Reborn as a Nurgling: Infinite Lives in the Grimdark
Chapter 68

Divine Wrath from Above and Vanguard Troops Below

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Grakka's single eye blazed with an unprecedented intensity.

He understood.

"Choppin' meat"? He liked that phrase.

He slammed his two enormous chain-axes onto the floor with a thunderous clang, shaking the entire conference room.

"Deal!" he roared. "But I got one condition!"

"Speak."

"Before I left, Boss Bonecrusher gave me a 'new toy.' I wanna try it out here first!"

A childlike smile full of anticipation and cruelty spread across Grakka's savage face.

"I wanna set off fireworks!"

An hour later, just as the Hive Mind was furiously calculating how to counter the Orks' "scavenging tactics," it suddenly sensed a terrifying surge of energy.

That energy came from deep beneath the Ork defensive lines.

Then came the frenzied roar of "Face-Rippa" Grakka's countdown.

"Ten! Nine! Eight... I can't zoggin' wait! Light it up!"

The entire planet of Orkutar seemed to lurch upward, shoved hard by an invisible hand!

Without warning, enormous pillars of emerald energy brighter than the sun erupted from beneath the corpse-strewn no-man's-land in front of the first defensive line!

These pillars came from the ultimate "WAAAGH! energy wells," secretly buried by the Mekboys on Bonecrusher's orders. They had only one purpose-to unleash, in a single, unrestrained detonation, the vast reserves of reality-warping WAAAGH! energy that had accumulated on the planet for weeks!

That endless emerald energy gathered in the sky into a churning green ocean!

Then that ocean began to "rain."

What fell was a devastating storm of emerald lightning formed from pure WAAAGH! energy!

Hundreds of millions of green lightning bolts writhed like dragons as they descended from the sky, indiscriminately blanketing the entire Tyranid position!

Lowly Termagants or enormous Flesh Eaters, stealthy Genestealers or Tyranid Warriors serving as synaptic nodes-before this purely "mind-over-matter" assault that utterly disregarded the laws of physics, they all met the

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