The vast mechanical force soon occupied every key Webway junction around Commorragh that Mallys knew of.
Not every Drukhari chose to fight when faced with a Daemon attack.
Many Aeldari, especially the Haemonculi with their considerable reserves of technology, had already begun evacuating their precious assets.
After all, this war was unlike any before it. Fear of Daemons had long been etched into every Drukhari soul.
Death meant the loss of their souls, and most lacked the wealth to purchase the right to sacrificial resurrection from the Haemonculus masters.
The Haemonculi's sacrificial resurrection was a truly daemonic technique. It had severe flaws and granted only a very short lifespan.
But these secrets were unknown to the other Drukhari.
As for resurrecting the dead, the Haemonculi had always treated it as an amusement for their own pleasure.
They never tired of awakening dead individuals, making them into subjects who could once again be tortured and toyed with.
After all, their resurrection involved forcibly binding the dead person's soul and body back together.
To ensure that the resurrected truly awakened and regained consciousness, the Haemonculi inflicted extreme pain on their souls.
These masters of suffering believed that only the stimulus of pain could reestablish a close connection between soul and flesh, turning the resurrected individual into a being capable of sensation and emotion.
Yet those very agonizing stimuli inflicted severe damage on the resurrected person's soul.
As for the body, the fact that they had died meant it was already badly damaged.
Combining two severely damaged, broken materials naturally produced a resurrected being riddled with flaws.
These people not only had extremely short lifespans, but also suffered from various defects and mutations. The most common included partial bodily decay, missing limbs, impaired intelligence, and twisted personalities.
These flaws were regarded as the