AnnouFrom now on chapters are going to be Scheduled!

  Wednesday 18:00 CET

  Saturday 18:00 CET

  Two chapters a week just as before, but now it will line up better with my Patreon posting schedule. It will also give me a sira day per week to work on other projects.

  (This is mostly for RR as I 't schedule on ScribbleHub. So stuff is going to go out when I realize it should but the days should stay the same.)

  I felt the outer armor ie as we gained more and more velocity, with the two joining in I could cut bay own supply of soul energy and we were still going a bit faster than required to escape orbit. My focus went into keeping the outer yer healthy as fixing tears was much less energy-intehan remaking the armor if parts of it fked off.

  It was supposed to protect Hive-Ships from damned cye torpedos which could decimate tis so of course the armor didn't need much healing to stay together, the iy of it was questioh my application of it but what you do?

  I'm such a moron sometimes, I wao sp my forehead but instead, I forced down my embarrassment and ied a yer of Ambull carapader the outermost yer. The heat didn't die down, it got sucked into the Ambull biomass and with the modifiy diligent Mind-Crores came up with it all started to turn into bio-energy.

  It was much slower thaing stuff but as rge as this sphere was at around half a kilometer across, it was like I absorbed a whole human every minute. I could barely feel the extra energy ing in from the radiation pared to the heat, it was such a small amount but hopefully, it'd be much greater in deep space where nothing could shield me from it.

  A rocket back when I was alive oh needed a bit more tha mio reach low-earth orbit, aka LEO. This was around a thousand kilometers from the surface. We reached it in two and I already felt the atmospheric drag lessen and our velocity jump as a result.

  The burning also abated a bit and along with it went my steady stream of bio-energy and the annoying pain I put myself through for some damned reason.

  A tendril burst through the underside of the sphere and quickly split into a dozen before thiing up to be tens of meters thid many more ih. Then I started paddling for a ck of a better word. Using these Tyranid tentacles to propel myself forward was like trying to swim through air in zero gravity but it still somehow gave us a boost in propulsion so cool I guess?

  These things were rather delicate pared to the armored shell, so they'd have been ied by atmospheric fri if I used them closer to the surface but with my healing it should be alright from now on.

  My body was squished into the seat by now and I let out a smile. This was very much like sitting in a muscle car and while I didn't have many opportuo do so in my previous life this was a cool feeling. Fortunately, my panions weren't usual humans from the 21st tury as I'm sure the Gs I utting them under would have khem out, at least if not given them a serious brain heme.

  "How do you all feel?" I asked with a steady voiot letting the sadistic pressure on my body impede me.

  "This is a brutish way of travel," Val noted calmly, looking as posed as be.

  "Operational."

  "This is not how take off," Selene heaved, "should feel."

  "Beggars 't be choosers," I smiled, satisfied that everyone was doing well.

  Fifteen mier we reached what would be GSO, aka Geostationary Orbit which would be where the space stations orbited the p if there were any but as far as I saw with some eyes made on the surface of the sphere there weren't.

  "This should be far enough," I said to myself as bio-energy started flooding into the tendrils ected to me still and the outer shell of the sphere started morphing. It lengthened and flesh, ans, nerves and many alien bio-matter started f between our 'sphere', which would be the trol ter and the outer armor.

  From a sphere, it turned into an elongated der with loacles ing out of its end but from far away it'd seem almost like a nail with how slim it was. Still, to anyone in the know it'd unmistakeably look like a small Tyranid ship and those who kheir bio-forms, it'd be clear that it was a Narwhal, the bio-form that let Tyranids travel at FTL speeds.

  I didn't do that yet, it relied on gravitational pull and we were still well within the gravitational well of the p behind us. Using it at all will be a risk as the method could cause natural disasters on the phe Narulled itself toward but I might not have much of a choice if I don't want to be te to the party. Still, it will be a st resort if I sense a giant fleet entering the system.

  Guilliman would e at the head of the Indomitus Crusade, the question was how long did I have until then? Regur Narwhal's could sehe gravitational and Psychic waves given off by inhabited ps from fug sectors away so it shouldn't be too hard to notice the fleet before they noticed me.

  Tyranid ans finished f around the ship, making pathways and intricate patterns with their grand tapestry and I felt the pressure on my body lessen to a gentle pull towards my chair, no different from standing on a metro.

  "What?" Selene asked in surprise.

  "Iing," I murmured. Did this use something simir to the Crotalids? I khe ans were damn important and so was their pt, as it was coded into the geics of both ships with han fifty redundancies. One of my future goals was to uhe secrets of Enuncia and all simir powers, so this was a wele surprise. Who wouldn't like powers that were free? Enouncia was a nguage that literally bent the rules of reality, and even a simple human could speak it.

  "Iia dampeners?" I could feel the surprise in Zedev's voice despite it being as static as ever, "How?"

  "Later," I waved him off, "We shouldn't have much of a problem with pressure any longer."

  "Good," Val sighed as he fixed the creases in his robe after standing up, "How long do you think it'll take?"

  "Hmm," I focused on the Narwhal's senses and quickly found a giant gravitational well at the ter of the system, the Star of the system. After I mao disregard that, I found the rgest, which was a bit rger than the one we were currently in so it should be Baal as there were no other poid-sized wells. From there it was a quick calcution which was done a blink after I made the query, "We should be there in three days at this speed."

  Val nodded and sat down to meditate. Selene remained in her seat and Zedev was absently staring at the ceiling, probably trying to figure out how the ship worked.

  With silence seeming to remain for a while, I sank into my thoughts. My main dilemma at the moment was what to do with the rge bio-mass stored in my Soul Puddle, yes I'm calling it that. Of course, the easiest answer would be to just teleport it out of there now that I was in space. It could hardly get lost or teleported into the p out here but...

  I thought back to how that Ne fyer destroyed my body, if I didn't have a part of my eldritch flesh inside Selene's armor I'd have had to remain as her armor with no way of ging my body or just straight up abandoing in realspace as I didn't have any way of repg my body. Sure, I made some safeguards but I could always be caught with my pants down and have my body destroyed or captured inside a stasis field, that'd be a fug dumb end to my short legend.

  The biomass in my Soul Puddle was almost entirely eldritch flesh and as long as even a tiny little tendril of it remained under trol I could always replenish my bio-energy and grow it as much as I wanted.

  The decision was obvious. I'd have loved a giant pool of bio-energy inside my stores right now but having the assurahat I wouldn't lose all of my bio-shapeshifting abilities if I lost this body was also a gia off my chest. With the Crotalid stuff, I shouldn't even have to worry about losing my anchor to realspace as I could always just yeet out a small tendril filled with just enough bio-energy to recreate my body — avatar if I was being ho — and sustain it for a few months with the Slip ability I got from those mutated crocs. With that I was basically a Perpetual on steroids or something simir but better, I wouldn't need ages to restruct my body and I wouldn't be unscious while doing so.

  So all the biomass stored safely inside my Soul Puddle was a lifeline, a sed ce, a Health Point.

  Still...just a bit couldn't hurt...I'd still have a whole lot...

  No, I'm starting to sound like a druggie, I'll just go eat some fresh Tyranids instead.

  'How much will this form take out of my bio-energy stores by the end of the travel?'

  [You will have aimated 1 week of full bat capability if you fail to reabsorb the bio-ship, with it reabsorbed it grows to a month.]

  Damn, I thought as I took in the answer ing from my predictive Mind-Cores, ones I tasked with specialising in simutions and numerology, well, good thing it won't be hard to find food.

  It almost took an hour, but we were out of the p's pull and our velocity jumped even further, with nothing pulling us back we could now just build up momentum much more easily. It made the ans responsible for the iia dampening work a bit harder, but it could e the Gs geed by FTL travel so it was still in low power mode if it could be called that.

  There was an experiment I wao try, and this three-day-long journey would be the perfect pce to test it. Deep ihe sphere, far from where we were my tendrils curled around a rge k of the ziggurat's remains, Wraithbone and started to resonate.

  I focused, every sound, every tone, every sequence had to be perfect down to the nanosed or I could tear my newly-made ship apart, I khat by instinct. Just around that small k my tendrils sang with eerie syny ahan a sed after the alien song begaendrils colpsed into each other as the k disappeared from within their grasps along with ks of the tendrils.

  My attention was barely on those though as I quickly reached out with my soul towards the neeared greyish rod pulled it towards me. The Wraithbone wasn't spreading any energy as it was as stable and static as energy could get but my soul's proximity already started corroding its outer yers.

  I didn't panic but I hurried up and put my hand onto it and pushed despite my ethereal skiing goosebumps and feeling like ants were running across it. With barely any force behind it, my hand phased into the Psychic material.

  There was a thing about the , the Immaterium and Psychic powers in general that while I knew in cept, I couldn't quite my head around it and uand just yet. It wasn't logical. I khat of course, the ce of souls, emotions and thoughts and nid ws, logid rationale.

  I kne Sorcerers could turn people into bubbles if they so wanted, why could they do that? Because they wao and because they wa more thay didn't want it to happen and so it was. I k but I couldn't just do it myself somehow, I still thought logically, seeking reason behind phenomena and cause behind effect evehere wasn't.

  This was why I couldn't manage Valenith's Blink, it involved just 'willing' myself to be somewhere else, it didn't need me to calcute how and where to open wormholes or pierce spacetime to get to another location, the handled all that by simply lightening the physical ws and making it so that I was there instead of here.

  As my soul and the Wraithboersected for a single, fleeting, fra of a sed I felt like I uood a bit of it, I saw how all that the was could be made real and solidified. I uood what Wraithbone was and I uood the just a bit more but as they say...the more I know about the the more I uand how little I know.

  It was easy to just think of it as a rge pool of energy that I could use to make fire, move stuff and throw lightning around with big bad demons swimming around in it but that was not just a rudimentary uanding of the but utterly wrong. Fire didn't e out of my hand because energy could make fire naturally but because I always imagined iail how I wahe energy to create fire.

  It wasn't the Energy doing the work but me. There were no rules on it, schools of its applications, those were things me and Psykers in general put on it to prehend the inprehensible.

  "Ea?" Selene asked with a worried tone and I snapped my head at her.

  "Yes?" I asked, my chest rising and falling rapidly as my mind supn a thousand miles a sed aal power flooded the floating Pyramids in my mind-scape.

  "Are you alright?"

  "Of course," I grinned, I wao jump around, I wao kick my legs bad forth like a schoolgirl in love as I realized I could do so much more than I thought, "I'm better than alright."

  "Okay?" her brows were creased with worry and something else as she watched me happily dance around with my grin reag up to my ears.

  I disappeared, my body shifting closer to the Immaterium for but a blink and then I was where I wao be with barely any Soul energy loss to show for it, my will supplemented much of it.

  I lifted Selene up like a mother would their child by the armpits and swung her around.

  "Ehhhhh?" her eyes went wide as she stared into mine.

  I really want to kiss you.