Chapter 25

My very first meeting with the intruder went unexpectedly. Anyone who thought it was a good idea to attack a heavily defended Eden Ship owned by a person who was well known for taming a chunk of the galaxy that was right next to the Hutts and fought off powerful force users with zero hesitation must be powerful or crazy. The bounty hunter opened fire as soon as he saw me. Blaster fire splashed on every surface causing burn marks on everything, everything except me.

My fat suit that operated as a healing tank was now kitted out with armour. It was mostly lightsaber-resistant metals and matrials but anything that could stop a lightsaber was going to stop blaster fire. Cortosis, Phrik, Norris Root, and Armourweave were used in the forming of my armour. I would have loved some Beskar aromur but the Mandalorians kept the secret of how to work that metal under lock and key. I had some ingots of the stuff but didn't know how to form it.

The first volley of blaster fire soon ceased when the bounty hunter realised that I had never been there and he had just shot at an illusion. A soft chuckle came from the bounty hunter helmet.

As the bounty hunter walked through my Eden ship, various broken turrets and specially manufactured war droids interrupted his travels. The turrets were tied to the ship's systems and even though the ship's defence was damaged the turrets still were able to fire. It was too bad that they couldn't hit a barn door, but they did make a good crowd-control device and sometimes they would hit the mark. The war droids did their job with consistent firing and retreating with guerrilla tactics.

I spied on the results of the fight adding technology holograms and my mind illusions to the whole. It bothered me that it didn't matter what damage the defence caused, no matter how many blaster bolts or metal slugs the bounty hunter took he just healed. The armour the bounty hunter once wore had been ripped apart and only the wiggling tentacle body was left.

The weapons the bounty hunter had been using were gone. Some had run out of ammo, others had been destroyed. However, this didn't mean the bounty hunter was weak. The regeneration power was simply amazing. I had seen many species that could heal their wounds and repair lost limbs but not at this speed. It literally took seconds for dissected tentacles to reattach and for burned blaster marks to disappear.

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This was troubling. It was clear to me that the intruder thought he was untouchable, unstoppable, unkillable. If he didn't think this way then he wouldn't have rammed his escape pod into my Eden ship, and the sad fact was he was right. None of my defence had stopped him for long.

Desperate times called for desperate means. I used explosives and collapsed floors on top of the bounty hunter. If my gravity systems were working I wouldn't need to do this but you got to work with what you have.

This little attack had ruined my Eden ship. My favourite fruit trees burned, my personal space violated and my time wasted. The only thing that would slightly make up for this was the regeneration ability of the bounty hunter.

I made my way closer to the mess of collapsed material and the pinned-down bounty hunter with containers and medical droids. However, before I could claim my prize the rubble turned over and a massive tentacle swiped me off my feet causing me to tear through some walls.

It was my fault. I should have gassed the place, I should have blasted the rubble until it was slag, I should have poured molten metal on it and fired my eden ship into the sun.

The bounty hunter seemed to have a little villain in him as he picked me up by my neck and started to monologue and laugh. His laughter didn't last long as I tore his tentacle appendage away from my neck and slapped the bounty hunter so hard that his head twisted like a spinning top. Nothing hit like a genetically enhanced body infused with a little shadow magic from the night sisters and amplified by a technologically advanced body suit that was buffed by the force.

Using the fighting technique I had learned from prison, I used the open palm attack to bruise and harm the bounty hunter. The damage didn't do much but the bounty hunter couldn't counter, his body wouldn't listen and it had seized up.

The palm strikes were a bluff. I knew that if a blaster bolt couldn't harm him then a slap wouldn't either. Instead, I had fused my force lighting into each strike. My blood-red lighting was incredibly good against droids and even better against the bounty hunter.

The bounty hunter was a Gen'Dai and as a species, they were incredibly tough to kill. Their bodies were made up of regenerative tentacles and they had no organs. It was a perfect killing machine with little to no weakness except that the tentacles had massive amounts of nerves in them. Any type of electricity would cause the cluster of nerves to cease up and cause a paralysed effect.

The bounty hunter didn't understand what was going on but it didn't matter, he was defenceless and I would take full advantage of that.