Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 528: A Fleeting Moonlight

Fal System, Zerita Hive No. 1, Throne Area, Former Astropath Observation Station No. 226.

The dark clouds outside the window are already dense, and in the window of the high tower, two slender and tall figures are silent in the shadow without lighting.

"What do you feel?" Alstin asked softly.

Everything that happened on the battlefield several kilometers away from their feet can be seen clearly from the height here and their inhuman vision.

And this Eldar priest with two identities of light and darkness, forcibly restrained the tribe warriors around him, just like watching a drama, and watched the battle from the beginning to the end.

"Monkey..." Morfi's lips opened slightly, and he was about to answer but was stopped by Alstin.

This mysterious Eldar prophet interrupted the warrior leader's contemptuous speech and gave his advice:

"The contempt of language is meaningless, please speak directly about the essence of your feelings."

"Yes..." Morfi took a half step back and quickly organized his words in a symbolic bow.

"Destruction... crisis... hope... betrayal, death... redemption... conspiracy... and the illusion of victory."

"A good show?" Alsteen asked in a quiet tone.

"A good show!" Morphy answered affirmatively, then licked his lips and added:

"A good show that is intense and empty in flavor based on their short lives."

"But your language seems to have brought us into this show..."

Alsteen asked with a smile, but no one knew whether it really didn't care.

And the tribe warriors were obviously not among them. The long-term cooperation with the former made it seem at ease and leisurely at this time.

"Of course not." Morphy maintained a cautious etiquette, but the answer in his mouth clearly denied the prophet's speculation.

"Of course we are not included in this list, but are beyond the whole drama!

The conspiracy I am talking about is the intention of those fallen monkeys.

The illusion of victory is the same, and is also based on their upcoming or already happened actions."

"Good." Alsteen nodded with satisfaction, and Morfi felt relieved.

However, the prophet did not do as it wished, but expressed his opinion to it with a strong symbolic gesture:

"However, arrogance is also our sin, and we must always be vigilant!"

"Yes..." The tribe warriors around bowed to receive instruction, and the uniform movements also came from the rituals that had been tempered for thousands of times.

But whether they can really understand the will of the prophet is another matter.

Or, does Alsteen really know his own meaning?

Or is it just fulfilling its obligations and reading out the standardized doctrines in the "Tao"?

This is destined to be a truth that no one knows, and even after this time, even Alsteen will no longer deliberately recall his actions.

But in the idealistic universe, everything is bound by something called fate.

This is especially true for the Eldar race. Since its birth, the fate of the entire race has been closely linked to their behavior and is full of symbolic meaning.

If everything here goes smoothly, then Arsteen's preaching just now would be meaningless;

But if the development of the situation is really as Arsteen said, then when he recalls his "admonition" afterwards, wouldn't it be more ironic?

Fate is unpredictable, and no one can transcend its constraints.

As a bystander, the Eldar have foreseen the greater challenges that the Emperor's daughter and the Death Watch will face after a brief victory from a "global perspective".

But as the foundation of the ancient race that participated in the War of Heaven, they also cannot avoid the arrogance deeply rooted in their souls.

This arrogance has made them repeatedly commit crimes in choices related to the fate of the race; and when they look down on the late-developing race of humans, they always naively put themselves in a transcendent perspective.

This is the cruelty of the universe. Every race and every person is a member of the chessboard. Should the Eldar be left out?

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The conversation of the Eldar ended here, and the changes in Calvin, the Primarch, who was on the Silver Dawn deep in the void, had just ended.

The battle in the church on the corner has ended, and a new "living saint" born based on the will of the Emperor has also made her debut in the Empire through this battle in the hazy star field.

Unlike Padilla's "resurrection from the dead", which has many witnesses, few people know about the changes in Calvin, the "Emperor's Son".

On the Silver Dawn, the Primarch who had just walked out of the psychic amplification array room had a serious face and walked towards his residence without saying a word.

The atmosphere in the air was extremely cold, and the honor guards waiting on both sides of the door had a premonition.

Two Grey Knights, holding halberds in their hands, stood in unison outside the tall and heavy door.

When the Primarch's footsteps appeared as the door opened, they followed the Primarch's tall back with a highly coordinated pace without any words or questions.

But this was just a peaceful appearance. What just happened was far more urgent than they showed on the outside.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, the Primarch sounded the alarm in his residence almost without any warning.

Before the Grey Knights could react, Calvin had already informed the bridge to force the psychic amplification array room to be emptied, and directly entered the locked cabin from the inside by extremely dangerous warp transmission.

It should be noted that the Silver Dawn was already in a deep warp navigation state at this time.

And Calvin's actions were no less than piercing the Geller Stand, which was already under pressure, on this warship carrying hundreds of thousands of people, and then distorting the dimension of space in the chaotic warp turbulence from the outside, and then piercing the Geller Stand again to return.

However, this high-risk behavior, which was prohibited by any human warship, not only did not allow the Primarch to explain.

Even after Calvin urgently entered the psychic amplification room, based on his powerful psychic power and the will of the legion that was subsequently mobilized, he performed a psychic ritual that could not be recorded in any text, but was enough to be called "grand".

The Primarch who left the psychic amplification room still had no behavior or intention to explain the entire warship or even the entire fleet.

This is undoubtedly inappropriate behavior, even if his identity is "Emperor's Son".

But no one questioned him, even Sir Sutherland, who was known for his stubbornness before.

Faced with the urgent contact from the Imperial Navy and the questioning implied by concern, Tibers and Sir Sutherland had a very consistent tone.

They both expressed enough gratitude for Vice Admiral Cobb's concern, but they did not intend to explain the actions of the Primarch and the possible meaning behind it.

Is this arrogance? In a sense, yes.

But the style of the Inquisition has always been like this, and it is not the first time that he has seen this kind of arrogance under politeness.

But Vice Admiral Cobb's anxiety did not come from here, but at a certain moment, he suddenly found that when he was communicating with the astropath assigned to the battleship, he heard the change in the command of the battleship implied in the other party's words.

Oh, this shouldn't make him anxious, anyway, the Inquisition's infiltration of the Imperial Navy is equally serious.

But when did this happen? And why?

Cobb had an instinctive anxiety, and this anxiety came from a sense of crisis of being excluded.

But this was actually meaningless, because the Silver Dawn had never issued such an order, and there was no conspiracy to deprive him of his command.

The reason for the change in the position of the astropaths was actually very simple, so simple that even if Cobb was told, he would not believe it.

And if this simple reason could be described in one sentence, it would be that at a certain moment just now, these people who had the honor of going to the depths of the throne room to meet the Emperor when they first became astropaths.

In this psychic perspective far away from Terra, a sun was seen at the same time... and the fleeting silver moon.

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