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The combat between the five Space Wolves and Magnus was intense, and moved from the ruins of Hrladir's laboratorium into an aircraft hangar near the peak of the Fang; but even with 5 against 1, and each being a hero of the Chapter, Magnus was still a daemon-primarch. One Wolf Guard was flung across the hangar, his head crushed. The other had his back broken by a single strike of Magnus' hand. Odain Sturmhjart, who had been using his powers to increase the deadliness of the others, found himself struck by witchfire and then telekinetically exploded. By this point Magnus himself had been wounded, having taken the most serious injury to any physical form he had worn since the Burning of Prospero, and was under constant [[plasma cannon]] fire from Bjorn. The sickening level of destruction visited upon his physcality was not enough to stop him, however, and he murdered Jarl Greyloc with his bare hands...before finally turning to face the [[Venerable Dreadnought]].<sup>1l</sup>
Closing with the ancient warrior, the two briefly duelled at close range, battling on the cliff-edge at the end of the open hangar-bay. Bjorn injured Magnus with both fire and blade, before the dazed and burned primarch recovered and destroyed both of the Dreadnought's weapon-arms, incapacitiating incapacitating him with sorcery. Magnus paused, recogising the aura of Bjorn's soul as one he had sensed on [[Prospero]], a thousand years before. As he prepared to cast the ancient Space Wolf out and into the abyss, the distracted Magnus was suddenly struck from above.<sup>1l</sup>
For Harek Ironhelm had arrived, his drop-pod purposefully impacting on the very peak of the Fang itself. Such a dangerous manouever manoeuvre was followed by another one, as Ironhelm saw the duel raging on the edge of the mountain below him. Leaping downwards, he smashed into the combatants just as Magnus was preparing to kill the Fell-Handed, knocking all three of them off of the cliff-edge. The impact wounded Ironhelm and took Bjorn out of the fight, but the most damage appeared to be suffered by Magnus the Red. The being that stood up before the Great Wolf on the hillside was no longer recognisable as the primarch of the Thousand Sons of old; now Magnus appeared as a man-shaped solid coalescing of warp-energy, the only clue to his identity being the single, baleful glow of an eye that glared out at Ironhelm. Much of his power expended, Magnus found it almost impossible to cling to physical form and teetered on the edge of banishment back to the Warp. It was at this point that Ironhelm asaulted assaulted him. Again, the daemon-primarch, seemingly dazed and heavily injured, duelled hand-to-hand with an opponent for a brief time before summoning his sorcerous powers; striking Ironhelm down with a multitude of attacks, Magnus finally slew the Great Wolf of the Space Wolves.<sup>1l</sup>
Magnus vanished immediately after the death of Ironhelm; his retirement from the field was a signal to the Sorcerors of the Thousand Sons to quit the battle, and most of them succeeded in teleporting or variously vanishing from the Fang, along with their Rubricae. The Thousand Sons fleet lingered for long enough to pick up some retreating Legion elements, before jumping to warp. The mortal Spireguard, along with most of their materiel, were simply abandoned to face the vengeance of the [[Vlka Fenryka]]. Despite being mere human soldiery, it still took the Space Wolves forty days to hunt down and exterminate all of them. With the burning of the last of their bodies, the Battle of the Fang was reckoned to be over.<sup>1m</sup>
