Across the lands of Commorragh, shrouded in darkness and chaos, the Men of Iron forces surged forward like a silver flood.
Wherever that silver tide passed, every Daemon vanished like a pebble swallowed by the sea.
Cold, silvery metal shells gleamed in the gloom. Powered by their Quantum Energy Cores, the Servo Motors and artificial muscles in the Machine Bodies gave off a faint hum.
The sounds of their heavy bodies advancing announced the arrival of the Men of Iron's Mechanical Army.
The Drukhari fighting Daemons on the front lines naturally witnessed the terror of these killing machines.
Searing energy beams and pale gold blades wove a web of death that sent the Daemons screaming shrilly.
Even the Emperor's Children Traitors, who disregarded pain and torment spells, were utterly engulfed by the Machine Bodies' relentless, tidal assault.
Yet the Drukhari who had been charging at the forefront suddenly slipped into the city's shadows and corners like snakes.
Iax would not simply let these Aeldari hide.
The vast mechanical force poured into the Drukhari city without end.
But a peculiar quantum signal emanated from a strange building in Commorragh, immediately drawing Iax's attention.
A squad of six Sentinels and two Servitors headed straight for the signal's source.
The towering building bore a distinctive emblem.
It depicted a serpent patterned in alternating green and black, its mouth agape, with a falling drop of venom before its slender tongue.
This was the emblem of the Kabal of the Poisoned Tongue. As a prominent, publicly known Drukhari organization, they maintained their own building despite their hostility toward the Kabal of the Black Heart.
The Archon of the Kabal of the Poisoned Tongue was Lady Aurelia Mallys.
And the quantum signal originated deep within this building.
As the doors were pushed open, the guards from