As Corswain and Endryd Haar defeated the strongest of the Possessed Marines, the balance of victory in the melee within the Blackstone Fortress began tipping toward the Imperium.
Lox unleashed the power of the Omnissiah, purging the Warp corruption from within the dying Broken Hound.
Anyone else would have died instantly after having their body pierced by a high-ranking Possessed Marine's bone spikes and their internal organs thoroughly mangled. But Haar and his kind were different.
He was not merely an Astartes, but the last echo of the Thunder Warriors of old.
Lox did not know whether all Thunder Warriors of the past had been such monsters, but judging from this individual case, Haar's physique was terrifyingly powerful.
Once the continued damage from the Warp corruption had been cleared, his body immediately began to stop the bleeding and heal itself. Even ruptured and severed organs such as his intestines wriggled back together.
"Machine, heal thyself."
Under the influence of Lox's power, Haar's armor also slowly recovered and repaired itself. The Machine Spirit, once tainted by Warp power, regained its vitality, while the scratches across the metal surface were gradually smoothed away.
Large quantities of restorative drugs were injected into the War Hound's body, stimulating his vitality to an extremely vigorous state. Countless minuscule medical nanobots entered his body, automatically locating severely injured areas and mending the organs there.
It could be said that so long as they were not thoroughly dead on the spot, Lox could find a way to save these fearless warriors. He would not even need to place them in Dreadnought chassis to preserve their lives.
"If the Thunder Warriors' mental state had not been so unstable, they might have been war machines even more formidable than the Astartes. That terrifying regenerative ability and physical strength..."
Lox