The twisted Emperor's Children commanded daemons in an all-out assault on Commorragh through several Webway passages.
Daemon Lords swung their wildly warped weapons, hacking freely through the Drukhari ranks.
The Drukhari warriors of the Kabal of the Black Heart attacked relentlessly.
Meanwhile, the witches casting torment spells tried to drive back the Emperor's Children mixed among the daemons.
Psychic spells powerful enough to twist their victims to death had no effect on these Emperor's Children, who regarded pain as a reward.
Their warped bodies howled with excitement as grotesquely shaped power swords and all manner of bizarre weapons easily tore apart the Drukhari warriors' flesh.
As the Lord of Commorragh, Vect had already sensed the threat.
Compared with leaderless daemons that merely fought at random, a daemon army under command posed far too great a threat.
Vect ordered the Haemonculi and elites from the arenas onto the battlefield to eliminate the Chaos Space Marines directing the assault.
It was a wise decision. The Haemonculi's poisons were smeared over the arena elites' weapons.
These Emperor's Children, with so much of their flesh exposed, would soon pay the price for their power armour's incomplete protection.
The creations of these mad Drukhari flesh-scientists brimmed with menace and insanity. Their biotechnology was impressive enough that even Nurgle would have given it his approval.
At their head, Chief Master of Destruction Thavantias surveyed his alchemical creation with satisfaction. A bizarrely shaped construct of flesh plunged into the daemon army, overturning countless daemons and pinning one of the leading daemon Lords to the ground.
While the daemons, Emperor's Children, and Commorragh's defenders were locked in a chaotic melee, another struggle was unfolding.
The force led by Mallys was also experiencing an anomaly beyond anything they had imagined.
Although the Sword of the Void's hull housed numerous