Chapter 558: Getting Along and Talking

"I'm so sorry." Fermat bowed slightly and retreated back into the crowd.

But Calvin read from the body language of this mechanical priest that he was extremely sorry.

Driven by internal competition, the members of the Mechanicus revealed their predatory nature for technology and resources;

And their inhuman thoughts after mechanical transformation, which showed their contempt for the order of the human empire, were also revealed again in this tiny detail.

We need to be wary of them, because under their loyalty, there is the coldest calculation logic.

Today they can be driven by interests and invest in him because of the influence of his identity.

Then tomorrow, they will also betray Calvin without warning because at some point, they believe that Calvin is blocking their way.

Unity, wooing, using, guarding...

Calvin watched the figure wrapped in a red robe, and his mind was already thinking about how to get along with them.

As the Emperor said, the Mechanicus is an indisputable reality as a powerful organization that occupies the largest technological and industrial productivity in the empire.

Their significance to the Empire is as important as the head on the double-headed eagle emblem.

But the most fundamental independent thinking in their bones is as troublesome to the Empire as the extra head...

Fortunately, the Emperor had been prepared, whether it was the recycling of technology by the First Legion during the Great Crusade or the establishment of the Ominous Order later.

These "backup" measures are fundamentally guarding against those who have never been in the same mind with the Empire.

And as a latecomer, Calvin cannot build his foundation on them.

This sense of crisis made him instinctively wander between the two forge worlds as early as when he first arrived in the Storm Star Region, so that the Titan II Monastery, a small-scale motherhood of the war group, came into being.

And after that, he accidentally got the Ominous Order, an organization that was eliminated by Mars.

So the more outrageous Krieg Industrial Alliance came into being.

Now he and his legion are enough to solve the legion's weapons and equipment alone under special circumstances.

The qualification to say no to any mechanical order at a critical moment comes from the Ominous Order headed by Constantine.

No, there is no Ominous Order.

Now they have been classified into the sequence of the War Council.

This special organization, which is parallel to and even surpasses the Grey Knights, has a longer-term purpose than the Legion in the eyes of Calvin and all the members of the Council.

As the second person in the War Council besides Calvin, Constantine started some key experiments in their plan when he followed the Primarch to leave Terra.

He has not appeared in the public area of ​​the warship for a long time, and in the eyes of some people, this mysterious mechanical priest may have left.

But Calvin knew that he was in the test area on the middle level of the warship at this moment, and if there was no major incident, he would never interfere with Constantine's work.

+ He died? Who did it? +

The shadow, or Corax, asked.

The first half of his sentence was more of a sorrow of a certain conjecture being confirmed than a question;

The direction of his second half was very clear, because he and Calvin knew one thing - the only one who could kill a Primarch was another Primarch.

He did not directly answer Calvin's question, but for these demigods whose senses far surpassed those of mortals, many messages beyond language were expressions of each other's attitudes.

Corax's identity was now an insignificant trifle, but Calvin's next answer was likely to determine what the returning Raven Lord would do next.

+Dead, but not dead. +

The inefficiency of language made Calvin give up explaining, and instead directly sent all the information he knew about Guilliman's fake death to Corax.

And now the Raven Lord, obviously, has enough attainments in the power of the warp. After easily taking over the information that could fill a room, he still had time to ask Calvin in a speed reading:

+Who did it? +

+Fulgrim, oh, as you call it - Phoenix. +

Calvin replied, and at the same time, the information about the space naval battle was transmitted again.

+… idiot! +

+ Who gave him the courage to challenge that guy's force? +

+ Even if it was me, without a specific environment, I would… +

+ What? +Calvin blinked and asked.

+… It's just a tie! +

Corax replied.

But the credibility of this sentence, after this subtle stagnation, was infinitely close to nothing between the two. And in order to show respect (maintain the conversation), Calvin chose to be an honest man for once.

+ Well, I'm an honest person, I believe whatever you say. +

+… Get out! +

+ Hey, you're going too far! +

Calvin yelled in his mind, and Corax didn't continue his complaints.

The first conversation between the two "brothers" who were born thousands of years apart after confirming each other's identities became a little warm in this tug-of-war.

This first meeting without question or confrontation was something that had never happened before among all the Primarchs.

But that was all.

Because Calvin knew, and Corax also knew, that their essence had never been related to humans, but more like two huge beasts.

The warmth in front of them was based on Calvin's identity as a latecomer and the special environment at the beginning of Corax's return.

Without any one of them, they would be like all the original gene bodies, like predators whose territory had been invaded, using roars and claws to confirm whether the other party was worthy of their friendship...

This is not the logic of ordinary humans, this is the trait of a king.

This is the only warmth left when a male lion grows the first strand of mane and gets along with his brothers;

This is the unique, sharp and cruel expression of emotions of this group of destined lion kings when they meet each other.

"Are you dead?"

"No."

"That's good, call me when you die, and I'll send you off in person."

"You too..."

Calvin recalled the lion group he saw in his previous life, and translated their roars in an anthropomorphic way in his mind.

This subtle feeling was extremely suitable for the real relationship between him and Corax at the moment, and it was this subtle overlap that made him feel extremely funny.

His joy was not concealed, and even Corax instinctively noticed it.

In the memory that Calvin did not retain, he also got what he wanted and saw those "big cats" running on the African grasslands...

+Interesting metaphor...+Corax concluded faintly:

+You, like Dorn, always have a strange sense of humor+

+Thank you...if this is a compliment+

Calvin answered indifferently, and after the two of them laughed, Corax finally turned the topic to the right track:

+So, the current situation is that the guy can still be saved, and you came this time to find the backup he left behind? +

+Yes, that's roughly the situation...+

Calvin affirmed, and then explained somewhat helplessly:

+But you also saw that what happened here later was far beyond my initial expectation...+

+The legacy left by Horus...I should have fought to the death to kill him! +

Corax's mood was irritable again, and it was obvious that his past memories were recalled.

The betrayal on Isstvan V, the pain on Redemption, and the Great Rebellion almost destroyed all his careers;

And what was more painful than these careers was the choice he faced back then...

+ No, it's useless even if you kill him. +

Galvin's voice interrupted his memories and temporarily calmed the shadow that was almost out of control under his feet.

Galvin, who had already met the Emperor, had more contact with Chaos and the power of Abaddon after experiencing the Battle of Moro and the direct confrontation with Abaddon.

And after this close contact, he also got some of his own views from those powers.

+ Yes, it's useless. That kind of power... is alive. +

Galvin thought, what he knew was not the whole picture of the incident.

And all he could say was what he saw:

+ It will look for a master, even if there is no Horus, there will be others. +

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