After seizing all the hovering vehicles in midair, Mallys led the few hundred remaining warriors of the Kabal of the Poisoned Tongue away, rapidly widening the distance between them and the remaining forces of the Kabal of the Black Heart.
Their Anti-Gravity Devices worked furiously, struggling to slow their fall.
A little over ten meters above the Sword of the Void's outer armor, the vehicles let out a teeth-grating creak and slowly stabilized their altitude, like boats bobbing back to the surface after plunging into the water.
The Talos Pain Engines, the other equipment, and the Wyches and Haemonculi thrown out for their loyalty to Vect plummeted straight down.
The falling war machines and violent explosions even left several shallow dents in the outer armor along the Sword of the Void's lower hull.
Before the surviving Drukhari's eyes, every dent repaired itself as swiftly as a living thing, leaving the armor as though it had never been damaged.
The debris from the explosions and the pulped corpses left by the fall soon disappeared as well.
But a large swarm of unfamiliar metal aircraft quickly surrounded the surviving Drukhari.
The ancient protocols remained in effect. The Men of Iron had not directly caused those deaths, and any indirect harm had nothing to do with them.
But that did not mean Iax welcomed these uninvited aliens.
The shattered psychic crystals meant Iax needed new psychic batteries, while being inside the Webway meant no more psykers could be acquired here for the time being.
The arrival of these Aeldari was good news for Iax.
"Aeldari, lower your vehicles, shut down your engines, and state your purpose. Any resistance or unnecessary movement will result in your deaths."
The ancient Aeldari language rang out from the speakers of the many Heavy Drone Fighters.
Seeing that