"ROAR!!"
He let out a roar filled with confusion and fury! He was not alone. At the other end of the battlefield, Ka'Bandha, the Bloodthirster preparing to lead his legion through the Blood Angels' lines, suffered the same fate!
"...My power... my power... is draining away?!"
His immense daemonic wings could no longer sustain his flight for lack of energy, and he plunged headfirst from the sky in a humiliating heap!
Farther away, Fulgrim, the Primarch of the Emperor's Children, who had been "toying" with Jaghatai Khan through his exquisite swordsmanship, wore an expression of disgust on his handsome face for the first time.
"...How... revolting."
He felt the psychic power bestowed upon him by Slaanesh-the power that allowed him to perceive the utmost heights of "pleasure" and "pain"-forcibly "numbed" by an invisible energy. In that instant, an eerie strangeness settled over the entire battlefield.
The lesser daemons and Warp constructs formed from pure Chaos energy, which had just poured out of the Warp Rifts, came into contact with that cold energy of "Order"-
"Hiss... sss..."
Their bodies began to flicker, twist, and turn transparent in reality. Then, after a series of unintelligible shrieks, they were simply... erased from existence. "Evaporated."
"...What's happening?"
"...Those... monsters... disappeared?"
On the Eternal Wall, the Loyalist soldiers who had already sunk into despair stared dumbfounded at the fantastical scene before them. The terrible psychic pressure that had weighed upon their souls, driving them mad and plunging them into despair, swiftly receded like an ebbing tide. They could still feel fear-the fear of physical danger. But that irresistible "despair" rising from the depths of their souls had... vanished.
"...Brothers..."
The young Imperialis Militia soldier who had been slapped by the Commissar trembled as he picked his Lasgun back up from the ground. Tears still filled