Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 372 Terra Suspicion, Sudden News
"Come and try?"

Looking at the silver pointer pointing at himself, Calvin ordered other staff to stand in front of this three-dimensional instrument.

But no matter whether it was blocked by someone or Calvin's position changed, the pointer pointed to his position without hesitation.

"It's rather strange." Calvin circled the sphere once, and the pointer also circled around the precise mechanical structure inside the sphere.

"Can you figure out how it works?" Calvin asked casually.

"Theoretically, it should be possible, but it will be very slow. But if there is data support from Mars..." The mechanical priest Stovan on the side answered uncertainly.

"Data support from Mars?"

Calvin looked at the mechanical priest, and remembered that this current situation is a real "black household" in terms of Mars.

Calvin expressed [-]% doubts about whether he could still access the database of Mars.

Forget it, try it yourself.

Calvin stretched his psychic tentacles towards the giant clock again, and felt an unexpected stagnation inside the device.

"Is it still not perfect?"

Calvin subconsciously pointed to the giant clock and asked, while Constantine took Stowan's place and answered his doubts.

"It shouldn't be. The full liquid metal part is its complete state. But we don't have so many psykers participating, so this part of the structure is replaced by our existing technology.

Its function should have been restored, but the current volume does not match the label on the technical blueprint. "

"How many psykers do you want?" Calvin asked.

"A lot, a lot...or..." Constantine looked at Calvin, and the meaning behind his words was self-evident.

"Or I'll come by myself? Well, I'll try to arrange a time." Calvin nodded, and then said to Stowan beside him:
"Find out its operating mechanism as soon as possible, and make a report..."

"Your will!" Stowan bowed his head and obeyed.

And just when Calvin wanted to communicate with Constantine about this piece of equipment, a gray knight walked up to him outside the gate of the test area behind him.

"Is something wrong?"

"Master Nicholas is outside the test area and has important matters to inform."

"Okay." Calvin and Constantine nodded, and then walked out of the test area.

The technicians present resumed their work, and Calvin had joined Nicholas outside the test area.

"Is there an emergency? Which direction? Storm Star Field? No!
My authority here has been handed over, they shouldn't be looking for me at this time. "

Without too much politeness, he asked Nicholas directly as soon as he met Calvin.

According to his tacit understanding with these imperial guards, if it is not for special or important matters, these emperor's imperial guards will never easily approach the test area involving the secrets of the Gray Knights.

"The direction of Terra." Nicholas said concisely, and gave Calvin a big news in the next second.

"The Council of Government reports that Winston Melo, Chief of the Council of Government of the Empire, supreme lord, and member of the Senate of Terra, died of illness five days ago."

"Huh? Where's the court?" Calvin stopped and looked at Nicholas.

"Information on the special line of the court arrived at the same time." Nicholas replied.

"Conclusion."

"He killed."

"Fuck!"

Calvin's mood couldn't have been worse, as if he had been fed a pile of shit.

It's not that he has any feelings for this prime minister who has never met him before and started to show hostility towards him.

Rather, after being persuaded by Alpharius to "be himself", he is planning to hand over his seat as a representative of the Inquisition Chamber upon returning to Terra, and return to the frontline battlefield to practice.

And the death of this adult can be said to have disrupted his overall plan.

Especially since he died so delicately, just before Calvin was about to return to Terra.

The official document of the Government Council is to appease people's hearts, so it can only be the middle and low-level bureaucrats and nobles;

In the eyes of the real rulers of the empire—the other members of the Senate, Winston's death is by no means a secret!
Then the question comes:

A supreme lord, the master of the Imperial Council, the theoretical chief of the Terra Senate, died so quietly?

Died in the heavily guarded Terra Government Council?

who did it?
Or who can do it?
To be clear, who benefits the most?
All the spearheads were pointed at Calvin, who was still far away from the edge of the solar star field, because this was very similar to the handwriting of the Assassins. If Calvin knew that he was not schizophrenic, he would have doubted whether this was his order.

"This is a lesson for me!" Calvin gritted his molars and said in a low voice, and then locked the suspicious target in the next second:

"What's going on with the Assassin Court?"

"The investigation has been completed. None of the major temples have received orders, and there is no record of performing missions in the imperial palace area... It was not our handwriting."

Nicholas also responded in a low voice, and he was also shocked by the news.

When was the last assassination of the High Lord of Terra?
I'm afraid it will be 1000 years ago, right?

This is undoubtedly an extremely bad assassination, which will once again tear the fragile trust between the high lords.

And if this mysterious case cannot be investigated clearly, then this is probably just the beginning:
More violence and conspiracy will hang over Terra like a dark cloud, and the empire will also fall into endless internal friction at a difficult time of internal and external troubles...

"The candidate for the Prime Minister?" Calvin asked.

"Not yet elected," Nicholas replied.

"Huh? Why?" Calvin couldn't understand.

According to the existing mechanism of the Government Council, in an emergency, whether it is the executive deputy minister or the speaker of the Imperial Council, they can directly inherit Winston's position.

How could there be no one?

"...The executive deputy minister was assassinated at the same time. As for the speaker of the Imperial Household Council, Lord Mercury, he is still on his way back from the Obscure Star Field."

"Okay... what did the old man say?"

Calvin obviously also thought about the key to this matter. What he was most concerned about at this time was how the Sacred Hammer Order, which represented him at the Senate meeting, would react in the first place.

"Check! Grandmaster Walden has met with Marshal Trajan and jointly announced within the Senate that he will investigate this matter to the end!" Nicholas replied.

"Huh...that's fine."

Calvin relaxed a little, which was the right thing to do.

It would be the same choice for him, no matter whether others doubt or not, he must express his firm attitude at the first time.

The joint declaration with the Marshal of the Forbidden Army is even more so. While elevating the importance of this matter again, it also shows how serious the trial court is about this matter.

And this is also an obvious signal to other high lords:

That is, first, draw a clear line of boundaries and calm people's minds.

The Tribunal has no intention of encroaching on the sphere of influence of the Government Affairs Council, and is still willing to abide by the established rules;
Second, deter Xiaoxiao and stabilize the situation.

Anyone who wants to fish in troubled waters during the chaos caused by this incident must carefully consider whether they can withstand the double blow of the Tribunal and the Tower of Hegemony!

After confirming that the trial court did not make a mistake in this step, Calvin relaxed his whole body and prepared to continue his work.

But when he turned around and planned to walk towards the test area, he found that Nicholas hadn't left.

"Anything else?" Calvin asked.

"Your itinerary?" Nicholas asked.

At this juncture, Calvin's own actions are equally sensitive.

Nicholas needs to reconfirm whether this special existence in front of him really has no interest in the rights of the empire.

After all, although this was not an opportunity deliberately created, for Calvin, the early disappearance of a political opponent is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to draw a chestnut out of the fire.

"According to the established schedule, no change!" Calvin said firmly.

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