Countless people witnessed this miraculous scene.
Sanguinius had single-handedly slain and destroyed an ancient Emperor-class Titan. The wreckage of the Axis of the World lay toppled upon the earth, while the loyalist Titans accelerated without hesitation to finish it off.
No one knew whether these Chaos-corrupted Titan machine-spirits would truly die once their command cores had been destroyed. If it had not died completely and the Dark Mechanicum later took its remains to revive it, then it would truly be too late for regret.
They wished they could throw the dead Emperor-class Titan into the heart of a star and burn it clean. That damned traitor deserved no mercy, even if ground to ashes.
That was what the Titans loyal to the Imperium thought. The next second, the dark clouds behind Sanguinius, still high in the sky, abruptly tore apart.
By coincidence, a Blackstone Fortress had indeed plunged into the star. The Sun's reaction to being struck by a celestial-scale construct was even more violent than expected.
Enormous prominences and flares erupted across the star's surface, accompanied by fiercer solar winds. After all this time, the Sun's breath finally crossed the distance and reached Beta-Garmon II.
The solar wind scattered the clouds and dust from the planet's surface. Countless charged particles rubbed against the magnetic field and atmosphere, producing dazzling, blinding auroras.
Beneath such a miraculous sight, countless loyalist Titan pilots erupted with even greater fighting spirit and battle lust. In an unprecedented display, after praising the Machine God, they immediately cried out Sanguinius's name as well.
A vast disparity in morale instantly emerged between the two sides. With an Emperor-class Titan lost as both command platform and core of their war effort, casualties among the traitor Titan Legions began to rise sharply.
More than a thousand Titans had been