Cleaning up the battlefield was simple.
The Blue-armored Marines' successors walked back and forth across the plain, dragging the Khorne Berserkers' bodies together, piling up the wreckage of daemon engines, and carrying wounded warriors toward the fortress on stretchers.
Once the gun barrels on the Gun Emplacements had cooled, they were cleaned, and the Missile Launchers were retracted into cover.
The Khorne battle line along the coast had already been driven into the sea. The daemons attacked one another on their way back to the warp, while the remaining Berserkers could only jump into the water and swim away.
The Ultramarines set up their Bolters along the shore. Like Yama calling the roll of the dead, they took them down one shot at a time.
Then they fished the bodies out of the sea.
They weren't about to let them pollute Macragge's waters.
Macragge's sun emerged from behind the clouds, shining on the small mountains of gray-and-red corpses.
The Ultramarines had more or less finished cleaning up the battlefield.
Only then did the Blood Angels arrive.
Dozens of Thunderhawk Gunships entered the atmosphere with blue-white exhaust streaming from their engines, while two Battle Barges remained in orbit behind them on standby. Farther back, the Thunderhawk Gunships of two Successor Chapters followed their parent Chapter in a single line.
A swarm of Landing Craft descended from orbit, passed through the clouds, and headed for the hangar platform at Hera Fortress.
The Landing Craft touched down on Hera Fortress's hangar platform. Their hatches slid open, and Dante was the first to step out.
Dante had brought the combined Blood Angels forces to Hera Fortress.
The moment they landed, they learned that the fighting was already over.
Dante and the Blood Angels' company captains said, "Huh?????"
The captain who had come to welcome