They want to reforge Khala? This is heresy!

Amid the ground littered with corpses and swarms of Hybrid Ravagers, Valerian was regrouping his forces.

The Imperial troops had no need to laboriously search for the enemy. From the moment they entered the temple, countless cultists of the evil god and vile creations of darkness emerged from its depths like shadows spreading beneath the setting sun. Terrifying Void creatures also manifested in this world through the immense psionic power gathered here.

The temple was astonishingly vast, nearly comparable to the Temple of Ulnar. At times, Valerian's army could freely deploy its battle lines within gigantic pillared halls as broad as heaven and earth. At other times, they had no choice but to engage the enemy at close quarters in narrow passages.

Some areas were large enough to accommodate steel giants as enormous as an Odin II, while others were too terrain-complex for heavy tanks and armored vehicles to enter.

The enemy could appear anywhere. Even rumbling stone structures could swallow an Imperial force numbering dozens or hundreds.

Amon's tendrils emerged from the shadows through Void catalysts. The Dark God's power filled the entire temple, making it tremble, wail, and seem on the verge of collapse.

The battlefield's gruesome state far exceeded Valerian's expectations, but it did nothing to shake his resolve. If he himself could not disregard life and death, how could he demand that the Empire's soldiers under his command fight and bleed?

"Follow me!"

Valerian shouted the order. At that moment, a Hybrid Ravager charging at the very front was no farther from him than a sword's reach. Spinning Marauder Punisher Grenades flew past both sides of him, bursting with blinding light.

"All Imperial forces, advance!"

The mottled-skinned monster was drenched in blood, scrambling on all fours like a massive spider darting across a wall, its body