The spot where Iax threw the bomb was more than a hundred meters from the Dolmen Gate exit inside the hall.
The bomb was astonishingly heavy. Unless someone had enough room to launch it, or could propel it across that distance like a shell, no one could throw it straight into the Dolmen Gate.
With their superhuman eyesight, the Astartes had all clearly seen that the timer had only five seconds left. While the bomb was in the air, several of them had even seen the numbers changing.
After throwing the bomb, Iax flickered forward a short distance, then seamlessly accelerated it again.
The Bodyguard Robot still inside the hall caught the bomb in its hands with perfect precision and launched it into the Dolmen Gate like a shell.
Thud!
Some of them thought they faintly heard a tremendous, muffled impact.
It seemed something had been about to emerge from inside, only to be knocked back in.
The Dolmen Gate exit before them suddenly began shrinking rapidly, then started to vanish.
Cawl, who had been secretly watching their progress the entire time, quietly turned his attention to the Necrons Tomb Ship in space.
A brilliant wave of green energy erupted from the center of the Tomb Ship, and a vast torrent of light spewed from the conspicuous, enormous Tombstone atop it. Green arcs of electricity flashed everywhere.
Clearly, the bomb had not appeared aboard the Tomb Ship, but had exploded directly inside the Dolmen Gate. Cawl had observed nothing consistent with a Melta Bomb detonation.
The great green fireworks display he had hoped to see never materialized either.
The immense energy backlash directly overloaded the portal sustaining the Dolmen Gate. Energy surged everywhere, spilling wildly from the Necrons' ship's power systems.
No one knew what had actually happened aboard that