The Hummingbird Assault Boat tore through the sky like lightning. Under the skilled control of those battle-hardened elite veterans, it sped toward the ruins of buildings scattered across the hive world and finally came to a steady stop at one of them.
"Get off the assault boat! Move it!" As soon as the Hummingbird Assault Boat came to an abrupt halt, the pilots roared in unison with urgency.
At the same time, the Hummingbird Assault Boat's heavy hatch opened swiftly and smoothly, as if by magic.
"Move faster! Follow me!" The elite veteran leading the group glared fiercely and bellowed himself hoarse at the inexperienced recruits.
Before his words had even faded, he took the lead, bursting from the Hummingbird Assault Boat like an arrow loosed from a bow and charging straight toward a nearby shelter.
Awakened by the deafening shouts, the recruits snapped back to their senses and followed close behind the veteran who had led from the front, sprinting with powerful strides toward the shelter just ahead.
Once every Space Marine had disembarked, the Hummingbird Assault Boat's pilots did not dare delay for even a moment. They worked the controls at lightning speed, rapidly climbing away from the ground.
After all, no one wanted this incomparably precious assault boat lingering on the ground, where it might become the target of the Jelma hive world's Planetary Defence Force and suffer a barrage of concentrated fire.
Ordinary attacks might have struggled to inflict any real damage on the exceptionally sturdy Hummingbird Assault Boat, but for the Carcharodons Space Marines, who had long suffered the bitterness of poverty, seeing such fine equipment destroyed so easily would have been utterly heartbreaking.
Just then, a world-shaking roar suddenly erupted—"Rumble!"
The Hummingbird Assault Boat had barely left its landing site when shells came screaming