am-books Chapter 69: Rooting out the Space Hulk (2)
Chapter 69: Rooting out the Space Hulk (2)
This time, Arcturus was using his full power without holding back because he needed to finish up the Ork Nob as soon as possible so that he could blow up this ship into smitterness.
There was no way that he could bring this behemoth of a spaceship back with him as his prize; that was essentially mission impossible, so the sole thing that he wanted right now was to get into the terminal that the Ork Nob was using to access the main systems of the Space Hulk and download everything that was in there.
He was sure that there were a lot of precious data. Considering the fact that this Space Hulk belonged to some High-Level Civilization, it should contain a lot of precious data; if he could get his hands on more things like the Dark Matter Generator, it would be splendid.
For now, though, he was putting most of his attention on the Ork Nob in front of him. The enormous hulking mass of muscles, metal, and whatever else, was wielding an enormous choppa in his right hand and shoota in his left hand.
Orkish choice of weapon wasn't the most sophisticated one; most, if not all, of their weapons were just crude and focused solely on brute power and sheer destructiveness.
[Proficiency with the Super-High Risk Primal Psyker Ability Dimension Empyrean has been increased.]
[Proficiency with the Super-High Risk Primal Psyker Ability Dimension Empyrean has been increased.]
[Proficiency with the Super-High Risk Primal Psyker Ability Dimension Empyrean has been increased.]
[Proficiency with the Super-High Risk Primal Psyker Ability Dimension Empyrean has been increased.]
He ignored the notifications from the System as he unleashed a barrage of everything that he had, attacking the Ork Nob, who was rather clumsy due to his enormous height. As the Ork Nob was almost three and a half meters tall, he wasn't really that fast compared to Arcturus, who was using the Empyrean Power to strengthen his physique to limits.
Right now, he is the Gamma-Grade in the aspect of physique.
Still, he was putting a lot of effort into dodging the attacks of the Ork Nob because when he saw the enormous choppa of the Ork Nob that the creature was wielding, he knew that if he was hit by the enormous weapon, he would be cleaved in half.
He noticed how the Nob's weapon cracked with greenish Psionic Energy, albeit very subtly, but he was using his subconscious Psionic Potential, something that all of the Orks were capable of using under some circumstances.
It was rather an intense fight, as the Orks were pure machines of war, and there was no other species that mastered the art of war and battle like them.
[Proficiency with the Skill Basic Swordsmanship has been increased.]
[Proficiency with the Skill Basic Swordsmanship has been increased.]
[Skill Basic Swordsmanship has reached the limits of the Level 10 Novice.]
[Proficiency of the Skill Basic Swordsmanship has advanced to the Level 1 Apprentice - 0%.]
As he was executing strikes, slashes, and or any other other moves with his sword, he realized that his Proficiency with the Basic Sword Moves had reached the Apprentice Level, and everything seemed to be much easier to execute.
This was just a side effect of using the Sardau Sword Style to attack, as he finally crossed the line of Proficiency. Not only that, but their increased Proficiency in Basic Swordsmanship would have an effect on every single Sword Style that he learned or used.
Because the basics were basics, and they were the fundamentals of every single sword style.
It didn't take long for the Ork Nob to recover from being crashed into the wall and immediately returned back to Arcturus and attempted to cleave him in half with the choppa, but this time, the Asuryani Highborne was more prepared for the Ork as during the few moments he had he already managed to prepare a trap for the Ork Nob.
Instantly as the Ork Nob reached here, he was bombarded by several blasts of the Empyrean Power, and at the same time, Arcturus attacked the Ork Nob with the Sardau Star Sword like he did with the previous Ork Nob.
As the attacks were becoming from all sides, it was realistically impossible to defend against all of them at the same time, so even though, the Ork Nob managed to defend against the Empyrean Blasts with the choppa that was cracking all around from the corrosive Empyrean power, he didn't have time to defend against the Aetherius that was stabbed in his threat.
"Checkmate."
As the Aetherius was stabbed into the Ork Nob's neck, he released the full might of the Empyrean Power into his head, killing the enormous Ork instantly. Their head was their sole weak point because if it was destroyed, they would die instantly.
However, he read that there were some cases when, even with their heads being severed, the Greenskins were able to fight for some time.