Strictly speaking, Eidolon, the Lord Commander of the Emperor's Children, had died to the soulless field of a Pariah. His incomparably violent, surging psychic scream had backfired upon himself.
Psychic power was the most dangerous and unstable force. Even the slightest loss of control could spell one's own doom.
Had it not been for Qin Xin's earth-shattering throw, Gantula might not have been able to kill Eidolon in a one-on-one duel. That bizarre tide of noise could penetrate the defenses of Mark Star power armor to a tremendous degree, greatly affecting the White Scars.
With Eidolon dead, the core of the noise tide was gone. The sonic waves composed by the Emperor's Children lost their resonant power, leaving them to fight individually against the loyalists' battle formations.
There were also the Aeldari, filled with rage and hatred. Amid the crowd, Uslan unleashed his terrifying psychic power, crushing several Noise Marines, armor and all, into fragments with a gesture.
The psychic power of an Ulthwé craftworld seer was exceptionally terrifying. Given enough time to prepare, even crushing an entire planet would not have been difficult for him.
If they had not been worshippers of the Chaos God Slaanesh, even an entire company of Astartes attacking together could never have been Uslan's match. A Psyker of such utterly overpowered caliber could form an army alone and bombard Space Marines to death from afar once he had put distance between them.
Uslan swung his staff and knocked a Hellbrute the size of a Dreadnought to the ground. This enormous monster was covered in armor enhanced by Chaos power, its vicious steel spikes threaded with heads and flayed human skin, radiating an incomparably evil aura.
Inside it was an Emperor's Child whose mind had already been consumed by madness and fury. The flesh of