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Saul Tarvitz, captain of the Emperor's Children Tenth Company, raised his bolter and aimed it at the Giant Spider Beast. He pulled the trigger.
The Adamantine Warhead slammed precisely into the center of the Giant Spider Beast's chest, hammering its carapace with a string of heavy bangs.
Drip!
The Giant Spider Beast did not fall. It lunged swiftly at the Emperor's Children, dragging a restless blur of afterimages behind it.
Blades swept out and struck the purple-and-gold armor.
Boom!
Tarvitz's fourth bolt round blew the Giant Spider Beast's head apart, sending white fluid splattering through the air.
Tarvitz felt no joy at achieving the first kill. Colcott's headless corpse fell into the red sand, arterial blood spraying from the severed neck.
Drip!
A second Giant Spider Beast pounced in, its swinging forelimbs swift as lightning, too fast even for the quick Emperor's Children to react.
Bang!
The bolter flew from his hands.
Click!
The Palatine Aquila on Tarvitz's chest was cut in half, the unique honor emblem of the Emperor's Children shattering apart.
Tarvitz roared. He drew the Power Sword at his waist and activated its Disruption Field.
The enemy's insult pained him, but he remained calm, dodging four blades before gripping the Power Sword in both hands and chopping down with all his strength.
Thud!
The shining blade was knocked aside by the xenos's crown, shaving off only a few yellowed chips of bone.
Tarvitz froze for an instant, then turned the blade and slashed at the Giant Spider Beast's neck.
The sword edge screamed as it tore through the joint between head and thorax, cutting the Giant Spider Beast in two.
"Ah!"
Tarvitz endured the roar in his skull and turned to look. The Astropath in green robes was staggering backward.
He raised his staff, blazing with