Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 295 Above ground and underground, majesty and crisis.

The military parade was still going on. After the first batch of soldiers from the Tindalos Legion were released, 22 transport boats started their anti-gravity engines and flew forward to make room for the transport boats returning through the field.

After taking off, they will continue to fly forward for [-] kilometers and land at the end of the parade route to recover the previously released troops.

The second batch of airships began to land.

After the appearance of the standard infantry regiment, the purely armored regiment, as well as the auxiliary medical and logistics phalanx also stepped out in neat steps from the gate opened by the transport boat.

At the highest point of the viewing stand, the atmosphere that had just been relaxed was solemn again, and after the official trial formation and the three companies of the Minotaur Corps appeared later, this oppressive atmosphere reached its peak.

"What a big show!" The big nun of the Silver Shroud Order couldn't help but say.

A legion of 3 people has 27 pure infantry phalanxes with 3000 people as the unit, plus eight heavy-armored phalanxes driven by more than [-] people with auxiliary equipment. The military parade array with a total length of more than five kilometers has just passed. It's time to make an appearance.

However, the black and red uniforms of the Inquisition Chamber consisted of a hundred-man formation, and the Minotaur battle group's Astartes warriors formed a hundred-man phalanx, which made everyone present raise their brows.

Let the official members of the three major abbeys of the Tribunal form a lineup to participate in the military parade?
You must know that this is not a monk of the state religion who does not have military power, nor is it the star realm army who is at the bottom of the empire's armed forces;
This is a full-fledged member of the Tribunal who has the right to initiate investigations and trials against a planetary world if one is taken out at random!
Although there were only a hundred of them, the people of the empire who watched the ceremony didn't know much about them.

But just look at their black and red flags under the uniform burqas of the same color, and the feedback power armor exposed under the robes, and then look at the power swords they wear on their waists, or the power hammers in their hands.

Even if these civilians are separated by hundreds of meters, they can still smell the strong smell of blood on their bodies!

The atmosphere of the military parade here is no longer a problem of quietness.

Middle-class families and clerical bureaucrats with a little status, under the inadvertent eyes of the judges, have been frightened by the golden eagle emblem and the Roman numeral I emblem with three horizontal bars on the pendant swaying on the judges’ chests. starting to stagnate...

This is true for the ignorant people facing the phalanx, but what about the high-ranking officers of the empire who know their identities?
What about the Astartes warriors?
What about the battle nuns who are under the dual management of the State Church and the Inquisition, looking at the phalanx formed by their immediate superiors wearing the emblems of the three major religious orders?

On the balconies on both sides of the boulevard, the Astartes warriors who were originally sculptures had no choice but to step out of the ceremonial decorations after seeing the queues of the Inquisition Court and the Minotaur war regiment, holding their weapons tightly to face the parade team. Pay attention to show respect.

The commanders on the high platform became even more silent, and they didn't know how to organize their words for a while.

Because if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they couldn't believe that someone could integrate the tribunal that didn't belong to each other and even questioned each other within the congregation to such an extent!
The air on the spacious terrace was stagnant, and all the commanders of the Imperial Armed Forces and the top leaders of the State Church turned their eyes to the battle nuns present in disbelief.

As the armed sequence most closely related to the Rebel Order, they should have some understanding of this situation...

The atmosphere on the ground was extremely stiff, and the atmosphere in the underground Vatican chamber a few kilometers away from the ground was equally icy.

Under the order of the supreme administrator, the cardinals held high the banner with the blessing ceremony, and each carried a guard of honor holding the holy candle and the Holy Word behind them, and paraded through the hall of the French emperor hundreds of meters underground.

More than a dozen teams with a total of nearly a thousand people walked through the corridors and quiet rooms inside and outside the Emperor's Hall, but they did not find any suspicious traces, let alone the lost Heaven's Punishment Armament.

One by one candles passed through the dark corridor, and after lighting the candles on the walls along the way, they walked away again while reciting the emperor's proverbs from the Holy Word.

The cardinals turned the place inside and out three times, and finally gathered in the central circular hall with their guard of honor and found nothing.

"Impossible... Absolutely impossible..." A cardinal himself murmured, and the colleagues around him were also serious and silent in disbelief.

This is one of the most core and confidential positions of the State Council of the Church in the City of Divine Grace. Above the entire hall is the magnificent main body of the City of Divine Grace, with a ten-kilometer-thick isolation barrier on the flanks, and several kilometers below it. Layer's Blessing Prayer is filled.

The main hall and the upper and lower buildings are absolutely isolated on both theological and physical levels. There is only a pontoon bridge constructed of steel chains, which is suspended outside the entrance of the main hall as an access passage.It is like a huge sphere, suspended out of thin air in the huge cavity prepared for it by God's Grace City.

How could there be a blessed holy object lost here?

There are 24-hour uninterrupted guards specially set up by the Imperial Palace on the outskirts of this place, and further outside, the military organization of the Brotherhood of Holy Light, which has been disbanded on the face of the imperial state religion, has also set up a strict blockade here!
In the context of the state church priests and battle nuns stationed around the clock on the surface and the outer defense nodes of the temple.

They couldn't imagine who would be able to take away thousands of heavy halberds and sharp swords under the eyes of nearly ten thousand people guarding the triple layer!
"Are there any traces of destruction in the underground holy words?"

The leading cardinal asked the leader of the Brotherhood of the Holy Light who came back from outside the hall, but as expected, he received a silent shake of his head in denial.

The first cardinal forced himself to calm down, and then signaled to the priest who was waiting at the entrance of the main hall. "Notify Your Majesty, we...failed."

No one stood in the way of his orders, even though they knew that if the news got out, what awaited them would be decades, if not a lifetime, of penitent career as an ascetic.

The atmosphere among the cardinals was even colder, but the time left for them had run out, and the supreme administrator was still waiting for a return on the ground, so they could only give up and convey the news of the search failure to the surface.

The military parade on the surface has reached its climax, and the crowd who recovered from the shock and shock began to cheer all over the sky.

They were moved to tears at the miraculous ceremony that they had the honor to witness. Anthems praising the Emperor and the Imperium of Man resounded from the crowd, piercing the sky so loudly that the domes of churches several kilometers away echoed.

When the procession of judges and the Minotaur battle group walked out of the square and set foot on the central avenue, Calvin was riding on a throne as huge as a building car, and the three hundred gray knights directly under his command were the protagonists of the military parade. In the long-awaited waiting, they finally revealed their sacred and majestic faces.

And Calvin, who sat high on the throne at the top of the building car, also "intimately" shrouded himself with a halo of psionic energy that he had long ago.

The subjects of the empire could only see his outline from a distance of several hundred meters, but under the effect of the spiritual halo, that holy figure spontaneously appeared in their minds and became something they could recognize. The highest and most sacred existence.

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(End of this chapter)