In that perilous contest of strength, Lorgar's superhuman combat instincts revealed themselves in an instant.
Rather than meet that corrosive alien energy head-on, he did something unexpected: he deliberately released his left hand from the mace's haft!
His timing was perfect!
The Khaine Shard, straining against the descending mace head while trying to corrode it in return, suddenly found its resistance meeting nothing. Momentum tipped its massive body forward ever so slightly, leaving it momentarily stunned!
For a warrior of Lorgar's caliber, that insignificant opening was already fatal!
"Break!"
Lorgar gave a short, powerful roar! Instead of drawing his freed left hand back, he clenched it into a fist within a thousandth of a second. The Primarch's vast golden psychic energy gathered over his knuckles like an erupting supernova!
As the Khaine Shard pitched forward, off balance and wide open, a simple straight punch carrying the power to shatter mountains and split stone shot out like a launched battering ram, striking squarely in the center of its flaming face!
BOOM!!!
This punch was far more powerful than the last!
The Khaine Shard's face, seemingly cast from congealed blood, caved in on impact!
Blood-red psychic flames scattered in every direction. Its inhuman head snapped backward, and it let out a howl of pain and fury!
But that was only the beginning!
Lorgar pressed his advantage mercilessly. His right fist still clamped tightly around one of the Khaine Shard's wrists, while his left hand shot out like lightning with renewed strength. Together, his hands seized the protrusions on either side of its breastplate!
His steel-hard muscles swelled to their limits, and his Power Armour's servos shrieked under the overload!
"Up!"
Devastating strength erupted from Lorgar's core as he swung both arms!
He actually wrenched this incarnation of murderous divinity off the ground