Raid Operation

"Advance on foot. Prepare to engage." Chapter Master Shi Dong's order was concise and forceful.

He was the first to push open the hatch. His heavy Terminator armor stepped onto the slick, soft, faintly writhing ground, making a teeth-grating squelch.

The warriors swiftly formed a standard assault formation.

The Deathwatch members, relying on their extensive experience hunting xenos and their more agile armor, led the way, while the Ash Knights Terminators provided core support and suppression with their unparalleled firepower and defensive strength.

With every step forward, the "ground" beneath their feet writhed and sank in an unsettling manner, as if the entire passage were some enormous living creature digesting them.

Suddenly, a waist-high sac on the sidewall burst violently without warning. Viscous fluorescent fluid sprayed outward, and amid piercing shrieks, hordes of Genestealer hybrids surged forth like a tidal wave!

Their twisted forms looked like nightmares made flesh beneath the chamber's dim green light. Scythe-like bone blades tore through the air, carrying a reek of blood.

"Contact ahead! Fire at will!" Titus's roar cracked like thunder. His master-crafted boltgun instantly spat deadly flames, and the first burst blew the heads of the two leading xenos into exploding chunks of flesh.

The narrow chamber was immediately filled with deafening bolter fire, the roaring of chainswords, and the shrill cries of the xenos.

Bolts struck their targets with precision, repeatedly tearing apart the charging xenos. Purple-black blood and shattered tissue splattered everywhere, corroding the living walls with a sizzling hiss.

Yet more enemies seemed endless. They poured from folds in the flesh walls, from the membranous structures overhead, and even from maws that suddenly split open in the ground, lunging forward in a frenzy.

An Ash Knights Terminator stepped forward and steadied himself. The Assault Cannon in his hands began to