Mortarion swung his scythe, its blade sweeping toward a Cogitator.
Boom!
A shockwave packed with thousands of hidden spikes roared into Mortarion.
Mortarion took a step back. Silence clanged to the floor, and he stood firm amid the storm.
A spike lodged in his forehead, leaving it numb.
"Interesting."
"Jaghatai once mocked my fascination with toxins, yet his sons imitate us in secret."
Drip.
Mortarion stuck out his tongue, and blood landed on it.
"Mm—not bad. It's been a long time since I tasted anything so delicious—"
Mortarion let the toxin's Paralysis spread from his tongue until his body went rigid.
Boom!
Cogitator after Cogitator exploded, sending molten Promethium raging across the deck.
"Is cowardly hiding all Jaghatai taught you?"
Mortarion emerged from the flames, his voice low.
The hood over his head had burned to ash, and wisps of smoke rose from his charred skull.
Thick green mist welled in Mortarion's eyes. Aetheric power pierced layer after layer of obstruction and fixed on a white figure beyond two walls.
"Found you."
Mortarion charged, raising Silence high.
Boom, boom, boom—
Streams of molten Promethium blasted his armour black, but the Primarch never slowed. His gaze remained fixed on Hasik, the man who dared claim to be his equal.
The great scythe swung, tearing open two breaches.
Hasik's Spirituality warned him. He spun toward the source of the terrifying presence sweeping his way.
"Mortarion is coming for you," Stormseer Togutai Yesugei warned.
"I know." At the Iron Blood Knight's thought, members of a squad laying traps nearby immediately converged on him.
The scattered hunting "team" shared its sight and moved as one, converging on Hasik.
Yesugei clenched his left hand. Blinding arcs of lightning cut through the air and leapt over the heads of five Deathshroud.
Following the lightning's path, the