Just as Kesha handed command of the front line over to the fleet commander, gathered holy light around herself, and prepared to join Lan in a combined assault against the crazed Khorne, four figures silently appeared before her.
They were Inquisitor Puni, Doom Slayer, Secretary Mio, and Luke, who had just completed his ascension of life.
They had caught a ride with the Seventh Fleet and arrived directly at this battlefield.
Their arrival made Kesha let out a soft sigh of relief.
When she had sent news of the Abyss rift back to the Imperium, she had not specifically notified the Inquisition because of Doom Slayer's presence. She had not expected the Inquisition to react so quickly, with a high-ranking Inquisitor arriving directly alongside the fleet's main force.
"You came at just the right time." Kesha gave the four a slight nod, a trace of barely perceptible relief in her voice.
With Inquisitors specialized in combating the Abyss joining the battle, the situation would become far more stable and controllable.
Puni's gaze swept across Lan, who was locked in combat with Khorne in the distance, and the defensive line around the Great Rift. He replied calmly, "It is my duty."
At the center of the battlefield, Lan sensed the arrival of his high-ranking Imperium colleagues, and the battle instinct he had been suppressing could finally be unleashed.
He had been fighting under extreme restraint. He had to precisely evade Khorne's erratic yet terrifyingly powerful frenzied attacks while also controlling his own strength, lest he shake the already unstable Great Rift too severely or endanger the fleets behind him.
Now that powerful reinforcements had arrived and the rear was secure, he could finally focus entirely on the opponent before him.
Just as the energy around Lan surged again and he prepared