Hierophant vs C'tan

• Shield of Baal [Exterminatus]:

"Anrakyr ordered his Monoliths to turn their guns upon the Hierophant, but most of the crackling particle whips either flashed off its heavy carapace or were turned away by some psychic shield."

• Shield of Baal [Exterminatus]:

"High overhead, the C'tan Shard waited within the Magnovitrium's gleaming mirrors. Its power crackled across the surfaces of the device, its necrodermis melded with the reflective planes. The Burning One had corrected the Magnovitrium's decaying orbit, and augmented the mighty device with a portion of its own godly power. Yet the C'tan Shard was but a single sliver of a once-great mind. It could follow its master's orders, could even pour its own might into the Magnovitrium's blast once it was triggered. It could not, however, subvert the device's failsafes or override its firing protocols - such improvisation was simply beyond the god-shard's ability to conceive. And so it hung in space, poised on the cusp of victory, yet unable to seize it."

• Shield of Baal [Exterminatus]:

"On the other side of the district, Anrakyr's forces were also struggling to push past the bio-titan. The Immortals were pouring tesla fire into the beast as it squatted over the digestion lake, its guns swivelling back and forth to hurl fleshy shells and torrents of caustic fluid into both Blood Angels and Necrons. In the air, Anrakyr's forces were slowly winning the war against the winged beasts and artillery-organisms. Doom Scythes screamed through the air, weaving between chitinous projectiles as their fire seared smoking holes through membranous wings and slime-covered chitin. Gun-beasts hunkering in ruined rooftops exploded into showers of gore, while flying creatures tumbled screeching from the sky, to be trampled underfoot by the steady advance of the ranks of Necron Warriors below.
And yet, for all the Necrons' victories, the bio-titan dominated the battle; the deafening crack of its bio-cannons. sounded each time the allies tried to push toward the cogitator spires, heavy fire forcing them back once more. It was then that Anrakyr unleashed his secret weapon. Time was of the essence, and he would wait no longer for the Hive Mind to muster fresh forces to throw against him, or his allies.

Those Blood Angels closest to the digestion lake thought Dante must have ordered an orbital strike when they saw the fire descending from the sky. As it neared, though, it was not a missile they beheld, but the shape of a flame-wreathed god. Nyadra'zatha, the Burning One, fell from the sky like a meteor. When the C'tan Shard struck the ruins it sent a plume of molten rock hundreds of yards into the air, and a wave of fire rolled out through the ruins incinerating everything in its path. Hundreds of weapon-beasts
were blasted into ashen shadows in that. single instant.

The bio-titan turned its beady eyes upon the newcomer and launched a withering salvo of bio-shells. The C'tan barely seemed to react as the ordnance burst and burned upon its coruscating halo of fire. Dante ordered his men to hold their positions as the two nightmare creatures fought. The commander had limited faith in his Necron allies, but had none in the creation of flame that he now beheld.
Flesh and fire rampaged across the ruins, the staggering strength of the bio-titan pitted against the reality-bending will of the C'tan. Even as the two giants fought to the death, the battle continued to rage around them. Dante's Blood Angels - now in control of the Fabricators' Gate and the bridge to the cogitator spires - held their ground against waves of weapon- beasts and bio-ordnance. On the far side of the lake, the Necrons were equally pressed, and Anrakyr stood atop a pile of dismembered alien corpses, his crackling warscythe gripped in two skeletal fists.

Then, with a final mournful hiss the Hierophant pitched forward into the rubble. As it tried to rise, the C'tan thrust a burning hand into its cracked and dripping carapace. Steam began to pour from the creature's wounds as the star god cooked it from within - then it exploded in a shower of smoking ichor."