The immense energy contained within the Worldbreaker surged through the Butcher's Nails as a conduit, pouring all at once into Angron's daemonic body of pure rage.
"ROAR-AARGH?!"
Angron's body abruptly locked up, his frenzied movements grinding to a halt.
The energy overload from the Butcher's Nails briefly paralyzed his entire body.
That fatal pause, even if it lasted only a second, was enough.
"You're finished."
Seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opening, Horus aimed his claws at Angron's jaw, slightly parted in a silent roar, and drove them upward with every ounce of his strength!
"SPLURCH-!!!"
The sound of flesh being pierced set teeth on edge.
Five energy-wreathed claws plunged unhindered through the daemon's lower jaw, pierced the hard bones of his throat and skull, burst into his cranial cavity, and tore out through the back of his rage-blazing head!
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
The towering fury in Angron's eyes finally began to fade.
The psychic flames within the Talon of Horus erupted inside his brain, utterly destroying the physical anchor that bound him, a Daemon Prince, to the material realm.
"You... dare..."
This was Angron's final roar, filled with pure hatred and bitter defiance.
Then the energy within him spiraled completely out of control.
"BOOM-!!!!!"
A blood-red shock wave erupted with Angron at its center.
The instant his claws pierced Angron's skull, Horus had already released his grip. The shock wave hurled him backward like a cannonball, slamming him into the distant wall.
At the heart of the explosion, Angron's daemonic body swelled and twisted like a punctured illusion, then... disintegrated.
Silence.
Deathly silence.
Only Horus's ragged breathing and the shrill alarms from his armor systems remained in the Prayer Hall.
He struggled to his feet amid the rubble and spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.
*"Fuck... that