Astartes: The Red Tide
Chapter 298

Assault on the harbor

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Kazhaniv had never felt so light. His bulging muscles hid the force of an erupting volcano, and a casual swing of his arm raised an astral gale that sent his cloak snapping.

A suit of specially made adamantium armor stood before him, slimmer and lighter than the one Evan used.

He needed neither an anti-psyker layer nor a blackstone layer. Dispensing with those sources of bulk, his adamantium armor was also thinner than the cumbersome, stacked plating of ordinary Terminators, vastly improving the Mad Wolf's agility.

Standing among his battle-brothers, he was a full size smaller, but no one doubted that the Mad Wolf could easily defeat opponents several times his size.

Li Anjun stood beside Kazhaniv, with an army of Terminators behind them. Kazhaniv had become an independent Chapter Champion, whose sole duty was to seek out the strongest enemy and challenge them to single combat. Li Anjun had taken over as First Company Captain, commanding nearly two thousand Terminators from ten Chapters. Why were there so many Terminators? For that, one would have to ask the departed souls of those nearly thirty thousand Iron Warriors...

However much the main force looked down on Terminators, they had to admit that Terminator armor possessed a feature adamantium armor could not match: it could teleport.

Cataphractii-pattern suits could teleport directly through a warship's teleportation array, while the vast majority of the Chapters' teleportation-capable Librarians had been deployed to the First Company, helping launch mass assaults with the other Terminators.

The combined formations of heavily armored Librarians and Terminators possessed unprecedented strength, and now they were ready to deliver death to the enemy.

Their first mission was to destroy Crimson Harbor, where countless Kabal vessels were docked. The enemy ships constantly taking off had an incalculable impact on our warships, greatly delaying

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