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The staging bay was a vast, lightless cavern. Fortunately, the squad's weapons were equipped with under-barrel tactical lights, and their Abyssal Power Frames featured shoulder-mounted high-intensity lamps. They swept the darkness with beams of sterile white light, but the more they saw, the more their dread intensified.
Kian Voss gripped his heavy-barrel Lasgun, the muzzle pointed toward the floor. Under the glare of his weapon-light, he saw that the deck—solid Imperial plasteel—was covered in a thin, translucent layer of ice.
This was Warp-Rime, a physical manifestation of Empyrean leakage. Combined with the spontaneous combustion of their Purity Seals, it was an absolute confirmation: the thing ahead was no mere mutant. It was a true denizen of the Beyond.
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