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Chapter 14 - Two without One.

With the sudden invasion of the greeks, the Pharaoh has sent one boy to go undercover into the opposing side, infiltrate the enemy's forces and find out their biggest weakness.

"Gramps, you sure I have to go and not anyone else?" Poison asks once again.

Neitiqerty Siptah: Yes poison, this is the third time I've told you, the outcome of this war relies on your ability to infiltrate the greeks. 

"Yeah, I know just so many responsibilities."

The boy says sarcastically, only stalling time. 

"Good now go. Just don't mess this up." The pharaoh says, quietly relying upon Poison, he believes he's the only one who can do this. 

Poison begins his self invasion. He arrives towards the greek lands it is a very grassy yet highly advanced land, off in the distance he sees a line of military soldiers lining up for the upcoming battle, He sees tower decently close to him with an alone soldier standing guarding the front of the large land. Quickly and quietly he sneaks up behind the enemy soldier and releases a pheromone which causes the enemy to pass out. 

"Night night." Poison whispers, holding in a laugh. 

"He begins to do the same to the other five supporting towers, after he has cleared the vicinity of enemy's he walks closer and closer until he can vividly see and depict the city, It is massive, bigger than anything He's seen in his life. He eventually arrives towards the center of the city where the pharaoh believes the Basileus resides. He quickly jumps from roof top to roof top and ends up landing on a tall building he sits on the edge of the building with his legs hanging off of the roof. 

"You alright Emma?"

Magnolia says as Emma had just been hit by an attack from an unknown person, this person appeared and started attacking them as soon as they arrived towards where the arrow ended up landing. Magnolia motions to Kibo to sneak up behind the unknown man however the unknown man quickly senses Kibo's presence and immediately attacks with a punch towards the gut. The speed combined with the force of the attack was enough to knock Kibo out 

"You pitiful creatures, Im honestly sorry for how weak you three are." An enemy a decent margin away says. 

"Emma, use it and cover me."

Emma knotted as Magnolia started walking towards the huntress.

"You might've beat my partner but he was a weakling, who barely had any control over his contract."

The huntress pulled back the silver arrow on her equally silver bow, the silver string making a straining noise, suggesting it took great strength to pull back. Magnolia was still walking with a calm expression which angered the huntress.

"Cocky little shit, in the name of my Goddess, I'll end your life, Egypt scum."

Magnolia continued walking, not letting the insult nor the threat faze him.

"Fine! One arrow will destroy you, weakling!"

The huntress fired the arrow, sliver energy leaving a trail behind it, Magnolia continued to walk, the arrow was right in front of Magnolia.

"Dodge if you'd like, arrogance is your downfall."

The arrow impacted with Magnolia, creating a small sized explosion. The huntress turned her back, a smug look on her face. 

(Step, step, step) 

She heard boots, crunch after crunch, stepping on the scorched ground. Magnolia walked out of the smoke, not a scratch on him.

"What—how did you?"

The huntress was confused, her aim was spot on, nothing could escape her eyes.

Magnolia, seeing the confusion on the huntress face, he spoke without any humor or mocking in his voice.

"The Heavens." Magnolia says. 

"finally some action."

Poison spoke up as he sees a troop of soldiers lining up outside of a hut. They were preparing their weaponry. Poison begins to dash from rooftop to rooftop heading 

In their direction, suddenly as he's a few buildings away all the soldiers suddenly vanish into thin air. 

"Neat trick."

 

He jumps down to the spot where he last saw them and begins to investigate the area.

Searching everywhere until he notices a line coming from the ground into the air he quickly looks outside and sees that that line is a beacon of blue light. He jumps into the beacon as he looks around, he notices that he is in a swamp. Thinking quickly, he manipulates the plants around him hiding his presence from the enemy's. He creates a blade out of poison as he walks throughout the swamp until he notices a camp site then a pillar on the perimeter. 

"The pillar of fire and cloud shit, they are closer than the old man thought." 

Poison begins retreating back towards the beacon to return to the pharaoh and report what he has found, as he navigates throughout the swamp he notices men weaponized with iron swords and spears and donning shields and corselets of leather that have metal scales sewn onto them. He begins traveling the other way but in a way that'll still end up with him in the same direction while avoiding the men. 

"Dammit that metal will counteract my toxin. Wait a minute I still have that…" 

He stops for a second creating a small orb of toxin before continuing his path he sees another group of men in front of him he climbs onto a tree to see more and he notices more and more groups of men surrounding him as if they know he's here. 

"Impossible." He says surprised with the number of men approaching. 

poison lands to the ground and is met with an army of these men all blocking his exit paths a man among them walks out of the group and towards Poison as poison is within a fighting stance. 

"You're one of them aren't you? Didn't know Egypt trained them so young." A soldier says. 

"so they do, who are you?"

"who I am doesn't matter the real question is what can I do." 

"Like I have time for that." Poison smirks. 

Poison throws the orb of toxin into the air the men all look up into the air confused to as what has happened but before they have a chance to look back…

"BANE!" 

He says as he admits tiny streams of web like poisons into each and every one of the soldiers they begin to feel a burn inside of their body on every organ through blood vessel and atom within the body limiting the effect of adhesion making every single molecule become intact and additionally add chloroplasts to the body causing an extreme flux of oxygen and bodily fluids. The final act in this attack is the body's reaction to this… it begins enlarging different parts of the body, arms, legs, head, and torso. The figures begin to explode one by one as Poison stays within the middle of the explosion loving the action of each molecule disputing its last chemical reaction. He leaves the scene and finds the beacon jumping through the light he is now in the greek city once again, as he climbs rooftop to rooftop he notices the greeks traveling past the ocean separating Greece from Egypt. He travels as fast as he possibly can without taking no breaks before returning to the pharaoh.

"You're back early… Too early what is wrong?" The pharaoh asks with urgency.

"Jerusalem is-Jerusalem is invading by the pillar of fire and cloud!" Poison says while out of breath. 

"Alright, Poison go rest… "

He vanishes as Poison faints to the ground, and he appears in the city of a hundred gates in front of the statue of Ra, he grabs a pot and puts black sand in the pot and puts it on the ground before saying. 

"I need your attention Apophis…" 

 A small snake comes out from behind the statue. 

"I smell divinity within you mortal. What is it you desire"

He says in a deep snarky yet very husky tone voice as he slithers around the pharaoh circling him. 

"I have a proposal which has what you desire the most." The pharaoh snarls. 

"You have the essence of Ra? I am intrigued boy. " Apophis says, each word raises his curiosity. 

The once small snake turns into a giant ferocious python as its aura shakes the area miles and miles away.

 "Yes I do… However I need you to vanquish the surrounding nations like you should have done before." The pharaoh says with urgency yet directing. 

"You humans all want something in return always, but I'll budge I haven't done anything destructive in a long time…" 

"I am well aware" the pharaoh says, Apophis slithers around the pharaoh, as his interest is now peaked.

"How do you know such things human?"

The Pharaoh pulls his shirt down revealing something on the left side of his chest.

"I like this one"

He smiles, laughing uncontrollably.

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