Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 291 Ofelia No. 7

"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 crux of the problem in countless information.

He goes straight past tedious, hypocritical temptations to avoid any will that might be distorted by language.

This straightforward statement obviously relieved the three trial courts. The guarantee of the Primarch was enough to convince them that their existing career would not be lost in the change of rights.

"The Emperor's Blessing!"

The three judges 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 meeting, the resources of the entire trial court are tilted towards the adjustment of the organizational structure.

A new confidential key is being designed, and a large number of public intelligence sites have been enabled;
The three major religious orders are integrating their own resource deployment, and they are also delegating the authority to recruit armed forces and formulating new rules.

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

Meanwhile, the two major religious orders of Fighting against Foreigners and Fighting Against Rebellion are simultaneously integrating the deployment of Death Watch and Battle Sisters.

At this stage, all departments of the Tribunal made way for organizational transformation, and some unimportant departments were even temporarily cancelled.

Under the background that the original head of the star area and the host of the research institute have been transferred away one after another, these judges who have been fighting on the hidden front all year round are naturally worried about the future of these research results.

But Calvin really can't simply promise them, because the secrets involved are too complex, and he can't know all of them in a short time and distinguish right from wrong.

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

The simple conversation ended within a few minutes, and the three representatives who got the answer were not satisfied, but still expressed their support for Calvin's opinion.

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

Calvin's long-term, important matter was thus added to.

And with similar large and small meetings, the footsteps of him and the entire fleet have also approached the intermediate node of returning to Terra—the world of Ofelia [-].

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

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

Those defense officers who laughed and scolded him on weekdays were all right, I'm afraid those navigators who worked on the bridge with their third eyes all year round would be full of him.

The personalities of the navigators are always differentiated by age. The older members have an advantage in terms of seniority and rank, but at the same time they will become more irritable due to their mutated and degenerated bodies.

They are the real privileged class on the fleet other than the gray knights, and they often serve in groups of families on a certain battleship.

As the most observant people on the ship, the chef naturally dared not offend them.

Fortunately, those big navigators who could really shoot him didn't have the chance to eat in the restaurant. Their extremely degenerated bodies have been permanently imprisoned in the transparent survival cabin.

As for those young navigators, after knowing their doomed sad fate, they are kind to others and try their best to enjoy every minute of their healthy life.

An orderly handover is going on in the work area on the bridge. A row of crew members quietly walked out of the dining area and passed by the crew members who left the bridge. A voice came out.

The crew members who had implanted explosives in their brains were numbered, and when there was no need to speak, they used to do most of their work in silence.

"arrive……"

A hoarse voice sounded in Keppel's head, it was the voice of his uncle Theraford.

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

"arrive……"

The pocket watch on his chest serves as the anchor point of reality that he intentionally left behind, trembling at exactly 15 seconds.

Keppel broke away from the whispers of the supreme heaven, and looked back at the two gray knights with armed guards behind him.

"We've reached Ofelia 7, and we're 30 ticks away from the break point."

The gray knight who received the reminder woke up from the stillness of a statue, and carefully looked at the pure brand behind Keppel's seat.

After confirming that his soul still belonged to him and maintained complete sanity, the gray knight exchanged glances with his comrades around him, and conveyed the message to the top floor of the bridge through the psychic link.

"Really..."

Keppel shrugged silently, and made a face at the boy who was seated behind him.

These new gray knights are as cautious and ruthless as he used to know;
But what is different from before is that the original gray knights can at least communicate in language, and after confirming the news, they will also separate one person to leave to convey the news.

But the current Gray Knight is still ruthless, but even the basic language communication has been saved by more than half.

"The rotation will end in a while, go play cards with me!"

He sent a psionic message to the young man behind the seat, who was his nephew, who had just sailed from Thailand on his most recent voyage.

"Okay, okay! Is it still a storm card? Surrender or die! You can only choose one!"

"Change the rules, the storm is cold, let's play something else, I heard that there was a summon recently..."

Pleasant emotions spread in the fluctuations of psionic energy, and the eyes of the two young people who were in their prime were also full of joy.

The joy was so contagious that an equally deep voice asked on the Gray Knight comm channel shortly afterwards:
"Well, is there anyone who can play cards?"

"Come to prepare the hall, I am a storm card thief..."
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Planet Ofelia 7, Bishop World, Shrine World, Forge World.

Belonging star field: Storm Star Field
Belonging star sector: Ofelia star sector
Affiliated galaxy: Ofelia galaxy
Tithe level: special tax exemption
The world of Ophelia 7 is the most prosperous world of the Empire in the Storm Star Field, and it is also the de facto birthplace, base camp, and center of power of the Empire's state religion.

The believers are proud of this place, because it is the sanctuary where the emperor's divinity is reflected in the world;

The priests are proud of this place, because it has witnessed that they started from the common people, and after hundreds of years of history, they finally ignited the fire of faith to the entire empire.

Tens of billions of people live on this beautiful original planet, but you can't see even a hive city;
Hundreds of millions of devout servants of the Emperor prayed for him here, and learned the teachings of the state religion here, hoping to sing praises in their future lives, so that the holy name of the Emperor would resound in every piece of land they went to.

Countless priests and bishops work here piously, and the Charismatic Cathedral built at 200.M35 is where they live and work.

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

With a 4000-meter-high dome and an area of ​​14 square kilometers, it is more a city than a church.

Throughout the history of imperial architecture, only the imperial city located in Holy Terra is larger than it, so it is naturally awarded the title of "the second wonder of the empire".

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

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

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

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

This is probably the benefit of his cautious attitude in the meeting before.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. At the meeting held to decide whether to respond to Calvin's call in Orpheus, Salatan did not believe that Calvin would not know.

Or to be more precise, the change in attitude of the two major forces of the Adeptus Mechanicum, which played a key role in the meeting, definitely has an inexplicable relationship with Calvin himself outside the venue.

At that time, Salatan did not know the specific affiliation of Calvin in the trial court.

But he is cautious by nature and has reached the pinnacle of his career, and he just wants to stand on the last post.

This simple and detached attitude now seems to have become a farsighted behavior.

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

The cardinals were belatedly grateful for the choice of the supreme manager Salatan, because the mysterious armed force of the Order of the Hammer is precisely the rare and passionate department of the Imperial State Church in the Tribunal.

As the top echelon of the state religion of the empire, cardinals have extremely heavy ceremonial and political tasks.

These heavy tasks also mean huge rights and responsibilities.

In some remote sectors, they hold the power to guide the faith of the subjects of the Empire, and the power in their hands is greater and more permeable than that of the Moff.

And it is this kind of prince-like existence, in the internal regulations of the state religion of the empire, it is necessary to go to Ofelia for ceremonial service in a fixed period.

And the content of the service?

It just happens to be the exclusive armament of the Gray Knight—the Heavenly Punishment Stand Weapon. After the crafting is completed, the final prayer blessing is performed on the psionic crystal coating.

This sacred and secret ceremony has lasted for thousands of years since the Inquisition and the Imperial Church signed an agreement in the 33rd millennium.

The top leaders of the state religion have been doing their best to fulfill their obligations.

With the fixed location of Ofelia 7, they have silently dedicated and burned their lives and souls to these mysterious Astartes' exclusive armaments for dozens of centuries.

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

This tacit cooperation between the two parties was maintained until after the Antarctic Charter Conference ended.

When the gray knights began to step out of their armed positions in the Chamber of Secrets and began to take on more responsibilities, their cooperation with the state church of the empire finally came to the next stage.

　Update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)