Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 87 Debriefing
Calvin was ultimately unable to meet Walden, the Chapter's Grand Master, directly.

No way, as the supreme leader of the Astartes battle group, he has too much work to do.

He needs to be responsible for nearly a thousand monks under his command.

Their training, their beliefs, their health, their will, all required his careful scrutiny and mastery.

This still depends on the emperor's personal order, and the entire battle group does not worry about updating and supplying their own equipment.

This is based on the ancient contract in which the Gray Knights handed over all the pre-war investigation and negotiation work to the trial court, and they themselves are only responsible for the final stage of the process of lowering the punishment!
If it is another warband, even the noble original warband.The day-to-day tasks of their leaders will be more, not less.

So Calvin could only wait for the guarding paladin to give him a special treatment after informing the latter.

In fact, it was true. Walden didn't make him wait too much after learning of Calvin's arrival.

The paladin who entered the room quickly returned with the news. He looked at Calvin seriously and said seriously: "You can go in, but the Grand Master is really busy, please cherish the time."

Calvin nodded, and after simply tidying up his appearance, he pushed the door and walked into the room.

To his surprise, Walden was not alone in the room.

Calvin always thought that Aidan, the great mentor of the silver blade who had not yet returned, Lyudmila, the high-ranking demon judge, and an apprentice behind her were all in the house.

In his field of vision after entering the room, the holographic projector still working in the center of several people has already explained their current work.

"Come on, you came just in time! Come and tell me when you arrived at the Heshas Festival area."

Aidan, who was leaning over to watch the real-time deduction carefully, turned his head when he heard the noise.He smiled in surprise when he saw Calvin, obviously he also knew about Calvin's previous coma.

Calvin nodded to everyone in the room, and walked to the back of the holographic projection equipment after getting permission from Walden's eyes.

He raised the gauntlet on his left hand, and after a simple docking with the projector, he added his power armor to the list of temporary operating permissions.

Then, when the map field of view was pulled to the star sector level, he compiled the routes between the galaxies under the three different sectors of Heshas, ​​Ephalan, and SATA that he passed.

He turned his head and said to the people present: "Our consideration at the time was like this..."

Following Calvin's narration, he told about the state of the SATA galaxy at that time and some details revealed in places invisible to outsiders, and which of these details played a role in his subsequent airborne choices. When it came to influence, it was also reversed and dismantled by Calvin in this meeting.

Aidan, Lyudmila and others who were listening to Calvin's narration also joined the discussion when the former talked about himself.

The supreme mentor Walden looked at everything in front of him with satisfaction. He smiled and stood in front of his desk with his arms raised, not joining the already heated discussion.

Everyone's concentration and selflessness are states worthy of his praise, and he doesn't want to interrupt such a beautiful and pure enthusiasm.

At the end of another review, which lasted a full 6 hours and included Calvin.Everyone happily dispersed slowly and walked back to their residences.

Calvin, who had already given up on today's debriefing, was about to get up when Aidan behind him gently pressed him on the shoulder.

As he looked in the direction Aidan's jaw was pointing, he saw and understood Walden's eyes.

The great mentor himself knew very well that Calvin's original purpose of coming here was definitely not to review the game, so he signaled with his eyes that he would stay alone later.

So Calvin, like an attendant after a banquet, stood at the door of the Grand Master and respectfully sent off everyone who left.

Aidan was the first to go out. As he walked, he was dancing and describing something with Awan Stern, the commander of the third Dalian Company who came after him.

Lady Lyudmila, the High Demon Inquisitor, is the last.When she left the door and passed Calvin, she stopped deliberately.

She affirmed once again the necessity of Calvin's actions and choices on SATA One.It wasn't until she was about to leave that she seemingly casually introduced him to the young man who had been silent behind her:
"Rubio Vladimir Antonov, my apprentice. A very good young man with the same firm belief as you and compassion for the common people of the empire."

She pushed him in front of Calvin so that Calvin could see him more clearly.Then he said: "If one day, when I am not here, please shelter this child if necessary. Don't worry about the factional struggle among us, no one will trace it to the end for a single seed."

Calvin was a little at a loss as he was struggling with whether to reject this sudden commitment and responsibility.

The great mentor Walden in the house transmitted his voice to Calvin's ear through spiritual energy: "Promise her, she deserves it."

Calvin swallowed the rejection already in his mouth. He didn't know Walden's intentions, but at this moment Calvin chose to believe him.

He bent down to look at the lady in front of him and the young man beside her, looked at him carefully for 5 seconds, then straightened up and half-jokingly agreed to Lyudmila:

"Okay, I think, I know him well enough. As long as he needs, as long as he is willing to come to my place, I am willing to give him asylum."

"Thank you for your mercy." Lyudmila pulled the young man and bowed his head gently to Calvin.

After that, the high-ranking judge Lyudmila didn't say anything more for herself. She turned her eyes to the shadows in the room, took a deep look, and left.

When everyone had left, Calvin gently closed the door beside him, then turned around and walked towards the interior of the house.

Walden has long been sitting in front of his exclusive, huge stone table, writing his documents and materials that have almost never seen the end.

When he heard Calvin's footsteps, he did not lift his lowered head, but just said softly: "Sit."

Calvin walked to a distance of 3 meters in front of the table, pulled over a chair that fit his figure, and sat quietly on it, waiting for Walden's inquiry.

He didn't make him wait for a long time, after speeding up the review and signing to confirm the documents in hand.

The Supreme Master Walden put it in his right hand, and then said to Calvin:
"So Calvin, say something?"

After hearing the other party's inquiry, Calvin informed Walden of his intentions:
"I'm here for the previous SATA One battle debriefing."

And Walden's reaction is also very light:
"Well, you've actually done it, just now, haven't you?"

Calvin replied: "Ah, yes. If the presentation just now counts as a debriefing..."

Walden's answer: "Of course it is! In fact, it was a very good experience. I personally appreciate your choice in the end. It would be better if you could think more about the future of the warband..."

Calvin: "..."

Walden: "Well, no kidding, your choice is fine. In fact, if you didn't choose to bear the burden of that planet, maybe we would end up falling short because of the lack of cyclone torpedoes..."

Looking at the serious expression of the other party, Calvin took the second half of Walden's unspoken sentence: "The empire cannot accept the failure that still comes after paying this price."

Walden: "Yeah, so you're right. At least for now, your choice is beyond doubt."

He said to Calvin, "This battle has been reviewed many times, and the right and wrong have already been decided. You don't need to think about it. Prepare for the next battle with peace of mind."

So far, the debriefing has come to an end after Walden made a concluding conclusion on the nature of Calvin's trip.

The rest of the time is time for small talk.

Calvin remembered the behavior of the previous demon judge Lyudmila, and asked the Supreme Master in doubt:

"The trial court is so busy recently? They all have time to come here to review the game?"

The conversation was over, and Walden, who had already picked up his pen and prepared to continue the war with the secretary, sighed, and put the pen in his hand back into the pen holder.

He looked up at Calvin and said, "It's not that the trial court is so busy, it's that she is so busy now."

Walden looked at Calvin's puzzled face and explained: "Lyudmila, she has now handed over all her authority as a judge and is waiting for trial, and even her own ship is now entrusted with us. "

"Why? Because of those three?" Calvin didn't understand, but understood.

After all, once such a cruel order is issued, the person who ordered it will not pay any price.That simply violated Calvin's cognition and axioms.

"There's no need to worry, right? After all, the battle situation at that time has been corrupted to this point, let alone three, isn't this almost not enough?"

Thinking of this, Calvin still felt that Lyudmila's suspected "tuogu" behavior was a bit too exaggerated.

But Walden didn't think so, and he asked Calvin seriously: "According to the battle records you know, in any battle that used the established procedure of eradicating rats, the person who gave the order afterwards was ordered to be excommunicated." What is the percentage of?"

Walden's question made the originally optimistic Calvin speechless for a moment. He thought carefully about the information about "rat extermination" that he could find on Titan.

In addition to the "Extermination Order" released by the Gray Knights and the Astartes Chapter, in the "Extermination Order" that was simply led and ordered by the Tribunal, the probability of being sentenced to excommunication was found in the subsequent investigation. Up to 80% or more!

"Why is that? It's not..."

Calvin, who discovered this, instantly understood the reason for Walden's question.

He opened his mouth to question Walden, he wanted to say that this was too unfair to Lyudmila and others.

But halfway through the sentence, he slipped.

Yes, this is of course unfair to people like Lyudmila who are willing to take responsibility at critical moments, because looking for faults afterwards, how could they not find it...

What awaited Lyudmila was almost destined to be an "excommunication order".

However, when Lyudmila read out the iconic line of the Extermination Order under the starry sky, "I once again authorize the annihilation of all souls on it, no distinction between good and evil...", someone asked which planets have not yet Polluted people, are they fair?

This is a knot in which Calvin cannot find a solution that is the best of both worlds.

He frowned silently while thinking, and he hoped to have a happy ending.

But the hand of the Great Teacher Walden interrupted his thinking. He walked out from behind his desk at some point and sat quietly in front of Calvin.

He put his hand on Calvin's shoulder: "Don't think about it, she herself already had this awareness when she first gave the order, or when she took the oath to become a judge. This is her war, It also belongs to her destination. And what we have to do is to do our own thing well."

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(End of this chapter)