Chapter 81 Evaluation and Selection

"Everything here is done. I don't think there is any need for me for the time being."

After waiting for the fleet to officially enter the warp navigation state for a while, Gavins stood up from the command seat on the bridge and said to Captain Tibers and Bishop Klein.

After the "baptism" and shock just now, Gavins once again confirmed that his personality was not suitable for being a leader, and the correctness of his original choice of the Champion Swordsman to focus on fighting.

After he insisted on completing his duties as the temporary commander of the fleet, he didn't want to stay in this position that didn't belong to him for another minute.

This kind of comprehensive quality and determination that requires making choices and trade-offs in other directions at all times in addition to fighting is indeed inconsistent with his personality.

"Please do as you please," Bishop Klein said.

The commander's affairs have come to an end, but for the leader of the mechanical priests who must keep an eye on the entire fleet during navigation in the warp, her work has just begun.

"You did a good job. Can I ask where you are going?" This is a question from Captain Tibers.

"I will go to the medical room to check on Calvin's condition. I believe that my comrades, except those who are resting, should be there at this time." Gavins replied, and then he walked down from the command platform without waiting for the two to reply.

"A qualified paladin, a very clean and pure heart."

Bishop Klein looked at Gavins's receding back and commented with her unique mechanical electric sound.

"A qualified guard leader, he has a very firm heart to execute the will of the primarch."

Tibers added. He affirmed Gavins' current work.

"An unqualified staff member, his overall view is not good. And he is unwilling to take responsibility for the leader." The next words of the mechanical archbishop were not so pleasant.

"So we need fresh blood to continuously enter the primarch's honor guard. His guard should not only have a simple guard function." Tibers deeply agreed with Klein's words and put forward some opinions on the position around Calvin in the future.

"Yes, a wise commander must have a group of generals who are good at fighting, and a wise monarch must have more than one wise and wise minister." Bishop Klein did not express her personal opinion directly, but used an ancient Terran proverb to express her views implicitly.

"So if the Primarch hopes to use himself as a link and cornerstone to influence the future direction of the Grey Knights, he should start by training a group of junior officers in the backbone position. Isn't it?" As a soldier, Tiberus seemed much more direct. He neatly stated his position and role of the Primarch's Guard in the future of the Chapter and even the Legion according to his own will.

"May the Messiah of Om always reside in your wise mind." Bishop Klein did not talk about this topic in depth. She felt that it was enough to reach the above consensus in a conversation, so she ended this conversation with the blessing unique to their Mechanicus.

In the middle of the hull of the Soul Redeemer, in the upper left passage, Gavins was walking alone on the way to the medical room.

"I am indeed not a qualified chief of staff. Strictly speaking, I don't even have the ability of a staff..." Gavins thought about the "evaluations" he had just heard while walking, and shook his head and laughed.

As a staff or temporary leader, Gavins may not have shown enough outstanding talent.

But as a leader among the psychic masters in the Grey Knights, he is undoubtedly the face of the regiment's military force.

His combat power is not limited to combat, but is reflected in all aspects of life.

The two veterans in the regiment who are relatively civilian positions obviously underestimated the boundaries of his ability.

Just like the "evaluations" he just heard inadvertently, they are just his instinct to collect battlefield information as a warrior.

Or think about it the other way around, is this inadvertent evaluation also deliberately made him "inadvertently" hear it? Maybe this itself is a kind reminder?

Too complicated. This kind of twists and turns is too complicated for them, the paladins who only guard the Champion Hall all year round except for the front-line combat.

Gavins decided not to think about these things that he was destined not to be good at and not to enjoy, but to focus on the safety of the Primarch first.

After all, this is the core of his job.

The reason why the Grand Master Council of the Chapter initially made these champion swordsmen as the basic members of the Honor Guard was, on the one hand, out of consideration for the absolute safety of the Primarch;

On the other hand, it also had a lot to do with the fact that the Chapter had never had such a talent pool before.

After all, they are different from those Astartes and Guards.

The Grey Knights are so young that both the Astartes of the Legion era and the Guards of the Ten Thousand have a deeper foundation than the Grey Knights who were just born and were short of manpower.

And such a foundation may not be reflected in the external performance of the Chapter's combat capability, but more in the operation and maintenance of the system of talent training within the Chapter.

Although Gavins was somewhat resistant, his sense of responsibility still made him fall into such thinking.

As he walked while thinking, he arrived at the medical room unknowingly.

Gavens, who had turned the corner, looked up and saw the door of the medical room at the end of his field of vision, as well as five Terminators lined up in a row...

"Kicked out?" Gavins, who realized what had happened, didn't want to let his thoughts worry everyone. He began to talk nonsense out of habit.

"Yes, the pharmacist brother said that either he comes out or we come out." Tariq's mouth was still so efficient, always one step ahead of his brain. He quickly answered Gavins' questions.

"Okay, then I'll wait here too." Gavins didn't try to enter the medical room again, so as not to embarrass himself in front of his brothers again.

He stood at the end of the queue against the wall with peace of mind, adjusted the Terminator power armor to the lock mode, and began to meditate with his eyes closed.

Anyway, looking at their appearance, we can know that Calvin's condition must be stable, otherwise the big guys in this group of gray knights are not the existence that the pharmacist brothers can easily persuade.

And it was not much different from their estimation. Calvin's condition was indeed stable, but only in his body...

Calvin's time in the spiritual world almost stopped when he swallowed the fruit from the Eternal Cancer.

Afterwards, he was shocked by the fruit that symbolized the Eternal Cancer's devouring of nearly 2 billion people in the entire Lower Nest, and he had no chance to consider reality.

Yes, this fruit came from the Eternal Cancer's plunder and killing of the entire Lower Nest.

But this fruit is by no means just a collection of nearly 2 billion lives in the Lower Nest.

The single soul matrix had long been extracted by the Eternal Cancer and used for its own growth, and what was left for Calvin, or what it originally left for itself on this fruit for the purpose of ascending to the devil, was the desires and obsessions of these billions of living beings.

Just as courage and war, tyranny and killing, fear and death are excellent nutrients for the believers of the Lord of War;

Indulgence and distortion are excellent dishes for the Lord of Pleasure; (The only one who cannot complete self-contradiction and unity in philosophy and theology, so his power is the weakest. He is really the dregs of the four gods, the kind that no one can defeat.)

If conspiracy and accident, time and transformation are the eternal pursuits of the Lord of Tampering;

Then what belongs to the Lord of Life and Corruption is the desire for life and despair of death in the soul.

The authority of the Chaos Gods is like this. Most of their power has completed the contradictions and unification of many aspects of authority in the pursuit of their core doctrines over a long period of time.

And because of the different righteousness of the specific apostles sent down, each apostle sent down by the gods to the world has different interpretations of the righteousness of their original deities when spreading disasters.

If Hailan is still alive, then the side of him that corresponds to that person is the Lord of Corruption, so his righteousness is to die first and then be reborn, to return the earth to silence in the death of spreading the plague, and then grant them rebirth.

So what Hailan really gets in the process of exercising his morality is the desire of all beings for life.

So what about the eternal cancer that is now in front of Calvin?

On the contrary, the side of authority that corresponds to that person is the Lord of Life, a real despair hidden behind the illusion of hope for life.

So the morality it exercises is to exhaust all resources in the process of unscrupulous growth of life and then go to extinction.

Therefore, it is known that what it really intercepts from the souls of all beings in the hive city is the despair that all beings have left in the face of death after the step-by-step killing.

Yes, what Calvin is facing now is the despair from two billion souls.

The overwhelming despair with a black color that is so thick that even light is swallowed.

No mortal can exist for half a second in the face of such despair without being polluted and assimilated.

Even if the Emperor shows his power and favors certain souls with firm faith, they still cannot last too long in this boundless soul shock.

After all, when the torrent of despair composed of two billion souls breaks through your soul defense line with an unstoppable momentum and rushes down from your spiritual world like an upside-down river, they themselves are interpreting a concept called despair.

What a great and dark power this is.

If it weren't for the fact that this material, which is only used to break through the essence of the self when the demons are promoted, is too precious; if it weren't for the fact that such conditions are so difficult to promote and cannot be released actively.

If this dark power is used as a weapon and released against a specific person.

Let alone the living saints of the state religion, even those demon princes who have already found their own subspace essence and have been promoted from the original gene demon, regard this as poison. If they are caught off guard and are hit by this attack, they will also be hurt. Honestly roll back to the subspace and spend tens of millions of years to recuperate.

Calvin is facing such an existence.

And he can't simply deal with it by devouring it, which he is best at.

Because he is a human, not a demon.

The recognition of his human identity is the cornerstone of his soul's existence and sublimation.

If he looks at the billions of people in the empire as food, just like the demons do.

Then what is the difference between him and the demons?

Of course, he can deceive himself that this is something that has been digested by the demons, and this is what he got from the demons.

But if people can deceive, can the heart deceive?

If it can, then there won't be so many stories in this idealistic universe.

But if not, then Calvin can only choose a path that seems the most impossible except to quit:

Redemption for these obsessions!

Yes, Calvin, who is facing the black torrent that falls from the sky in the spiritual world, is so arrogant!

Calvin, who almost submerged his golden body in the river of despair that was like the upside-down river of the sky, did not think about protecting himself, let alone using the sword of order in his hand to purify the sins in front of him.

He would rather die here than use such a simple and crude method to face these innocent lives and souls!

What is he here for?

Isn't it to defend his homeland?

Isn't it to give this piece of galaxy polluted by sin a piece of pure land?

Isn't it to give this desperate universe a little change and hope?

Whose home is he protecting?

Whose country is he defending?

Whose pure land is he leaving for?

For whom are his changes and hopes meaningful?

If he just chooses to purify the suffering in front of him in the simplest and crudest way and benefit himself based on his personal interests.

What is the meaning of all he did?

Can the order in his hands still be regarded as the source of all good?

Is he worthy of being a savior?

What kind of soldier is he!

Hypocrisy! It is the greatest sin!

The black torrent called despair is still impacting his golden soul, and the tide flowing through his soul is rapidly polluting his spiritual world.

Black clouds began to gather over Calvin's spiritual world.

After covering and isolating his silver sun that symbolizes his soul, the rotten rain that symbolizes despair turned into drops of black rain and poured down from the sky.

The ocean of consciousness was polluted by this rain and huge waves hit the central land; and the land like an isolated island began to appear black sludge representing pollution as the rain accumulated.

The rain in the sky is crying, which is the concrete manifestation of the despair in billions of souls in Calvin's spiritual world.

The Eternal Cancer, who had originally hidden part of himself in the fruit in order to seek a glimmer of hope, seemed to see the hope of his own rebirth after witnessing Calvin's fear of death!

It excitedly gathered from the scattered hiding places of countless souls.

Its body was happily tumbling and urging in the dark clouds like an eight-armed black octopus.

So that the black rain could fall faster and the pollution that had already begun could get closer to that point, the node that would be irreversible once it reached a certain level.

Calvin's physical signs in reality also began to be affected by the crisis in the spiritual world.

The waves of the subspace began to surge violently on the originally calm route of the Soul Redeemer.

Purple and gray mixed with abstract clouds that did not belong to reality appeared around the battleship.

The blasphemous voices from chaos penetrated the Geiger field and the murmurs resounded in every corner of the Soul Redeemer.

Countless creatures from the other side of reality seemed to have felt some kind of inspiration, and they began to cheer and celebrate around the battleship where Calvin was.

Celebrating another great victory of their master, celebrating the birth of a new prince in their power!

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