Bang!
That enormous Living Metal fist, wreathed in light, slammed into the chin of the Silent King's divine body.
His colossal body toppled backward out of control, his back smashing hard into the Tombstone Platform and shattering that ancient fortress-platform.
"No—impossible!"
From the corner of his eye, the Silent King saw a humanoid divine body of Living Metal just as vast as his own, its fist raised high.
There was a diamond-shaped piece of Blackstone in the other party's chest, and his skin gave off a faint glow.
More importantly, that humanoid living divine body was radiating an intense authority over reality!
The Silent King could hardly believe it.
The Lord of Hope had likewise drawn on the authority of the C'tan Shard and gained the power of a god of reality—something he himself had spent tens of millions of years achieving!
"Sorry, but you're not the only one who can control that kind of power. For me, it's just as easy."
Ron's voice reached the Silent King's ears in the form of pulsing waves, carrying incomparable majesty.
He was the King of Knockoffs in the Warp, and with the Machine Goddess's help, as long as any technology existed, he had a chance to copy it. It was no problem at all.
While the Silent King had been sent into the Warp to battle the Chaos Gods, the Machine Goddess, the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the Crypteks had seized the time to decipher that technology for drawing on the authority of the C'tan.
Besides, they had not started from nothing. The empire had been researching related technology for a long time; it had simply hit a bottleneck and was not mature enough.
Now that the Silent King had directly used a mature version of the technology, their speed in cracking and