Caliban, northern wilderness.
The bone-chilling wind swept over one battered corpse after another from the Wolf Brothers Legion.
The massive walls of Fortress of Sangre were covered in terrifying scars left by cannon fire and trebuchets.
Below the fortress, teams of Mortal Servitors were collecting and salvaging the corpses, weapons, and armour belonging to the Order Knights from the uneven ground.
This was the final battle in the Children of the Forest's conquest of Caliban, as well as the last stage of Lion El'Jonson's great beast-hunt.
Thud, thud, thud—
An Armored Giant standing roughly four meters tall stepped out from the warm tent.
He raised his head to stare at the dim sky, unconsciously murmuring:
"Looks like it's going to snow... That's not a good omen for the coming siege."
At that moment, Lion El'Jonson, his blond hair falling over his shoulders, turned to sweep his gaze across the seemingly endless rows of Knightly Order tents and the elite Battle Knights moving back and forth through the camp. He instinctively raised his enormous hand, wrapped in heavy metal, and rubbed the Metal Ten Rings around his thick arm.
Perhaps the coming siege would require him, the Grand Master, to personally take the field. A swift victory would prevent further complications.
Thud, thud, thud—
Just then, a middle-aged man around two meters tall hurried over to Lion El'Jonson.
The man first looked Lion El'Jonson's immensely imposing frame up and down, then raised his head and said:
"Lion, a Knightly Order squad stationed at the edge of Caliban Forest accidentally encountered a Mist Invasion. If there are no mistakes in our Intelligence Report, the Primarch Brother you often mention seems to have appeared once again."
As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking,
Lion El'Jonson, who had been considering how to conduct