Surging energy flowed around the Lord of Change as the two-headed avian daemon brandished his Staff of Tomorrow.
This daemonic artifact was not straight like the force staffs used by Imperial psykers, but riddled with irregular twists and bends.
The two bird-head ornaments at its tip and its blade-sharp butt were unsettling.
Countless Warp Runes flickered across the staff, radiating a pale blue glow.
An enormous spell circle composed of countless bizarre Runes was gradually taking shape.
Kairos had already glimpsed the future.
Before long, the great mechanical ship in realspace would enter a state of partial banishment because of its master's ignorance.
The ship would become completely immobilized as its Psychic Crystal lodged in the veil between realspace and the sea of souls.
As time ticked by, more and more Psychic Crystals were constructed.
Construction of the weapon compartments aboard the Sword of the Void proceeded smoothly.
The Psychic Crystals were installed in their individual, specialized chambers, ultimately joining into one enormous whole like circuits connected in parallel.
Through the machine bodies inside the ship, Iax surveyed this ingenious structure derived from its own calculations.
Enormous Psychic Crystals interlaced across the compartments, forming a glittering, regular semicircular structure like a crystal ceiling.
Several crystalline conduits made of tiny Psychic Crystals connected the chambers.
These conduits could carry the power of the enormous Psychic Crystals, allowing the weapon's output to be adjusted easily when activated.
Rapid fire, sustained fire, or draining every Psychic Crystal at once for a single overloaded strike would all be possible.
Meanwhile, the nearly one hundred million Imperial psykers delivered to "heaven" aboard the ship by the many Guardian-class vessels had no idea that the worst and most horrific fate would soon befall them.
When the final enormous Psychic Crystal was delivered into its chamber and