If You Truly Don't Understand the Ways of Nature, Young Lady Here Knows a Few Martial Arts

"The tainted power is spreading. This tower, which seals the Black Grail, is shifting from the dream into reality. Once it fully enters the material world, the dream's seal will fail, and then the taint carried by the Grail will no longer be containable."

On the nightmare platform atop the Deadwood Tower, the Watcher's blade blazed like a torch as she continuously hacked apart the filthy sludge surging in from all sides. Lady Natalie used her practiced martial skills to cut down the pollution given physical form, while calling out to the players fighting fiercely around her like an NPC in a raid:

"We have to wear it down as much as possible. If we can destroy it—"

"Boom!"

As soon as the words left her mouth, a burst of flame erupted from the area around the rotting altar ahead.

It looked as though a huge amount of explosives had been detonated at close range. Brigadier Fraser, who had launched the attack, flew out of the leaping flames. He rolled across the ground twice, then jumped up and wiped the soot from his face.

Yet the Black Grail on the rotting altar had taken that point-blank golden-fire explosion without a scratch. Clearly, some power beyond reality was protecting the thing pouring out the taint.

"No good. We can't destroy it until that protective power is removed."

The very burly brigadier sighed.

"Even getting close is difficult. That damned thing seems to connect directly to the Warp. Just approaching it interferes with your mind. Even my symbiote trembles when we get near. I suspect this thing may have something to do with Dagon.

"At the very least, this dream is definitely connected to that evil god."

"Use this!"

Amber, wearing her exoskeleton, rushed over and handed Fraser the broken Grey Knight