Chapter 563 Planning
"It's not your choice, but if I were him, I would definitely appear when you least want to fight..."
Corax said to Calvin, and Calvin shook his head and smiled bitterly, reluctantly admitting that ever since Mortarion entered this world, the initiative was no longer in his hands.
The consequences of failing to stop Mortarion at the beginning of his arrival have already emerged, that is, under the threat of the Black Legion, it is impossible for Calvin to keep track of Mortarion.
That would be too dangerous. If the two families were to merge, Calvin and his new legion would be defeated.
But let a divine incarnation of the Plague Lord wander around the empire like this.
With the spread of his terrifying disease power, Mortarion could cause more damage to the Empire than even Abaddon's Black Legion.
He must be eliminated!
Calvin was determined to deal with this threat even if it cost him a heavy price.
And he also has his own trump card:
That is, in Corax's unobservable soul position, he is truly qualified to permanently harm Mortarion.
Yes, it is difficult to kill, but it is not difficult to leave him with irreparable scars.
Mortarion's strength is based on his own strength, but his transcendence comes from the concentration of Nurgle's divinity.
The authority of the gods makes a being like him nearly immortal, able to ignore physical and spiritual blows and resurrect from the subspace after suffering repeated heavy losses.
But Calvin also had his own support, which was the authority of order instilled by his will and an equal or even superior transcendent existence.
And, most importantly, he also has a divine soul!
This kind of divinity allows him to also have various conveniences, and what is concretely reflected in battle is his existence itself, which is the anchor of destiny in the long river of time!
This was something Corax could not do, and it was also the Raven Lord who, even though he had awakened to the true nature of the Warp, could not see on his own.
Like all Primarchs, his power is limited to physical damage. Even if he awakens to the nature of the warp, he cannot truly touch the soul and deeper "roots".
But Calvin, the alien in the original body, is different. His existence itself is a spike that can firmly nail the gods' behavior of subverting time to tamper with cause and effect in any war he participates in or witnesses!
The last battle on the Spirit of Vengeance was like this. The situation at that time was so special that both Calvin and Mortarion had concerns.
The Spirit of Vengeance and Abaddon's Black Legion took up too much of Calvin's energy, making him worry that if he failed, the situation here would be completely corrupted.
Mortarion was wary of Calvin's power, because from the moment he saw this later Primarch, the divinity in his body reminded him:
This is an opponent on the same level as him. Fighting against him is a "battle of the gods" without any relaxation or error tolerance!
God War is a word that is rarely mentioned in the real universe, but Mortarion is no stranger to it.
It was a true game between the gods, and a war that truly determined the order of authority among the gods in the subspace.
On that eternal battlefield, countless demons chanted the name of their Lord and died in countless bloody worlds;
And it is precisely on this battlefield where there is no resurrection or loading of files among the gods that the real seeds can take root and sprout after absorbing the blood and souls of enemies and comrades in endless battles, and then embark on the transformation into the devil prince. The road to godhood!
Mortarion never participated in such battles, and in fact, other great demons with close ties to the gods rarely appeared either.
Except that Khorne has never concealed his true nature, so that his Daemon Princes always appear on any battlefield where they can harvest heads without any scruples.
The other great demons and demon princes who belong to the three gods will never appear on such a battlefield except for their once-in-a-hundred-year rotation.
This is the protection of one's own divinity and foundation, and the ten thousand-year bloody battle is, in a sense, the Blood God's favorite battlefield.
Mortarion has no urgent desire for power, and his loving father Nurgle and many great demons do not advise him to take risks personally.
But now, in this remote place in the real universe, Mortarion was told by his divinity that he was facing an opponent that was as threatening as the "Ten Thousand Years of Bloody War".
This had to make him not only examine Calvin carefully, but also think about whether this was another conspiracy deliberately targeting him.
This suspicion reached its peak after the appearance of Corax. Although he could not observe the existence of the Raven Lord, Mortarion still instinctively detected something strange in Calvin's shadow.
The feeling was vague, but it was enough to make his decayed skin tingle.
Mortarion had no doubt that if he really tried to kill Calvin with all his strength, what awaited him would be a fatal blow from that shadow.
Mortarion retreated, as he had in the past, with hesitation and strange doubts always weighing too much in his life.
But this time, it has to be said that his doubts did save his life in a sense.
"It's better to deal with him, even if there is no chance, we must create an opportunity!"
Calvin paced back and forth, the more he thought about it, the more he felt the danger of Mortarion.
He and his Death Guard can not only cause physical damage to the Empire's territory like the Black Legion;
Once he is given the opportunity and time, this guy will definitely leave a large area of the world that cannot be recycled for the Empire!
He must find a way! And he is also confident that he can deal with Mortarion.
The current situation is different from that on the Spirit of Vengeance:
Corax is by his side, and Lucius's support fleet has also arrived.
This means that he will no longer be trapped in a one-on-two situation in the battle between the Primarchs.
And Lucius's reinforcements are a sign that the Empire's power in the Gothic Sector has begun to grow after the slow reaction mechanism finally started to work!
As long as it is steady and cautious, it is not impossible for the Empire to solve these two enemies at the same time.
And if he is given the opportunity, Calvin is absolutely confident that on another battlefield, Mortarion will know what the collective will of the Grey Knights is!
"Notify Terra and have them relay the signal to the Taiping and Storm Star Regions!"
In front of Corax, Calvin gave an order to Tiberus on the bridge:
"Inform the other two battle groups to draw out their manpower and rush to the Misty Star Region to prepare for battle!"
Update!
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