"Heh... in the end, you're just an upstart." Amalaga blocked the strike of an honor blade. The warrior who had rushed before him showed no fear, unloading his rail rapid-fire gun into Amalaga's waist.
Feeling the flesh being slowly torn apart by the disruption field, Amalaga grabbed the T'au warrior's head with his other hand and casually crushed it.
The restrictions on his left arm were lifted. Flesh swelled to an utterly inconceivable extent; compared to that massive arm, Amalaga's body looked like a small lump of meat growing from its skin.
"H-How is this possible? How can this be possible?!" The Earth Caste technician watching from the shadows had been stunned numb. He stared blankly as Amalaga's enormous arm nearly filled the plaza before the sanctuary, all the biological knowledge he possessed being denied within his mind.
How could he expand to such a degree? How could he ensure that his bones and muscles were not crushed beneath such an immense body? How could he ensure his nerves responded swiftly throughout such a colossal form?
The Earth Caste technician had countless questions. The more deeply he thought, the more terrified he became. It reminded him of what he had seen and heard while studying Human Federation Warp engines.
Many technicians had gone mad studying meaningless ash-like powders, black-water-like fluids, and iron plates etched with unknown writing.
He felt as though he stood at the edge of madness himself.
A shrill cry of collapse squeezed from his throat. The short, stocky Earth Caste technician ran out from cover, watched Amalaga's arm sweep through the T'au army, and fell deeply to his knees with the devotion of a man worshipping a god.
Unfortunately, Amalaga was no god. Even if he were, he would be the kind of god utterly devoid of