Chapter 561 The First Encounter with the True Face of the Dark Raven Lord and His Doubts
Chapter 561: First Seeing the True Face - The Suspicion of the Lord of the Dark Raven
"... As you wish, my fleet will not let you down."
Fermat accepted the order with pleasure, but Calvin did not let him go.
"No, no, no." Calvin shook his head and dispelled the former's idea of sitting in Farr.
"We need your fleet here, but we also need your heavy legion."
"So here?"
Fermat understood what the Primarch meant. The existence of a Titan Legion is a powerful supplement to the entire fleet.
He hesitated slightly, but he was reluctant to hand over this legion after all.
After a simple calculation of the workload here, he made up his mind and said to Calvin:
"You can let my deputy preside over the construction here, and I will continue to follow your footsteps."
"Very good..."
Calvin nodded in response, and then turned his eyes to the rest of the crowd.
He automatically ignored the part of the crowd belonging to the Inquisition and Astartes, but Calvin found subtle details in the remaining few people belonging to the Lucius coalition.
Vasilev stood on the left side of the crowd, opposite Fermat on the other side, closest to the center except for the abusers;
The generals of several Star Legions stood uniformly on the periphery of the crowd, out of tune with the leader of Catachan.
Following Father Fermat, the nobles of the Knight Family stood on the edge of the Mechanical Priest in the crowd belonging to the Mechanical Ark Fleet, seeming to be close yet distant;
And those ruling sages who were wearing red robes but were highly transformed by bone-white metal prostheses, looked disdainful of the nobles around them.
"What a picture of all beings." Calvin thought in his heart, and Corax responded unexpectedly:
"You get used to it after seeing it too much. The Empire is a unified will, but it is also composed of individuals."
"You too?" Calvin asked casually, but unexpectedly got Corax's affirmation.
"Of course." Corax replied, "Even we will have different levels of relationship due to our mutual interests and the order of return.
But you must know that all friendships are not trustworthy, especially..."
"Especially when betrayal comes?"
Calvin used a question to pick up Corax's unfinished words, but Corax did not answer again.
"Tell me about you." Calvin looked at the people who were leaving the Silver Hall, and they also greeted the Primarch before leaving.
The huge palace that was just full of people was now rapidly returning to its former silence.
"Me?" Corax asked.
"Yes, you. Didn't you say that you would follow me for a long time? Why?"
Calvin asked him, it is not an honor for everyone to let a legion lord give up returning to his own territory and stay by his side.
"No, it's not the time yet."
Corax did not answer his question, but pointed the finger at Calvin.
"Do you really think that Mortarion left so easily?
Or, even if he didn't really care about that guy named "Typhons", and just went through the motions with you last time, does he really have a reason to let you go?
Don't forget, he has already..."
Corax didn't say anything more, because if he continued, he would inevitably mention the name of Nurgle.
"No..."
Calvin looked at the deserted silver hall in front of him, and his eyes became serious after there were no outsiders.
"I have never been lucky, and I will never put my hope in the hands of the enemy.
But as you can see, Mortarion has completed the first step to reach reality..."
Yes, Corax fell silent after hearing this.
Before entering the Eye of Terror, his understanding of the warp was limited to rumors.
The "Nikea Accords" of the year not only stopped the Thousand Sons from exploring the warp more and more outrageously with the support of Magnus;
It also curbed the popularization of the think tank as a special unit that had spread among all the legions, and the understanding of the warp by each legion.
But this was only limited to the past. After returning from the Eye of Terror, Corax had already had a very deep understanding of some specific rituals and elements from his instinct.
For an existence like Mortarion, the most difficult step in returning to the real universe is the first step from nothing to something.
The completely opposite properties of the real universe and the warp will prevent this already ascended demon from sending even a hair of his own into reality.
But this is not absolute. As long as the conditions are sufficient, he can still return to reality.
And once he continues to have enough strength and, under the conditions that allow, truly tears open the curtain of isolation;
The only way to send him back is to fight head-on.
Killing is absolutely unkillable.
Their souls no longer belong to themselves, but as the epitome and embodiment of the power of destruction, they are sublimated to the depths of the warp and scattered among the descendants of all gods.
Physical and psychic damage cannot really destroy them, because they have already walked the path that all demons envy the most at the moment of ascending to the devil - merging with the gods.
One is ten thousand, and ten thousand is one.
Corax does not understand theology, but the awakening from the essence of the warp makes him naturally know some valuable knowledge.
And it is this knowledge that, when he travels in the depths of the twisted and chaotic space, seems to have life and tells him:
"They are wildfire, they are nature;
From the moment they completed their transformation, these beings who dedicated themselves to the gods have lost all their egos;
And in return for this dedication, as long as there is still a trace of divinity in the gods, they will share the glory with them and live forever..."
"Three times!" A hoarse voice came out of Corax's mouth.
In the silver hall without a third person, the Lord of the Dark Raven left Calvin's shadow for the first time and showed his lineup in front of him.
Watching the shadow spread from under his feet, and then turned into things in front of Calvin.
When the Primarch saw the appearance of the Lord of the Dark Raven now, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.
That was already a non-human face, and that was no longer a human form.
The black but transparent shadow wandered all over Corax's body like a living thing, and the pale and thin figure also gave people an illusory feeling in the movement of this shadow.
"You are still..."
Calvin instinctively asked what was in his mind, but he thought of something halfway through his words and stopped hastily under Corax's warning gaze.
And facing Calvin's apologetic gaze, the flame-like shadow on Corax's body became more active again.
"Sorry." Calvin said angrily.
"No need." Corax interrupted Calvin's words, and then looked at this brother who was a whole head taller than him.
Similar to Volkan, the lines that were too hard because of his huge body did not appear on Calvin's body.
The face of this young brother with a strange origin was full of exotic colors that he had never seen before.
"Can you see through my appearance?" Calvin asked subconsciously, and then realized that he asked a stupid question.
His psychic aura was natural, and even the surrounding guards could not see through it.
But this kind of emperor-like thousand faces could not block the gaze of an equal existence.
Not to mention Corax, who had already awakened the essence of the warp, to find that after the Primarch had forged a divine soul, under the influence of "appearance is determined by the heart", his appearance became more and more like his previous life.
"Are you also from Chogoris?" Corax asked with some doubt.
"No, my hometown is Uther, a real Tailai."
Calvin was triggered to be passive, and righteously denied the possibility that he was born in the countryside.
"Okay, it's not important... three times."
Corax nodded indifferently, then slightly tilted his cheek covered by thick black hair:
"Three times."
His mouth moved slightly, and he spit out the word with a nasal tone without changing his gaze.
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