Lu Jin charged down from the ice peak to the ground.
The Silver Skulls' entire company had been wiped out. The Mortals were left to face the Thousand Sons and the Gellerpox victims alone.
They had survived this long despite every Space Marine being dead not only because of their numbers, but also because the Gellerpox victims were fighting the Thousand Sons.
Nurgle and Tzeentch found cooperation extremely difficult, because their domains were in absolute conflict: one represented eternity, the other change.
The first to notice Lu Jin was a Thousand Sons Psyker.
The Psyker thrust out his right hand toward the snowstorm, unleashing a tremendous surge of Psionic Power capable of pinning an entire armored company in place.
It was useless.
Lu Jin charged through the crushing psychic pressure and slammed into the Psyker, shattering him with his shoulder.
With the sound of breaking armor, a group of Gellerpox victims who had been fighting the Psyker were smashed to pieces as well.
In every battle on Alert Star so far, Lu Jin had immediately become the focus of the battlefield. Now, too, he drew the attention of most of the enemy forces. The pressure on the Mortals' defenses plummeted as countless Gellerpox victims and Thousand Sons converged on him.
"It's the Lord of Valor!"
One of the Mortals had seen his portrait and cried out the title of their rescuer.
In many of Alert Star's hive cities, the Lord of Valor was the embodiment of courage and strength. The Rebel Army's Chaplains trained others who roamed from hive to hive, proclaiming that the Lord of Valor was not only the embodiment of courage and strength, but also the defender of the weak and the avenger of the wronged.
Now the survivors in the Antarctic had witnessed what the Chaplains