"What's taking them so long...", currently Set was battling a hyper realistic illusion of Loki, while the real one went to retrieve the key of their realm. With that in hand he could regain his throne and gain a huge advantage over his annoying little nephew.
Set was noticing that the illusion was losing its realness and was less convincing.
"This isn't good , it won't hold for much longer...", thought Set. What is happening in that dimension. Did Ra and Horus add some kind of trap?
Set started to fire off flashier moves and moving further away from the others so they wouldn't notice, but he started to feel a bad precognition...
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Currently in the last floor of the sealed key....
"Ahhhhhhh, they won't die!!!"
"No matter how many times I stab them, that Phoenix just heals them back to full health!"
"This is endless, our time is running out!"
"How is this possible for it to heal those wounds inflicted by my poison?!?!"
The nine tailed fox and Loki were cursing a storm over the seemingly immortal last bosses they were facing.
Streams of violent flames spewed from the sphinx, and its powerful slash attacks were deadly. Loki and the nine tailed fox were not adept at defense, but while the attacks of the sphinx were powerful, they were slow. Unfortunately that is where the little parrot comes into play with its support.
The phoenix had learned a diverse set of magic skills from Isis. After its rebirth its magics and fire conjuring abilities seem to have grown even more powerful and came to it more naturally. Fire is an innate ability of the phoenix race and with a higher rate of compatibility, the little phoenix was able to waste less energy and become much more efficient. It would cast several fire storms that brushed past the battlefield and Loki's illusions would be disrupted. Fire in the shape of arrows would streak towards the nine tailed fox.
Even more mysteriously the fire the phoenix wielded took off different hues of color and each color had a different effect as well. Like its color scheme the exotically colored parrot conjured dark purple flames that had a lasting burning effect. If even the slightest of their body parts it would be extremely hard to extinguish. Another type of flame it had was of the holy type and was bright orange-red. This was expectably effective on the nine tailed fox who faced similar energies facing monks who wield similar purifying abilities.
This is unscientific! How did it gain these powers?
While the attacks of both the sphinx and mysterious phoenix seemed to have no gaps, Loki still managed to slip past the large range of attacks to pull off a miraculous assassination. It somehow sneaked up on them and would cut off the head of the phoenix or stab the sphinx with his poisonous dagger. Sometimes he would appear out of nowhere or illusions they thought were fake would actually turn out to be the real one. Not only that, Loki started to put more effort in his illusions independent actions. Sometimes the illusions won't fade after being hit and they wouldn't know if it was the real body or not and added a lot of physiological stress as they had to be wary at all times. The nine tailed fox was no push over either. Her beastly instincts made her a worthy foe and she used her ghostly fox fire to fight back.
While Loki and the nine tailed fox was frustrated, it went both ways with the sphinx and the little phoenix. While they seemed to be able to drive them off, they can't seem to land a finishing blow.
"This is strange, the alarms should have warned the others by now", thought the sphinx. For them to have such a grand battle to go unnoticed was very alarming.
"The only explanation is that someone on the inside tampered with the system..."
"This isn't good, a traitor in our midst...", after this frightful revelation, the sphinx realized something very bad was at hand, behind the scenes.
"Should I run?", thought the sphinx.
"The contract would be breached and my reputation would be damaged... but my life is far more important.", after weighing the risks and rewards, he decided to abandon ship.
"Screw it, I'll activate my trump card!", the sphinx finally made up its mind and invoked a massive amount of faith into his throat.
"Hurry and use the thing that Horus gave you!", shouts the sphinx.
"Uh- got it!", the exotic colored parrot knew the sphinx was up to something and proceeded to take out the totem that Horus gave it for emergencies from it's space storage treasure.
"HUH?", it was an instant dungeon escape item! But it was strange as it was having trouble opening a portal! The portal was only pea sized and was expanding at a pace of a snail as if it was a site reloading. Something is causing it to duffer!
"This must be the reason why the alarm hadn't been sounded! We are in a spatial lock!", thought the sphinx.
Some one must have tampered with the sealed dimension! Thankfully Horus had enough insight to give the little parrot such a grand gift and it proceeded to bypass the spacial lock and continue to expand the portal, but the spatial lock was proven to be high level and it could not be fully opened before the fox and Loki got to them! He had to buy more time!
"NOOOOOOO!", shouted the fox and Loki simultaneously. They forcefully invoked massive amounts of faith into their bodies to break free. The moment the totem was taken out, they knew it was some divine item due to the fluctuation the item gave off.
"In the name of the god of riddles, STOP!", it was the special authority of the sphinx's godhood! As he was known for his dirty joke-er, riddles, many came to fear his daunting questions. For one who speaks with such power in his words, they began to have a mysterious effect on those who he speaks to.
The nine tailed-fox and Loki were abruptly frozen in place once again. They immediately tried to undue his binding words through brute force.
Noticing that his command won't last long he issues another order.
He filled his mouth with a massive amount of faith and integrated it with his authority, stringing his words, that turned into a commanding decree they can't disobey.
"Show yourselves!", demanded the sphinx. All the illusions in the room were disrupted. The real figures of the fox and Loki were revealed! His words echoed within the mind of his enemies.
"Ahhhhhhhh!", screamed Loki. The voice was unblock-able and he was forced to comply and he undid "all" of his illusions.
"Answer this riddle, what does a Bleep- do to a Bleep-?"This was his finishing blow, they are subjected to his authority and a certain rule so that if his opponent were unable to answer his riddle they would be frozen in place and he would receive a massive power boost and they would be rendered powerless if they failed to answer correctly!
"Its bleep-", answers Loki without a pause.
The sphinx:.....
The nine tailed fox: I knew it. All men should be castrated.
The nine tailed fox was reassured with her goal and was more than ever driven to carry it out.
The innocent phoenix: What a Bleep- and a Bleep-?
"Its bleeeeeleeeeeeeep- and it goes into the bleepppppppp- which bleep- comes out.", said Loki calmly without missing a bleep.
The sphinx: ...I was not expecting that.....
Isis: Don't say those words again! Also don't teach my baby that stuff!
The phoenix: Ok, mom...
Sphinx: Sorry...
The riddle was broken and quite easily at that.
"Nobody could solve that riddle for years!", gasped the sphinx.
"Heheh", he was the god of trickery and took on many forms and was a ambiguous lover who sired many weird monsters, naturally he was well versed in such detestable ways.
The sphinx: It was even recommended to me by Ra, himself!
Ra: You don't have to tell everyone that....
The riddle was broken and so was the authority of the sphinx! His power up instantly vanished....
Loki and the Fox:"heheheheheh", while cracking their knuckles.
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Currently on the battlefield.
"I knew it!"an angry voice surprised Set from behind.
What Set saw when he turned around was a body of a gigantic frost giant , and standing triumphantly on top of it was Horus. Horus had finally slayed the leader of the giant. He had his thoughts and suspicions, but this proved them all along. He activated his glowing eye and was keeping tabs on Set the whole time.
The moment the illusion was dispelled and including the fact that his little bro activated the totem he gave it for emergencies, Horus had caught Set red handed. He had colluded with outside forces!
The mirage was dispelled! The illusion was running out of its gas. The faith fueling it would have eventually depleted, but it still had a good few more hours left in it. This was all due to the efforts of the sphinx! But he would find out about his contribution until later, if he even lived to hear it...
"Loki really did have a situation on his end...", sighed Set. The plan was in shambles, and his treacherous deeds exposed!
"Oh well", said Set unworried. While the whole facade was destroyed, Set didn't seem too phased.
He looked up in the skies and it seemed that Ra and Amaterasu were still engaged in a devastating battle. They were really going at it with each other....
"As expected with primordial gods who are closest to the origin...", but even if Horus is exposing him, Ra wouldn't be able to hear them as the 2 sun deities were to emerge in their quarrel. As for the rest, he had another plan in mind for them...
Set dropped all formality and unleashed his wicked intentions on Horus. His failure and his disgrace was right in front of him. His little nephew that defeated him and he will regain the throne and his honor!
"Die!!!!!", screams Set.
He retrieved his own Khopesh sword and fiercely crossed swords with Horus.
"Lord Horus and Lord Set have begun fighting?!?!?", clambered the gods in panic.
"What?!?!?"
"What do we do?!?!?"
"What happening???"
They thought they had the upper hand, after Horus defeated the frost giant and the rest of the giants proceeded to retreat, but Horus suddenly rushed to attack one of their leading tacticians and leaders! Horus just slayed a powerful foe and Set was busy fighting another power enemy. Many were not aware of the situation so many were wondering if one of them betrayed the other.
The monsters were mindlessly still attacking and the Egyptian forces were frozen in confusion with no leader to direct them. The Japanese forces were also in a conundrum with the unforeseen circumstance, their goddess was too busy duking it down with Ra to notice as well....
The Egyptian gods all turned to Isis for direction, as she was now with the most seniority after Ra, Set, and Horus. With no other choice Isis was forced to be the commander temporarily.
"Lets first deal with the monster forces first!"
"Healers get in line with me!"
"Magicians regroup and ready your spells."
"Those on the front lines retreat and fight together as a collective group!"
"Move!!!!!", Isis wasn't just a helpless woman. She schemed against Ra and guided her son to dethrone Set in revenge over her husband who was killed by him!
Ra:....
Set:....
Isis: Sorry my lord..... but fuck you Set!
"Son... be careful", she tenderly looked at Horus and thought of her other child as well.
"Be safe...", she wished them.Her softened expression later hardened into a leader and she commanded the forces to deal with the problem at hand.