Chapter 152: The Vengeful Old Snake
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Jackes and Aiyana, as exhausted as they were, felt relieved that the giant machine and the insane woman inside of it were cut down to pieces. Mursha had almost died, but through that overwhelming life-or-death experience, she grew even stronger. In a way, this was a trial for her to grow even further. But it even helped Jackes and Aiyana go all-out, making them quickly realize their limits and how to work around them.
“AWOOOOO!”
The Winged Wolf of Hope howled loudly as it looked into the clear blue skies, Mursha’s Aura shaping into a red, white, and black winged wolf with both an angelic and a demonic appearance. This was something new that Mursha had never done before—a combination of Energies, Elements, and even Divinities.
With the power of her Divinity of Hope as its core, she was able to combine the very different powers of the Bloodfang Wolf Berserk Runes and the Spiritual Divinity of the {The Golden Phoenix of the Bright Sun}!
This, coupled with the new refined essence of Ki, Mana, Primal Power, and Spiritual Energy finally helped Mursha unify her powers and reach new heights.
And above all, her own Cultivation also skyrocketed, defeating these enemies granted EXP, as they had been unknowingly assimilated by the System.
The EXP, coupled with Bing Xue’s special Cultivation Formation Tattoo, helped Mursha feel even mightier as her Martial Core refined itself alongside her already powerful physique.
“I feel much stronger now…” she smiled, closing and opening her large and strong palms. “All thanks to her. I owe her so much… I’ll make sure to be a good wife.”
As the orc warrioress was pumped up for more battle, she noticed almost a hundred Divine Machines rushing towards the city, controlled by their mistress machines. The pilots were forced to go berserk on any living being they saw, as she always made them do.
“Dammit, they’re going for Giza?!” Mursha muttered. “Jackes! Aiyana! We have to go stop them!”
“We know!” Jackes quickly drank a potion and recovered. “Aiyana, you too, take one.”
He threw a potion to Aiyana, who quickly drank it and nodded.
“Alright! We have to hurry! We promised Bing Xue no casualties!” Aiyana roared.
The trio rushed across the skies as several more golden portals opened behind them, revealing a dozen of Demons and Belze, alongside Estrella.
“Alright, my little demon folks! We gotta do our best!” said Belze. “Master has told us to divide and conquer, and so we shall do that! {Demonic Shadow}!”
Belze suddenly divided herself as her shadow took her exact same appearance, holding a long spear of materialized darkness.
“Ain’t this a useful little spell? Now go!”
As her Shadow moved and led the other Demons, she quickly went back to the golden portal; however, she stopped for a moment, glancing at the little bright goddess left behind.
“Make sure to save all these humans to make up for all those you’ve killed, little goddess~”
“Tch! Shut up, you demon!”
Estrella tried to ignore Belze’s remarks as her starlight eyes shone brightly above the Divine Machines within her range.
Her Aura surged, growing stronger and more Divine than before. Although she hated to admit it, her power was already growing, almost to the same level as before her death.
Why? Because Bing Xue naturally used her Primordial Venerable Ki to maintain her being summoned, therefore sharing her immense energy reserves with her.
“But fine, if I have to pay for what I did back then, so be it!” she roared, tightly gritting her teeth. “All of you will pay instead! You damn invaders! Die! Die! Dieeee!”
Indeed, both in mind and body, when Estrella was a child, Bing Xue ended up doing well in giving her such a body at the end!
FLAAASH!
Her entire body flashed like a bright sun as her magic circles materialized by the hundreds, summoning countless rays of light.
“{Divine Sunshine Rays}!”
The rays descended from the skies as the berserk Divine Machines attempted to evade them, but the rays followed them like homing missiles.
“Don’t you ever think you can escape from my attacks, little humans!”
With a wicked smile, the Goddess of Light showed her true selfishness and malice as she bombarded the humans from another parallel timeline into smithereens.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The rays pierced through the giant divine machines and vaporized anybody that was inside mercilessly. Mursha, Jackes, and Aiyana, who were taking care of them, were left speechless as the Goddess decided to attack.
And then, the Demons emerged as well, cursing the pilots and their machines, slowing them down, and then tearing them apart by swarming over them by the dozens.
“Gyahaha! Where do you think you’re going?!”
“Open the door, human!”
“Let us taste your delicious soul, Gyahahaha!”
The humans inside the machines screamed in agony as their machines were broken open and their bodies taken out, having their souls extracted by the demons.
“Hahh~ Human souls are a rare treat!” said Belze, looking from afar. “Amazing! Make sure to eat a lot, you guys! Let's feast!"
Her Shadow leaped through the skies, skipping across the clouds and rapidly devouring soul after soul as much as she wanted.
It was an all-you-can-eat buffet!
The Hunter Duo and the Orc Warrioress were left speechless.
Even more so because, aside from them, Bing Xue had quite a few questionable allies.
“I-Is this really ok?” Aiyana muttered. “T-They’re eating their souls…”
“She… She just vaporized the pilots from the inside out?” muttered Jackes. “That’s… a bit extreme.”
“C-Come on now! Those are my wife’s… allies?” muttered Mursha. “She definitely has quite a strange assortment of friends… But those demons helped us back in Elios, so… Um, so it’s fine. I think?”
Mursha was trying to just accept that the wife she had chosen had questionable allies, although they got the job done, and sometimes that’s all that matters in the end.
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83 kilometers from El Cairo, the City of Tanta stood proudly as the capital of Gharbia Governorate. Located in the center of the Nile Delta, halfway between Damietta and Rosetta, the coastal cities of the two main branches of the Nile River.
It was a City well known for its fish and its rather large urban cities. Aside from being a great tourist spot for anybody who wanted to see the Nile River, it was a place where people of all kinds gathered to sell and buy products.
Even after the coming of the Tower and the Gates, this City had barely managed to keep itself afloat thanks to being near the Nile River, providing protection from the monsters that had appeared on the other side.
Although it had become much more lawless after the apocalypse, as of late, it had been slowly restructured and safety had slightly returned as Hunters were constantly recruited and paid to exterminate nearby monsters and keep the place safe, much like many cities in Egypt and other countries across the world.
Humans were relentless; even after suffering so much and being pushed down, they would eventually rise back up to fight and survive; it was within their nature.
Yes, indeed, it was in their natures, just as they were selfish and narcissistic. The humans from a parallel timeline, where Ancient Egypt became the world’s dominant civilization, showcased this trait of humanity very well.
The pyramid that was once floating above Tanta but that was sent flying into the deserts far away, past the Nile River, and into the monster-infested jungles formed from the radiation of Mana from many Gates collapsed into pieces as a giant machine emerged from it.
“Ugh…! Dammit! Just who… WHO ARE YOU?!”
The voice of an angered middle-aged man echoed from inside the large Mechanical God, who had a half-human shape and a half-snake shape, with the head and tail of a snake but the body of a muscular man.
Above the destroyed pyramid floated two wolf sisters, one overflowing with golden thunder and another with emerald winds. There was a black and white aura coming from them as well, further empowering their abilities and elements.
“We’ve come here to take care of you.”
“We won’t let you destroy the city where the humans live!”
“Tch… Hahah! And who do you think you are?!”
With a furious roar, the middle-aged man roared as his massive Mechanical God, perhaps only slightly smaller than Set himself, surged from the rubble made of the pyramid’s debris.
CRASH!
With a furious slamming attack using its enormous and thick snake tail, the Mechanical God hissed at the girls, giving out a loud, ferocious, and metallic sound.
“SHAAAAHH!”
The Mechanical God’s Golden Bloodline Aura surged as the old man piloting it smiled. His appearance was similar to Neheb but much older.
His body didn’t look as burly as it did in his early years, and he was completely bald, but he had a long white beard and clear wrinkles that showed his age.
Despite his appearance, which should give the appearance of someone wise, he was actually a rather cunning man, like a snake or a viper. His sharp eyes glared at the two wolf women while trying to think of a way to get out of this situation.
“Lord Nebmaat! We’re under attack!”
“There’s a strange creature with weird shapes!”
“Are they demons?!”
The voices of his retainers echoed through his Mechanical God’s communicating devises, yet the old Nebmaat ignored them.
“Despite having been destined to become a Pharaoh, I am here stranded on this damned alien planet!” Nebmaat complained. “If only my damned brother hadn’t seen through all my schemes so easily and had a son at such an early age, none of this would have happened! If only… dammit!”
The brother of the old Pharoah of the Empire of the Sun, the uncle of the current Pharaoh, the old Nebmaat, has seen three lineages rise and fall through history. With the death of his brother by his own schemes, he had expected to become the new Pharaoh.
However, his brother’s sons remained, and although he tried many times to make them his allies so they would give their crown privileges to him, or even when he plotted their deaths, he was never able to win a single time.
And it was all because of that man, the current Pharaoh; it was as if he could see through all his schemes, through all his tricks, through his cunning mind, and immediately predict his actions!
“That damn kid… Not only has he completely forgotten of his uncle, but he even sent me on this chase towards his unruly daughter, as if I could ever care about this damn brat!”
Although he was Merneith’s great uncle, the man had never interacted with the girl a single day and couldn’t care less if she died or not.
“I’ll have to just survive on my own then…”
His cunning eyes glared at the wolf girls.
“I’ll tear you to shreds, aliens!” he roared. “Nehebkau! {Venomous Viper Fangs}!”
And then Urbosa and Merkite were surprised as the Mechanical God’s arms turned into long, monstrous snakes, rushing towards them!
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