In the past, performing such a complex Primaris enhancement surgery with Cawl's slaughterhouse-like brutality—
Even the toughest Space Marines would have seen their mortality rate soar to terrifying levels.
It would have been practically tantamount to murder.
But today, Cawl held a trump card.
"Loading: Sacred Genetic Blueprint—Alpha.
Activating: 'Guilliman's Gift.'"
Cawl's muttering was exceptionally clear amid the mechanical hum.
A particularly slender mechanical arm, tipped with a precision injector, reached into a cryogenic storage canister reverently held by a Chaos Servitor.
It extracted a "seed" that radiated a soft golden glow, with the springy texture of premium jelly yet a faint sense of metallic toughness.
This was the brand-new Holy Gene-seed created by Guilliman after fusing his own essence with Vitruum Smart Atoms.
Within it was a highly active cluster of self-programming Smart Atoms.
Without hesitation, Cawl used a mechanical arm to dig out the veteran's old, slightly dim Gene-seed, which had already fulfilled its purpose.
He then precisely "slapped" the golden new seed into the original Gene-seed incubation chamber.
The instant the new seed touched flesh and blood—an abrupt transformation occurred!
Countless tiny tendrils made of Smart Atoms extended from the golden seed's surface, almost too small for the naked eye to catch.
At astonishing speed, they burrowed into the surrounding nerves, blood vessels, lymphatic tissue, and even the microscopic pores within the bones!
Like a living silver torrent, the Smart Atoms surged madly through the channels formed by those tendrils, flooding every corner of the veteran's body, every cell!
Division!
Proliferation!
Reorganization!
Enhancement!
The body Cawl had torn apart, bloodied and battered, its life force rapidly fading—
Now began healing at a visible rate, as though time itself were reversing!
Severed muscle fibers automatically reconnected and fused, while cuts in the bones closed.
Even his opened skull