Massive shells filled the sky, swiftly blasting Great Gargants to pieces one after another.
The Destroyer Robots landing in their wake began smaller-scale melee battles with the Super Stompas.
Power Claws clashed with Chainsaw Cutters.
The Destroyer Robots' Power Claws shimmered with a faint golden glow, every swing carrying tremendous force, while the Super Stompas' Chainsaw Cutters roared shrilly, their toothed cutting discs spinning at high speed.
The two collided, throwing off dazzling sparks that lit up the entire battlefield. Those sparks were like sprites of the battlefield, dancing between clashing metal as they bore witness to the fierce fighting.
At the sight of these nimble steel creations, the Imperium's personnel immediately recognized what these machines were.
Inside the deep crater left by a Great Gargant's earlier explosion, another Punisher Titan quickly finished repairing its chassis and leaped out.
Its movements were so swift that they utterly defied anyone's expectations of such an enormous machine. Especially after seeing that god-machine leap, the onlookers somehow found a sense of grace and agility in these gigantic machines.
On the battlefield, they had seen Astartes leap while brandishing Lightning Claws, and they had seen Dreadnoughts perform similar movements. But when that seemingly ordinary action was performed by a Titan standing one hundred and sixty meters tall...
The Sages felt as though their brains were boiling.
They simply could not imagine what it would look like if an Emperor Titan hopped on the spot.
Only then did these Tech-priests suddenly remember that these behemoths seemed to have dropped directly from space.
The Imperium had never mastered any technology for dropping Titans directly onto a battlefield.
The most common method of deploying Titans was to land their components on the surface and assemble them on-site.
As for Titan transports comparable in size to half a