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'…and slay the enemies of the Imperium with bolt and blade…' Elysius continued. His voice, normally cold like iron, burned with a zealot's passion now. The caustic rhetoric was amplified by the vox-emitters in his battle-helm, and his fiery sermons rang with the clarity and force of a loud hailer.
'…commit their vile forms to the flames of purgation…"
Ten more steps.
'…hurl the wretched into the abyss to be torn asunder by claws of iniquity…'
Five more.
'…and the tainted shall burn within the pit, smote from the earth…'
Three.
'Heed me traitors and tremble!'

Chapter Seven - I. Besieged (Black Library, 2009)

Hunter-killers emerged from concealed firing slits, triggered by proximity. De'mas took out one, […] The other released; its target, the Chaplain who had stalked forwards to join his brothers at the gate.
Elysius disappeared amidst a cloud of fire and shrapnel. Tsu'gan fully expected him to be dead but when the dust cleared the Chaplain was down on his knee but very much alive, his Rosarius field flickering intermittently around him. The hunter-killer had retracted, only to return seconds later with a fresh payload.
'Dare bend me to my knee, craven tool of heresy,' spat Elysius, standing straight. 'With the fury of Prometheus, I smite thee!' His bolt pistol roared with the voice of damnation and the hunter-killer was no more.

Chapter Seven - I. Besieged (Black Library, 2009)