Just as the guards sent word, five ships had already landed outside the secret base of the Vengeful Angels.
The ships bore the emblems of the Mechanical Order and the Judgment Court.
The base, located within the Iberian Great Fortress, had a massive landing pad built by leveling a mountain peak. Paved with high-strength concrete, it was flanked by two wide corridors on the left and right that connected to the base entrance.
Sentries were posted every fifty meters along the corridors, manned by trusted members of Sedon's Death Battle Group.
At that moment, a fierce wind howled across the mountaintop landing pad. In the distance, dark clouds flashed with lightning and rumbled with thunder, rolling toward the Great Fortress and carrying a torrential downpour.
A group of Technician Priests in the garb of the Mechanical Order disembarked and entered the left corridor.
