Awooo!
The Beastman God-Chosen slammed his blade into Ka'bandha, only to discover that his all-out strike had merely hacked a crack into the other's pauldron.
In disbelief, he mumbled a few simple words in the Daemon tongue to express his emotions.
Not only the Beastman God-Chosen, but even Magnus and the other Chaos beings were deeply astonished.
"When did Ka'bandha come to possess such power? That is not merely the power of slaughter—"
The Greater Daemons of Khorne in particular were stunned. Everything before them had exceeded their imagination.
At some unknown point, the former Supreme Bloodthirster had actually betrayed the Blood God and become a warrior under the Lord of Hell, charging into battle on his behalf.
He could actually block the Beastman God-Chosen's lethal strike with ease!
The Greater Daemons of Khorne looked at Ka'bandha, and suddenly recalled scenes from the past—
Inside the Arena of the Brass Fortress, Ka'bandha had fallen to the ground in humiliation, trampled underfoot by the Beastman God-Chosen, without the slightest dignity.
The defeated Ka'bandha had knelt on the ground, accepting the Blood God's punishing lashes, stripped of all his power, and left the Brass Fortress under mocking gazes to begin a long, endless exile.
Back then, they had all thought the once Chief Greater Daemon had fallen from grace for good. No tales of his heroic feats circulated in the Warp anymore, just like the other exiled Blood God Warriors.
Yet none of them had expected that, after only a short time, Ka'bandha would return in an even more ferocious posture, issuing a challenge to the army of Blood Soil—"The Supreme Bloodthirster has become even stronger, an even braver warrior!"
So thought the Greater Daemons of Khorne.
There was no hatred for Ka'bandha in their eyes. Instead, they were filled with envy