Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 88
The sun always rises and the sun always sets.

The empire will not stop maintaining because of the existence or absence of a certain person.

Jelinka Lyudmila, a high-ranking demon judge who has been loyal to the empire for hundreds of years, does not have this qualification, nor does Calvin.

Regardless of his views on this matter, it is inconvenient for Calvin, the Gray Knight, who is currently only a purely executive unit, to make any interfering remarks.

Calvin has the right to speak.

With his influence in the warband, there is no problem in letting the Council of Grand Masters keep a mere high-ranking inquisitor in the internal meeting of the Order of the Hammer for his will.

But what about the price?Does Calvin understand the consequences of having the Gray Knight break convention and interfere with the internal management of the Order of the Hammer following his willfulness this time?

The consequence is that even if the trial court fully accepts this cross-border behavior, there is no rebound.

Even if the other party handed over the right to adjudicate this matter immediately, can the Gray Knights accept it?
There was no need to resist, the other party just handed over all similar businesses, which was enough to overwhelm the tense human resources of the Gray Knights.

So Calvin could only choose to remain silent.

After he finally completed the debriefing, he accepted a new round of tasks under the arrangement of the supreme mentor.

"Orpheus?" Calvin quietly looked at the task briefing in his hand.

Without accurate task information, there is no accurate task location.

Grand Mentor Walden's explanation is that the prophecy from the Brotherhood of Prophets let the Grand Mentor Council know that there will be servants of the empire in the Orpheus sector on the edge of the distant storm star field who need their assistance.

Such an action seemed hasty and reckless.

But the irony is that it is precisely such purely idealistic actions that have saved the fate of entire galaxies and even star fields countless times under circumstances where precise planning could not be implemented.

What's more coincidental is that when the Inquisition usually needs assistance to shake people, the first reaction of their respective psykers is the same divination whether there is a fleet of Gray Knights nearby...

Note that there are no descriptive errors.It is divination, not initiating contact with the other party.

The idealistic world is so unreasonable, just like you are trying to understand what is called "I Xunsi".

In the second millennium after the founding of the Order of the Hammer of the Inquisition, they recovered their own exclusive armed forces - the Gray Knights.

When it comes to how to use this destructive hammer, the Inquisition, as the hands that wield the hammer, also needs to take on the responsibility of finding the enemy and identifying the eyes and mind of the enemy.

So what about the specific usage process?

How can we ensure that the power of the Gray Knights is maximized?

The cooperation and scheduling of the two of them achieved a certain kind of mutual prescience at the level of spiritual energy within the scope of the entire empire's territory.

Gray Knights generally don't need to know where their enemies are, they just need to know where to go to be found by the Inquisition.

The first-line judges of the Inquisition also don't need to know where the Gray Knight is.

They often only need to wait for a while after applying for assistance, and the information from the space coordinates given by the psionic chant class at the headquarters can guide them to find the nearby gray knight who is on standby.

The exact workings of this mechanism were beyond Calvin's comprehension.

In fact, among all the members of the high-level Grand Master Council of the entire warband, the only one who can truly understand the principles is Crome himself, the Grand Master of the Brotherhood of the Prophets in the council.

But this does not prevent this mature mechanism from making full use of the human resources of the Gray Knights over the past few thousand years...

Calvin was walking in the corridor of Titan wearing silver dreadnought armor, and the sculptures and windows of heroes on both sides could not attract his attention.

He now needs to recall his troops, recall those comrades who were temporarily assigned to other mission groups after he was unconscious.

The Council of Mentors had clearly made relevant arrangements for this, otherwise Calvin would not have seen these champion swordsmen who were supposed to be fighting outside in such a short period of time after Calvin woke up.

In fact only Gavins was explicitly ordered to keep Calvin on Titan's attention and standby.

The rest of the guard members had already received orders to go to different battlefields when they saw Calvin returning to Titan safely.

This is not a waste of time, but the waste of human resources of ten champion swordsmen is too extravagant for the Gray Knights.

Although the prophets of the wargroup did not know the details of Calvin's state, they had a rough estimate of the cause of the coma and the time when he would wake up.

That's why Calvin could see all the members of the Honor Guard so easily and without a trace when Calvin's soul and body growth had completed according to the normal progress and he woke up.

The scheduling and difficulties involved are really difficult for the Mentor Council, but unfortunately Calvin is not aware of the hardships involved.

Maybe it will be a long, long time, and one day when he truly masters this power, he will see the attention and love of the veterans shown in these personnel dispatch documents in the casual browsing room.

Calvin once again returned to the hall of champions where the paladins were resident, and the eleven paladins headed by Gavins were already ready and ready to go.

The moment he entered the hall, Calvin felt the existence of those familiar souls neatly waiting for his arrival.

They didn't even need to have any unnecessary conversations, the link between consciousness had been re-established the moment Calvin entered this space.

There are no superficial greetings and etiquette in the thought flow brought by the will, and even formed language and words are rare.

Because this kind of exchange of information at the soul level is essentially a body language belonging to the soul, all acquired descriptions are clumsy and narrow behaviors.

Under such efficient communication, several years or even decades of strangeness and their respective experiences may be fully expressed with only a shaking and display between the souls.

This is the case with Calvin's team right now. They knew the current situation of their comrades-in-arms almost instantly.

In the past five years, what kind of injuries have you received, what experiences have you gained, and what improvements in martial arts have even been added...

These complicated information are known to every soul in the whole team in just a few seconds, which is the charm of thinking channels.

Calvin led them towards the assembly point on the skyport on the surface of Titan.

There are four other teams here, a total of eighty Gray Knight brothers from different companies and orders have assembled and boarded the ship here.

Oerlikon, Grand Master of the Guardian Shapers of the Third Great Company, will be in charge of the combat command function of this trip, while Stern, whom Calvin met at the Grand Master's office the night before, will exercise specific frontline command.

The Terminator squad led by Calvin (actually two formations, but due to the need for escorts, each time it is a unified operation and will not be split.) is the composition of the reloaded troops responsible for the frontal assault in this operation.

They are of course the decisive force, and they will stay by the commander's side as a reserve force until a decisive victory is reached.

Calvin himself was able to observe up close and understand how effectively the Gray Knights operate in company-scale combat by observing Captain Sterne's orders up close.

Such an arrangement was jointly decided after the consent of all members of the Mentor Council.

After they confirmed his will and responsibility in the last mission, the next mission is to let him know clearly:
When he himself is in a situation where the lives of countless people in a certain war zone are decided, what choice and decision should he make.

In this expensive class, Stern will use his words and deeds to teach Calvin the decisiveness that a theater commander should have.

In their plan, this also happened to fill in the last qualification of Calvin's transformation from a soldier to an officer.

After being meticulously maintained and prayed for, the Supreme Decree's engines were firing again at full force.

The roaring and regular engine noise can prove the joy of the machine soul, and it even makes the mechanical priests on the side feel a little better.

Against the backdrop of the prosperity of the solar system day and night, there are countless spaceships and battleships shuttling within the galaxy at all times, making their own contributions to the operation of the entire empire center.

Against the background of these ships, the figure of the Supreme Decree sailing all the way to Manzeville Point could not attract anyone's attention at all.

The process of the spacecraft entering the subspace was smooth and quiet under the guidance of the navigator.

After thoroughly confirming to enter the scheduled channel, Ms. Vivienne, who had been standing on the navigator's seat on the bridge, finally breathed a sigh of relief. She turned her head to the highest point of the bridge to indicate that the current process was going smoothly.

And the great mentor Oerlikon, who is on the highest command seat, also responded to this loyal lady with a respectful look.

Since he was not part of the chain of command, Calvin was rarely able to put his energy into such a complicated process.

After he asked his immediate superior, Captain Stern, for instructions, he walked off the podium and walked towards the living area that belonged to them gray knights.

The journey had just begun, and Calvin felt that in addition to daily training, it was entirely necessary and necessary to learn the background information of the target area.

In his opinion, this is the basic quality of a soldier.

And in this kind of long-distance subspace travel with a single jump distance exceeding 5000 light-years, time also happens to be a burden that must be handled precisely.

He walked all the way to the rear of the battleship according to the navigation information downloaded from the ship by the thinker system on his body.Along the way, because the secrecy level of the units involved is getting higher and higher, fewer and fewer crew members can be seen in the passage.

After passing through a thick gate guarded by a single machine spirit, he finally came to the exclusive storehouse of knowledge in this space city.

And this treasury of knowledge that theoretically only belonged to the Gray Knights did not live up to the name of taboo it bears, and it gave Calvin a lot of insight in terms of security and defense.

How the original Gray Knights communicated with the Mecha-Priest responsible for designing this battleship is unknown, but it can be seen that after considering the needs of the Gray Knights and some possible application scenarios, this should have been The temple carrying the sacred knowledge was transformed into a super-large "disposable garbage collection device" by the priests of Mars.

A huge spherical building floating in a huge spherical space with a diameter of more than [-] meters.

This was the first scene Calvin saw after entering the library gate.

The spherical building is where the main body of the library is located, and the stable force field generators around it make the entire library quietly float in the very center of the space.

And under Calvin's feet, a metal hanging ladder suspended between the wall behind him and the sphere is the only way to enter that library.

Calvin leaned on the railing at hand and looked up and down. Unsurprisingly, he saw at least a plurality of anti-ship level melta weapons at the top, as well as the irregular shape of the hull edge at the end of the lower field of vision for dropping large supplies. hatch.

"So who is this thing for? Since you are so worried, why not just ban it?" Calvin muttered to himself.

While thinking about the details in these eyes, he stepped on the escalator and walked towards the interior of the library.

The purity of the Gray Knight itself never needs to be questioned, so there is absolutely no need to spend so much trouble if there is only the Gray Knight.

Then transform the facility of the library to this level of defense, and the goal is to skip the possibility of rescue at the beginning stage, and directly choose the structural description of on-site destruction:

Its target user group is not the Gray Knights, but some people who, in the eyes of the Gray Knights, are extremely dangerous and have to receive easily polluted people, such as...

"Good day, respected arbitrator, Yuri Alexei Gagarin, a trainee judge of the Demon Tribunal, salutes you."

A young and emotional voice came from ahead of Calvin.Calvin raised his head and saw the other party's young body saluting the eagle.

"Good day, the agent of the emperor's will. There is no need to be formal, please be yourself." Calvin responded.

He lightly raised his right hand to stop the other party's desire for further communication, and then walked towards the area of ​​interest on his own.

Calvin doesn't like voices that are too emotional, because he understands that the career he is in cannot be accomplished by passion alone.

And souls that rely too much on passion always have a small proportion of rationality, and their love and loyalty always disappear as unexpectedly as they came.

In general, such people were, in Calvin's eyes, workable but never trustworthy.

So even though he didn't understand how the other party came to him through screening step by step, it did not delay his natural respectful attitude towards him.

There is still a long way to go, and Calvin is not a self-willed person.

In his opinion, he has enough time to understand what he wants to know, and at the same time, he also gives the other party enough time to prove his reliability, or vice versa.

Who knows, he has enough patience anyway.

　After erasing and editing, the number of words is a little more than the original.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)