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In the obsidian silence of High Charity’s ruined穹顶, a lone Sangheili named Rtas ‘Vadamum knelt before a shattered luminary. His clan’s keep on the edge of Sanghelios had fallen to the Jiralhanae months ago, but that was not why his mandibles trembled with cold fury. In his hands, he held not a plasma rifle or an energy sword, but a longsword—not the titanium-alloy blade of human aerospace fighters, but a true sword: a meter and a half of folded nanolaminate steel, its edge shimmering with a faint, stolen shimmer of Forerunner alloy.

In that breath, Rtas stepped inside his guard. longsword halo

Rtas withdrew the blade in a single, fluid motion. The Brute collapsed, and the only sound was the drip of black blood onto ancient stone. In the obsidian silence of High Charity’s ruined穹顶,

“You brought a relic to a war of plasma and light, Shipmaster?” a voice crackled from the shadows. In that breath, Rtas stepped inside his guard

He sheathed Nuro ‘Kvatu across his back and keyed his comm unit. “Vadam squadron, status.”

Rtas did not turn. He knew the gait—heavy, arrhythmic, reeking of rotting fur and cheap stimulants. A Brute chieftain, his power armor stained with the blue ichor of Unggoy. He dragged a gravity hammer crackling with red lightning.

The Brute laughed—a wet, grinding sound. “You Sangheili cling to ritual. I will crush your sword and your skull in the same grip.”