When Lu Jin and Emagran reached the surface, the battle was already over.
The whole thing had taken twenty-two minutes.
The result had come as no surprise to Emagran. Their side had enjoyed every advantage, so the battle should have ended in such a crushing victory.
The Great White Shark prisoners were hauled off to the Judgement Day's brig. The strike cruiser had been secured, and once the situation on the world had stabilized, the prisoners would be handed over to the locals.
"What a shame."
Emagran was leading the way, holding a device that was clearly unlike anything made in modern times, when Lu Jin suddenly sighed.
Lu Jin surveyed everything around them.
Judging by its architecture, this was an entirely ordinary urban world.
The Imperium's territory held more than just hive worlds and religious worlds, places with incredibly harsh environments. It had worlds of every kind.
Pastoral idylls, cyberpunk worlds—every imaginable variety.
Emagran also felt that this world had suffered an undeserved disaster. It was truly a terrible shame.
"Can this device help us find the Navigation Tower?" Lu Jin glanced at the object in the Inquisitor's hand. "You said the locals had studied it before."
"They studied it thousands of years ago. Later, they tried to reverse-engineer it, but an accident during the experiment led them to seal it away. This is the key to finding the place where it was locked up."
Lu Jin followed the Inquisitor onward, thinking that later he should take a census of the world's surviving population and see if he could help the locals restore order.
Following the device's guidance, the two of them arrived at the largest building in the city ruins.
They also saw a dead Space Marine lying across the ground. He seemed to have died from a