"More and more daemons are appearing in the Antarctic War Zone. It's like when I crouched on the deck watching mortals teach their children to paint, and one of the children accidentally knocked over a bucket of blue paint. Great swaths of blue all over the white paper."
Lu Jin climbed into a Macro Cannon and had Killer Tool operate it, firing him toward a nearby Imperial warship.
Kao reported on the ground war on Alert Star over the communications channel.
As Lu Jin flew out of the warship, the frigate Perturabo had extensively modified exploded, destroying countless robots along with it.
"We've also determined what caused the small rifts in the southern Nacmund Corridor."
"Word Bearers have been sighted at the South Pole."
"The Word Bearers deployed black, ring-shaped Chaos constructs in areas where the Thousand Sons had previously been active. They corrupted small underground blackstone deposits, changing their properties from suppressing the Warp's influence to amplifying it."
"The Adeptus Mechanicus is trying to resolve this, but neither its personnel on Alert Star nor Archmagos Belisarius Caul can do anything about it for now."
When Kao finished, several more communications windows appeared at the bottom of Lu Jin's vision.
They were all Adeptus Mechanicus personnel. Caul was the only one Lu Jin knew.
"The only solution we can think of is to hold the fortress we established at the South Pole, then coordinate with the Primarch's command to launch decapitation strikes against those black, ring-shaped Chaos constructs."
"Although those metal-skeleton xenos are willing to help, we cannot depend on xenos assistance. The ground war needs you, Lord of Valor."
After hearing all this, Lu Jin frowned, his voice thick with displeasure. "Blackstone Crowns. That's what those black rings are called. The forces of Chaos learned how to reverse blackstone's