"So you say you found other suspected geealer holdouts all over the p?" I asked the t Magos with a raised eyebrow. "Affirmative: Yes," he...it, answered. I took the moment to take in his whole form, he had four meical legs like thick spider legs that held up his t torso that was covered in pted arm which hid a swarm of cables and tubes. A Meicus coat hung over his shoulders, hiding fer arms and several smaller ones u, some had normal humanoid hands while others ended in syringes, cws, power tools or some that I couldn't evehe fun of. "Suggestion: It is imperative we elimihe Xenos iing this Hive World lest they damage infrastructure irrecoverably by the time it is repoputed." "Indeed," I nodded, pulling my gaze back to his face hidden uhe shadow of a hood. Tubes thicker than my fingers streamed out of it and down into his meical shoulders like dreadlocks, iing hairstyle to be sure but his face was the most outstanding part of him. Pale, ic flesh with a single browhat I suspected to be a rept for a long gone inal one and the glowing crimson sensor oher side of his face. It was a bit unnerving and I felt a bit disgruntled looking at him, it seemed the body horror of it all still mao affect me despite myself being much worse. "A Valid suggestion Magos," I reiterated, "Unfortunately it'd take far too long for only myself to go arouerminating them and such, do you have men under you or should we ask for troops from the Captain?" "Affirmative: I have a ti of Skitarii under me and a group of Adepts but transportation and reaissance would need Arch-Militant Vern's assistance." "Ah, Orion, yes," I nodded again, "Would you hahat for me?" "Affirmative: Yes.""Reendatioing me dissect a few of their remains would let me learn about aic disparity with the recorded Tyranid bioforms, I implore you to let me." "Agreed," I nodded, "You are a Xenobiologist, aren't you?" "Uain: That is what some would call one of my areas of research, yes." "You see, Magos Dominus Zedev," I stared into his unblinking 'eyes', "I could use some of your 'samples' if you have any as my Psychic talents lie mostly in ... well, this." My outstretched hand morphed, far from as fast or natural as I usually do but it shifted. My forearm shifted, bohied aended, flesh melted and sharp cithinous armour covered it all. From the elbow down my arm was the jagged scythe of a Lictor in all of its malefic glory. The Magos' single eye trembled in an undescribable emotion as his blood-red sensor stared unblinkingly at my arm as it morphed slowly bato a human arm. I didn't just do this without any reasoher, I'd mao transte his mind's binary ting quite easily after I left two of my mind cores to work on it. I khe Magos was on the doors of death and all of his hope y in Xenanic rept for his mind and fleshy parts. He probably had many different samples from all around the gaxy and I was the best Bioki in this whole damned gaxy, of that I had no doubt. Well, if you t my body's natural abilities as Biokinesis. My psychic Biokinesis was ing alooo, it wasn't too hard to mimic what my body was doing when healing with soul energy. Turning it into biomatter was a bit harder but I could already induce cerous growths on myself, the only problem with those was that I only ihem and not fed them with soul energy. cer took the energy frowth from my existing cells, as such it was the exact opposite of what I wanted, it ate my bio-energy instead of replenishing it. "Outstanding...impossible...maybe...yes..." Zedev's speakers sounded out, seemingly without his input as he still stared at my now human hand. "So you talk normally too," I noted as he snapped himself out of his daze. "Affirmative: Yes. Crifiost fail to uand my iions due to my syic voice, this method is the most effit." "Uandable," "Query: Your previous appeched the recorded melee appendages of Bioform: Lictor, how?" "There are few beings better at murder than Tyranids," I just shrugged, "easier to mimic the finished work of others than ing up with something new." "Query: How would different samples augment your Biomancy?" "Trade secrets Magos," I shook my head, "though I'm willing to say that I learhe trick from the Kroot." "Uanding: I see." "Oe of samples," I brought his wandering attention bayself, "If you had an Ambull or Crotalid among them that would be great." "I will see what I do. Farewell Inquisitor." "Farewell Magos," I nodded and the giant ambled out of my assigned room. That was somewhat risky but he should know by now that I know about his little research. He is a threat but his use is much more than the danger he poses. He uood my unspoken promise, he'd e through with his part. His life depended on it in more ways than one even if he didn't know it. The time I spent waiting for the Magos to do his rounds wasn't wasted. I kept mainly to my own quarters, generously given to me by the Captain and I worked on my gene-pool. I had a bunch of trash by now and just like with my enhanced skin I had to make use of it. In the meantime I kept tray fged friend, he more or less strongarmed Orion into giving him troops and transport to wherever he wanted and after that off he went. He took with him a ti of skitarii and a flock of servo skulls, you call them a flht? They looked like a flock so that's what they are. He told me he'd do the reaissance himself and would only bother me when he narrowed down the locations to only those that still had sizable geealer presen them. I set a few of my Mind-Cores to work on incorporating all of the beneficial geic sequences into my human form, making the best possible, bones, ans, muscles and sud afterward move on to doing the same with a Hunter Form and a bat Form, each being modeled after the Lictor and the Patriarch respectively. Wish I had a ifex, oh or a Hive Tyrant. Well, the Patriarch will have to do for now. I didn't have to hurry overly much with these and as such I focused all of my free Mind-Cores on figuring out the Navigatenes from the few cells and strands of hair I absorbed. I ate one of every important-lookiype I found in him without doing any perma damage to him so it shouldn't be too much trouble. I could replicate anything I had already eaten and deeply sed in the process, this meant I could replicate any of the cells I had absorbed from him, along with his hair but that's not what I wanted. I wao replicate his whole body based only on this geic sample, if I could do this it'd be a disgusting ability iure. I'd only have to take a single drop of blood from my enemy or a single hair to replicate their body mid-bat. How annoying would that be? A Krork came around to smash me to bits only for me to turn into a Krork, instantly evening the odds. I tried just imagining replig the Navigator but that ended up with a gory pile of randomly pced cells. I somehow had to take the tempte of his body from the sample, I was sure my body could do it somehow. Hours went by with me doing slightly differeal exercises. I could have just used another humae and pushed his cells into it but that'd have been terproductive. Normal humans didn't have a third eye, Navigators were Abhumans, a sub-species of humans and if they mixed their bloodlines with any normal human it could have disastrous sequences. They used Seers and Genologists and all kinds of weird shit to find the perfect geic match for themselves to interbreed with. My bio-energy kept me awake, nourished, and in top health, as I spent days without moving a muscle in my quarters. Thinking, experimenting, testing. I realized that I had to uand what the genes meant i detail, I had to have the mental image of the finished form I wanted, and the gene sample I had was like a written description only that it was encrypted too. It was like learning a g nguage only by practig with a piler. I was given examples of w code and I could mess around with it and see what happeo the inal program that the code produced. I had to figure out with trial and error what each 'and' of the eant and then pare it with another simir code. It was monotonous but I didn't tire nor bore as my focus was held entirely. Around a week into this, my Hunter and bat Forms were finished and I could reallocate my Cores to the other task. With the increased brai only took another few days to finally crack the code. The mental tempte was clear, my instincts were tellihat it was solid and it'd produce a stable form but I've watched far too many of them melt or just straight up vulse and die for me to just test it myself. I wouldn't die, sure but that couldn't be a nice experienbsp;A tendril extended from my finger, like a dangling rope until the end of it started to swell. I let it y down on the floor as the white bulbous form started taking on a humanoid form. I watched carefully for any sign of sudden bustion as I detached the tendril eg my fio it. The form followed my previously given orders like a mae and firansf based on the geic tempte I provided. A sed ter I was staring down at a somewhat good replica of Lord Aaron Falnx. Not a single sign of life, I wonder if I could make bio-drones with this? I put that thought on a mental list and started going through the prone e with probing soul energy tendrils soon followed by a myriad of my white ones joining in. P3t1

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