"Aaargh! Roar!"
His enormous body kept hopping as he forcefully tore off the armor covering him. Having been "doused" in molten metal, Steeltoof gave off a far stronger burnt smell than the other Ork Boyz.
But compared with the other Ork Boyz, who were cooked medium-well inside and out,
Steeltoof was charred and fragrant on the outside, but completely raw within.
The chunks of metal gave off wisps of smoke as Steeltoof pulled them off his body along with the scorched flesh.
Blood drenched his entire body, as though he had been flayed.
Pain assaulted every inch of his nerves.
Even contact with the air caused him agony.
Only Steeltoof's formidable vitality as a Warboss kept him alive. Had he been an Astartes, once his artificial membrane triggered and forced him into suspended animation, he could only have waited for the molten metal to turn him into "beggar's chicken."
Besides, an Astartes would most likely have been unable to withstand even the initial electrical arc attack and would have been left on the verge of death.
After all, the Black Carapace connected not only to the armor, but also to the nerves of these demigods of the Imperium.
A single shock would most likely have completely paralyzed their entire nervous system.
In fact, however, the Necrons' arc weapons posed a slightly smaller threat to mortal armored units than to the Astartes.
The metal cage formed by an alloy hull could protect the mortal soldiers inside from direct electrocution. But the energy of the electrical arc would turn the armor into a mass of scorching, molten slag.
The Astartes, on the other hand, did not need to be reduced to molten slag to become thoroughly cooked electric-grilled meat.
Watching Boss Steeltoof roar endlessly in pain, drenched in blood, the Weirdboys