But just as Sir Jaeger Sobek was wondering when he might turn his generation's lifetime title into a hereditary one, he and his comrades had already passed through the city's main thoroughfare. They could even see the central tower in the distance—the tallest building in this remote planet's industrial town.
And just then, heaven and earth changed.
Countless bolts of lightning fell from the sky, striking the city and coalescing into all manner of grotesque, terrifying monsters.
Though most of these young knights came from distinguished families with long military traditions, they couldn't all be well-versed in the occult, let alone have experience navigating the Void. Faced with this scene, they were naturally caught completely off guard.
As for Colonel Sobek, the one of humblest birth and least familiar with such things, he was even more utterly bewildered.
A tentacled creature born of a sub-Void beast was already thrashing its limbs beside him, and he still hadn't reacted.
Of course, the monster formed from this fragment of the Void was quickly chopped into charged particles by Baron Haiyelo, who stood beside him.
"As expected, it's a sub-Void beast... Just like the books say, nothing to worry about." Baron Haiyelo hadn't expected things to go so smoothly. After a brief pause, he swung his power axe, wreathed in spiritual light, at another sub-Void beast that looked like a three-headed lizard. One strike blasted the decidedly inhuman-looking monster to pieces.
Sub-Void beasts were indeed fierce, and their bizarre forms were certainly quite Lovecraftian. If they had truly descended upon an ordinary town, the scene would probably have been something out of The Mist, Sphinx edition. But to Starrealm Knights clad in heraldic armor, they really weren't all that dangerous.
Baron Haiyelo's actions quickly made the knights realize this. These elite psionic tacticians