Leman Russ coughed and blinked, as though he had figured something out. Then he suddenly asked, "You... which of you still remembers how the Void Shield's defensive principle works?"
"Wolf King," Thor immediately replied, "it absorbs enemy attacks and sends them into the Warp."
"That's right... that's right... I remembered correctly. That was the principle." Leman Russ's eyes widened. He turned to look at Thor, making his son uneasy. "Then does this world have a Warp? If it does, how is it different from our Warp?"
"Wolf King... Father. I don't understand what you mean. What do you mean, this world has a Warp? Hasn't the Warp always existed?"
Looking at the bewildered Thor, Leman Russ was suddenly filled with despair.
Caw! Caw!
The abrupt birdcall drew all of the Primarch's attention. He looked up.
I saw a kingfisher, and hell followed.
"Look!"
"Father, I didn't see anything."
Nothing at all?
Leman Russ looked at Thor, then at the other confused sons beside him. Gradually, he realized that what he had just seen was a vision of the future, just like Konrad Curze and Sanguinius.
"That scared me to death. I thought I'd been discovered."
"Who goes there?!"
The silent Bjorn immediately opened fire at the calm ground. Plasma blasts left one melted crater after another, and a shadow burst from beneath the earth and darted away. It weaved through the battle-hardened old wolves, snapping the necks of several of them in an instant.
Thor saw who had ambushed them. It was Aura, a loathsome xenos sorceress who controlled magical beasts and soul-corrupted abominations.
"Die!" Thor leaped over his fallen brothers and charged forward. His power axe lit up with a dim, ghostly glow. But Aura, who had sneaked here, had no intention of fighting, even though she dearly wished