Raldoron: Thierry, I've stirred up a storm in the local area

, but you became the anvil of the entire battlefield.

After the Blood Angels gained a firm foothold in the dock area, First Company Captain Raldoron redeployed the old two hundred companies into three battle groups and launched the attack.

When Sanguinius accepted his hot-tempered, irascible sons, he, like Nimrod, had coincidentally brought a sense of order to the Legion to resolve its craving for bloodshed and violence.

The reorganized Blood Angels had two hundred companies. When the Angel proclaimed the Legion's rebirth through the restoration of order, each company had around three hundred warriors.

Now, the number of companies continued to grow, exceeding two hundred and seventy.

Nor were the warriors in each company limited to three hundred; some companies had nearly five hundred battle-brothers.

Sanguinius had drawn Revelation from the Luna Wolves, and would temporarily form battle groups of varying sizes according to the warriors' needs.

The finest among his sons—Chapter Master Raldoron—was especially skilled in this regard.

The Chapter Master deployed seventy companies on each flank. As they spread out and covered the routes from the dock district toward the node area confirmed by the Librarian team, he decided to personally lead sixty companies straight for the node.

Before the assault began, Raldoron summoned the captains as usual.

From a metal box, he took out a tall, narrow, flat-bottomed cup. It was cast from black oxidized metal, its outer surface densely covered in a shallow layer of tiny spikes.

The spike tips were all hollow.

After all the captains removed the gauntlets from their right hands, Raldoron picked up the chalice with his bare hand and gripped it tightly.

The sharp spikes pierced his hardened palm and drew blood.

Raldoron passed the chalice to the captain beside him, who then passed it on to the next.

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