The Emperor finally stopped. He raised his head, his majestic yet weary face calm as he gazed at the son who had once been his greatest pride.
"All of this... must... end."
"End?!" Horus burst into crazed laughter. "No! Father! All of this... has only just... begun!"
He surged up from his throne! In that instant, the entire bridge seemed to tremble violently beneath his terrifying divine might of Chaos!
He was the Warp! He was Chaos!
"Look at me! Father!" he roared, spreading his enormous, horribly mutated arms. "Look at this boundless power! This is the 'truth' of the universe! And you... your pathetic 'lies'... today... here... I will... put an end to them... forever!"
Boom-!
He struck first! His hideous Power Claw, crackling with lightning in four colors, tore toward the Emperor's head at a speed beyond time and space!
The Emperor did not move. He merely raised his gold-gloved right hand slowly.
Bang-!
His palm collided hard with the Power Claw!
There was no explosion, no shock wave. Only pure "nothingness." At the point where the two "gods" clashed, reality was utterly annihilated.
"Why?!"
Disbelief spread across Horus's twisted face! His "all-out strike," imbued with enough power of Chaos to tear reality apart, had been... had been caught so effortlessly by his "hypocritical" father?!
"Your power is 'borrowed,' Horus."
The Emperor's voice was cold and commanding, like the final judgment.
"It comes from disorder, from destruction. It is water without a source."
The Emperor's golden hand abruptly clenched!
Crack-!
Horus's indestructible Power Claw, forged from adamantium and daemonic essence, was... crushed outright beneath the Emperor's pure psychic power, the embodiment of "order" and "will"!
"Aaaaaaagh-!"
Horus roared in agony!
"But my power..."
In the Emperor's other hand, the Emperor's Sword burned with golden flames as it drove