Magic?

As I went to check on the injuries of the person Sobeck had launched I found myself facing a curved stick that was glowing "is there a reason you're pointing a glowstick at me?"

The question seems to catch the person holding the stick off guard "what are you?" they demand.

Hearing this and deciding to have some fun I look behind me to check that they were talking to me before looking back at the one who asked the question before replying "I am Blood a human wandering around this place and it looked like you needed help, but now I have answered your question who are you?"

My response seemed to catch them off guard before they shouted "stop lying no regular human could survive an encounter against a god!"

Hearing this I smiled "when did I say I was a regular human all I said was that I was human I never said I was normal, normal is boring I much more enjoy hanging out with crazy people they are much more fun."

"Then what are you you were able to fight a god's avatar alone you must be possessed by a god as well it is the only way for something like that to happen."

Seeing that this argument was going nowhere I just sighed and started walking east like I had been before encountering this group leaving them behind if they were going to be hostile towards me when all I did was help I would leave their health and survival to the fates.

Watching me walk away the person with the glowstick yelled at me "where do you think you are going we didn't give you permission to leave. You are coming with us for sealing!"

Hearing this I sighed once again before raising my hand and waving it in farewell while saying "I just took care of a god without breaking a sweat if you want to die then come and try to capture me, I did nothing wrong and have done nothing wrong since arriving in this continent so you have no right to detain me."

This response caught them all off guard before the one who I had first checked on stood on unsteady feet before calling out to me "thank you for your assistance and I apologise for my subordinates actions towards you this is the first time someone not possessed by a god has been able to fight a god on equal footing so I hope you can understand our suspicion and caution. If you are willing I would like to introduce you to our faction in Cairo we are a group of mages and I feel like your skills would be able to help us in protecting the world."

Hearing this and realising that it was probably a fast track to my destination and that if I kept walking I was going to run out of time to visit all the places I wanted as I was wanting to explore Mesopotamia and see if there was anything interesting there I stopped walking and turned to them, "if your offering transport at least I will take you up on that offer as I am heading to Cairo at the moment."

This seemed to put a smile on their faces as they nodded at me though the smile put me on edge slightly as it seemed either forced or as if they had other thoughts going through their heads.

"Follow us we used a portal to get here and it should be able to be opened in a couple of minutes." the leader of the group announced before leading their people over into the oasis we were fighting at the edge of.

Following them, I quickly reviewed the equipment I had on me and in my inventory while swapping all of what I was wearing subtly with projections of the equipment which still served the same functions but were slightly weaker in durability.

The main reason for swapping my equipment out was because I didn't entirely trust this group and I would be a fool to go into unknown territory without being able to access all my things if I needed them and if I wore the real items they could be taken and I would have to find them again before using them.

Entering the oasis I saw an obelisk sitting to the side of the water and as we got closer to it, it started to glow walking up to it the one with the glowstick tapped the stick onto the obelisk and I stared slightly as a circle of sand and other things opened up in front of us.

Seeing my surprised expression all of the people chuckled before the leader asked almost smugly "what were you expecting us to walk all the way to Cairo with a prisoner?"

As those words left his mouth ropes shot out of the bags of all the people around me trapping me and then they shoved me through the sand portal as I heard them say "welcome to the world of magic fool."

Hearing this though I smiled as none of my abilities were restricted by the ropes meaning I could probably cut them later when I got the chance.