Chapter 84 Return and Hope
Calvin became a god? Calvin, the God of Redemption? Or is it the second God-Emperor Calvin?
Thinking a little too much...
If the birth of a god is really so cheap and simple, then how could it be the turn of a wandering gangster like Calvin?
Considering the size of the human population, there should have been one or two gods of our own in the past tens of thousands of years, right?
Not to mention the Four Gods of Chaos, ancient gods whose existence is based on rules.
Let’s just say that the Emperor himself is the being who unites the faith of the entire empire. Eight thousand years have passed since the birth of the state religion. Has he become a god?
Can the souls of a mere two billion people, compared to the entire population of the Empire, reach one millionth of the power of faith that the Emperor has received in past history?
The answer is obviously no.
The current population of the empire has always been a mystery.
Even the Ministry of the Interior, which was set up specifically to manage the empire, cannot figure out the true number of the empire's population under today's inefficient management model of the empire.
After all, in addition to the developed commercial world and industrial world, there are also various backward barbaric worlds, tribal worlds and other strange existences in the empire's territory.
But based on the empire's effective administrative management of the world, what does the population of this mere planet count in the empire that claims to have millions of planets?
You must know that it has been 8,000 years since the emergence of the state religion, and the people of the empire are not immortal.
Based on the theoretical lifespan of an average of less than 30 years, eight thousand years is enough to renew the entire empire's population for how many generations?
How much faith have the dead people of the empire contributed to the God-Emperor in the past 8,000 years?
This doesn't make the God-Emperor among the gods, so what's Tagal's diploma? Of course not.
What's more, the so-called "salvation" power that Calvin currently holds in his hands is only slightly stronger than the original seed.
From the acquisition and germination of seeds to the growth and condensation of authority.
And the subsequent spread and perfection of the concept of authority, until the final divine fire is lit, the priesthood and the true name appear in the origin of the universe, the divine throne can be exalted and finally become a god.
Calvin was just getting started on this difficult and extraordinary path that few people had succeeded in over hundreds of millions of years.
After he completely consumed and transformed those "desperate souls", the crisis he faced no longer existed.
And it was only after the tense battles and crises were completely over that he really took the time to understand that the "power" that brought him victory was not as omnipotent as he imagined.
This "redemption" was born only for Calvin's previous actions, so the power it possesses is naturally limited to the goals that Calvin was obsessed with before.
Yes, it's the soul of the dead. It is only a redemption for the souls who died in war and pollution.
Even real natural death is not under his control. Those souls without obsession have their own destination.
It is still far from the true redemption of all things, and is only a certain aspect of "salvation" in the complete sense.
Or, according to Calvin's knowledge of his previous life, the abilities this thing now possesses are no different from those monks and Taoists who "carried out fasting rituals" and "transcended the afterlife."
It's just that in this world where there is no reincarnation, Calvin just made a mistake and changed the final destination after salvation into his own spiritual world...
So after all this hard work, Calvin, who understood what he was capable of now, smiled bitterly, looked at the "salvation" in his hand, and murmured:
"I can't believe that I, Lao Jiang, have been around for two lifetimes, and one day I will become a magician... This is a bit disgraceful..."
After studying the power of the latest harvest in front of him, all that was left in front of Calvin was the loot - the fragments of these souls that were collected in the fruit and were originally used to prepare Eternal Cancer for his demonic ascension. What is used is the collection of life force of these two billion people.
Only this power can support it to complete its final growth in the real universe.
Let it grow into a huge body that can wear a planet's mantle like clothing.
Now, these pure, ownerless powers were before Calvin.
Calvin was not greedy for the benefits of this power.
As a human being, he has no need for these powers of life.
As a Primarch, he was already huge.
And as a human being, he has an instinctive taboo against this vitality that also comes from humans:
If you eat this thing, it's no different from eating human flesh, right?
So in the spiritual world, he collected this vitality that was so exuberant that it was about to overflow, thinking about when he could go to SATA No. 1 again and return it to that planet.
After everything was done, Calvin floated quietly in the sky, smiling as he listened to the faint sound of hymns coming from the ground beneath his feet.
The faith and gratitude of these believers were the greatest gain from his trip.
Then his figure disappeared into the sky, and his soul returned to the sun directly above the sky and fell into sleep again.
After receiving these new powers of authority and faith, both his spirit and body need to grow further to adapt to this new change.
This growth is different from the past and will be a long transformation of his soul.
And this transformation process has just begun...
The Revenant Redeemer is still sailing through the quiet warp lanes.
The previous abnormal fluctuations surrounding the entire ship and the drastic changes in Calvin's physical signs made Calvin's guard members forget the instructions (threats) of the pharmacist brother.
They swarmed into the medical cabin where Calvin was nervously surrounded, blocking the door of the pharmacist brother who came after hearing the news.
After trying several times and failing to squeeze into the cabin, the other party loudly rebuked this group of fools who could not do anything except watch the fun. The angry voice of the pharmacist brother came from the loudspeaker on his white helmet. Outgoing:
"Get out! Get out of here! In the name of the throne! Can't you just take off this turtle shell and come back? I will fall out with anyone who puts on a Terminator and enters the medical bay in the future!"
And when Gavins and others walked to the door of the medical cabin with stern expressions driven by the pharmacist, the subspace storm disappeared without warning.
After regaining consciousness, Calvin opened his eyes and looked at everyone present from the transparent life-support cabin.
And Gavins, who was worried about Calvin, happened to look back at the door for the last time in the direction of Calvin's life-saving cabin.
"He's awake!" Gavins shouted. The brothers then turned around...
So the pharmacist brothers who had just cleared the space and could not breathe a sigh of relief could only watch the group of Terminators who had just been kicked out rush in again...
"Hey! Are you okay?"
"Ah, okay. It's okay for now."
"temporary?"
"Well, I feel like I may need to sleep for a while to adjust the gap between my spirit and my body again..."
"...Speak in human language. Brothers don't understand what you mean."
"...I need to take a nap, you guys can get out of here!"
"Hey! That's right! Let's go, brothers, go eat, go eat..."
"Let's go! It's said that there is a new batch of special ant beef arriving in the restaurant today..."
Calvin, who was across the life support cabin, had a great time communicating with everyone using the psychic channel. The efficient communication within a few seconds made everyone feel relieved.
Then, after staring at each other with Calvin for a few seconds, which was considered weird in the eyes of the pharmacist brothers, the Terminators all walked out in unison.
The psychic fluctuations in the air made the pharmacist mistake it for ordinary psychic information delivery.
But why the other party still uses this expensive but highly confidential communication method on their own ship is not what the pharmacist wants to know.
In his opinion, the less curious about some things, the better.
The other party naturally has his reasons for keeping it secret so carefully. There's not much he can do, just understand...
After carefully reading the long data tape spit out by the physical monitor Shangshan according to the procedure, the pharmacist said to Calvin in the tank:
"The current data indicators tend to be stable, but my suggestion is that you'd better stay in and observe for a while."
Calvin, who knew his family's affairs and knew that he was still sleeping, was floating in the tank and nodded to the other person.
After receiving his confirmation signal, the pharmacist said nothing more, turned around, turned off the lighting in the cabin, and walked out of the cabin.
The quiet darkness once again surrounded Calvin, and mentally exhausted, he followed his instinct and fell into a long sleep...
The long subspace journey continued, and the entire fleet did not encounter any accidents on the way.
On the ninth day of the warp voyage, the fleet rendezvoused with the battleship Supreme Decree in the Hesas Sector, and Calvin was transferred to the larger and more comprehensive medical department on the battleship.
On the thirtieth day of the subspace voyage, the new fleet with the Supreme Edict as its flagship arrived at the Star Territory Navy Fleet Assembly Center, the main table
On the 90th day of the subspace voyage, the fleet finally arrived at the world of Tarth, one of the secret nodes of the Pacific Star Territory, where the Tribunal conducted a short and secret supply of supplies.
On the 130th day of the subspace voyage, the fleet arrived at Terra. After briefly communicating with the sector fleet node located above the Iron Ring of Mars, the fleet disappeared into the fog of war that had surrounded Titan for thousands of years.
Calvin's hibernation lasted far longer than he expected.
A full five years of dormancy was something he had never thought of when he had the final communication with Gavins.
But it makes sense.
Because the birth of the initial authority has completely brought an end to his mortal career.
After possessing the first authority, the divine soul has completely separated itself from the mortal world.
At the end of the road to the collection and establishment of his authority lies the destiny of standing side by side with the gods.
It is a pity that Calvin is not a native, so he will never be able to find his own subspace essence in this universe like the primarchs before him.
Because the power of the essence of the Warp is so powerful, once recovered, the power of the Primarch can be geometrically multiplied.
Fortunately, Calvin was not aboriginal, so the path he finally chose may not be worth mentioning at the moment.
But on the road to power, his growth potential makes the upper limit of what he can ultimately achieve is jaw-dropping.
On this bumpy road of life, if Calvin is lucky enough to reach the end, then his strength will not be comparable to those of his brothers who were destined to have a limit at birth.
If anything, the power that Calvin received from the Emperor was probably nothing compared to that of all his Primarch brothers before him.
But there was one thing that was unique to him and extremely precious, and that was hope.
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