Instinctive Hatred for Wolves

916.M30.

Zos.

The heavy landing craft of the 10th Battalion slowly descended.

Melon had just completed his training in the Legion Library on Mankora, mastered "Gryphon's Roar," and become a Lexicanum.

Wearing a psychic hood made from natural Psyker Crystal of the Crystal Illusion Realm and holding a Force Staff, he spoke in report.

"Company Captain, confirmed. We have not come under anti-aircraft fire."

"I believe they have exhausted their resources in the planet's civil war."

The "Hermit," company captain of the 36th Company, nodded.

He glanced at the company commanders around him, his gaze lingering for an instant on Sasebo Tezuka.

He and Melon were the only two special individuals among the company commanders.

They were not the genetic sons of their father.

Their father had accepted the sons of that unspeakable Primarch, and they had been assigned to the 10th Battalion.

Aside from the First Company, every company in the battalion had been broken up and reorganized, with twenty-three new companies created. His company was one of those newly formed.

Once the adjutant of the 18th Company, he had been promoted because he was a Royal Court Baron.

The "Hermit" company captain's mind flashed back to Lord Ramsey's speech at the assembly held in the battalion's dedicated recruitment world of Arjia, at the Fortress-Monastery—Rose Fortress.

Lord Ramsey, who looked exactly like their father but lacked the golden twin wings, had said to them:

"From this day forth, they are members of the 10th Battalion."

"They are the Shadow of Order."

The company captains understood their lord's meaning. They were required to accept outsiders, and this was also their father's trust in their battalion.

"For the coming period, your primary task is to make them deeply understand the legion's culture and help them fully integrate into the battalion."

Lord