Beneath the Surface by Games Workshop Ltd

Author:Games Workshop Ltd
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd
Published: 2019-02-28T09:39:37+00:00

‘Fall back to the chamber!’ Giliana called. The Sisters continued firing as they moved backwards in tight formation. Snowpelt followed them, bringing down a portion of the ceiling to slow the creatures’ advance.

Upon reaching the chamber, the Imperials had only a moment to regroup before the wave began spilling through the entrance. Resuming their onslaught, the Sisters and the Space Wolf mowed their foes down as quickly as they came.

Then the living tide parted, and a figure emerged from the tunnel that now lay shrouded in dust. While the Genestealers were stooped low like animals, this being walked upright like a human, and wore long, ornate robes emblazoned with a sigil – a spiked worm curled upon itself. At the figure’s head the similarity with humanity ended, for its crown was swollen to three times the size of a normal skull, and ridged with thick purple veins that pulsed as if alive.

‘You are not welcome here,’ he announced in a hiss.

Giliana immediately felt the hybrid’s psychic presence, the voice speaking directly into her mind. She recoiled at the violation, which was harder to endure than any physical pain.

‘Vigilus belongs to us. Our ascension is inevitable. There is no point trying to fight it.’ He slid forwards as if transported upon a carpet of serpents.

‘Xenos scum!’ Esme spat, training her gun on the creature.

He raised a hand and she froze, her eyes clouding over. She lowered her weapon.

‘As you see, you are powerless to stop us. We are endless, and we are righteous. We are the inheritors of this world–’

With an indignant cry, Sister Judith hurled a grenade at the creature. The other Sisters and Snowpelt barely had time to take cover before the detonation shook the whole chamber, reigning detritus on them all. With a screech, the xenos hybrid disappeared as if swallowed by the dust.

The Genestealers surged forth once more, but their numbers were dwindling now and they seemed to have lost some of their fervour. The Sisters made short work of what was left of them.

‘Where did it go?’ Giliana demanded, as Judith tended to Esme.

‘Over here, Sister,’ Bron Snowpelt called, standing at the spot where the creature had vanished.

The Sister Superior joined the Space Wolf at the edge of a jagged hole in the ground. The bedrock was thin here, and Judith’s grenade had ripped right through it.

Snowpelt dropped a lumen into the hole and she watched, first with astonishment and then with despair, as it fell several hundred feet down into a vast cavern, at least five times larger than the one they were in. As the dust settled, she could just make out the broken body of the psyker on the floor, but the sight gave her little comfort.

‘It looks like we might be down here longer than you thought,’ Snowpelt said.

There, lit by the dull glow of the lumen, was another great maze of tunnels winding out into the uncharted darkness, and a thousand glinting eyes staring up in cold defiance.

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