Nareth looked at the goat creature. Three heads grew from its neck.
Besides the head facing Nareth, the centers of the other two heads were positioned opposite the two horns extending backward from the central head.
It also had thirteen legs. Five pairs were evenly arranged on both sides below the abdomen. The remaining three formed a triangle below the heads, supporting them.
The Primarch instantly sensed that this blood-red monstrosity in front of him was anything but easy to deal with.
He drew the Dionysian Spear with his right hand but did not approach.
He drew the Dionysian Spear with his right hand but didn't approach.
Instead, he raised his left arm. The bolter mounted on his gauntlet aimed at the creature, unleashing a dense barrage toward the three-headed goat.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions roared, and chunks of flesh blasted off, turning into sludge.
'Its defense is this weak?'
'That doesn't match the threat level I perceived.'
Nareth was surprised the creature was so easily wounded.
The entire fleshy inner wall of the void whale surged violently.
Nareth staggered as he was tossed up and down in the rolling tsunami of flesh.
His golden wings fluttered as he cautiously hovered in the air.
He saw the goat monster's thirteen massive legs writhing as one with the surrounding flesh, along with the parts of its abdomen that he had blown into craters.
'Did this creature choose to reside within the Void Whale because it provides nearly endless flesh for it?'
'It can manipulate flesh, but I don't sense Warp energy; it's not using biomancy.'
'Could it be a creature of the Hanged Man pathway?'
The "Baron of Corruption" searched the giant creature for spiritual radiance. He soon saw the three heads on its monstrous heads emitting a bloody glow.
'Only the heads shine with spirituality, so those must be potion materials. The rest of the body is not.'
As Nareth pondered, hundreds to thousands of flesh tumors of varying sizes bulged on the goat monster's body.
Something wormlike crawled inside each tumor.
With crackling detonations, every tumor swelled and burst.
The goat monster suddenly lowered its heads.
Masses of flesh, some the size of a human fist, some as large as artillery shells, shot outward.
They swept through the air like a storm, reeking with blood and rot.
'Flesh Bombs!'
immediately recognized the Hanged Man pathway's ability, also manipulating flesh, but different from the biomancy.
Biomancy psykers manipulate the flesh of their opponents. Beyonder beings of the Hanged Man pathway manipulate both their opponents and use their own flesh to attack.
Countless Flesh Bombs flew at high speed towardstowards Nareth.
His black armor sizzled as if thrown into corrosive acid.
The Primarch also sensed something supernatural trying to burrow into his body.
But his superhuman physique resisted the invasive flesh-power.The force trying to reshape him hit an invisible barrier.
But his superhuman physique contended with the surging fleshly power. The force trying to reshape him hit an invisible barrier.
Light flickered in Nareth's eyes, telekinesis burst outward.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every flesh bomb detonated midair, exploding into clouds of blood mist.
Nareth's golden wings beat behind him. A fiery golden flame vortex centered around him rapidly expanded, engulfing the thirteen massive legs in an instant.
He drove the flames toward the goat monster's legs specifically.
First, because he had sensed earlier that these legs absorbed Void Whale flesh at the fastest rate.
Second, because he didn't want to damage the three heads, clearly precious potion materials.
The monster screamed.
Huge chunks of flesh vanished into flame, then regrew.
The power of the Burning One's fragment contended with the goat monster's flesh regeneration ability.
Each patch of leg that regenerated dissolved almost immediately.
Then it would regrow, at the cost of the Void Whale's flesh rapidly vanishing. Even for a colossal entity of 3,200 kilometers long, this constituted large chunks of flesh.
In this battle between burning and regeneration, the power of Nyadra'zatha ultimately overwhelmed the three-headed goat.
The leg furthest forward beneath the goat monster's heads completely melted away.
The titan-sized creature tilted sharply and fell forward.
With a piercing shriek, shadow surged out, covering the entire area.
The goat monster's body instantly transformed into a massive mass of writhing flesh. Its three heads tumbled within the flesh.
Nareth's eyes saw the spreading shadow, and chaotic thoughts flooded his mind.
His skin itched intensely, as if begging to be scratched.
'The mythical creature form of the Hanged Man pathway.'
'Its body has completely transformed into writhing flesh.'
'Stronger than Freddy, this is above Sequence 3.'
Nareth felt mental and psychic pressure.
He instantly ascended to the third layer of the Thelema mindstate
The chaotic thoughts in his mind vanished instantly. The itching sensation on his skin also disappeared.
'Most people would go mad from directly gazing upon a mythical creature.'
Light flickered in Nareth's eyes as he poured psychic energy into the Dionysian Spear, its shaft shone brilliantly.
The "Baron of Corruption's" muscles bulged. He twisted his waist and back, swung his right arm, and hurled the Dionysian Spear with all his might.
The Dionysian Spear screamed through the air, piercing into the center of the writhing flesh.
The golden flames burning the mythical creature's flesh healed instantly, but the Void Whale lost cruiser-sized chunks of flesh and screamed in agony.
The creature's abdominal flesh wove itself into a "cloak of flesh", blocking the incoming spear.
The spear stalled for a moment-
Then the layered powers contained within it surged forward.
The strength of the Primarch, combined with the Barbarian's raw power, the Briber's throwing skill, and the Baron of Corruption's force, gave the spear overwhelming power.
After just three seconds, the flesh cloak was destroyed, and the spear tore into the flesh.
The three hidden heads howled with fury.
The flesh within their body shifted wildly, forming layer after layer of barriers in the spear's path.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Dionysian Spear pierced through each layer, blasting out of the creature's back and carving a straight channel through the writhing mass.
The creature tried to pull flesh inward to repair the wound, but every piece was instantly shredded.
All three heads flashed with shock.
It couldn't regenerate.
At the same moment, Nareth spread his wings and flew up. Golden flames fell upon the mythical creature.
The mythical creature knew the golden-winged human intended to retrieve that terrifying spear.
Its body churned, thousands of Flesh Bombs condensed, each at least the size of an artillery shell, blasting toward Nareth.
His wings beat violently.
Golden flames collided with the bombs, sending sharp explosions echoing through the space.
In an instant, Nareth ascended to the top of the Void Whale's vast interior space. His right hand grabbed the Dionysian Spear.
He hurled it with full force, then caught it again below.
Deep gashes crisscrossed the mythical creature's body.
The creature howled repeatedly.
It felt its special form reaching its limit.
Terror surged in its mind.
It couldn't defeat the golden-winged black-armored giant.
Once its special form ended, it would die almost instantly.
The three heads exchanged a decisive look.
They pressed together-
And detonated everything except their heads.
In its long life, it had survived lethal crises the same way, by self-detonating.
As long as a single cell survived, as long as flesh existed around it, it would recover.
Despite the many gashes carved into it, more than three-fifths of its body remained.
Boom!
A devastating shockwave erupted inside the Void Whale.
The massive beast screamed in agony.
The enormous Flesh Bomb shockwave enveloped the area around Nareth
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