HALO: Legacy of Onyx by Matt Forbeck

Author:Matt Forbeck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Halo Books

CHAPTER 17

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With Even Keel’s help, the Servants of the Abiding Truth now had access to many places inside the shield world, and Dural meant to make that advantage work for them. To that end, the Huragok had begun a slow and methodical categorization of the places they could effectively reach by means of their base’s portal system. It was astonishing how versatile the system was and how far it could take them.

Dural’s advance-strike forces had found themselves scouting many strange lands populated by all manner of creatures, but their methodology of exploration had not been an exact science. Even Keel noted that much of this world’s portal network was either incomplete or malfunctioning. The Huragok claimed that they could pass undetected for a time, but eventually others on this world would be sure to notice them making use of the system.

If they did, so be it. The Servants of the Abiding Truth would be ready. While they had the wind to their back and relatively unfettered access to Onyx’s portal network, they should exploit it.

Some of these lands—such as the region from which the rafakrits came—had stronger gravity, and the sun shone with a diminished light. Other regions had lesser gravity, and their skies were sometimes filled with creatures far too large to take flight on most other worlds, such as Dural’s own. Some were overflowing with mountains, while others seemed to feature nothing but endless seas, and others had both, with mountains that floated like islands in the sky, among vast oceans of dense clouds. There seemed to be no end to the variety of places Onyx was comprised of, a thought staggering at first, yet almost dreadful if pondered too deeply.

But by this method, the Servants had soon discovered the other Huragok and its location: the Repository. Dural decided to travel there personally to reconnoiter it, not trusting anyone else to give him the details he needed to create the right strategy.

The portal leading into the Repository opened into a gigantic hangar filled with a vast panoply of craft, many of which he could take cover behind. The Pale Blade used his modified armor’s active camouflage to help ensure that he would not be seen. Due to his armor’s power requirements, Dural could only bend light around himself for a handful of seconds at a time, but that proved more than sufficient for his purposes. Once inside the Repository, he carefully prowled the outskirts of the hangar’s interior, clinging to the shadows.

Some of the vehicles in the Repository were spaceworthy, while others were designed for use on the ground. They included designs from all over: Covenant, Forerunner, and human too. Dural recognized that this absurd menagerie of firepower, if leveraged properly by the Servants, could easily give them a distinct advantage in the coming days.

He was not as concerned then about such weaponry, though, as he was about the second Huragok. That was the real prize. One thing was clear to him: Engineers were the currency of the gods on a world filled to the brim with Forerunner technology.

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