Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 232 The Response to Recruitment and the Attitude of Ofelia Seven
"The trial court..."

Cardinal Salatan, who is honored as the supreme administrator, read with concern.

Ofelia 7 is where his parish is located, and it is also the reason why he stands out among the powerful archbishops and cardinals.

As the second person of the local faction in the state religion, except for the pope, his dignity is beyond doubt;

In fact, even the Archbishop of Terra, known as the servant of the pope, the birthplace of the state religion is also the headquarters of the state religion in the Storm Starfield, and his voice would not be as loud as him.

He is the leader of all the cardinals in this star field, and he is also the only one in the state religion who can ignore the authority of the "Council of Five Acting Bishops" except for the Pope.

It is different from the reverence of other functional departments for the high lord, and it is also different from the different thoughts of the cardinals;
As a cardinal with an exclusive title, Salatan has reached the pinnacle of his personal political career in a sense.

Different from the secular point of view, the pope's throne, which represents the end of theocracy, is not a position that everyone rushes to in the eyes of the cardinals.

After all, that position is too sensitive, as the spokesperson of the image of the entire state religion, as the disseminator of the "Emperor's Divine Theory" on the central stage of Terra.

Once you sit in that position, even if you are not a saint, you must demand yourself by the behavior of a saint.

The power is already so lofty, who would embarrass himself like that?

Maybe people with religious fanatics would be willing to do so, but the irony is that as the head of a diocese, the cardinal's political color is much higher than his religious color.

So that in the past ten centuries, there have been fewer and fewer fanatics who have stood out from the bottom dioceses and secondary dioceses and finally reached the position of cardinals;
On the contrary, the priests who are proficient in government affairs trained in various seminaries in Terra and other bishops' worlds have gradually become the mainstream successors to the position of cardinal.

This is a sign of class solidification, and it is a dangerous signal that the state religion is becoming corrupt;
And this is precisely the reason why those fighting nuns who had originally escaped from the state religion are now farther and farther away from the organization they were born in;
Orders of the Battle Sisters are now mostly secret arms of the Inquisition.

Their hatred of heresy and corruption made them rely on their understanding of the state religion to become the helpers of the judges who stared at the bishops.

How ironic this is, but how true it is.

Salatan's fear of Calvin also stems from this.

Already standing at the top of the empire's power, he didn't have too much awe of Calvin's halo.

On the contrary, he was full of worries about Calvin.

A heresy tribunal has stalled the state religion's great cause of spreading the light of theocracy to the empire for thousands of years;
Then, under the name of the Tribunal, the three huge organizations that act independently in the name of the Tribunal really integrate into one?

How much power can it bring?

Others do not know, but a non-governmental organization that is not officially recognized by the empire has grown into a belief covering two-thirds of the empire's population in two thousand years, and then advanced to the Terra Council, and finally became one of the nine permanent seats of the state religion. , how could he not know the power contained in it?
In particular, the jurisdiction and positioning of the Tribunal are so special. When these three religious orders that are not affiliated with each other walk in the empire, other forces can tolerate and acquiesce to them.

But when these three organizations with complementary but equally special powers began to merge, the first ones who couldn't sit still were those in power like Salatan.

The side of Terra is probably also a piece of chicken feathers at this time...

Salatan sneered maliciously in his heart, but the worry about the direction of Orpheus still stubbornly occupied his brow.

Even if he is separated by hundreds of millions of light years, he can still feel the stinging pain brought by the current powerful power;

Those people who must be in the direction of Terra are even more on pins and needles at this time.

But what can be done?

After thousands of years of operation, the national religion here is no longer what it used to be. With a broad foundation, they not only control the local area, but even some powerful groups in Astartes have unclear relationships with them.

And it is these secret and powerful relationships that now maintain an ambiguous silence about Calvin's existence.

They could even ignore Calvin's hated inquisition, and refuse to make any credible promises to the Church.

This is by no means the attitude these sons of Dorne should have!

The power of the high lord is limited to mortals and the weak!
He had never seen the awe of a mortal leader in this group of Astartes in black armor!
There must be something he doesn't know!
There must be something that the group of Astartes who wandered around the empire knew, but they were unwilling to tell him.

This strange attitude made Salatan's inner alarm bell ringing, and the black hand that originally wanted to reach out to Orpheus finally gave up under heavy worries.

Sarah was frankly unwilling, but his rationality allowed him to reserve the last leeway for his position.

This is the magic weapon he relied on to stand out from the priests of countless sub-dioceses, and it is also the cornerstone for him to survive countless conspiracies against him and finally reach his current status.

Look again, look again... Salatan groaned inwardly.

Silence has become the attitude of this giant who actually controls more than half of the Storm Star Region in the Supreme Council of the Storm Star Region.

And it was his delay in keeping silent that made several cardinals who followed him cautiously stop their long-arm intervention on Orpheus.

This meeting on the strategic decision-making of the recent major events in the Storm Star Region has lasted for a whole week.

Most of the proposals at the meeting have already been passed or rejected.

The representatives of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Military Command in the Starfield of the Storm had the same expression on their faces, still maintaining their restraint and demeanor, smiling and chatting happily with other participants.

But as time went by, the number of times they walked out of the venue more and more frequently, and the frequent flexion and stretching of their fingers under the table after returning, all showed the real situation that they had other plans but the progress was not smooth.

Opposition from the plan did not appear for a long time. As the boosters of the expected waves hiding in the shadows, they fell into the embarrassment that everything was ready, but the protagonist refused to appear on the stage.

What are they thinking?
What are they waiting for?
This is not just the doubts of the two representatives;

Still far away on the other side of the Tempest Star Field, the Star Militia General and Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the military capital of Bakka Star has doubts;
It is also the doubt of the two high lords who are far away from Terra and control here.

The undercurrent and waves outside the venue are still stirring in the darkness outside the sunlight;
But in the venue, as the meeting drew to a close, there were not many documents left on the representatives' seats...

Salatan withdrew his gaze from the bright window, from the middle layer of the hive capital all the way through the superstructure, and finally the hymn that resounded through the sky was still loud.

Even without going to watch it live, Salatan knows:
The huge crowd of pilgrims that lasted for more than ten centuries is like a river that never sees its end.

It has been going on since the day Salatan became rector of Ofelia 7;

If there is no accident, when he returns to the emperor's seat with a withered body, he will continue.

The sacred praise and chant to the Emperor are like the voices that existed in ancient times, and will echo forever in this world that is most devout to Him.

Life is short, but the emperor lives forever.

The voice of his soft chanting echoed in the venue, although it was inappropriate but no one dared to ask.

He stretched out his pale and haggard hand with a gemstone seal ring, and gently picked up the documents on the table to show them to everyone.

Facing the plain but concerned eyes of everyone, he read aloud:

"Regarding the representative of the High Lord Council of the Empire, High Lord Judge Calvin's recruitment of the Storm Star Region Astral Army, Navy, and Reza Forge World, we will give a response here.

Raise your hand if you approve of the deployment of 300 Star Realm Legion forces in the nearby star region and some ships of the star field fleet in its document.

Please raise your hand if you agree with his edict to the Forge World of Reza to start the Legion of Dawn agreement. "

After speaking, under the watchful eyes of all the cardinals, he first raised his free right hand.

　One more.Ask for a ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)