A blue-green shock wave erupted from the floating Tesseract Vault and swept toward the Titan Ship embedded in the World Engine.
The outer shields trembled slightly upon contact with the blue-green light, then dissipated outright.
Like a razor-sharp blade, the shock wave sank into the ship's outer armor and continued spreading through its interior.
Creak! Groan!
A terrifying roar of twisting metal rang out.
As the spearhead of the C'tan energy shock wave passed through, the entire vessel was sliced diagonally through its middle.
The Radiant Conqueror Titan embedded in the World Engine broke apart.
The severed surfaces collapsed, disintegrated, and spread at a speed visible to the naked eye.
An enormous breach hundreds of kilometers deep opened in the completely severed hull, and countless Nano-Swarms tried to approach it and make repairs.
But the moment they touched the lingering energy, they were reduced to drifting particles of matter that fell in the direction of gravity.
The World Engine's own gravity took hold.
The critically damaged Titan Ship could no longer maintain its structural integrity. Its torn-off rear section rapidly tipped over under gravity, then plunged downward.
As the wreckage fell, another colossal tremor swept across the World Engine.
Its staggering weight was simply too immense.
This attack had clearly exceeded every contingency the Men of Iron had prepared.
The lack of sufficient data on the C'tan forced Iax to make an immediate decision.
The surviving core sections of the Titan Ships that had fallen onto the World Engine began rapidly accumulating energy. Their Antimatter Energy Cores were pushed to maximum output and entered the self-destruct sequence.
As long as the explosion released enough energy, Iax believed that even if the C'tan could absorb it all, the Necrons' Tesseract Vault would still have limits to its conversion and extraction rates.