Reckoning of the Hawk
When the last enchanted warrior turned to ash in the Nirvana Flame, the Yulin Army had already activated the phase device to cleanse the battlefield's chaotic contamination. Sol noticed they never removed their heavy helmets with breathing tube interfaces, their power armor's lower back faintly glowed with the cold light of some crystalline implant. He gazed into the depths of the underground crypt at the still-operating phase device, "Relics of the 32nd-century Terra Expeditionary Force... no wonder."
Suddenly, the unique encrypted communication frequency of the Yulin Army resonated through the church ruins, a bird-like binary code trembling in the air. When Sol looked up again, the enigmatic warriors, along with the Primarch, boarded the returning Thunderhawk, leaving only hexagonal energy burn marks on the ground to prove they were not phantoms.
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Newborn Thorns
