With a heartbreaking sound of tearing, Abaddon brutally ripped one of Celestine's wings from her back with his enormous Power Claw and crushed it in his grip. Golden blood splashed across his black Terminator Armour, glaring against the dark metal.
Celestine let out an agonized scream and collapsed, her sacred radiance visibly fading.
The Imperial Guard soldiers around her cried out in despair at the sight. Their angel, their hope, had had her wings broken and lay in a pool of blood like a rag doll.
"Look! This is your hope!" Abaddon raised the still-dripping remains of her wing and roared across the battlefield. "In this universe, only power is real! Only Chaos is eternal!"
He raised his Daemon Sword, aiming it at Celestine's neck. Abaddon was ready to bring the Living Saint's life to its final end.
"Goodbye, little bird."
Just then.
A tremendous crash came from the sky.
It was the sound of something immensely heavy breaking through the atmosphere at supersonic speed and hurtling toward the ground.
Every detector screamed.
Abaddon instinctively sensed immense danger. Forced to abandon Celestine's execution, he raised the Talon of Horus to block the blow from above.
BOOM!!!
A golden "meteor" struck precisely where Abaddon stood.
The earth shuddered. The shock wave instantly hurled away every Chaos Space Marine and Daemon within hundreds of meters. Dust billowed and rubble flew.
When the dust cleared, a figure that left everyone breathless stood at the center of the crater.
He was a twelve-meter-tall giant. His body was forged from flowing gold and fire, and an Aeldari-style mask covered his face. But the golden flames burning in his eyes were something Abaddon found all too familiar-and all too terrifying.
"You're... the False Emperor...?" Abaddon's face was full of questions.
"Call me your lord."
Liu Zhipeng