Several weeks later, several Imperium units deployed near the system answered Colonel Dofrank's call.
During that time, Colonel Dofrank commanded the Yad 227th Regiment to build defensive fortifications around the portal, preventing those undead enemies from rushing out and causing them even greater trouble.
However, Colonel Dofrank discovered that the enemies on the other side of the gate had no intention of attacking. Like the Imperium forces, they were building defenses around the portal.
But compared to the broad defensive network of concrete, trenches, and barbed wire erected by the Imperium soldiers, the enemies beyond the gate were constructing an enormous fortress, built through magic and the tireless labor of skeletons.
Colonel Dofrank received Imperium reinforcements. A small Adeptus Mechanicus technical recovery team led by Magos Ohm and a Hammer of Annihilation heavy armored company led by Colonel Leithris arrived near his command post.
Magos Ohm's technical recovery team was small, consisting of only a hundred people. More than eighty of them were Skitarii tasked with ensuring the Magos's safety, while the remaining twenty were Magos Ohm's apprentices and assistants.
That said, Magos Ohm's apprentices were no ordinary people either. Any one of them alone could handle the equipment maintenance of an reinforced company. They were called incompetent apprentices only because the technological relics Magos Ohm dealt with were more complex than weapons the Imperium could manufacture, requiring lengthy calculations and a bit of luck.
The force Colonel Leithris brought was exceptionally formidable. They had just withdrawn from a battlefield where they had exterminated a xenos civilization. Stains of xenos blood still clung to their sturdy tank armor, and their moving tracks occasionally spat out chunks of crushed flesh.
"It's good to see you, Colonel Dofrank! If our company had received infantry cover while destroying those xenos cities, we could