Chapter 544 Conversation and Worry

+Are there any of their people nearby now? +

Calvin asked Tybus.

+ Yes, a fleet with only one capital ship just sent a squadron of daggers and valkyries to the ground while we were entangled with those chaos fleets. +

Tabers answered.

At the same time, the fleet under his command had reached a close enough distance and was exchanging fire with the Chaos fleet evacuating from orbit.

The size of the Silver Dawn, at this distance, does not require the scanning of an auspicious device to bring enough pressure to the Chaos side.

They don't know the origin of this rare Queen of Glory, let alone who is allowed to use a warship of this level in the empire.

But in their eyes, this is not important. What is important is how to escape from the mouth of this behemoth.

They know this kind of battleship very well, because as the top battleship also from the empire, the Vengeful Spirit is the current flagship of the Black Legion.

This kind of top-level battleship, which only legion-level units could be equipped with in limited numbers during the Great Expedition era, represents the pinnacle of Mars technology with its firepower.

The space brought by its huge body makes it possible for a battleship of this level to have no blind spots:

Whether it is the standard eight sets of Nova Cannons on the bow of the ship (note, it is eight sets, not eight), or the nearly a hundred first-level battle array macro cannons, which are densely arranged on the sides and led by more than nine super macro cannons. Cannon's macro-cannon matrix. (The above configuration is not fixed, and individual legions will increase or decrease according to their unique combat styles.)

It's enough for them to destroy any battleship-level starship with a single salvo in a head-on battle or close-to-hand combat!

As the leading force of the legion during their trip, the most powerful battleships in the entire fleet were only two Predator-class battleships.

What is this concept?

This means that from the moment the Chaos Fleet discovered the signs of the Silver Dawn, they began to evacuate from orbit in a panic.

And this kind of emergency avoidance tactical action is just buying time.

Try to have time to escape into the subspace before they completely enter the Argent Dawn's absolute fire coverage.

As for a head-to-head artillery battle, or using Chaos Astartes to join gangs, and then trying to seize the battleship, it is purely a delusion.

Just from the huge Tribunal mark on the body of the Glory battleship, we can know that the most indispensable thing on this battleship is the secret battle groups affiliated with the Tribunal...

Hard idea! difficult to handle!

collapse! withdraw! Sell! slip!

This is the preferred tactic of the Chaos Astartes when faced with headwinds.

As for unity, sacrifice, toughness, and unyielding.

If that thing really existed, they would not have failed to siege Terra with several times the force of Terra, and then be pursued by Guilliman and the Imperial Army all the way to the Eye of Terror.

They may show "moderate toughness" at a special moment because of the power and charm of some special people.

But there is no doubt that since they abandoned their honor and belief as Astartes, all positive emotions related to soldiers and guardians have abandoned them forever...

+Alan...+Calvin's brain was running rapidly.

The Gothic sector has been out of contact for more than a few months, and the last contact between Allen and him was exactly one month before the mutation occurred here.

He was previously responsible for the chaos affairs in the entire Gothic Star Territory.

According to the internal mission records of the Holy Hammer Order, this high-ranking officer, who is equivalent to the Grand Master of the Holy Hammer Order and is capable of commanding a war zone, should have had more than a large company of troops before losing contact.

He must have gotten into some kind of trouble and couldn't get out.

Otherwise, he and his company would not have still not contacted Calvin after he arrived in the Gothic Sector.

And the misidentification of his identity by Griffin, the judge from the Foreign Order, illustrates a certain situation.

This high-level inquisitor who belongs to the Gothic Sector has actually not had the chance to see Allen in person for ten years.

This is normal and not normal.

It is normal that the two people are in different monasteries and are responsible for different work directions. They do not have the opportunity to meet because they are responsible for different areas;

But what is abnormal is that, given their status in the Gothic Sector, they must not be able to avoid their rights and obligations as high-level judges within the Sector, and it is even more impossible for them not to meet once for ten consecutive years!

Is there a problem with Griffin's identity?

After a little thought, Calvin ruled out this possibility. No matter how stupid the enemy was, they would not even bother to do superficial things.

This woman was not impressed by his communication code, and this was definitely not the quality that a "person" who had infiltrated the Inquisition should display.

So there can only be a problem with Allen's job?

Check it out! But this has to wait until he gets the answer right for the woman in front of him.

"I agree with you in principle, ma'am."

While resuming the conversation with Griffin, Calvin signaled the servo to move the sampling position of the video head further away.

In the misunderstanding between the two of them just now, the video head is too close to account for at least half of the credit.

And when Calvin's body and armor could be described as "huge", as well as his background that clearly did not belong to a low-level member of the Holy Hammer Order, the other party instantly realized the mistake he had made.

"Oh! Damn it!" Griffin complained in frustration.

She originally thought that the person she contacted should be a company-level leader of the Holy Hammer Order.

But in the image on the screen, the wall full of "totems" made of swords and silver wings told her clearly:

This is the person in authority who stands at the top of the command company after the legendary reorganization and expansion of the secret chamber armed forces under the Holy Hammer Order!

"So, should I call you Mr. Allen?"

Griffin found the corresponding information in his brain, but the other person's face could not match it.

A suspicious look appeared on the face of this cautious alien judge.

And Calvin's next words made her look even more surprised.

"No, you have the wrong person. I am Calvin."

"Calvin? Which Calvin? Uh..."

Griffin repeated subconsciously, and her pupils suddenly expanded in the next moment.

"His Excellency, Supreme Lord Inquisitor?"

Griffin stood up from his throne in a hurry while looking at this giant with only a magic ring on his head.

This person's identity and origin are unknown.

But as soon as she was launched by the Holy Hammer Order, and after the "Antarctic Charter" meeting that symbolized the union of the three factions, the person who theoretically held the supreme power appeared in front of her!

And it was this man who, as soon as he took over the seat of the Supreme Lord Inquisitor, he left Terra, which symbolized the center of power of the empire, in a reckless act.

In the Storm Star Territory, which was full of aliens and heretics, the two crises from Orpus and Ophelia 7 were resolved head-on.

Then he used it in the Orpheus sector that he dominated and established and the reborn world of Ophelia No. 7, establishing his authority on the Terran Parliament in one fell swoop!

Not to mention further down.

The changes in the two seats in the Terran Parliament, the changes in the Imperial Army after being isolated for thousands of years, the establishment of the Eye of the Empire, and even the "Battle of Moro" that is still classified as top secret, but has improved the situation of the entire empire. "!

None of these deeds can be known to Griffin, who has just been in office for a century and can barely be called a powerful local judge.

But it was the few words that could be recognized in these deeds that were enough to make her look at this man who had been living on the front page of the Tribunal's draft all year round, as if she were seeing a "living fossil coming out of a legend." vision!

A legendary Gray Knight!

A man who has theoretically served for a hundred years, participated in several large-scale events above the sector level, and returned alive and victorious!

"Excuse me!" Griffin decisively gave up on coveting the command of the Farr battlefield and prepared to hand over the command of the fleet in a wise manner in the next conversation.

The appearance of such a character here only shows that the development of the situation has reached a very bad level.

She didn't even try to ask the other party why he was here, for fear that she would be listed as a target of key observation by the Holy Hammer Religion because of her unintentional display of excessive curiosity about secrets...

Because of some well-known reasons, there is a high probability that she will not be able to withstand the investigation.

And once she is targeted by such people from Terra, there is a high probability that she and her faction will fall apart in the subsequent investigation and pursuit, and completely leave the empire's stage of power...

Griffin was still thinking wildly, while Calvin was still explaining unhurriedly.

He has a special background and has never been exposed to the business of the middle level of the Tribunal since the early days of his service;

And when Calvin stepped out of Titan, standing at the top of power, he would no longer be bound by narrow moral and disciplinary dilemmas because of some "outdated books and regulations."

Heretic monasteries will produce heretics, and alien monasteries will produce aliens.

This seemingly rebellious joke is really just a joke at Calvin's level.

From his top-down perspective, many middle- and low-level judges need room for weighing and compromising on individual occasions when faced with complex local situations.

Of course, he wouldn't say this openly, and Griffin's inner fear naturally didn't concern him.

“But I’m very sorry, my men have now entered combat mode in the Fal system.

According to the practice of the Inquisition, I will automatically gain the highest command here.

As for your task, if it is confirmed that I have the right to know, and if necessary, please explain it in detail and let me decide whether to cooperate. "

"Of course! I mean of course!"

While Calvin was speaking, Griffin was also thinking about the nature of the death watch's mission.

The initiator of the mission was the Internal Order, and the person who issued the mission had apparently died in the battle.

What she was responsible for was only sending troops to assist, and in terms of the nature of the follow-up support, there was no need for exclusivity or confidentiality.

But this is only within the Inquisition, and not every Imperial soldier is qualified to know.

If the person standing in front of her at this time was a general of the Imperial Navy or the Astra Militarum, then Griffin would never leak any information about the sacred objects, and would only give them fixed coordinates and issue combat missions. .

"Sacred object!" Griffin said concisely and concisely, and this word obviously attracted Calvin's attention immediately.

"Relic transfer involving Battle Sisters?"

He quickly linked his encounter in subspace with this mission.

After getting confirmation from Griffin, he could be said to understand the importance of that sacred object better than the other party!

"I will deal with this matter immediately!" Calvin promised, and the psychic energy in his brain began to link with Tibers and Sutherland.

A standard rescue plan took shape in his mind in just a few seconds.

Just as he was about to concentrate on selecting personnel for this plan, Calvin saw Griffin in the corner of his vision who had not yet cut off the communication.

"Oh, ma'am." He called Griffin, and then gave her an order that was completely unexpected in her puzzled eyes.

"The level of secrecy involved in this matter is too high, do you... understand?"

? ? ?

This was probably Griffin's expression at the time. She had never expected that after handing over the task she had brought with her own hands, she would get such feedback.

But fortunately, the rules of the Tribunal were strict, and she also realized the situation she was in in an instant.

Confidentiality awareness, confidentiality regulations, and even some extreme confidentiality measures for secrets were all awakened from her mind in an instant.

After she realized that her slight hesitation had attracted the other party's scrutiny, she gave a clear and neat instruction to the technical priest beside her:

"Activate the emergency plan, activate the scavenger protocol, response level β, no physical removal unit.

Authorization code 6666-Δ-0091.

Item recording authority-Holy Hammer Order.

Execution target-all servos of the Venturer, and..."

Griffin gritted his teeth and said:

"Including me, all members of the battleship. Execute immediately!"

Sha...Sha...

The video signal from the alien inquisitor was interrupted.

The Primarch got up from his seat and walked to the towering porthole of the battleship.

The holy objects in the hands of Sura and the battle sisters have almost been confirmed by him.

The unknown holy object called "Hand of Darkness" in the encrypted file, although there has been no anomaly in the past thousands of years.

But if he is not mistaken, it is the "key" that he saw in his time travel, which controls those black stone fortresses.

But at present, there is only one key... and there are six doors.

Calvin had done an investigation in the Empire's database early on. During the long development of the Hazy Star Domain, the Empire took over a total of six fortress ruins of unknown origin.

And now, this key has obviously been coveted by Chaos;

So it can be seen that other keys are also facing plunder from Chaos?

The vanguard of the Black Legion is suspended in the starry sky in front of Calvin.

Two small fleets are also fighting for the ownership of this planet.

Calvin is not sure whether this is all the Chaos Fleet.

And if the Black Legion really understands the value of the holy relic, then they will not give up so easily.

Then what about Allen?

Calvin himself is in charge of Farr, and the Silver Dawn, as a Glorious Queen-class battleship, also gives him enough sense of security.

Then what about Allen?

What kind of situation is he facing now?

What enemy is he facing?

Update! As usual, two chapters in one. ps: I will try to update more chapters starting tomorrow to see if I can write more.