Then he heard that sound.
At first, it was only a faint, low rumble, like distant thunder. It came from the pitch-black breach at the end of the corridor, growing louder and closer with every passing moment.
Then light appeared.
A golden radiance slowly emerged from the darkness of the breach. At first, it was only a blurred point of light, but it quickly expanded into a dazzling curtain of gold, like the rising sun.
The light was so bright that the T'au Fire Warriors' holographic sights automatically activated their anti-glare filters. Even then, the radiance still made their eyes ache.
Under the influence of that power, the emergency lights along both walls of the corridor began flickering wildly, then went out one after another. Some of the precision electronic components in the T'au Fire Warriors' battlesuits also began emitting abnormal humming and bursts of static.
"Fire!"
Kor did not hesitate. He knew that against an enemy of this caliber, any delay would be fatal.
"Fire! Fire! Fire!"
Every weapon along the first defensive line spat tongues of death at the same instant.
The blue beams of Pulse Cannons, the white Plasma Blasts from Plasma Rifles, the white exhaust trails of Smart Missiles, and the hypervelocity projectiles fired by the two Broadside Battlesuits' enormous Railguns-all that firepower converged into an impenetrable wall of death, pouring toward the golden figures at the end of the corridor.
In a corridor only twenty meters wide, firepower of such density was theoretically enough to vaporize an entire company of Space Marines in an instant.
Yet what met that wall of firepower was an even more indestructible wall of shields.
"Shield Wall!"
At Vilen's command, the twelve Custodian Guards at the front raised their Storm Shields in unison, like a living rampart.
The moment those