As for whether Dio could arrive on time, that was his problem. Sneaky Boss believed that, to take part in a bigger Waaagh!, Dio would show as much initiative as he possibly could.
When Sneaky Boss told Kuka to end the Psychic Communication, he distinctly felt Kuka breathe a sigh of relief. Psychic Communication that pushed beyond their limits and spanned such an extraordinary distance was immensely difficult and stressful.
Kuka had not managed it alone. He had taken the lead and brought in several thousand Psyker Boys to work together. By now, those Boys were all but collapsed from exhaustion.
It was not because they had overdrawn their own psychic power. The Orks' psykers, the Weirdboys, used the energy within the Waaagh! Field in the first place. With so many Orks in the Tarrok System, there was plenty of energy to spare.
The difficulty lay in controlling it properly. Idiots who failed to control that immense energy would blow their own brains to pieces or burn themselves into imbeciles. Fortunately, the Psyker Boys Kuka had personally trained had performed well this time, with very few such idiots among them.
After praising Kuka, Sneaky Boss had his own work to do.
While Rottooth boasted to him about how valiantly he had routed the Necrons' fleet, Sneaky Boss briefly wondered whether fate had favored him. He had just been regretting how little he understood of Necron technology, and now a batch of spoils had arrived so soon.
Bad Gambler, one of the Nobs, was not only fierce in battle but also exceptionally underhanded. He would often clash blades with an opponent head-on, then immediately blast them in the face with a melta weapon in his other hand. He had killed plenty of tough opponents with that dirty trick.
His luck was