Chapter 145: Attack
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Neferteri Akasia, the Empress of the Empire of the Sun, glanced at the far-away ruins of her ancient Empire. In this world, the Ancient Egyptians never discovered the steam engine or were able to industrialize thousands of years before Christ. They were never able to reach the technological advancements that have allowed the Empire of the Sun to reach so far.
The incredible technology they developed over thousands of years of development and their now-expanding Space Age, where they had already begun terraforming fitting planets, and leaving bases, spreading their Nation and aiming to transform it into an intergalactic Empire.
It was all looking good. Having already been five hundred years since the Space Age finally began with the colonization of Mars, the Empire of the Sun was rapidly expanding, creating new colonies and extracting more resources from the nearby planets of the Solar System.
Neferteri was the Empress of all of that; she was one of the many concubines of the Emperor, but after she played her cards well, poisoning his beloved and quickly making him rely on her for comfort, she slowly and stealthily reached the throne for herself.
Everything was going wonderful, in fact! That woman was finally dead. Ra, the mighty Mechanical God, was hers to pilot, and she had even managed to give her son Anubis, making him the crown prince of the Empire, a recognized pilot and fighter who had already conquered one planet whose civilization was quickly made to submit against the Egyptians least they wanted to perish.
With the Solar System fully colonized and so were the other ten solar systems of their own, they expanded further, battling any alien that tried to resist them. Their powerful Mechanical Gods easily capable of defeating any technology they brought with them.
Although in other fictional tales, humans would have to go against aliens with tremendously advanced technology, this was the opposite. Humans had ended up becoming the actual apex of the universe; their machinery, ever evolving using new materials, metals, and energy sources from different planets, became unstopable.
Their technology had even managed to tap into what composed the universe itself, its primordial elements, and the manipulation of such elements through particle acceleration and other technologies that ultimately derived from that.
The Mechanical Gods were born back then, in the Golden Age of Technological Improvement. Powerful machines imbued with ancient technology, now almost indecipherable, capable of controlling the elements, became indestructible beings that could only be defeated by another.
The power to control Dark Matter.
The ability to generate and manipulate Plasma from the Stars.
The capacity of twisting the Fabric of Space itself.
And there were many more powers unique to each Mechanical God, with them, they were unable to lose, becoming conquerors that could do it all.
And now she possessed one of such Gods, Ra himself, and even Anubis!
Yet…
At the end, things became worse. Her own mercy for letting that girl live ended up screwing everything over. Merneith grabbed Ra and escaped, and with that, Neferteri was left utterly speechless.
The Emperor scolded her for having lost Ra, and she quickly mobilized all her forces to find Ra and kill that girl, faking it as some accident once she got back with the Mechanical God.
There wasn’t going to be any more mercy for her; she was going to ruthlessly and mercilessly kill that young woman, whom she thought she should have killed when she was a child instead, so she could get her robot back and continue her path to supremacy.
However, things didn’t go as she hoped, even when she mobilized five whole Pyramids to find Merneith, one piloted by her son and the other three piloted by close allies she could trust.
No, things didn’t end there.
Gray portals opened out of nowhere, and before she could do anything to either investigate them or report them, she and her entire fleet were sucked by them and sent elsewhere.
To this mockery of a parallel world.
“It has already been proven that this world has all the same appearance, tectonic plates, continents, moon, sun, and solar system as our own…” she sighed, looking into the skies through her flying pyramid. “Is this some sort of mockery? To be sent to another world where our great empire fell? Now what remains aren’t even true Egyptians but… this mixed bag of lesser ones. How shameful… If it were up to me, I would destroy this entire place. But I am… a merciful Empress.”
“Yes, empress, you are as merciful as you are beautiful.”
“Nobody is as merciful as our empress…”
“Indeed, it would be much better to conquer this place and bring these monkeys to true civilization.”
The beautiful Empress, with cascading black hair, dark brown skin, sharp golden eyes, and make-up all over her face that made her look like some sort of Egyptian painting, nodded.
Wearing a long white and gold dress, with her body fully decorated with golden accessories and jewelry, and with a crown in the shape of a snake with red jewels as eyes, she had the clear look of what anybody would think of a “female pharaoh”.
Surrounding her, there were several servants, beautiful women who served her every need and would always sing praises for her, always helping her feel better.
“That’s right! This world... It might be a mockery of our world, but it is trimming resources!” she laughed. “We’ll take over this parallel world once more forces finally arrive, and then we’ll have yet another solar system to conquer and all the same planets again. Our resources and earnings will double! The possibility of parallel worlds opens up the greater possibility of endless growth as well! We would no longer even need to go so far away to gather everything we need; then we could invest in even better technology, spreading our empire at a much faster pace than before. The universe—no, all of the universes could be ours!”
As the Empress imagined this hypothetical future where she would get everything she wanted and ultimately conquer not one but countless universes, she sighed again.
Recalling how her son ended up losing against Merneith brought her great shame, even more when she saw through the video he sent to her in his last moments how she was being assisted by strange aliens from this world.
Not just humans, but other aliens with weird shapes and forms, using strange powers that were only akin to the Espers, people born with powerful Psychic and Supernatural Abilities or Enhanced Soldiers, people artificially enhanced with Strengthening Nanobots.
It could be said that those that carried the Golden Bloodline were like these two combined; they could live for very long, and their supernatural and psychic powers were related to the nanobots they had and developed from birth, which allowed them to pilot the Mechanical Gods.
“My son has failed me, and they took not only his pyramid but his crew and Anubis! Unforgivable…” she groaned. “Hah, well! If they truly love their world, they’ll happily handle me as I asked, right? Unless they want me to wipe out these cities, then I could even move to attack other places as well. It would help clean this entire planet of this filth, so we can begin colonization and material extraction without problems too.”
“Indeed, my empress.”
“That is such a wonderful idea!”
“You’re a genius mastermind.”
“Isn’t that right!” Neferteri smiled pridefully. “Ooohohohoho!”
As she laughed loudly and proudly, she glanced at the city below, Alejandria, one of the most beautiful cities in Egypt, a port city with great history.
In her world, this city didn’t exist; Ancient Egypt expanded rapidly, and any city that would have been born after the Ancient Egyptians’ slow disappearance never happened.
“What a beautiful city, although it lacks gold… and a bit of glitter, and big statues of our gods—what a shame,” she sighed. “It makes me furious that these pagans are praying to these strange, foreign gods... But, oh well! At the very least, I could… Hm?!”
FLASH!
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a bright flash of golden and silver light emerged in front of the pyramid. Neferteri’s eyes widened for a moment, then she squinted as she glanced at the person who suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of her pyramid.
“What? Who’s that? Hey! Enhance the view!”
The screen where she was watching everything quickly was enhanced as the view of a beautiful woman with a tall, slender body, long silvery-white hair, and rainbow eyes appeared.
She was wearing similar garments to the people of Asia. Neferteri recalled how those people dressed; long ago in history, they had put up a very big fight against the expanding Egyptian Empire.
However, right now, they were nothing but yet another assimilated ethnicity; their ancient traditions mostly remained, but they had no countries of their own anymore.
“Hmph, a filthy Asian, I see,” she smiled. “What is she doing there? Acting like a bug-”
“Empress! We’ve detected… t-the same person in the other three pyramids!”
“What?”
Neferteri glanced at the other screens. In what the other three pyramids were filming, the same person, but made of golden and rainbow light, had appeared.
She was looking directly at the pyramid, and then she began moving, all synchronized and, at the same time, pointing her foot against the gigantic, floating hunk of metal.
“What’s this? Is she trying to kick my pyramids? What is this delusional bitch-”
RUMBLE!
“Aahh!”
Neferteri cried in surprise as she suddenly glanced in front of her. The woman that was in front of her was now pushing her pyramid back!
“W-What?! Wait a second, what is she trying to do…?!”
Before Neferteri had the idea to stop her or to try blasting the cities at the very least, it was too late. Bing Xue kicked the pyramid with only a fragment of her true physical prowess.
However, it was more than enough to shake the gigantic pyramid and send it flying into the skies at a tremendous speed.
CRAAASH!
CRAAASH!
CRAAASH!
CRAAASH!
The tremendous kick happened four times in total; all four pyramids were kicked away from the cities they were hovering above, sending them flying hundreds of kilometers away!
“Uuaaaaggghhh!”
Neferteri screamed in horror, and so did every person inside the pyramid as the gigantic floating structure spun in midair. Anything inside of it was quickly lifted upside down, even the internal gravity of the giant spaceship was somehow ruined.
“How did she even…?!”
Neferteri screamed in anger, gritting her teeth as she grabbed tightly onto a large statue of the Egyptian God of the Desert, Set.
BOOOMMM!!!
But before she could try to rationalize what had happened, the four pyramids collapsed on the deserts, surrounded by nothing but sand everywhere.
“T-This is… Hahhh… Aahh!”
Neferteri panicked and screamed as she saw several of her assistants splattered over the floor, torn to shreds from all the commotion or the objects that flew everywhere.
“No… What… How is this possible?!”
The survivors quickly ran to see the Empress as Neferteri stood up, glancing furiously at the woman that had appeared in front of her, which was somehow right in front of her pyramid again.
“W-What happened to the other pyramids?!”
She asked furiously, and her people immediately went to investigate.
“They were all... kicked in the same fashion, Empress!”
“We can’t believe this either; how is this even possible?!”
“She had such power? But how…”
“She only looks like a normal human! Not even Espers or Enhanced Soldiers can go this far!”
Neferteri started biting her nails in frustration, nervousness, and anger, quickly rushing towards her Mechanical God, she knew there was no time.
All her plans were shattered into pieces in an instant, and without the cities close by to take as hostages, the only thing she could do now was confront this woman!
“Set! Come to me!”
RUMBLE!
As she walked into a larger hall, a gigantic Mechanical God stepped in, at least three to four times larger than Anubis or Ra, a giant hulking titan made of golden, black, and red metal.
“OOOOHHHH!!
The massive titan quickly opened its chest as the woman reached there through the floating platforms she summoned and entered.
“Let’s go kill that bitch!”
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