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Ophydian Destroyers

Serpent-bodied killers that burrow through dimensions and erupt from solid ground, hyperphase blades already swinging before the earth stops trembling.

The Ophydian Destroyers are among the most unsettling servants of the Destroyer Cults, necrons who have shed their legs for a long, coiling metal body better suited to the hunt. They do not march to war; they submerge, tunnelling through the ground and through the thin places between dimensions with a sinuous, boneless grace. When they surface they do so without warning, bursting upward beneath an enemy formation in a spray of soil and severed limbs, threshers and hyperphase blades scissoring through flesh faster than the eye can follow. The Destroyer Cult that claims them has embraced a nihilistic madness, an obsession with the erasure of all life, and the Ophydians are its perfect expression: patient, subterranean, inescapable. There is no line they cannot flank, no bunker whose floor they cannot rise through. For the enemies of the Necrons, the ground itself becomes a traitor, and every tremor underfoot a promise of the blades to come.

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