With Saleen's attention focused solely on the Sister of Battle, she did not notice the burst of crackling energy fired from the galvanic rifle that Stukov had raised at her!
The energy charge hit the demon in her lower back, causing her eyes to suddenly white open before the whole daemonette burst into purple flames, a frantic "NO!" sceam emitted from her! Soon there was nothing left where Saleen had once stood other than a black, singed spot on the ground and the distinct smell of sulfur in the air!
Yet the electric current would travel through the daemonic twinblade, and right into Aviza's hands, stunning the sister of battle as a surge of electricity washed through her!
Finally, without the daemon holding it, Saleen's daemonic twinblade would fall out of the air, clanking against the concrete ground next to Aviza, the only remnant of the daemonette.
In the meantime, on the other end of the room, Astrid was extending her spear towards Adrianne who laid flat on the ground at the bottom of the platform. Blue lightning would extend from the psyker's wrist and into the silver spear, making it seem like a conduit of some sort as power gathered around the blade at the tip.
"Pathetic... " Astrid would mutter, but before she could discharge the electric blast against her fallen opponent, gunshots would soon be heard as Stukov fired at her with his naval pistol! The first bullet hit Astrid in the side, passing easily through her heavy silk robes and sending blood splattering out on the other side of her abdomen.
With a painful shriek, Astrid spun around, facing Stukov as she clutched her wound with her left hand!
But as the next bullets came flying at her, the result would not be quite the same as the first one. The second bullet hit Astrid in the chest, burrowing into her robes before disappearing without apparently doing anything to psyker, causing no blood, wounds or pain. As was the case with the next two, all of whom disappeared into Astrid's robes but didn't seem to affect the woman one bit. The final bullet would find its way towards the psyker's head, hitting the upper left portion of her forehead.
Yet, rather than blowing her brains out, the portion of her skin that the bullet was heading for would suddenly hardened, gaining a gray, almost metallic hue in expectation of the impact!
When the bullet hit the area, it merely plinked off the psyker's skull, leaving not even a scratch as the psyker's skin returned to its normal bright pink color. Behind her golden mask, Astrid's eyes were now burning and crackling with blue energy, similar to what Stukov himself had experienced earlier.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
But before Astrid could ever return the favor to Stukov, Adrianne's war cry could be heard out. Looking around, the psyker was nowhere to be seen... until one looked up, and saw Adrianne appearing from high under the roof and launching herself down towards Astrid!
Astrid immediately brought her spear up to block the incoming power sword as Adrianne fell down upon her. The moment the two weapons met, a deafening boom would be heard within the room, as Adrianne had apparently enhanced her already vicious attack with quite a lot of extra kinetic energy! The ground beneath Astrid's feet would crack as the sheer power of the blow traveled through her body and into the ground from a strike that would have broken the body of any normal human that wasn't enhanced by biomancy!
The cultist would soon counterattack, swinging the bottom of her spear upwards towards Adrianne's head. But she would miss as Adrianne ducked down, and with a fierce cry swung her sword around in a quick strike, cutting across Astrid's upper abdomen!
Astrid's eyes shot up, her iron flesh offering little protection against the power weapon. Yet Adrianne would spin around after her strike, to bring her weapon around in a piercing strike as she plunged it through Astrid's chest, penetrating her body as the purple glowing power sword burnt its way through her body and out on the other side.
"No, this... can't be happening, gaaaah!" Maltheus called out before emitting a pained groan, as he saw Adrianne's blade go through Astrid's torso.
Astrid would look stunned for a moment, gazing down at the blade in confusion as her energy quickly left her body. She would drop her spear, letting it fall to the ground as she stepped back, Adrianne pulling her sword out from her body and holding it in an upright position; ready to strike again.
"No, no-noonoo... " Maltheus rambled, reaching for his pouch despite the pains it gave him.
"I will help you, I... "
Reaching into his pouch, Maltheus brought out a small, wooden black box inscribed with various chaotic runes and golden patterns. Holding it up towards where the two psykers stood, he moved his other hand to open the lid.
"Slaanesh, I offer you this mortal coil; give me your mightiest servant!"
Maltheus called out, opening the lid on the box which put the entire room awash with a bright, purple light emanating from its contents!
Astrid, now on her knees, would notice the haunting light and turn around to see Maltheus with the open box. The psyker would immediately react, raising a hand and shouting at the man.
"Maltheus you fool! What have you, AAAAHH!"
Adrianne, who had been preparing to strike the blow that would cut off Astrid's head, soon jumped aside and off the platform when she noticed the wave of pure warp energies that suddenly surged out from the bottom of the box, and washed over Astrid! As the wild powers crackled around Astrid, the woman would let out a cry, her body soon suspended above the ground by the chaotic powers unleashed upon her!
The sound of bones snapping and tissue tearing could be heard in concert with the psyker's own tortured screams as a gruesome transformation would take place over the platform, Astrid's body growing and convulsing, her limbs pulling themselves into unnatural positions as the entire woman was changed into something... else!
It did not take long for the transformation to finish, and when it did; a wet, sickening thud could be heard as the creature standing in the place of Astrid landed on its feet.
Astrid had been turned into a grotesque abomination of the warp, towering more than 10ft into the air, with thin, stretched limbs giving it its unnatural height. Muscle tissue had burst through it skin in many places, leaving the creature constantly bleeding as blood gushed down across its eldritch body and down onto the ground, some of it even squirting across the room. Its hands had become prolonged, with long, sharp and thin claws growing out of its bloodied fingertips like daggers! A cloak made of living, twisting tentacles grew out from the back of the creatures misshapen head and back, to hang behind her and occasionally trash about with a sickening squelch! What remained of Astrid's robe was little more than scraps tattered around the creature's body. The creatures hideous face, once human, was now twisted and turned into a hideous stoic image, with two big, bulging yellow eyes growing out of its sockets, and where her mouth had once been it was nothing but a solid sheath of bloodied skin.
Standing still for a moment, the creature observed the room around it with its bulging, twitching eyes, before soon noticing the other occupants in it.
The field around the abomination's body crackled with red tendrils of pure power. Its sheer presence could be felt in the head of all the occupants of the room, almost as if someone was scratching against the periphery of their skulls with an ice cold rage, trying to pierce through to their very brains! It was a sickening distraction, and it only seemed to grow stronger whenever the creature looked at them!
