The Warp oscillated and ululated with unrelenting ferocity.
The Emperor configrated with fulgurantgolden pyre. His effulgence was analogous to a supernova in its terminal fulmination — irradiating the distorted immaterium with such intensity that it was transfigured into a facsimile of diurnal illumination.
Each offensive commitment of His flaminggreat-blade inflicted catastrophic structuralcompromise upon Khorne's Brass Citadel.
Innumerable lesser Khornate Daemons were consigned to ontological annihilation before they could even register their existentialterminus. The Emperor's unalloyed psychic configration subsumed them with effortlessfacility.
Several formidable Bloodthirsters — their war-plate fractured, disclosing the ebullienthaemorrhagic effluence and cadavericintegumentary substrate beneath — sustained their existential continuity at the perimeter of this energetic tempest.
They were, nevertheless, comprehensivelylacerated and dissolved by the terrifyingcollateral effluence of this divine martialconvocation.
"ACCURSED ENTITY! Your destiny — to aspire to transfigure the predestinedexistential trajectory — shall be CONSUMMATED through your COMPREHENSIVE EXISTENTIALEXPENDITURE at my MANUALEXTREMITIES!"
Khorne's ululation was instantaneouslytransfigured into a concussive atmosphericperturbation — sufficient to lacerate the essences of lesser Daemonic entities.
His god-slaying sanguinary battle-axe — an implement capable of fracturing celestialentities — inflicted progressive attrition upon the Emperor's corporeal configuration.
Its blade reflected the annihilation of innumerable universes. Its acrid effluvium of haemorrhagic effluence and sulphurouscombustion approached materialsubstantiation.
His battle-axe descended.
This offensive commitment incarnatedKhorne's comprehensive comprehension of the concept designated 'slaughter'.
It pulverised one fractured universe after another. These diminutive cosmicconfigurations registered a transienteffulgence of terminal magnificence — and were then consigned to perpetual silence.
His adversary, however, was the Sovereign of Humanity — the most ferocious sentientorganism in the entire chronicle of the humanspecies.
The Emperor's defensive interceptions and counter-offensive commitments were precise, savage.
Each collision of His golden configratinggreat-blade with Khorne's sable-crimsonsanguinary battle-axe erupted with energeticeffluence of sufficient magnitude to recalibrate the essential juridicaldispensations of the material cosmos.
Amidst this cataclysmic offensivecommitment, however —
The Emperor's offensive translationsregistered a transient — almost imperceptible— temporal increment of deceleration.
His visual faculties had registered Curze's bisected corporeal configuration.
He had registered the existential continuity of another of His successors — suspended at the infinitesimal threshold of annihilation.
His cognitive faculties perturbed.
"...He is... not yet expired."
The Emperor's enunciation — transmittedthrough the ululation of His psychic effluence— was saturated with a faint, forciblysuppressed tremor.
"This circumstance is IMMATERIAL, ACCURSED ENTITY!"
Khorne's ululation intensified.
His crimson divine ocular organs encounteredthe Emperor's regard.
"When my incarnated configuration has DETACHED the CEPHALIC EXTREMITY of your ADDITIONAL SUCCESSOR — Curze — this circumstance shall, at last, CONSUMMATE his PREDESTINED EXISTENTIAL TERMINUS!"
This enunciation — saturated with divineeffluence — re-perturbed the Warp.
It instantaneously attracted the regard of the other august entities enthroned within the Empyrean's profundity.
The inaugural respondent was Tzeentch.
This was not a singular regard. This was a multiplicitous reticulation of interlaceddissimulations — saturated with subauditorysusurrations.
A pinion — scintillating with an anomalousazure effulgence — descended from the profundity of the Crystal Labyrinth.
It inscribed a trajectory upon the void that transgressed every conventional geometricdispensation.
It then dissolved — as though it had nevermanifested itself.
The 'affectionate progenitor' — Nurgle — likewise insinuated His regard into this precinct.
The Warp was instantaneously saturated with the fecond effluvium of putrescent vitalityand pestilential decomposition.
"Why agitate yourself with such vehemence? This disposition exclusively exacerbates your pre-existing existential distress..."
His tumescent, suppurating verdant corporealconfiguration oscillated with barelyperceptible deliberation within His PestilentialGarden.
Innumerable iterations of pathologicalaffliction and spontaneous remediationemerged and expired upon His corporealsubstrate.
The cauldron before Him ebulliated with pestilential broth. This alimentary suspensionexuded an 'effluence' sufficient to consign an entire stellar sector to existential termination.
"Rather than observe this futile martialconvocation... Why not repatriate yourself to my Garden and attend to my successors?"
His distorted cornual appendages oscillatedin a negative translation. He then slowlywithdrew into the profundity of his putrescenthorticultural configuration.
His regard was extinguished.
"Ooh~~ It appears this impoverished entityhas, on this occasion, forfeited His prospectof engaging with me?"
A salacious acoustic signature reverberatedthrough every sensory apprehensionenumerated within the spectators' cognitiveinfrastructure.
A lascivious configuration materialised itself behind the translucent curtain of the Palace of the Sixth Circle.
His regard hesitated, for a transient temporalincrement, upon Nyx's corporealconfiguration.
His enunciation was tinged with evanescentdesolation.
His cognitive investment, at this chronologicaljuncture, was, however, predominantlyconcentrated upon the ascendant Sanguinius.
When one is confronted with the Blood God — who persists in a perpetual affectiveconfiguration approaching fulminantderangement — even the Sovereign of Excesswas constrained to exercise strategiccalibration.
This transient interval of divergent divineregard occasioned a microscopic temporalincrement of hesitation within the freneticmartial rhythms of this divine convocation.
NOW!
The Emperor employed His foresight to perforate the immaterium.
His psychic effluence traversed the fog of temporal ambiguity. His cognitive investmentregistered a plausible future trajectory:
Haemorrhagic effluence. Bisected corporealconfigurations. Curze's recumbent cadavericspecimen. And —
Nyx — comprehensively suppressed by the irresistible sanguinary puissance of Khorne's incarnated configuration.
His cephalic extremity was immobilisedbeneath His sanguinary battle-axe.
This existential trajectory must be INTERDICTED...
Even should I be capable of repatriatingexclusively Nyx from this catastrophic martialdisposition...
"You are COGNISANT of this FORMULATION, ACCURSED ENTITY?!"
Khorne's ululation instantaneously annihilatedthe Emperor's prophetic apprehension.
His Brass Throne ululated. His Sea of Haemorrhagic Effluence ebulliated.
"You shall NOT EVACUATE this PRECINCT! You are INCAPABLE of EMANCIPATING them from their PREDESTINED EXISTENTIALTERMINUS!"
"Their fate is INEVITABLE!"
The God-Slaying Battle-Axe of the Blood Godand the Great-Blade of the Emperor COLLIDEDwith renewed ferocity.
The effluence of their collisioncomprehensively annihilated the entireimmediate perimeter of their martialconvocation.
"...However."
Khorne's enunciation abruptly transfigured its tonal configuration. It was now saturated with the gravitas of a primordial commercialtransaction.
His colossal corporeal configuration slowlyreceded. It re-integrated itself with His CranialThrone.
His magmatic divine ocular organs were analogous to two diminutive condensedcelestial entities. They configrated the Emperor's corporeal configuration with unrelenting concentration.
"I propose a commercial transaction."
"Consign Nyx to my custody. He is my exclusive desideratum. The residual entities... may be repatriated to your jurisdiction."
Khorne's enunciation was subauditory — yet saturated with irresistible gravitas.
"In exchange for your assent to this commercial transaction — for ONETHOUSAND TEMPORAL INCREMENTS of TERRAN CALIBRATION — my Daemon hostsshall NOT INSINUATE themselves into the material cosmos."
At the instant of this enunciation —
The entire dominion of Khorne trembled.
The essential juridical dispensations of the Warp commenced their insidiousentanglement with this formulation.
This was a contract — authenticated by the immaterium itself.
Should the Emperor assent to this commercialtransaction — both parties were constrainedto adhere to its stipulations.
The Emperor's great-blade descendedIMMEDIATELY — with ZERO TEMPORALINCREMENT of HESITATION — configratingthe void with unassuageable wrath!
He was intimately cognisant of the existentialcosts occluded within this ostensiblyadvantageous commercial proposition.
He had, Himself, transacted with the FourDark Divinities.
The price of such transactions was incalculable. It considerably exceeded any valuation that could be ascribed to Nyx.
Should He accede to this commercialtransaction —
Humanity. The Imperium.
These configurations would no longer constitute a strategic gambit contested by the Four Dark Divinities.
They would be comprehensively reclassifiedas Khorne's exclusive sanguinaryacquisitions.
"You have FORFEITED your SOLE EXPEDIENTfor PURCHASING your SUCCESSORS'EXISTENTIAL CONTINUITY!"
Within the material cosmos —
Khorne's incarnated configuration emitted a fulminant ululation.
His God-Slaying sanguinary battle-axe — the incarnation of supreme annihilation — attained the apogee of its offensivecalibration.
Its destructive trajectory was of such velocitythat it immobilised temporal translation itself.
At the eighth temporal increment — His battle-axe DESCENDED!
This was not a lacerative offensivecommitment.
This was a sanguinary celestial configuration— propagating through the material cosmos at irresistible velocity.
Nyx registered this offensive commitment as analogous to his pre-transmigrationregistration of a ONE HUNDRED TONsovereign of a terrestrial automotivemanufacturing enterprise — translating at maximum operational velocity — impactinghis corporeal configuration.
(If this ONE HUNDRED TON sovereign had retained even ONE PERCENT of its residualkinetic effluence — his present circumstancewas analogous to being impacted by OPTIMUS PRIME — who had attainedmaximum translational velocity and acquiredthe Energon Cube — simultaneously.)
His power sword — which he had elevated in a futile defensive interception — was incapableof arresting this catastrophic offensivecommitment.
It fractured — comprehensively — analogousto a vitreous substrate undergoing catastrophic structural failure.
The subsequent instant —
An irresistible martial effluence enveloped his corporeal configuration.
He was instantaneously reclassified as a meteorological projectile.
His translational trajectory perforated the consolidated structural configurations of the upper, middle, and lower hive strata with sustained ferocity.
He continued his catastrophic translationaldescent until he impacted the frigid, cadaveric substratum of the planetary core — at which chronological juncture the terrifyingkinetic effluence occasioned a marginalattenuation.
With this singular offensive commitment —
Khorne had employed His absolute dominionover martial effluence to precisely calibrateHis destructive investment.
Zero dissipation. Comprehensiveconcentration of annihilative effluence upon Nyx's corporeal configuration.
Khorne had, SINGLE-HANDEDLY, VANQUISHED the ENTIRETY of Nostramo!