"How long can the Vibranium Gate on the second defense line hold?" He wiped off the brain matter that had seeped into his eyepiece. The earpiece relayed an engineer’s scream mixed with the buzz of a chainsaw: "The mutated virus is corroding the energy pipeline! Estimated nine minutes fo..."
A lightning-like impact interrupted the communication. The foundation of the entire church trembled as three heavily armored Chaos Terminators broke through the eastern alloy wall; their power claws, covered in a corrosive sli, tore open the chests of two machine gunners. As blood splattered onto the icon, the eyes of the Judge holding a scale on the mural suddenly began to bleed black.
"Purification Protocol!" Chapter Priest Calov’s roar exploded alongside the scent of incense. He swung his powered cudgel filled with atonent prayers, smashing the nearest red-armored traitor into a supporting pillar. As the Judgnt Fire at the end of the cudgel ignited the fleshy growths between the gaps of the Terminator’s armor, Talasa saw an unnatural tallic reflection rise behind the Priest—three intelligent mines tracking his thermal signal.
"Get down!" He kicked off from the shattered prayer bench and lunged forward. Before the explosion wave tore apart the final image on his retina, he vaguely glimpsed the Double-headed Eagle insignia etched onto the mines’ shells.
The ground was collapsing. The entire ceramic steel floor plunged into the underground catacombs, the pile of falling rubble echoing with the sound of breaking bones. Talasa spat out half a broken tooth as the power armor’s servo system emitted a squeal on the verge of collapse. The earpiece suddenly connected to a high-priority channel, Martins’ cold, chanical voice pierce through the battlefield noise: "Is the Subspace beacon at coordinate S-17 still operational?"
He fumbled to pull the data crystal from his belt and inserted it into the tactical terminal. In the depths of the catacombs, the holographic projection lit up, revealing ancient equipnt never ntioned by the staff departnt—seven bronze pillars entwined with quantum circuits encircled a coffin-like container, with dark red energy seeping from its cracks.
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