"Punishment target, Herav!" "Punisher Knight" Dickson shouted in Dunnish. A dawn-like radiance rose over his body, and the ghostly blue glow of the Disruption Field on his Power Fist took on a clear, bright sheen.
He rushed toward Herav at high speed, moving to rescue the member of his Honor Guard.
"Death!" He leaned forward, his arm swinging as he clenched his fist, his body merging with some strange force as he dragged afterimages behind him and charged at Herav.
Herav, who had been swinging his claws, suddenly pulled back and retreated.
Propelled by Telekinesis, Herav's body blurred into incorporeality.
He swayed in feints, seeming to retreat at supernatural speed through a succession of tiny teleports.
Dickson's fist struck Herav with missile-like precision in a way Herav could not evade.
Bang!
Herav's back burst open, pus and fragments of chitin spraying everywhere.
Herav's eyes rolled, and clicking sounds came from within his body.
The temperature along the bulkhead abruptly dropped by several dozen degrees, and a piercing psychic shriek suddenly invaded Dickson's mind.
The psychic shriek bypassed the Astartes' Leman's Ear and the sensory cells of his skin entirely, ringing out in the primitive ganglia of the Shadows of Order before immediately passing into the more complex cerebral cortex around them.
"I will devour your personalities and—"
A silver-white bolt of lightning lit in the depths of the veteran "Inquisitor" Obsidian's eyes, spreading to the surface in an instant and shining through.
Herav staggered, his withered eyes turning numb and rigid.
"Imprisonment!" Dickson raised his right arm, and an extremely viscous transparent liquid flowed down onto Herav's chest.
The mucus spread rapidly, wrapping Herav layer by layer.
Dickson, First Company Captain of the First Chapter, lowered his arm and immediately turned his gaze to the member of the Honor Guard.