In the end, Calvin failed to directly meet the Chapter's Supreme Grand Master Walden.
There is no way, as the top leader of the Astartes Chapter, he has too much work to do.
He needs to be responsible for the nearly a thousand monks under his command.
Their training, their beliefs, their health, their will, these all need him to carefully examine and grasp.
This is still due to the fact that the entire chapter does not worry about updating and supplying its own equipment under the emperor's personal orders.
This is based on the fact that in compliance with the ancient contract, the Gray Knights handed over all pre-war investigation and negotiation work to the Inquisition, and they themselves were only responsible for the final stage of the process of imposing punishment!
If it were another war group, even the noble original war group, their leader would only be responsible for more work every day, not less.
So Calvin could only wait for the guarding paladin to notify the latter to see if the other party could give him special treatment.
In fact, this was indeed the case. After learning of Calvin's arrival, Walden did not keep him waiting too long.
The paladin who entered the room quickly returned with the news. He looked at Calvin seriously and said seriously: "You can go in, but the Grand Master is really busy, please cherish your time."
Calvin nodded, and after simply tidying up his appearance, he opened the door and walked into the room.
To his surprise, Walden was not the only one in the room.
Calvin had always thought that the Silver Blade Master Aidan and the high-level demon judge Lyudmila, as well as an apprentice behind her, were all in the house.
In his field of vision after entering the room, the working holographic projector in the center of the group of people already explained their current work.
"Come on, you came just in time! Come and tell me when you arrived at the Hesas Festival."
Aidan, who was leaning over to watch the real-time deduction carefully, turned around when he heard the noise. When he saw Calvin, he smiled in surprise. Apparently, he also knew about Calvin's previous coma.
Calvin nodded to everyone in the room, and after receiving permission from Walden's eyes, he walked behind the holographic projection equipment.
He raised the gauntlet on his left hand and after a simple docking with the projector, he added his power armor to the list of temporary operation permissions.
Then, when he zoomed in on the map to the star sector level, he compiled the routes he passed between the galaxies under the three different sectors of Hess, Eflan, and Sata.
He turned back to the people present and said: "What we considered at the time was this..."
As Calvin narrated, he told one by one about the state of the SATA galaxy at that time and some details that were revealed in places that outsiders could not see. And what of these details had an impact on his subsequent airborne choices?
It had an impact and was pushed back and dismantled by Calvin in this meeting.
Aidan, Lyudmila and others, who were listening to Calvin's narration, also joined the discussion when the former talked about himself.
The Supreme Grand Master Walden looked at everything in front of him with satisfaction. He stood in front of his desk with a smile and his arms raised and did not join in the already lively discussion.
Everyone's concentration and selflessness are worthy of his praise, and he does not want to interrupt such a beautiful and simple enthusiasm.
After another review session involving Calvin lasted for a full six hours, everyone slowly dispersed happily and walked back to their homes.
Calvin, who had given up the purpose of today's report, was about to stand up when Aidan behind him gently pressed his shoulder.
When he looked in the direction Aidan's chin pointed, he saw and understood the meaning in Walden's eyes.
The Grand Master himself knew very clearly that Calvin's original purpose of coming here was definitely not to review the situation, so he used his eyes to indicate to him to stay alone later.
So Calvin, like a waiter after a banquet, stood by the Grand Master's door and respectfully saw off everyone who left.
Aidan was the first to walk out. As he walked, he was dancing and describing something with Avan Stern, the commander of the third company who came after him.
Ms. Lyudmila, the high-ranking demon judge, was the last one. When she left the door and passed Calvin, she deliberately stopped.
She once again affirmed the necessity of Calvin's actions and choices on SATA One. It wasn't until she was about to leave that she seemingly inadvertently introduced him to the young man who had been silent behind her:
"Rubio Vladimir Antonov, my apprentice. A very outstanding young man with the same firm beliefs as you and compassion for the civilians of the Empire."
She pushed him in front of Calvin so that Calvin could see him more clearly. Then she said: "If one day, when I am no longer here, if there is a need, please protect this child. There is no need to worry about it."
We are worried about factionalism among us, and no one will trace a seed to the end."
Calvin was at a loss as he was debating whether to reject this sudden commitment and responsibility.
Walden, the great mentor in the room, transmitted his voice to Calvin's ears through spiritual energy: "Promise her, this is what she deserves."
Calvin swallowed the food that was already in his mouth. He didn't know Walden's intention, but at this time Calvin chose to believe him.
He leaned over and looked at the lady in front of him and the young man beside her, looked at him carefully for 5 seconds, then straightened up and half-jokingly agreed to Lyudmila:
"Okay, I think I know him well enough. As long as he needs it, as long as he is willing to reach where I am, I am willing to give him shelter."
"Thank you for your mercy." Lyudmila pulled the young man and gently bowed her head to Calvin.
After that, the high-ranking judge Lyudmila said nothing more for herself. She turned her gaze to the shadows in the room, took a deep look, and left.
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When everyone had left, Calvin gently closed the door beside him, then turned around and walked towards the inside of the house.
I don't know when Walden once again sat in front of his exclusive, huge stone table, writing his documents and information that he had almost never seen the end of.
When he heard Calvin's footsteps, he lowered his head and did not raise it, but just said softly: "Sit."
Calvin walked 3 meters away from the table, pulled over a chair that fit his body shape, and sat quietly on it, waiting for Walden's inquiry.
He was not made to wait for a long time, after speeding up the review and signing of the documents in his hand.
The Supreme Master Walden put it on his right hand, and then said to Calvin:
"So Calvin, what do you say?"
After hearing the other party's inquiry, Calvin informed Walden of his intention:
"I'm here to report on the previous battle on SATA One."
And Walden's reaction was also very relaxed:
"Well, actually you've already finished it, just now, right?"
Calvin returned: "Ah, yes. If what I just said can be regarded as a debriefing..."
Walden's answer: "Of course it is! In fact, this is also a very good experience. I personally appreciate your final choice very much. It would be better if you could think more about the future of the chapter..."<
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Calvin: "…………"
Walden: "Well, no joke, there is no problem with your choice. In fact, if you had not chosen to bear the burden of that planet, we might have fallen short in the end because of the lack of cyclone torpedoes..."
Looking at the other party's serious expression, Calvin picked up the second half of Walden's unspoken sentence: "The empire cannot accept the failure that still comes after paying such a price."
Walden: "Yes, so you are right. At least now it seems that your choice is beyond doubt."
He said to Calvin, "This battle has been reviewed many times. The right and wrong have been decided. You don't need to think too much about it. Just prepare for the next battle with peace of mind."
This debriefing is over after Walden made a concluding judgment on the nature of Calvin's trip.
The rest of the time is chatting time.
Calvin remembered the behavior of the previous demon judge Lyudmila, and asked the Supreme Master in confusion:
"The Tribunal has been so busy lately? Do they have time to come here to review the case?"
The conversation was over. Walden, who had already picked up his pen and was about to continue fighting with the document, sighed and put the pen back into the pen holder.
He raised his head and looked at Calvin and said: "It's not that the Tribunal is so idle, it's that she is so idle now."
Walden looked at Calvin's confused face and explained: "Lyudmila, she has now surrendered all her powers as an inquisitor and is waiting for trial. Even her own ship is now entrusted to us.
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"Why? Because of those three?" Calvin didn't understand, but he had some understanding.
After all, once such a cruel order is issued, if the person who ordered it does not pay any price, then it simply violates Calvin's cognition and axioms.
"There's no need to worry, right? After all, the war situation at that time had already deteriorated to this point. Let alone three, isn't that just not enough?"
Thinking of this, Calvin still felt that Lyudmila's previous behavior of being suspected of "entrusting an orphan" was a bit too exaggerated.
But Walden didn't think so. He asked Calvin seriously: "In the battle records that you know, in any battle where the established procedure of exterminating rats was used, the person who gave the order afterwards was excommunicated.
What is the ratio?"
Walden's question made the originally optimistic Calvin momentarily speechless. He carefully thought about the information about "rat eradication" that could be found on Titan.
In addition to the "Extermination Orders" issued under the leadership of the Gray Knights and the Astartes Chapter, in the "Extermination Orders" solely led and issued by the Inquisition, the probability of being sentenced to excommunication was found in the subsequent investigation.
Up to 80% or more!
"Why is this? This is not..."
Upon discovering this, Calvin instantly understood the reason for Walden's doubts.
He opened his mouth to question Walden. He wanted to say that this was too unfair to Lyudmila and others.
But mid-sentence, he made a mistake.
Yes, of course this is unfair to people like Lyudmila who are willing to shoulder the responsibility at critical moments, because if you look for faults afterwards, how can you not find them...
What awaits Lyudmila is the "order of excommunication" that is almost destined to come.
However, when Lyudmila read out the iconic line of the Extermination Order under the starry sky, "I once again authorize the annihilation of all souls on it, regardless of good or evil...", someone asked which planets had not yet
Are they fair to the people who are polluted?
This is a deadlock, and Calvin cannot find a best-of-both-worlds answer.
He frowned silently and thought, hoping for a happy ending.
But Grand Master Walden's hand interrupted his thinking. He walked out from behind his desk at some point and sat quietly in front of Calvin.
He put his hand on Calvin's shoulder: "Don't think about it. She already had this awareness when she first gave the order, or when she took the oath to become a judge. This is her war.
It is also her destination. What we have to do is to do our own thing well."