The steady vibration of the steel rails hummed through the metal floor plates as the strike team breached the fortified bulkhead leading into freight car twenty.
"Watch the overhead conduits," Nox cautioned, pointing his blade toward the copper mana lines pulsing along the ceiling girders.
"Holt wired this entire section with automated defense traps," Yeda remarked, stepping lightly over a tangle of severed power cables.
"He does not care if he damages his own rolling stock so long as he kills intruders," Kendra said, planting her shield firmly in the doorway.
"How many combat units do you detect in this block of cars?" Jax asked over the short-range comm link from his forward guard post.
"There are at least forty mechanical rail golems distributed across cars twenty through thirty-four," Nox replied, analyzing the mana signatures.
"Are they standard industrial models or combat modified?" Diana inquired from her vantage point atop the roof catwalk.
