Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 513 Soul Reaper

The door opened and a petite girl stood outside.

The girl wore a long black dress that reached the ground. From the waist to the mid-hem of the dress, a slender silver chain hung, with several dark blue gemstones evenly suspended from the ends, like a circle of sepals enveloping a bud. The upper part of the dress also tightly enveloped the girl, leaving no skin exposed. Even her hands were covered in black silk gloves.

Over her long skirt, the girl wore a pelisse that reached her back, embroidered with delicate white patterns, visually balancing the long skirt. As for her hat, she chose a wide-brimmed women's hat, with a translucent black veil covering half of her face, creating a solemn and dignified look.

Even the black falcon on her shoulder was decorated, with black down attached to the mechanical feathers.

After seeing the girl appear, the rotten wood on the recliner finally reacted violently. Her eyelids, which were almost stuck together, opened as wide as possible, her chest heaved violently, and a snoring sound came from her throat as if it was blocked by mucus.

The girl calmly walked over to her, ignoring the boy and Marquez who had been paused, and gently held her down, saying, "If you continue trying to make sounds with your vocal cords, you'll risk suffocation."

After hearing this, the person on the recliner quieted down, but still stared eagerly at the girl who suddenly appeared.

The girl didn't have any special expression, but the black mechanical beetle still crawled out from her sleeve, crawled all the way to the head of the person on the recliner, and then extended the probe and pierced into the other person's forehead.

"This device can read your brain waves and translate what you want to say," said the girl.

"Oh—you look so pretty in this."

This was the first thing the man on the recliner said after being able to make a sound.

"You said today is your funeral. I chose this image based on human culture. Thank you for your compliment." The girl responded to the compliment.

"So cute, I want to pinch your face..." The mechanical beetle that reads brain waves spoke again.

Then the girl stared at the mechanical beetle with her uncovered eyes, and the green light flickered slightly, then went out.

Girl: "I've made some improvements to this reading device. It will now filter out some shallow brain waves, so we can have a conversation."

"Huh..." After filtering out the so-called "inner monologue," the person on the recliner first let out a long sigh of relief, then said, "Shit! I'm dying of suffocation not being able to speak."

Then she added, "Well, my back is a little itchy, can you scratch it for me?"

The girl didn't answer, but assigned another mechanical beetle to accurately find the area mentioned by the other party based on the reading of brain activity and began to tickle.

While sending out the mechanical beetle to tickle the other party, the girl bent down and placed a dormant, most unique mechanical holy beetle on the other party's heart.

"I brought this because of my promise to you." After placing the dormant Mechanical Holy Scarab, the girl straightened her back again, her hands folded delicately and solemnly in front of her abdomen. "Soul Reaper, when you use it, it will completely annihilate your soul."

"Thanks." said the person on the recliner.

"I hope you've made this decision after careful consideration. I must warn you that the disappearance of the soul is a more pure death than death itself. Even if I were to turn back time, I could only reshape your body and not resurrect you."

The man on the recliner was silent for a moment before saying, "Remove his restraints."

Girl: "Which one are you talking about?"

The person on the recliner: "The child who is not kissing my hand."

Girl: "Do you think it's necessary to include him in our conversation?"

The man on the recliner: "He is the successor I chose, and the one who will work with you in the future. He needs to know more."

Without any action, just a thought, the boy's restrictions were lifted, allowing him to move in this stilled space and time.

After the restrictions were lifted, the boy's expression was a little dazed at first, but he soon realized something, and then looked sharply at the girl who suddenly appeared. However, when he really saw who the person was, he became restrained and a little flustered.

In front of Marquez, the boy was gentle and calm, as if he was in control of everything, but in front of this girl, he lost his status as a strong man.

Finally, the young man bowed slightly to the girl, neither servile nor arrogant, and said:

"Sir Haivian."

"Connor," Hildra read out the boy's name. "Next, don't talk. Listen carefully and think."

Connor carried out Hildra's order in silence.

Hildras: "Let's continue. Where were we just now?"

Hai Wei'an: "I tell you, use the Soul Annihilator I gave you with caution."

"I've already thought this through when I asked you for this," Hildra said. "This universe is a mess, the empire is a mess, and the leader of this awful empire is an incorrigible bastard. It's despairing just thinking about it."

"Your accusations against the Lord of Humanity are not objective," Hai Wei'an said. "Although your efforts did not achieve the desired results, according to our calculations, it is far better than doing nothing."

"Besides, you're still alive, and many people are still alive." Hevian bent down, getting closer to the person on the recliner. She looked into Hildra's eyes and said, "There's still hope."

"If the empire really rises, it will be a threat to you. Why do you do things that are not in your own interests?" There was some teasing and ridicule in Hildra's tone.

"The Empire is not a threat," Hevian said. "When the Mechanical Eternals are fully revived, erasing the Empire will be as easy as wiping a stain off a table. Right now, the Empire's existence can slow the universe's utter decline until we fully recover. At this stage, we're happy to see humans, not other races, become the dominant species in the galaxy. Humanity should welcome our resurrection, because we have the power to resolve the root causes of this cosmic chaos, and you don't, unless you're willing to perish forever for the sake of the so-called galactic hegemony."

"Alright, alright, you win," Hildra said helplessly. "I know everything you said. I don't mean to blame that guy. Calling him a jerk is just an objective description. He is indeed a jerk. This evaluation does not involve his achievements or faults. If you have been with him, you will also think he is a jerk. He is completely unlikable. He tried his best, although he made many mistakes. But he did try his best, but he did make many mistakes."

Then Hildra sighed and said with some regret, "Besides, hope... ah, the hope that you can see but never know how far it is is the most torturous. If it weren't for this hope, I wouldn't have persisted until now."

"And now that I've done what I can, I can finally take a long vacation."

"If you simply want to free yourself from these responsibilities, there are many ways." Hai Wei'an still calmly gave suggestions: "For example, you can live in my tomb world. My library contains many secret books about humanity. You can learn this knowledge safely. My black stone device can suppress your psychic power and make you an ordinary person."

"Or, I can freeze you and wake you up every hundred years. It's up to you to decide whether to continue hibernation."

"I appreciate your kindness, but I'm sorry, my decision remains unchanged."