Now You See Him, Now You Don't!

Dragon Forest Star's night was unlike that of a normal planet.

The planet was rife with the evil power of the Warp. Its atmosphere seemed shrouded in a thick, blood-red fog, while the Chaos Fleet blotted out the light of the stars.

Only the ceaseless orbital bombardment and the black smoke billowing from countless Daemon Factories served as profane symbols of this world!

The canyon where fierce fighting had raged during the day was littered with the corpses of Greenskin Orcs and World Eaters.

Alvin hid in the shadows, cautiously surveying his surroundings. He did his best to suppress his breathing and used his psychic powers to maintain his invisibility.

At no great distance stood a colossal Chaos Daemon Factory. The intense heat of its flesh-forge fed countless souls into its depths, transmuting them into Daemons.

The boiling, acrid smoke reeked of the Warp's malice.

But that wasn't what had driven him to take this risk. It was the suspicion that a "Chaos Ritual node" lay hidden within the Daemon Factory.

According to Ezekiel, Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels, the most likely reason their communications had been cut off was that Dragon Forest Star was covered in numerous Chaos psychic ritual nodes. The Chaos Scrapcode emitted by these "nodes"

had jammed their communications array.

If they wanted to reunite their forces and oppose the Chaos on Dragon Forest Star, their first task was to destroy these "nodes."

Only after restoring the communications array could the Dark Angels regroup their forces.

So, guided by Ezekiel's "prophecy," they had pinpointed this location. All that remained was for Alvin to find the "node."

The mission was extremely dangerous. At first, the higher-ups—including the Supreme Grand Master—had all opposed Alvin putting himself at risk.

But Alvin had firmly refused to back down. After