"For the Divine Emperor's sake! Why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?!"
A lieutenant, his face caked in blood and grime, frantically pulled the trigger, but his rifle was long out of bullets. Facing the tide of onrushing Demons, he tossed the rifle aside, drew the standard-issue sword for mid-to-low-ranking officers, and grabbed a nearby orderly. His voice was hoarse, his fury underscored by a palpable despair.
"Tell that bastard Georg! I—"
The officer didn't get to finish.
Before the orderly's panicked eyes, a sharp Bone Knife erupted from behind, piercing straight through the officer's body! Their eyes met, the officer's face still frozen in a look of pure rage.
The terrified orderly stumbled backward over a corpse and fell hard to the ground.
He looked up.
A colossal shadow engulfed him.
A behemoth over three meters tall with blood-red skin and knotted muscles loomed over him, its eye sockets burning with sulfurous fire as it stared down at him.
