Lox realized that he had still underestimated the power of the Omnissiah bestowed upon him by the Emperor. As the object of the Adeptus Mechanicus's worship, the prophet of the Machine God was a symbol of creation and technology. His authority could vaguely be described as the power to control technological constructs.
But after the enthusiastic sparring sessions with the Greater Daemon of Tzeentch, he suddenly discovered other uses for this power.
Invisible threads of force field curled around his fingers. This power, imperceptible to the naked eye, could be transformed into gravity or magnetism.
Yet the power he could freely wield remained very limited, which was why he had to rely on his power of creation to manufacture things such as gravity generators or high-intensity magnetic generators to amplify it.
Under the control of the force field, the battleship's structure continued to melt. Within the environment of a Gloriana-class Battleship, Lox was on his home ground.
Every piece of metal and every drop of energy here answered his call. Lox could even sense the Machine Spirit of the Light of Ten Thousand Zhang stirring restlessly.
The Warp's erosion and corruption of the Machine Spirit had formed a strange balance against Lox's summons and attraction toward it.
He could indeed drive out some of the Warp's contamination from the Gloriana-class Battleship, but he could not cleanse it completely.
Thus, within the holds of this immense voidship, countless proliferating masses of mutated flesh melted away like spring snow, revealing the ship's originally smooth and orderly decks.
Those blasphemous things, writhing and contracting like the blood vessels of living creatures, slowly withered beneath the radiance released by Lox, their vitality heavily suppressed.
But as the Warp's malign power surged, signs of Chaos corruption struck back once more, contaminating the cleansed areas anew.