Chapter 45: Simple Ending and the Complexity Behind It

The meeting with the son of Dorn was not pleasant, but it was fruitful and left no misunderstandings.

Vladimir Pug, the flag bearer of the Imperial Fists Chapter on the Phalanx, who was equal to Calvin in status, had an efficient communication with Calvin in a style that was very consistent with the character of the Imperial Fists, without any polite greetings, and the whole process lasted less than 5 minutes:

After explaining the cause and effect and confirming that Calvin was clearly aware of the incident, no one in the Imperial Fists knew about the illegal operation of the Psychic Academy. And the entire incident was the private behavior of the former Imperial First Class Knight.

Vladimir, the flag bearer of the Imperial Fists, directly gave compensation from the Imperial Fists: In the next 100 years, regarding the candidates for the think tank of the Imperial Fists, the Chapter represented by Calvin will have absolute priority in choosing.

After saying this, Vladimir just looked directly at Calvin, waiting for the other party to accept, without any intention of bargaining.

Calvin was pleasantly surprised by such an unexpected substantial compensation.

So, after getting Calvin's confirmation, the son of Dorne placed the token in his hand on Calvin's desk and turned to leave. The sound echoing in the corridor was the same as his footsteps when he came, accurate and without any changes.

Calvin was very satisfied with this, and this was also thanks to Gavins' urgent use of psychic power to communicate with Calvin after he just heard the other party's footsteps.

He felt that he had to give Calvin a shot of prevention, so that he would understand that the other party's style of doing things was not arrogant, but natural. To prevent Calvin from mistaking the other party for possible arrogance.

With the stone-like character of these Astartes and their Primarch Rogal Dorne, even if the cause of this incident was all caused by the Imperial Fists, you still can't expect to hear any soft words from them.

This is also the fact that Calvin witnessed with his own eyes after Gavins told Calvin about the other party's style of doing things in advance.

Even if they paid the price of blood, such as the priority supply of the Imperial Fists for the think tanks in the next 100 years, the principle of the "sons of Dorne" is "no apology means no apology."

This group of brass men used practical actions to establish Calvin's first and most important impression of the Imperial Fists:

"We are the sons of Dorne. We can shed blood, but not a single tear."

This incident, which started with Matthews' selfishness and ended with him and his entire family being buried alive, ended in a seemingly simple way.

And all this is based on the premise that the High Lords' Council had not been unusually efficient and clear in this incident.

In this non-regular and unconventional High Lords' Council, forces from all sides did not pay enough attention to this incident.

After all, in the eyes of these big men who are too busy to describe it, the essence of this incident is just a violation of private rights.

If it were not for the affairs of the two Astartes Chapters, the file bag of this incident would not even be sent to the lords' offices.

In this vast empire with a population of billions, just counting the number of times such things happen every day is enough to support a large department.

The lords have their own important matters to attend, and with the help of the servo skull or higher-level assistants, they simply know the general outline of the relevant events.

In their opinion, being able to squeeze out another precious representative from the already insufficient number of people to attend the meeting is already a manifestation of giving the greatest importance.

But when these civil servants who were occasionally sent to participate in the nominally highest-level meeting of the empire due to official business had not yet gotten rid of the honor and excitement, they just walked into the meeting room led by confidential personnel.

When seeing that the Lord of the Inquisition, Stad Northumberland, who had not had the opportunity to meet because he had just started his duties, sat in his seat early, these shrewd senior bureaucrats keenly realized that there was another reason behind this incident.

In the eyes of the noble families who were engaged in politics in these times, this level of political game was far beyond the reach of their little arms and legs. In this level of confrontation, the so-called court nobles like them who had no real power and violence were not even cannon fodder.

The representatives of the Astartes and the representatives of the Imperial Guards who had also arrived early, opposite the High Lord of the Inquisition, Lord Stad Northumberland, confirmed this point again.

So in such a strange and high-pressure atmosphere, the representatives who were originally grateful for the opportunity to attend the meeting could only tiptoe and quietly walk to the proxy seat a little behind the tall and luxurious seat of their own high lord.

Praying to get out of this storm alive is probably their greatest wish for the Emperor at this moment.

The meeting was announced to begin in the strange atmosphere where most high lords were absent as usual, and some few or rare high lords attended.

The Inquisition, contrary to its usual practice, rarely blurred its position in this incident to see how it would change.

At the beginning of the meeting, High Lord of the Inquisition, Stad Northumberland, pointed his finger at the Astronomical Court and the Ministry of the Interior. These two departments were precisely the foundation of the Sutherland family's complex and hundreds of years of business.

The representative of the Astartes did not make a clear statement. The incident itself involved a conflict of interests between two Astartes, which made his neutrality seem natural.

When the two temporary representatives from the Ministry of the Interior and the High Lords of the Astronomican Court had not yet figured out whether it was necessary to confront the High Lord of the Inquisition himself because of the interests of a family that could only barely rank at the bottom of the second echelon in the Senate rankings, the more rare representative of the Imperial Guards from the Throne Court followed closely and made a statement with an unusually clear attitude.

And this speech also became the final guiding speech that dominated the outcome of this meeting of the High Lords' Council in a sense.

You must know that as the direct guard of the Emperor, the Imperial Guards are naturally superior to the many political forces of the Empire.

In most of the daily meetings of the Empire, and even in most of the major meetings that can determine the national policy of the Empire, the seats of the Imperial Guards representing the Throne Court are vacant.

At most, only after the meeting shows a clear tendency of results, will the representatives of the Imperial Guards come out of the palace and add the golden seal on the minutes of the meeting, which means that the Throne Court knows and approves the results of this meeting.

Their concern for Terra and even the entire empire is limited to the palace. This is the traditional impression formed by the high lords of the Imperial Guards in the operation of the parliament for thousands of years.

And when the Inquisition, which is already in a dominant position, and another transcendent force that actually exercises the vacant but not non-existent royal power in a certain sense, and has the right and ability to blatantly deny the final resolution of the High Lords Council when necessary, reach a consensus on something without warning.

The cardinal representative from the State Church, the representative of the Supreme Council Standing Counselor of the Ministry of the Interior, the representative of the adjutant of the Grand Marshal of the High Lord of the Star Navy, and the representative of the high-level wizard lord of the Star Torch Court.

These huge forces that truly determine the fate of the empire, and the people who truly have the power of the parliament's standing meeting, all realized in their instinctive tremors before the arrival of a certain crisis:

Some things will be different from today; and a certain balance that was once maintained by the consensus of all forces also appears to be precarious in the meaning behind it expressed by this meeting.

After the meeting, senior civil servants, military officers, bishops and wizards all hurried to the special plane they took for this trip.

But unlike the excitement and enjoyment when they came, their most urgent need is to return to their headquarters as quickly as possible and report the actual situation of this meeting to the supreme lord of their own forces.

The power of a political force or key figure that they had not noticed before may have silently enveloped Terra, and they, the court nobles who have served the Terra government for generations, actually knew nothing about it.

It was not until this force or figure began to reach out to them that they were shocked to discover the existence of the other party. What a dereliction of duty for them!

They could already imagine how angry the high lord himself would be when they returned to the headquarters.

And that unknown force or person must be taken seriously by them. The interests represented and contained by the empire are fixed in the eyes of these high lords who truly speak out the constitution.

In their eyes, the person who has been able to use such two key seats in the High Lords' Council has missed the best opportunity to strangle him.

So they can only accept the fact that in the future, there will probably be one more person who will sit on the highest seat of power and share the interests with them.

So how to make a compromise that satisfies both parties in the existing distribution of interests; or if it involves their own core interests, they cannot compromise.

Then knowing the other party's foundation as soon as possible and preparing to go to war with them is the core focus of all parties.

Although they have not found a way to communicate with the other party, as long as they are willing, the high lords can always perceive the other party's existence and interests.

And given the size and interest needs of the other party, they will surely not allow him or them to lurk for a long time.

Patiently waiting or preparing is the most common way for the nobles in the imperial capital Terra to deal with an unknown threat that they have to face.

The exact target is still unknown, but just now, the shadows it occasionally reveals from the clouds and casts on the ground under the sunlight have already made them feel huge pressure, or fear.