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Bab 15: Chapter 15: in Egypt w/ Sprite, 3600 BCE (2)

[Lower Egypt, 3600 BCE]

We flew around modern day Memphis, and we saw a relatively developing settlement, it has farmlands, fields that livestock can graze in, and a bustling 'town'.

"This time, we shouldn't land." Sprite surprisingly said.

"What? Why?" Thena questioned.

"We made a mistake during the first encounter." Sprite said. "They're a bit hostile and fearful of us."

"What did you do?" I questioned.

"Nothing." She said, "It's just that they attacked us first for some reason, probably because they saw Ikaris fly..."

"What about the deviants here?"

"We hunted them of course..." Sprite answered. "It's just that we need to be a bit silent about it."

"Any information on the culture?"

"Yeah, some of them decided to make the deviants gods." Sprite said. "Because they hope that if they worship them, the deviants wouldn't attack them."

"That's just sad..." I murmured. "But are the deviants all dead now?"

"It should be."

"Let's see." I then summoned Camazotz, and commanded it to search for deviants, it used its echolocation ability, and flew away from us.

"Follow Camazotz." I told the winged deviant that we're riding.

"Where are we going?" Sprite asked, frowning while looking at me.

"Looks like there's still some deviants left, are you sure Phastos was right about the numbers?"

"I mean, he said he's 70 % sure..."

"Then you got those 30%"

We flew away from Memphis, following the Camazotz.

"Looks like it's those invisible Deviants." Thena commented as we arrived at the scene, looking at the barely visible deviants. "I'll go."

"You sure?" I asked.

She nodded, and she gracefully jumped from the winged deviant, conjuring her usual halberd.

She then landed in the middle of the herd, and the invisible deviants tried to attack her using their stingers, but she quickly used her shield to protect herself, blocking the sharp needles of the deviants.

She then thrust her halberd to the nearest deviant, revealing and killing it instantly. She threw the corpse to the herd, and revealed all of them.

There were around six of them, including the ones who's dead.

She summoned her shield and halberd, making a stance in front of the deviants.

The deviants ran towards her, and used their stingers to attack her.

Once the stingers are close, she uses her shield to push the stingers to the ground, nailing it to it, and using her halberd, she cuts all of them, making the deviants stingerless.

She then changed her weapons into a great axe, and she jumped to one of the deviants and slammed the axe to it, splitting them in half.

At this point, she was soaking in deviant blood, and her face had a wide smile. Sprite was looking at the fight rather excitedly, as she forgot how Thena fought.

There were four of them left, four stingerless deviant.

Because they don't have their stingers anymore, they tried to pounce Thena using their sharp fangs, but that didn't work either…

Thena summoned a spear in her left hand, and once a deviant tried to pounce her, she impaled the deviant using her spear, instantly killing it.

As soon as the other deviants saw this, they became afraid, and they turned away from Thena, running for their lives.

"Let me get that." I said, I jumped from the winged deviant, and before I landed, I summoned Ammit, landing on top of it's head. I commanded Ammit to eat one of the corpses, and it did, feeling its stomach full of cosmic energy.

I told Ammit to shoot it to the remaining deviants, and a wave of golden energy burst from Ammit's mouth to the location of the running deviants, making a hole on their stomachs.

"What was that!" Sprite exclaimed. "I don't remember you having that kind of power..."

I just smirked. "I'm just built differently." I said, making her snort.

"Is that all?" Thena questioned as she cleaned herself.

I looked towards Camazotz, and saw that it didn't move anymore. "Yep, that's all, nice work."

I patted her back, and she smiled at me, I then jumped towards the winged deviant again, and Thena followed me of course.

"Where are we going next?" I asked.

"Nothing, it's the end of the trip," said Sprite.

I hummed. "Then let's go back."

We then flew towards the direction of the Domo, finishing the trip.

---

On the way towards the Domo, Sprite was looking at me and Thena strangely.

"What?" I questioned.

"Are you two a thing?" she questioned, making me and Thena looked at each other.

A couple of seconds later, I burst out laughed in front of Sprite, while Thena just chuckled.

"Me and her? No no no no no." I shook my head laughing. "I'd die of strangulation before I could get into her pants."

"Look at him." Thena continued while chuckling, she's grabbing my thin arms, showing it to Sprite. "He's so thin and frail, it's just sad..."

"Wait what?" Sprite was confused. "I thought you two were a thing..."

"No." We shook our heads in unison. "There's no way."

"Huh… then you like someone else?" she questioned us.

"No one in particular at the moment..." We both answered. "Why?"

"Nothing." she murmured. "I just want to ask how it feels to like someone..."

"Well, you ask the wrong group of people." I chuckled. "Is this about Ikaris?"

"What?" Sprite was surprised. "What does Ikaris have to do with this?"

"No reason." I shrugged, Thena also was looking at me curiously. "I thought you have a crush on Ikaris."

"A crush?" Sprite asked again, her 'annoying' personality is broken right now, replaced by a slightly shy one.

"What I mean is that you like him romantically..." I murmured.

"I- I'm not..." she mumbled, but soon she didn't say anything, thinking thoughtfully, she was quiet for the rest of the ride, making me and Thena shrug.

---

Once we've arrived at the Domo, Sprite left us without saying anything, still in her thoughtful look, whilst me and Thena went to Ajak, to report our discovery.

"There's still deviants?" She questioned. "Phastos, have you made a mistake?"

"Like I said, I'm 70% sure." Phastos said. "That means that we got the 30% chance."

"Then we need to check again." Ajak frowned. "Can you do it Pluto?"

"Look, I'd rather rest right now." I said, surprising her. "I've been on a journey for almost a millenia, so I'd rather just stay put and rest, what about you Thena?"

"I'll go." She said, "Have a good rest then."

I hummed, and I walked to my room that I haven't slept in in almost a millenia, I rest on the bed, and closed my eyes… not that we need sleep.


Bab 16: Chapter 16: A United Egypt, 3150 BCE (1)

[Near the Nile, 3150 BCE]

At the side of the River Nile, two opposing forces stand against each other, both of them have around one thousand men each, all holding bronze weapons, with a variety of armors.

Two of the forces were led by a commander, with their armors decorated with jewelry; those two commanders were the two kings of Upper and Lower Egypt.

The Upper Egypt king, Narmer, holding his bronze mace, was in front of his army, standing majestically.

Meanwhile, two Eternals were watching the battle, two of them wore black robes, while the other one was taller than the other. The taller one is me of course, while the shorter one is Druig.

"It's sad to see this… conflict… brewing between the two sides." Druig said to me. "And the saddest thing is… I can stop this right now… yet I can't because of the rule..."

"It's a stupid rule." I said. "We can interfere with their technological advancements, but can't interfere with their conflicts? That's just bullshit."

"Should we interfere now?" asked Druig as he saw that the two forces are preparing to charge at each other.

"Ajak would be pissed."

"She won't know."

"Not if Ikaris is watching us from afar." I pointed at the sky, and saw that Ikaris is watching us rather intently, hidden among the clouds. "And besides… Even though I don't like the 'no interference' rule, I agree that we shouldn't interfere in this conflict."

Druig frowned. "Why?"

"If one side won this, the entire area would be united, and hopefully, establishing a peaceful era after this..."

"But it's not guaranteed." refuted Druig.

I sighed. "Druig, do you have any attachments towards humans?"

"We all do." said Druig. "We lived among them."

"Then are you prepared to stop a short-term war and prevent a possible long term peace?"

"The keyword being 'possible'.' said Druig.

"But if this land isn't united, a lot of threats will bloom as time goes on." I explained. "Empires outside the area will rise, bringing new technologies, and they're here, still split with different identities, and don't have a sense of brotherhood towards each other, even though they used the same river to sustain themselves, and if they're weak, they can't protect themselves, and it will lead into more death and destruction."

Druig went silent after that.

He then sighed. "This is just torture..."

"The fight hasn't even started yet."

"Exactly. I know I can prevent it, but I can't because of some stupid rule..."

"You'll get your chances soon enough."

I then saw that Narmer finally pointed his bronze mace at the opposite army, and his army charged at them with full ferocity.

"And… it has begun..." I murmured, watching the two forces collide against one another, resulting in massive casualties.

Aside from the bronze weapons, from the back, I also saw slingers throwing rocks at the other force, harassing the flank.

I then looked beside me, and saw that Druig stared at the battlefield solemnly, his eyes looked empty, and he was clenching his fist.

"If you're incapable of watching this, you should go back." I suggested.

"No, I'll watch."

"Suit yourself." I shrugged.

Druig then sat down on the cliff we're standing on. "We guide them for all these years… just for them to fight one another..."

"If you think like that, then your views are pretty narrow." I also sat beside him.

"What do you mean?" he frowned. "It is the case isn't it?"

"While our guidance leads to this." I pointed at the increasingly tense battlefield. "Our guidance also led to that." I pointed at the bountiful farmland besides the Nile. "Just look at the bright side Druig, we gave them a chance to develop, and we also gave them a choice to do what they want, unlike us."

"What do you mean 'unlike us'?" he questioned, frowning.

"We are eternals." I said. "We may be sentient, but our job is one thing… to kill deviants, and study them… that's it… we aren't allowed to do anything else…."

"But we're from Olympia, we live there." Druig questioned me.

I just smiled, and didn't say anything again.

Druig also didn't say anything for some reason, so that's good. But then, he asked. "You think that if we interfere, we can make a peaceful world?"

I chuckled. "Sure, if you want to sacrifice their freedom of choice, then we can."

Druig frowned. "Is that such a bad trade off?"

"The entire point of living is to make choices." I said. "If we take that away from them, what's the point of living?"

As I said that, we watch as the two forces continue to kill each other. Sword against sword, dagger against dagger, mace against mace, shield against shield. The sand below them slowly but surely started to turn red, painting the battlefield.

"I know that man." said Druig, pointing at a soldier on the Upper Egypt side, he was fighting furiously under the command of Narmer. "He just had a child two weeks ago."

"Really? You remember every single person you've encountered?" I questioned.

"Not everyone," he murmured. "Me and Makkari used to spend our time near his home, he usually gave us some bread and beer."

Then, we saw him getting decapitated by his enemy.

"And now he's dead." I stated. "That makes the world have another widow, and another fatherless child..."

Druig frowned, and his palm is clenching tightly. "This war better be worth it..."

I just hummed at his words, then, I looked at Ikaris, who was still staring at us intently.

I waved my hand to him, signalling him to come.

He saw me do that, and he slowly hovered towards us, and finally landed beside us.

"You two should go back." He said. "We were instructed not to-"

"Interfere with human conflicts, yes, we know Ikaris, we're just watching." I cut him off.

He frowned because of me cutting him off.

"Just sit down Ikaris." I patted a space beside me. "Don't worry, we won't act."

Ikaris was reluctant, but eventually, he gave in. He sat beside me, watching as the humans mercilessly slaughtered each other.

"What do you think, Ikaris?" I asked the man. "Do you think it's worth it? Leaving them like this?"

"I trust Arishem's plan," he said. "As we all should." Ah… Classic Ikaris.

"Oh, I trust him alright." Druig hummed. "It's just sad to see that our guidance leads to this."

"Maybe it's intentional." Ikaris said. "This conflict may lead to a longer peace."

"That's what I said." I chuckled. "But seriously though, what do you think of this? Personally."

He stared at me, before saying. "I've got no comment on that… Like you, I've never been really too attached to them, I'm just doing my part of the mission, kill the deviants."

"But I saw you trying to spend more time with Humans." I chuckled. "To try to get close to Sersi."

He just hummed at my words, and didn't say anything again.

"If we decided to interfere right now." Druig suddenly said as the sky slowly turned orange. "Would you attack us Ikaris?"

"If I have to," he nodded. "Then I will."

"You'll attack your family in order to do a task?" I questioned.

Now he was reluctant. "I-"

Before he could answer it, I patted him in the back. "Come on, it's over, Narmer won.." I stood up from the cliff, and took a look at the battlefield one last time, where Narmer was grabbing the other King's hair, preparing to pummel the other king's head using his bronze mace.


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