Talos examined the remaining seven bodies for the cause of death, and each time he found the same conditions, sometimes with the addition of trauma that resulted in skull fractures.
"Captain Talos, you and your team are in danger."
Suddenly, Talos' communicator rang, and a rough, heavy voice disturbed by static came from inside.
However, Talos still recognized the owner of the voice.
Kayon.
But the prophet did not panic, but pushed out of the Chimera and whispered:
"Is this a trap?"
"It's not a trap, it's just a enchanter and a few vicious dogs who built a nest nearby."
"oh."
Talos raised his eyebrows.
"Then the disappearance of this team was also their fault?"
"should be."
"Can it be solved? After all, this is our goal."
"Okay, but you have to cooperate."
"certainly."
With that said, Talos had already left the Chimera and sent a signal for the company to prepare for action.
"Company commander, where are we going?"
Bahram's question represented the voice of everyone. Before everyone could figure out what was going on with the Chimera, Talos suddenly led them towards the west.
But there are no significant traces at that location.
"Just go."
Talos moved westward according to Khayon's guidance, and soon, a shocking scene appeared.
An empty town appeared on the enemy side where there should have been nothing!
"This... there is no such mark on the map, how can there be a settlement?"
Talos did not speak, but entered the dead city directly.
The place is made of a dry white stone, like chalk, but not, and even a single touch turns its surface to dust.
Above the towering town, the sky is purple-blue and dotted with eight stars. As the wind blows intermittently, white dust sighs and floats out from the ground and corners of the white walls like water vapor.
: It’s like a picture of a city suspended in time for tens of thousands of years and then slowly disappearing.
An empty city, full of white buildings and empty everywhere.
There was no furniture, no decoration or belongings, not even a trace of the deceased.
Only these silent towers, houses, and vague stairs are left.
After walking for an hour or two, they noticed two things.
First, this small town that seemed small at first glance was actually vast. They passed through high towers, walls, and rooftops, and only saw towers, walls, and rooftops farther away.
Second, this emptiness made people anxious. The soldiers began to become anxious, because there was no sound except their own footsteps and the sigh of the wind. Except for a few wisps of light white dust falling on the walls and door frames, there was no movement.
nor.
If they spoke to each other, their voices would echo in the surrounding streets, but the echoes would not come back immediately.
Each echo came back a few minutes later, just a little longer than it takes to feel comfortable or natural, and each echo sounded like a perfect copy of the original sound, rather than an acoustically hollowed-out sound.
For this reason, they stopped talking long ago.
Talos stopped and found that the oriole had stopped moving and the compass hung quietly, refusing to move.
Suddenly, an echo came from the dead white street, and the echo told a word.
"Suracion——"
But just now no one spoke.
The wind of ether briefly stopped, and everything became silent.
Talos stood there, staring coldly ahead, adrenaline began to burn in his muscles.
Something appeared there, an enemy that was invisible to the naked eye. It was so slight that ordinary humans couldn't detect it, not even with the help of machines.
But Talos is far from ordinary.
Before any of the recruits could react, the air above Talos was suddenly ignited by blue flames that bloomed from nowhere. Then a figure wearing twisted power armor tore away the flames and appeared above, accompanied by a sound that was enough to freeze him.
The soul screamed, its claws were wrapped in supernatural flames, and it immediately swooped towards the prophet.
Talos seemed to be well prepared, activating the power sword and slashing. The force field lightning on the sword crackled as the blade was swung.
When the prophet turned his heel, it shattered the cold air, and then rubbed against the edge of the claw to create a cluster of sparks.
The screaming monster jumped away due to the impact, but its power armor could not absorb the power of Talos' attack, and its entire body slid to the ground.
Talos immediately followed and launched a cantilever slash.
The monster also blocked quickly, the weapons shook each other apart, and more sparks flew.
It was only then that many recruits saw the attacker's appearance clearly. Bahram, who had read a lot of information in the library, immediately recognized the identity of this twisted figure——
"Heretic Dimensional Claw!"
The Warpclaw was once a member of the Assault Marines of the Legiones Astartes. Due to long-term exposure to the warp, his physical form was extremely corroded, and his armor and flesh were completely linked together, eager to cut, chop and dismember his prey.
But because they fell into chaos even more than birds of prey, they also lost the ability to speak, reason or create.
However, the subspace gives them the ability to cut through the barriers between dimensions and through the physical universe, so the enemies of the Dimensional Claws do not know where these monsters came from until they die. After a killing spree, they will
Dive back into a nightmarish dimension.
The Dimensional Claw focuses on close-range assassinations, so the Lightning Claw is often equipped.
After Talos kicked away the howling dimensional claw in front of him, he glanced at the opponent's armor and saw some marks on the shoulder armor.
That was once a symbol that he was extremely familiar with and extremely proud of, a skull with blood wings.
"It's those bastards from the Night Lords."
Behind him, Sablin suddenly spoke.
"He bears the mark of a traitor."
Talos looked at the dimensional claws howling at him and responded meaningfully:
"Yeah, a bunch of pathetic bastards."
At this moment, more howls sounded, and five more blurry figures appeared on the surrounding buildings.
They squatted on the roof, subspace flames flowing on the twisted and spiked armor surface, and they tilted their heads, like ominous crows.
"Defensive formation!"
Bahram shouted, and the recruits immediately formed a tight circle, raised their guns and pointed at the enemy high up, back to back, surrounding Talos and other commanders. This formation was mainly used to deal with the elusive enemy.
enemy.
Talos knew that this was what Khayon called the lair, a gap between reality and the warp, and that the one who controlled it was a demon.
Suddenly, the road ahead caught fire.
The straight road exploded into a ball of bright orange flames, burning quickly like paper and turning into ashes, leaving a gap big enough for a vehicle to drive into.