Travelling to Egypt

Well, the voyage on Oceans Voyage was uneventful the blessing of Poseidon allowed me to stay at my top speed of 8 knots or 13 km/h along with also keeping most sea monsters away, all this allowed me to arrive in Morocco in only 19 days.

That was the easy part the walk from my port in Morocco to Egypt was the hard part walking at about 9 km/h meant it would take me about 21 days with only 4 hours rest which I could have done but I then had groups of monsters attack me at various points in time which slowed me down though I will admit I didn't expect to fight a sphinx or giant snakes for a while so they were an experience.

After 15 days of travel and having covered less distance than I would have liked I was tired I had seen some nice sites though the couple of mountains I had gone past and over were nice to look at the desert was a slight pain and without my watch, Hermes gave me I probably would have gotten turned around multiple times but the coordinates on it also told me what direction I was heading so I made a habit of checking that quite frequently.

After a couple more days I encountered a group of people with sticks fighting against a large crocodile that shot water out of its mouth tired of wandering and in the mood to fight I ran to assist them after one of them got thrown in my direction.

Running up to the person who got thrown I check to see what condition they are in, it didn't look great the impact had probably broken some bones but they were still conscious so I asked them quickly "what's happening and what are your injuries?"

Looking at me they got confused "what are you doing here the wards should have kept regular humans away?"

"I'm not normal so they probably didn't work as intended but that is beside the point what is happening here?" I reply briskly not really in the mood for questions at the moment they could come later.

"We were tasked with removing the possession on that animal but we didn't expect Sobeck to be the one responsible," they reply while trying to catch their breath.

"So say I cut its head off what would happen because the only real weapons I have on me are my sword and dagger most monsters are trying to kill me and haven't possessed something so I don't know how to handle these things."

Hearing my question they contemplate for a bit before replying "it should be okay the damage goes to the avatar that is possessing them at the moment, not the creature underneath they are usually fine after a fight."

Hearing this I stand and look at them, "try not to move I think you broke some ribs and until I understand some things better I don't want to risk using the powerful healing items I have as they may burn you up."

Finishing my statement I turn towards the crocodile Sobeck the guy on the ground I was talking to called them and run towards it pulling my sword from its sheath on my hip and activating my shield in my watch while shouting "hey ugly I never expected something to beat the Minotaur on the ugly scale but here you are!"

Hearing my shout Sobeck turned towards me and roared "puny mortal how dare you insult my majestic splendour I will enjoy eating you."

After finishing his roar Sobeck shot water at me from his mouth forcing me to raise my shield at an angle and deflect the water to the side as my normal response of dodging was out of the options with injured behind me.

After the blast of water stopped I rose from the crouch I had taken to avoid falling and called "is that it? I was hit harder by the Minotaur about 6 months ago."

Hearing this Sobeck and the others fighting him all looked surprised at me before Sobeck shouted "what god empowers you is it Horus that bird brain could never keep himself from a fight."

"What empowerment I'm just a mortal wandering around at the moment?" my reply seemed to catch all of them off guard and not one to waste an opportunity I continued running at Sobeck shield up in a ready position without compromising my vision and my sword resting on top of my shield ready to attack from any angle I needed.

Sobeck seeing this glowed and started to rise up from the ground with a large see-through green version of himself appearing around him. This caught me off-guard as my opponent suddenly changed in size.

"Not sure my blade will reach him in that, time for plan B" I mutter to myself looking at it while sheathing my sword at my side, seeing this Sobeck starts to laugh before cutting off as I draw my blade again now though it is covered in the green flames of greek fire.

Slashing at the leg of the giant Sobeck the flames seem to almost hungrily devour it slowly climbing up to him as this happens the giant Sobeck seems to flicker slightly before fading and dropping the small Sobeck to the ground just as the flames reached his waist unfortunately with nothing left to burn the greek fire flickers out.

I groan slightly seeing this as that was the last lot of greek fire I had on hand for putting in my sheath looks like I was going to need to find the ingredients to make more at some point.

Running at the fallen Sobeck with the lament of the waste of my greek fire still in my mind I bring my sword down on him as he was trying to get up severing his head and revealing a normal crocodile that immediately ran away from me.

Seeing the problem solved I turn while sheathing my sword and retracting my shield before running over to the one who had informed me of the situation and as I ran I pulled out a first aid kit Chiron and the others had forced me to carry at all times in case I got injured and started checking their injuries properly.