The bodies of the wildly roaring Grog Bonecrusha and the largest, most ferocious Ork warriors who had first followed him off the planet underwent another terrifying expansion!
Their bones lengthened, their muscles multiplied, and their strength, speed, and regenerative abilities soared to an unimaginable level.
Braving a deathly pressure powerful enough to freeze a Space Marine's soul, they charged fearlessly at the immense skeletal figure that embodied ultimate destruction, their eyes blood-red and inhuman roars tearing from their throats!
Waaagh! energy began coating their weapons as they hacked relentlessly at the Nightbringer's ethereal physical form. Some attacks were easily deflected, twisted, or shattered by an invisible force field.
But the Waaagh!-powered Phase Weapon in Grog Bonecrusha's hand actually made contact.
Combat techniques encoded into their genes by the Old Ones began to awaken.
Watching their Boss clash with the C'tan Shard, the Orks briefly forgot the danger altogether and simply gathered around to cheer.
"I reckon our Boss is da strongest Boss!"
"Waaagh!"
Thunderous roars rang out.
Even Gork and Mork, perpetually half-asleep in the Warp, suddenly awoke and turned their attention toward Grog.
They sensed a strange drain on their power.
Gork and Mork had not existed when the Old Ones created the Orks. They had been born from the degenerated Orks' worship of their mighty primordial ancestors.
But as the Orks began reverting to their ancestral forms, the power of that worship would also be divided and flow back into these reverting Orks.
The circulation mechanism of Waaagh! energy was another ingenious design of the Old Ones. It incorporated many of their intended functions for the Orks, including physical and mental enhancement, energy manipulation, and technological improvements that defied all reason.
"I reckon you're no match for me! You ugly git, tryin' to scare us!"
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