Warhammer: The Time Traveler

Chapter 287 Slaying (Nine Updates)
"Next!" the Chaos Wizard roared with laughter, turning his attention to Mann's squad.

He pressed his other, still human-shaped hand forward, and a semi-transparent, constantly distorting psionic barrier instantly unfolded, like the toughest shield, steadily blocking the explosive ray that Mann followed up with.

The heat energy, enough to instantly incinerate flesh and blood, could only create violent ripples on the barrier, unable to penetrate it.

Dorio attempted to use her speed to bypass the barrier and launch a surprise attack from the flank, but was repelled by the invisible force field extending from the barrier. Her explosive punch struck the force field, only causing the barrier to flash for a moment.

This is just the beginning!
The Chaos Wizard fully demonstrated his terrifying power as a fallen psionicist.

He simply raised his hand and casually waved it, and an invisible force, like a battering ram, appeared out of thin air and slammed into the chest of Jack's Iron Guard prototype!

The heavy war machine let out a metallic groan, staggered backward by this pure mental force, and the plasma cannon's stabilizer sounded an overload alarm.

He opened his mouth and let out a shriek containing destructive psionic energy. The sound waves penetrated everyone's eardrums like a tangible impact. Pila and Falco were the first to be hit, and they covered their ears in pain and fell to their knees, bleeding from their noses. Their senses were temporarily deprived.

Just as Dorothy regained her footing, the metal pipe that had been fixed to the ground suddenly twisted and sprang up like a venomous snake, tightly wrapping around her legs and waist, rendering her unable to move.

Mann's squad was instantly plunged into an extremely passive and difficult battle.

Their physical attacks struggled to penetrate the psionic barrier, while the various bizarre psionic powers released by the Chaos Wizards with every gesture kept them busy and unable to advance.

Even the two Iron Guards, lacking effective means of breaching the defenses and constantly subjected to psionic interference, found it difficult to quickly break through this psionic cage.

The Chaos Wizard watched the people struggling in the psionic storm, a cruel and gleeful twisted smile appearing on his half-human face.

He raised his hand again, and even more violent and unstable psionic energy gathered in his palm, compressing into an energy ball radiating destruction, aimed directly at Mann and Dorio, who were temporarily trapped and unable to dodge! He wanted to crush these two most threatening "mortal" leaders first!
At this critical moment that would determine life or death!
Valerie was highly focused, as if all the noise of the outside world had faded away.

Her strong will to survive and protect her teammates transformed into the purest and fastest neural impulse, instantly activating the S.A.W.S. neuroaccelerator prosthesis deeply implanted in her spine and motor cortex!
At the same time, through that deep neural connection, this acceleration effect, which transcends ordinary understanding, was synchronized to the core processing unit of the Iron Guard prototype she was piloting without any delay!

Om-!
A strange buzzing sound, perceptible only to her, swept through her entire sensory world.

Time, in her perception, was stretched to the extreme, distorted, and almost frozen!
Everything in the outside world—the slowly expanding, extremely dangerous sphere of destructive energy in the Chaos Wizard's hand; the snail-like movements of Mann and Dorio as they struggled; the leaping arcs of electricity seemingly frozen in mid-air; the flying metal fragments suspended in the field of vision; even the afterimages left by the swinging Astartes chainsword in the distance—all became almost still, death-filled oil paintings.

Only she and her iron guards were the sole entities in this frozen, deathly spacetime that maintained a normal flow of time! No, even faster!
Her thoughts were perfectly synchronized with every hydraulic transmission, every power joint, and every sensor feedback of the Iron Guard.

This massive war machine is no longer a manipulated metal construct, but has become an extension of her will and body, the embodiment of her steel!

"move!"

With a thought, the Iron Guard's massive body left a blurry afterimage as it took a step forward!
This action, which appeared to outsiders to be almost instantaneous, even created a brief and ear-piercing sonic boom cloud, pushing the dust and debris on the ground in all directions!

At the same time, a subtle yet efficient mechanical sound came from Iron Guard's right arm.

The armor plates on the outside of the arm armor slid open instantly, and a giant combat sword, almost as long as the arm armor itself and usually stored inside, popped out under hydraulic pressure and was firmly grasped by the Iron Guard's metal fingers!
The blade of the combat knife was instantly activated, covered by a layer of dark blue disintegration force field light, emitting a low and dangerous hum, and the surrounding air was slightly distorted by this powerful energy field.

The Chaos Wizard seemed to have sensed something.

His movement, gathering psionic energy, experienced an extremely brief delay, one that even he himself might not have been fully aware of—a momentary shock and adjustment instinctively generated when a living being faces speed beyond comprehension. He attempted to redirect the soon-to-be-forming, destructive energy sphere in his hand towards this sudden, incredibly fast threat.

But this flaw, which lasted less than a tenth of a second, was magnified infinitely in Valerie's senses, which were accelerated by tens or even hundreds of times, and became as clear as a wide passage!

It's now!

Iron Guard's massive body and the buzzing battle blade seemed to merge into one, transforming into a dark red death lightning bolt that tore through frozen time and space!
There was no detour, no probing, only extreme speed and the most direct killing trajectory! She swept past the Chaos Wizard from the side and behind!

The Disintegration Force Field Combat Blade, imbued with unparalleled kinetic energy and cutting power, sliced ​​through the wizard's distorted, protruding shoulder blade at a precise yet deadly angle, gliding diagonally downwards and sweeping across his torso without hindrance!

There were no loud metallic clanging sounds, only the subtle yet chilling hum of energy as the decomposition force field acted on the organic matter, and the almost inaudible cracking sound of molecular bonds being forcibly torn apart.

Time flow returns to normal.

The Chaos Wizard froze completely, his cruel and gleeful expression turning into utter astonishment and bewilderment.

The energy ball in his hand, which had gathered terrifying psychic energy, dissipated out of control like a punctured balloon, turning into a chaotic psychic breeze and disappearing without a trace.

He instinctively and with difficulty looked down and saw an incredibly smooth cut that ran clearly from his right shoulder down to his lower left abdomen.

The next moment, under the shocked gazes of everyone, his upper body slowly separated from his lower body along the smooth cut, sliding down and crashing heavily onto the filthy ground with a "thud".

Filthy blood, twisted and mutated internal organs, and broken bones were splattered everywhere. The expression on that half of the face was frozen in time, while the other half of the writhing flesh lost its vitality at a visible speed, quickly dried up, charred, and turned into disgusting charred and necrotic tissue.

The powerful Chaos Wizard was instantly killed by Valerie's swift and powerful strike, a strike that transcended mortal comprehension and was a perfect blend of human and machine!

With the spellcaster's complete death, the two vampires that were fighting Astartes and Jack the Iron Guard let out a final roar filled with resentment and bitterness, as if from the abyss.

Their bodies began to flicker and twist violently, becoming unstable, like holographic images with poor signals, rapidly switching between reality and illusion.

Finally, with a few muffled thunderous explosions, they exploded into two rapidly expanding and dissipating clouds of sulfurous smoke, leaving only a nauseating odor as they returned to the chaotic realm where they were born.

An eerie silence suddenly fell over the preprocessing area.

Only heavy breathing, sporadic crackling sounds from short-circuiting equipment, and the Inquisitor's unconscious groans remained. The psionic barrier vanished, and the metal pipes that had bound Dorio returned to deathly silence.

Mann and the others stared at the remains of the Chaos Wizard, which had been cleanly cleaved in two, and then at the Iron Guard, which stood as firm as a rock as it slowly sheathed its blade, the light of the disintegration field on its battle sword gradually fading. Their hearts were filled with indescribable shock.

Valerie's earth-shattering attack not only eliminated a terrifying enemy capable of wiping out the entire squad, but also demonstrated to them in an incredibly profound way the near-miraculous level of combat that could be achieved by combining deep neural connections with the Sianwistan system.

This is no longer simple force, but a killing art born from the fusion of technology and will.

(End of this chapter)