After stripping off their weapons and equipment, the Players traveled light and quickly confirmed Robert's prediction through flesh-and-blood reconnaissance—the outer defenses had indeed been abandoned by the Genestealer cult. As they advanced, the carefully concealed tripwires and directional mines seemed utterly fragile before the Players' advantage of dying and coming back to life.
With no need to worry about equipment damage, quite a few Players simply rolled straight through. They did not bother searching at all—whether traps might be present or not, they bumped into everything and triggered them. Once the traps went off, the area was naturally safe.
The facts proved that this method of clearing mines with human lives was extraordinarily effective. The purpose of laying traps was to force enemies, afraid of sudden death, to spend time searching carefully. But the Death Seekers were not afraid of dying at all!
Using their resurrection advantage, the Players swept through the traps one by one, clearing out hazards that would originally have delayed a large force for hours.
Having retreated deeper into the factory, Kyle watched everything through the surveillance feeds. The trap network he had expected to delay the enemy for at least half a day had not even lasted an hour before these bizarre Astra Militarum soldiers cleared it with human lives.
A bone-deep chill ran through Kyle. Perhaps he had made the wrong decision just now. These people brainwashed by the Corpse Emperor simply did not care about sacrifice. Their disregard for death was beyond Kyle's comprehension. But no matter what, the decision had been made, and every cult member had already withdrawn into the factory.
"Anyway, I've already reported the situation. Reinforcements are on their way," Kyle muttered, placing his hopes on the distant reinforcements.
After the outer defenses had been cleared, Robert did not