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The ensuing titanic battle was fought across both the material and immaterial, across time and space and several dimensions simultaneously as the Chaos Gods watched on with glee and excitement. Fully empowered by The Four, Horus was able to match and then surpass the Emperor's own psychic might. What began as a physical contest of sword and maul escalated into a clash across time as they found themselves assailing one another on [[Cthonia]], ancient [[Terra]], [[Ullanor]], [[Gorro]], and even future [[Cadia]]. Horus and the Emperor began to attack one another in their own memories, and finally the battle manifested as a card game with the [[Imperial Tarot]]. Horus utilized his own deck he had been preparing for this, with cards whose creation was aided by the Chaos Gods. At the end of the duel the Emperor played his ultimate card, ''Death'', but Horus countered with ''The Despoiler''. The Emperor was defeated in the metaphysical, and in the material realm he was finally overwhelmed by Horus' barrage of attacks and collapsed.{{Fn|27b}}
[[Image:HorusvsEmp3.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Horus and the Emperor battle{{Fn|25}}]]
Back in the Lupercal's Court, Horus dragged the Emperor towards the 5th throne he had constructed alongside those of the four Chaos Gods. Horus proclaimed that he would punish the Emperor by forcing Him to be his slave. However the Emperor was able to use the opportunity to absorb some of Horus' dark power to launch a vicious counterattack, [[Sigillite Magic|summoning solid sigils of light ]] in the air and using them as weapons. However, the Emperor had only absorbed a small portion of Horus' power in order to avoid corruption. Thus, Horus was able to overpower the Emperor once more and puncture his throat with a talon of his claw and nail his father back to the throne using his own sigil-blades. Horus then created a crown of red energy and placed it upon the Emperor's head, completing his tableau.{{Fn|27e}} It was then that Horus was confronted by the lone Custodian Caecaltus Dusk, who refused to back down in the face of impossible odds and distracted Horus long enough for Leetu to free the Emperor from the throne. Angered, Horus callously incinerated Caecaltus with a blast of dark energy from the great eye upon the chest of his armour. But this was all the time the Emperor needed to take the crown Horus had created for him and ram it through the treacherous Warmaster's skull. Horus quickly regenerated from the attack and struck down the Emperor once more.{{Fn|27f}}
It was then that [[Ollanius Persson]] arrived in Lupercal's Court, teleported there alongside [[John Grammaticus]] by [[Actae]]. John used a single line of [[Enuncia]] to briefly blow back the monstrous Warmaster as Ollanius tried to wake the Emperor and give him the [[Athame]] blade they had recovered. John was forced to flee but Ollanius stood his ground and unloaded his [[Lasgun]] into Horus. Horus contemptuously swiped his talon, reducing Ollanius to red mist but giving the Emperor the time He needed.{{Fn|27g}}
