"..."
The scorched ground glowed red-hot.
The air itself had been baked scorching hot. Every breath felt like inhaling a blazing charcoal briquette.
And the earth continued to tremble.
The ground commander observing the distant battlefield stared at the enormous steel monstrosity drilling out of the earth, nearly rising to his feet.
"That is..."
"What is that?"
The ground was cracking apart.
Rifts like bottomless abysses split open one after another.
It was as if tens of thousands of years of change had concealed this planet's true form.
And now...
The true form hidden beneath the world had finally been awakened.
Like Pandora's box being opened.
A turret slowly rose from the ground as it rotated.
The colossal turret possessed a barrel nearly a hundred meters long. Its thick muzzle contained unimaginable technology and manufacturing techniques.
Beneath the turret stood a tower frame made entirely of metal.
And the weapon it carried was not energy ammunition, but physical shells forged with unknown technology.
Its caliber was so absurd that even Imperial Lunar-class battleships and Ork battle moons would have to give it a wide berth.
Turret after turret rotated as they rose into the air.
Complex machinery began to turn.
Their barrels aimed toward the sky.
Those targeted by them felt their souls tremble.
It was an unimaginable artillery emplacement.
Who knew how many ages it had endured? Its barrel was already covered in rust, and time had left mottled marks of age upon it. Yet time had not erased its former glory.
[Construction: Small Anti-Air System (Progress 100%)] [Construction: Large Anti-Air System (Progress 50%)]
And artillery emplacements like these were merely part of the small anti-air system.
What was about to emerge from the fissure at the center made even the Tau Empire's ground combat