"It's not your choice, but if I were him, I would definitely appear when you least want to fight..."
Corax said to Calvin, and Calvin shook his head and smiled bitterly, reluctantly admitting that ever since Mortarion entered this world, the initiative was no longer in his hands.
The consequences of failing to stop Mortarion at the beginning of his arrival have already appeared, that is, under the threat of the Black Legion, it is impossible for Calvin to keep track of Mortarion.
That would be too dangerous. If the two families intend to merge, Calvin and his new legion will only end in defeat.
But let a divine incarnation of the Plague Lord wander around the empire like this.
With the spread of his terrifying disease power, Mortarion could cause more damage to the empire than even Abaddon's Black Legion.
He must be eliminated!
Calvin was determined to deal with this threat even if he had to pay a heavy price.
And he also has his own trump card:
That is, in Corax's unobservable soul position, he really has the qualifications to permanently harm Mortarion.
Yes, it is difficult to kill him, but it is not difficult to leave him with irreparable scars.
Mortarion's strength is based on his own strength, but his transcendence comes from the concentration of Nurgle's divinity.
The authority of the gods makes a being like him nearly immortal, able to ignore physical and psychic attacks and resurrect from the subspace after suffering repeated heavy losses.
But Calvin also had his own support, which was based on the authority of order infused by his will and an equal or even superior transcendent existence.
And, most importantly, he also has a divine soul!
This kind of divinity allows him to also have various conveniences, and what is concretely reflected in battle is his existence itself, which is the anchor of destiny in the long river of time!
This is something that Corax cannot do, and it is also the fact that even though the Raven Lord has awakened to the nature of the warp, he cannot see things by his own power.
Like all Primarchs, his power is limited to physical damage. Even if he awakens to the nature of the warp, he cannot truly touch the soul and deeper "roots".
But Calvin, the alien in the original body, is different. His existence itself is a spike that can firmly nail the gods' behavior of subverting time to tamper with cause and effect in any war he participates in or witnesses!
The last battle on the Vengeful Spirit was like this. The situation at that time was so special that both Calvin and Mortarion had concerns.
The Spirit of Vengeance and Abaddon's Black Legion took up too much of Calvin's energy, making him worry that if he failed, the situation here would be completely corrupted.
Mortarion was wary of Calvin's power, because from the moment he saw this later Primarch, the divinity in his body reminded him:
This is an opponent on the same level as him. Fighting against him is a "battle of the gods" without any relaxation or error tolerance!
God War is a word that is rarely mentioned in the real universe, but Mortarion is no stranger to it.
It was a true game between the gods, and a war that truly determined the order of authority among the gods in the subspace.
On that eternal battlefield, countless demons chanted the name of their Lord and died in countless bloody worlds;
And it is precisely on this battlefield where there is no resurrection among the gods and loading files that the real seeds can emerge. After absorbing the blood and souls of enemies and comrades in endless battles, they can take root and sprout, and then embark on the transformation into the Demon Prince.
The road to godhood!
Mortarion never participates in such battles. In fact, other great demons who are closely related to the gods rarely appear.
Except that Khorne has never concealed his true nature, so that his Daemon Princes always appear on any battlefield where heads can be harvested without any scruples.
The other great demons and demon princes who belong to the three gods will never appear on such a battlefield except for their once-in-a-hundred-year rotation.
This is the protection of one's own divinity and foundation, and the ten thousand-year bloody battle is, in a sense, the Blood God's favorite battlefield.
Mortarion has no urgent desire for power, and his loving father Nurgle and many great demons do not advise him to take risks personally.
But now, in this remote place in the real universe, Mortarion was told by his divinity that he was facing an opponent that was as threatening as the "Ten Thousand Years of Bloody War".
This had to make him not only examine Calvin carefully, but also think about whether this was another conspiracy deliberately targeting him.
This suspicion reached its peak after the appearance of Corax. Although the existence of the Raven Lord could not be observed, Mortarion still instinctively sensed something strange in Calvin's shadow.
The feeling was vague, but it was enough to make his decayed and decaying skin tingle.
Mortarion had no doubt that if he really tried to kill Calvin with all his strength, then what awaited him would be a fatal blow from that shadow.
Mortarion retreated, as he had in the past, for hesitation and strange doubts had always taken up too much weight in his life.
But this time, I have to say that his doubts did save his life in a sense.
"It's better to deal with him, even if there is no chance, we must create an opportunity!"
Calvin paced back and forth, the more he thought about it, the more he felt the danger of Mortarion.
He and his Death Guard can not only cause physical damage to the empire's territory like the Black Legion;
Once he is given the opportunity and time, this guy will definitely leave a large area of the world that cannot be recycled to the empire!
He must find a way! And he is also confident that he can deal with Mortarion.
Today's situation is different from when I was on the Soul of Vengeance:
Corax is at his side, and Lucius's support fleet has arrived.
This means that in the battle between the original bodies, he will no longer be in a situation of one vs. two.
Lucius's reinforcements are a sign that the empire's power in the Gothic sector has begun to grow after the slow response mechanism finally started to operate!
As long as we fight steadily and step by step, it is not impossible to defeat these two enemies at the same time with the size of the empire.
And if he is given a chance, then Calvin is absolutely confident that he can let Mortarion know what the collective will of the Gray Knights is on another battlefield!
"Inform Terra of the direction and ask them to relay signals to the Pacific Star Territory and the Storm Star Territory!"
In front of Corax, Calvin ordered Tebos in the direction of the bridge:
"Inform the battle groups in the other two theaters to mobilize their forces and rush to the Hazy Star Territory immediately to prepare for war!"