The metal body easily scaled the towering outer wall of the Imperial Palace. Its presence was detected almost the instant it touched the wall.
The Adeptus Custodes atop the wall barely hesitated before unleashing a dense barrage of beams from above.
Yet Iax merely adjusted his body's antigravity module, and his speed surged once more.
He darted through the beams and onto the wall, avoiding them by a hair's breadth.
The Custodians guarding the wall immediately swung their spears at Iax.
What happened next was shocking.
A metal hand effortlessly caught a guardian spear shimmering with a Force Field, then snapped it with a powerful wrench.
Uncontrolled energy flickered at the spearhead before dying out completely.
With its spearhead broken off, the weapon was swung sideways like a staff at the small Mechanical Body.
A loud crack rang out, but Iax did not budge when the blow struck him.
The spear, however, shattered under the immense force of the impact.
Without its disruption Force Field, the spear could do Iax no harm.
Bang, bang, bang!
Another Custodian pressed the button on his spear.
A string of bolt rounds shot from just behind its spearhead.
Yet a faint Energy Shield appeared over the machine's surface, and the Mechanical Body walked out of the smoke completely unscathed. He was even dragging the Custodian who had dared to engage him in close combat.
His mechanical hand gripped the warrior's left leg so tightly that broad cracks had formed even in his auramite Power Armour. Clearly, even if the warrior could be rescued, that leg was almost certainly shattered beyond repair.
The body Iax was using was the same size as a mortal, making the scene look rather bizarre, as though a mortal had seized a giant.
The machine casually hurled the Custodian in