Another twelve years passed in fits and starts. The sixth batch of warriors graduated, and the seventh batch's success rate was astonishingly high. The Apothecary's strategy had worked: 46% of the recruits made it out of their tanks, bringing ninety-two new recruits into the Chapter. They had now been training for four years.
Once the Eleventh Company's warriors graduated, the Second Company would officially reach full strength. The Third Company would be almost fully staffed once those ninety-two recruits completed their training.
Kazhaniv completed his Terminator Armour training, becoming the first and only warrior in the First Company. He also earned the title of Chapter Champion, excluding Evan and the Penitent Company's warriors from consideration.
Even Captain Arnos had to admit that the lad learned fighting techniques incredibly quickly. Their bouts now ended in a forty-sixty split, and the young warrior was deeply dissatisfied with his forty-percent win rate. His solution was... to improve by sparring with Primaris warriors.
He was an absolute lunatic.
The nickname "Mad Wolf" spread among the Astartes, and eventually Kazhaniv had no choice but to accept it.
Another warrior whose reputation soared was Nian Cijin. He was almost always helping others, cutting his sleep to the absolute minimum, and so earned the name "Selfless One."
Evan's psychic traps in the system caught quite a few Chaos forces out looking for easy pickings. Under the Penitent Company's leadership, the warriors grew through battle. Of course, after Evan changed their training strategy, five of them also died.
Since the incident with the Emperor’s Spears, Evan seemed like a different man. He sought out Primaris warriors to spar with every day and trained his warriors relentlessly.
The Techmarine temporarily abandoned his research into Magos Mapus's memories. They were simply too vast and disorganized. He would have to wait