Sanguinius Salas's shattered body, like scrap iron cast into a stellar furnace, vanished and disintegrated soundlessly within the C'tan shard's torrent of pure destructive energy, unable to stir even the faintest ripple of power.
His vaunted wisdom, ambition, technological creations, and even the last trace of his existence were utterly reduced to nothingness amid the C'tan shard's accumulated hatred of countless millennia.
The C'tan shard's "gaze," formed from pure energy and seemingly containing the light of countless dying stars, shifted instantly from the place where Salas had vanished and locked onto the remaining Necron army within the tomb!
Hatred! The monstrous hatred of being imprisoned, dismembered, and drained of energy for countless millennia ignited in an instant like the fury of the universe itself!
"Bzzzzzz—!!!"
There was no sound, yet it shook the soul more than any explosion! An invisible, violent energy shockwave capable of warping the physical laws of reality erupted from the C'tan shard, sweeping in every direction in a perfect sphere!
The tomb's sturdy living-metal walls, the massive blackstone pillars supporting the dome, and the Necron warriors battling Sanguinius and Horus... everything touched by that wave of energy lost its original form in an instant!
The walls collapsed and flowed inward like melting wax! The Necron warriors—whether warriors, Destroyers, or Canoptek constructs—their living-metal bodies instantly broke down into the most primitive atomic metal dust, without even time for their ghostly green energy to flicker!
This tide of destruction was not confined to the interior of the tomb!
It pierced the thick rock strata and tore apart the planet's crust! The entire planet of Adacis groaned beneath the strain! Continental plates shattered and shifted like brittle crackers beneath the C'tan shard's wrath! Massive chasms spread like scars across the planet's surface! Core magma was squeezed out by the