Originally posted by AncientPower
His feats must be taken into context, for example when fighting Horus he was under the illusion that he might save his son, so he wasn't even really trying to fight back. Horus himself has blows powerful enough to level planets, but is further amped by the full powers of the Gods, so the Emperor was letting Horus beat him nearly to death. The Emperor lost an eye and body parts, yet the guy easily one shots Horus when he realises he was beyond salvation.Then in a near death state, the Emperor's mind flows through the Astronomicon, stopping the powers of those Gods from entering the galaxy.
Everything he has done is low tier for him, the only time we see the Emperor going legit all-out is when he kills Horus. This is a humble God, who doesn't even want to be called a God, he is conservative with his powers because not doing so would be entirely counterproductive to building a galaxy spanning empire.
Well, as I mentioned earlier, everything piles up into one, heaping contradiction. Observe:
Originally posted by AncientPower
His blows can level planets and his psychic attack hit Horus with the power of an exploding sun and didn't simply destroy his body but annihilate his spirit, an attack that threatened to obliterate four multiversal Gods.
Originally posted by AncientPower
It was a physical contest where all the power of said Gods was stored in Horus' body, they abandoned his body in the last second otherwise their power would have been destroyed with it and would have left them severely damaged..
You see, if the Chaos Gods were at full power, and assuming their full power was multiversal, there is absolutely no way the power of an exploding sun would threaten to annihilate them in any capacity. In fact, it wouldn't even phase them to any extent. It'd literally be like a grain of sand in the universe. That it threatens to destroy their supposed full power means 1 of 2 things:
1. The Chaos Gods aren't anywhere near as powerful in the mortal realm, therefore making GEoM less impressive than he's being made out to be.
2. The quote implying that the Chaos Gods are multiversal is flawed, making the Chaos Gods, and by extension the GEoM, less impressive than they're made out to be.
I mean, GEoM actually being multiversal doesn't even begin to make sense when you take a look at the setting itself, (the GEoM, "can't even manufacture ships that leave the galaxy in a timely fashion," according to User Nemebro, he was initially strangled by a large ork, he gets nearly killed by a star-eating space dragon that was starving/hadn't replenished its strength, etc).
From what I can tell, based on the consistent showings and implications surrounding the GEoM, he's a solar system buster at best.