"Damn... damn blasphemous creation!" Kor'sarro Khan was furious. The shadow that had tried to ambush him was sliced apart by several blows from the Khan, yet it seemed to have no effect.
The shadow swiftly reassembled, taking on the outline of a Space Marine. Blade-like edges condensed around it as it slashed toward Kor'sarro's head.
Warp-based? Daemon? Technological construct? Kor'sarro Khan frowned. The force field of his power scimitar had failed to damage it in any way, which surprised him.
From the battle reports, he knew that the T'au Empire possessed so-called Reflection Warriors, weakened soldiers created in imitation of Astartes. They generally wore iridium alloy armor and were inferior to them in both speed and reaction time.
Khan and his Eagle Brotherhood had personally slain quite a few Reflection Warriors, but the thing before him seemed subtly different from the others.
The transformations of these shadows and their elusive nature reminded Kor'sarro Khan of those taciturn fellows from the Raven Guard.
The emergence of these shadow warriors disrupted the battle. They leapt across the battlefield, and each time they condensed into form, several soldiers died at their hands.
The forces Khan had brought were entangled by the shadows, allowing Shadowsun's battlesuit assault troops a moment to catch their breath during the counterattack.
"Is this a new unit Director Yongtan has deployed?" Shadowsun straightened up. A bolt round had punched a crater into her arm; apparently, she had used it to block the shot Khan had aimed at her head.
Lin Fan stared at the shadows, equally puzzled. He contacted Rebecca. "Can you see these shapeless shadows?"
"I can. I'm analyzing them." Rebecca answered, followed by a startled cry.
"What happened?" Lin Fan swung his hammer and batted away a railgun shell as he asked Rebecca about her situation.
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