Incense, metal, prayers, and all I see are a bunch of beings with metal sticks in red cloaks and several litanies of 0 and 1 every time I hear them. While I hide with my kin brothers in the darkness, opening a square metal hatch and entering the fortress full of war machines, they call these things quaestors.

I slide down the rope with effort, my gloves get caught in the leather with the rope and I almost lose my balance due to the speed. 'Hâk, Hãk!' I scream so as not to scream and at the same time warn him, I see a head with gray eyes, bearded and with a mohawk, his incomparable white color.

'Slow down' I beg him to slow down 'Okay, okay...' he tries to finish the sentence, but he is too focused on controlling the rope. But a few centimeters on the ground, I let go of the rope, when I was on solid ground, I stood still for a few seconds, tense as if by chance I had drawn attention, but nothing, and that was what gave me the most relief for now.

'Okay, I'm going'

'Go on, the others are ready, only you're missing' Hâk said in the message, he didn't have much experience in stealth, in fact the only veterans left in our Kindred were some from 717, he was the Warriors Hearthkyn before being one of my apprentices Hernkyn. What I see is a place that I expected to be more rustic, but it's impressive to see so much primitive sculpture mixed with advanced technology in such a feudal world.

I see a long and thick corridor, full of sophisticated cloths and ornamental objects that, at the very least, for us, kin, it would be too much to see all of that. I check on my arm, a map that is locating me with a red dot, and another red dot in the right corner, but a little over 200 meters away.

'Arriving, prepare the Sagitaur's'

'Understood, boss' Another veteran kin, Okkâ, The Strong. I arrive at the areas where the machines I so desire to research are stored, the war machines, the same machines that were used against us, damned inquisition!

I approach one of the giants, I place a device inside the right heel of each giant, a device, firmly in the metal

Some time passes with this process, by the Ancestors! How many of these iron robots are there here in this castle?

I curse as I continue the deployments behind one of the knights, I hear footsteps in front of the machines, I fall silent and see a large figure, walking with heavy metallic steps, I quickly lean over so as not to be seen, I felt pale thinking that my dirty mouth could have revealed my location. But it was different, because he continues the same rhythm of metallic steps, walking and walking as if he were an undead.

I sigh for a second, turn gently to the right and put my hand inside the backpack with this device, take one and return to my upright position. As soon as I look where the last steps of this guard were, I come across the figure standing in my direction, in the same place where I heard the last steps, he gestures his arm hidden inside the cloak, and the tip of his gatling gun makes a rotating sound, ready to kill. Kill me!

'Invader, exterminate' his lobotomized robotic voice is echoed from the one in the cloak, his weapon begins to open fire, I quickly jump to the side where the Knight's leg was to protect me. Projectiles struggling with the wall, almost completely occupying my ears, but luckily for my ancestors, I can hear metallic footsteps coming towards me, this puts me on alert.

'Boss, are you there?' Hâk calls me by my title, clearly worried by the tone of his voice 'send them to invade, that must have already drawn attention, now!' I order as I run to the other leg, the figure reacts enchanted, I run and shoot almost in the same location as I am, instinctively he shoots too far to the left, an opening. I hold my kindred relic, The Revenge, a Volkinite Disintegrator with energy adapted from a source I don't know, but I know it's powerful.

I shoot directly at the figure's chest, a precise shot that causes green sparks in the small orb of a single thermal ray, such is the force of the ray that it exploded in the tall creature's chest, making him fall.

I fire another shot, one more and one more time, panting, I see him motionless. Probably dead, I think.

My mind was so clouded by being close to death, that I noticed footsteps coming towards me. They stop, I already knew they were on the other side, leaving one of the corridors that connected to this corridor.

In a line, they start shooting in my direction. I stay in cover behind the questori, fire a few shots to suppress or try to hit one of them. During the shooting I hear familiar heavy sounds of engines, it was the Sagitaur's, and one of them starts to drill the wall of the corridors, throwing any shrapnel, stone after stone falling in the corridors and some of the security guards. They run over some of the enemy ranks and start to disembark the Warriors for combat.

'Go, go, go' I order my squad to leave the castle, two of the kin have already spotted the remaining defenseless and confused security guards, opening fire on them with hatred through their silent anointed ones.

I am the last to leave, when I see my boss coming out from behind the leg of a metal giant who they call a quaestor.

'Okkâ...' Boss calls my name 'Has the castle cleaning started yet?'

'Yes boss, two companies out of the 5 have already entered the castle' I inform in a technical manner and satisfied that the new kin have carried out their task efficiently.

I see the boss smile at the good news, these humans attacked us, now it is our turn to go after them.

'One of their ships should be used to take the quaestori' She comments

'And they are going to use that device, what is it for' I ask her. She puts his hand forward and starts moving his fingers on the buttons on his equipment that looks at the map, changing it to an image of several and finally putting it in Active, after that I see internal glows where the devices were placed and then the giants shine to the point of almost not seeing anything but white, with a high-pitched buzzing in the background. When everything goes silent, all the giants had disappeared, everything was clean.

'The collection is done, now we need to finish the cleaning, then we will take one of their ships.' Boss says as she holds her pistol and walks towards battles, with us following behind her for our revenge, for the living 717 of our family.