Ferrus: I Finally Suffer My First Defeat, Closer to Completion

Perfect.

Ferrus Manus's hands itched. As the Necrodermis twisted and intertwined, he reached beneath the thick iron-curtain cloak hanging from his shoulders and felt for the ebony haft of his hammer.

His fingers burned hot. He seized the great hammer in one hand, and as the hammerhead carved in the shape of eagle wings leapt free, he launched his attack.

Ferrus's giant body skimmed over the surface of the sand and dust at tremendous speed.

He swung the great hammer and smashed it toward Nimrod.

With a booming detonation, dust and sand were swept up by the blast wave and slapped outward in every direction.

Nimrod drew the Sword of Vaul and snapped it up with swift precision, bracing it against Skull-Crusher.

Boom!

Surging opposing forces struck the two of them and flung them apart as if by secondary repulsion.

First Company Captain Gabriel Santor of the Iron Hands, along with the Morlock Terminators, stared in shock as the liquid metal on Ferrus's forearms flowed away, as though repelled by the collision's energy, surging toward the Gorgon's biceps.

They all thought in astonishment at the same time: Lord Nimrod can actually contend with the strength of Father and the silver hands.

That was the combined power of a Primarch and the silver dragon Asimos.

Nimrod's palm went numb. In a contest of strength with Vulkan, he had once been at a disadvantage.

But that had been before he ascended as the Baron of Corruption, and Vulkan should have been the strongest of the Primarchs in pure physical strength.

The Void Dragon's shard is very powerful.

I have a C'tan Shard as well.

As Nimrod considered this, flames rose from the golden wings behind him and rapidly spread to his right arm.

The radiance of the golden eagle and the silver