Guk, lying on the ground, had practically been declared out of the fight, so the battlefield's focus shifted to the Avatar of Khaine and the Seed of Destruction.
Having just endured a brutal battle, the Seed of Destruction had clearly gained no advantage against the Avatar of Khaine and was being beaten back step by step.
Seeing that things were going wrong, the surrounding demons immediately swarmed toward the towering Avatar of the War God. Yet this ancient warrior could not be bothered with them. With a casual sweep of the flat of his blade, he sent most of the demons flying, then crushed the rest beneath his feet.
"Damn Aeldari bastard!"
In his fury, the Seed of Destruction began drawing power without restraint.
With its roar, storms spiraled out from the Chaos rift and poured into the real world, gathering around the Demon Lord. The warped energy within them flooded madly into its forming body, granting it even more destructive strength.
The wounds Doom's Lament had inflicted earlier rapidly healed at a visible rate, while black smoke began billowing from the Seed of Destruction's body. Its once lava-like skin gradually transformed into freshly cooled obsidian.
Its body also grew larger in the process, becoming two heads taller than the Avatar of Khaine. The only price was that the Chaos rift, which had already expanded to hundreds of meters wide, not only stopped growing but began gradually shrinking.
This was a race against time.
"Your pathetic god was long ago destroyed by my master! A mere fragment like you dares to act so arrogantly before me!"
With most of its power restored, the Seed of Destruction launched a frenzied counterattack, striking the Avatar of the War God with its battle-axe and iron whip, tearing apart his metallic skin.
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