Slice Master

Liang Bing was eagerly preparing to activate Apocalypse One's capture beam and pack up these precious "Warp Emotional Energy Aggregates" when a piercing alarm suddenly rang out across the bridge!

[Warning: Spacetime Stasis Field energy consumption is increasing abnormally!]

[Energy interference source detected—deep within the Sea of Souls!]

[Target energy readings surging! Stasis threshold breached!]

[Estimated remaining duration of Stasis Field: 57 seconds... 56 seconds...]

On the tactical display, crimson energy patterns across the bodies of the eight frozen Bloodthirsters surged madly like lava, and their slow struggles were accelerating at a visible rate!

The invisible spacetime shackles binding them were being forcibly torn apart by an immense force from the depths of the Warp, filled with endless rage and murderous intent!

"Tch!" Liang Bing clicked her tongue in annoyance, her brows drawing together.

She could clearly sense a cold, chaotic power with a certain primal purity continuously pouring into those Greater Daemons, as though they had been clad in a layer of blood-red armor from the Warp.

The countdown on the screen was like a death warrant.

"They can actually cheat from the backend!"

Just then, an entirely different yet equally terrifyingly powerful "gaze" pierced through Apocalypse One's layers of shields and landed precisely on Liang Bing.

That gaze was cold and vast, carrying an almost greedy thirst for discovery, as if it wanted to completely analyze her inside and out, overlooking neither a single atom nor a single energy circuit.

It came from the deepest part of the Imperial Palace of Terra, from the Golden Throne.

Liang Bing's lazy eyes instantly sharpened like blades. She abruptly turned toward the Imperial Palace, meeting that gaze across the Void.

There was no hostility in it, only pure, extreme curiosity, as though it were examining some rare treasure.

That only annoyed Liang Bing even more. She had always been the one studying others; nobody got to study her.

"Hmph, what are you looking at? Never seen a beauty before?" she snapped, too lazy to care about the peeping.

Her "specimens" were more important right now!

Watching the Bloodthirsters on the screen grow increasingly violent, nearly breaking free of their restraints, Liang Bing's warrior instincts were thoroughly ignited.

Crushing them with technology was satisfying, sure, but how could that compare to personally chopping down these big red bastards? Especially now that they seemed to have been "enhanced," making them even more worthy of "research"... or chopping!

"My hands are itching! I'll play with you myself!" A flash of excited red gleamed in Liang Bing's eyes.

The next second, blue-violet spatial ripples flashed across the bridge, and Liang Bing vanished instantly.

At Eternal Gate Square, Guilliman, suppressed by the Spacetime Stasis Field, was doing everything he could to resist the invisible restraints, trying to regain his ability to move and seal the final breach in Lion's Gate's defenses.

Suddenly, the space before him rippled like water, and a black-haired woman in a brown trench coat, her figure breathtakingly voluptuous, appeared before him without warning!

The five Hilling Valkyries appeared with her.

Liang Bing looked Guilliman up and down with great interest. Her gaze was as sharp as a scalpel, filled with undisguised curiosity, as though she were about to pin him to an operating table and slice him apart for study.

She even licked her red lips, revealing an excited smile like she had discovered a new continent.

"Whoa! So this is a so-called Primarch? This build... this muscle density... this energy response... this neural conduction speed... tsk, tsk, tsk!" Liang Bing marveled, her eyes growing brighter as her intent to "slice" him practically became tangible.

A chill instantly shot from Guilliman's spine to the top of his head!

This woman's stare was even more horrifying than facing a Chaos God!

He could understand with perfect clarity the naked desire in her eyes for "research material"!

This was absolutely the most terrifying gaze he would never forget for the rest of his life!

Almost instinctively, the instant Liang Bing's suppressive field was lifted from him, Guilliman exploded with all his strength. His blue-and-gold figure shot backward nearly a hundred meters like a cat whose tail had been stepped on!

After putting what he considered a safe distance between them, he held the Emperor's Sword across his body and watched Liang Bing with utmost vigilance.

The smile on Liang Bing's face froze instantly, then turned into incredulous shock before finally becoming blazing fury!

"What the hell!" Liang Bing pointed at Guilliman, who was acting as though he faced a great enemy, her voice rising several octaves in anger. "Why are you running?! Am I that scary?! Huh?! Open your titanium-alloy dog eyes and take a good look! This face! This body! This temperament! The universe's super invincible beauty personally came down to help you fight, and you hid faster than a rabbit?! You're even pointing a sword at me?! Did an axe split your brain open?!"

Her voice echoed clearly across the deathly silent battlefield, brimming with the fury of someone who had been insulted.

Guilliman was stunned by the shouting, and even his handsome face beneath his helmet grew slightly hot.

Thinking about it calmly, she really had suppressed the demon horde that had nearly broken through their defenses the moment she appeared, and she had arrived alongside the Hilling Valkyries.

His reaction... had indeed been a little excessive.

But he would never admit that he had been frightened by that "slicing" gaze.

"...Are you reinforcements from the Hilling Empire?" Guilliman's voice came through his amplifiers, carrying a trace of awkward composure. Yet his body remained tense, and he did not rashly approach. "Thank you for relieving the pressure. But the demon threat has not yet been eliminated, especially those Greater Daemons..."

Liang Bing cut him off irritably and rolled her eyes. "Enough, enough. Look at you, scared out of your wits! Come here! Stand closer! I don't eat people! At least not right now!" She impatiently beckoned him over.

Guilliman hesitated for a moment before finally walking back with steady steps, stopping about ten meters away from Liang Bing.

He still did not look directly into Liang Bing's eyes. His attention remained fixed mainly on the Bloodthirsters, whose struggles were growing increasingly violent.

That "slicing" stare would probably become his new psychological shadow.

Liang Bing found his awkward insistence on keeping his distance rather amusing.

"Listen, big blue," Liang Bing said, her tone returning to its lazy yet unquestionable dominance. With a flick of her wrist, an ornate longsword appeared in her hand from thin air. Holy silver radiance flowed across its entire body, while dangerous spatial ripples danced along its blade—the Angel's Sword.

"Those big red bastards are 'research material' I've set my eyes on! Nobody gets to touch them!"

She casually pointed the tip of her sword at the Bloodthirsters, who were nearly free of their spacetime restraints and roaring loud enough to shake the heavens.

"My hands are itching right now, so I'm going to personally 'chop' them up! Stretch my muscles a little!" Liang Bing's lips curved into a wild, excited smile as frightening energy fluctuations began radiating from her body. A pair of enormous angelic wings formed from pure energy slowly spread behind her, shining with holy light and stirring the frozen air.

"If anyone dares steal my 'monsters'..."

Her gaze slowly swept over Guilliman's face with naked threat before finally settling on the Emperor's Sword in his hand. Her red lips parted, and the words she spoke made even Guilliman's eyelids twitch:

"...then I'll just have to reluctantly use him to vent my anger!"

Before her words had even faded, Liang Bing had already transformed into a streak of light that tore through frozen spacetime, carrying berserk energy and unmatched battle intent as she crashed toward one of the Bloodthirsters that had just broken free, raised its great axe, and roared in triumph!

The true fury of a queen had descended upon the battlefield!

Her goal was crystal clear—first chop these Greater Daemons until they were half dead, then subdue them and make them the Queen's dogs!

Guilliman watched that beautiful figure charge forward at breakneck speed, then lowered his eyes to the Emperor's Sword in his own hand. The corner of his mouth twitched slightly.

He took a deep breath, suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart, and turned his attention to the other Khorne demons beginning to break free and threaten Lion's Gate.

Fine. At least this "reinforcement" shared the same objective for now, though her methods... were rather unusual.

He raised the Emperor's Sword, and golden flames blazed fiercely once more. "For the Emperor! Purge the demons!" His targets were the ordinary Khorne demon forces that did not qualify as Liang Bing's "research material."

He had a feeling that the coming battle might be even more... chaotic and unpredictable than expected.

The Valkyries scattered in tacit coordination. Their task was clear: ensure that the commander's "academic activities" were not disturbed, while incidentally clearing away the "unqualified samples."