Chapter 318
318 – [Theatrical Version] Position That Remains Instead of the Main Character
The operation to recapture Cairo began at 2:30, a little earlier than the originally scheduled 3:00 p.M.
After leaving the gravedigger’s family’s safe house on the outskirts of the city, we headed to the Pyramid of Set in the center of Cairo on foot.
Quack! Kwawang!!
Outside the city, Set’s soldiers and Illuminati shamans are in the middle of a fight, and a huge explosion of noise is heard.
I was worried because Set’s soldiers could not win even with a modern army, but Aisha explained to us that she must have sensed that.
“It will be okay for those outside. Among the people participating in this operation, there are many Sun Warriors from other tribes.”
According to her, it seems that the warriors who followed the great pharaoh in ancient times, in addition to the tombkeeper clan, dispersed and took root throughout Egypt.
Considering the power they possessed, it would not have been surprising if a civil war broke out immediately, but they were able to barely suppress their instinct to fight due to their immense loyalty to the dead pharaoh.
It is said that the descendants of the warriors of the sun who spread throughout Egypt have been fighting for a long time against the clans of darkness on the other side of history.
“You had a lot of trouble.”
Then Aisha shook her head.
“Our ancestors would have deserved to hear such words, but in our generation, it has long since become meaningless. In the first place, the fight against the clan of darkness ended once in the 19th century. With the help of Napoleon, the national hero of France. To.”
“Napoleon?”
Why is that person here?
“He, who was always interested in Egyptian history, came into contact with the Warriors of the Sun while on an expedition to Egypt. After hearing the explanation about the clan of darkness that had lived since time immemorial, he sent French soldiers in under the pretext of driving out the Mamluk army. Thanks to the large-scale extermination operation carried out with the Warriors of the Sun, most of the dark clan that remained in Egypt were killed, and only a few survivors survived by escaping overseas.”
As she said that, Aisha glanced at the terrain around her and suddenly raised her right hand.
“?”
I suddenly thought of something, but when I calmly stopped in place, Aisha spoke with a stern expression.
“There seems to be an ambush ahead of here.”
“Ambush? I don’t feel any sign of anything?”
“That’s because most of Set’s minions are dead. There’s no way a corpse without body heat or soul could sense the presence that only the living can make.”
Immediately after, as Aisha said, mummy archers holding bows and arrows rose up all at once from the rooftop of a low building.
“Pharaoh! We will take care of this!”
At that very moment, it was Abdul who darted to the front of the group.
“aaap!!”
As he radiated orange-colored Tutra from his entire body and extended both palms forward, an oval-shaped shield appeared around the group.
The Tutra shield he struck disappeared after completely blocking the rain of arrows pouring down from above his head. As soon as the shield disappeared, Salman threw the crescent-shaped sword he was holding in his right hand towards the mummies on the roof.
Then, the sword flew like a boomerang and spread bright light in all directions, probably because Tutra had been injected into the sword.
The two men, who defeated about twenty mummy soldiers in an instant, glanced at Mahes with an expression hoping for praise.
Mahes, who saw that, snorted and said.
[Still, you have the skills to call yourself a warrior of the sun.]
Then Salman and Abdul responded with bright expressions.
“Thank you! Pharaoh!”
“Actually, the technique I used just now was a technique I designed myself, called Sun Light Slash (太陽斬)… “
[Stop! Isn’t there still a long way to go?]
Perhaps instinctively sensing signs that the story was going to get longer, Mahes decisively cut off the conversation and the two men sullenly fell silent.
As a former pharaoh, it feels like he is good at handling carrots and sticks.
Anyway, as Mahes said, there was still a long way to go to get to the Step Pyramid in central Cairo on foot, so we decided to stop chatting and focus on running.
***
Set’s men literally flocked in endlessly.
Like a monster wave in an RPG game, if you defeat one group, another group will come, and if that group is also defeated, a larger group will come.
According to Mahes’s explanation, Set’s army at its peak numbered nearly 30,000, so it was inevitable that there were that many mummified soldiers in downtown Cairo.
“But it’s still not long until the pyramid.”
“Yes, I think I can reach the center of Cairo in just 10 more minutes.”
Aisha glanced at the 3D map that was given to Ryuji and me from the side and looked around while saying that.
The city of Cairo, with traces of a fierce battle still visible, was in complete disarray.
If you had told the residents of Cairo a few days ago that a dead person from the past would come back to life and lead a mummy to fight the Egyptian army, they would not have believed it.
To be honest, I hated myself a little for convincing myself that something could happen because it was a cartoon world.
… Beyond that, there are no traces of romantic comedy anywhere.
It was when he was running towards the destination in front of him, tackling the original author of Scramble Love whose face he had never seen.
“Stop!”
Suddenly, a huge creature jumped from the roof of a nearby two-story building.
“What?!”
When we stopped in shock at the sudden appearance of a strange creature blocking our path, he slowly got up and spoke.
“My name is Serket! One of the three henchmen who serve the great Set! This is the sanctuary! If you value your life, go back!”
The man, who gave his name as Serket, was half man and half animal, with half his body his being a human and half a scorpion.
Now, I feel like I’m going out with a comic, but the atmosphere of the people around me is so serious that I can’t even tackle it easily.
At that time, Mahesu, who was standing behind Ryuji, muttered in a serious voice.
[Serket, did that guy eventually become a god?]
“What does that mean all of a sudden?”
[Even if a person was originally a human being, if he or she is honored as a god after death, the status of the soul becomes higher. In the case of that guy, after his death, he was revered throughout Egypt as the ‘scorpion god’, so he probably took on that strange appearance.]
“Is it possible that Set, your enemy, also became a god in that way?”
[Probably so.]
From noble mtl dot come
I looked at the scorpion man in front of me with new eyes.
This is God, because it felt very different from what I thought.
To be honest, I felt like I could win on my own.
When that thought occurred to me, I spoke to Ryuji and the others.
“I’ll take care of this. Everyone goes first.”
Then Aisha started and stopped her.
“It’s impossible! Ordinary human There is no way I can face God alone!”
The moment I heard that, I laughed involuntarily.
‘Ordinary human being?’
Well, Aisha has never seen me use my strength properly.
Up until this point, most of the enemies had been dealt with by Salman, Abdul, and occasionally Aisha, so there was absolutely no time for me to step forward.
But it must have sounded very strange to Mahes and Ryuji who know me.
[Girl, there is no need to worry about this guy.]
“Yes?”
[Kim Yu-seong, this guy is the same as me in life, or maybe even stronger.]
“… What is that?”
After listening to the words of the respected Pharaoh, Aisha looked at me and Mahes in turns with an expression of cognitive dissonance.
But there wasn’t much time given to us.
“Let’s go.”
As I said that and pushed back, Aisha nodded her head with a reluctant expression.
“Don’t die. It would be a shame if a foreigner died while helping us with our work.”
“You don’t have to worry so much. I’m strong.”
As I said that, I waved my right hand at Serket, who was listening to our conversation with a dumbfounded expression.
“Sorry, I waited a long time, right?”
Then Serket, who had pincers instead of human hands, narrowed his eyes and asked.
“Do you really think that you, a human, can defeat me, a god?”
I answered, turning my shoulders to relieve my stiff body.
“I don’t think there’s anything that can’t be done?”
Then Serget said, haha! He laughed heartily.
“Good. I admire your proud spirit. I never thought there would be a warrior with this much courage even in modern times.”
Then he glared at me with a serious face and said.
“So out of respect for you, I will kill you in as painful a way as possible.”
***
“Is it really okay?”
While running towards her pyramid, Aisha kept looking behind her as if she felt uncomfortable, and when Ryuji saw her, he opened his mouth.
“You don’t have to worry so much.”
“Yes? What do you mean?”
Then Ryuji scratched her cheek and answered.
“It’s a shame, but I can’t picture Yooseong falling in her head.”
Of course,
“Because Yooseong is the strongest among the people I know.”
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