Astartes: The Red Tide
Chapter 380

Boomblasta on the brink of death

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Boomblasta repelled this wave of attacks from the Goffs Clan with the power of absolute steel.

This was the void of space. Now, it could be called a drifting orbital junk heap.

The Orks of the Goffs Clan grew stronger and stronger through endless warfare, until steel and explosions barely hurt their flesh.

But no flesh could withstand the attacks of the Space Gungat. Any vanguard boss who dared board it never came back.

The Goffs retreated. Their boss had died beneath Gork's Gaze, but they remained orderly. There were plenty of candidates within the clan. The Goffs never lacked big, strong Orks.

After they withdrew, the Deathskulls Boyz swept through space. Boomblasta's clan was a composite clan, mostly Evil Sunz and Deathskulls, with a handful of Goffs Clan members.

The great leader sat high upon its throne, silently watching its subjects toil.

Boomblasta said nothing at all. The Boyz gathered the Goffs Clan's wrecked warships on their own and kept loading them onto the Space Gungat. Some gun barrels were a hundred meters wide, and what they fired were not shells, but captured gunboats converted into Space Torpedoes.

Only now did the Space Gungat look a little like a "Gungat," resembling a chaotic jumble of rubbish and gun emplacements.

Several gigantic warships stuck out of it nose-first. Those were the Goffs Clan's boarding vessels, now filled with corpses. In a few months, fresh Goffs Clan Boyz would swarm out of them and join Boomblasta's vanguard.

The Weirdboss directed everything now. Boomblasta rarely spoke anymore. Since embedding itself within this terrifying Gungat, it had grown increasingly like a god, receiving the Boyz' cautious offerings.

For instance, if you dared pour delicious but stale mushroom soup into that ancient feeding pipe, the entire Gungat would shudder violently. Cook Boy had become

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