"Warmaster." The Primarch's Attendant Maloghurst's face was grave.
"We lost twelve thousand five hundred men in Colonid, most of them killed during the war on Mill World, when we encountered the Legio Tempestus."
"We also lost four main companies while boarding the xenos fortress and the Furious Abyss."
Even on the Rock of Ghana, where they had more than ten times the forces of the Shadow of Order, they were still bogged down in guerrilla warfare against bizarre psychic sorceries.
Horus Lupercal slowly nodded. What pained him even more was that the 7th Company's two successive captains, Seghar Torgaddon and Agnis, the Other and the other, had both fallen in battle.
They had all been outstanding officers of the Sons of Horus. Each had more than five gilded skulls and was an excellent commander capable of leading a military operation.
Abaddon clenched his gauntlet. The Sons of Horus had paid an unprecedented price in blood, and achieved nothing.
More shamefully, he had been absent from the war for more than three months.
While his battle-brothers fought in blood, he could only wander through dark underground tunnels.
"Nimrod, once I defeat Father and become the Master of Mankind, I will settle everything with you." Horus thought in silence.
"Proceed to Morlo."
As the main fleet of the Sons of Horus headed for Morlo, the Blackstone Fortress translated to Pandex, the Forge World on the edge of the Colonid Sector.
In the central control room, Flamini, Chapter Master of the Sixth Legion of the Shadow of Order, stared at Pandex.
Pandex's Star Ring defense system was built around the Silence Barrier asteroid fortress.
The Magos had used Pandex's gravity to capture an asteroid, feeding it with thousands of meteorites as nourishment to form a vast hybrid construct.
"It's time you paid the