On Heliosa's second continent, the 8th Legion's First Company launched an attack on the Fourth Raven Nest.
The slender, tall Aivene warriors stood slightly higher than ordinary Shadows of Order.
Their bodies were elegant, their frames fine-boned, but their faces were sharp and angular, like the rugged mountains they lived among.
A "Warrior" swung the longsword forged by Kaser swordsmiths, chopping at an Aivene warrior as tall as he was.
With a clash, the "Warrior's" shining blade knocked the elegant longsword aside.
The "Warrior" quickly followed with a second strike, cleaving into the lightweight black armor.
The psychic edge bit open a gash. The "Warrior" glanced at it and identified the reinforced fibers as similar in mechanism to Astartes power armor.
The "Warrior" stamped forward hard with his right foot, pressing his full body weight onto the blade.
Bang!
The "Warrior" forced the Aivene warrior's long, slender blade to bend, stepped out with his left foot, and swept his sword across.
The shining edge tore through the black armor fitted close to the body and cut into the seemingly frail flesh beneath.
The "Warrior" felt the blade meet slight resistance. He hunched and added force before finally ripping through the Aivene's tough bones.
At the critical moment, First Company Captain Buuka strode out in a great leap.
The "Guardian," clad in a Saturnine Terminator Prototype, moved his towering body as swiftly as the wind, even faster than the "Warriors" wearing Mark II Crusade-pattern armor.
The shining psychic blade in his right hand spun, and amid crackling detonations, it blasted apart lightweight black armor and bodies of flesh and blood.
He raised his left arm with ease, and as the plasma cannon rotated, streams of molten energy sprayed out.
Bang, bang, bang...
Glowing green plasma streams swallowed one Aivene warrior after