Countless holes appeared across the surface of the enormous Arks of Omen on the outskirts of the Scarus Sector.
The many Hulks once fused together were riddled with uniform circular cuts, and the Men of Iron forces began advancing deeper inside.
The seals imprisoning Daemonic machine spirits were broken. The Daemons' souls roared as they burst out of the hulls that had tormented them, seeking to vent their fury. Yet their terrifying howls meant nothing to the Men of Iron, and the lightning generated by arcs of psychic power did no damage whatsoever to these mechanical bodies.
Psychic lightning capable of burning a human to charcoal merely crackled against the Energy Shields of the Sentinels and Armed Sentinels before dissipating completely.
The mechanical forces immediately offered the most heartfelt welcome in return. Under a dense barrage of energy beams, the Daemons' souls were banished back into the Warp with almost no resistance.
As the veil of the Warp was drawn aside once more.
An entire Adeptus Mechanicus fleet suddenly appeared on the scene.
Then, under the eyes of the many Imperial forces, it stopped right beside the enormous Arks of Omen.
Masses of landing craft began deploying from the ships onto the arks.
The bewildered Imperial Navy fleet had originally intended to warn them to beware of these strange mechanical bodies they had never seen before.
But when they saw the newcomers pull straight alongside without coming under any attack, they froze instead.
What they saw next was even harder to understand.
When the landing craft touched down, neither the Legio Cybernetica nor the familiar Skitarii forces emerged.
Instead, groups of robed Tech-Priests with mediocre combat capabilities came out.
For a moment, everyone in the Imperial Navy wondered whether the Adeptus Mechanicus had gone mad.
Soon, however, they discovered that