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  The smell of death permeated the hallway, overp the musky st of rown ruins. The smell of death, an iing term, what I mean by it is a mixture of the coppery tang of blood, the repulsive smell of entrails and gore and the smell of burning flesh that prickled the nose. I breathed in, analyzing this mixture, searg for anything that shouldn't be or something that stood out, but nothing was forthing. I could barely make out sounds over the stant rhythmic exhale of bullets, psma bolts and flesh-eating worms. The screaming/cheering Orcs didn't help in that departmeher. I spread my psychic aura. This was different from poking all over the pce with tendrils of soul energy. This felt more like expanding my metaphysical body. It should also be much harder to detect. I felt a weird 'cloud' of energy c all of the Orcs, I couldn't eve a feel of what it did but I could guess that it was the maion of the WAAAAGH!!! in realspace. I marveled at the work of the Old Ones for a bit, seeing something so different from the basic applications of my powers was certainly humbling, pared to them I was only good for breaking things. Orcs were also made only for that singur purpose but they were still so sophisticated in the way they were made. Wouldn't it have been easier to make giant ons or something, probably not sihe Old Frogs shouldn't have been morons? The as a weird pce to be in as a Psyker, I could feel the being a mere thought away from me at all times a I didn't feel it arouhe energy didn't e in rushing at me like a ravenous beast aher did I feel especially disgusted by it at all times. There was a sense of dissonanaybe a feeling of separation from it, like the as an impregnable wall between me and the . Supposedly not eveer Demons could just e when they felt like it, everyone needed arance for that, be they a simple human or a Lord of ge. The Shadow was gone as well, I could once agaih some crity into the Waters below. It was a bit disorienting, from the perspective of my soul my body was moving at astronomical speeds, faster than light by a long shot and my soul was being dragged along by the thread like a balloon filled with helium. The O of Soul Energy followed it along, orbiting it like an expansive nebu of esoteriders. I didn't have the time to actually survey the f Sea of Souls iail but I could feel something ging in it, it was going from a calm sea of pure energy to something resembling the a bit. In structure if not in its characteristibsp;But that didn't matter at the moment, what mattered was that with this sense ba pce I could sense some disturbances in the forc- *cough* , yes . Pockets of its energy were gathered in formless blobs, these blobs were faint and barely noticeable but they had the same feeling as they could c the Orcs. These blobs moved and were zig-zagging towards us between the falling Orbsp;Like a coat, I maintaihe Illusion around me, hoping to hide my presence just as effectively as the blobs cealed the crafty assaints beh them. I moved, appearing in front of the closest blob, and my hand snapped out, air parting around it as my baded sp broke through the sound barrier. My hand touched rough skin, therated firm muscle, and finally shattered boo reach the brain. I stopped my hand as the invisibility flickered out and the corpse of an orc flew off to the side and pstered itself on the wall, making an orc-shaped hole in the old bricks. For a moment, I stared at my hand with curiosity, pting if I had broken the illusion through sheer force. That shouldn't be possible. It most likely failed because I killed the o was anchored to. With a grimay face, I licked at the bay hand — yes, I know, disgusting, but it must have looked disturbing as hell, the things I do for my self-image — abs the substand analyzing it. The mixture I expected was there: blood, muscle, tendons, grey matter, but ora was something that coated the skin. It was inanic, so I exhaled it through my skin and watched as the substance covered my hand. My hand became purple. I blihen blinked again. It was simple purple paint. I let the illusion around me fall as I flickered my gaze betweeher blobs. They were trembling and much more noticeable now. "I see you~," I grinned widely and saw a handful of Orcs shimmer ience where the blobs used to be, I evaded ining bullets and shabby missiles with small but graceful movements as I made my way closer to the uain-looking Orcs. All of them had their skin painted purple. Never seen a purple orc before. "How is thiz humi saw us?" "Nobodyz saw us withz the paint on." "But she grumped up Gokk bad." "Gokk was small orbsp;"Sorry to interrupt your debate, but I'd like for you to fulfill one of my requests if you don't mind," I smiled at the fused Orcs, "Die for me, will you?" I ged a little. That was so fug edgy. Five little orbs just like before flew out of my palm and smacked into all the purple Orcs. They kneeled over oer the other and started g at their heads with pained screams. I let out a bst of energy tered on me a all the annoying Greenskin flying back a dozeers along with the five purple ones whose heads exploded midflight, coating all the other mushroom people in a shower of gore. It didn't do much damage, quite the trary. The Orcs flew into aatic frenzy as they rushed at me with wide grins splitting their ugly mugs from ear to ear. Any lesser person would have been horrified at the dozens of bloodthirsty monsters coated in blood and gore rushing at them with a ravenous look in their eyes but I wasn't a lesser person. My bio-sword formed in my right palm and I gave it a gentle spin. I felt psychic els form i and I let my energy flow into it. The swained a presend aura of its own as I did so and as its end razed the stone floor, the old material split around it like butter. The Orcs' shots missed me as I danced between them, skillfully avoiding their clumsy melee attacks. I didn't even put any force behind my swipes, my sword easily parted armor and flesh alike as the corpses started the litter the floor. I didn't have armor o I felt no need for it, not a single bullet even grazed my skin so far and even if one did I could just regee. I kept my aura spread around the battlefield, so I didn't eveo look to know where an Orc would strike at me or if they'd have a ce of actually hitting me. At that one fleeting moment, I felt omnist. I let my guard down. Unholy green light overwhelmed my vision and then I felt pain. My whole being became oh white fiery agony. More out of reflex than anything I calcuted the angle from where the green beam of un-life hit me even as I felt my body disie and unched an Eldritch Bst filled with all of my pain and io murder the asshole that made me gh it. Someone screamed, but I could barely hear it. I felt myself fall. One of my arms was missing, along with my legs and half of my torso. My bio-energy surged, but my body disied faster than I could heal it. A single worry remained in my mind. If the bio-energy stored in my body didn't get all used up before my form disied, it'd turn this part of the Webway into a burned out husk. So I forced my remainial funs to el that energy into something useful and keep me alive for even a moment longer. I didn't even feel my back touch the ground when the world went dark and all sensatio me. Selene Voss Everything was going well, the Devourer as Ea called it, was as deadly to the enemies as disgusting it was to wield. Selene focused on just aiming and shooting and tried to dissociate herself from the worms b into the Ord the soul-tearing screams they let out every time her shots struck true. Seleood still. She felt bullets strike her armor by the dozens every sed but she barely felt them. What was Orc onry worth pared to Ea's disturbing arsenal? Nothing. After the first minute, Seleiced that even aiming wasn't a must. She vaguely pointed her on in the dire the Orcs came from and she felt the armor adjust her aim. It wasn't much, but it turned hits that'd maybe catch the Or the side into a full hit that had aire Swarm eating into the Orc's flesh. It all felt too easy, she was fighting Orcs damnit. Orcs. Terrifying Xeno mohat knew nothing but war and tortured children to pass the time. An iion that could never be eliminated with 100% certainty and needed stant culling to keep in chebsp;The helmet kept track of eaemy and Selene saw the Orcs outlined in red and Ea swirliween them in blue. She let the armor do most of the work as her eyes fixated on the alien woman, her snow-white hair flew freely in the air as she flickered from pce to pce, her every movement was a work of art, perfeaed into reality that put to shame any dancer she saw as a child. Her V-shaped fad angur jawline gave her a refined beauty that was only made more enthralling by her forest-green eyes flickering with childish mischief. Sele her eyes wahere was nothing childish about that body, though. She gulped as her tongue ran over her dry lips. That skin-tight bodyglove she wore left little to the imagination, though at least since Selene first met the womaarted tying a loose cloth around her hip which at least acted like a mini-skirt but as she twirled around with her sword raking through two Orcs at a time, that cloth flew around in the air. Selene made the mistake of gng up and catg a glimpse of her face. The woman wore a wide smile on her lips filled with pride as she enjoyed every moment of what she was doing. Sele her heart skip a beat but shook the intrusive thoughts out of her head. She is sughtering aliens and coating herself in blood, this is far from being the time to be horny. Her mind wandered rebelliously, remembering the same woman clutg onto her hand as she went to sleep, the time Selene held her at her weakest. Then came another memory, she remembered how the woman ever so carefully pried away her armor. For a moment Selene imagined what'd have happened if it wasn't just her armor that ried off of her with those dexterous fingers. 'an offer, partnership if you like.' Partners, why'd that woman want me as a partner? All I have to offer is a piece of paper I only got because all my brothers died i Tyranid Invasion. As her thoughts started to spiral down when her armor pinged i. Her eyes instantly snapped up, fog on a single rger Orc still more than a kilometer away from them. It was outlined in bd her vision was fshing in danger. Why? She couldn't tell but she positioned herself so there was always another Orc between her and the ining giant monster. Ea will ha, I'm sure. Still, Sele her eyes orang woman even as she tracked the ining enemy. The bck mark stopped a kilometer away and just as she started to wonder what it was doing she saw the dimly lit hallway light up in a disturbing green color, with her staring at Ea she saw the exaent when the beam of green energy struck the woman. Selene heard a sound, a scream filled with pain that engraved itself eternally into her memory. Selene saw the woman she had relied on for the st month, the woman who had been at her side whe betrayed, the woman who had made up that stupid offer of partnership even if she had no use for her help, disie. Time seemed to slow down as she saw her legs a side turn into carbon ash as a st bolt of vindictive light left the woman's right hand. Her armor pinged and the bck outline flickered out, followed by the blue outline. Seleood still for a moment. Even her on stopped firing as she stared bnkly at the ash cloud floating through the air. Then she heard it, the chuckles, the cheers, the ughter. Her armor which went sck the moment Ea's signal flickered out came back to life. Energy she didn't know flooded into her body and tinued on into her armor. She felt oh it for the first time; she wasn't relying on Ea's energy to keep it running anymore but using her own even if she didn't know it at the moment. There was nothing on her mind but a dark vindictive urge to sughter the ones who took away the woman that maybe could have been her first friend. Yoing tret ever being born. Her body flickered from its pce, clouds of vaporized blood and screams filled the air not a momehe previous ughter feeling like an illusion of a past that never was. P3t1