Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 96
"Praise be to the Almighty Ohm Messiah! Ah...praise to the Holy Emperor!"

Sensing Calvin's intention to let go, Father Constantine couldn't help praising the almighty God of All Things in a good mood.

However, just in the middle of the blurted praise, Constantine found that the object of his praise might be a bit inappropriate in the eyes of the other party.

So there is a half-sentence added later...

After saying the prayer, he still didn't forget to check the reactions of the gray knights, but unfortunately, the faces of the other party didn't change much from the beginning to the end.

Calvin is also grumpy here:

"We did the work. What's the use of thanking the God of Myriad Machines? Can your God of Myriad Machines help you complete this task? How many teachers does the God of Myriad Machines have? Wait, it seems that there are indeed. Forget it, when I didn't say..."

At the end of the inner drama, Calvin remained calm, maintaining the majesty of the gray knight, looked at the mechanical priest who was a little nervous in front of him and said:
"Tell me about the specific mission, in as much detail as possible. I don't want you to hide anything. This would be a devastating blow to the already fragile foundation of trust between us. You, understand what I mean?"

"Your will, my lord." Constantine responded with a serious face, indicating that he understood the threat behind Calvin's words.

He understood that the other party would carefully verify what he said next in the subsequent battle, but if there was any difference from what Calvin saw later, the other party might walk away and permanently blacklist them from the Order of the Holy Hammer superior.

Such influence is actually not much of a threat to him and the factions behind him.

But considering the retaliation from the entire Holy Hammer Order that they will face afterwards, it is not something they are willing to bear.

After all, there is only one casting director on Mars.

But under him alone, there are more than a dozen deputy casting supervisors who are desperate for this position.

Among so many candidates, the big boss of his own faction is just an inconspicuous one.

If it is easy to form an enmity with a force that has influence throughout the entire empire like the Order of the Holy Hammer, it may be impossible for the other party to help him because of the huge cost, but it is really easy to think about destroying him on the other hand.

It is better not to offend such a privileged unit with strong ability and special position.

Constantine led Calvin and others to an office on the bridge, which was the private space of Judge Mavi.

In this room, Ma Wei and Constantine told Calvin and others all the information they knew.

"STC?"

Calvin looked at Constantine in front of him, and asked again for confirmation.

"Yes, a precious legacy of humanity in the golden age. A fragment of a standard construction template once appeared here, and we found some clues in history, and these clues led us here."

"so?"

"A group of interstellar pirates has taken over this planet and its nearby asteroid belt. And there is evidence of some Chaos warband activity here."

"Chaos Warband?" Speaking of which, Calvin was not troubled.

These traitors of the empire are also within the business scope of the Gray Knights, and tasks related to this can also give Calvin more legitimacy in this operation.

"Yes, a group of traitors in the service of the Lord of War were spotted by a passing charter captain during a pirate raid."

Konstantin told slowly what he knew in detail.He continued to Calvin and his comrades:

"The charter captain heard some loud battle cries in the background over the distress signal from the marauded merchant ship, and these profane sounds were analyzed and compared and confirmed to belong to the names on file in the Inquisition Chamber. Chaos warband of the Skulltakers."

"Skull Taker? Compare." Calvin turned his head and said to Golden beside him.

"Received." Golden turned on the data terminal in his hand, and began to use his authority to log into the internal database of the Order of the Hammer to find information about this war gang.

"Found it. Skull Takers, suspected to be the name of the former Vraks Berserkers after their mutiny. Contact was lost after 153.M34, suspected of mutiny. Later, Skull Takers appeared in their original activity area." Gore Deng read to the information displayed in the database.

"A warband that has rebelled and transformed from a reorganized battle group..."

Calvin was digesting the news he had received, and he frowned at Constantine.

The balance of power between the enemy and the enemy is obviously disproportionate:
There is a huge gap between the upper and lower limits of a Chaos Warband.

Small warbands are equivalent to a company of space fighters or even fewer; but many may be as large as a certain company in the Legion period or even more.

He didn't know what had happened to this Astartes warband called the Berserkers of Caraton to defect, nor did he know how much power the opponent had preserved in this ignominious defection.

But no matter what, even if it was a company of Chaos Space Marines, the loss he could bring to Calvin's team was something he was unwilling to bear.

Calvin does not lack the courage to face chaos, but he is not mentally disabled who can be used as a gun.

He held back his doubts and sense of absurdity, and patiently confirmed to Constantine:
"If I understand correctly, you are counting on the strength of our team to defeat a complete Chaos War Gang for you? Huh?"

"Of course not!" Constantine quickly explained, of course he knew the absurdity of this request.

If he put forward and insisted on such an outrageous request recklessly, then the gray knight in front of him would not consider solving the problem of the warband in the desert world.

It is more likely that the other party will directly solve the person who raised the problem after simply weighing the pros and cons.

He went on to say:

"All we want is a piece of information, a piece of information about whether or not the clue to this STC exists on this planet.

We just need to sneak in and confirm that clue exists in the ruin we suspect.No matter what the result is, you can withdraw directly after the search is completed.

And if this information really exists, then the follow-up can be handed over to Mars. "

After saying this, he looked at Calvin, waiting for the other party's decision.

"I remember that you have your own exclusive expedition fleet on Mars. Why don't you wait for them?"

Regarding Calvin's question, Constantine seemed to have expected it.He explained to Calvin:
"It's too late. It will take at least three years from when Mars receives this news, to when the foundry director mobilizes forces from the fleet that is on an exploration expedition in a nearby star area to go here."

He pointed the scepter in his hand in the direction of the distant Gloria world and continued:

"However, they live in the Forge World of Gloria above the crown of miracles, and their itinerant exploration fleet centered on their own star region, according to the latest information, it is less than a year away from here.

And Mars will not send me an army that can scare Xiao Xiao until there is no detailed and reliable information to prove the value of this planet. "

"Understood." Calvin understood everything now.

It turns out that this group of engine oil guys also has their own interest groups.

And STC, a strategic resource that can directly drive the systematic progress of science and technology, is naturally also a good thing that allows these foundry worlds to fight for their brains.

Although I don't know about the news about this STC in the Storm Star Field, how did it get known by Mars.

But just looking at the cautiousness of Constantine in front of him, one can tell that once this kind of behavior of digging treasures at other people's doors is caught by the owner, the fate will not be much better.

A clean and neat secret execution is probably considered conscientious by the other party. If he is directly locked up and interrogated for hundreds of years to drain the last drop of oil and water, and then turned into a machine servant and sent back to Mars to demonstrate, that would be a real tragedy...

And judging from the competition in all aspects between these forging worlds that began during the Great Crusade, if there were an emissary from Mars who came to the Storm Star Region openly, I am afraid that they would be politely and firmly controlled immediately.

As for STC archaeology, don't even think about it.

Having figured this out, Calvin looked back at the mechanical priest and the alien judge in front of him.

There is one final question in his mind:

The mechanical priest in front of him might have been smuggled all the way here on the black ship of the court, right?
What role did the Alien Tribunal play in this?
He turned his gaze back to the fat man next to Ma Wei, and the other party seemed to understand Calvin's meaning.

He hastened to clear himself up:

"Don't get me wrong, I just take a part-time job occasionally. I will never violate any imperial interests!"

Having said that, he rubbed his hands in embarrassment:
"You see, it's not easy for me. After all, I have to support a large family on board. Business, it's not shabby..."

That's right, a mechanical priest who didn't want to die for STC, went to other people's houses to dig graves and die, plus a alien judge who dared to take any part-time job to support his family.

When these two strange creatures got together and stood in front of Calvin, a doubt about the previous one was finally answered:

"So, the signal we received before was not incomplete wrong information after subspace decay, but that you didn't summon the local Deathwatch and Astartes battle group at all?"

"This..." The two looked at each other, but still chose to tell the truth.

"Yes, my lord, the relationship between the local Deathwatch and the Astartes warband and the Forge World here is deeply intertwined, and we really cannot take this risk..."

"So you send public frequency information to the channel of the subspace channel? Local people dare not look for it, so you just look for the passing pit?" Calvin asked.

"Yes." Having reached this point, the two simply stopped denying it.

"Is there any other hidden information?" Calvin gritted his teeth and looked at these two swindlers, and said this sentence.

"It's gone..." By now, the two of them had already confided their plans in full.It was completely ruined without any consideration.

"Hiss..." Calvin gritted his teeth and looked at the two in front of him, really wanting to turn around and leave.

But after thinking about the Chaos War Gang on that planet and the STC that might fall into the Chaos side, he finally gritted his teeth and took over the task.

Pay attention to the fixed Calvin looking at the second general Heng Ha in front of him and thinking:
Now that the blame is on my back, there is no need to be polite with these two scammers

"Find me a war room and a full set of battlefield holographic equipment! Send me the specific coordinates and information, as soon as possible! Also, give the soldiers under my command the best supplies! And! After this battle is over, Mars must pay for this!"

"Yes my lord!"*2
　Ask for a ticket. . .Have a meal. . .

　　PY wave:
　　Have you ever thought that in the depths of Bo Yun's treacherous dreams, there is a real world hidden?

　　Have you ever thought that behind every catastrophe reported by the news, there is an unknown truth buried?
　　……

　　On the night of his birthday, Leo had a dream.

　　There are dark dungeons and bloodthirsty monsters in the dream.

　　He picked up the iron sword beside him and cut off the monster's head.

　　Then he woke up.

　　Standing in front of the bathroom mirror, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

　　Because in the mirror, his eyes are scarlet and shining like the monster in the dream.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)