The Revenant Redeemer left the planet.

But before that, the ground troops' recovery work delayed it for a full fourteen hours.

For nearly an entire day, it and the battleship transport airship that arrived later were working hard to recover surface equipment.

After all, except for personnel and some equipment that need to be delivered with the army, most equipment and materials are released through short warehouses, and it takes far more time to recover than to release.

The troops on the ground are different from when they left, occupying only a small part of the transport capacity.

Soldiers who died in battle were only allowed to take back a small amount of their belongings, so that they could be filed and filed when they returned to their home planet, and handed over to their relatives far away in batches according to procedures.

If they had, if they were still alive.

Their dead bodies were collected, incinerated, and their ashes were kept at the entrance to the Webway ruins, under the temporary stone monument set up to commemorate the battle. Their names will also be engraved on this monument that represents them.

On the monument of courage and dedication.

The initial list of soldiers is easy to obtain. After all, this group of people have been trained on Titan II for more than several years before departure, and the Redeemer of the Souls has relatively complete information on them.

What is difficult to handle is the specific verification work, because we are facing the demon of Khorne, and most of the dead do not have complete bodies for identification.

It is obviously not the first time that veterans of the officer corps have encountered this situation, and they gave simple and feasible suggestions:

"Exclusion method."

That's right, except for the unlucky ones who disappeared on the battlefield, excluding those who made it home alive, the rest is the list of those killed in action.

The specific identification work seems wasteful and unnecessary due to time constraints.

Anyway, it is impossible for them to be buried alone. Anyway, they were used to crowded soldier dormitories during their lifetime, and they would not refuse to mix with their comrades after death.

Mixed together in every sense of the word.

Calvin was sitting in his dormitory suite, reviewing the gains and losses of this battle alone in a quiet environment.

After he handed over the complicated administrative affairs, no one came to disturb him any more:

If there is really any undecided decision or if there is a diplomatic matter that requires his intervention, Kim will come to him.

Yes, that's right, Jin, the tool used to communicate with Nicholas, the real envoy of the Forbidden Forces, has determined that he will not be able to return to Terra to serve his real master for the time being.

He and the other five Imperial Guards, under the arrangement of the Tower of Hegemony, became a special existence around Calvin that was more of a surveillance than a bodyguard.

Honor guard? Guard? Discipline enforcement force?

Either all, or none. Anyway, Calvin has never heard of any Primarch that can be successfully arrested by a team of Custodes...

But accidents are accidents, and troubles are troubles. Calvin is extremely disgusted with this kind of unplanned existence.

"This is the treatment that every Primarch and special figures in the Empire have."

This is what Captain Nicholas explained to Calvin. After completing his short mission and returning to Terra to report on his duties, he will return to Calvin again.

This is also one of the conditions for Calvin to acquire the warlord-level psychic power, the Titan Declaration of Truth, without spending a penny.

"So I still want to say thank you?"

This is what Calvin wanted to answer when he heard Nicholas' explanation.

But just imagining the Declaration of Truth waiting for recovery by Titan's large transport barge on the surface, with that child's lonely figure, he decided to endure it.

After all, no matter how complete the supply of armaments on Titan is, the technical sergeants in the micro-forging world would never have imagined that one day they would need to serve a complete warlord-level Titan.

This ability is definitely beyond the scope of knowledge of an Astartes Techmarine. With their short training time of a hundred years in the Adeptus Mechanicus, it is impossible for them to have the opportunity to come into contact with such top-secret information.

Mars attaches great importance to the knowledge of these machine-god incarnations. Since the existence of Titan, these core knowledge have been tightly held in the hands of the Titan Order. Even the Foundry General can only understand it and has no right to spread it.

But the Forbidden Army is different. Their power to represent the Throne Court can bypass these links and directly mobilize the priests of the still dormant Order of Omen.

Since their pilots cannot be replenished for a day, these priests will have nothing to do.

Getting these units that have gone dormant due to excessive personnel losses to get busy again is one of the unshirkable responsibilities of the Throne Court, isn't it?

After making compromises, this part of the matter finally came to fruition. Putting it aside for the time being, Calvin began to look at the benefits of his soul in the spiritual world.

Compared with ordinary mortals or demons, the emotions of Alpha level psykers are countless times more intense.

But compared with existences like the Great Demon, the importance of the former has to be slightly regressed. Without him, because of existences such as the Great Demon, which the gods directly participated in creation, there are related fragments of authority that are born in the soul.

This twisted fragment is the source of the core charm of the great devil as one of the thousands of incarnations of the gods, with thousands of people and thousands of faces.

It makes the great devil know his mission from the beginning of his birth. While sharing a certain aspect of the diamond-like authority of the gods, he also exercises the Tao and righteousness represented by this aspect.

Maybe they are sorted differently according to their identities, and the completeness and size of the fragments they contain are also different; but there is no doubt that the presence or absence of such fragments is the only difference between the big devil and the ordinary devil.

But not every big demon has fragments, because not every big demon is a "real" existence.

They seem to be no different from those "reality", but they may just be a projection in time of a certain destructive power blessed by the gods.

The relationship between demons is so chaotic and disordered. The outside world has no way of knowing their complex relationship, and mortals who try to study them always find that they are the ones who have been deceived...

Calvin doesn't study this. He just uses his unique "taste" to taste every harvest from the perspective of a predator.

Just like opening a blind box, if you open too many fake ones, you can always open the real ones; if you open too many projections, the information about the owner of the projection—the real name—will be mastered by Calvin sooner or later.

This is also the origin of the devil’s true name recorded in the Devil’s Canon.

As long as there is a record of being killed, even if it is not the real person, it will inevitably leak part of its real name.

The difference is that the handling method is different from other Gray Knights. Calvin will not choose to expel him, but will eat him directly...

The remnants of demonic and psychic echoes made him much more complete, and the twisted power of the great demon—the fragments of his true name were also waiting for him to savor.

That's what he thought, but the planned pleasant dining time alone was unexpectedly interrupted. After he saw the three gray knights who died in the spiritual world... "!!! The emperor's toilet! You guys!"

Why are you here?"

Calvin looked at the three people standing at the gate of the city-state in his spiritual world, and he felt bad!

Isn’t this the promise that the soul will return to the throne? What does it mean to return to me?

"You here? So this land and this city-state belong to you?"

Fair observed the surroundings with great interest, and was not surprised by the sudden appearance of Calvin.

The same was true for Alblad and Natario behind them. They were watching the crowds passing by on the roadside at the city gate with great interest.

The mortal souls around them seemed not surprised by these three new existences. They acted as if nothing had happened and were busy with their lives as before.

"We don't know the specific situation, but it should be related to the seed you gave us."

Having seen enough details of the crowd, Fair explained to Calvin.

"We did have several choices at that time, either to die, or to respond to the distant call; or to be taken away by the devil as a trophy, or to move closer to you. Because of that seed, we felt that the last option would be better.

."

"So you came to my place?"

Calvin still found it a little hard to accept that this was by no means part of his plan, nor was it his original intention of establishing this place.

He never intended to interfere too much in the arrangements of these comrades.

But an accident happened like this. Before he took the initiative to use the power of salvation, these comrades who had been assimilated by him with psychic powers had tickets to come here after death.

This could be regarded as an accident, but Calvin knew that there must be some details that he had overlooked.

What exactly is it? He turned around a few times and scratched his head in distress.

It can only be the soul! It can only be the soul!

In fact, without much thinking, Calvin already understood:

So while assimilating the psychic energy, the psychic seeds he gave also naturally affected the souls of these Gray Knights?

Logically speaking, there is indeed no problem, since spiritual energy serves as the soul in this universe - that is, the external manifestation of spiritual energy.

Then the change in the state of spiritual energy should have been a by-product of the change in spiritual energy, but Calvin has always misunderstood this, and naively regarded the effect as the cause.

So the question is, if these three people are like this, what about the other Gray Knights?

After they go to meet the end of their destiny at some point in the future, will they also be dragged to this land because of his unexpected intervention?

Then will he be cautious about giving out psychic seeds in the future?

After all, giving him this kind of money is equivalent to the other party signing a life-to-death contract for him.

As the giver, does he also have the obligation to bear corresponding responsibilities?

Does he have this ability?

Can he afford the other party's hopes?

Can he guarantee that he will not die on a certain battlefield?

If he, Calvin, dies in battle at some point, what will these soldiers who rely on him do?

This problem is still small now and is limited to the scope of the Honor Guard.

But whenever Calvin thinks about the gene seeds that will be sent back to Mars, his headache gets even worse.

The essential issues of the soul's destiny involved in faith, as well as the ethical issues of commitment and rights and obligations, were all noticed by Calvin under this divergent thinking.

He discovered distressingly that he had far more responsibilities than he imagined. Death is the end of life in the eyes of others, but for him, it may be just the beginning of trouble...
To be continued...