methods of war had always been deliberately slow mercilessly grinding their foe into utter destruction encountering the enemy at last the salamanders fell on mortalian's rear guard a single seven-man squad which went down fighting initially held back by heavy weapon fire of a volcan culverin the salamanders doused the entire corridor in cleansing flame after sergeant zeitos eclipsed the enemy weapon carrier newmeon led the charge uttering his personal battlecry vulcan lives a new meal struck down two legionaries with darkos and basilisk and engaged a third before the rest of the salamanders could reach the hand-to-hand combat easily dispatching a death guard legionary with a swing of his standard hammer zeitos saw the soul unengaged descartes legionary grab for a bomb at his waist warning numeron of the impeding danger he shoulder charged a death guard he was struggling with into the path of his comrade who absorbed a great deal of the blast but left him alive it was only then that newman realized that he was now surrounded by a cloud of toxic and acidic vapors eating away at his armour's hermetic seals although this close to the blast zytos armor registered similar damage the deadly vapors having easily been able to kill the entire squad in the limited confines of these corridors zytos had no other choice than to give the order to burn the toxic miasma again vorko stepped forward dousing the entire corridor and cleansing flame only this time the blast was directed against their captain the salamanders legion claimed their name from the hugely powerful predators of their homeworld nocturne that resided on the planet's fiery depths their hides are extremely resilient and almost impervious to flames and it is customary for the legion's officers and elite troops to hunt down and kill such a beast as a right of passage and to wear the beast hide as a token of valor as captain of the pyreguard artelus nubian had also participated in these riots however his equipment had it been irredeemably lost and istvan and treyarus meaning that he no longer had the fireproof protection of his noble drake hide as the horrified salamanders looked upon their leader now entirely surrounded by flames few doubted that they now witness the funerary pyre of arteris numeon the salamanders thought that they had roasted their commander alive but to their astonishment new meon's voice could still be heard on the squad's vox channel invoking falcon's name followed by silence as the fiery inferno abated newman spent form could be seen clutching vulcan sigil in his hand the servos of new meow's armor had been seared shut and the proud drake green livery had been burnt away and replaced by soot his helmet was a ruin while in some places his arm as ceramide was bare and glistened with heat but ultimately numeron had somehow survived as the salamanders were about to rejoice a death guard legionary attacked from new meon's flank clenching their captain's throat with his hands and tried to suffocate him neumeon
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