As the Super Tomb Stalkers entered the battlefield, the Punisher Titans were immediately constrained.
Those strange Space-Splitting Weapons were extremely dangerous.
The enemy's attacks did not act directly on the Punisher Titans' bodies, but on the space they occupied.
This allowed those terrifying attacks to bypass shields and destroy their targets directly.
With rapid battlefield analysis coming in, Iax soon noticed something.
All the units destroyed by these Tomb Stalkers shared the same characteristic.
They had all been destroyed while moving.
This meant the mechanical combat units had effectively collided with Spatial Rifts and suffered damage, rather than being sliced apart along with the space they occupied.
Using the analytical data, every combat unit's Environmental Scanner was updated and fitted with a new Spatial Scanning Module.
This module could detect gaps in space.
The Spatial Rifts carved out by the Super Tomb Stalkers' Space-Splitting Weapons lasted only briefly.
Within just a few seconds, these tiny gaps in the Physical Universe would repair themselves.
Ordinary living beings might have been helpless against such concealed, deadly traps.
But not the Men of Iron.
Once the nature of the enemy's attacks was identified, countermeasures were quickly implemented.
Whenever light flared on a Super Tomb Stalker's head, an almost imperceptibly small Spatial Rift appeared on the battlefield.
All nearby combat units would briefly halt any large movements in combat, switching to ranged attacks wherever possible to minimize the risk of damaging their own bodies through movement.
The Punisher Titans and other large units also abandoned running and jumping—movements that were difficult to stop abruptly—to avoid colliding with attacks capable of destroying them outright.
The Necron commanders noticed this problem too, forcing these gigantic Canoptek Constructs to attempt to engage the Punisher Titans in close combat.
The Space-Cutting Weapons occupied a considerable portion of their