I kaking on the form of a Lictor fully wasn't the most pragmatic thing to do in my situation. It took fuck loads of energy to remake it and it burned more energy to keep it running than a human. I was curious how it kept going without feeding for so long in the lore but as I lear stored nutrients in a much more effective and pact way than humans did through fat. With all that said I didn't regret it a si. My energy reserves even expanded greatly i three days since I mao kill the bug. The vastly superior senses of this predatory form allowed me to track down six nearby ritual sites just like the one I found myself in before. Sihese surrouhe inal location in the shape of a rough circle I had to backtrack a bit but I didn't feel the time wasted, on the trary. Even if I only stayed in this form I'd be able to keep it alive for two decades if my instincts were right and my human form for one more. You would think that a body as superior to a human as this one would e several times the energy but it used up the energy or more accurately to store nutrients in its body much more effitly. All in all, I was very satisfied. With the st bunch of human remains absorbed just an ho, I was already ba the skyline and ready to make a beeliowards the city tre. I didn't bother using the chameleon skin as there wasn't ao notice me and it burned more of my precious energy stores to do so. My strong legs propelled me over to the rooftop almost fifty meters away without much effort, even as I nded I barely felt the impact of the fall. It was effortless, instinctive. I weighed about a thousand kilograms in this form but my steps were silent and as light as a feather, never even making a single cra the ground when I didn't want to. This was the bination of my managing to analyze the thing's brain perfectly while it was still sort of alive, while also almost all of its muscle memory. On that note, I decided not to replicate some select parts of the brain. I khat it was a one-in-a-billion ce but I didn't want to leave it to lubsp;The brain had to be altered a bit and even though it hurt me I decided to remove most of the ans corresponding to its psychic abilities. No fear-indug scream or anything like that for me. The brain was obvious but the rest of its abilities relied on that part of the brain feeding them the energy so with that gone and me being uo do its work myself those had to go for now. Maybe when I uood these things more iure I could look into those psychic ans once more but until then they were useless wastes of both spad energy in my body. On my jump, only my right-cwed feet touched the ground as I immediately bounced forwards again onto the building. Still, this was mostly just a jog for this body, I could run circles around any human athlete even at this speed but that isn't saying mubsp;It's hard to say specifically how fast I was but it seemed at least eighty kilometres per hour and I could push myself further than that with burning additional energy. At this speed, I reached my goal faster than I expected. I was enjoying the speed and the thrill of the adrenalin-indug travel I'd been doing which was one of the personal modifications I'd doo this form. Thanks to analyzing both this form and hundreds of human ones even if those were somewhat rotting I had an uanding of the biology of both to such a degree that both earth doctors and Xenobiologists here could only blink. Doing simple modifications to fit my needs better was quite easy and I even designed a human form that looked the same but was made up based on the Lictor in most parts. Unsurprisingly one of the hardest parts to do was the brain but I mahat too after a handful of failed tries. Making it subsciously trol ae the alien body parts was a bit of a challe it took my sind off of my tedious task of trag down aing corpses. Previously I was w when I'd find a living human to observe their brain funs to uand how they worked more but then realised I was a moron. I could just look at my own, even if my soul was able to think on its own and me being only a replica of a human, it was enough. The brain worked just as it would have without those other things so it made my job much easier. Once I he giant spire I opted toing through the other buildings that might have something iing in them. From that close it wasn't too hard to notice ti obnoxiously giant crests on the sides of some of the buildings. I didn't reize most of them but a few did ring a bell. The winged skull of the Imperial Guard and the weird scale in the shape of an ' I ' with a fist in the middle standing for the Adeptus Arbites were the two that might prompt a visit after the Pabsp;It stood obnoxiously at the very tre of the city, extending more than a hundred meters above the sed-highest building to show both the authority and narcissism of the Governor who was residing here only weeks ago. I would have thought he was overpensating for something if I didn't already know that this was the norm in the Imperium. I was quite sure of this was the grimdark gaxy I knew of by now, if the Lictor didn't make it sure the giant fug golden statue of the Emperor did quite well. Unfortunately, he was currently g his gloriously shiny head and his upper body was a bit molten but he had three others of him for either of the four sides of the Pabsp;I jumped a few buildings to get a view of another of the statues and realized that this one was somehow cut down in the middle but both sides still stood there steadily. Someone must have had a grudge. So petty. I held back a giggle as I already knew how that would result in my current body. I had the extendable jaws of a xenomorph from the alien movies and a good forty tendrils for a beard, well not quite as my tentacled beard was as much my mouth as were my jaws. It was weird but kind of cool, I could sell the eldritch horror vibe far better now than before as a white mop. It wasn't what I would have picked if I had the choid I might whi this was by far the best oute of a Transmigration into the Warhammer universe that I could think of. Yeah sure I could have been the Big E or a Primarch but they had their own shit to deal with and having to deal with four evil gods that want to eat your whole race's soul wasn't something I envied. her did I want to give my soul to any of those assholes, turning into a demon was a scam, even a Demon Prihe only good part of that was that they were immortal as long as their demon daddy liked them. There was the dow the end. As soon as they didn't like them they were nothing more than snacks. Ehhhh too much thinking again. The vastly increased brainpower was making me overthink and go on eas, sometimes on several simultaneously. I didn't even notice it at first but I was sometimes thinking about multiple things at o then I caught myself. I shook my head, making my tentacles fp around and smack against my hard carapabsp;I readied myself, l my body onto the ground to steady myself with my cwed arms. I set my gaze on my targeted location, an aerial nding pad just uhe feet of the molten statue, and without any need for extra preparation or overloading my muscles with energy, I leapt. For a few seds, I swam through the air and then effortlessly made my nding just where I wanted. My cws dug into the ground to halt my momentum faster and then I quickly bouowards the already vandalised gate. The pce was so disgustingly luxurious even on a floor this far from the top that it was nearly inprehensible to my human sensibilities. Carved marble walls seemingly from single giant tiles extending several meters with gold running along it shaping into intricate forms. So much damned gold. Golden frames for paintings, golden sculptures looking like they were halfway into the wall and all of them depig some battle of historical signifibsp;I had to be prepared for more, the topmost floor was usually the personal residence of the Governors while the few below were for his family and servants and the ones below even that were for social events and stuff like that. Those halls and hallways would be even more disgusting than this. I filed my tentacled beard in what ated for smell for Lictors as the position of the air and its many different inants were made clear to me. Smog, dried blood, metal, maery, wood, and the list went on and on until I reized the smell of old paper along with wood in siderable quantities. The ugly wastes of both spad money sped past me as I rounded ers, sped down hallways and ran through rooms faster than some cars. The floors went by quickly as I relied on my trusty super-advanced seo lead me to my target. I khat they had some sort of a puter here but I wasn't a tech priest so I didn't have the fai idea how I would have to caress that thing or something to make it tell me what I wao knoer and books were much more reliable, those wouldn't need dumb things like passwords hting inse while I fiheir ports to satisfy its spirit. Soon enough I was right at the entrance of the library which blessedly escaped the wrath of the vandals who fucked up the phe door was broken through and a few bookcases were blown up but beyond that, the rest was mostly intabsp;Even if this pce wouldn't have some of the probably extremely cssified stuff I'd want like where is what in the gaxy, including every alien empire, I'd have to gh some of it just to make sure that I wasn't in some sort of Alternative Universe of Warhammer. As my chitinous body morphed into my soft human one, I looked on in horror at the seemingly endless library.