"Battle!"
The Grey Knight mentor became instantly alert upon seeing the end of the passage, holding his power hammer before him as Psychic Power gathered, ready to strike.
The other Grey Knights immediately formed a guard around their mentor, gripping power glaives and standing ready, their Psychic Power likewise primed.
Corvus and the new Thunder Warriors had prepared for battle even earlier.
The Kill Weapon's confidence, and its disregard for the enemies within the Titan, did not stem from arrogance. It was simply certain that any enemy who dared enter the Titan would never leave alive.
Although Corvus and the others had found a route leading to the next level in the engine room, what awaited them was not the Kill Weapon itself, but the Terror Guards it had deployed along the engine room passages.
Terror Guards. That was the name of the monsters at the end of the passage.
The monsters appeared to be terrifyingly formidable foes, as immense as Bloodthirsters. Yet no one present was ordinary, and their vision allowed them to make out the details of the Terror Guards' bodies in the dimness.
Gears, mechanical structures, armor plates.
The Terror Guards clearly lacked the biological traits of Bloodthirsters. They were grotesque aberrations formed from mutated living mechanical structures.
At their first sight of the Terror Guards, a term surfaced in the Thunder Warriors' minds—Iron Men.
"Slaughter... decapitation..."
"Slaughter... decapitation..."
The two Terror Guards at the end of the passage noticed the unwelcome visitors. Their steel-fanged mouths emitted chilling murmurs as they slowly advanced, double axes in hand.
The Grey Knight mentor took out a book bearing the image of Daemon Gear and flipped through it. He immediately learned the origins of these daemon Iron Men.
They had originally been the mechanical servants of the Daemon Prince known