The Venom Tank continued forward.
Jenos needed to give the friendly troops in his sector more opportunities to withdraw, and that meant driving the super-heavy Venom Tank farther forward.
Even if there were no friendly troops nearby, retreating in a super-heavy tank would have been unwise.
"The Dark Angels sold us out." Krogar's voice remained calm and level. "How is that possible?"
Jenos did not answer. He aimed at a daemon engine.
Before he could press the firing button, metal creaked overhead. A Skull Lord sheared off the tank's turret and looked down at the mentor and apprentice inside its hull.
Its battle axe rose high, ready to chop down.
Suddenly, an armor-piercing shell grazed the Skull Lord's leg and struck the Venom Tank.
From the sound of the shell striking the armor and the direction it came from alone, Jenos knew what would happen next.
The ammunition would detonate.
Krogar lunged at his mentor, and the explosion that erupted a second later swallowed them both.
Then two figures shot out through the billowing smoke and flames, flew a considerable distance, and slammed into the ground.
After an unknown length of time, Jenos slowly regained consciousness. He checked himself first and found that his Terminator armor had shattered.
The sergeant's energy-absorbing Terminator armor had dissipated most of the blast's energy. Otherwise, he could never have survived.
Jenos looked to his side, then searched all around before finally finding Krogar.
The painless warrior's Terminator armor had large breaches in it, and his body was riddled with shrapnel.
But he was not dead.
Krogar climbed to his feet only to collapse again. Only then did he realize how badly his body was damaged. He forced his broken bones back into place and injected himself with adrenaline before he could move again.
Krogar