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  Came out to be 3200 words so a rather long one, hope you'll enjoy it. Also, felt like this would be the perfect theme for this chapter: Dawn of War 3 - Ork Waaagh Banner Music Extended - WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!

  I sat still as a statue in the middle of this seemingly endless hallway; I knew by now that it was only an illusion and with every kilometer came an interse where we could choose from three dires to tinue on. Sometimes the hallways were pristine and discarded tools that were used to carve the intricate markings left behind on the walls were still visible. Other times, — like this, for example, — the hallways were like the first oered. Derelid rown nature recimed these buildings. Only lush bushes and crawling vines remained after splitting and crumbling stones and carvings. I gnced around me. Selene slept with her back fag the wall, and I noticed her eyes trembling, threatening to snap open whenever Val shifted in his ung slumber. Speaking of our resident Eldar, he slept like a log and shifted around in his sleep quite a lot; I was weirded out by the diy of the current sn Eldar and the dignified Psyker I saw ho. Zedev was weird, as always. I could only tell from the ess of his aura whether he was actually sleeping with his red eye still flickering ominously and his mechadendrites moving from time to time. Still, he was resting by the looks of it. A surge of bio-energy quickly banished any fatigue that might have seeped into me. I didn't miss sleeping; I had so much to think about, to work out and sider. It felt like sleeping would be a waste of precious time even if I let the rest of my mind cores tinue w as the main one slipped into a dreamless sleep. Yes, dreamless, as even if I fell asleep I never dreamed anymore. Inhaling deeply, I let the dusty air enter my lungs. I didn't exhale but let out tiny tendrils of my eldritch flesh inside of my lung and pulled in the air into them. I couldn't gain any bio-energy out of inanic matter like air, but even still I could absorb it and store it inside my body with that weird phasing thingy, and like with anic matter, I could instinctively analyze it. Not that I hat part of my power kit to know that fug Orks are creeping around us. Bio-energy seeped into me from the absorbed air as the fungal spores of the orkoid pgue got broken down and transmuted into energy. I strained my ears a a few loy hair shift into eldritch flesh. I felt the vibrations going through the air through the white skin. Listening ily, I 'heard' them then. "Oi, 't we just go a em up?" "You stupid git, boss'll beat youz stupid skull to mush if you go grumpin before he gives the signal." "Grrrrrrr," *screeebsp;"Oi, I hoze gret to gives me refillz," "what you gona do bout it?" "Smash yourz skull in, thatz what." What followed was a few distant gunshots and flesh meeting something hard. The illusioween hallways might prevent me from seeing, but hearing was ahing and these dumb mushrooms didn't make hearing them too hard. I sighed as I stood up. I first carefully walked over to Selene and reached to shake her shoulders. Her eyes flew open and her hand so her hip when my hand was teimeters from her body. "Good m," I whispered, "we have pany." "R-right," she said as her eyes held mine, slowly prehension dawned on her drowsy mind and she silently climbed to her feet, " you ge this back please?" "Sure," I smiled and with a telepathiand, her armor turned back from looking like an oversized oo actual armor. She me as she went over her fancy piston and the one remaining psma rifle we had. Hell-pistol, I think that's what she called it. I think I remember that from lore, but I'm not sure what it did. "Zedev?" I whispered, not b to wake him as delicately as I did with Selehe tin already had half of his mind awake by now from the feel of his aura but with my whisper, the rest also slowly booted up. "I am awake. I detect Greenskin presen our viity. Numbers could range from a dozen to a hundred. Not including lesser Greenskins." "Yep," I nodded as I walked over to Valenith, "wake up already. How did you survive like this?" I mused in a silent whisper as I kicked his leg. He just turned over in his sleep. My eyes twitched a bit as I stepped on his palm and started putti on his fingers. "WHAT?" he jumped up and I stepped off of his arm, "oh." "Well, now they know we are awake," I shrugged. A hundred orcs couldn't be too bad pared to a Lord of ge or a Hive Tyrant. It didn't bother me much. This would be an excelle run for Selene in her new armor and to see how good Valenith actually is. It was undoubtedly fillih a bit of excitement to see an actual Eldar in a; I had their instincts and a perfect replica of their bodies, but even both bined shouldn't be able to hold a dle to an Eldar that had these since birth and had turies to obsessively hone his skills. "You stupid git, whoz gonhe boss we got noticed with us beat up as we iz?" I heard one orc say in the dista didn't get an answer from the presumably very dead other orbsp;"Alright," I rolled my shoulders, "is everyone ready to kill some orcs?" "Affirmative." I heard many somethings whirl up inside of Zedev's rge body as he brandished his oversized War-Axe and the many mechadendrites ending in an array of dangerous-looking onry. I even caught oh an Auspecs which should be some sort of multi-purpose ser they used for absolutely everything in the Imperium, must be from an STC then. "Yes," I caught a dangerous glint in Valenith's eye as he gnced both ways, his pointy ears probably catg some of the same things I was hearing. Eldar and the Greenskin have been murdering each other in sight for the st sixty million years. Crazy shit, where do they get all the energy from? I, of course, k wasn't a question of energy. Orcs had the equivalent of an asm every time they pulled the trigger, and the Eldar really didn't like the ugly fuckers iing their maiden worlds. The Old One made both of their species to be ons against the Nes and out of either worry or simple fracturing of their fa, the two species ily hated each other. There was iating with the Orks. I s that. Only the Tau were dumb enough to iate a peace with the Orks, Orks lived for war, they literally starved and devolved if they weren't in a 'good grumpin' now and then. I turned my head to the right and narrowed my eyes in the opposite dire of where I heard the two orcs. The ground trembled as rge bipedal beings walked with unanized footsteps. I listened, I breathed. Bio-energy trickled in quicker and quicker as the ever denser fungal spot absorbed inside my lungs. I heard the disanized shouts of a hundred oring not from just one side but both. "Around fifty oher side." my voice was steady and I held myself up fidently as my narrowed eyes snapped from side to side, sing for the first ugly fucker to step through the illusion, "Selene, do you want another on? I'm not sure your one fire fast enough to be useful." "What do you have in mind?" she grimaced as she undoubtedly uood that whatever I gave her would be the same type as her armor: anibsp;"Well," I quickly sed through my list of symbiotic Tyranid onry that I could fit onto Selene's armor, "I'd reeher a Deathspitter, a Devourer, or some sort of Barbed Strangler." "I have no idea what those are," she pulled her eyebrows into a frown, "what'd you choose?" "The Devourer, even the Orkeed their brains," I nodded, "Just don't look at what you are firing." "I've been in the Imperial Guard," she looked at me dubiously, "I think I handle your bio-on." "Oooookay," I shrugged, "I'm c your head too, by the way, looking pretty doesn't trump having your head protected." "Sure, Thanks." With a simple and, the armor expanded and flowed over her head, tug the loose strands of her hair inside before hardening into an impregnable shell. I spared a brief g her fully covered form and had the urge to shake my head in disappoi; she looked almost like a female mannequin, with no painting or evei lick of artistic tou the armor, only a belt at the waist to hold her ons. It'd have to be fixed ter as her current appearance is unfortable to be around. Look at the eldritch space horror talking about making people unfortable by looking weird. "They e," Valenith said, his staff held at the ready. Zedev's ons fred up, ready to shoot at the moment as he went through a quick series of motions that I think were meant to check for the range of movement in his many limbs. Weird, but who isn't in this gaxy? With a thought, a Devourer formed on Selene's right hand and ected to a newly created nerve ending in her armor. "Try it out," I poiowards the faraway interse, "aim it and 'will' it to shoot. Just imagine wanting to shoot and it will ply." I stepped to the side as she raised the nightmare-indug on; I waited for a few seds and just as I was doubting whether she could fire it, a swarm of flesh-eating worms flew by my face at supersonic speeds; they spttered against the ground a hundred meters away and I could hear the stone sizzling uhe potent acid carried in the disgusting little things. "It's more of a shotgun than a precision rifle like your other ones, but I'm sure you'll manage," I threw her a thumbs up. "This thing is disturbing," her voice came out muffled and I once heard it because I put some hearing nerves inside of her helmet. "That is the purpose. Fear is a superb on," I shrugged, "though I don't think it will work on our current enemies." "Psychological warfare capable of affeg the Greenskins o be extreme. The only way is to make them dislike fighting you as an enemy." "I'm not sure we mahat," I shrugged, "I think only the old Aeldari Empire, the Nes and one of your Primarchs ever made an orc dislike fighting them." Both of my human panions were clearly ied i part, but I refused to eborate. I'm so mysterious and cool. I saw the first Ork shimmer ience a good two kilometers away from us, these hallways didn't curve like a p and the air was clear, meaning I didn't have any trouble watg the bunch of them walk out of nothing like a disanized mob as they jogged towards us in disheveled looking armor and far te ons that looked like a kid had throwogether from a bunch of scraps with a stolen welder. "They are kinda far still," I frowned, " any of you hit them from this far?" "I could but it wouldn't be effit," said Val, his hawkish eyes focused solely on the Green tide approag us from the left, "I'm more used to fighting with enemies less than five hundred meters away from me." "Alright," as I was turning, I noticed Selene raising her hellpistol, I watched curiously as she pulled the trigger. A beam of crimson light fshed between the barrel and the ining Ord I saw three of them that stood in a line fall over. I couldn't see any wounds at this distance, so I let a bit of bio-energy trickle into my eyes and with that, I noticed a finger-sized hole drilled through the first corpse. The orcs looked betweehree dead ord us collectively before they burst into cheers. Thearted rushing at us not with some idea of vengeance filling their limited minds, but like a pack of starving dogs that have just been thrown a bone. Orks. "Well, that worked," I mused, "at riling them up, that is." "I did kill three," I heard Selene say awkwardly as she put away her steaming pistol with one hand. I saw Val tense a bit at the resounding war cries now eg through the decrepit hall. Zedev was still as the crumbling statues around us and I stood zily in the middle of this group, keeping my eyes out for anything suspicious. Despite being disgustingly overpowered, nothing in this life was easy for me so far. The Lictor was close to digesting me instead of the other way around, and the annoying bird demon could have whooped my ass if it wasn't so absorbed in being weird. While I severely messed up the Tyranids, all of Selene's remaining Shadows and Zedev's goons were gone now. I don't believe fate is handing me a free meal, what it's gonna be? I've been feeling a touch … fidgety sihe Orks came into view and wasn't the good sort you got from excitement, I felt like something was going to g. My question was ignored as the Orcs finally got ihe range where I felt fident in hitting them without wasting too muergy. Still, I held back as I wao try something, just throwing Eldritch Bsts and ing Bio-Lightnings wouldn't help me grow as a Psyker. Telepathy was out as my enemies were Orks, I didn't want to get entangled in their weird hive-mind-like WAAAAAAGGGHH!!!! thing. That left Illusions, Telekinesis and what? Biomancy? There should be other biomancy 'spells' besides bio-lightning. Let's see what happens if I try this. I collected a small bit of soul energy and de into an orb the size of my fiips; I watched it float a few timeters above my palm as I trated on filling it with i and instrus. I was like fuel, the energy was more potent, the strohe I I gave it. It'd still fulfill my wishes as soon as I thought them up but there was a differen weight, a whim might be fulfilled if nothing opposes it but with realspad its annoying ws getting in the way, wishes were hardly weighty enough to cause much of an effebsp;The other important factor I found was Instrus. Even if I had all the willpower in the world and an abundance of energy, if my Instrus were g, my spells would be nothing more than blunt and imprecise. Instrus were like the code of a program, the solution to a problem beyond 'more power'. Well, that's a plicated ass description. The important thing is, for that Orks head to erupt I have to Want it to erupt and tell my little orb of energy how to aplish that. Easy enough. 'Go' The orb shot off and smashed into the first Orc a momehe rown fungus staggered as the energy sapped his vitality and withered his cells. I watched ily as he fell to his knees a sed ter before his eyes and ears started bleeding. *pop* his skull fractured and exploded through his skull as the rapidly growing tumor my spell made with all the sapped vitality paihe other Or blood and brain matter. It's slow, but it does its job, and it's effit. I'm barely using my own energy for it, though firing that off a lot could get mentally exhausting. Biomancy teo work that way, detailed instrus and little energy cost. "Iing," Val murmured, "Was that a self-made spell?" "Yeah," I nodded, my pride getting the better of me as my spiraightened, "I just came up with it." "I assumed you focused on biomancy from your … other shows of powers." "It es more easily. I suppose others would need exteudying to achieve this?" "Indeed," he nodded, "to uand how to break something with the least resistand energy wasted, one must know how to build it. A body is no different." "What do you specialize in?" "Precise mass murder," his lips quirked upwards, "observe." I felt repulsive energy flow into him and crawl up into his staff where it densed into a flickering orb that resembled electricity, but I knew better, that ure energy. He gently tilted his staff forward and dozens of bolts of lightning arced out of it. They tched onto the first line of orcs, then the sed, third, and fourth as they gawked at the shiny energy coiling around them. Some tried to smash them and I heard gunshots going off, but Valenith just sneered as I felt the orb pulse as the arcs transformed. energy turned into bolts of paralyziricity in pces while others seared the unfortunate orcs to ash. They didn't even have time to scream out in pain as their nervous systems got fried, either along with their bodies or not, depending on their lubsp;"Well, that was certainly impressive." The Eldar preened under my praise for some damned reason. Weren't they supposed to be, like, super arrogant and degrading to every other species? I started hearing the other two's ons going off oer the other, Selene's was silent as the rotting flesh of the Devourer ejected out the worms with some disturbing inner muscles but Zedev made up for her silent on with his half-a-dozen different ons going off in a rhythm. I saw Orcs shrug off sbolts, hop forward after they got one of their legs melted off, et ht vaporized when an arc of electricity leapt from Zedev to the Greenskins. The worst off were still those that got close enough for Seleo bst them with a full swarm of Devourers as they were called, the tle worms dug their way through the Orc's skin and caught onto their nervous system, ping down on the flesh in the way as they tinued on until they reached the brain. Then it en buffet for them. Even an Orc couldn't live without a brain. I think?. I had a nagging feeling at the bay head. Where is the thing that's going to fuck me in the ass? Val was having a bst handling one side of the hallway by himself as he shot off arcs of ing lightning oer the other while Zedev and Selene were handling themselves quite well oher side. Val put up some sort of a barrier around himself that didn't let a single bullet through, and my armor was more than enough to stop anything the Orcs could throw at Selene. Zedev had some nicks and leaks here and there, but he could fix those up quickly. I leaned on the wall and put a simple Illusion around myself as I watched the battlefield with narrowed eyes.P3t1