"So when did this journey start?"

Calvin sat upright in his seat, seemingly listening intently to the speeches of other people at the meeting.

But the countdown on his iris and the flowing data from Titan's database prove that his attention is not here.

The pilot's report from memory arrived in three minutes, and the records about Tingus in the Titan database backup in the battleship server were finally downloaded.

Bishop Klein's speech continued. Against the background of cold mechanical electronic sounds, Calvin clicked on the file icon marked as top secret in his consciousness:

Name:Tingus Time Corridor

Security threat level: very high

Status: Unfinished

Posted by: None - The Tingus sector has completely lost contact and is suspected of falling. The Supreme Council of the Inquisition made an emergency decision to issue the task on behalf of the Holy Hammer Order branch of the Tingus sector.

Release date: 37

Execution date: 37

License Level: Black

Name/Codename: The third Guardian Shaper, Grand Master Natilik, and 1 Templar under his command, and 10 members of the Order of the Guardian Shapers. The list is as follows...

Mission objective: Check the current status of the Tingus sector and deal with suspected pollution.

Priority task; transfer and retrieve the sacred sword of oath

Feedback: The network of the Astropathic Tringus sector has disappeared, and the research ship has reported that it is no longer able to go to the area. There is nothing at the original coordinates. It is suspected that there was a large-scale subspace storm in the area. Also note: The Demon Tribunal task force has been

Confirmed lost contact...

Warning: This file cannot be transferred

Warning: This file cannot be copied

Warning: Destruction after reading

The cursor in his iris quickly passed over the text description. Calvin turned directly to the middle of the page and found the part he wanted most:

Executor:Natilik

Click the cursor, and as expected, the page linked to the name is blank, with only the avatar displayed.

Theoretically, the Titan's archives only have information about fallen Gray Knights. Any active Gray Knight will not have any background information except the new name after officially entering service. This is the iron law of the Gray Knights chapter. (Calvin's situation is special.

, his name has been proven to be unusable in tracing his real name.)

This is the Titan's protection for every Gray Knight who has not been confirmed dead in battle, so that the Gray Knights' only soul coordinates - their true names - have no chance of being stolen by demons during their lifetime.

Although the information cannot be queried, having an avatar is actually enough.

Calvin looked at the familiar body and face on the avatar, which he had used for nearly ten years, and finally confirmed his suspicion.

And when he saw this face, the remaining memories in Calvin's spirit that did not belong to him were finally opened to him...

This was a failed mission. Natilik and his team were induced by the conspiracy of the Lord of Tampering, and finally stayed there forever.

The evil god used the fall of the entire Tingus sector as bait to lead him and his comrades into the eternal time maze that had been prepared.

The cultists and demons used the lives of tens of billions of people in the Tingus sector as a sacrifice, and projected Tzeentch's artifact, the Time Prism, into the real universe.

With the help of this artifact prism, the demon projects himself into 999 different mirror images that exist at the same time.

The Great Demon himself, with the help of the artifact, transformed into a part of the spiritual energy in this space.

It tries to quietly penetrate into the souls of the Gray Knights every time their psychic energy is restored during their battle.

After all the conspiracies and traps were ready, they spent more than ten years deliberately leaking the news of the fall here, and then waited for the arrival of Natilik and his brothers.

The narration belonging to Natilik gradually dissipated, and the first-person memories in Calvin's eyes began to appear piece by piece:

"Trap! This is a trap for us!"

Templar Lorenzo loudly reminded Natilik, otherwise his voice would not be able to penetrate the waves of magic and the sound of raindrops of explosive shells.

"Take the brothers who can walk! Attack the church!"

Natilik roared and executed the secret-keeping demon in front of him, but as more demons came after him, he seemed so powerless...

"I need your cover to cut off our rear, brothers."

Under the tall, dark domed porch of the church, he said with a heavy heart to his comrades who were destined to no longer be able to follow him.

"We understand." they replied.

"You will be abandoned and probably die fighting."

The sadness in Natilik's voice could still be felt by Calvin even through the barrier of time.

"We understand." The injured Gray Knights replied firmly. They did not want their presence to drag down the progress of the entire team.

"With the blessing of the Emperor, we will eventually meet again under his throne..."

The pressure of the mission was in front of him, and the unknown pollution had to be dealt with. The situation did not allow him to hesitate. He finally chose to leave these words, turned around and led the team away...

Calvin blinked, all this was very similar to what he experienced in the dream, or in other words, he already understood the meaning of himself in this space.

In this echo of time, he plays the role that Natilik once was.

And everything he experienced was exactly the experience of the Gray Knight Grand Master who was lost in time.

"We must separate, the pollution here is more serious than we imagined!"

This is the voice of Natilik outside the upper palace of the hive city.

He had vaguely felt something strange in his body. After sending Templar Lorenzo and some Gray Knights away, he once again looked for a reason to send away the team members around him.

"But you can't go to the top floor alone! Since it was once the seat of the Tribunal, there must be a group of demons around!"

The members of the direct team who have served under Natilik since they were new recruits are obviously worried about the safety of the Grand Mentor, but how can they resist the Grand Mentor who insists on having his own way?

Finally, on their way to the top nest, they were thrown away by Natilik, who was already determined to die.

This also confirms Calvin’s previous experience...

The subsequent experience is similar to Calvin's own battle experience, which is nothing more than one battle after another.

The difference is that Natilik is far less unruly than Calvin. In his battles with the devil, he is really on the verge of death every time.

Natilik succeeded and failed in the end.

He successfully found the sacred object "Sword of Oath" that had been hidden in advance from the secret warehouse of the Holy Hammer Order branch on this planet.

But he also failed.

During his ten-year fierce battle, the big demon finally found the opportunity to dismantle himself bit by bit, and then penetrated into Natilik's body, and finally gathered into a demon in his soul.

Egg:

A seed that represents the corrupt destiny of chaos.

What a great achievement! Since the birth of the Gray Knights, the gods of Chaos have been seeking ways to corrupt them all the time.

But after thousands of years or even longer time in subspace, they still found nothing.

And now! The soul of a Gray Knight has been eaten away!

Except for the core will, it is still resisting! The big devil can almost declare his success!

It is only one step away from completely cracking the secret!

Only the last step is left! This Gray Knight will become an unprecedented gift to the Lord of Change!

And this is not an ordinary Gray Knight, but a Gray Knight who bears the name of the Grand Mentor of the first eight original men!

As long as it can capture the core will, it can crack the Gray Knight's uncorruptible secret!

As long as it can conquer that will! It can offer its Lord the glory that will attract the attention of all gods!

Whenever it thinks of this, this great demon feels extremely happy. It can even imagine itself being favored by the Lord and becoming the most glorious existence chosen by all the gods.

But Natilik's tenacity far exceeded its expectations.

Two thousand years have passed in the real universe, and even more time has passed in the subspace and time corridor.

But Natilik's resistance continued, and his remaining soul was firm and vigilant, never letting up.

"Of course you can destroy me, but you can never conquer me!" said the remaining fragment of Natilik's soul.

It cannot be conquered, let alone simply destroyed.

This is a troublesome problem facing the great demon. It is of course easy to destroy this remnant soul that can only be entrusted in the sword of oath. You even only need to break the sword.

Once this sacred object, which symbolizes the honor of the Chapter, is destroyed, the careless Natilik can give up his own existence.

And if he is really allowed to die like this, then the entanglement between the artifacts that Tzeentch painstakingly laid out for thousands of years will become a complete joke in the face of this kind of sacrifice...

This is a dead end. Natilik is destined to be unable to escape, and the devil cannot succeed.

They all need an accident to change this deadlock that has been deadlocked for thousands of years. Finally, in desperation, the devil and Natilik made a bet:

Bet that the next person chosen by Natilik can accomplish ten times all the achievements and great deeds of Natilik in the corridors of time.
To be continued...