After confirming the involvement of psychic power, the Imperial Inquisition immediately responded at the urging of the Four Champions.
A fleet assembled from several Inquisition Black Ships and Grey Knights Battle Barges set out almost at once.
Two Ultramarines successor Chapters accompanied them.
After all, this was the Ultima Segmentum, Guilliman's home territory.
Nowhere were these Ultramarines more numerous.
After rendezvousing, the force of more than a dozen ships headed straight for the epicenter of the calamity.
Yet barely had the fleet entered the Warp before it came under attack from Daemons.
The Daemons had made the trip for nothing, failed to find the source of that psychic power, and been ruthlessly steamrolled by the Mechanicus Fleet behind its impenetrable Gellar Fields. The Imperial Fleet happened to run into the great tide of Daemons returning home and received their welcoming reception almost immediately.
Vast numbers of Daemons attacked the Imperial Ships without hesitation.
The ships of the Imperial Fleet sped through the twisted, chaotic depths of the Warp. Beneath the glow of Warp energy, their metal hulls shimmered with distorted light, like scattered, lonely stars in the darkness, stubbornly preserving the faint light of order and justice.
The energy tides of the Warp surged violently, like a raging black ocean churned by some immense, unknown force, hurling countless Daemons toward the Imperial Fleet.
From time to time, the power of the Warp seeped through weak points in the Gellar Fields. The once-faint presence of Daemons instantly spread like floodwater bursting through a dam.
Countless Daemons materialized out of thin air inside the ships, surging through their interiors like a tide, their bizarre bodies twisting and shifting in the darkness.
Some Daemons burned all over with emerald flames, sporting enormous bat wings and sharp fangs as they unleashed bloodcurdling shrieks.
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