Stone cracked beh my feet as I unched myself forward, a barrage of flesh-eating worms was already heading in my dire but with a slight TK wave, all of the ohat could have struck me were diverted just enough for me to dash through the slight gap. I had no armor on and had my hair tied together in a ponytail so it wouldn't be too annoying while I held an unpowered bio-sword in my hand.

  Unpowered so Selene would feel whe struck but not lose limbs in the process with my armor proteg her. Of course, I was going painfully slow pared to my maximum speed but I was using only as much soul energy as Selene had energy while my body was iionally just a bit beyond a normal human's.

  As I got through a gap I threw up an illusion, a copy of myself tinued on in a straight line and got ready to strike at Selene while I dashed to the side and circled around her. I wao see how good her senses were and whether she could see through my illusion if I only put this muergy into it and didn't use my Mind-Cores to make every fra of it as realistic as possible.

  Another swarm of flesh-eaters left her bio-shotgun if you call it that and passed right through my illusion. That is one way to figure out that it was a rouse but it seemed Selene didn't quite realize it just yet as she sent an arc of Lightning at the image as it raised it went to ssh at her. The vicious sorcery tched onto the Soul energy making up the illusion and destructed it in a sed, eating up the pure energy like a voracious beast and I imagined if the energy could, it would have barfed as it fis meal.

  Finally, Selene realized she's been had and snapped her head around but as she turned my bde smacked into her side a her flying and rolling over the stone. Before she even came to a stop I sent two beams of fmes at her prone form, I arced them from both sides like that bird did with me and I myself barrelled forward like a bullet propelled by my TK.

  Selene must have sehe ining attacks, the fiery o least as she sent her body back a few meters with a burst of TK as the two beams of fmes burst into each ht in front of her in a violent explosion of fmes a. I coated myself in a flimsy film of energy and dashed through the firestorm, my bde sshing out even before Selene came into view. My eyes and infrared vision might have been impaired but my hearing enhanced by a trickle of soul energy wasn't.

  My bde met her fist, her strength paled in parison to mine and she got swiftly pushed back. She rolled along with the fory ssh and as she did so she aimed the Devht at my face. The on fired, in that split sed between seeing a swarm of ravenous worms hungering for my brain and having them y face I used one of my ricks.

  My body flickered, not from speed but because my body for a split sed wasirely in realspace but in an iween halfway into the Immaterium. The sassed through my afterimage and I was back a moment ter a bit disoriented, my physical seold me that no time had passed but my soul khat I was gone for a moment, the tradi gave me what humans would call nausea.

  My slight disorientation gave ample time for Seleo get onto her feet and unch her fist ending in a monomolecur sti my stomach. With the on's pointy end being oimeter away from sinking into my soft flesh I let out an omnidireal Shockowered by a sizable amount of Soul energy.

  Selene ushed back but her armor kept her anchored to the ground so she only slid back a few meters but that was more than enough time for me to recollect myself and send an Arc of Lightning at her before ung myself after her. Val's teag methods might have beeionable in their effectiveness with how long-winded aeric his expnations were but I always got the gist of it, maybe because my brain was mostly of Aeldari make.

  Sele herself out of the Bolts' way but they turned and arced toward her new location, I smirked as I saw her body bee parallelized from the electricity running through her nervous system. Val's favorite trick was ed Arcs of Lightning that homed in on targets, he mostly used souls as a way to home in on them but he also told me that through Biomancy you target specific types of living beings too and that is exactly what I did.

  His attacks were more focused his enemies from the i but I turhis attato merely a paralyzing bolt, of course, I didn't want to turn Selene's io ash, that'd be a rather rude thing to do in a spar.

  I walked up to her zily and tapped the point of my swainst her ned pushed a bit. Her rigid body fell back with a small hole in the neck of the armor.

  "I think I win this one," I said as I sent a wave of soul energy into her body to banish the remains of my spell and any taint that might linger from her use of it quickly followed by another wave of bio-energy heals up her strained nerves.

  "Yeah," she said tiredly as her helmet retreated and revealed her face, "when did you learn that?"

  "You know I did listen to Val's lessons," I said as I pulled her to her feet, "I multitask quite well."

  "You are such a cheat," she sighed.

  "I am," I smiled, "but so are you, Val said you learn faster than some Eldar geniuses."

  "Really?" her voice was ced with doubt.

  "I hear it in your voice, you don't believe it," I smiled, "just wait until we meet a saned Psyker, tell one how long it took for you to cast your first effective bat spell and watch them cry themselves to sleep."

  "Right," she rolled her eyes, "like any Emperor-saned Psyker would be worse than me."

  "They would be," I shrugged, "strong Psykers aren't saned Selehey are hunted and killed, too much trouble for what they are worth."

  "And I would be a strong one?"

  "Not yet," I said with a tilt of my head, "maybe in a few years, I don't know why and how your soul became stronger but as you are you are right in the range of the type of Psykers the Imperium likes to brainwash into Saned Psykers."

  "I barely use anything besides Telekinesis," she said disparagingly.

  "Selene," I sighed, "most Psykers barely use a single School and you use three even if one of them is much strohan the rest."

  "But you-"

  "I am a cheat," I pced a finger on her dumb lips, she really didn't have anyone normal to pare herself with, "and Valenith is an old Foggie who was born with a golden spoon up his ass...along with a thoracle but that is aory."

  "Why?" she asked with a frown as she removed my hand from her mouth.

  "Eldar were made to be Psychic powerhouses that could rival Primarchs by beings that mastered bioengineering and the secrets of the Immaterium," I said steadily, "even if they are barely a fragment of what they once were they are still master-crafted duits which is why my body is mostly based on their's."

  "Really?" she looked me up and down, "You look human enough."

  "Do I?" I smirked as my body grew to 190cm, my ears grew longer, my cheekbones rose higher and my jawline became christened and my face gained an androgynous feel to it, "My human facade is only skin deep," I said as my voice gained a strarill to it as my posture shifted to be mraceful, "the Eldar form is the optimal one if I want to use Psychic powers... it still leaves some things to be desired but it is better than any alternatives I have at the moment..."

  When I turned back to look at Selene her face was flushed and her eyes were wide open as she stared at me, I was fused for a moment but then I saw a few emotions grow stronger in her aura and I couldn't help but chuckle. Someone has an elf fetish it seems...'t fault her, to be ho.

  I snapped my fingers in front of her face, with an amused smile. She blinked and her cheeks went a shade redder as she snapped her head away from my gaze.

  "You stare all you want you know~"

  "Urgh," she groaned as she covered her face.

  I opened my mouth to tease her a bit mor- "Noosphere e established; unications with Baal Sedus; Requesting your Presence Lady Ea."

  A sigh escaped me as I looked at the still embarrassed Selene, su opportunity wasted.

  "I'm ing," I answered the servoskull as it floated closer to me, "let's go Selene."

  "Yeah," she nodded, relief evident in her voice as duty relieved her of the tinued embarrassment but she still cast sideways g me as I didn't turn bato my more human appearance just yet.

  As we headed back I pted our spar, from my side I obviously focused on my sword as my main way of delivering my fatal strikes. Sure my Sorcery might be powerful but a psychic powersword was ahiirely and even if it failed if I was close enough I could just say 'fuck you' ahem with my tendrils which had about 0 ters so every other ability in my toolkit was just so I could get close enough to my enemies.

  But there were enemies where getting close could prove... sub-optimal, like most of the Greater Demons for example. The thing I had to fear the most were attacks that struck either my mind or tried to invade my soul. That should be my greatest weakness, as it showed in my fight with that bird, I didn't have any finishing attacks that were ranged and usable against more powerful beings or naniemies like the Nes.

  I gave the task of ing up with something to my other Mind-Cores for now. I stilled a moment ter as it didn't even take a sed for my super puter-like minds to e up with a viable alternative. I quickly received the information package and shut my eyes to go over it but they flew open again as I finished.

  I smacked myself over the head for being such a moron. Yeah it'd only work on Nes for sure but it'd also be devastating against biological ehe main part was stuffing my white tendrils into something like the Devourer and shooting them as bullets. I could make them eat through the enemies like the fleshborers or just phase into their body aoheir carried bio-energy. The sed one was my Mind-Core's reendation against Nes, though they were also adept at phasing teology so its use was tentative at the moment.

  It's worth a try, I don't know how I hought of using those as ammunition. Maybe having an Eldar brain makes you teologically i?

  We hopped back up towards the Gateway and quickly reached the Magos who had a bunch of holographidows floating around it, each flickering in and out of existence as he operated dozens of them at a time.

  "There is an anomaly," he said without looking at us, "Baal, Baal Prime and Baal Sedus are all under Siege by Tyranid and Daemonic forces, sending voidships to retrieve us has been curtly rejected on the basis of being both encircled and in heavy need of every capable ship."

  "Oh," I said, my mouth making sagely O, right, time is a bit fucky, we shouldn't be too te though. "Anything else?"

  "The Daemonic presence is restricted to Baal Sedus at the moment and they have engaged in bat with the Tyranids...aside from that there are thousands of bat reports, what are you ied in?"

  "What is the status of the Knights of Blood?"

  "...Lost...marked as a valiant st stand against the Great Enemy."

  "Great," I got some fused gnces but to me, this was just enough to know that the 'Devastation' part of the 'Devastation of Baal' was soon starting and we might be te if we didn't do something, "We are te."

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