Listen while reading: Successor of Niten Ichiryu

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  “This is…”

  Akhenaten was engulfed in the fmes of Ra as he fell from the skies.

  Anubis had been torn to pieces aed away.

  Such a powerful Meical God, a treasure of his try with an inensurable price.

  It had been utterly destroyed…

  “Merh…”

  He g the giant and imposing Ra above the skies, and memories fshed through his mind.

  His mother, a very strian since he was born, was always Akhenaten what he had to do and how he had to do it.

  “Akhenaten! Never fet that you’re a prince of this Empire! Act like one no matter what!”

  “Yes mother.”

  “Akhenaten! Why are you pying with children?! You’re a prince! e here; your lessons about meics are about to begin.”

  “Yes… mother.”

  “Akhenaten! Don’t get too close to your siblings. They’re all snakes and vultures, waiting to betray you and then take advantage of your misery…”

  “U-Uood, mother.”

  “Merh, that child… Akhenaten! You better take care of her... Do you uand? Make her feel miserable. Rub on her face that her mother died as much as you .”

  “Yes… mother… but why?”

  “Why, you ask?! Seriously, at this age, you’re asking why! Because she’s unworthy! Only the two of us are worthy of Ra, right?! Who does she think she is? Asking to be given Ra baow that it is MINE!”

  “But…”

  “No buts! That damned oisoning her was so hard! But she finally succumbed, stupid bitow her robot is mine, but her damn child… Hah! So exasperating. I wish I could just poison her, but if I go ahead, my husband might grow too suspicious.”

  “Y-You did…?!”

  “What? Did you think that the drink you offered her that I gave you was just a little bit of wine? My son, you helped me do it, so you’re also an aplice… Don’t worry! Your mother will alrotect you.”

  “Yes… mother…”

  Akhenaten burhe pain was s it dulled his mind. Yet even now, he felt a lot of emotions, frustration, anger, sadness, sorrret.

  “What have I been doing… with my life…”

  Darkness engulfed the Egyptian Prince as the sands beh Merh were decorated with the tless pieces of Anubis scattered everywhere.

  “It’s done…” Merh sighed in relief. “It’s- Huh?!”

  RUMBLE!

  The deserts trembled once more as the giant golden pyramid colpsed on the sands, quickly having its force field destroyed and its propulsors crushed. The enormous flying vehicle had no option but to colpse on the burning sands.

  CRAAASH!

  The beautifully bright golden pyramid gleamed brightly beh the sunlight, tless cracks spreading through it, yet its destru stopped at that.

  It was such a huge piece of teology that it would take even more efforts to tear it apart, and well, that was heir iion.

  The Divine Maes ing from the pyramid stopped emerging, as whatever internal structure the pyramid had was quickly and forcefully stopped.

  “Hahh… That was tougher than I imagined; just how many tons was this thing?”

  Nichos stood above the giant pyramid with a proud smile, gng at the giant thing he had thrown down from the skies, something he could have never done before.

  “At least over six million tons,” said Yanisse. “Phew…”

  “Hate to break it to you, but we’re not do!” said John. “Look, there’s still a few dozen of those mechs going around; they’re strohan S-Rank mooo!”

  “Right! We have to take them down!” Francisco said.

  “Alright the’s divide and quer!” Nichos roared.

  The four Hunters jumped into a, leaping from building to building. The huge maes, which were between ten and twenty meters tall and made of golden, silver, and bck metals, resembling pharaohs encased iombs or ferocious jackals made of metal, quickly noticed the approag foes.

  “??? ???????????”

  “???? ?????”

  “????? ??? ???? ??? ???????”

  Speaking words the Hunters couldn’t uand, but that were actually the now-fotten A Egyptian Language, the pilots trolling the Divine Maes quickly attacked back.

  Nichos encased himself in armor made of bck metal, quickly tanking three mae attacks at once. Giant bdes made of glowing gold enpassed lightning, spears imbued with bzing fire, and punches zapping with thunder hit him stantly.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “Hahah! You guys sure are strong…!”

  He noticed that the metal proteg him was rapidly bei before their attacks, and cracks began spreading across his metallic skin.

  Recalling how he almost died against those monstrously strong dinosaurs and the cavemen back then, it was clear that the invaders of these parallel earths were on another level entirely.

  However, he was different now.

  “For my two little girls... So they wouldn’t end up without a dad; I had to get stronger, you know?!”

  His bck metal suddenly started glowing red, and fiery heat began rising from his heart, spreading through the rest of his body. His Martial Core overflowed with rge quantities of Ki, spreading across his body.

  “Metal alone ’t do shit,” he said. “Fire, however, once merged with metal, now that do a lot!”

  BAAAM!

  Against all odds and expectations, the pilots, who believed this metal man would eventually fall, were suddenly shocked. An explosive punch emerged from his fists, blowing away one of the maes and shattering their heads and ons.

  CRASH!

  The mae fell to the floor, half of its body burning and covered ihat tio melt the metal it was made of!

  “??????”

  “???????????”

  pletely shocked by what they saw, the pilots seemed full of disbelief, gng back at Nichos to notice his bck, metallic body had ged. His chest, right above his head, had ged, pletely being red and e in color, as if the very metal of his body was boiling.

  This fiery red color spread through the rest of his body, f rge veins of molteal that empowered his entire body, at the same time as his head gained spiky fiery horns, making him resemble a demon.

  “This is the evolution of my abilities through cultivation,” the man smiled, taking out his suo reveal his fiery red eyes. “I took some inspiration from our aors, the cavemen people that wielded fmes… {Molteal Man}”

  Fmes surged from his hands as his meltial shaped stantly and took the form of giant bdes covered with fmes. A man who was already sidered the toughest in the world had now let go of his defensive powers, exging them for pure, explosive offense.

  “By burning my owallic body and making my body boil, I gee a tremendous quantity of heat and explosive power that grants me a tremendous boost in both strength and speed! But I guess you don’t even uand what I’m saying, huh?”

  FLASH!

  So Nichos decided to just show them, jumping towards the closest Divine Mae and swinging his leg downward. An explosive attaes and molteal erupted from the mae, quickly melting and burning its armor and seeping into its circuits.

  BOOOM!

  The attacks he unleashed were like explosions. Each attack tore apart a piece of his meical foe. The Divine Maes tried to retreat, readying psma ons and firing them at him.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  However, Nichos evaded them as they came, rapidly jumping from a building and then rushing down, kig one of them aroying their head and torso, revealing the pilot inside.

  “Uuuaaaggh!”

  The man screamed before fmes engulfed him, and he died on the spot. A huge explosion quickly engulfed Nichos, whose hands grabbed the burning med threw it towards the other.

  BOOOM!

  “???????? ????”

  The third Divine Mae quickly puhe burning mae thrown at him away, swiftly advang towards Nichos while firing beams of trated electriergies.

  Nichos rapidly evaded them, using his enhanced speed and swifto quickly reach the Divine Mae and then…

  “This is it, chump!”

  BAAAMMM!!!

  A huge punch reached the mae, unleashing an explosion of fmes and molteal, engulfing the entire robot. The meical stru fell apart as Nichos saw the pilot gruesomely die inside.

  “To think the invaders of our world would be humans now,” he sighed. “Monsters weren’t enough; now we have to face humanity from other parallel timelines.”

  As Nichos pohat, Yanisse, John, and Francisco finished off the rest of the Divine Maes.

  “{Void Bullet}”

  Yanisse carefreely fired hundreds of bullets made of small void accumutions, pierg through the bodies of the Divine Maes and then making them explode into pieces.

  “{Glistening Starlight}!”

  John imbued light into his very body and released the brightest shine of light possible, burning through his foes and then pierg them with his spear.

  “{Elemental Storm}!”

  And Francisco pyfully destroyed many more with storms of tless elemental spells. Unlike Anubis with their Dark Matter Veil, these foes could not easily defend themselves.

  BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

  Bing Xue nodded from afar, notig how her sect was able to take care of everything on their own, mostly. This was just a test, a test to see if it ossible to leave Earth’s prote to her disciples, even if the invaders were fearful monsters beyond any known strength level.

  “It seems to be a success!” she nodded with a pleased smile. “Now, that Pyramid over there… I really want to explore it.”

  She gnced down, notig a dyiian prince, with half his body gone and the rest almost pletely calated. Someone as cruel as him would have surely deserved death.

  Yet Bing Xue was rather merciful; gng down at him with a slight smile and then toug his burning body, a washing wave of golden light rapidly healed all his wounds.

  “Ahh… Hahhh…!”

  The young prince gasped for air, suddenly realizing he was somehow alive, despite everything. He noticed Bing Xue by his side, and...

  “M-Merh?!”

  “It’s true! Your healing abilities are incredible, Bing Xue,” said Merh. “Perhaps parable to little Sara!”

  “I would say they’re better, but little Sara has greater potential.” Bing Xue smiled. “Now… Akhenaten, was your name?”

  “W-What’s happening?! D-Didn’t I die?!”

  Akhenaten was pletely fused, uo believe what had happened. A sed ago, he was sure he was burning, and he died!

  “You almost died, but I mao heal you in time,” Bing Xue said. “You should be grateful to your sister, actually. She was the one who had the mercy to let you live. She asked me to heal you.”

  “I-Is that so…” Akhenaten groaned in pain. “Ugh… Why did you do this, Merh? Didn’t I deserve death anyway? For what I did… you were justified iing me burn to death.”

  “Even then…” Merh sighed. “I’m quite the soft dy, you see! On my childhood, you and I were rather close, weren’t we? It was a brief moment; it barely sted a year, but… I still remember it. When you were muicer to me. I wao ask you if… Was that all fake? Another pretend game, like with Father? Did you always see me as the annoyance you said I was?”

  “M-Merh…”

  Akhenaten looked down, his long white hair c most of his face, as his golden eyes glistened with memories of the past and also of what he had now bee.

  “I did once see you as my sister, but… Well, isn’t it obvious? Our family, since we’re children, that it teaches us to not grow closer to one another. At any moment, a sibling could kill us…” muttered Akhenaten, g his fists. “This is all… what my mother taught me. And I’ve been doing as she said sihen! What else… What else did you expect me to do?! You’re… you’re the one who decided to have trol over your own life, and… that’s where I felt so jealous of you. Maybe… maybe I wahe same thing.”

  “Brother…” Merh felt a bit moved by his words, but remembering all the awful things he did and the words he said, it was hard for her to even five him. “I see… Starting now, you’ll repent! To make up for all you’ve done, yoing to help me… and Bing Xue! Anubis is not pletely destroyed. Meical Gods recover as long as their pieces are put together and then feed a lot of materials for their nanomae structure to reform with new mass.”

  “What?!” Akhenaten didn’t believe her words. “After everything I did, yiving me a sed ce?! But why!”

  “Because… I don’t want to kill my family like your mother did,” she said. “I won’t do what my family wants me to do. I bet killing you must have been your father’s pn or something. I’ll go against that. You’re my brother, not my sworn enemy…”

  “Merh… You’re just too soft, huh?” Akhenaten sighed as he started g. “Thank you... for tinuing to be yourself. Even when all of us ged…”

  “Hmph! Save your crocodile tears for another person; I am not believing them!” Merh said angrily. “Anyways! Let’s go. Bing Xue, you wao check that pyramid and learn more about us, right? Akhenaten will open the way for us.”

  “Very well!” Bing Xue smiled. “Work hard, boy. If you dare betray us, your fate might be worse thah.”

  With a gentle smile, Bing Xue delivered incredibly cold words.

  “U-Uood…”

  The prince couldn’t do much other than accept such terms.

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