At intervals along the inner side of the walls hung enormous skulls.
Lightning and thunder surged beneath the skulls.
Storms of lava and fire erupted or howled from time to time.
This breach had cut off the route from within the fortress to the outside. The forces intending to intercept the ever-approaching Blackstone Obelisk could not get out, nor did they dare approach the exit, for they risked being caught in the lightning and flames.
Qin Mo focused on dealing with Bloodthirster-level enemies from the Real Universe, while the Custodians and Heat Death focused on the Bloodletters.
Though the Custodians and Heat Death were powerful, without Psychic Power, they could not contend with opponents as formidable as Bloodthirsters.
But they did not need to fight the Bloodthirsters.
Soldiers fought soldiers, generals fought generals—such was a rule of war that had to be observed. When a Bloodthirster's axe came down, someone with a hard enough neck would take it.
The battle between Qin Mo and the Bloodthirsters was not something outsiders could even interfere with. Every move from both sides carried terrifying force; the aftershock of their attacks was enough to vaporize Astartes and new Thunder Warriors within several kilometers. The tremors caused by clashing blades could be felt by Fabius on the other side of Brumm.
Yet even so, the servants of the Blood God—those foolish believers who knew their god desired to witness courage—dared enter a battlefield that even the Astartes fighting there did not dare approach.
A mortal regiment under Ubondrak rapidly assembled within the fortress, then rushed toward the enormous wall centered around the skull, at the skull's eight o'clock direction.
This mortal regiment possessed vast quantities of anti-armor weaponry, whether weapons based on scientific principles or Psychic Power, whether explosive melta-plasma weapons or weapons that fired