Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 111 Suffering and Trial
The seventh hour that the Wraith Redeemer entered the warp navigation mode was also the twenty-seventh hour that Calvin was on duty on the bridge as a diligent, conscientious and responsible commander.

Captain Tabers, who had finally escaped from his busy work, took his gaze away from the screen in front of his seat, looked at the motionless Calvin and said:
"You can rest, please go back"

On the quiet bridge, Bishop Klein, who had also been silent for a long time, raised his head and looked at Calvin after hearing Tibbers' voice, but the latter did not respond.

"The state of subspace navigation has stabilized, you can go back to rest." Tabers emphasized again, his voice was a little louder than before.

"Hmm..." Calvin woke up from his meditation.

He wasn't distracted or dozed off, something that would never happen to him after he fully underwent the Astartes' physical transformation.

It was because the past [-] hours of on-duty work was a bit too boring, so he took out the "combat simulator" that he hadn't used for a long time.

I have to say that this Warhammer version of "pvp stand-alone combat game" is really the best choice to pass the time.

Especially in this kind of time when you can't leave your post and you really have nothing to do.

When he was in Titan before, Calvin would meditate at a fixed time every day as long as he had time.And this kind of simulation training in meditation can effectively improve his technical shortcomings in cold weapon fighting.

This is also his biggest weakness in military skills after serving in the army for two lifetimes. Whether in his previous life or in this life, he has always been a little uncomfortable with the fact that human beings who have walked out of the universe and spread all over the galaxy still need cold weapons.

But the reality does not allow him to ignore this problem, so this kind of meditation will accompany his life for a long time before he makes up for this shortcoming.

But after stepping out of Titan, he had little chance to meditate.

It's not that he didn't want to, but when he started to get in touch with the mission, he really knew the fighting intensity and density of these gray knights.

This kind of continuous combat and long-distance raids one after another did not allow him much time for this kind of extravagant time planning, especially after he also had the part-time duty of a commander, he did not have such free time up.

In terms of the intensity and scale of a single battle, like the previous battle in the SATA Galaxy that involved 7 planets as the battlefield at the same time, it is not even considered a big scene among the front-line combat troops.

A complete 20-member Gray Knights strike team, if caught up with extreme circumstances, can even participate in nearly a hundred such battles within a unit year.

Due to the distance and personnel reserve, they had no chance to return to the home planet for rest.

Many injuries that can be treated on the parent star, on the cruiser, can only choose to sleep or amputate and replace with mechanical prosthetics to maintain the continuation of combat effectiveness.

In the context of such serious injuries that cannot be returned to the rear for recuperation, minor injuries are even less likely to go off the line of fire.Therefore, it is already a certain sense of the norm to fight with injuries when the war situation requires it.

And this kind of non-combat attrition caused by injuries is also a major reason why the battle losses of the Gray Knights remain high.

And Calvin, who had just arrived, was exhausted in this kind of fighting rhythm that the Gray Knights were accustomed to and had no time to rest.

This is of course not to say that the fighting strength of the Gray Knights cannot even guarantee basic grooming, but that Calvin, as a Primarch who is expected to be the Lord of the Legion, his recruit career is absolutely different.

Counting the history of the entire warband for thousands of years, there is no one who can start his service career as a young captain after the recruit trial is over like Calvin; He will also take political and diplomatic courses while performing military functions.

If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight.This is a truth that has been preached badly, and naturally there is no need for others to remind Calvin.Facing such heavy pressure, he didn't back down, and it was impossible for him to back down, so he gritted his teeth and persisted.

Apart from being relatively relaxed on the Supreme Decree due to the long-distance raid, as a recruit who was promoted to the mid-level commander of the battle group in a short period of time, he had no chance to experience the relatively simple life of other gray knights in the recruit era.

Calvin stood up and looked in the direction of Bishop Klein. The latter did not speak after confirming Calvin's state, and was addicted to his work again.

Well, people in Mechanicus probably have such a style, if it is not necessary, you can never even get a redundant code from her.

Captain Tabers also lowered his head again after confirming that Calvin was fine, only his hoarse voice could be heard coming from that direction:

"If it is not necessary, you don't have to stay here often. We will notify you in time if there is any problem."

By the Emperor, this is probably what Calvin was looking forward to the most after taking over the command authority.

Since he boarded the ship, he has been waiting for this sentence for almost 30 hours, but these two have been busy with the preparations for the Wraith Redeemer before entering the warp space, and there is no time to give him such a step.

"Then, thank you all. Please feel free to contact me if you need anything."

After barely maintaining the last dignity of a commander, he couldn't wait to walk towards his dormitory.

After nearly 50 hours of continuous waking time, even Calvin, who was able to let his brain partitions take turns to rest, was unwilling to endure it.

His body is already warning him, although there is still a long way to go before exhaustion, but loss is loss, and it should not be squandered in such a meaningless place.

As long as the physical limit exists, it must have its meaning. If it is not necessary, Calvin does not want to challenge his physical limit.

The servo sound of the tactical dreadnought's low-frequency work has been whistling, which has always been an annoying sound to Calvin's developed hearing.

But now, after being given the meaning of rest, this noise has unexpectedly become a bit more pleasant.

The sound of heavy but cheerful footsteps became smaller and smaller as the distance increased, until the sound completely and gradually disappeared at the end of the passage, the two people on the bridge raised their heads in unison.

The two faces, who were not young, looked at each other and smiled tacitly in this quiet environment.

"You are a bit too mean, Tabers." Bishop Klein said a rare sentence with a human touch.

It seems that the lives of these veterans are not necessarily full of seriousness and earnestness.At least in some special moments, such as now, they are willing to discuss some more human topics.

"Well, maybe. Aren't you the same?" The corners of Tabers' mouth were also slightly raised, without explaining.Why didn't he know that Calvin was waiting for the steps handed out by the two of them?

But he just didn't hand out the step as he wished, and so did Klein.

The tacit understanding of the two people is testing the will and sense of responsibility of the young man in front of them in their own way. The result is of course gratifying, but the person involved does not know it.

(End of this chapter)