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  At the end, while the boys didn’t trust me enough, the girls did. I suppose there has always been more trust between women thaween men and women. Whatever the case, I’m sure I’ll ge their minds as this tihey’re promising hunters, and I need as many strong, trustworthy, and ho people in my Heavenly Court.

  Ahmed might seem rash and have a severe anners, but his heart is at least in the right pce, and he’s ultimately a good person. His manners are just, well, not good. But that be easily fixed with some good education.

  And Mohamed, I uand him; he has many responsibilities. To suddenly bee the disciple of someone else would probably make other people, especially some higher-ups, look down on him or ask him questions.

  Anyways, there was still someone else I had yet to ask, little princess Merh, who had been rather silent this eime as I expined everything.

  “Bing Xue,” she muttered. “W-Will you really do it? Even knowing full well that I could just go on my own and solve this? It’s not like we’ve ever met for long; it has only been a day! Why go so far?”

  “Because I am not so coldhearted as to let you sacrifice yourself for others…” I said. “And well! It’s not like I’m weak; I’m super strong. So I don’t really mind dealing with them myself. I kind of wao do that anyway. So don’t worry; if anything, think of it as my own selfish desire rather than out of... goodwill.”

  Although it’s certainly out of goodwill, I did talk a lot with Merh after everything ended, and I got to learn about her past and everything.

  And to be ho, after learning her sob story, I just ’t let her go.

  It’s not like they return to their timeli anyway; those portals only bring things from there, but it won’t let them return normally.

  “O-Oh! Is that so?” muttered Merh. “W-Well! If you insist so much, it ’t be helped! I’ll have to assist you as well. When do we begin, though?”

  “Not yet,” I said. “I’ll first move onto awakening Ki on everyohat hasn’t yet, including you, Merh. Then we’ll move to the pyramid with your brother. I want to check that Meical God in more detail.”

  “Awakening Ki?” wondered Mohamed. “Even to me?”

  “Yeah!” I nodded. “It is so you taste its power… You get a free trial of it. Of course, my disciples get it permaly, for free too!”

  I walked towards them with a sirong sp in their back.

  FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

  All four of the hunters awakened auras of Ki of varying colors. Ahmed gasped and coughed, though; maybe I should have beeler.

  “Woah, what’s this!” said Sara. “It’s all glowy and sparkly! My body feels… somehow full of energy! Has my magic perhaps improved perhaps? Hmm, I don’t feel it improving, but my body has improved.”

  “This is incredible…” Heba gasped, looking at her own hands in silehis golden Aura… It is as if I feel every single grain of sand around me now? My senses have beeened, and so has my Mana Capacity, somehow?”

  “This is…” Mohamed gasped, notig how powerful he had bee. “My abilities were all about physical strength, so this is… Have I bee twice as strong out of nowhere?”

  “Cough, ugh! Did you have to sp me so hard?!” asked Ahmed angrily. “I- Ugh! What’s this red aura? Ki, huh?”

  They seemed to be enjoying their oy.

  Now.

  “Merh, do you also want a taste of Ki?”

  “Uh… I-I have not thought about it, but I evehis power?”

  “Yes, at this point, you must have also been assimited by the system or something, right?”

  “Ah! Yeah, there was that thing that appeared… But my Level… it said I was like Level 12,” she said.

  “So people from your world are still just normal humans, huh?” I wondered. “You rely pletely on the power of the Meical Gods.”

  “Yeah, even our powers only activate while piloting them,” she said. “Though I’ve heard about Enhanced Soldiers, whe with nanomaes that streheir bodies; however, the Golden Bloodline aren’t like that; they’re specialized on allowing us to pilot the Meical Gods without fag any backsh and with even the power to enhance or awaken their powers.”

  “I see!” I nodded. “Ra is very powerful, and without a doubt, I am sure you could handle most foes... However, with that alo won’t be possible for you to win against the foes that this world might throw at you iure, Merh. So, let me give you the power of Ki.”

  “But I o join you as a disciple first, right?” she asked. “I… Um, I don’t know if I should do that. Am I even worthy? I am really hysically…”

  “That be fixed with Ki Cultivation; don’t worry,” I said. “Here.”

  I gently patted her head, spreading Ki into her body, which then awake instantly. Despite everything, she’s still a human. Although her Golden Bloodline seemed to react to Ki in strange ways.

  FLUOSH!

  “Woah!”

  Merh gasped, gng at her own hands and then her body, particles of gold mixed with her newly awakened Ki, and also some Mana she now possessed thanks to the System’s Iion.

  “What is this?! It’s so weird!”

  It seemed her Golden Bloodline might improve and grow strohrough her Cultivation… and perhaps also Leveling. This means that the Meical gods she pilots could alsressively bee strohan they were inally made.

  “It seems your innate bloodline responded well to this,” I said. “Not only you, but Ra could also bee stronger as you Level Up and Cultivate. You could even learn new Skills and Martial Arts to use your Meical God with.”

  “Oooh! Wow! This is amazing…” Merh gasped. “T-Thank you so much, Bing Xue… I never imagihis world could offer so many wonders and, well, so maies!” she said, holding my hand.

  “Huh?” I felt slightly surprised that she flirted with me like that.

  “Bing Xue! You’re as strong as you’re beautiful!” she said, her eyes sparkling. “Ohis is all over, please bey beloved mistress! I will treat you well!”

  “Merh… A-Are you proposing to me?!” I gasped. “And I thought you were saying that a day wasn’t enough for you?”

  “T-That’s a pletely different thing!” she said. “A-Ah, well, I mean… Um, dammit, where did I leave it?”

  She started looking around her clothes and pockets but was uo find it.

  “Uwah! I lost it! The ring…”

  She was even going to give me a ring…

  “Hmm… For now, Merh, let’s leave such things for ter,” I said. “We must first trate on the important things, alright?”

  “Ah, fine…” she sighed. “I should probably aim to quer your heart, right? I’ll work hard towards that goal then! Mother always said that ohat special person appeared in my life, I must do anything to quer their hearts!”

  “Aren’t you cute?” I giggled, patting her head and caressing her fluffy ears. “Fine, do as you want. For now, however, why won’t we go meet your brother? The’s go to the pyramid. That’s where Anubis ced, right?”

  “Ah yes!” she nodded. “Let’s go then!”

  Merh quickly stood up, summoning the two hands of Ra out of the spinning golden portals that emerged around her; one of them held her and the rabbed me.

  “Let’s go!”

  Then we flew out of the building by breaking through the window, shog everyone who was still eating!

  “M-Merh?! At least let the rest finish their meals! They also have to e with us!”

  “A-Ah, really?! I thought this was a way to quer your heart!”

  “Well, it’s w terribly, young dy!”

  “Eep! P-Please five me!”

  She quickly went bad apologized. With a flicker of my hand, I fixed the window, and once everyone finished eating, we finally moved towards our destination.

  I used my Immortal Aura to hold everyone and easily fly across the skies, reag the pyramid resting in the desert.

  There was a strong force field barrier ed around it, but it had been pletely shattered, and several of its parts were also broken or destroyed.

  The propulsors it used to hover in midair, which surrous lower side, were mostly ruihere were also big cracks over the golden pyramid, and more damage accumuted over it.

  The door was shut down and sealed, but once Merh touched it with her hand, she was granted full access immediately.

  “Let’s go! My brother and the rest of his surviving crew must be waiting for us ihey have already surrendered anyway.”

  The rge gate leading ihe pyramid opened, revealing a long, golden hallway. Neon blue circuits illumihe hallway, c the ceiling, the floor, and the walls.

  “Akhenaten! Where is he?”

  Merh quickly ehe rge hall inside, which resembled aian Temple, with a small pond in the middle, pnts decorating the sides, and a huge throne where Akhenaten would be sitting, usually.

  “Ah, Lady Merh is here?!”

  “C-Call the prince!”

  “Yes!”

  The Egyptian people here were all wearing gold and bck-colored full-body suits, and they seemed to always carry golden headphones and tiny floating robots with them.

  To the north of this hall, there was arao a huge area full of puters, whose very aesthetics were all shaped and based on a Egyptian art and color schemes.

  Floating Eyes of Ra-shaped puters showed information made of blue and red a Egyptiaers.

  There were huge mos just sitting there, resembling Anubis in his pure jackal form, with ss attached to them and buttons.

  There were cables here and there, but it was overall a very pce.

  “How incredible! So this is the teology of a parallel Earth!” Heba said, looking around.

  “It’s sure amazing…” Yanisse nodded. “There’s not a sihing that doesn’t catch my attention.”

  “Indeed!” said Peperina. “I have to take as many photos as I !”

  She kept taking selfies and photos of everything…

  “Merh, so you’re back…”

  Akhenaten arrived after a couple of minutes of making us wait.

  “Of course, brother, we have a lot to talk about,” said Merh. “But first! Show me the way towards Anubis; we want to see how it is.”

  “Anubis?” sighed Akhenaten. “It is regeing slowly, but it seems much more damaged than I thought. I doubt it’ll be repaired any time soon; this pyramid has the teology to restrud repair most maery, but the Meical Gods were structed with the A Mae Crafting Arts, it’s not easy to rebuild them.”

  “We’ll see about that!” Merh said angrily. “Now, quickly! Bring us there!”

  “A-Ah, yes…”

  Akhenaten acted humbly and obediently, thankfully, and with the oath I had pced on him, it was impossible for him to betray us before dying instantly.

  So he had to behave and be a good boy.

  “There it is.”

  He poi the rge hall where we just arrived, which was where they stored the rest of the maes. Every Divine Mae that was caught aroyed was then recovered and pced here, where they were being repaired to be used as Merh’s forces after she took over her brother’s crew and made them her own.

  Anubis was sitting over a rge golden table, its pieces slowly fusing together, with tiallitacles and small swarms of bck-colored nanobots around it. But it seemed rather ruihe head lit in half, both arms were torn to pieces, and the rest of the body was cut down into many slices.

  “Indeed… We might not be able to t on Anubis help for what’s ing,” she sighed. “Akhenaten, your mother appeared, by the way! And she threateo destroy four cities if you didn’t go back to her with Ra and Anubis.”

  “S-So mot here too?!” gasped Akhenaten. “But her demands… so exaggerated, as always… She simply doesn’t know when to hold back…”

  “Hmph! Yes, just like her son, I would say!” Merh gred at him angrily.

  “Uh… sorry…” sighed Akhenaten. “Look, I don’t know if I’ll be able to help you…”

  As the siblings talked, I noticed Hekita expl the pd then suddenly gng at Anubis.

  “Wow, a big robot like iV shows!”

  She ran towards it and suddenly touched a part of it.

  FLUOSH!

  “Let me repair you!”

  And suddenly, sparkles of her spiritual energy started seeping into Anubis metal, dramatically improving its regeion.

  RUMBLE!

  The entire ground trembled as Anubis enormous pieces began merging with each other at a staggering speed.

  “Hekita?!”

  And Urbosa and I were shocked to see irl imbue her spiritual powers into the mae, happily helping it repair itself through her Spirit Creation Ability.

  Until Anubis was…

  pletely repaired and reborn anew!

  “AWOOOO!”

  Akhenaten smiled in fasation.

  “Anubis?! You’re back!”

  He tried to call for the giant Meical God, but Anubis didn’t even g him.

  Instead, the giant humanoid jackal meced at Hekita.

  And he kneeled in front of her, opening its chest to reveal the interior of the mae.

  “Mas… ter.”

  “Oh? I’m your master? No need; let’s be friends instead!”

  “Fri… ends.”

  Anubis was even speaking now!

  What the hell just happened?!

  Even I am speechless!

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  Pach