"This war... was finally over."
"Vashtorr, that ambitious bastard, had fallen here. The trouble we would face in the future had lessened a little."
After Lox activated the Webway shield tunneler and sealed the Gate of Khaine once more, he finally let out a breath of relief, utterly exhausted.
With the Webway shield tunneler suppressing them and the Aeldari gods lending their power, even if Khorne launched another forcible assault, He would be unable to break through Commorragh's Webway barrier.
As for the Khorne daemon army still stranded on the battlefield, though its numbers remained enormous, its defeat was only a matter of time.
Within the completely sealed Webway, they could no longer receive power from the Warp or Khorne. Like water without a source, they would only grow weaker the longer they fought.
"Khorne truly did not cherish the lives of His followers. He would rather see His daemon army exhausted on the battlefield than allow them to retreat."
"Retreat meant evasion, and evasion meant cowardice. The Blood God despised cowardice above all else."
Lox murmured. In his sight, the tide of daemon engines once controlled by Vashtorr had fallen into paralysis after losing their master and were being mercilessly harvested by the Iron Men and Titan legions.
With control over the Webway shield tunneler, Commorragh had become his absolute home ground. Lox immediately began dispelling the rules of war created by the Blood God.
The Imperium of Man had long discovered that when fighting Warp daemons, especially Khorne daemons, long-range attacks with advanced weaponry often dealt less damage than crude, primitive weapons wielded in melee.
The reasons behind this phenomenon were extremely complicated, but simply put, Khorne had imposed His rules upon the battlefield and forced everyone else to obey them.
Khorne revered honorable, valiant melee combat; He