The Imperium's teleportation system was still a Warp-based technology, which was why any warrior who had experienced teleportation never wanted to recall the agony of it.
According to some Astartes, it felt as though every atom in their bodies had passed through an electrified net before being reassembled into its original form.
This was precisely the result of a material body being steeped in the laws of the Warp, then returning to the laws of the real universe.
Under Lox's control, however, the process was somewhat different. He could teleport the space around the target along with them, like bubbles enclosing the people within before depositing them at the destination according to his will.
When Hal, Corswain, and the others opened their eyes, they found themselves in an exceptionally spacious and unfamiliar clearing.
This was an interior region of the Blackstone Fortress, already quite close to its true core. Lox could only send his boarding force this far.
The Iron Men moved faster than the Astartes. Under the control of the node Iron Men, these massive war machines released countless micron-scale reconnaissance drones from within their bodies, which immediately scattered in all directions like swarms of flies.
These tiny things consumed such negligible amounts of matter that it could practically be ignored, serving as countless sharp eyes that provided battlefield intelligence for their side.
Furthermore, the specialized bodies of the reconnaissance Iron Men carried dozens of different scanning systems, as though they had cheated their way through the battlefield fog.
What one Iron Man saw was shared with the others through their gestalt consciousness. They swiftly began slaughtering the defenders rushing toward them with arc weapons and Gauss weapons.
The first wave of Chaos rebels was quickly torn apart by the ferocious firepower, and the Iron Men's arc weapons even