BOOM!
The ceiling above Horus shakes violently and then shattered, revealing a golden figure slowly descending on the top of the pile of debris, accompanying him is a legion of golden armoured custodians, exuding out a domineering holy aura, seemingly unstoppable like a tidal wave that would engulf the whole world in a flash.
A flaming sword in his hand, golden halo shining behind his head, a figure that could be said as the embodiment of the word “perfection” incarnated.
The loyalist legionnaires’ mood went up as they thought a primarch has joined them in battle, but as the smoke disperses, a golden ornate twin-headed eagle proudly spreading its wings on the plate armors, a veteran cries out loudly:
“The Imperial Eagle! Lord Emperor and his Custodes is here to battle with us!”
The previously broken loyalists upon witnessing this scene also weeps uncontrollably and yells:
“The Lord is here!”
“The Emperor bless me!”
“The Lord come to fight with us!”
“Avenge primarch Sanguinius for the emperor!”
Seeing the revitalized loyalist charging at his troops once again, Horus complexion did not change, still sporting a disdainful smirk.
“Well, well, the almighty Emperor of mankind, do you enjoy the tour around my Vengeful Spirit? Isn’t she nothing short of Magnificent?”
The expression on the Emperor’s face did not change one bit. With a solemn gaze, he stressed:
“Drop this tomfoolery of an act right now, Horus. Do not force me.”
BOOM!
The golden aura behind his head exploded, radiating golden majestic holy light everywhere, suppressing Horus’ aura at a visible rate. Horus did not back out either, increasing the power of the energy permeating from the gaps of his armor as it twists and turns the space around him, raging to tear through the fabric of reality itself. As the space around the two of them starts to distort, The Emperor couldn’t help but flinched.
“Stand down at this moment, fool! Do you really want to submit your body and soul for it to control!? Heed my order and stand down!” The emperor exclaimed, his face contorting unsightly. However-
*Kacha*
The air around Horus shattered like a pane of glass and a energy stream with colors that shouldn’t even exist rushed into every orifice visible on his face. The world around him seems to be stopped for a few seconds.
“Your words are meaningless! Horus is gone, and now, I, am, the Warmaster! I am fear, power, death and chaos incarnated! I will sows seed of destruction across your beloved Imperium and feeds its citizens soul to the great god of the vast warp! Your folly effort to unite the galaxy will never become true, and you, Emperor, will not leave this ship alive!” As Horus bellowed, his eyes starts to glow red like burning tracers, the mace on his hand glows with power, and he charged at the Emperor in a mere millisecond!
*WHAM!*
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The Emperor parries the vicious mace with his power claws and brandished his power sword in the other hand:
“It is already too late!? Then you leave me with no choice! Vile daemons of Chaos, die!”
As he said solemnly, he charged forward into Horus with an unstoppable momentum.
*CLANG!*
*TSS*
*WHA-M*
*CLANK-CLANK-! PA-!*
Horus’ strike was unrelenting, and each of his mace is akin to a meteor, smashing towards the Emperor. His assaults filled to the brim with violence and hatred, unyielding, somehow seems full of savagery and elegance at the same time.
The emperor did not lose out, but as opposed to Horus’ meteoric strength, coupled with the servo machinery of the tactical dreadnought armor, he accurately slashed and stabbed at Horus’ blind spot, each strikes filled with a regal magnificence, cascading at Horus like a kilometers high waterfall, and at the same time, filled with fury as hot as a white star!
*CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *CLANK* *BA-NG!*
After a hundreds of strike in mere seconds, both of them are pushed back a few meters, but as opposed to the Emperor’s calm visage, Horus’ was sweating like a waterfall with no stop. The loyalist troops cheered loudly while the cultists grimaced with their distorted face. After a second of the two gazing at each other fiercely, something finally happened-
*Puchi*
Countless shallow wounds and scratches opened on both of them.
“Hahahaha, as expected of the Anathema, whoops, apologize, hmm, how should I address you? right, the Emperor of Mankind?” Horus laughed evilly with a frosty grin, his voice calm and cold like dry ice, totally different from the earlier Horus.
“So you have finally showed yourself…” Mumbled the Emperor. His mind raged for a nanosecond and calmed down in a flash. The air around him turns frosty at a rate visible with naked eye. With a grim face, he stressed out words slowly:
“Then die.”
*DADADADADADADA-*
*KABAM*
The space in front of him exploded into a fiery burst of sword strikes, each of them filled with holy might, cascading into the direction of Horus. Each strikes are deadlier than the earlier, executed perfectly at an inhuman speed.
‘Horus’ face contorted a bit, he quickly parried some of the strikes with the lightning claw and quickly retreats backwards, trying to negate the force of the Emperor’s sword.
“Very fierce, I like it! Magnificent! If I were to compare this sword to a person, I’d say that it is Genghis Khan himself reincarnated!” With great difficulty, ‘Horus’ yelled amidst the sword storm.
*KA-* *Ka-* *CLANG-* *KACHA-!*
*BAM!*
The mace in ‘Horus’ hand flies away as he grimaced. As a matter of fact, however strong a Primarch is, they can never best their father, the Emperor, as he is the source of their power originally. Still wearing an unchanged expression, the Emperor coldly said:
“Stand up, I’m not done with you yet.”
With some difficulty, ‘Horus’ regained his footing, he snickered:
“Too bad this kid is way too weak to contain my full power, or we would’ve have more fun, yeah? How about you create a more powerful body for me next time? Hmm?”
‘‘Truly chaotic’’, the Emperor thought. ‘’It is disregarding all of that damage from the earlier exchange without batting an eye? I put quite a bit of force into those strike. This would be a bit troublesome.’’
“Enough!” He exclaimed. “I’ll grant you a swift death, no, I’ll erase your very existence off the face of the universe, the warp, everything! Be obedient and take this contently!” As he said, the psychic power around him starts rolling ominously-
“This is bad!” ‘Horus’ thought secretly. “I cannot manifest my true power in this realm, this is very troublesome! At least, lets try and hang on for a while!”
The psychic energy around the Emperor starts to spin quicker and quicker, until it turns itself into a vortex, cracking with blue white lightning arcs streaking throughout the hall-
*VRRRRRRRRRRRR* *Ka-* *Crack-*
“Come, boy, let’s see how strong is your strike!” ‘Horus’ screeched. As he pulls his palm, the mace flies across the hall and lands itself upon the Warmaster’s palm. Despite being weaker, he charged straight at the Emperor like a madman, arms outstretched, swinging the mace!
“GO!” The emperor sends a psychic order to the vortex full of volatile energy as it compressed into an extremely dreadful bolt round, shooting at the Warmaster in every plane of space and time, seemingly omnipresent! However-
*BOOOM-!!!*
The space exploded once again, flinging shrapnels and debris everywhere-
“FOOLISH BOY! DID YOU FORGOT THAT WE, ARE THE WARP ITSELF? HAHA! WHAT A FOOL! ATTACKING US WITH WARP POWER!” ‘Horus’ cackle maniacally while gazing at the emperor in disdain.
“Oh, is it so? Did I really attack you lots with warp power at all? Hmm? Slowly savor it and be grateful, heheh…” The golden figure smirked.