Chapter 384 Witness and Harvest
After a short half-day of waiting, and after a brief exchange of greetings with the veterans of the Grand Master Council, Calvin and his party left the main building complex of the Titan Monastery.
After passing through secluded underground corridors and rugged walkways between mountains, Calvin finally arrived at an isolated castle protected by mountains - the Temple of Purity.
This is where the Gray Knights chapter stores its core secrets, and is guarded by the most special units among the Gray Knights, the Purifiers.
After the Purifiers of all ages received the Emperor's instructions and awakened their powerful power, they would give up their original identities and leave their companies to go here alone.
The level of confidentiality here is extremely high. If it were not for the Holy Book of the True Name of the Sword of Oath, even if the Supreme Master Walden himself came, he would still need to communicate with the guards here in advance.
"What's the status of the new recruits?" Calvin stood in the chapel on the upper floor of the castle, talking to Roswell, the Grand Master of the Fifth Order - the Apothecary Order.
"Overall, it's going well. The purity of the gene seed has solved the mutation problems of most psykers. And..."
Roswell looked at Calvin next to him with a slightly strange look in his eyes.
"And you really don't think about coming back and staying a little longer? The grassroots pharmacist is very curious about your status.
They listened to your suggestion and injected your stem-like cells into the recipient at a ratio of 1:500 and 1:100 before and after the organ was implanted.
After this injection process, the phenomenon of psychic runaways requires almost no comparative experiments and has been reduced to less than 0.005%.
The number of soldiers and the surgical failure rate can no longer be the shackles that limit us. On the contrary, the number of pharmacists is our biggest obstacle at present. "
"I can't help you with that. And compared to this, I'm more interested in the 0.005%." Calvin shrugged and explained helplessly.
The training cycle of an apothecary is fixed, and the confidentiality level of the Gray Knights prevents Calvin from mobilizing other chapter apothecaries to speed up the process.
There is no issue of confidentiality authority for the Imperial Guards, but unfortunately after the establishment of the Eye of the Empire, their recruitment of soldiers has also reached a peak period, and there are no extra personnel to deploy.
After thinking about it, Calvin finally had no choice but to put his hope above the will of his legion.
After all, in the state of legion's will, the stable transmission of a large number of memories no longer places high demands on the tacit understanding of the souls of both parties.
But this also requires a basic "seed". At least until the first batch of new generation pharmacists completes their training, all they can do is wait.
"You said that part of the soldier sample is still prone to psychic violence?" The chief pharmacist was not surprised by the direction of Calvin's attention, and gave a straightforward explanation:
"As you know, our first criterion for selecting soldiers was purity, and the second criterion was stability.
The third principle based on these two is intensity. "
"Indeed..." Calvin nodded in approval, and Roswell continued after waiting for Calvin's signal:
"However, this standard has been greatly relaxed after you appeared. The first generation of gene seeds allows us to appropriately add unstable molecules to the scope of transformation while the first principles remain unchanged.
The change that this will inevitably bring is that β+ level soldiers, who were originally extremely rare and only had a chance of appearing for almost a thousand years, began to appear within our field of vision.
And this is just the beginning. According to our expectations, the psychic abilities of these outstanding people will further grow after completing the genetic modification surgery. "
"How many?" Calvin leaned forward slightly, showing full interest in this unexpected surprise.
"One." Roswell said, as if he was afraid that Calvin would be disappointed, and added an attributive at the end:
“It’s just among the list of thousands of people in this batch.
In fact, there were three at first, but after receiving your cell injection, the remaining two seemed to have traced back their bloodline at the spiritual level, and finally failed due to the bloodline contamination of a certain generation of ancestors. "
"That's indeed not low..." Calvin lowered his head thoughtfully and calculated.
Considering the huge base of psykers in the empire, the probability of a beta-level psyker appearing is no higher than one in a million;
Among them, after excluding the mutant bloodline of wizards and those who interfere with the "secondary growth" from subspace, what is left is a number infinitely close to 0.
This is not an exaggerated description, but unlike ordinary people's stereotypes, the strength of the Gray Knights first comes from the stability of their souls.
Their laws and demonic knowledge are dedicated to combating demons. The threshold is not the strength of spiritual energy, but the purity of the soul and complete control of the self.
Without these two prerequisites, they would not be able to defeat the devil and their own desires in the battle at the soul level.
And it is for the same reason that if they are unable to have a complete understanding of themselves and absolute calmness, then they will be lost in the endless temptations of the Supreme Heaven and lead to the same tragic fate as the Thousand Sons who have declared failure.
But this is by no means to say that the intensity of psychic powers is unimportant.
On the contrary, power is power, at least when it comes to killing on the battlefield, it will not receive any preferential treatment because of justice.
And psionic energy is the embodiment of the power of the mind-the soul.
Whether it is psychic law or witchcraft, its essence is the echo and amplification of the voice of the soul in the subspace.
This also leads to a rather cruel reality:
No matter how big the multiplier caused by acquired knowledge and equipment is, it cannot change the initial base number, which determines the effect of all psychic release.
The Grey Knights' sacrifices in fighting against the Great Demon-level enemies are also like this.
They are like children holding poisoned swords. When facing demons, they know the disparity in strength between the enemy and us, but they still fight to the death.
To perish together is the best result. In most cases, the assassination in exchange for life can only be avoided by the enemy;
The Grey Knights have no more choices, they can only put aside the grief of the death of their comrades and continue to look for new opportunities for the next assassination.
Then the question is, does Calvin need such a powerful psychic qualified person?
The answer is of course yes.
Of course he needs it! No one will refuse more powerful comrades and colleagues.
It is even blunt to say that in his "Legion Blueprint", these powerful psychics have an indispensable position!
Because only with the existence of these psychics can he ensure that after the legion is dispersed to various star regions, there will still be a mainstay in his absence to bear the heavy burden brought by the "legion's will"!
Only after these real commanders are in place can the legion he envisions truly break free from his own constraints and run rampant throughout the galaxy!
But he really has no way to train such special members.
Or in other words, the only person who meets this standard is Allen Janus, and he has no value to copy.
It's not that he doesn't want to create another "Alan", but the existence of the latter itself is a forced and expensive attempt.
You must know that the strength of the soul is actually the embodiment of its essential strength.
And in order to transform the Fire Eagle War Captain who had no psychic talent at all into a useful deputy, Calvin almost consumed many years of soul accumulation.
This kind of loss and degradation at the soul level is extremely painful. If there is a choice, Calvin never wants to do it again.
But he can't wait, because the construction of the legion is here, and he can't stop the expansion of the legion because of the absence of the commander.
And it is for this reason that, according to his original plan, the newly born second battle group will be directly under his command for a long time.
Before someone who can bear the will of the legion appears, he cannot feel at ease to send this unit out to fight independently.
The news brought by Rozwell is too important. The news he brought makes Calvin quite confident about the source of the "commander".
This is just the first batch of soldiers, and this is just the beginning of decades of accumulation and construction.
If it is true as the chief pharmacist said, there will be more qualified people who meet the requirements of purity, stability and strength in the future soldiers.
This will play an immeasurable positive role in Calvin's legion construction!
"Well, the ceremony begins."
Chief pharmacist Rozwell looked at the sword of oath in the hands of the Supreme Grand Master and the 35 purifiers walking behind him.
This is all the purifiers of this generation of the Grey Knights, and they were also the "bell ringers" who were originally used to carry out the Emperor's final purification mission when the defeat of the Empire was irreversible before Calvin appeared.
His complicated gaze wandered between Calvin and these warriors who originally symbolized despair. Calvin also raised his head at Rozwell's reminder, just in time to see them surrounding the Supreme Grand Master and kneeling on one knee in front of the holy sword in his hand.
Loud hymns sang in this ancient hall. Behind the Roman-style circular stands, countless sculptures of saints and martyrs witnessed this sacred scene.
All the Grey Knights present spontaneously put their spirits into it. After the huge soul resonance merged, it penetrated the spell left by the Seal Master outside Saturn and shot towards the center of Terra.
"I'm waiting for your good news!"
Before putting all his spirit into it, Calvin said to Rozwell heavily.
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