"Shadow Shaping"

The Mechanicum Custodians lay prone between the furnaces, watching in horror and despair as the God-Machine were destroyed by strange creatures, collapsing like mountains.

They didn't believe the God-Machine could be destroyed unless they were having a nightmare.

This was a nightmare, a nightmare they wanted to wake up from immediately.

They raised their weapons and fired at the monster, shattering the ridiculous illusion.

The Bone-Eater, its head completely black, was enraged and disdainfully fired a dense beam of light at the insects.

The light struck the furnaces that were being used as shelters, instantly vaporizing them.

The rising mist made the flesh of the Mechanicum Custodians feel as if it had fallen into a furnace.

Not far away, Ramsey, hidden in the shadow of human slaves, looked back and saw industrial dust swirling in the wind.

Falk's Vostonian Rhino command vehicle pierced through the sandstorm and sped towards them.

Dozens of armored vehicles, closely following their lord, sped along the highway, unleashing a barrage of bullets at the enemies who stood in their way.

The Communicator buzzed, and after Ramsey answered, Falk's voice came through.

"Librarian, report back."

"Titan has breached the Bone-Eater's energy shield; it is not expected to restart for some time."

Ramsey said, his eyes deep, Biochemical Psionic Power spreading towards the towering behemoth.

After receiving feedback, he continued.

"The Bone-Eater sustained minor injuries, but the impact was minimal."

After a few seconds of silence on the communication channel, Falk spoke resolutely.

"We can't waste this opportunity! Target the Bone-Eater! Attack!"

The Vostonian Rhino and the Gabriel-pattern Predator simultaneously rotated their cannons, aiming at the Bone-Eater.

The cannons roared, and the spitting flames swept the Bone-Eater's body into clouds of green mist, while broken branches fell like raindrops.

The Bone-Eater let out an Affliction groan, dropped the insects, turned his body, and aimed his arm at the black armored vehicle.

The black armored formation dispersed, darting left and right to evade attacks.

Several Gabriel-pattern Predator drove off the highway, their blinding lights following closely behind.

Following its Spirituality intuition, the "monster" kept pulling the lever with both hands.

Black armored vehicles rampaged through the furnaces like drunkards out of control.

But Ramsey could see clearly that not a single black armored vehicle crashed into the furnace; as they dodged, they continued to fire at the Bone-Eater.

The shells rained down on the Bone-Eater, and green mist swirled and billowed.

The Bone-Eater let out a fierce roar, and the beam of light shot out, quickly splitting into palm-sized spheres.

[Can Bone-Eater manipulate the form of energy weapons?]

Ramsey frowned. He saw a Gabriel-pattern Predator, having just dodged a beam of light, immediately attacked by dozens of orbs of light.

The "monster" pulled the control lever violently, its Machine Spirit roaring angrily as the engine screech to provide even more power.

The black armored vehicle stumbled and flew out of the sphere of light, leaving a series of craters in the steel passageway.

Boom boom boom!

One furnace after another was destroyed, and the space for Gabriel-pattern Predator to hide became smaller and smaller.

With a deafening explosion, two orbs of light struck the black armored vehicle simultaneously.

The ball of light tore open two large holes, its remaining force still strong, penetrating the vehicle and leaving two terrifying chasms running through it.

Four more orbs of light struck, sending the Gabriel-pattern Predator flying into the air before crashing into the towering furnace.

[I have to do something!] Ramsey thought, taking a step forward.

The Shadow Ascetic forward, weaving swiftly through the Xenos's shadow.

A foul stench swept past his nose, but the Shadow of Order did not shut down his senses in case any perceptive Xenos suddenly noticed his presence.

Ramsey felt a slight dissolving sensation within his body.

Just like when he drank the nutritious porridge today, the food dissolved quickly in his body.

It was more noticeable than when he was weaving through the Shadow of Order.

A Xenos with an elephant-like trunk twitched its trunk and sniffed around.

It seems something has infiltrated their ranks.

Just as he stepped out to search, he suddenly heard the sound of branches and leaves trembling.

"Attack! Destroy the human armored vehicles!"

The Xenos immediately stopped and, following the Bone-Eater's orders, charged toward the black armored vehicle.

Falk noticed countless red dots rushing towards his team in the tactical hologram.

"Avoid!"

"If you can't dodge it, just run into it!"

"Keep attacking the Bone-Eater! Don't let his energy shield restart!"

The driver slammed the lever all the way down, and the sharp spikes on the front of the Vostonian Rhino truck snapped off the Xenos's legs, splattering viscous liquid onto the black vehicle body.

Following the orders of the agile group, the gunners unleashed a roar of explosive Storm Bolter Mass-Reactive Shell.

To increase lethality, another gunner crawled out of the top hatch and used the Storm Bolter mounted on the second pivot to fire Hunter-Killer Missile at the Bone-Eater.

The flames released by the Mass-Reactive Shell charge scorched the Bone-Eater's body.

The Hunter-Killer Missile, trailing streaks of light, struck the tree branch at the head with pinpoint accuracy.

Under the relentless barrage of bullets, the Bone-Eater swayed and fell backward.

Falk stared at the tactics screen, catching the moment. He gripped his gauntlets tightly, realizing that his decision to strike while the Bone-Eater was weakened was indeed correct.

Just then, the sensor suddenly emitted a piercing beep.

Hundreds of orbs of light shot towards his command vehicle.

"Jump out of the car!"

Falk had already concluded from the battle that an energy weapon capable of destroying Titan, even after splitting, was beyond the resistance of armored vehicles.

Several orbs of light can severely damage armored vehicles, a dozen or so can destroy his command vehicle, and hundreds can completely obliterate the vehicle.

The "Barbarian," dressed in Saturnine Terminator Prototype, leaped out of the command vehicle faster than his guards.

The shockwave from behind crashed into the Thermal Diffraction Field, producing a series of ear-piercing explosions.

Falk was thrown back and slammed into the furnace with a loud thud.

With a loud crash, the furnace slammed heavily onto the ground.

Although he was disheveled, he was not seriously injured. He braced himself against the furnace with his right hand and stood up.

After jumping off the furnace, he immediately looked at the interface on his helmet.

His five bodyguards survived.

Falk raised his arm and activated the 10th Battalion's only Heavy Disruption Cannon, which was mounted on the Saturnine Terminator Prototype.

The blinding beam of light, its dazzling brilliance even surpassed the energy spheres emitted by the Bone-Eater.

The split beam struck the Bone-Eater squarely on the top of its head.

A hole larger than the Shadow of Order was blasted into the top of the layered heads.

The Bone-Eater let out a deafening roar, and the remaining branches trembled.

His four arms simultaneously turned and aimed at Falk.

Four blinding beams of light illuminated the gray sky, temporarily blinding the Shadow of Order.

A few breaths later, the light subsided, and vision returned.

The sorrowful voice of the guard captain echoed through the communications channel of the 10th Battalion.

"My lord, you are dead."

Falk not only died, but was also completely annihilated, along with his armor and the surrounding furnace, all of which were wiped out without a trace.

In their grief, the 10th Battalion unleashed a barrage of angry projectiles at the Bone-Eater.

The Shadow Ascetic disappeared into the green mist, and he immediately felt as if his armor was being gripped by tentacles covered in slime.

The gas that flooded into the breathing grille was foul-smelling and reeked of money.

[Poisonous!]

The Librarian's eyes were deep and profound, its Biochemical Psionic Power permeating every cell of its body.

Within moments, Ramsey expelled the toxins that had invaded his body.

The Shadow Ascetic moved through the massive shadow of the Bone-Eater, and saw a huge foot made of branches rise, sway, and fall backward.

The branches on its feet slapped down, stepping on the corpse of a Mechanicum Custodians, crushing him into a pool of blood.

The Shadow Ascetic continued walking, arriving behind the Bone-Eater. He extended half of his remaining Spirituality, touching the enormous shadow.

A black cat emerged from the shadows, each paw gripping a dagger.

The Shadow Ascetic activated his Spirit Sight and stared at the black cat. He discovered that, compared to the black panther and blade he had previously "Shadow Shaping," the cat and the dagger in his hand were more solid.

[The stronger the master of the shadow, the stronger the animal or weapon it shapes?]

The black cat climbed the branch and sped upwards, its claws plunging down each time it brought its "Shadow Shaping" dagger into the branch.

The Bone-Eater didn't notice at first, until one of his legs stopped moving as he intended, and the rest of his body moved normally, causing him to lose his balance.

The Bone-Eater's other two legs bulged at the joints, as if trying to stop its backward sliding motion.

But it was too late; the Bone-Eater, having lost its balance, crashed heavily to the ground.

The black armored vehicle sped away.

Hundreds of Rangdan Xenos, caught off guard, were crushed beneath the overturned Bone-Eater, turning into pools of blood.