At the same time.
As the Warband Lords came under the Navy's artillery bombardment, the people aboard a Chaos Battleship far away suddenly saw an orange current of electricity appear out of thin air before them, crackling through the void!
The orange current quickly looped around, tracing a perfect circle as it crackled and hissed.
"What is that?"
The strange phenomenon immediately put the nearby Chaos Space Marines on alert.
Cautiously, one Chaos Space Marine raised his Bolter and edged toward the portal wreathed in orange electricity.
He tentatively reached out to touch it.
But just as his fingertips were about to brush the portal, a dull, terrifying boom split the air, like a cannonball being fired!
BOOM!!!
Their vision blurred. They barely caught a streak of motion before the Chaos Space Marine was smashed into a heap of bloody pulp.
The culprit was a colossal black hammer, more than two meters across, with a crude, ponderous design.
The entire Hammerhead was wreathed in dazzling electricity, each pulse accompanied by a crack that chilled the blood.
The shockwave from the blow sent cracks spreading across the entire battleship corridor, from the ceiling to the walls,
forming a vast web that stretched from one end of the passage to the other!
Before they could recover, they saw the massive hammer, crackling with electricity, rise at a slow but imposing pace, lifted by a powerful, muscular arm.
The Chaos Space Marine who had been bludgeoned to death had been reduced to scraps of flesh and armor, stuck to the hammer's surface,
with gruesome strands of gore still stretching between them.
The horrific sight was so shocking that the Chaos Space Marines forgot their duty and stood rooted to the spot.
Then they saw him.
A towering figure dragged the hammer as he