Khorne observed, with deliberate equanimity, as Nyx — supported by Curze — elevatedhimself from his recumbent configuration.
He awaited, with patient anticipation, the remediation of his adversary's corporealcompromise.
He was determined to consign the spectatorsenthroned upon the coliseum's elevatedperimeters — whose ocular organs had, at this chronological juncture, re-ignited with that contemptible effulgence designated 'hope' — into the abyssal profundity of existentialdespair.
The supervenient manifestation of an additional Primarch was insufficient to recalibrate the decisive martial disposition of this engagement.
This was the essential nature of the DarkGods:
To annihilate every vestigial residuum of benevolence. To inflict unalloyed maleficenceupon every sentient organism within their dominion.
"Are you prepared, Nyx?"
Khorne's maxillofacial configurationdistended into a sanguinary simulation of maxillofacial gratification.
His sanguinary battle-axe was elevated in His manual extremities. It was prepared to detachthe cephalic extremities of these twoPrimarchs.
"Oh? Your desiderative investment in my cephalic extremity is exceptionallypronounced..."
Nyx and Curze exchanged a transient regard.
The subsequent instant — both catapultedthemselves simultaneously from their stationary configurations.
Their trajectories were indistinguishable from atmospheric fulgurations.
"SUCCESSORS** of the ACCURSED ENTITY— CONCERT your OFFENSIVEINVESTMENT!"**
Homicidal effluence cascaded from Khorne's sanguinary battle-axe.
The exceptional velocity of these Primarchs'offensive translations was indiscernible to conventional perceptual faculties.
Khorne, however, registered their trajectorieswith effortless facility. He apprehended their entire offensive intentionality through proximate observation of their translationalconfigurations.
Nyx — his corporeal configuration inclined in an offensive commencement posture — his power sword, enshrouded in goldenfulgurations, its blade configrating with sanctified pyre of sufficient intensity to attenuate the essential substrate of the Warpitself.
His manual extremities were tensed. He was prepared to execute a horizontal lacerativetranslation.
Every parameter of his offensive commitmentwas precisely as Khorne had anticipated.
He elevated His sanguinary battle-axe to encounter Nyx's offensive commitment. He was determined, through a SINGULARpercussive encounter, to comprehensivelyannihilate his adversary's martial confidence.
He would then detach his cephalic extremityand consign it to an honoured station adjacent to His throne.
His sanguinary pinions elevated themselves. They propagated tempestuous sanguinaryatmospheric perturbations. His terrifyingsanguinary effluence erupted outward.
At the instant, however, of His terrestrialevacuation —
He registered a constrictive sensation at his inferior extremities.
His regard descended.
His own umbral configuration was undulatingwith animate deliberation. It was coiled about His inferior extremities with considerableconstrictive investment.
...Umbral configuration?
This is the capacity of the eighth successor of the Accursed Entity...
Khorne's terrifying divine effluence had, priorto the Emperor's martial intervention, comprehensively suppressed the umbrallatitude of Nostramo.
At this chronological juncture, however — with the Emperor's progressive attenuation of Khorne's divine puissance — the umbrallatitude could, once more, be employed by Curze.
These umbral constrictions were insufficientto inflict catastrophic corporeal compromiseupon Khorne's terrestrial vessel.
They were, however, sufficient to immobiliseHim for a transient temporal increment of oneor two seconds.
For entities of exceptional martial calibration— a singular temporal increment of onesecond was sufficient to adjudicate the decisive disposition of an engagement.
Nyx's blade ARRIVED.
Sanctified configration inscribed a fulgurantarcuate trajectory upon the atmosphere. It lacerated Khorne's anterior thoracicconfiguration.
Khorne ululated. He forcibly emancipatedHimself from his umbral constrictivereticulation. He elevated His battle-axe to intercept Nyx's offensive commitment.
The acoustic signature of this collision was analogous to the concerted percussion of innumerable ferrous substrata. It was sufficient to lacerate the fabric of reality itself.
Simultaneously —
Curze — whom Khorne had, up to this chronological juncture, excluded from His cognitive investment — erupted from the umbra posterior to His dorsal configuration.
His lightning claws — analogous to the dentition of a nocturnal chiropteran predator— perforated Khorne's posterior cephalicconfiguration.
"Your collaborative martial investment is commendable... This modest augmentation, however, is GROTESQUELY INADEQUATE to CONTEND with ME!"
This concerted offensive commitment of twoPrimarchs — meticulously calibrated to maximum efficacy — had, nevertheless, occasioned only a superficial corporealperturbation in Khorne's terrestrial vessel.
His ululation was analogous to the concertedcacophony of a primordial martialconvocation. His sanguinary battle-axedescended with catastrophic percussiveinvestment.
The impact propagated through Nyx's power sword with sufficient magnitude to occasionfulgurant energetic discharges and configrating effluence along its entire blade.
His battle-axe then recalibrated its trajectorywith exceptional velocity. Its retrograde arcpropelled Curze several metres rearwardthrough the atmosphere.
"Is this the TERMINUS of your MARTIALINVESTMENT?"
Khorne's subauditory enunciation was saturated with derision.
The lacerations upon His anterior thoracicconfiguration — configrated by Nyx's sanctified pyre — were remediatingthemselves with appalling celerity.
He registered, however, a progressiveattenuation of His divine effluence — attributable to Nyx's sanctified configration.
"Your collaborative martial investmentconfers additional gratification upon this sacred martial convocation... PROCEED! CONTINUE to GRATIFY my SENSORIUM!"
Nyx and Curze immediately recalibrated their martial dispositions. They re-committedthemselves to their offensive trajectories.
The effulgence of Nyx's blade and the umbralcoils of Curze's lightning claws envelopedKhorne's corporeal configuration with the momentum of a tempestuous atmosphericperturbation.
Sanctified configration and umbral effluenceinterlaced in the atmosphere. They inscribeda lethal reticulation of annihilation.
They alternated their offensive commitmentswith such velocity that their translations were indiscernible to conventional perceptualfaculties.
One prosecuted the primary offensivecommitment. One prosecuted the supplementary offensive commitment.
Rhythmically. Methodically. They progressively attenuated Khorne's divineeffluence.
Khorne was analogous to a colossalgeological configuration progressivelysubjected to accelerated orogenic attrition.
Each ostensibly lethal offensive commitmentinscribed a transient impression upon His war-plate.
Each laceration configrated by sanctified pyrewas remediated by His inexhaustible reservoirof primordial fury.
He had not executed a single retrogradetranslation.
His progressive corporeal attenuation, however, occasioned in Him acceleratingaffective perturbation.
The tactical disposition of this engagementhad, imperceptibly, commenced its progressive recalibration in favour of Nyx and Curze.
"ENOUGH... How DARE you INFILCT such HUMILIATION upon my DIVINE PERSON?!"
Within the profundity of the Brass Citadel — Khorne's authentic corporeal configurationwas engaged in a life-or-death martialconvocation with the Emperor.
In the absence of sustained effluence from His authentic corporeal configuration — this Great Daemon vessel would, sooner or later, be exiled to the Warp.
Khorne could not, however, accede to this predestined existential trajectory.
He could not countenance the proposition that He would be vanquished — through such an ignominious attritional expedient — when He had personally manifested Himself.
The instant of this determination —
A terrifying martial momentum ERUPTED from His corporeal configuration.
Skarbrand's Great Daemon corporealsubstrate commenced its catastrophicconfigration.**
Khorne's divine effluence came to a fulminantebullition within this vessel — analogous to divine haemorrhagic effluence igniting.
"...Is this a TERTIARY TRANSFIGURATIONPROTOCOL?!"
Nyx's cognitive infrastructure registeredcatastrophic perturbation.
His adversary — who had been, imminently, subdued through sustained attritionalengagement — had abruptly dispensed with conventional martial protocols and commenced indiscriminate offensiveescalation.
"Negative... This is not a death-throescounter-offensive expedient...!"
Curze's glabellar prominence was saturatedwith frigid diaphoretic effluence.
This terrifying puissance propagated outwardfrom its epicentre. It enveloped the entireplanet.
Every sentient organism within Nostramo'sterrestrial configuration registered this existential apprehension — emanating from the profoundest recesses of their essentialsubstrate.
This was the instinctive ululation of sentientlife:
There EXISTS, within this cosmos, an ENTITYwith which humanity is INCAPABLE of CONTENDING.
The Great Daemon's corporeal configurationwas transfigured into combustive fuel.
Each Archaemon was the incarnation of a specific facet of its proprietary Dark God'sessential constitution.
At this chronological juncture, Khorne was determined to comprehensively configrateSkarbrand — who incarnated His unalloyedwrath — to forcibly insinuate a greaterquantum of His essential substrate into the material cosmos.
"You DARE?!"
The Emperor's flaming golden blade was forcibly suppressed by Khorne's augmentedoffensive investment.
He had not anticipated that Khorne would accede to such profound derangement.
Though Great Daemons could be reconstituted — the configration of a GreatDaemon who incarnated an essential facet of His divine constitution was equivalent to the auto-laceration of a portion of His divinecorporeal configuration.
The existential attritional cost of this determination was unendurable — even for a Dark God.
This paranoiac deranged entity had, however, dispensed with conventional strategiccalibration. He had acceded to comprehensive ontological gambling — irrespective of consequential considerations.
...MAGNIFICENT!
*BOOM——! *
The terrestrial substratum REGISTEREDCATASTROPHIC GEOLOGICALPERTURBATION.
Nyx registered exclusively a crimsonfulguration — lacerating the atmospherebefore his visual faculties.
His reactive capacities were INADEQUATE to this unprecedented offensive velocity.
Before he could recalibrate his defensivedisposition —
He registered Curze's corporeal configuration— BISECTED — translating through the atmosphere.
"ONE!"
Khorne's subauditory enunciation was saturated with sanguinary ecstasy.
His sanguinary battle-axe — dripping with haemorrhagic effluence — was withdrawnfrom its catastrophic offensive commitment.
His crimson regard traversed to Nyx.
"Curze...?!"
Nyx could not even authenticate his fraternal associate's existential status —
Frigid, incisive homicidal intentionality had comprehensively immobilised his corporealconfiguration.
At the instant of this cognitive registration — he 'registered', with prophetic clarity, his predestined existential termination:
Cervical bifurcation.
At this chronological juncture —
Khorne was no longer confined to His previous Great Daemon vessel's corporealconfiguration.
His aspect had transfigured itself — coinciding, with uncanny precision, to a fan-made illustration inscribed within Nyx's pre-transmigration cognitive archive:
His entire corporeal configuration was enveloped in absolute tenebrosity. His war-plate was fabricated from sable brass. From every interstice of this august armour, a saturated crimson effulgence exuded — analogous to magmatic effluence cascadingthrough chthonic fissures.
He was immobile.
Nyx registered, with visceral certitude, the desperate chasm extending between mortalsand divinities.
...At this chronological juncture — our existential trajectory has, indisputably, attained its TERMINUS.
...Is it excessively belated to SUPPLICATE for existential CONTINUITY at this juncture?!
This cognitive formulation was immediately — and comprehensively — suppressed by Nyx's volitional investment.
He was acutely cognisant that Khorne — who had acceded to comprehensive derangement— would not extend clemency to his adversary.
Should he supplicate for existential continuityat this chronological juncture — his existentialterminus would be considerably more protracted and excruciating than a simplebifurcation of his cervical configuration.
He would, in all probability, be comprehensively disarticulated into innumerable particulate fragments prior to his reclassification as Khorne's 'ChosenInstrument'.