To return to Omeya, Apophis had to go through Monstinopolis again.
When he arrived near the city, he saw the same scene as the first time: a line of people blocked by a tollbooth controlled by about thirty players.
Apophis really had no time to waste... He used his ~FireBrending~ skill and simply threw a jesper of flames at the thirty players guarding the tollbooth, their clothes were immediately incinerated, while the flesh began to slowly fall off their bones - and even some poor players who were waiting to pass, suffered the same fate...
Apophis made no distinction, fire reigned!
The scene shocked many onlookers! A handsome and strangely attractive twenty-year-old with silver hair simply rode through the tollbooth on his motorcycle and destroyed everything in his path. No one had the presence of mind to record the scene, and those who talked about it on the forum were quickly mocked.
The story of a man-torch avenging weaker players was great to hear, but many doubted that it really happened.
After four hours of speeding on his motorcycle, and some GC for a full tank of gas, Apophis arrived in Omeya.
The city had fallen under the control of a second-rate guild with no real importance by the name of "Gold is Good", according to Apophis' menu the guild had 235 players, nothing insurmountable....
The situation was much calmer than when Apophis arrived, as the Republican authorities had been chased away by the players and martial law had been lifted.
it was now the "Gold is Good" players who were enforcing their own law...
He arrived at the Zetark girl in the hospital, whom he had saved a few days ago, and injected her with his energy.
Server: Congratulations on completing the S+ quest "Save the Princess".
Final grade: A+.
Reward: Get a [friendly] relationship with Princess Antanria, and gain 1 legendary skill of your choice for your class.
A totally naked and pink woman appeared, it was the physical espet of Cortana!? she snapped her fingers, and a menu appeared and she said:
"Hurry up and choose, I don't have that much to do..."
Apophis was amazed. He knew almost none of them! It almost seemed like every single Esper skill in the game was available to him. He wanted them all! Of course, he could only take one...
the timer on top of the menu stresses it deeply some things need time to be enjoyable...
Then he saw something amazing: the skill "radioactive fire ".
but Cortana said something that made him change his mind...
System: You have accessed too much information! Please wait while Cortana erases all the memory of your last five minutes.
Apophis opened his character menu and saw that he had the passive skill [Warrior-Esper], but he couldn't understand why he had chosen this one out of all the legendary cheat skills he had access to...It was incomprehensible
A class theoretically had an infinite number of combinations and possibilities, why bother being a two-class bastard? Had Cortana said something to her that influenced her ?
***
Princess Zetark Antanria finally opened her eyes and saw Apophis looking at her.
"Where am I?" she asked in the Zetark language. "Who are you?"
"I am Apophis," he replied. "I freed you a few days ago from a laboratory. We are currently on the planet Era in the Era Prime system, but from what I understand, you called this system Initium Prime.
Apophis:
How are you feeling?
Antanria:
"I feel good, but I feel like I'm in the dark..."
Apophis:
"In the dark?"
Antanria :
"Yes I have no memory of this last week, it's a total blur, I just remember my old life.
Apophis:
"And physically?"
Antanria:
"I'm fine,thank you. "
Apophis:
"Well let's go step by step, what's the last thing you remember?"
Antanria :
"I just remember falling asleep in my bed at the Imperial Palace, father had come to kiss me as he used to do... "
Apophis:
"The emperor!? "
Antanria :
"Yes...Sorry I didn't introduce myself I name Antanria, princess of blood, daughter of Emperor Malekith Vi, heir to the imperial throne".
Malekith VI? the last Emperor!? Apophis couldn't believe it... What was the probability in the billions of solar systems that make up the galaxy to fall on the heir of the only empire to have reigned there, it can't be a coincidence...
Antanria:
"Sorry sir, thank you for rescuing me, but can you take me back to Oralia? To the Imperial Palace or inform the imperial governor of the planet that I am here?"
Oralia was the former capital of the Zetark Empire, a planet in total ruin by now.
Oralia was the former capital of the Zetark Empire, a planet now in total ruin... No need to hide it from him, he will be well quickly anyway, Apophis wanted to be frank:
"I have bad news, Princess! The Zetark Empire has collapsed, Oralia is a ruin, and you have been kept in stasis for at least a thousand years, I just found you in a lab a few days ago in a preservation machine, I'm so sorry..."
First, she was shocked, Then, anger comes with tear she says:
"How dare you?! The Zetark Empire is the empire of a billion solar systems! Every race in the galaxy owes us obedience! "
It began to accelerate, she became all red, she was going to make a faint...
Apophis grabbed her face so that her eyes looked into his and said:
"Calm you princess..."
It was a sacrilege to touch a member of the imperial family, so Antanria wanted to slap him, but Apophis caught his hand.
Antanria:
"You bastard! How dare you touch me! You bastard of mixed blood! "
Apophis moved away from her for a few minutes until she calmed down and then he said calmly:
"Your people are gone, there is nothing you can do to change that, you have to accept it to change that, you have to accept it, but you can still possibly find out what happened to them! And see if there are any survivors..."
Antanria:
"Survivors like you mean? Mixed blood?"
Apophis:
"I am not related to your people, it's just that my people have the ability to imitate the genetics of all the races in the universe, that's why I have the physical skills of a mixed blood Zetark and the language I learned in various places related to the Empire..."
Apophis :
"I know this is a shock to you, so I'm going to let you run this..."
Antanria was totally disoriented, all of her life was in the past...But in the midst of the fear and uncertainty she felt something strangely reassuring deep inside her...It was the energy that Apophis had given her to revive her body.
Antanria said: "Stay, I beg you. Forgive me for my behavior. "
"Is there anything in particular I should ask you?"
Apophis:
"Am I listening to you?"
Antanria:
"Can you hug me?"
Apophis was very surprised, but after reflection it was true that even if she was an aristocrat of high rank, she was above all a little girl totally lost, who had no family, no home, nothing...
Apophis doesn't like to get attached to NPC, because he finds it childish, but if he can link with this zetark princess, he could eventually benefit in futur.
Apophis came forward and took her in his arms to comfort her, like a father for his daughter, while Antanria melted in tears in his arms.
