The Hive Overlord had still been doing everything he could to stabilize the swarm.
His psychic nodes pulsed violently, pushing signals out along the Hive Mind's links, toward the great devourer, toward the Hive Consciousness, warning them of the Kraken fleet's situation.
He had to tell the hive that something had gone wrong with the Kraken fleet.
That human wreathed in golden light had unleashed a field of multicolored light. The tendrils beneath it could no longer receive commands and had begun wandering aimlessly.
Help.
Help.
Help.
Hive.
Help.
He poured his signals into the thick connection like a drowning man clutching a rope.
Then a new canopy descended.
Multicolored light fell from the heavens, closing in from every side.
It spread from the direction of the humans' Night Goddess across the entire region of space, east to west, south to north, shrouding everything beneath a new canopy.
An irresistible power filled that new canopy, compelling the swarm to submit.
The Hive Overlord's psychic signals struck the enclosing canopy of color, rebounded, and shattered.
His connection to the hive was severed as well.
The Hive Overlord's psychic nodes pulsed faster and faster, like a heart about to burst.
Multicolored light flooded into the Hive Overlord's psychic nodes.
The Hive Overlord struggled and resisted, continuing to push signals outward.
But the multicolored light bore down on him, compressing his psychic nodes toward the core.
When they were compressed into the core, the Hive Overlord's psychic nodes exploded.
Every nearby psyker sensed it in that instant.
Within the multicolored light, the Kraken fleet's Hive Overlord's psychic nodes shrank smaller and smaller, until they became a pinpoint. Then they burst.
The Psychic Blast became a shock wave that swept across the entire Hive Fleet.
The Kraken Hive Overlord died instantly.
The great devourer's