Chapter 4 part 2 Crypt of an immortal

The reader was cleaned and ready for me to open when it suddenly hit me that immortal crypts may have had traps set on them.

I quickly ordered the palace emptied and as I placed my hand on the reader the door unlocked, this was clearly not the entrance but some kind of emergency exit.

I placed my hands on the hatch handle and started pulling with all my might then suddenly a small crack opened instantly the air around me rushed into the chamber the draft of wind was so powerful that both my arms were pulled clean from their sockets.

The sudden suction had ripped the roof of the palace and I placed my arm sockets on my arms and in minutes my arms had reattached.

I knew that this time the process would repeat and I had prepared several metal wedges to keep the door opened, the emperor undoubtedly was not happy at the damage I had caused but he seemed to tolerate it.

Finally I had ordered that no one enter the palace till I emerged from the crypt as it may have vastly more deadly traps further down.

I had myself set to once more pull the door up and as intended I had kicked wedges in 1 at a time till finally the door couldn't close the suction was unbelievable.

I believe this was what they called a vacuum and as the air filled the chamber the torrents of air seemed to die out and finally I pulled the door completely open.

The chamber had instantly lit up and I could see a stair case leading in, I walked in carefully till I reached the first door.

The door was not air tight but it seemed to have been secured and on the side was a screen and interface, I tapped the interface and a list seemed to run through the screen at which point I noticed the screen read me as undesignated immortal.

I tapped through options till finally a map of the facility displayed and beyond that I noticed that the 2 side buildings were research labs for flight technology and the central chambers were a historical port of sorts.

I kept walking into the building after unlocking all the doors and it was huge my crypt could fit in just 1 chamber at least 2 dozen times that alone was good enough to tell me I was out of my depth in this crypt.

I had finally made it to the central display of the chamber and tapped the screen instantly a signal seemed to hit my body connecting me to the computer.

The display instantly loaded out the technology lists this facility had available to me and to my dismay it seemed clear to me that this facility offered me no weapons however it did offer me 2 defence technologies and several pieces of advance flight technology.

I had kept reading through for several hours and noticed that the defence technologies were called deflection shields and despite their ability to divert most attacks a lot of damage would still be taken when hit with high factor energies. I had read through the logs and the energy requirements of this technology were so huge I could not even imagine a source of energy to power the technology.

I had finally read through all the logs and it seemed the facility was powered by a quantized ion vacuum power cell which I was absolutely dumbstruck just reading as the knowledge needed to fathom its function was still vastly far beyond my level of understanding.

As I read the logs it turned out that this crypt could activate the shield and protect an area several kilometres wide I had at least found a way to prolong combat with Alexander and the weapons he had.

I had rushed up out of the crypt and the emperor along with his generals stood waiting for me.

I smiled and said "I may not have a weapon to use against the approaching army but we can safeguard your people within this region please gather supplies and prepare to stand your ground."

The emperor to my surprise got out of his chair and kneeled before me saying "Thank you immortal, had it not been for you I would never have been able to learn my lesson and today my army would have been decimated. Thanks to you I learnt the value of lives besides my own and my empires doors are open to you all the time."

I didn't seemed to relaxed as I replied "You will have a defence however I will still need help to fight this force and despite the protection this maybe a painful siege.

For the safety of your people keep the crypt a secret.

I will need to keep learning in there and I ask for 1 of your generals and 1 of my friends to be stationed in the crypt if things turn to the worst they can activate the crypts protection measures with their lives possibly forfeit."

The emperors right hand general dropped to his knees and said "I Lee hereby offer my life forfeit for the protection of my people."

1 of the generals rode to the market to retrieve Jackie my heart burnt just thinking of separating him from his beloved but this mission was only a last ditch effort and it was similar to the reason the chamber was vacuum sealed to start with.

This was the crypt of Cronos and he was a very simple man requiring that the mortals who activated the chamber be willing to be sacrificed by ensuring 1 man was in the chamber out of loyalty and the other out of love had there been a way for me to activate the crypts defences while fighting an army I would have as immortals could simply leave before the crypt vacuum sealed.

Worse still was the time limit the shield could only last for 2 years and that was the time I had to wait before returning to the crypt.

Jackie and the general had been informed of the task they had and despite my best efforts to explain the way they would die they both accepted.

Dying in the vacuum wasn't terrible it was the opening of the crypt that was terrible, the moment the air rushed in the desiccated corpse would be blown away.

For this reason I had left to healing pods with the men in hopes of them surviving long enough for me to rescue them.

Unlike my pod the healing pods could only heal or sustain a life for several months possibly for a few years but once the time was up they would simply die.

The entire region had been uprooted as tens of thousands descended on the emperors palace.

Homes and fields had been set within the confines of the barrier to give them the best chance of survival.

The calm had begun setting in and I had studied for almost 2 months when we finally received word the Spartans had now conquered all of Europe.

My turn had come and I would need to convince Egypt to help in my fight, we were now fighting the greatest enemy the human race had ever fought.

My ship had been sitting outside the palace and had been used as a relay to the ship hidden in the ocean where I downloaded all the information from the computer.

I had entered all 4 chambers and all that had been found were storage containers and genetics data unfortunately it was too complex for me to even comprehend.

The flight technology was all quantized systems so I didn't even bother trying to master it.

I had boarded my ship and started putting all the wipe commands into readied mode, there was almost no choice in the actions I had chosen if I acted to early China could have been the primary target and had I would have exposed the link between both nations had I waited till the siege started I may not be able to get to Egypt this left just 1 choice deploy at the last minute and return to China in the nick of time with an army and hope that I could defeat the army with Rameses.