Chapter 21 : Second Step Part 2.
Marshack produce a [Compress] wave of Kinetic Energy to scan his surroundings for possible threats, but the amount of information he received is immensely massive.
While gases are not good catalyst and solids break apart if the capacity is exceed, liquids tolerate without a problem the assets of Kinetic Energy, and the result is frightening invigorating.
The deepest part here it is only 1.2 Vulq (6km) and there are millions of this Algaes spread around, some being large enough to surpass 450 Vul (225meters), creatures are big 18-62 Vul (9-31meters), at least for what he could conclude, and a few of them didn't like the blatant provocation, and are in course of interception towards the young Hûrngöth.
This creatures are dark grey with bluish green patterns, a bulb shape head with 7 bluish eyes and 6 long tentacles with sturdy hook endings.
§ En'ihg §
Quality 2
Synapse Complexity - Present
§ Enph Electrons §
{This doesn't happen before, the Slaidt give information but was less detailed, and only determined the presence of Synapse Complexity because use my [Bicromy]}.
The nearest creature hooks glow, throwing 6 energy blades, they impact and scratch the armor he wears.
{The Personal Shield didn't protect me?!, is because i am underwater?, or this Enph Electrons can bypass or ignore my Personal Shield?}.
Marshack shoot glowing [Compress] Red Pyro Plasma bullets, but after a few Vul of trayect, they dissipate, this occurrence surprise him, this only happens when the [Interference] is so high that return the Plasmas to were they belong.
He maintain his focus and resume the offensive firing [Compress] Orange Prio Plasma, with a result almos identical, which is a fact unheard or record by the Hûrngöth.
{Looks like Plasma is useless underwater, this wasn't the case in Hûlfhednär, this water is trikier}.
The En'ihg eyes brighten and shoot concentrate green bluish energy beams, the Personal Shield fail again, but the impact cause no damage at all to Marshack, in fact, the Enph Electrons are absorbed by his body.
{But if they are harmless to me, how it dent my armor before?. However, this En'ihg aren't mindless beasts as the previous creatures, they maintain enough distance to attack cautiously and are ready to flee}.
Furthermore, they make use of the little young one, to determine Marshack prowess.
{Now aware of my immunity, they are going to leave or charge at me with their superior maneuvers and swimming speed, if not, i can act first}.
Swimming against the closest En'ihg, Marshack is firing with his right hand an Electron beam, but contain taints of Enph Electrons, the other hand shoot a Neutronium Warbullet.
The former immobilize and heavily injured the creature and the latter finish his life perforate him and keep advancing without stop.
{As i thought, Neutronio is functional, but slower, and Electrons, even tainted are effective}.
Catching his prey, Marshack's Proboscis Slaidt pierce the En'ihg head, retrieving the Synapse Complexity.
Finishing, the absorption, he return to the previous course without being harassed, until an explosion wave hit him, the Neutronium Warbullet impacted something hard enough to destabilize its structure and detonate like a warhead.
{Nothing is denser than Neutronio, unless, this new Electrons had their own counterparts and if that is correct, the Irlw'Thek Materials are better because they actually had more in them than usual materials, even if the physics's laws doesn't apply broadly if not specificly!}.
This makes Marshack come into a conclusion, they have to search with a more specific approach and for that, he needs to have a completely different mindset {"Never Hold Back Again!"}.
Surrounding his body with Electrons and the Enph Electrons, the resistance of the water against him weave.
Impulsing himself and swimming with 15 folds more speed than before.
Leaving behind his location, Marshack send the most powerful [Compress] Kinetic Energy wave he has produced on his entire life, challenging with it, everything that cross his path.
Doesn't take much time to appear a group or En'ihg, he start swimming towards them and release a multidirectional shock wave of Electrons, stunning the En'ihg to annihilate them with swift precision when he squeeze the Electrons into a [Projectile].
This new attack of energy from his bare hands go through the En'ihg bodies, and without delay, he use the Proboscis of the Slaidt to retrieve the Synapse Complexity.
He keeps repeating this actions to improve his underwater movemet with the newfound speed, eliminating all the En'ihg that fight back or attempt to escape.
{This higher velocity is allowing me to chase every En'ihg and is invigorating. Is this what those Oldest Hûrngöth feel when they hunted down a prey?, because i don't feel the pride of the action they reported in their records, or what i felt when i killed the Coraline Butterflies, i am more elated by my own performance; Truly inconceivable that i believed myself incapable of something that i have always been able to do, i have to rethink my decision of not learning about everything i labeled as useless, clearly the useless was me for not understanding their value}.
Eventually, in the search for more preys, Marshack go to deeper waters, understanding a strange pattern in this Layer.
The first Thousand Vul (500 meters) have a certain amount of density (0.5), passing that, for 2,000 Vul (1km) there's a water more dense (1), then, the next 8,000 Vul (4km) are split in 2 parts, the first one have more density than the previous (2), but the second part has the double of the first one (4).
Right now, Marshack is in the next 1.8 Vulq (9km) of depth, an similar to the previous one, is divided in the same pattern.
The first part with higher density (3) than the first part of the previous one (2) but simultaneously less dense than the second part (4).
{I don't understand how a denser liquid float above one that is less dense, probably due to my hypothesis of other particles present in everything that ae not interacting with the physic laws, but i don't make the rules here, the Layer does, so i just discover it, and record them in my own device, the Slaidt, is labor of Aezza and Deriell discover why}.
The second part of the three has triple the density (9) in comparison to the first part, and the last one is even denser (27).
In this depth, 5 En'ihg swim around Marshack, this ones have some obvious differences to the others he fight before, they are bigger, the tentacles are 8, the lenght of them is larger even with the proportional resemblance, and they emanate a yellow electrical energy that surrounds their bodies as a protective barrier.
§ En'ihg §
Quality 3
Synapse Complexity - Present
§ Inph Electrons §
The En'ihg send a few yellow curve Energy blades, they are fast, but Marshack evade them swiftly, and respond in a similar manner, throwing bluish green Energy blades from his own claws at the En'ihg.
Some of them get dim cuts, but in general, the Inph Electrons around them diminish the initial impact.
{The functionality is far from being an Energy Shield, still, nagate 70 to 80 percent of the strength in each delivered hit depending on the release of this En'ihg}.
Generating even more Electrons, Marshack perform the same process as them, surrounding his body with a visible amount of Electrons, that are thicker, abundant and expanded 4 Vul (2 meters) outside his body on every direction.
Releasing streams of Electrons, Marshack incapacitate the first of the En'ihg, grabbing him to retrieve the Synapse Complexity while is still alive.
The Creature trembles uncontrollably when the Proboscis of the Slaidt penetrates his skull, but the interference of Marshack's Electrons flow, nagate the En'ihg any chance to regain control of his own body.
The other En'ihg get enraged, swapping the Energy blades for streams of concentrate yellow Inph Electrons.
The new acquired protection that Marshack obtain gets tainted with the Inph Electrons and he can sense a connection with this different type of Electrons.
{Rather than being a stain, i acquired a new integrant in this protection}.
Employing this newfound Electrons, Marshack immediately expanded the area of effect up to 5½ Vul (2.75 meters).
His overall speed increases again, launching himself against the next En'ihg, who send his everything in a concentrate release of Inph Electrons.
But is all for naught, reaching him, Marshack pierce one of the En'ihg eyes with his claws, then proceed with the extraction of Synapse Complexity using the Proboscis of the Slaidt.
The rest of the En'ihg try to scape going in different directions, but he intercept them, providing the same ending that experience the previous En'ihg.