Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"Understood……"

Calvin said to Nathaniel.

"No need to worry, no one will deny your past efforts and achievements, and no one will ignore the sacrifices you have made."

Calvin's inhuman brain once again captured the key to the problem in countless pieces of information.

He passes directly over the temptation to tediousness and hypocrisy, in order to avoid any possibility of the will being misinterpreted by words.

This straightforward statement obviously made the three Inquisitions feel relieved. The Primarch's guarantee was enough to make them believe that their existing undertakings would not be lost in the change of power.

"The Emperor's blessing!"

The three inquisitors understood Calvin's will and prayed together to express their gratitude for his attitude.

This is probably the best news they have received in recent months.

After the Charter Conference, the resources of the entire Tribunal were tilted towards the adjustment of the organizational structure.

New confidentiality keys are being designed, and a large number of public intelligence sites have been launched;

The three major religious orders are integrating their resource deployment, and are also formulating new rules for decentralizing the recruitment authority of the armed forces.

The Gray Knights took the lead in setting an example and promised that in the next work, the power of the company level would be lowered and permanently established at the star field level.

The two major monasteries of fighting against foreigners and fighting against rebellion are also integrating the deployment of the Death Watch and the Battle Sisters at the same time.

All departments of the Inquisition made way for organizational transformation at this stage, and some unimportant departments were even temporarily eliminated.

With the original sector leaders and institute directors being transferred one after another, these inquisitors who have been fighting on the secret front all year round are naturally worried about the future of these research results.

But Calvin really couldn't simply give them a promise, because the secrets involved were too complicated, and he couldn't know them all and distinguish between right and wrong in a short period of time.

He can only give the most basic attitude to these three representatives and the people behind them to ensure that their efforts will not be given up easily, but will be carefully evaluated before deciding whether to retain the projects.

The simple conversation ended within a few minutes. Although the three representatives who received the answers were not satisfied, they still expressed their support for Calvin's opinion.

This is the best result that can be obtained in a short period of time. They are also aware that these projects are of great importance and cannot be easily affirmed.

In this way, another addition was added to the long-term and important matters in Calvin's hands.

And with similar meetings, large and small, he and the entire fleet were approaching the intermediate point of returning to Terra - the world of Ophelia No. 7.

Another long and precise bell rang, and among the large fleet sailing in the subspace, the crew of the Angel of Punishment began an orderly shift rotation.

The ship's cook, who was awakened from his hibernation cabin, was in a very bad mood because there were fewer and fewer supplies in the warehouse for the officers on the bridge.

The defense officers who usually laughed and cursed with him were fine. I was afraid that the navigators who worked on the bridge with their third eyes all year round would be satisfied with him.

The personalities of the navigators are always differentiated by their age. While the older members have an advantage in seniority, they will also become more irritable due to their mutated and degraded bodies.

They are the truly privileged class in the fleet besides the Gray Knights, and they usually serve in groups on a certain warship as a family unit.

As the most observant people on the ship, the chef naturally did not dare to offend them.

Fortunately, those big navigators who could really shoot him did not have the chance to dine in the restaurant. Their extremely degraded bodies have been permanently imprisoned in transparent life-saving capsules.

As for those young leaders, after knowing that they were doomed to be sad, they were kind to others and tried their best to enjoy every minute of their healthy life.

An orderly handover was taking place in the work area on the bridge. Rows of crew members quietly walked out of the dining area and passed by the crew members leaving the bridge. But except for the sound of military boots scraping the floor, there was no sound. A voice came out.

These crew members who had explosives implanted in their brains called each other by numbers. When there was no need to speak, they usually completed most of their work in silence.

"arrive……"

A hoarse voice sounded in Kepel's head. It was the voice of his uncle Theraford.

He cheered up and emptied his mind, and sure enough, after his consciousness reached the sky, he saw the small but bright starlight compared with the star torch.

"arrive……"

The pocket watch on his chest served as a deliberate anchor point for reality, and it trembled at exactly 15 seconds.

Kepel broke away from the whispers of the Supreme Heaven and looked back at the two Gray Knights holding armed guards behind him.

"We have arrived at Ofelia 7, and there are still 30 standard times before the jump point."

After receiving the prompt, the Gray Knight awoke from his sculptural stillness and looked carefully at the pure mark on the back of Kepel's seat.

After confirming that his soul still belonged to him and that his sanity remained intact, the Gray Knight looked at his comrades and conveyed the message to the top of the bridge through the psychic link.

"It's really..."

Keppel shrugged silently and made a face at the boy who was still sitting behind him.

These new Gray Knights are as cautious and ruthless as what he knew before;

But what is different from the past is that the original Gray Knights will at least communicate verbally. After confirming the news, they will also separate one person from them to convey the news.

But now the Gray Knight is still as cold as ever, but even basic verbal communication has been neglected.

"The shift is over soon, go to my place and play cards!"

He used his psychic energy to send a message to the young man sitting behind him. The latter was his nephew, and he had just boarded the ship from Terra on a recent voyage.

"Okay, okay! Or the Storm card? Surrender or die! You can only choose one!"

"Change the rules. The storm has cooled down. Let's play something else. I heard that there was a summons recently..."

Happy emotions spread in the fluctuations of psychic energy, and the eyes of the two young people who were growing up were also full of happiness.

This joy was so contagious that not long after, a similarly deep voice asked in the Gray Knight communication channel:

"So what, is there anyone who knows how to play cards?"

"Come and prepare the hall, my Storm Card will slip away..."

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Planet Ophelia 7, the bishop world, the shrine world, and the foundry world.

Star field: Storm star field

Sector: Ofelia Sector

Galaxy: Ophelia Galaxy

Tithe Class: Special Class Exemption

The world of Ophelia No. 7 is the most prosperous world of the Empire in the Storm Star Territory. It is also the de facto birthplace, headquarters and center of power of the Empire's state religion.

Believers are proud of this place because it is the sanctuary where the Emperor's divinity is reflected on earth;

The priests are proud of this place, because it has witnessed their origins from the people, and over hundreds of years of history, they have finally ignited the fire of faith throughout the empire.

Tens of billions of people live on this beautiful native planet, but you can’t see even a hive city;

Hundreds of millions of the Emperor's devout servants pray for Him here, and learn the teachings of the Ecclesiarchy here, hoping to sing praises to the Emperor in every land they go to.

Countless priests and bishops work devoutly here, and the Cathedral of Divine Grace, built in 200.M35, is where they settle down.

This church, which was commissioned by Pope Benedin IV of the state religion, cost the entire state church countless wealth and took 200 years to complete.

With a 4,000-meter-high dome and an area of ​​140,000 square kilometers, it is more of a city than a church.

Throughout the history of imperial architecture, only the Imperial City located in Holy Terra was larger than it, so it was naturally given the title of "The Second Wonder of the Empire".

In this huge "ecclesiastical city", there are not only hundreds of millions of priests of the state religion, but also dozens of large and small branches of nuns of the state religion.

At this time, at the core of this "City of Divine Grace", its owner, Cardinal Saratan, known as the supreme administrator, was meeting with several colleagues who had just returned from the core ceremonial area.

The specific route of Calvin's return was extremely confidential, and he had just been notified a week ago.

After learning that the newly promoted Lord of Terra's visit to Ophelia 7 was confirmed, he was relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

This was probably the benefit of his cautious attitude in previous meetings.

There is no airtight wall in the world. When the meeting was held to decide whether to respond to Calvin's call in Orpheus, Saratan did not believe that Calvin would not know about it.

Or to be more precise, the change in attitude of the two major forces, the Adeptus Mechanicus, which played a key role in the meeting, definitely had an inexplicable relationship with Calvin himself on the sidelines.

At that time, Saratan did not yet know Calvin's specific affiliation in the Inquisition.

But being cautious by nature, he has reached the peak of his career and just wants to stand on the last duty.

This simple and detached attitude now seems to have become a far-sighted behavior.

When the Battle of Orpheus began and the news of successive victories came in a short period of time, the news that Calvin was born in the Gray Knights Chapter also came from afar.

The cardinals belatedly rejoiced in the choice of Supreme Administrator Saratan, because this mysterious armed force of the Order of the Holy Hammer was a rare department of the Imperial Church in the Inquisition that had a warm and affectionate relationship.

As the top level of the empire's state religion, cardinals have extremely heavy ceremonial and government work.

These arduous tasks also mean huge rights and responsibilities.

In some remote sectors, they hold the power to guide the beliefs of the subjects of the empire, and their power is greater and more permeable than that of the sector governors.

And this kind of prince-like existence, according to the internal regulations of the empire's state religion, must go to Ophelia at regular intervals to perform ceremonial services.

And the content of service?

It happens to be the Gray Knight's exclusive weapon - the Heavenly Punishment Weapon. After the creation is completed, the final prayers and blessings are given to the psychic crystal coating.

This sacred and secret ritual has continued unchanged for thousands of years since the Inquisition signed an agreement with the Imperial State Church in the 33rd millennium.

The senior leaders of the state religion have always done their best to fulfill their obligations.

At a fixed location on Ophelia 7, they silently dedicated and burned their lives and souls to the exclusive weapons of these mysterious Astartes for dozens of centuries.

At that time, there was still an Inquisition between the National Church and the Gray Knights. The monks of the National Church never asked about the whereabouts of these weapons, and the Gray Knights never asked about the origins of these weapons.

This tacit cooperation between the two parties lasted until the end of the Antarctic Charter Conference.

When the Gray Knights began to step out of their positions as secret chamber militiamen and began to take on more responsibilities, it was finally time to start the next phase of their cooperation with the Imperial State Church.

renew.