"The daemon entity has been purified."
"Zone A3-E9 has been confirmed completely cleared of Warp influence and residual traces."
With the Grey Knights' report, the base, which had been sealed off for seven whole hours, finally saw a glimmer of hope.
In the conference room, from Peggy Carter to Howard Stark, the nerves that had been stretched taut for hours finally relaxed slightly upon hearing the Tech-Priest's cold voice.
Hours of extreme tension left Howard utterly drained the moment he breathed a sigh of relief. He slumped into his chair, his mind completely blank.
Honestly, this was more mentally exhausting than calculating a physics equation nonstop or developing some weapon.
Peggy Carter was no better. Even with an agent's exceptional physical conditioning, she could not help feeling weak.
Yes, it was over.
But... what was the price?
When Peggy Carter thought of that, strangely, her mood did not change at all. She even felt that she had come to her senses too late.
If she had realized it earlier, perhaps the consequences would not have been so severe.
"Compile a... casualty report." Peggy Carter rubbed her tightly furrowed brow. What she was considering now was how to report this incident and how to cover it up.
From key researchers and technicians to the soldiers maintaining order in the base, and even the cleaners responsible for sanitation, more than half of everyone in the facility had died in this disaster.
Or, in Alvin's words, they had been "purified."
Because humans who had been influenced and corrupted by Warp Evil Gods would, if not dealt with in time, become like festering cancer cells, spreading the contamination at terrifying speed and escalating the scale and severity of the disaster.
After personally witnessing the Warp tear through the Reality Veil and daemon entities invade,