After Lorgar was killed by Be'lakor, both the Shadow Lord and the primarchs instinctively ignored the remaining Word Bearers.
In their eyes, with even the primarch Lorgar dead, the remaining Astartes could not possibly cause any major trouble.
Only beings on the level of primarchs were qualified to influence the overall situation. Once the victors had been decided, the remnants of the Word Bearers would naturally be purged.
Yet, to everyone's surprise, these newly raised Word Bearers under Lorgar's command carried out their primarch's orders with absolute determination. Even the primarch's death did not interrupt their mission.
Lorgar's final command to Faust was to complete the sacrificial ritual at any cost and shatter the fragile balance between humanity and the Warp on the battlefield within the Eye of Terror.
Faust raised both hands, holding the ritual dagger Lorgar had used before—a blade stained with the blood of countless human sacrifices. He recited the final blasphemous prayer in a hoarse scream:
"Let the blood of ten thousand humans be the sacrifice!"
"Open the veil of reality! Let the storm of destruction sweep across the false Emperor's realm, and reveal truth's visage before the eyes of fools!"
"O Empyrean! Accept this humble offering! Unleash Your wrath and cleanse this false reality!"
As his final syllable fell, the mountain-like heaps of Astartes corpses within the dark temple, the shattered weapons and armor, and the carefully arranged gene-seed all dissolved and sublimated within the blood pool.
A brilliant light of Chaos, like a meteor flying in reverse, suddenly broke free from the daemon world's restraints and surged into the depths of the Eye of Terror, where it directly connected with the Warp.
"It's done! We have completed the great mission bestowed upon us by the primarch!"
"The Empyrean shall claim the final victory, and