Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 365 Doubts about the road
"You think too highly of me..." Calvin said with a wry smile.

The longer he came to this world, the more Calvin knew how difficult the situation facing the human empire was.

The term "internal and external troubles" is not enough to describe today's empire.

Dead but not stiff, I am afraid that is Calvin's true evaluation of the current empire in his heart.

The efficiency of governance within the empire is so low.

In the eyes of Calvin, a foreigner, apart from Terra and the Limit Star Field, which are still reliable, the regimes below the star fields to which other star fields belong are no different from herding sheep;
The empire faces so many enemies that wars are still raging in its huge territory, and the chaos gods as powerful as subspace are only one of the larger strategic directions.

Who is Calvin?
On a larger scale, he is one of the nominal supreme rulers of the empire today.

In the name of the chief representative of the Tribunal in the Senate, he occupies the topmost power of the Terra Government Council;

Based on the Judgment Chamber and the Gray Knights, it shoulders the tasks of unifying the thoughts of the empire and combating various heresies, aliens, and demons and fallen people brought about by the pollution of chaos inside and outside the empire.

It seems that there is power and power, and there are people and people.

But what about the younger ones?He is just a beneficiary of the empire's huge government affairs system, an Astartes directly under his subordinates who have just filled up a war regiment, not even a warlord.

If he abides by the original rules of rights, he can also use these forces to continue to grow.

But what if he wanted to change something?Will anyone jump out against him?
certainly!Even the prestige of Horus back then could not stop the newly established Imperial Council from coveting the power in his hands.

Why does he think that this group of people has learned to be gentle, courteous and thrifty after they have gained a firm foothold and mastered the power of the empire for nearly ten thousand years?

joke!

And taking a ten thousand step back, if he really holds the supreme power of the empire now, will he have the ability to change the status quo of the empire?
You must know that he didn't even understand the subspace of the strategic direction he was in charge of, and he still had to lead the gray knights between star regions, running around like a fire brigade!
The enemies of the empire are not limited to the interior. Aliens and chaos have infiltrated and eroded the territory of the empire. They have been everywhere since the establishment of the empire and have never stopped.

If he really risked the disgrace of the world and forcibly took back the rights from those Terra lords.I'm afraid it hasn't waited for him to sort out the internal contradictions and establish a new order.The enemies of the empire have already set fire to the entire empire!

If, if I were the last hope of this ancient kingdom and race...

Calvin couldn't help looking through the dome of the battleship, looking at the vast starry sky.

Then all this must change!And it will be a long and huge project!

He needs to spend centuries or even longer, while fighting the demons of chaos, he also needs to carefully adjust the structure of the empire a little bit.

This is like a war machine that cannot be extinguished, and what Calvin has to do is to replace all its components including the core during its continuous operation...

He needs help!He needs more people to join him, under a common vision, for the same purpose!
And such a person can only come from a legion he can trust...

"You think too highly of me..." Calvin repeated this sentence subconsciously after thinking about it clearly. The national culture he was born in made him accustomed to putting actions before words.

"No, this is not a high opinion, but a fact." Alpharius' rebuttal came very quickly, and he obviously had some ideas of his own.

"I didn't expect much from you at first, after all, the [-]...[-] legions were so powerful back then, and our brothers each have their own strengths, each inheriting various excellences of 'his'.

If 'he' leads us, those grand visions cannot be accomplished yet.Then why should you?

But lo and behold, your strength, your legions.Ah...don't be too quick to deny it.

I have seen the embryonic form of the Legion from them, don't tell me they are the product of obeying the "Holy Code" promulgated by my stupid brother.No orc fart would listen to such a poor lie!

I feel from you the power that is completely opposite to the warp.

And I see another future of this race from your warriors.

A Legion that harnesses the power of the Warp to its full potential and is also resistant to erosion.

If we had such power back then, I am afraid that the results of many things would not be like today..."

"It's not that easy..." Calvin explained.

"The threshold for this army is too high. If you want to develop to the level of the legion or even higher, it's not easy..."

"Then wait! Anyway, what we need in this kind of life is time!"

Alpharius pointed to Calvin's chest and nodded.

"As a Primarch, isn't that what you do?
And don't be too happy too early, I came all the way here, but I didn't come here to flatter you.

Your body has a lifespan of more than 50 years, right? "

Looking at Calvin who nodded in affirmation, Alpharius complained with a bit of hatred:

"Haven't you ever thought about why your current strength is so weak, even one of my vests can deal with you for so long?

Even if your growth path is different from ours, do you really have no doubts about your growth speed? "

"Why?" Calvin asked.

You said this earlier!You won’t be sleepy if you talk about Calvin!

He has long wondered why his body grows so slowly, but he suffers from the fact that there is no one of his kind to clear up his doubts.

You must know that from the Primarch files recorded by the Tribunal, the growth cycle of those Primarchs is much shorter than his!

"What should I do?" Calvin couldn't help asking, but in view of this person's identity, his inner vigilance also reached its peak at this time!

But the answer that Alpharius gave in the next second not only exceeded his expectations, but also dispelled the suspicion he had just raised.

"Be yourself!" Alpharius said firmly.

"Huh?" If question marks could be manifested by psionic energy, Calvin's mind would be covered with silver question marks right now.

Countless threads in his brain started at the same time, thinking and inferring Alpharius' words from various angles.

A possibility that he had never thought of appeared in his mind, and under the influence of this inference, he couldn't help showing a look of astonishment.

"That's right! Just be yourself!"

Alpharius looked at Calvin's expression, and gave an affirmative answer to his conjecture in his suspicious eyes.

"What do you think is a Primarch? What is an Astartes?"

"The Emperor's gene fragment, the Primarch's gene fragment..." Calvin subconsciously expressed his cognition.

"Then what? What is the Emperor?"

"The cohesion of human will! The highest expression of all human excellence!"

"Yes!" Alpharius nodded appreciatively, and then asked: "Then do you understand the difference between the three?"

"Stairway!" Calvin replied immediately, and then looked at Alpharius.

The latter met Calvin's proving eyes, nodded appreciatively and said:

"Yes! My brother and I, at the beginning, stood at the end of a doomed end. Well, Sanguinius may be an exception.

Astartes are like us who have been mixed with other souls, and are destined to only develop our own potential limitedly under the limitations of weak souls.

But you are different, you need to find yourself!

be yourself!

Only then can we keep approaching that end point, and finally walk out a road that no one else has ever traveled! "

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