The fleet was still conducting orbital bombardment against the barrier surrounding the Unbreakable Defense Line.
Lances fired from one of the warships in the fleet equipped with Blackstone vessels, just as they would in the Real Universe. But as they gradually left the Blackstone vessels' sphere of influence and entered the area around the Iron Ring, that colossal void Construct, their light dimmed slightly and their paths through the void began to waver unpredictably.
In the end, the lances struck the barrier enclosing the iron sphere of the Unbreakable Defense Line, releasing astonishing energy. Then that energy gradually faded into nothing amid waves of Psychic Power carrying screams that erupted across the barrier.
Another wave of lances struck the barrier the next moment. This time, they did not even explode; many of them simply vanished into nothing as they approached it.
This unstable state of orbital bombardment stemmed from the mutual crushing interference between the Warp and reality at this moment.
The sphere of influence of the Blackstone Constructs within the fleet expanded and weakened intermittently, while the arrays formed by the Obsidian Crowns on the Unbreakable Defense Line drove the vast underground Blackstone matter to amplify the Warp's influence. Their struggle resembled the entanglement and clash of two storms.
Having just teleported out from the sphere of influence of a Blackstone Construct behind the Titan battle line, where Space Marines had set up layer upon layer of defenses, Qin Mo saw all of this. His gaze slowly lowered and shifted toward what he believed was south.
Guilliman was at a position somewhere in that direction. He had already teleported out, but for the moment, he was staying away from the foremost line where the Titans were exchanging fire.
The war had progressed so quickly that Qin Mo felt dazed.