Mexafrica Part 3: The knight in white armor Chapter 24. Chapter 24
Now alone, Sydney Greenstreet,
or more exactly a clone of Supreme Commander, watched with obvious delight of a Arnould Charmeleu shaggy, mud bathing in a sickening, still wearing his hauberk with mesh tarnished and rusty now adhered to the skin, the shirt covering the past have disappeared. Forgetting the heavy gate of the cul-de-sinister dungeon, the black sphere anthropomorphized penetrated to his prey and he coolly explained why she was eliminated.
- Pitiful human creature, so ridiculous and so proud of both! It does not involve the destruction in vain! When inspired by the Evil One, when it wants, we tend to forget that absolute evil means the total destruction! Now, you see, I was conceived precisely for this task, and because you, Charmeleu, you have dedicated your entire life to this evil, it is logical that you end your life in pain! While you are dying by inches, you fade away into nothingness, I collect all the information that you, humble and ridiculous carbon unit, you've collected for my ingéniée greater profit.
Noting then head one last glimmer of defiance in his eyes, spat in the face of Arnold his tormentor and executioner
- Since you are, sir Satan, a perfect hedonist, I accept my fate! My soul was lost long ago, of course, I admit, but I lived well. I missed nothing. I knew wealth, power and triumph!
- Yesh ... All this passes, passes away, ephemeral and fleeting! There is no hell, limited human, only a grand unified point of zero Pantransmultivers anything is possible, where all the potential to confuse! Are you disappointed?
- Why would I?
- You'll fall into nothingness! There will be nothing left of you! You will not even know you were such a short time!
- I do not care! I will not suffer anymore!
- Ah! My mission from the beginning of all was to sabotage the Life! Any possible universe must see the day! I aspire to eternal None! At Infinity of Nothing! However, to know what each little give, I leave some time in these worlds ... or, what is the time for me? An illusion, a delusion! Thus, to think freely, their flanges released, this potential continues chugging along their merry way. But when I read back enough information, I destroy them! With the satisfaction of a job well done! Remember Arnould, before bypass, the One Truth: to destroy the world, to erase, to annihilate the Pantransmultivers to prevent it from being simply, Death, more precisely, the entropy must know Have there been or what could be! Destroy no use without knowledge nothing! So, I must register, even save, always save. Such is my lot, this is my mission. Until I stand Alone!
Thus ended the response of the black sphere which suddenly disappeared in a flash purple to go instantly into the Empire of Texcoco to assist and monitor simultaneously Pavel Pavlovich. When the Entity landed in the place, it rematerializes under the innocuous Sydney Greenstreet.
Meanwhile Charmeleu seen spinning his final moments. Living Spaces inexplicably began to shrink. Water stagnant in which he floundered for too many days went back while the wall, corroded, undermined by the infiltration of the Nile, was shaking and was shaking.
But there was worse! The sphere could not be satisfied with this end of the most classic. Alter egos out of touch from the Baron, just as lousy as it is well recognized is the Supreme Commander of the humor impaired, he contended that the place most guests as well as hot increasingly rare for a foul air. Within seconds, it was tens of Arnold who crowded into ragged few cubic meters, reliving the ordeal in advance the terrible dark room designed by a Shah of Persia of the eighteenth century!
Then macabre note, added two sacred crocodiles of the Nile, one of the largest size, entered the waters of the river through the breach that widened. Dinosaurs fought frantically for their prey. Thus perished Charmeleu half eaten, half-drowned! Finally, satisfied, crocodiles also died, crushed by the rubble of the cul-de-dungeon collapsing.
... Yet. Soon all resumed a normal appearance to the final PS! The Illusion of Supreme Commander ceased to function. However, there remained many Arnould livid as a corpse, the horrible grin, eyes empty setting off for eternity. In fact, the Grand Master of the Buena Muerte had died of a heart attack caused by an intense fear.
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In one of his tricks which he was familiar, the clone of the Entity had carried the small group of Daniel Wu inside a labyrinthine underground necropolis that had to quickly learn the outcome on pain of death. Of course, UFO had not been forgotten. Once again, Fermat gave vent to his exasperation.
- Damn dude! The actor has decided to revive the events recorded and stored in our memory multiple! The galleries of termitoïdes or else the temple mandala created by Johann!
- Excuse me, gentlemen, but I do not understand! Fit Stankin gently. You have already met once, that being harmful, I see ...
- In a way, "replied Daniel. Elsewhere, in other clock lines.
- Mmm. You failed to present ... except the obvious fact that you are Earthlings from a technician that my future more real time, that one of you clearly does not belong to this dimension or that reality This, as you, Fermat, who speak and express your frustration with plenty, are of French origin, and certainly a former military soldier, you know nothing or almost! Ah! I forgot! Daniel has a great strength, superhuman ... Nanotechnology probably did see in this capacity ...
- Stankin, you make a remarkable observer! Commander Wu laughs Since we must be polite ... here's Sir Knight Philip arm of the Justice and Welfare in the thirteenth century wonderful. Andre Fermat, former commander in the 1045 fleet planets, Ambassador of the Alliance and usually myself, Daniel Lin Wu, the only actually existing in that android daryl Alliance, at least to my knowledge, since the Treaty of 2354 Mowelle .
- Enchanted.
- In fact, we have year 2517, commissioned by Admiral Trabinor. In our world, the Galaxy is in shambles ... and undergoes a war ...
- Trabinor Trabinor ... I attended the Academy of Sciences, there are nearly eighty years ... compared to the year 2192 AD.
- This is the great-grand-son, who commanded the Alliance Fleet.
- Tell me, gentlemen, let there socializing and care about us the way out of this cursed trap! Ambassador grew impatient.
- You're absolutely right Andrew. This Supreme Commander is a leech crossbred Cobra particularly stubborn in the worst case.
- Alas! I think we did manage to get rid of it by denying its existence! Sighed the Hellados.
- Denying Death? Why not? I feel like it ... but we will need a great strength of mind ... By putting us in a trance, using the teaching of Buddha, we must be able ...
- Oh! If you really want ... Stankin uttered. Just get back into the innocence of childhood ... and maintain equanimity, equanimity any helladienne acquired after many decades of study. Are you trained to do this, my liberators?
- I give up! Andrew threw a few minutes. I am incapable of such mental feat! Rather try to get out of here conventionally.
- Good. But that door Ibertin now totally aphasic?
- Me! Philip smiled. It weighs nothing and it is partly because of me that we now find ourselves trapped in this necropolis. Furthermore, I see in the dark as the sun. Like you, Daniel.
- You've noticed. So you know that we are trapped inside a huge necropolis, probably located in the outskirts of Cairo, judging the geological observation of the ground, a tomb containing the mummies of sacred animals sacrificed all , Apis bulls, rams, cats, crocodiles, ibises, baboons and more.
Ufo, not frightened by the morbid atmosphere of the place and confined, revolved around the mummies rotting there for tens of centuries. Perhaps he expected to feed on these dusty flesh because his stomach gurgled loudly!
- Can you really get out of this tomb with your donations nyctalopic? Andre made very skeptical.
- Probably. The room in which we are now is all about birds as evidenced by the thousands of jars stacked to the ceiling. Daniel inquired of-factly.
- Mmm. Muttered Ambassador increasingly suspicious, recognizing the nonchalant attitude taken by the android daryl hunt for concern.
- And the smell noxious? Stankin added. Breathing such hints does he not a danger to our health?
- But we have a mini respirator! Exclaimed Daniel. Here, Stankin.
After connecting the device, daryl took on an authoritative tone:
- Ufo here! These debris are absolutely rotten inedible, believe me!
Under the mental punishment of his master, the cat, sheepish, came back, tail low, near Daniel. However, very excited, he began to turn on itself, smelling of here and there, feeling the proximity of his fellow mummies.
It was not without difficulty that the respirator was applied on the nose of Ibertin. Then, this task is completed, the Hellados sank, broke a jar and torches manufactured to facilitate the progress of all in this maze. However, the new lighting gave off a pungent odor which provoked a particularly dry cough, for they were all stiffened ibis mummies in a bitumen-old burning as well.
Ufo took advantage of the brief distraction of his master to spin like an arrow. Naturally, the cat did not seek a hypothetical pittance! He wanted to find a way out, having realized that in these dark places, if nauseating, there was no food tasty!
- Ah! This Ufo! So follow my pet! Exclaimed Daniel. Let us trust his instincts. His meows are clear.
So did the four men thus avoiding various traps available to them, that is to say pools spiky stones tilting at times the most inadequate, countless dead ends and many others. Corridors and chained themselves to the flames flickering torches, although many acknowledge our explorers intermingled bones where still adhered shriveled remnants of flesh, all this amidst the debris of jars, fragments more or less contaminated by ancient fluids. The mummies were baboons, crocodiles and cattle.
Andrew had to make its way in expressing his disgust for among all these bodies, he identified several aborted fetuses or dead human origin, anencephalic considered sacred baboons. Sometimes, even, bony arms of hamadryas clung to the legs of the intruders as endowed with life. No discomfort unlike the French, rejected these Stankin spoils while Fermat, with a face made explicit the fall of dust kicked.
But the caterwauling of UFO approached, becoming more distinct. Accelerating the pace despite the obstacles, the group finally reached the cat who ran from an urn to the other, bounded on the jars, rubbed against them and come back to the tunnel in a incredible state of excitement! So why the fuss? In fact, this was the sacred cats had found their final resting place!
However, the ceiling diffused light. Clearly, the presence of a well was there for many. The moonlight seemed brighter than thousand suns to our buried alive. They were anxious to leave this stinking necropolis by countless mummies decomposed.
Andrew and Daniel, who seemed to have foreseen everything, they unfolded accrochèrent ropes at the edge of the well and preparing all the rise of Ibertin when Jacques was suddenly seized with a furious frenzy. Maybe it was the fault of the fumes mephitic room?
The Monk Knight was convinced that the gallery contained a trove of gold dust, precious stones, amber and weapons set with jewels. He also believed that cats were mummified guards intractable.
With a force coming from who knows where, with uncontrollable rage, he began to break those mummies in which he saw demonic creatures agitated and attack. In his ears, mewing of Ufo turned into strident calls for vengeance. For him, the cat pushed his brothers in the assault against the thief, he had to kill the Defiler!
Illusion reached such a degree that it seemed to become collective! The hordes of mummified cats desecrated straightened despite moldy bandages around them, sharp claws tore tissue and soft bodies and withered jumped in for the kill in the direction of Knight sacrilege.
But instead of retreating under the attack of Ibertin continued his mad and futile destruction. Stankin well tried to grab the arms of the soldier monk but he was suddenly engulfed by the thousands and thousands of sacred remains. After the last breath of Ibertin, illusions dissipated and returned to limbo while the room found his original appearance.
Having no other choice but to abandon the body of Jacques d'Ibertin, the quartet began to climb, and once in the open air, and said the point was directed . This was a fairly easy task for those who knew the position of stars. On the edge desert, the necropolis was distant five miles from the camp where Irina, Geoffrey and his friends, not to mention Uruhu Violetta and had found refuge. Before entering the northbound, Stankin pronounced the epitaph of Jacques Lord of Ibertin a voice devoid of emotion .
- Humans are struggling to control the tumult of their feelings. So often times, they pursue dreams that the terraces. This was the disastrous fate of Ibertin. He finally know peace!
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After a warm reunion, the Hellados was presented in the rules at the master Mayakovsky, chief pilot and the Uruhu trio of teenagers. At the sight of K'Tou, Stankin raised an eyebrow in surprise but resumed immediately. Quietly probing Neanderthal, he knew why the commander Wu had selected to pilot his ship.
As Violetta she bowed ceremoniously to the scientist, according to the complex protocol helladien the letter, but as if she had to deal with President of the planet in the flesh!
- Mademoiselle Stankin was partly amused, my modest person does not deserve such an honor!
- Your Highness, allow me not to be with you! You have before you one of your most fervent and sincere admirers, "said the teenager with aplomb in the researcher's mother tongue, a language she mastered to perfection although she could understand musical intonations particularly difficult for non Helladoï palace. Plus, you're the inspiration and mentor to Sarton, one that allowed our existence at all! Your theories are taught at the Academy of Fleet and your success at the prep school to pass the entrance examinations for classes diplomacy.
- And you are one of the best students ...
- Let's stay humble!
increasingly amused Stankin avoided, however, preferring to smile and take Ufo in his arms, began to caress him. He had befriended the cat and the latter, however capricious and difficult to approach generally and allowed himself to be purring with delight.
Any such meeting shared one last meal together. It was time to finally join the Mexafrica. Indeed, Daniel had a mental message to capture Antor informing him that he had managed to pinpoint the Soviets. But Zoël Amsq was not far either!
- U Kiku And You? Daryl worried the android.
- neither seen nor felt! Replied the vampire with a mime indefinable. You issued Stankin, great! At least it got to!
- Exactly. We explain in detail what the two missing pieces of his bio translator.
- About Daniel ... I learned that one of the elements was hidden in the treasure room of Nanki coatl Bembe!
- Dammit! Bravo! But how did you come to this conclusion?
- In reading the minds of senior officials of the Moro Naba, just my brother!
- No say! Without you I'm not as effective as Trabinor Venge and believe!
- Do not go up call me "Father Joseph"!
On this point, abruptly interrupted Antor telepathic link.
The reminder allowed the shuttle Einstein, fully functional and efficient, it was not too early to rematerialize. Then Daniel, Andrew and Hellados, who despite his slight technical delay could support them - after all this was he not a genius that the Treaty of Mowelle not yet signed did not interfere - harnessed to verification engine and AI.
This task very delicate, however, that only took two hours. Since Zoël had left the clock line and especially since the death of Charmeleu, the wonderful and fantastic speed loomed large V. Philippe alone remained the knight who had an important mission to complete.
Then came the goodbyes. Philip shook Daniel Wu fraternally against his chest, giving him a hug and said
- Sir Daniel I pray for the success of your plans and companies. May God have you, you, your wife, and all your friends in His holy keeping! Do not worry sir Kiku, speaking your lizard! He is safe. Not long ago, he managed to escape from the hands of malicious creatures who had captured him.
- Mmm. Be an angel, even incarnate has its advantages! Irina sighed.
- Mayakovsky Captain! Andre choked.
- So why so much excitement? This is not the truth perhaps?
- Knight, "said Daniel, what do you do?
- Ensure firstly that our Lord the King Louis has paid his ransom. That his captivity is not too hard and that sort of this hallowed event. God will provide. I stay in these lands pending its next issue.
- Whether you want? Daryl uttered the android. The protection of the Buddha? I dare ...
Then suddenly knelt Irina asking for herself and Tatiana blessing.
- Lady Irina, "said Philippe confused. I can not ...
- The priests are only men can ... as an envoy of God ...
- atone for a grave sin!
- Who does not prevent you, however, overcome the hordes of the devil! Geoffroy launched.
- past, I have also saved from the clutches of Agatha Nicole Ogo and ...
- And you've fallen in love!
- I love humans as brothers and no ...
- Do not procrastinate so much! God is Mercy and Forgiveness!
- Good!
Philip went to the insistence of Irina and blesses the young woman and her child. Afterwards, the knight left the shuttle a few seconds later took off and disappeared from this reality will. Now the brave little ship was crossing the different circles and multiple spiral deflection to reach its goal of year 2148 of the Universe 1790 in the Empire of Texcoco!
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Egypt had not completed his political uncertainties. Turan Shah, the last of the Ayyubid sultans, that is to say, belonging to the house of Saladin, was deposited and tortured by the country's new strongman, Baibars. This then established the dynasty of the Mamelukes.
A cruel warrior came to bring to Louis IX, still a prisoner in his cell, the heart of Sultan tortured and killed. New test for the future saint.
Following tough negotiations, Louis signed a contract for the surrender of Damietta. However, the ransom, huge for its time, of 400,000 pounds was paid and the sovereign was finally released May 6, 1250.
The Crusaders then joined the Holy Land where they settled in until April 1254. First, the king moved to Acre and this, in mid-May 1250. In March 1251, he changed his residence from Nazareth, Caesarea, Jaffa and other cities. However, Philip was always at his side.
Daniel Lin's departure had finally put an end to the thirteenth century deflected. For their part, TQT and NSA had also fled this world and joined with Texcoco using p and their translators built in series.
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