Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 526 Determination

Christina's eyes suddenly widened: "Huh?! Kill Uncle Alex? Now? Me?"

"Christina, do you not want to do this, or do you not have the ability to do this?" Cecil asked.

"I..." Christina lowered her head and stammered, "I don't know..."

Cecil waited for Christina's response, but after waiting for a long time, Christina still didn't reply, so he closed the ring box again.

"Okay, Christina, I won't force you." Cecil said as he took the box back. "I hope you will always be that carefree little princess."

Howard, who was watching, spoke up: "You are using your relationship to kidnap her."

Cecil rarely looked at Howard with a friendly face: "Don't be a nice guy."

"I'm not trying to be a good person. I'm just curious why you killed your family. I think that's why Christina hesitated." Howard paused for a moment and said, "If your reasons are good enough, maybe I can help you."

"Uncle Alex, he and mother share a common grandfather, our great-grandfather. One of our great-grandfather's daughters married into another family and gave birth to Alex, so he has half our family's blood in him." Cecil briefly introduced Howard's background.

"Many people don't know what's going to happen next, including you, Christina, because you and I didn't exist when these things happened." Cecil looked around and leaned forward after making sure no one was paying attention to this side. Howard and Christina also cooperated and moved closer.

"As far as I know, Mother wasn't originally the legitimate heir to the family. However, over thirty years ago, our grandfather's generation was almost wiped out. To keep the flagship running, Uncle Alex became acting clan leader. While his blood could awaken the flagship, it couldn't completely subjugate the machine spirit. Ever since then, the Great Silence has been plagued by constant malfunctions."

Howard: "According to the principle of profit orientation, Alex benefited the most from this incident, so you think he did it?"

"Absolutely impossible." Cecil denied Howard's speculation. "At that time, there was a powerful beta-class psyker in the family's direct lineage. The family had originally planned to make him a Grey Knight, but he also perished in that incident. Even if we wanted to eliminate a beta-class psyker now, it would be difficult to do so quietly without the assistance of the Tyrannosaurus. Therefore, it would be impossible to accomplish this with the power that Alex could mobilize at the time. And why would the power that could accomplish this be controlled by Alex?"

"You mean Tyrannosaurus is also a β-level psychic?" Howard was surprised. Although he had seen Tyrannosaurus's methods when he first met him, Howard did not expect him to be a β-level psychic at that time.

Now he has met two of the Four Gods, and Freya is also a super psychic unit, but apart from these beings, Howard has not actually met too many psychics, and the levels of the psychics he has met are generally not high.

For example, the white-robed psyker in Kalimdor, judging from his performance that he couldn't even stop a bulldozer immediately, he is at most Z or E level. If classified by low, medium and high, he is in the upper low level. His immortality should be a blessing from Nurgle rather than his own ability. He can open the warp portal probably with the help of some chaos artifact.

Mei and Gloria's levels might actually be lower, because their main way of fighting is to rush forward with weapons, and they can only use fire arrows or dancing lights.

Beta-level psykers are considered upper-level. If Mei or Gloria were beta-level psykers, they could easily have lifted the Orc fortress from the desert without all the trouble. Mei's brother, Charandi, was able to exile the Grey Knight Drago, but judging by his performance, he's far from beta-level... On the contrary, Drago's ability to destroy a planet's surface with a single sword strike and his ability to avoid being instantly killed by Freya suggest he might be a psyker even more powerful than beta-level.

Psykers above level β are beyond the general grading of the Empire. The gap between an A-level psyker and an A-level psyker may be greater than the gap between a Z-level psyker and an A-level psyker. The Emperor is also an A+ level psyker according to the grading system. Therefore, a β-level psyker is basically the conventional pinnacle of human beings, and everyone above this level is a unique existence.

Facing Howard's question, Cecil just looked at him meaningfully and said, "Mr. Howard, if I were you, I wouldn't ask this question any more."

Howard: "...Okay, okay. So, later on, Ms. Lia Weide was found as the only remaining direct descendant, and thus took over Alex's position?"

"Not really," Cecil replied in the negative again. "This is one of the family's top secrets. Although we claim to be the only surviving direct descendant of Helvene, in reality, Mother's position in the family tree is even more marginal than Alex's. It's just that her blood happens to make the family flagship surrender. However, this doesn't mean that the elders want Mother to replace Alex as clan leader. Initially, they simply regarded Mother as a machine to control the flagship."

Howard expressed his understanding. There were some prominent nobles in the empire who owned their own heirloom machines. The machine spirits of these machines would often recognize their family's bloodline more, but recognizing bloodline did not mean recognizing pure blood... If only pure blood was allowed, these noble families would have to marry close relatives. In short, the machine spirits had their own set of judgment criteria. Sometimes, members with thin bloodlines would be more favored by the machine spirits than noble direct descendants.

For example, Alex's blood cannot make the machine spirit completely submit, but this does not mean that he is sentenced to death. Among the offspring of this unrecognized person, there is still a possibility that someone who can be recognized by the machine spirit will appear.

"All records of what happened after that were erased, but the final result was that Mother became what we see now, becoming the clan leader, and Uncle Alex handed over the power of acting clan leader... The power transfer seemed peaceful, but many signs indicate that Uncle Alex did not seem to accept this outcome."

Howard: "Where's the evidence?"

"I have evidence, but it's too troublesome to explain the complete chain of evidence right now. However, I can tell you one piece of confirmed information." Cecil looked Howard in the eye and said, "The spaceship you took to Tessarel was attacked by two groups of enemies. One group was space pirates, whom I recruited to replace some of the people on board. In addition to the space pirates, there was also a group of mechanical monsters. Those mechanical monsters were not recruited by me, and their appearance was beyond my expectations. However, after subsequent investigation, I have some clues about this matter. The arrival of those mechanical aliens is related to Alex."

Howard: "What do we and you gain by killing him?"

"Time," Cecil said. "I suspect those alien forces are using the Helvenson family to wage a proxy war. Killing Alex won't fundamentally solve the problem, but it will at least solve part of it. It won't be easy for those aliens to find or cultivate a prestigious agent. This will buy us time for further action."

Then Cecil added: "This might avoid some disputes and save innocent people from bloodshed."

Howard: "Can I trust you? Should I believe that you are telling me the truth and not making up a lie?"

Cecil looked Howard in the eyes and said solemnly, "You can trust me, just like I trust you."

So Howard reached for the ring:

"it is good."

But before Howard's hand fell on the ring box, Christina put her hand on it first.

Cecil was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "Christina."

"Brother." Christina still lowered her head, but her tone was no longer as helpless as before: "Please don't let Mr. Howard do this... I will help you kill Uncle Alex."