Shadow of Order's Unique Individual Protective Field Adjustment Technique

Art

In Dacinta's fifth ruined, abandoned city, the Shadows of Order of the 10th Battalion advanced in measured step, arrayed between the buildings on either side, raising their bolters to fire in unison.

Red light swept in from the Smart Machines, and the mechanical arms on their backs rose with a clacking mechanical sound.

Bzzzt, bzzzt, bzzzt...

Dazzling beams as thick as an Astartes' arm deliberately avoided the buildings on both sides and slammed into the Storm Shields of the eight members in the center of the assault squad, erupting with deafening explosions.

The assault squad members lowered their bodies and smashed their Storm Shields down onto the faded, ornate colored tiles.

Amid the booming blasts, the shields shattered the floor tiles and embedded themselves in the ground.

The Smart Machines beeped, and their glow abruptly turned scarlet.

They charged forward in great strides, moving even faster than Castellax Robots controlled by Martian tech-priests.

They crashed into the line, their mechanical arms bending to aim at the Shadows of Order in the rear ranks and spray thermal beams.

At the same time, their left arms rose, spewing streams of blazing molten fire.

Ramsey raised his Archaeotech Pistol and fired a searing ray harvested from the radiation layer of the battalion's exclusive recruitment world—Pladis Zeta.

Pfft!

Amid a strange tremor of energy, the searing beam tore open a Smart Machine's energy shield.

As charred energy fragments sprayed outward, the battalion commander shouted a warning over the Sonic Array channel.

"Switch energy shields to thermal-ray protection mode."

After the Shadows of Order conquered the Jingyuan Federation of Olamic, the battalion took possession of the legacy of its fifteen-thousand-year civilization.

The Armor Master, Malevolus, was responsible for studying flexibly adjustable energy-field modules.

Over ten years, he achieved certain results and mastered the Jingyuan