The awakened Black Templar, Theodosius, understood their current predicament.
Though he remained suspicious of the Blood Raven Chapter's loyalty.
He also knew that now was not the time for them to kill one another.
Just moments ago, amid Chaos's shrieking, he had lost his mind and been completely controlled by the enemy.
On this battlefield, even with the protection of an Iron Halo.
They would be brainwashed by the second wave of attacks.
They chanted some blasphemous Warp prophecy, containing Warp sorcery so potent that it could shake the armor of a Leman Russ Tank into ripples like flowing water.
The Black Templars lacked Librarian capabilities.
With only close combat to rely on, they were the first to bear the brunt of it.
Apart from those Chapter warriors who had not yet deployed, every warrior who had landed had been crazily brainwashed.
They had completely gone from the "black orks" others called them to becoming real black orks.
"Fine!"
Theodosius nodded, but he could not bring himself to apologize to the Blood Raven Librarian he had stabbed. He merely nodded. "We will cooperate with you this time."
There were only seventeen awakened Black Templars.
As well as two White Scars and three Red Scorpions.
The White Scars quickly understood everything.
And accepted Morians of the Blood Raven Chapter's explanation.
They currently had only two choices.
Either destroy the device below, or kill the Chaos Chosen hidden here and banish it back to the Warp.
Neither would be easy.
But destroying the device was clearly simpler.
So it was better to destroy the device.
At least they had a target.
The Red Scorpions' extreme obsession with cleanliness made them perpetually hostile toward the Blood Ravens.
Even now, they still doubted the Blood Ravens. Yet out of loyalty to the Imperium, they