Need...
The battlefield designated as Number Four by Nimrod on the lower decks of the Shadow of the Throne was Zone XXXVI.
Stevens, born on Catachan, requested the aid of his "Druid," Ivos Jovan, to shape fifty deck sections into a world of deadly plants resembling his homeworld.
Stevens lay prone in the underbrush, carefully observing his target.
As a veteran hunter of Catachan, he understood the importance of detailed observation of prey.
To make his hunting plan possible, he had moved across six deck sections, adjusting the data his father had given him and Indra-Sur's encounter with the parasite into an Originator even more powerful within the Origin Space.
"Druid" Ivos hid within Catachan soil reshaped through spirituality.
The soil across the fifty deck sections had all been personally transferred by him from Catachan to the lower decks.
Though the plants' growth had slowed in a way he could not understand, they still grew faster than those on Imperial agri-worlds such as Laern.
"Druid" Ivos swam through the soil, activating Spirit Sight as he stared at the Hraf Originator more than a hundred meters ahead.
The colored light coiling around his body suddenly dimmed and contracted, and the radiance of his spirit body became mottled as well.
Bang, bang, bang...
Amid swaths of shrubs, trumpet-shaped flowers suddenly sprang up.
Countless thorny tendrils shot toward the withered body.
Stinging Grass.
The most common and deadliest subspecies of barbed venom gorse on Catachan, and also the most adaptable subspecies.
They did not rely on Catachan's strange soil. Across worlds throughout the galaxy, they could survive tenaciously, constantly seeking prey.
Pap, pap, pap...
Highly corrosive chemical juices slapped against the Originator's psychic shield.
Colored light rippled, and the Hraf Originator let out a mocking laugh.
"Shadow of Order, your foolish father has