Sitting inside the drop pod converted from a Dongfeng series warhead, he still had the officer's words—"comrade"—echoing in his mind.
But when a tremor and suffocating sensation came, those thoughts were swept away and cast to the back of his mind.
Inside the space station, the massive elliptical warhead, after the sound of its pressure seal closing reverberated through the pod,
began to slowly slide out of its launch track as high-pressure gas sprayed from the gaps.
Then it fell straight toward the beautiful planet below.
Friction with the air erupted into dazzling flames. Like a meteor, the warhead slammed into the garden lawn, kicking up clouds of dust and flipping over the soil and turf across dozens of meters around it.
The anti-aircraft weapons of the defense network, which had activated long ago but failed to intercept the object, had also fallen silent by then.
Meanwhile, all sorts of weapons around them aimed at the site.
Screeech—Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
First came the sound of metal being torn apart. Immediately afterward, the thunderous roar of explosive bolts rang in everyone's ears.
Dozens of soldiers were blown into chunks of flesh.
Their counterattack followed close behind!
In merely a moment, the warhead had been blasted full of holes.
Fully armed Astartes smashed through the metal shell and charged out. Various attacks struck their plasteel armor without leaving so much as a scratch.
Quan Tiehua raised his bolter and blasted several soldiers in the distance, who were attempting to fire heavy weapons, into chunks of flesh. The heavy weapons they had been preparing to fire also detonated when the explosive bolts caused sympathetic explosions.
Following the route planned from the intelligence in their memories, the Astartes steadily advanced toward their destination. Nothing along the way could stop them.
Then