Wilshire's eyes shifted abruptly from their deep, dark depths to a brilliant gold, as though two miniature suns burned within their sockets.
He surveyed his surroundings, imdiately opening a comm-channel to send Anger a ssage.
"The enemy has established psychic arrays. Their energy convergence is underground."
"A reckless, blind assault might trigger unforeseen consequences. Leave the rest to ."
"I will lead my team underground to resolve it."
Wilshire then switched channels, issuing orders to his Honor Guard: "Disembark!"
The "Solar High Priest" disembarked first, his golden eyes scanning the surroundings before marking a hundred-tre-tall grey spire on his divination tablet.
This grey structure appeared most frigid and ominous through the Solar High Priest's" eyes.
Honor Guards clad in black armour assembled behind him, raising their bedrock-pattern boltguns. They advanced towards the target building while firing.
"Open a "door"!"
Two bodyguard mbers, hearing their Lord's command, quickened their pace. Their hands pressed against the grey structure.
After the incorporeal "door" was opened, Wilshire entered first.
The "Solar High Priest" easily found the underground passage within the grey spire.
The team descended spirally. Everyone felt the temperature dropping.
One Honor Guard, sensing supernatural cold, said over the squad channel.
"Bloody hell, it's freezing in this place!"
The Chapter's Librarian looked around. He saw stairs and grey walls engraved with nurous runes.
"Psychic arrays! Gardinaal psykers established combined psychic arrays here."
"I cannot determine the arrays' full effects, but they seal this area into an enclosed space."
"There should be other arrays, other arrays..."
Before the Librarian could finish, a shuffling sound heralded the ergence of a horde of creatures.
The front ranks raised lasguns, unleashing dense beams of light.
Their hunched bodies had an additional arm extending from their backs, firing swiftly.
The "Solar High Priest" saw the humanoid creatures covered in rotten flesh, maggots writhing within.
The "Solar High Priest" pondered, then the golden sun in his eyes suddenly blossod. A sacred crystalline light descended from above.
The humanoid creatures scread in agony within the radiance, lting away as if consud by fire.
Honor Guard mbers bathed in the brilliant light only felt purity and warmth.
After using "Holy Light Summoning" to slay the monsters, the "Solar High Priest" felt as if sothing lted within him, confirming his earlier suspicion.
'Circi used bio-engineering to modify human bodies.'
'He then established psychic arrays to bind expired souls within those bodies.'
'He was creating necrotic entities! No wonder he entrenched himself in the biosphere recycling centre, an endless supply of raw materials.'
As Wilshire pondered, he saw withered monsters flying up from below.
Each bore three heads, twisting to survey their surroundings.
Seeing the black giant, their heads turned simultaneously towards Wilshire.
Silken strands of black mucus dripped from their mouths, plopping onto the ground.
Two Honor Guards flanking him raised their bedrock-pattern boltguns.
The mounted Squat HuntR modules mounted on them instantly locked onto the approaching creatures and roared into action.
Diamond-hard bolts shot forth, striking the monsters, blasting their pieced bodies apart.
A swarm of humanoid monsters approached, their three heads opening in unison to emit a piercing howl.
The creatures' cries were filled with agony, seeking to inflict their tornt upon the black-armored warriors.
Painful cries rged into a terrifying screech. Two Honor Guard mbers' arms faltered; their firing montarily halted.
The monsters' six arms, connected by bat-like wing mbranes, began to vibrate. Their speed surged abruptly as they lunged towards the black-armored warriors like lightning.
The "Solar High Priest's" golden eyes blazed. Golden "Sun Holy Water" fell from nowhere.
Sun holy water struck the flying monsters, piercing their bodies like spears.
Plop-plop...
The "Solar High Priest" strode forward. His thunder hamr glead with golden light as he attacked the swiftly falling monsters.
He swung the hamr in sweeping arcs. Within golden light, bodies were torn to shreds, swiftly vanishing.
The "Solar High Priest" descended, using "Create Sun Holy Water." Drops of summoned sunholy water fell, striking and slaying the surging necrotic entities.
Suddenly, Wilshire's vision opened up.
The Librarian followed his Lord. He saw a massive circular platform gleaming with psychic lights.
A crimson river churned, green mist billowed...
"This is the psychic arrays' central nexus..."
A roaring bellow interrupted the Librarian.
"Damn you!" A figure as tall as a Warhound Titan burst forth, snarling.
His form was hung with nurous arms, covered in countless faces.
"You interrupted my great plan. All of you, die!"
Circi's furious roar echoed with the wails of countless souls.
Using his bio-engineering and psychic arrays, he sought to transform himself into a perfect form, possessing power equal to Straken's tallic body.
Circi, driven by his desire and the psyker-caste, spent a millennium constructing the frawork within the recycling center.
Another four hundred and thirty years passed as he gathered the refined essences of recycled bodies onto his own fra.
Just over a century more, and he would complete his transformation, becoming a powerhouse equal to Straken.
But these damned invaders had disrupted his plan.
Cyclone missile launchers atop bodyguard mbers' Cataphractii Terminator Armor struck Circi.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The ground shook violently beneath his feet as severed limbs and fragnts flew.
A severed arm struck a guard mber, black bio-chemical sli rapidly corroding the Cataphractii Terminator Armor.
Circi lost hundreds of arms, yet thousands remained, forming three slender limbs.
Two grey-white arms swept horizontally. One arm smashed downward.
The Honor Guard, whose armor had been corroded by the bio-sli, was struck by one arm and was instantly crushed into paste.
Another arm crashed into Honor Guards, knocking them aside.
The smashing arm descended directly towards Wilshire.
The "Solar High Priest's" eyes blazed. Instantly, golden flas ignited from nowhere.
These flas radiated the sun's vast, pervasive aura, densely coalescing into an ocean that enveloped Circi's massive form.
The sacred flas ignited by the "Fire of Light" consud the souls bound to Circi like candles, lting them into droplets of liquid that vanished into silent screams.
The "Solar High Priest" silently chanted Dunnic. His speed surged. "Holy Oath" made him, clad in Cataphractii Terminator armor, faster than Shadow of Order in Mark II Power Armor.
Flas ignited upon the Thunder Hamr, radiating brilliant golden light.
The "Solar High Priest" leapt high, swinging the thunder hamr, smashing onto Circi's body.
Amidst explosive reports, Circi's body shattered. Simultaneously, Wilshire felt a star crack within him. He thought inwardly:
'I have beco a true "Solar High Priest."'
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