Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 301 Conspiracy, the shadow hidden in the sun
Darkness... darkness everywhere, darkness covered by thick fog...

The tall icon was toppled and destroyed, the emperor's faith was profaned, the sacred Palatine eagle was polluted and distorted, and the people who were once sheltered by this faith were killed and injured.

Flames... The once tall and magnificent buildings were reduced to ruins, the bustling city and the dense rainforest were burned to the ground, and the bones of the imperial subjects who lived here were gone, only the embers and black smoke left by the ablation .

Salatan looked at everything familiar and unfamiliar in front of him, and knew that this was the devastating disaster that he had brought to Ophelia 7, the former pearl of the empire, after he neglected his duties as a servant of the emperor...

"No!"

Saratan groaned in pain, and opened his eyes again under the watchful eyes of Calvin and the imperial guards behind him.

The Supreme Holy See, who returned to reality again, seemed to have experienced a long time of suffering, becoming old and weak in just a few minutes.

His dry and dim eyeballs looked eagerly at everything around him, and under the constant flushing of reality, he finally persuaded his consciousness to withdraw from the nightmare just now.

"How long...how long have I been in a coma."

"Not too long, 296 seconds in standard Terra time."

Calvin sat on the seat directly in front of the sofa, looking down at the old man lying on it.After hearing Salatan's question, he glanced at the servo screen that popped up on his left arm, and answered the old man's question solemnly.

Having suffered such a major mental trauma, the old man's body was still too weak. He couldn't get up from the soft sofa for a while, so he had to use his dry eyeballs to move around.

"My entourage..." Looking at the body entourage who fell to the ground, he asked.

"He was too excited, so we let him "rest" for a while to buy time for you to wake up. The conspiracy and crisis here are still lurking, and I need to keep the hall quiet so that the conversation here will not be noticed by the enemy."

Nicholas behind Calvin took a step forward, explaining the current situation to the old man in a low voice.After hearing the explanation, Saratan nodded absentmindedly, and then continued to wander in his thoughts.

But Calvin couldn't wait so long, the light in his eyes flashed, and he forcibly injected power into Salatan's soul.The latter trembled under his stimulation, and then recovered the clarity in his eyes after taking another breath.

"Listen, Lord Saratan, we don't have much time." Calvin said, looking at Saratan who regained his sanity.

"Yes...we don't have much time..." Salatan repeated Calvin's words mechanically, but then he woke up suddenly after understanding the meaning of this sentence.

What he could see was still Calvin's penetrating eyes, and the tall and cold statue-like body of the imperial guards.

"What do you want to do? Block the City of Grace? But that will be a heavy blow to the image of the state religion..."

He knew the duties of the Gray Knights, and he also knew that once the emperor's "scavengers" decided to intervene in the development of the incident, no matter the success or failure afterwards, there would be devastation.

"No, I won't block this place." Calvin's words made Salatan's heart slightly relaxed, but the next words made him terrified.

"Because it's too late..."

"Emperor..." Saratan moaned in a low voice of pain.

Calvin was not wrong in his judgment.

On the contrary, his words extinguished the last chance in Salatan's heart.

It was too late. From the time when the weapon was lost and 32 cardinals walked out of the Royal Hall and were not controlled, Salatan had lost the only possibility to contain this conspiracy.

It has been several days since they walked out of the Emperor's Hall, who can know their whereabouts?
Even if there is such a complete operational area divided by functional authority within the state religion, who can guarantee that the pollution will not spread?
This is the terrifying aspect of Chaos Pollution.

A polluted soul is like a drop of sewage. Once the initial flow is not controlled in time, when it is mixed into the crowd, it is like dropping into an endless ocean, and it is impossible to get rid of it completely.

"You convinced me, I... obey your will." Saratan, exhausted physically and mentally, looked at Calvin and finally lowered his heavy head.

"Well, just do as I said..." After formally taking control of the whole incident, Calvin lowered his head, and after a little thought, he told his plan to the old man in front of him...

The conversation, which lasted no more than 10 minutes, ended after being "rested" and then intimately "cleaned" the memory of the entourage.

Salatan politely stood behind the door of the hall and bid farewell to the guards of the imperial guards under Calvin. Then, before the followers outside the hall began to wait anxiously, under the silent gaze of the honor guard of the Gray Knights, he turned to the people outside the hall. direction to go.

On the morning of the next day, at the invitation of the commanders of the Battle Sisters, Calvin and his entourage took the airship to the Holy Hermitage in the mountains and hills on the other side of the planet.

After a friendly exchange with the commanders of the Sisters of Fighting in the Holy Hermitage Monastery.

The leader of the Imperial Senate, the hope of the Imperial Inquisition, His Excellency Calvin, the supreme lord of the Empire, visited the world of Ophelia No. 7, and the schedule was successfully concluded.

The Grand Fleet regrouped within the system and began preparations for the next step of its journey back to Terra.

There was also a small episode in the middle, because of the conflict between the commanders of the two start-up regiments, the Ultramarines and the Imperial Fist, during the military parade.

Astartes battle barges under the command of both Chapters "accidentally" occupied supply berths belonging to the Imperial Navy at ports in the system.

As a result, the itinerary of the Grand Fleet was delayed for three full days, and as the protagonist of this "face slap and gossip incident" that is popular among the public, His Excellency Calvin also expressed his dissatisfaction with the two battle groups on a formal occasion. words.

A discussion about the importance of the Lords of Terra to the Astartes Chapter began in the folk of Ophelia 7.

However, the two parties who were the protagonists of this incident maintained a tacit silence afterwards that made the public understand.

Whether it was gossip or different opinions, in the bustling atmosphere, Grand Inquisitor Calvin finally embarked on the journey back to Terra.

After the people of the empire on Ophelia 7 held a grand farewell ceremony for the lord of Terra who came from afar, this name that once appeared frequently in the streets and alleys did not escape the fate of being gradually forgotten. .

Ophelia 7 has once again restored its former tranquility, and as the ruler of this world, the supreme administrator, the life under the crown of Cardinal Salatan of the Diocese of Ophelia, seems to have returned to the ordinary life of the past.

But is this really the case?of course not.

Just a week after Calvin's fleet left the world of Ophelia 7, the supreme administrator, His Majesty Saratan, as expected, learned from his cardinal on a sunny morning that a Extremely "shocking" news:

The batch of Heaven's Punishment stance weapons that disappeared for no reason, just like when they disappeared, appeared without warning in the lower court of the Emperor's Hall thousands of meters away from the surface.

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