Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

"Whether he's lying is one thing, whether you can leave is another." Arabelle extinguished the match, threw it to the ground, and stepped on it.

"You attacked me last time and took my favorite folding knife. This time, you have to leave your life behind."

"Then it depends on your ability." Adeline flicked the whip, and the whip that had tied Howard up like a dumpling was instantly loosened and shortened to the length of a normal whip. Then Adeline held the whip in her hand and released a wave of psychic shock as usual.

Arabelle saw the pre-swing of Adeline's attack and raised her manipulator to block it. The manipulator's shield opened, blocking the psychic attack with a mere flicker. While blocking the psychic attack, Arabelle threw a grenade at Adeline.

Adeline pointed at the grenade, and the grenade's speed was instantly reset to zero and fixed in the air. Then Adeline slowly clenched her palm, and the grenade exploded directly in the air.

"puff!"

There was a dull thud, and the grenade exploded, releasing not heat, shock waves or fragments, but dust and ashes.

Through the cover of dust, Arabelle quickly approached Adeline and drew her melee weapon - a butterfly knife - and stabbed Adeline's throat.

Adeline wanted to use her psychic power to attack Arabelle, but she was surprised to find that her psychic power had lost its effect in the dust, and Arabelle's butterfly knife was already close at hand.

She had no choice but to raise her head to avoid it. Arabel's butterfly knife cut a gash on her face, and then Adeline rolled backwards, trying to distance herself from Arabel.

But Arabelle knew that Adeline's whip was a long weapon and needed a certain distance to exert its power, so she followed closely and prevented Adeline from pulling away.

After being untied, Howard hid at the corner of the alley and stuck his head out to watch the two people fighting. He didn't want to run because he knew that if Arabelle won, he wouldn't have to run, and if Adeline won, he wouldn't be able to escape either.

Soon the dust from the grenade explosion completely covered the area where the two men were fighting. Adeline kept cutting the dust apart while swinging her whip, but the dust immediately stuck together again like cut water.

Through the blurry silhouette, Howard saw Adeline's graceful movements, like a dance, as if she were performing on stage rather than fighting. Arabelle's combat was characterized by efficiency. Unlike Adeline, she didn't resort to useless movements for visual effect. Whether attacking or dodging, she sought to achieve the most effective results with the most limited movements, even withstanding insignificant attacks.

Under Arabel's almost injury-for-injury attack, Adeline could only retreat step by step.

But then a wet, gusty wind blew up the street—the factory was spewing exhaust fumes again—and the dense dust was blown away. Seizing this opportunity, Adeline swung her whip and wrapped it around Arabelle's right hand, which held the butterfly knife.

Arabelle immediately retaliated. Her mechanical left hand immediately grabbed the whip and pulled it towards herself. Adeline was pulled towards Arabelle, and Arabelle raised her leg and kicked Adeline in the face.

Adeline also raised her leg to meet the attack. The Eldar's body was more flexible than that of a human. If a normal human faced Arabelle's side kick at such a close distance, he would either take it head-on or drop his weapon and run away, because the remaining space was not enough to support his body to meet the attack with an equal high leg kick, but Adeline was able to do it.

Arabelle and Adeline's side kicks collided, and both of them were knocked away by the reaction force at the same time, but Adeline was knocked away farther because Arabelle took a step to accelerate before the side kick.

Arabelle fell to the ground and chose to roll backwards to relieve the force, while Adeline regained her balance by touching the ground like a dragonfly.

The collision just now caused both of their weapons to fall out of their hands at the same time, and the distance between them also widened.

Now that the dust that had caused Adeline's psychic power to become ineffective had dissipated, Adeline raised her right hand, and her psychic power gathered. A dazzling ball of light formed in the palm of her hand, and it was trembling violently as if it was extremely unstable.

Arabelle pulled out the large-caliber revolver from behind and pointed it at Adeline.

"This is loaded with anti-psychic bullets. Why don't you try to move it?"

For those who can use psychic powers, ordinary bullets are no longer a threat. They can stop bullets with a raise of their hands, and powerful psychics can even drag a planet.

However, in order to restrain this kind of psychic, humans have developed anti-psychic bullets. Anti-psychic bullets generally have two ingredients, one is black stone, and the other is the ashes of the Untouchables.

The Untouchables possessed anti-psychic properties during their lifetime, and their cremated ashes also possess this effect. Imperial technicians used special methods to coat the ashes of the Untouchables on the surface of bullets, thus isolating them from the effects of psychic energy.

Just like the origin bullets in Fate that specifically kill magicians, psychics are not afraid of bullets not because their speed or defense can allow them to dodge or withstand bullets. They are just glass cannons with their own shields, and anti-psychic bullets are specifically used to break through this shield.

Howard guessed that the grenade that exploded with dust just now was filled with the same thing, but the dust should not be entirely the ashes of the untouchables. It should be just a small amount of ashes evenly mixed in a special powder, so that the ashes can cover a larger space more stably after being released.

After hearing Arabelle's words, the light of the ball of light in Adeline's hand dimmed a little, but it was still in a state that could be activated at any time, and Arabelle did not put down her gun.

Arabelle had slashed several gashes across Adeline's form-fitting combat uniform. The initial cut on her face was bleeding profusely, and the blood dried on her face, leaving a tangled pattern like some ancient, bloody totem. Arabelle had also severed her hair cord, leaving her long, silvery-white hair cascading to her heels. Fortunately, Arabelle didn't pull her hair like other women do, otherwise, with that much hair, it would have been a relief that Arabelle hadn't cut it all off.

But Arabelle's condition was even worse. She had withstood several attacks from Adeline, and some of her wounds were now festering. What was worse was that when the weapon slipped out of her hand, Adeline's whip had torn off Arabelle's little finger and ring finger on her right hand. Now the wound on her hand was dripping with blood.

This is the damage inflicted in pure hand-to-hand combat. If it weren't for the anti-psychic dust, three Arabels would probably not be enough to defeat Adeline.

But it is not shameful to be unable to beat Adeline. Adeline is an Eldar after all. Nowadays, any Eldar who dares to leave the Eldar Ark or the Eldar gathering place and act alone is an extremely difficult character. Although Adeline seems to be about the same age as Arabelle Howard, her actual age may be ten times older than Howard and Arabelle combined.