In the Cadia system, the brutal war between order and chaos gradually stabilized again after the initial rout.
The Chaos daemon armies, which had originally surged forth like a crimson tide, were still halted at humanity's second line of defense.
The Warp daemons could even see Cadia with their naked eyes, yet no matter how fiercely they fought, they could never lay a hand upon it.
They could only watch helplessly as Cadia, like a pillar holding down the sea, pinned the Warp storm in place and prevented it from continuing to spread toward the Great Rift at the heart of the galaxy.
Be'lakor had even joined forces with Kairos, Rotigus, and Shalaxi Helbane, leading the elite of the Chaos daemon armies in a desperate charge against humanity's defenses, yet they still could not breach that damned line.
Six Blackstone Fortresses hung above the vital nodes of the defensive line like an eternal final wall.
Their ancient Blackstone structures resonated with one another, radiating anti-Warp fields that suppressed the Warp. They greatly inhibited Warp energy, making the daemons' resurrection slow and difficult while rendering their very existence less stable.
What terrified the daemons even more was the Avatar of Khaine rampaging across the battlefield.
Guided to the main battlefield by the Laughing God, the Aeldari god of war resembled a perfect, pure killing machine. Wherever it passed, it left behind only a path paved with daemon corpses and a boiling sea of blood.
Every swing of the Wailing Doom cleared away swathes of Chaos forces as easily as harvesting wheat.
Whether lowly Bloodletters or mighty Bloodthirsters, all seemed utterly insignificant before the wrath of the god of war himself.
Its presence not only greatly relieved the pressure on the defensive line, but also acted like a banner, drawing most of