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After Annie safely arrived on the other side of the portal, in a plaza somewhere in the center of the Ruins, she didn't hurry to launch an attack.
She simply stayed hidden and continued lying in wait. Without alerting the daemons or the Psykers, she quickly took advantage of the crowds to slip into the ruins of a steel high-rise a few hundred meters away. Then she swiftly made her way to the top floor and quietly settled into a perfect sniping position, where an earlier attack had cracked the wall. From there, she began observing and monitoring the Warp Daemons' ritual and portal.
As for the specifics of the battle at the mine base, and whether the tens of thousands of Warp Daemons crowded into the tunnels would endanger the mine base and the refugees' residential area, she wasn't particularly worried—and cared even less.
After all, she knew what Darius and his people were capable of.
Some of their officers and veterans had been personally trained by Commander Annie. If those idiots couldn't even beat a few Daemons trapped in tunnels where they couldn't maneuver, then they might as well pack their things and get off this planet as soon as possible.
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Anyway!
There were still plenty of Daemons prowling and stationed inside the building, and it stood right in the middle of the city, surrounded by Daemons that had gathered from all over. So Annie didn't rush to make trouble. Instead, she carefully kept the Ghost Operative Suit's cloaking function on, her eyes fixed on the distant place teeming with Warp Daemons and twisted Psykers.
After all, she still remembered her original purpose: to put an end to the Warp Daemons' ability to teleport—to open Warp Rifts—once and for all, or at least for