"You mean you found Lucius's corpse? And he didn't resurrect?"
"Yes. We confirmed his identity. He had practically been stabbed into a sieve; there wasn't a single intact piece of flesh left on him. Without a doubt, he was thoroughly dead," Hill replied seriously.
Who had killed the exceedingly troublesome Lucius Usran had described? Lox pondered the question.
Killing Lucius was not difficult. Though he was quite formidable, there were countless capable Loyalists who could kill him.
The problem was that, as previous battle reports had shown, several veterans who killed Lucius had been possessed by him afterward, becoming pitiable sacrifices.
Remaining normal after killing Lucius—that was the difficult part.
However, Lox did not dwell on it for long. The enemy was dead beyond doubt. The Ultramarines dispatched more than a dozen Astartes and used their promethium flamers to burn those blasphemous fallen ones to ashes.
Filth evaporated in the flames. Billows of black smoke spread through Pandora's atmosphere before being dispersed by the moving air.
This sudden encounter quickly ended in a Loyalist victory. This Emperor's Children company, which had appeared from nowhere, had run into a fully armed joint force of Ultramarines and White Scars and been completely crushed.
Had their bizarre Noise Marines not inflicted some casualties, then without heavy vehicles, they would likely have been reduced to a single-digit exchange ratio by the Ultramarines.
"Before some of the Emperor's Children died, the Warp daemons inhabiting them began to stir. Unfortunately for them, they encountered our Untouchable squads."
"The soulless ones performed their duties brilliantly. Their very existence suppresses and deters the powers of the Warp."
Hill praised them. The trump card they had painstakingly prepared had finally come into play.
Just like the other traitors who had turned to Chaos, these people began summoning Warp daemons