Chapter 4 part 4 Aftermath

I stood at the end of all the destruction with my bones reforming and flesh randomly regenerating.

I had already started sprinting back up to my house and this time I had no idea what to do to get Hephaestus out of the house when it hit me that he kept insulting me and getting aggravated when I countered him.

When I crossed the paths the light hit I noticed that all the rocks and sand had been melted to glass.

This time I ran straight into my house and I stopped as I saw Hephaestus had pointed his hand at Hathor's tomb and said "You took so fucken long getting back up here now watch all hope of your wife ever returning vanish."

The light shot out and I dived to stand before the light but I was too late the tomb had evaporated and Hathor's body was vaporized.

Anger fuelled my rage and all of a sudden a weird wave of energy seemed to wash over me all of a sudden I found myself rolling my chi to block the light that had been fired at me and in an instant the light stopped pushing me back in the next split of a second a huge blast was released from my hands and my house was totally destroyed along with the resurrection pod.

I had been knocked back several meters and Hephaestus too was knocked back.

Hephaestus looked over at me and released yet another attack with both hand and once more I had rolled my chi forwards this time the blast of light was much greater then the last time and I held the attack till finally a bright glow had grown between my hands and all of a sudden the energy exploded this time the blast was vastly more extreme the city of Phoebs was totally destroyed and all that remained where the city once stood was my body totally nude.

Hephaestus had been blasted over a few dunes in the desert and I simply stood my ground making me the winner.

The ground had been melted and glowed brightly in hues of red and orange all around me.

The heat was unbearable and I walked on the burning hot sticky glass heading towards where Hephaestus had been sent flying.

I was extremely angry the wave of energy I felt with my Chi didn't vanish instead it felt like a slight trickle of a stream was flowing into me.

I had walked out of the melted glass onto the desert sand around the city and looked out towards the nearest dune.

I ran up in an instant and in distance I saw Hephaestus flying away, I had been so angry that I hadn't heard the calls from behind me coming from Rameses and Hathor's father.

Rameses finally grabbed my shoulder and draped his robe around me.

I had been growling like a wild beast towards Hephaestus as my anger had topped out till I was almost berserk, I had not come to my senses till finally Hephaestus was out of sight.

I dropped to my knees and let out a loud deep mournful scream that could shatter your spirit if you heard it.

Rameses was still next to me and had embraced me saying "Let it all out we are here for you. Don't worry he will pay for all that he has taken."

I looked to Rameses and I could see pain and rage within his tear filled eyes and as I turned to look back I noticed the dead bodies scattered about the dune behind me.

It was now almost a day since the horrible fight that had occurred between myself and Hephaestus, most of the nobles were extremely furious as the fight that had occurred in the city had cost them family members.

Rameses had lost his wife in the blast and was as angry as I was at Hephaestus he may have been even more furious then I was considering Hephaestus had destroyed the city, betrayed the immortals and teamed up with his insane brother.

The remaining nobles had wanted to talk to me and find out what had happened however Rameses convinced them to wait till the next day as I had lost as much as they had in this blast possibly even more.

I had to break the glass of my feet and I had dressed myself in the clothes that had been left for me, my armour and weapons had all been completely destroyed even my ship had been devastated by the explosion.

Alexander would now have a 2 month lead on me to the city so I had to rush ahead and fight his army to a stalemate.

The nobles had gathered in an emergency shelter and had began their discussions, unlike the last time they had all been pushing to attack Alexander many in the room had lost their reason for living in this attack and were purely fuelled by their intent to get revenge.

Russell had been in an extremely blood thirsty state and had been raring to go and kill his traitor brother he had lost both his children his wife and all his close friends as the blast that had sent me through the city had vaporized them.

Rameses had allowed all the nobles to voice their opinions then he suddenly spoke "Everybody lets have silence! Yesterday we found out what immortal technology Alexander had got his hands on and it is beyond all of us! He had Hephaestus on his side so he got the anti Ra weapons, the greatest problem with that is only Ra could counter that weapon.

However yesterday Horas somehow countered the weapon and depending on what we learn from him, we may have a chance to fight in this war."

I had taken a breath and replied "You can't fight the armour or the weapon as the armour deflects all energy that impacts it worse still I have no idea how I countered the light."

A slight sigh was heard from the room then Rameses spoke "Do you by any chance understand the shield technology and how much energy it consumes?" I quickly thought up if I knew enough and replied "Yes and I know that it can't be powered by the quantized vacuum ion power since the maximum refinement of the technology would be too large for a suit or armour so it's powered by subspace power or subspace vacuum power cells therefore if the shield stays active it would deplete the power source in 12 hours with a 6 hour waiting period before the shield can reactivate if the power cell is replaced."

Rameses seemed to drop his jaw at the high level information I had spoke of and said "Are you sure the power source is simply a subspace form?"

I had taken a deep breath and replied "Well at the very least that is all I comprehend from my understanding as the smallest power cell for that size all the larger power out puts have more demanding containment and start at around 1 meter."

Rameses seemed impressed and almost instantly announced "All men prepare we are going to war!"

The meeting ended with everyone running of for basic preparation and I instantly headed to talk to Rameses and Russell.

The 2 men seemed to be expecting this and stood fast as I approached.

I had waited for all the nobles to leave and softly said "Rameses, Russell what the hell are you up to they still have the light weapon and possibly an emergency power cell to maintain other pieces of the armour you leading everyone to a slaughter."

Rameses quickly responded "In Ra's army we learnt that the light weapon on the armour completely depletes the power cells of the armour in 20 minutes of use and if you could force the army Alexander has built to deplete the power cells we can attack them from the rear.

The catch is you will have to hold off the entire armies light weapons for 5 hours to give us at least a 1 hour opening on top of that the light weapons only have 20 minutes of use every 24 hours it was done to ensure the systems could only be used to subdue Ra with another great 5s help."

Russell seemed to have totally agreed and then he spoke "Rameses was the third strongest in Ra's army and Alexander was fifth and as it stands every rebel would be almost 200 ranks lower then our lowest ranked noble."

Russell seemed to have firmly believed in there strength and speed however I had to say "The armour enhances all physical qualities to the point that Hephaestus was at least double my speed and power."

Rameses seemed to lower his shoulders and answered "We both know we just thought you were only assaulted by the light this fight is about vengeance not surviving."

I looked into the eyes of Rameses and saw the pain burning in his gaze despite my own feeling on the same level I knew I had to destroy the army before Rameses even got into place.