Puissance erupted from his essentialsubstrate with autonomous deliberation.
Nyx employed the accumulated conviction of his innumerable devotees — and his unassuageable aspiration to reciprocate this conviction — to transfigure his magnetic fieldrotation into a implement of unprecedentedcalibration.
At this chronological juncture — Nyx comprehended, with visceral certitude, his essential configuration.
His pre-transmigration familiarity with the Warhammer universe had occluded his authentic self-apprehension.
He now registered, with comprehensiveclarity, the signification of his existentialsubstrate:
He was, Himself, the 'RESPONSE'. He was the incarnation of innumerable supplicatoryenunciations.
The Four Dark Divinities of the Warpincarnated the primordial affective extremitiesof sentient consciousness.
What Nyx condensed within his essentialconfiguration were the complementaryaffective dispensations:
'Redemption'. 'Promise'.
So long as conviction yet oriented itself towards his designation — his volition would, ineluctably, manifest itself.
"Magnetic field rotation: 250,000 horsepower — CELLULAR RECOMBINATION!"
At this enunciation —
His shattered cardiac organ recommenced its powerful rhythmic contractions.
Novel vascular infrastructure — saturatedwith martial puissance — was instantaneouslyreticulated throughout his corporealconfiguration.
At this chronological juncture — Nyx effectedhis terminal ontogenetic translation.
His corporeal stature elevated itself to threemetres. He had acceded to the configurationof a fully matured Primarch.
He registered, with visceral clarity, his connective infrastructure with the materialcosmos. This connective infrastructure was of exceptional profundity.
He even registered, with faint perceptualacuity, the gratification of the materialcosmos — its validation of his renewedexistential configuration.
Reality had conferred its benediction upon Nyx.
This beneficence was sufficient to perforatethe constrictive reticulation of his existentialconstraints.
"...This augmentation, however, is INADEQUATE to AUTHENTICALLY VANQUISHHim!"
His five manual digits compressed into a determined configuration.
Nyx was acutely cognisant of the considerable existential investment Khorne had expended upon His strategic reticulation— exclusively to designate Nyx as His 'Chosen Instrument'.
He would, accordingly, reciprocate this 'exceptional anticipation' with commensuratemartial investment.
Argent pinions — incandescent with sanctified pyre — abruptly extended from his golden war-plate's dorsal configuration.
At the instant of his volitional awakening — Nyx's corporeal configurationinstantaneously perforated the atmosphericacoustic threshold.
He was transfigured into a goldenmeteorological projectile — propagatingrearward with accelerating velocity from the chthonic fissure — traversing the sub-hive, the mid-hive, the upper hive — his trajectoryoriented directly at the Brass Coliseum!
His velocity continued its acceleratingtrajectory.
It must be FASTER — every sentient organismupon this planet yet anticipated his return!
TEN SECONDS.
Within ten temporal increments of Terrancalibration — the golden effulgenceperforated the intervening spatial expanse.
It re-encountered the Brass Coliseum.
Nyx was suspended beneath the crimsonfirmament.
His golden ocular organs encountered the crimson regard of the colossal incarnation of the Blood God.
"Nyx... You have NOT EXPIRED?!"
Khorne's homicidal intentionality registered a transient temporal increment of hesitation.
This hesitation was instantaneouslytransfigured into unassuageable sanguinaryecstasy.
This essence — His designated acquisition — persisted in its progressive transfigurationinto configurations that transgressed His expectations.
His desiderative investment in comprehensively subjugating this specimen— and reclassifying him as His pre-eminentmartial acquisition — had, at this chronological juncture, attained its apogee.
"I have returned."
Nyx's enunciation was not amplified.
It reverberated, nevertheless, with unequivocal clarity throughout every interstice of the Coliseum's configuration.
It resonated within the essential substrata of every sentient organism who reposed their conviction in his designation.
This abbreviated formulation was his response to Nostramo — in its entirety.
Promise consummated.
"PROCEED... This martial convocation must be CONSUMMATED, Khorne!"
"HAHA... HAHAHAHA! ENGAGE, Nyx! GRATIFY my SENSORIUM with your COMPREHENSIVE MARTIAL INVESTMENT!"
Khorne registered zero hesitation or equivocation as He observed this goldenconfiguration — which had not receded from His presence, but had, instead, elevated itself to a superior ontological station.
He immediately committed Himself to extracting the comprehensive martialreservoir of His incarnated vessel.
Crimson sanguinary torrents of annihilativeeffluence converged with frenetic velocityupon the colossal battle-axe in His manualextremities.
He was cognisant that Nyx would not evacuate this martial convocation.
He would, accordingly, employ the mostformidable 'Annihilation' this incarnatedvessel could accommodate — as His mostsolemn 'Salutation' to Nyx.
The golden effulgence continued its ascendant trajectory.
It perforated the crimson atmospheric canopythat had enveloped Nostramo throughout this protracted martial convocation.
It lacerated the dense sable vapour that had accumulated over this planet throughout innumerable millennia.
At this chronological juncture — Nyx was suspended beyond the planetary atmosphere. He was suspended within the frigid vacuousexpanse.
He registered the radix of Nostramo — immersed within the Perpetual Night — a stellar entity that had, protractedly since, exhausted its vital effluence.
It was on the precipice of comprehensiveexistential expiration.
It registered, however, a novel — resolute — volition.
Its residual stellar core erupted with a terminal— most intense — effulgence.
Its illumination and its thermal effluence were analogous to a salutation from ten thousandtemporal increments prior. They traversed the vacuous expanse and illuminated Nyx with unwavering conviction.
Within the cosmic expanse — the materialcosmos integrated itself with Nyx's essentialconfiguration with unprecedented intimacy.
The energetic effluence transmitted by this stellar entity was comprehensively received— and transfigured — by his corporealconfiguration.
His designation was inscribed upon the essential substrate of the material cosmoswith profound permanence.
At this instant —
His complete coronal configuration — saturated with the unalloyed conviction of his innumerable devotees — projected a distincteffigy upon the dimensional configuration of the material cosmos.
Within the Warp —
The Emperor and the divine configuration of Khorne — who had, until this chronologicaljuncture, persisted in their frenetic martialconvocation — simultaneously suspendedtheir offensive commitments.
Their ocular organs perforated the intersticesof the curtain of reality. Their regard was fixedupon this fulgurant effulgence — and its evanescent effigy.
...What configuration is this?
It was incongruent with the tyrannical crimsonincarnated by Khorne.
It was incongruent with the perfidious azureincarnated by Tzeentch.
It was incongruent with the putrescentverdant incarnated by Nurgle.
It was incongruent with the lascivious violetincarnated by Slaanesh.
It was incongruent, even, with the 'sable'configuration incarnated by the Emperor — whose essential constitution was cognisantexclusively to the Four Dark Divinities.
This was a chromatic configuration that noentity within the Warp had ever registered.
Tepid argent. Fulgent gold. These chromaticregisters interlaced — 'reflecting' from the frigid material cosmos into the immaterium.
This was an amplified replication of Nyx's present coronal configuration.
This was the projection of the conceptualdispensations of 'Promise' and 'Redemption'— incarnated within the material cosmos.
'Thermal effluence' — which no Warp entityhad ever registered — not desiderative, not apprehensive —
Instantaneously attracted the regard of every formidable entity within the Warp.
"Nyx...?!"
A rare affective perturbation cascadedthrough the Emperor's cognitiveinfrastructure.
This was the inaugural chronological instantat which He had authentically comprehendedthat Nyx was not merely a 'transmigrated'specimen who had coalesced with the Eleventh Primarch's corporeal configuration.
He had, until this chronological juncture, designated Nyx exclusively as His successor.
The essential substrate disclosed by His successor at this chronological juncture, however, was genuinely sufficient to transfigure the predestined existentialtrajectory — to ignite a novel existentialpossibility...
...A novel martial dispensation.
"Magnetic field rotation——!"
"TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND HORSEPOWER!"
Zero further hesitation.
Golden fulgurations erupted from Nyx's corporeal configuration.
They propagated outward with the momentumof a reticulated atmospheric discharge. They instantaneously enveloped the entire orbitalconfiguration of Nostramo.
They captured — and constricted — every particulate celestial detritus that had accumulated throughout innumerabletemporal increments of this planetarysystem's existential trajectory.
Under Nyx's magnetic field rotation —
Tens of thousands of tons of celestial detrituswere frenetically compressed and transmuted.
This accumulated substrate was then condensed into a meteorologicalconfiguration of considerable magnitude — several times his own corporeal stature.
It was suspended within the planetary orbitalconfiguration. Its oppressive effluence was exceptional.
At this chronological juncture — he possessedthe martial capacity to propel this colossalmeteorological configuration at maximumtranslational velocity.
This destructive kinetic effluence — sufficientto annihilate every sentient organism upon this planetary configuration — would be comprehensively concentrated upon Khorne's incarnated configuration.
Zero dissipation. Absolute precision. This was the dispensation of his perfect dominion.
Nyx's corporeal configuration was immutablyfixed upon the meteorological configuration'sapex.
"INGEST my COSMIC STELLARPROJECTILE, ORAL COMMISSURESPECIMEN!"
His magnetic field rotation condensed itself into an invisible colossal propulsiveimplement.
It transfigured Nyx — and the meteorologicalconfiguration beneath his inferior extremities— into a juridical lance.
This implement perforated the vacuousexpanse. Its trajectory was oriented directlyat the Brass Coliseum upon Nostramo!
The planetary atmosphere emitted a laceratedululation.
It was enveloped by the friction of atmospheric re-entry — of sufficient thermalintensity to liquefy ferrous substrata.
At the instant of its encounter with the meteorological configuration's surface — this combustive thermal effluence was comprehensively intercepted and absorbedby Nyx's dense magnetic capture reticulation.
The meteorological configuration sustainedprogressive attrition throughout its atmospheric translation.
This attrition was instantaneously remediatedand reconstituted under Nyx's magnetic fieldrotation.
Its morphological configuration was transfigured, under catastrophic atmosphericpressure, into a convergent, lethal colossalferrous projectile!
Terrestrial surface — Brass Coliseum —
The incarnated configuration of the TerrorDivinity had already elevated His regard.
His crimson vision reflected the meteorological projectile — perforating the atmospheric canopy — trailing a fulgurantcombustive effluence of accelerating velocity— and the golden configuration enthronedupon its apex.
This terrifying martial effluence occasionedcatastrophic geological perturbation. The substratum fractured and collapsed with the facility of a fragile ovular integumentarysubstrate.
Khorne's stance, however, registered zeroretrograde translation.
His sanguinary ecstasy had attained an unprecedented apogee.
"Nyx... To ENCOUNTER you in such a MAGNIFICENT MARTIAL CONVOCATION...!"
Curze — his corporeal configuration bisected— yet elevated his regard to the firmament.
He forcibly expelled an enunciation from his compromised laryngeal apparatus:
"...HOPE... RECLAIM it... NYX!"
At this chronological juncture —
Every regard within the material cosmos — and the immaterium — benevolent or maleficent, irrespective of their ontologicalstation — was fixed upon this epic martialcommitment.
COLLISION——!
Khorne's colossal sanguinary battle-axeASCENDED against the gravitationaldispensation — and COLLIDED with the meteorological projectile's APEX!
The unalloyed juridical dispensations of the material cosmos — and the terrifying martialeffluence of the Blood God — COMMENCEDtheir primordial martial convocation!
The collision of these two colossal martialinvestments occasioned oppressive spatialperturbations — which propagated outwardfrom their epicentre with irresistiblemomentum!
Khorne registered Nyx's conviction — transmitted through the ferrous substrate of this colossal meteorological projectile.
This singular meteorological projectile, however, was INADEQUATE!
"SHATTER——!"
His sanguinary battle-axe erupted with incandescent effulgence. His annihilativelacerative arc translated itself across the colossal ferrous projectile.
The meteorological configuration — comprehensively bifurcated — fractured into two hemispherical fragments!
Khorne's maxillofacial configurationdistended into a simulation of triumphantmaxillofacial gratification.
Upon the apex of the meteorologicalconfiguration, however — Nyx's corporealconfiguration had dissipated.
He materialised himself posterior to the bifurcated meteorological projectile.
He employed the fracturing meteorologicalconfiguration as a reticulation to occludeKhorne's visual faculties — and his precognitive martial apprehension.
"I have ANTICIPATED this chronologicaljuncture — when your battle-axe has exhausted its offensive momentum — when you have DISCLOSED your exclusiveDEFICIENCY!"
"Magnetic field rotation——!"
"TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND HORSEPOWER——"
Nyx — and the configrating colossal great-blade in his manual extremities — condensedevery vestigial residuum of conviction, every supplicatory enunciation, every unconsummated promise —
They transfigured these accumulatedaffective dispensations into unalloyed argenteffulgence.
"——SPACE KING REDEMPTIVE SAVIOUR STRIKE!"
This effulgence was calibrated with exceptional precision. It descended — and PERFORATED the epicentre of Khorne's incarnated configuration's glabellarprominence.
Temporal translation registered a transientincrement of suspension.
The incarnated configuration — saturatedwith Khorne's illimitable wrath — abruptlyimmobilised itself.
The tempestuous effluence of His martialinvestment dissipated. His colossal corporealconfiguration commenced its progressivefragmentation — from the precise coordinateof the blade's impact.
"...Excellent... Magnificent... Nyx."