own residence together, and then returned to their private chapel as soon as they closed the door.

Calvin, who ensured his privacy from being peeped, closed his eyes and entered his spiritual world again. And this time his goal was very clear, that was the Kerberos that inexplicably appeared in his "Pure Land of the Soul".

Rising... Converging... Philosopher... Transcendence...

Projection... Condensation... Clouds... Present...

Calvin crossed the boundary between these supreme heavenly levels and the spiritual world at the speed of light, and pointed his eyes to the city in the center of the Pure Land of the Soul, and then saw Kerberos at the end of the crowd outside the door of the huge palace made of steel.

"Kerberos..." The revelation from the clouds awakened this middle-aged Astarte from his quiet prayer.

He looked up at the sky above his head, and a look of surprise flashed across his eyes.

"Kerberos..." Calvin called him again, and the idealistic world changed with his mind, and the two appeared face to face in the empty temple in the next second.

"My Lord." Cerberus looked at Calvin in front of him and saluted, but he could not continue kneeling halfway.

"Don't kneel!" Calvin's words were like the supreme decree. Under his will, every inch of space here, including Cerberus himself, obeyed his orders.

"Yes, sir." The tall Astartes warrior stood up straight and looked at the god in front of him seriously.

And at this time, Calvin was worthy of this sacred title. He stood in front of the tall warrior in a white robe and a crown.

The statue of the Emperor behind him stood tall, and a beam of light shot down from the top of the Emperor's head to cover him, and on the back of Calvin's head, the halo that appeared a long time ago was still singing "Holy, Holy" in a very appropriate way...

"Shut up!" Feeling Cerberus's thoughts, Calvin turned off the "sound and light effects" behind him with a little embarrassment.

When the echo of "holy, holy" in the temple faded away, he had time to look at the uninvited guest in front of him:

"Why are you here, Cerberus?" This was Calvin's biggest doubt, and it was also the approach of a certain ominous premonition lingering in his heart.

At this moment, Cerberus was neither the mortals who entrusted their faith and hope to him, nor the Grey Knights who had signed a contract with him.

His origin and destination had nothing to do with Calvin. A son of the Thirteenth Legion under the Emperor, a son of Guilliman who believed in the Imperial Truth or the "God-Emperor Ascension Theory", where else could he go? How could he appear in his "Pure Land" after death?

"My Lord, in the endless despair, you gave us salvation. In the endless darkness, only you are willing to bring down the light of mercy..."

"Alright, alright..." Calvin waved his hand after hearing the first sentence and interrupted Cerberus's words.

The first sentence is enough. There is no need to listen to the subsequent praises. There are already enough people praising him. He does not need such affirmation.

It's a mess! It's a mess!

Calvin turned around twice, and Kerberos quietly waited in front of him.

Shouldn't you return to the Golden Throne with glory after death as those charlatans of the Imperial Church said?

The Emperor is in need of people! Food and accommodation are provided, and there is a regular position and labor insurance (you can be resurrected). Why don't you go to him and come to me!

Redemption? Is redemption worth money? A few throne coins?

That's just Calvin's job responsibility, okay?

Well, even if we take a step back, Calvin does want to save these souls that have fallen into darkness out of his recognition of the Emperor's vision and his conscience.

But it can't be that as long as the souls have been redeemed by his hands, they must rely on him shamelessly, right?

You obviously have more choices!

And, isn't this the Emperor's job? How did it fall on his head without any reason?

He was originally worried about the people in his own private land. Now, if this idea continues, won’t he have to recruit a group of people for every fight?

What if his private land is a large compound? And he can come whenever he wants? Is it never going to end?

The influence he left in Orpheus before was enough to give him a headache. The people there didn’t know where to arrange a name for him as the "Ashebringer", claiming that he was the apostle of the Emperor walking in the world.

The citizens of the Empire in the entire Orpheus sector are praying to him, including but not limited to the entire sector including Layak, Hassan, Euridice, and Orpheus, who have been spreading the name of the "Ashebringer" for decades!

This group of hot guys are even spreading it outward!

According to the Storm Star Region authorities, the early end of the war in the four star regions of Orpheus, Hassan, Eurydice, and Layak relieved the star region government, which was fighting other wars in the star region at the same time, of great pressure.

And with the four star regions of Orpheus and others being merged into one sector, the powerful sector government recovered the vitality lost in the previous war within a few decades.

The Imperial Church also played a very important role in this.

The pilgrims coming from Ophelia 7 can bring huge economic benefits to the entire Orpheus sector every year, and also continuously send the elite population of the entire Storm Star Region here.

In the following decades, the Orpheus sector not only restored its ability to export industrial products with sufficient manpower, but also sent no less than 30 million Star Army to various battlefields in the entire Storm Star Region in the name of "armed pilgrimage" and "salute to the redemption of the Ashbringer"!

This was originally a good thing! But the bad thing was that the name of "Ashebringer" also expanded to various battlefields in the entire Storm Star Region through the diffusion channels of these population and materials.

Among them, Calvin's "contractor", the "living saint" officially canonized by the Empire, the Great Confessor Marduk, even added fuel to the flames and wandered around various battlefields in the entire Storm Star Region.

The Imperial State Church not only did not stop the behavior of "Great Confessor Marduk", but was happy to see his fanatical promotion of the Emperor and the usurpation of "Saint Calvin".

They sent more than 100,000 priests from the Ophelia No. 7 Seminary to join Marduk's team.

These fanatical believers who witnessed Calvin redeeming the entire Ophelia 7 with their own eyes, used their professional theological knowledge and fanatical preaching heart to add countless firewood to this bonfire full of "accidents"...

The Holy Hermit Monastery on Ophelia 7 also participated in this armed pilgrimage.

A large number of combat sisters appeared in these mortal troops in companies. With their elite combat qualities and powerful weapons and equipment, they successfully assumed the responsibility of the core force in the tide-like mortal army.

The authorities of the Storm Star Region were quite surprised by this, because they tried to mobilize these "Emperor's daughters" more than once.

But because they accepted the dual leadership of the Imperial Church and the Inquisition at the same time, their deep background made the generals of the Astra Militarum and the Imperial Navy helpless and could only let them decide to participate in or withdraw from any battlefield.

But now this situation has disappeared. The combat sisters followed the armed pilgrimage army and crushed the enemy with a large number of troops, bringing victory from one battlefield to another.

As for this "miracle" phenomenon in the Storm Star Region, the top structure of the Empire has remained strangely silent.

The Inquisition has been monitoring the situation in the Storm Star Region throughout the process, but has not expressed any opinions. This is probably because they have never thought that one day, the source of the private spread of the Empire's faith is actually their own Supreme Lord.

It's not that no one has tried to question this phenomenon, but as the source of this phenomenon, the Supreme Lord Inquisitor of the Imperial Inquisition, the head of the Holy Hammer Order, the Lord of the Grey Knights, is the founder of the new Imperial Eye.

Although his every move on Terra was strictly confidential, after he left Terra, the news that he entered the Throne Court to meet the Emperor was deliberately spread by the Imperial Guards and the Inquisition, and spread throughout Terra, true or false, and then spread to the Inquisition in the internal channels of the entire Empire.

No one can question his loyalty, just like no one can question the Grey Knights' 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 Guards...

The Astartes Chapters have maintained a cautious wait-and-see attitude towards this, perhaps because of the information isolation, otherwise their attitude may be more radical.

And even in this situation of information isolation, these pragmatic soldiers will not reject the free soldiers spontaneously organized by the pilgrims.

Although the results of this kind of faith spread endorsed by the Imperial Church are unknown, at least it has indeed brought a huge amount of available troops. And the average quality of these free soldiers is quite impressive.

At least in the eyes of these Astartes who have cooperated with the Imperial Astra Militarum for a long time, the average quality and equipment of the former are far superior to the latter, which is of mixed quality...

Only the senior leaders of the Astra Militarum and the generals of the Imperial Navy have raised opinions, but in front of these "rich" armies that have purchased their own weapons per capita with the support of the Forge World of Graya, they cannot refute the existence of the other party with their not-so-glorious record...

Yes, the Forge World of Graya and the Krieg Forge Union hidden behind it have fully supported the equipment of these armed pilgrim troops.

But they did not suffer any losses as a result, and even in the face of the self-purchase orders of the pilgrims and the large number of heavy equipment orders from the Orpheus sector, these two industrial systems still have considerable profits...

So the spread of Calvin's faith lost the last resistance in the Storm Star Region. They spread rapidly in a weird way during the war of more than ten years without any control and accusation.

And a hidden knowledge is that the more war-torn the place is, the more helpless the desperate people are to the salvation and hope brought by faith...

So it is natural that many years after Calvin left Orpheus, the souls who died in various wars continued to pour in to him.

And until the major battlefields in the Storm Star Field were gradually pacified, this tide of souls continued to move towards a higher peak, with a prairie fire that was getting more and more intense.

Calvin had long suffered from the influx of these souls, because as a Grey Knight, no matter how special his identity was, he was just doing the job that a warrior should do.

In his eyes, the belonging and destination of souls and faith were the exclusive responsibilities of the Emperor.

This kind of metaphysical thing has nothing to do with him. He just needs to fulfill his promise to the Emperor and fight to death to defend the interests of the human race as a warrior or at most a commander.

This is his simple and honest idea, and this is what he has been doing. He has always been evasive towards the souls coming from the direction of the Storm Star Region.

Because when he saw these souls who placed their hopes and faith on him, he was actually confused and afraid...

But the appearance of Kerberos obviously broke his false peace. This unexpected soul used the fact of its own existence to slap Calvin's head stuck in the sand.

He had to accept that if he continued to fight, more souls would definitely come to him. What happened in the Storm Star Region and Orpheus was not accidental, but a destined result under the control of fate.

Calvin's defense was broken! Calvin was in tears!

Why did he have to fight in the empire while alive, work hard to protect the living citizens of the empire, and become their god after death, and provide a resting place for the souls of the dead citizens of the empire?

Damn! Devoting all his energy to his work until his death, right? 996 and 007 are not so excessive!

Thinking of this, Calvin couldn't help but shed tears of emotion for his "beautiful" future...

At this time, Kerberos still couldn't understand his suffering, but just stood in front of his savior with a simple face.

Update! Hey! I actually caught up! The previous leave doesn't count! It doesn't count!