The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Finally, after several failures, the Cat-Catching Squad quickly came up with a new plan: one person to attract its attention, and the other to flank from below and grab it.

Khaেলারo jumped down from the beam, waving the rolling pin and constantly hitting the area where the thing was, and it did seem to attract the opponent. The thief cat showed an extremely strong hostility towards Khaেলারo, even jumping over to scratch his big face with its claws, scaring Khaেলারo into turning around and running away, which gave the others a chance.

The shortest, Dogo, tried to bend down and catch it using cover, but the thief cat suddenly jumped up, flipped over in the air, and then landed on Khaেলারo's head, scratching him with its claws. This caused the Hrud to scream and run around wildly. Its entropy field seemed to have no effect on this cat at all.

"Get! It! Now! Use! All! Your! Strength! On! It!"

The scene became even more comical, with Khaেলারo running frantically and the others chasing madly.

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Along the way, oil pots, bullets, spice boxes, kitchen knives, forks, spoons, and all sorts of things were thrown around, or knocked over.

"A-Khaেলারo! Summon your Bonecrusher!"

With Rozeim's loud reminder, Khaেলারo, who was already running in a panic, immediately summoned his machine.

With a bang, the kitchen wall was smashed open, and the huge rodent-like "mixing robot" rushed in, then sprayed two high-pressure water jets at the thief cat on Khaেলারo's head.

"Ouch!"

Khaেলারo was directly blasted away dozens of meters, while the cat had already jumped onto the Bonecrusher's head. It seemed to hate this semi-mechanical creature very much as well, scratching the Bonecrusher's head non-stop, causing it to ram around madly.

Then, it knocked off the psychic limiter, and then, the weapon on its arm lit up.

"Crap!"

Seeing this, Rozeim quickly lay down on the ground.

Boom—

"Hmm?"

Soর্śayan, who had been busy for several days and finally had a moment to rest, opened his eyes on the bed and turned to look out the window.

"Sounds like something's going on."

Veronica, lying on his naked, muscular chest, looking tired, moved her smooth shoulders, barely exposed from under the blanket, and murmured lazily:

"Probably Garfield. He likes to be active at night."

Garfield was the "pet" that the savage Aeldari tribe had offered to Veronica. It was actually a Brainwyrm Cat, a common creature in Aeldari society. Although it had the word 'cat' in its name, it was completely different from the feline animals known to humans.

Brainwyrm Cats only resembled felines in appearance, with thick, fluffy fur and bright eyes, and could generally grow up to a meter long. They usually did not possess true intelligence, but they had an amazing ability to create a resonance, or rather, a psychic link, with other psychic beings—like true friendship.

This psychic link was very beneficial to the animal's owner. When a Brainwyrm Cat was close to its owner, the owner's thinking and reaction speed would be significantly improved.

In Aeldari society, they were usually considered family members rather than pets, and they resembled their owners in temperament and habits. Soর্śayan didn't know if there was such a thing in human society, but considering humanity's attitude towards psykers, there probably wouldn't be many.

However, this Brainwyrm Cat that was offered as tribute was a bit special. It was called—a Royal Breed.

The origin of Brainwyrm Cats could not even be traced back to Aeldari history. Some Aeldari scholars believed that they might even be direct creations of the Old Ones, possessing highly developed intelligence and language, as well as a long lifespan, but their lazy and extremely self-centered nature prevented them from creating substantial civilizations and societies. Eventually, they became a semi-parasitic species dependent on other psychic races, which led to a certain degree of degradation in their intelligence.

And the Royal Breed represented the Brainwyrm Cats whose intelligence had not degraded. It could also be said that they were Brainwyrm Cats that had retained the original form of the Old Ones' creation without undergoing natural evolution.

They largely retained their intelligence and language, but still did not form societies, only existing in small groups scattered throughout the galaxy.

However, after long years, the number of Royal Breed Brainwyrm Cats had become extremely rare. After Veronica obtained this one, she established a psychic link with it and learned that it was a 30,000-year-old Royal Breed (according to Veronica, the maximum lifespan of a Royal Breed could reach about 100,000 years). Even the reason why that tribe offered it as tribute was because it had actively requested it, because it was tired of those "bland junk foods," and it also had its own name, a name it had given itself, called Garfield the Star Eater.

The reason why Garfield chose to come to the Royal Court was also related to its origins. It used to be an "Imperial Cat" of the Aeldari Royal Court—this was not a pet title, but an actual official position, one of the twenty-eight Inner Court Ministers of the Eternal Royal Court, and also the origin of the title "Royal Breed."

The role of the Imperial Cat was to accompany the Eternal Queen and guard against the intrusion of "vermin." This required them to have intelligence and language skills, so the Imperial Cats were all Royal Breed Brainwyrm Cats. However, as the last Imperial Cat, Garfield's life was not leisurely. At that time, the Eternal Royal Court was already dark and chaotic, and "vermin" were rampant, even it could do nothing about it. After the last owner, an Eternal Queen who was still a little girl, was poisoned, Garfield decisively fled the Royal Court, entered a refugee ark, and after several twists and turns, came to its Maiden World and lived with a group of "barbarians." (Soর্śayan believed that it was simply to escape punishment for dereliction of duty.)

In addition to intelligence, language skills, and psychic powers, the most powerful ability of the Royal Breed Imperial Cat was a power similar to "telepathy." Although this could not really allow it to read the minds of other creatures, it could "smell" the emotional energy and "malice" of creatures, and this was a power that could not be concealed by any means, and it was also the most mysterious part of the Royal Breed Imperial Cat. However, it was also because of this ability that Royal Breed Imperial Cats often became the first victims of palace intrigues, because without solving them, any conspiracy could be exposed in an instant. Garfield claimed that it had dodged 193,624 assassinations. (Soর্śayan expressed doubt about this.)

Garfield himself claimed that he came to the Royal Court to protect the new Queen, but Soর্śayan seriously suspected that he was just trying to freeload, because this Brainwyrm Cat looked very gluttonous and lazy, and his language was very cunning, but also had a certain sense of humor, at least he often made Veronica laugh.

Veronica loved her Imperial Cat very much. If it wasn't so fat, she would probably hug it often, and even brought it to the monastery fortress. Soর্śayan saw that it showed respect to him, and since Veronica really liked it, he agreed to it.