Amid the fierce melee, Kaoreish caught the scent of scorched metal released by immensely powerful energy.
Wild bolts of lightning leaped from the shattered armor. Filled with dread, he watched the pale Guk pass through a storm of fire and death toward the towering Titan, still some distance away.
Flames wrapped around his feet, while ghostly light rippled across his armor, shrouding the Ork king in a mysterious radiance.
The Wanderer, under siege, was not faring well. Two more Gork Gargants had joined the battlefield. Kaoreish had never even heard that such war machines had a second unit; all the intelligence he had received stated that there was only one Gork Gargant on the Dunwich battlefield.
Clearly, Guk had concealed a deeply buried trump card. The Gork Gargants completed long ago in Scrap City had been transported from Arkham through a stable teleportation channel to a temporary portal outside Dunwich.
Their arrival immediately left the two human Titans hard-pressed, especially since the Wanderer had only just suffered severe damage.
Explosions peeled away its alloy skin, and thick black fluid flowed from its wounds like blood.
Enduring the pain transmitted from the neural relay nodes, Alexei switched to Yamila's encrypted communications channel.
"Stay back until you run out of ammunition. Then withdraw."
He said it simply.
"Make the Orks pay for every inch of ground."
"Alexei—"
Yamila had barely opened her mouth in the cockpit before Alexei cut the connection.
There was no need for more words, no need for further gestures. There was only fighting to the death.
She glanced at the wedding ring on her hand, then rose from her pilot's seat.
Ghost Spider responded at once. Its splayed legs opened, extending to use the nearby wreckage as footholds.
Through the sensors, she could hear the furious roars of