The Plague Marines and the Purge of the Plague also noticed the arrival of the uninvited guests and suddenly stopped fighting each other.
Nurgle mutants surrounded the Fierce Angels so tightly that not even water could pass through.
The entire company was rapidly taking casualties.
Normally, they would have requested orbital bombardment support in a situation like this, but the warships on both sides were fighting fiercely above the South Pole. Control of orbit could change hands several times within half an hour.
"Anyone nearby, come with me to plant the bomb!"
Kao swung his sword and chopped off one of the spider-like legs of an armored vehicle, then dragged over a recruit carrying an Anti-Psyker Bomb.
The bomb on the recruit's back was actually just a glass jar filled with Anti-Psyker Ash from beneath the Golden Throne.
Kao wracked his brains but could not figure out how the merchants in the alliance had obtained ash from the Golden Throne. This stuff was exclusively supplied to the Culexus Temple of the Assassinorum—those upstart merchant groups seemed capable of anything, able to buy whatever they wanted.
The Gold Mark veterans followed their company commander's lead, carving a path through the Gellerpox victims.
Kao had originally planned to get close to the Blackstone Crown before throwing the bomb, but when he turned around, he could no longer see his battle-brothers. His display only showed that eighty-five percent of them were still alive.
Kao's armor had once been worn by Lu Jin, giving it mystical properties that allowed it to serve as an anchor for the Relic Teleportation Device in environments heavily affected by the Warp.
But just as the teleportation began and Kao prepared to casually hurl the bomb away, what he saw made him order the Savage Fangs to halt the