Reborn as a Nurgling: Infinite Lives in the Grimdark
Chapter 104

One Man Held the Line

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"...No... Impossible!"

"...Nothing is impossible."

Sanguinius's voice rang like the holiest of arias. He moved. His spear tore through the darkness like golden lightning. Every attack was precise, lethal, and possessed a beauty beyond words. Ka'Bandha, the incarnation of slaughter who had rampaged through the Warp for tens of thousands of years, was actually... being... overwhelmed! Before Sanguinius's seamless, dance-like shifts between attack and defense, his wild, undisciplined assaults looked so clumsy, so... ridiculous!

Shhk!

The golden spear lightly tapped Ka'Bandha's massive axe, using the impact to change direction. Like a snake darting from its hole, it plunged savagely into the shoulder of his enormous daemonic body!

"Aaargh!!"

Ka'Bandha roared in agony. No hellfire poured from the wound, only foul-smelling daemon blood as thick as tar!

"...Go back to the Warp!"

Sanguinius's commanding voice rang out like a final judgment! He thrust his spear high, lifting the enormous daemon impaled on its tip into the air with it! Then he slammed it down with savage force!

Boom!!

Ka'Bandha's massive body was driven down like a javelin, pinned to the cold floor of the Eternal Wall, where an eerie green light glimmered! Sanguinius released the spear. He drew the "Crimson Holy Sword" from his waist and, just before the daemon could break free, drove the blade, burning with his "soulfire," straight down through the top of Ka'Bandha's head!

"...No!!"

Ka'Bandha let out the most anguished, defiant scream of his existence. His body shriveled and dissolved like a punctured balloon. Finally, amid a violent explosion, the mightiest Greater Daemon serving Khorne was once again forcibly banished from Realspace by Sanguinius!

At the other end of the breach, an enormous, hideous red figure slowly rose from the rubble. Angron. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His eyes, briefly clouded

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