Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 187 Helpless Walking Alone and Unexpected Letters.

After passing through layers of ruins and trekking on the muddy tundra for an unknown amount of time, Calvin, led by Talos, came to a ruin at the edge of the woodland.

"It doesn't look like it could work."

Calvin looked at the melted and twisted metal on the base of the main turret.

"Yes, but there's more here than that," Talos replied, and walked from the edge of the tundra to the clearing in front of the woodland.

"Password!"

With a vigilant shout, at least three sights locked on the figures of Calvin and Talos.The former two, the latter one.

"Before dawn." Talos replied calmly.

Both of them had already noticed the sentinels of these mortals.

In Calvin's eyes, the alert triggered by this distance should be more of a ritual or respect in front of an Astarte like Talos.

Sure enough, three mortals in the uniforms of the Defense Forces got up from the bunker and the bushes, and greeted Talos.

"My lord! Lord Spencer returned three hours ago. You are the last one." The person in charge among the three reported to Talos.

"Understood, you have worked hard."

Talos encouraged the three sentries routinely.Where they couldn't see, Talos' vision was patrolling inadvertently.

The night wind brought by the temperature difference between day and night blows gently, and the branches among the trees rustle.A hundred meters away in the night, there is a dark red eyepiece nodding slightly, that is the real warning force here.

Watching the interaction between Talos and the mortals and the coded communication with the body language of the Astartes in the distance, Calvin was not in a hurry to show his own existence.

He observed these details carefully in order to adapt himself to the war atmosphere here as soon as possible.

Although the guarding of these mortals is of little significance in his eyes, they are still worthy of respect.

As for the full lock of the Astartes bolt gun in the dark, he pretended not to see it at all.

After finishing communicating with several sentries, Talos turned around and motioned for Calvin to follow him.

As he walked on, he asked Calvin, seemingly casually.

"Taking advantage of the crowd, just to introduce you to them. By the way, I haven't heard your name yet..."

"Calvin. Gray Knight Calvin."

Calvin replied with a smile, he could perceive the other person's expression and breathing, and even the heartbeat frequency and the dilation of the pores were clear.

He remained curious about this death watch that obviously had a story, but he was not in a hurry to reveal the answer.

After passing through several ruined walls, the two came to the rear of the disused sentry tower.In a hidden room, Talos opened a secret secret door.

The dark corridor unfolded in front of the two of them. Facing the poor quality air and the dim light in it, Calvin somewhat understood how these resisters maintained their existence.

Talos beside him just stood up, and he whispered to Calvin:
"Welcome to Gabriel, this underground world that temporarily belongs to us..."

On the orbit of the planet Amara, the capital of the central government region of the distant Orpheus star region, the gate of the battleship Supreme Decree is slowly closing.

From the hatch of the Thunderhawk that just landed, Aidan, the Grand Master of the Silver Blade of the Gray Knight, walked down the alloy steps with a gloomy face.

"How did the meeting go?"

Yu Le, the commander of the seventh company who greeted him, saw the ugly face of his old boss and partner, and he didn't know that this was another meaningless wrangling.

But whether it was for the interests of the empire affected by the war situation, or for the rights of the wargroup itself, he had to ask such questions with expectations.

But Aidan didn't answer him, just gave him a cold look and continued to walk towards the interior of the battleship with the accompanying champion swordsman.

"What the hell are you talking about!" Yu Le was in a hurry, this business is still not good, but give me a word!

Jules was the first to arrive.

After the news of Calvin's disappearance was reported to the Council of Grand Mentors, under the urgent dispatch of the Council, he had arrived in Orpheus within a month of the incident.

After taking over the authority of the existing troops and the intelligence node of the nearby Judgment Chamber, he devoted himself to the work of retrieving Calvin.

Aidan came a little later.

Due to the deterioration of the war, the Gray Knights couldn't withstand the pressure of the Inquisition, and had to shift their main energy to the constant chaos infiltration incidents in the star area.

If no powerful person came into play, they would completely lose their autonomy under the pressure of high-ranking members of the Inquisition, and the secret search for Calvin would also come to a complete halt.

His portions are absolutely adequate.As a member of the Council of Grand Masters, Aidan naturally has the authority of the Gray Knights' highest seat in the Order of the Hammer when he is out.

As the theoretically highest-ranking lord judge of the Devil Tribunal, Aidan has absolute level suppression for the Tribunal here.

But jurisprudence is jurisprudence, and it can only work in most cases.

And this role does not include the Gray Knights blatantly refusing the call of the Inquisition, ignoring the war of Orpheus.

Fortunately, the top executives of the two gray knights did not come empty-handed.

The two batches of 150 Gray Knights and five strike cruisers came in as reinforcements, which not only eased the tension in the rear of the theater, but also finally gave them the ability to secretly carry out continuous searches under the pretext of adjusting their mobile forces.

But the result is still disappointing.

In the past ten years, they have searched all three political districts that Orpheus still controls.Even the seventeen semi-independent small star regions on the periphery have been searched.

But the trace of Calvin, like a soul thrown into the warp, disappeared without a trace.

Neither the Inquisition nor the prophets within the warband had any conclusions about Calvin's whereabouts.

Apart from knowing that he is still alive, there is no other valid information.

Alive is the only comfort in Aidan and Yule's heart.

But if they were just alive, the two of them would not be able to imagine how the first batch of legion recruits would treat them, the old men, three years later.

How to explain to them?Could it be that I was lucky enough to witness the disappearance of your father?

What do the recruits think?
What do veterans think?
What would those Tribunals who had watched their massive expansion in recent years and chose to sit on the sidelines think?
What about the future of Warband?
What about the "Legion Plan" that has spent nearly [-] years of accumulation and is being intensively planned?
Could it be that he was stillborn like this?This is the last hope left by the emperor for mankind!
The mountain-like pressure was on the shoulders of the two of them, but the two of them dared not have any complaints.

It's not that there are no other high-level officials who want to come, it's just that there are already so many war zones in the empire.

Today, when there are only pharmacists left behind on the mother planet Titan, being able to mobilize two high-level battle groups and nearly one-third of the mobile forces for a mere Orpheus theater is already what the Gray Knights can do on the surface. To the extreme.

"It's the same, now the governor has been confirmed extinct. The Orpheus family with no future can no longer suppress the people below. The nobles and bureaucrats are endlessly arguing, and the central and local governments are "sacrificing their lives". Fighting for power. But they are quite afraid of death, insisting on grabbing us..."

Seeing Yu Le who was about to go into a rage, Aidan stopped and said to him with a long sigh.

"So, our infiltration reconnaissance plan has been denied again?" Yule reached out and grabbed his hair, and said a little weakly.

"That's right, the two high-ranking judges forced each other to die. They threatened us to leave, and they would commit suicide and die for the country." Aidan said helplessly.

Given his rank, he could actually ignore the orders of the Inquisition Chamber, and even the local nobles could not even see him himself.

But the situation of the battle is like this, he is not blind.

Today's Orpheus is a centipede, with a huge empty body but centrifugal up and down, and constant problems.

The aristocrats in the center are full of greed and greed, completely disregarding the life and death of the local administrative regions;
The local governor is like an independent king, clinging to the power in his hand and not letting go of every penny.

Aidan sometimes wonders how this place has survived until today, and why a soldier like him has traveled thousands of miles to come here to risk his life on the battlefield and shed the last drop of blood.

Empire!This is empire!
I don't know what kind of expression the emperor will have when he sees the current empire if he knows it...

"What is this called!"

Yule grabbed what little hair he had left, and shouted at Aidan angrily.

"I don't care! We have searched all the existing star areas, if there is nothing, there is nothing! The only thing left is the enemy-occupied area! I must go there, even if I die, I will die there!"

He almost begged to look at Aidan's old face full of white hair:
"Imagine it! If Calvin was surrounded by the enemy and waiting for our rescue, how desperate he would be! I can die, but he cannot die! The hope of the Chapter and the Empire lies in his Body! Are you just watching this kind of thing happen without taking any action?"

"I..." Aidan finally sighed after seeing Yu Le's pleading.

He calculated the strength of the troops in his hand with difficulty, and then said to Le:
"You can go, but not too many people. A cruiser, 50 people, that's all. Don't bargain with me! Not a single bullet!"

"You said it! It's a deal!"

Jule jumped up from the spot in overjoy, and then gave Aidan a big hug regardless of the eyes of the crew members in the passage.

"You guy..." Aidan smiled helplessly feeling the strength of his comrades in arms.

How many years have passed since they partnered in Eighth Company Silver Blade.

The guy in front of me is still the same as the first day I saw him, full of inexhaustible enthusiasm and sincerity like a little sun.

Landing on Aidan's body, Yule's excitement was beyond words.

As he turned and walked towards the barracks to assemble the troops, he turned his head to say goodbye to Aidan.

But just after taking two steps, he pretended to be square with Gavins who was running all the way over.

Boom!
The two heavy power armors collided fiercely with the same heavy body.

"Hiss..." Yule rubbed his forehead without a helmet. The red marks on his forehead clearly showed that it was a masterpiece of a crusader's helmet.

But the instigator was half sitting on the ground in a daze.

"Tell me something!" Aidan reminded Gavins with a serious face.

It is definitely not a small matter for this champion swordsman to run all the way.

The latter was reminded by Aidan after a burst of dizziness, and finally recalled his mission.

He grabbed the support on the wall beside him and stood up, then said loudly to Aidan and Yule:

"I received an urgent notice from the Brotherhood of the Prophets! Calvin's position has been confirmed!"

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