Mexafrica Part 3: The knight in white armor Chapter 23. Chapter 23
The Black Swan was able to deceive the vigilance of insectoid who guarded by plunging into fresh hypothermia, that is to say, in sleep monitored. For Velkriss and Pi a volatile asleep posed no danger. So, surveillance was naturally released. The occupants were wary of more werewolves!
Without qualms, the Velkriss had been content to lay the lifeless body of a swan in a refrigerator with no doubt intended to be used later as a food reserve.
Eloum was out of his icy prison and gone in search of children. Rightly thinking that they had taken refuge in the less attractive of the vessel and not in the engine room, the maintenance center of AI, its annexes or the engine room extra super arrest, he fly the first time! Indeed, in those places, does that made slaves assimilated the lowest caste Haan and insect workers, programmed to perform only one task relatively simple. These beings despised, intelligence very Limited, were quite unable to notice any anomaly.
However, the warning alarm continued purple, twisting ears, and movements of caparisoned soldiers were proliferating at all levels of Langevin, either in warehouses, indoor transport, maintenance of coolants or others.
In this turmoil, this anthill not yet panicked, nobody paid any attention to Eloum followed by children.
The little band trying to reach the hospital in which secondary Lorenza was formally confined. None of the four do knew that the shapeshifter had borrowed the appearance of Haan, and thus she was able to sneak up to a computer allowing access to files Haäsucq secrets!
The swan and the kids changed their level by the emergency evacuation tubes. Despite their young age, Matthew, Isaac and Mary were shown a remarkable coolness. Without difficulty, all arose in a hangar guarded by two soldiers who Velkriss at the sight of the intruders began to frantically shake their mandibles and legs ending in pincers artificial. While doing this, insects emit warning pops quite unbearable and pheromones, not to mention the rustling of antennas and elytra.
Eloum does not dismounted cleanly and knocked the two guards with a velocity denouncing his professionalism. Then he broke the neck of a third occurred unexpectedly, with their beaks. In the attack near a marvelous speed, its wings had helped!
But in turn, Velkriss took flight. In the air, they attempted to neutralize the black swan. However, the shed proved too narrow to allow the flight of so many insects, they have not enough lift.
Now, in this confined space, there were twenty Velkriss which clashed violently clashed, and, therefore, become totally ineffective in their cons-attack!
Eloum took advantage of this disorder to land. Then he quickly maneuvered the opening of the bunker, during this time, this fight semi aborted children had taken shelter behind the drums. Immediately open the airlock, oxygen was abruptly ejected with insectoid who had the stupidity to stay in flight. Some of Velkriss tried to cling well, which in containers, in which metal pillars. Not a chance! Most eventually cut in half! He remained in these miserable Warriors trunks and some members still clinging to the walls of hard steel. The last survivors were plated ceiling against which they crashed! Their bodies changed in hue, their shells turning to brown, a dull brown and sickly!
However, two or three soldiers managed to enter into hibernation in the open vacuum of space and ended well into orbit around Langevin. If the command recovered enough quickly, perhaps they would be saved!
While children, half frozen and asphyxiated, were standing somehow stowed behind the drums and began to sink into torpor, Eloum not fared so far.
Indeed, a joint patrol Haan / Castorii arrived a corridor. She fired at the black swan, all loaded block disruptors. But the lieutenant of security used his natural fluidity to dodge the deadly rays.
However, Eloum thought his moments count. However, luck was with him as a group of wolves led by the sign Rhurr came as reinforcements. The werewolves placed the children under their protection. They had managed to free themselves from their cells in their butchering guards, taking advantage of the panic resulting from the purple alert.
Then Rhurr ordered everyone to take refuge in the room holosimulation number 3 where the expected Kronkos Kiiv.
During the retreat orderly, a lycanthropoïde name Shuir was killed by a concentration of fire disruptors Haan. Any scorch the fur of the deceased gave off a pungent odor. Rhurr swore avenge his comrade. For himself, he growled:
"The training of my Head You U Kiku was helpful! If he could see how I'm doing now in simulations and in reality! .
Continuing under fire burning, swans, wolves and children still managed to reach the holo room 3. Behind them the door closed automatically in a barely audible hiss. The seconds were added while the latter, not reaching any Haan violate the security code of the portal. The sergeant who commanded Tsanu XIII demanded the pack with a p . Omicron devoted himself.
But Mathieu, endowed with extrasensory abilities felt the arrival of the semi-entity and gave the alarm.
- Ouch! Cried the child of Daniel. Behind the door, a p just materialize! He did not take thirty seconds to force the security of holo room! Even if my father had tampered with the code!
- What can we do? Eloum worried.
- die with courage! Roared the Troodon adjusting his weapon.
- No! I better! Mathieu did so with confidence. Computer emergency code 1200! Jeta he snapped in a tone of command unanswerable. Embeds all levels from 10 to 15 programs in one!
Without any transition, suddenly, the reality of the bare room, gridded squares forming a transparent cube, toppled, but it changed to reveal a fantastic kaleidoscope mingled all training programs extremes, edge of survival, it was human or not!
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When Omicron Pi , the NCO Castorii Servius, the sergeant and the rest Haan soldiers finally entered into the holo room, the deepest darkness reigned! For the record, it is worth recalling that Captain Wu was the author of these training programs and that they adapted themselves, in normal use, the physical and intellectual abilities of applicants. But here, a p was present and would be tested, making it quite impossible to survive his companions!
Unexpectedly, suddenly shone in the dark bottles of strange format jeroboam. They contained unknown liquids which floated in abject things. Meanwhile, whistles invaded the room, going grew louder every second, reaching a sharp unbearable.
But what was there inside those bottles max? A horror, of course, macabre touches Miss Violetta Sitruk! Enlarged heads, embryonic presented face at different stages of development and fusion, reminiscent of buds Alphaego with faces.
Subjected to an intense bombardment of ultrasound, their ears too sensitive, Haans saw their discomfort increase. Sergeant Haan, under the throbbing pain, roaring incomprehensible insults and, exhausted, took out his disruptor to end this nightmare. Immediately imitated by his peers, he had an idea: take the bottles to content monstrous.
While bleeding from ears and nose were multiplied, and the bright rays of handguns broke bottles, ultrasound, reached the power and intensity needed, went totally crazy valiant warriors of Haäsucq.
But debris from jeroboams arose heads swollen and deformed embryo which immediately attacked their attackers and this, in semi darkness which added to the atmosphere of the spooky holographic reconstruction. Substitutes for Alphaego soldiers turned around to become their turn attacked, biting them savagely, their sharp teeth piercing their broignes.
But the attackers were defending themselves and each time a burst Haan was a horrible head, it is recomposed once but four copies! The Red Warriors had opened Pandora's box!
The situation was getting worse every second. Minister of cavities caused by plasma weapons, legions of mites gushed like vomited by hell. Then they crept into the armor of Haans, reaching the sensitive flesh. Devoured of the Interior, many warriors died, others were turned into meat especially tender and teeming with filthy pests.
now submerged, almost defeated, their clothes reduced to rags, soldiers Tsanu XIII could be counted on the fingers of one hand!
However, Omicron p during this first assault had not been idle: he had called the troops as reinforcements. Thus, Castorii the Haans Velkriss and jostled in the holo room. As it should, the simulation went to another level ...
Suddenly, without any transition, all these admirable champions toppled backwards into a dimension to rebound deflected to the extreme depth of the abyssal ocean Haäsucq unique to the peaks Hellas, going from twenty thousand feet to more than twenty-seven thousand with predictable consequences.
Under the almost instantaneous change in pressure, the shells of Velkriss broke out in a non-artistic, while under the gaze of Omicron p , the dismembered bodies of Castorii and Haanas was propelled violently in all directions. However, the semi-entity was not disturbed by the realism of the simulation. Indeed, décadimensionnelle creature, the p could theoretically move without danger to its integrity almost everywhere in the Panmultivers, including within virtual realities most extreme.
But precisely, the decor and the party had to change again ...
Now, Haans who managed to survive by miracle wandered through mazes protean, subways Kronkos who constantly reshaping. Everywhere, firedamp gushed, was leaking. The multiple projections flaming warriors sniping prisoners of underground tunnels. Thus, five soldiers Velkriss, although one of the most experienced chutèrent into abysses of a thousand meters deep chasms suddenly formed under the legs of insectoid. The latter, taken by surprise, had not had time to go gliding! Still others were drawn violently through chimneys or ducts side within which the friction of the air combined of force projection accelerated kindled the bodies of unwary.
Blinded, unable but suffering, his face horribly burned by the Geysers and sulfur springs, the Castorii Servius fired at random in the stalactites. However, his rash action resulted in triggering a landslide that took five more corpses.
Without any emotion, Omicron Pi Servius abandoned to its fate. The NCO groaned, did not even aware he was crying, his legs crushed by debris. The
dead never ended accumulate. Insectoids decidedly unlucky or particularly clumsy, were swallowed up, which by the lava, which, by the sulfuric water drains, which by the caldera, which by the abrupt rise of underground rivers smoking.
disoriented and panicked, a centurion Castorii fell victim of a terrible trap, believing seen classics quicksand, he began to walk along a wall to get around them. But it was covered with a foam of the cannibals! These suckers vampire clung to his body and feed all the juices of the unconscious. Soon, even the skeleton spent!
The massacre continued.
Through the maze of caves in gypsum, sulfur, calcite, rock crystal or ice, Velkriss troops, and Castorii Haans who lost their valiant qualifier, succumbed with great regularity. Say that, by comparison, the officers of Langevin is coming out without breaking or nearly this simulation with a few sores ridiculous!
Here, the fearsome fangs Migoo Archosaur-biting relentlessly broignes, chitins, swallowing the warriors, brushing indigestion. Invaders, Yet trained, do not believe they were only enfançons were unstoppable colonized by crystals, and that, internally and externally. Despite their cries of terror, the soldiers found themselves trapped inside an unbreakable gangue or ended completely dissolved, or even more abominable, saw their bodies and their members infected with foul and sickly buds that popped up all crystalline their bodies become infested.
A Haan imposing stature exploded without warning, a tree rose quartz out of his mouth. Of Similarly, a coral calcite grown in him, a Velkriss disintegrated, splashing pulp and chitin his companions in misfortune.
This massacre had not lasted five minutes! There remained qu'Omicron Pi . On its face the wolves. To add to the difficulty, the simulation jumped several levels, and well done for the bold, reached the final stage!
Immediately, the body was tossed to the core of a star, participating despite herself in the synthesis of hydrogen and helium. But there was more to defeat Pi !
The simulation had the feeling as it was complicated. So, Omicron was teleported into a micro-universe, the scale of the quark. Trying to struggle, be décadimensionnel found himself trapped inside a proto particle which grows and develops super strings tying the intruder and enclosed it in an unbreakable thread.
Mathieu believe could have permanently weakened the enemy. However, the child was mistaken because it was still only a recreation only in four dimensions!
As expected, moving around the memories of the holo room Omicron p parasites without firing a shot!
So soon, and almost simultaneously, a mirror array formed around werewolves which passed, oozing ice, a myriad of double Omicron. Everything had become p , reflecting glass, ceiling, walls and floor. This multitude began to drizzle lethal rays the security guards! In turn locked but this time in micro bubbles temporal phase shifted, Wolves suffered the quartering quantum, that is to say, rejuvenation, aging, slowing, acceleration, compression, stretching their cells and atoms.
Several guards eventually burst, too distended. In this mowing lives subsisted only as children, Eloum, Kiiv and Rhurr.
Omicron How to stop? Was that even possible?
However, the AI had been preprogrammed by Daniel Wu with this basic law basic: to protect at all costs Mathieu, Isaac and Mary. It seemed that the commander of Langevin had anticipated the attack.
Reacting in less than a femto second, artificial intelligence isolated the small group of survivors in a micro-universe cut off from the rest of reality, micro-universe quite impenetrable. To find a flaw in this bubble, it was necessary that the invader was able to move on sixteen planes of existence at once, what a p could accomplish!
Our Omicron proud vain abandon its envelope and human decoy to build, is the maximum phase shift of its ability, it failed to force the containment field of micro-universe. He did not get the slightest flaw, the smallest hole!
Transformed by his will, into a patchwork of wave energy drops from smashing against the steel containment fields, décadimensionnel be multiplied in vain assaults. All his efforts were unsuccessful to undermine his strength.
After a few too many minutes, the semi-entity had to solve recompose.
Again, Omicron attempted to parasitize the holo simulation programs. Before its apparent failure, he chose a new tactic: trigger a series of simulations against security devised by the commander Wu
Not surprisingly, Daniel had planned the parade! Who had he done to help?
More Omicron p baited, in fact he lost most of his physical! Finally feeling that he could weaken further, he resumed his usual envelope with a humanoid some relief.
But Omicron, presumptuous, had put too much time to react. Now it should retain its appearance for one year.
However, the holo simulation was not extinguished. A dome of Byzantine mosaics appeared. The characters represented, imperial or biblical, seemed endowed with life. Justinian and Theodora, his wife, their eyes glared at the dark intruder who dared to linger in the holo room.
Such a childishness in the staging would have been perfectly useless if it was not accompanied by discharges in pure charpakium, which originated from the landfill chrism and continuously bombarded the mortal body of Omicron now!
Beneath the waves of grief that overwhelms the p wept! For the first time in his long life, he experimented with physical suffering.
Laughing at these manifestations of weakness, the torture was prolonged, relentless. Now, being that no longer quite décadimensionnel was riddled by thousands of tiles that were virtual mosaics. The artwork is destroyed, crumbled with the sole aim of ending the intruder.
Almost blind, mad with pain and bloody, ran Omicron; under his feet, the scenery changed, turning into a Buddhist maze, a giant mandala with rows in a false perspective of infinity, statues of gilt bronze and wooden decked Thai origin of the holy man.
But whenever qu'Omicron trying to fix the moving set of his eyes blurred, he could see the component parts change forever. Colors faltered, inevitably paled or, conversely, became garish or fluorescent, or even faded in soft pastels to blend into nothingness.
However, on gold leaf applied along the rails, a sentence in the seventh century Pali returned as a leitmotif. The statues of Sakyamuni, featuring life, chanting now echoing this sentence while in the middle of the corridor appeared protean Ming cabinet of lacquered wood depicting a flight of cranes above a pond covered with lilies. In this piece, Li went Wu, in Chinese literature, recites the sentence of his musical voice.
"Of all the things from a cause, the Tathagata said the cause and it also revealed the termination, he, the great religious."
Then, silent, Li Wu snapped his fingers. At his command sound, statues transformed themselves one last time. Uruhu had participated in finalizing the program. Gods hybrid game encadrèrent men, rumbling, the p powerless and moron. Some of these deities composite attributes worthy of Cernunnos, the Minga Broohr or traits exhibited highly Erectus.
However, this was quite understandable because religion K'Toue its roots among the first awakenings of consciousness common to Homo ergaster, erectus from Java, Beijing, Dali, Solo, Atlas , Rhodesia, Ma-Pa, Mojokerto, Terra Amata, Mauer, Tautavel, Swanscombe, Heidelberg and many other forgotten or not. We can say that all these gods belonged to the collective unconscious of the first single species. Knew full well what the designer of this unconventional program!
Hungry, divine beings Omicron pounced on and made him suffer the worst torments.
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The stridulation exhausting purple alert sounded on the bridge of Langevin. The ship had violated the neutral zone of the Empire Olphéan. Velkriss, Haan and Castorii not understand how they had managed hitherto.
But now, the multiple screens of command level showed the exact coordinates of the journey.
Tsanu XIII was furious fists and bit her savagely as he finally realized that the AI of the Langevin had rolled! But useless, is not wasting his time ranting and anger!
All available officers were standing on a war footing, ready to hear the first summons and to undergo conventional attacks that would soon thereafter.
But it was just the opposite happened! Sudden and brutal and ultrasonic whistles made ears bleed vulnerable deep red warriors, along with hundreds and hundreds of iridescent bubbles translucent, the twelve colors of the rainbow in the universe of the Fourth Civilisation post-atomic, that of Michael Xidrù, vibrant, hooting and particularly annoying TV is carried across all levels of the ship, and especially in vital centers, gateway, IA, main engine room, they had previously scanned, in order to occupy and parasites. Here, no need raptor, fighter, bomber! Also unnecessary and outdated conventional tractor beams! The effectiveness of Olphéans was demonstrated.
After this first step of the collision, bubbles guards, taking control of their target prey, equipped with four-dimension faculties, created a wormhole that imprisoned the Langevin and sent instantly to the heart of the empire of machines. Ah, the hunt was good! It was now necessary to study this new game, then assimilate or destroy!
Aboard however, in the greatest disorder, Castorii Haan and tried to retaliate and diffuser with knives, trying to cut, slash of what could be, these unknown structures. Prompt in the parade, bubbles guards who could need if the imposed stretch, deform, borrow ellipsoidal shapes, like the famous limp watches of the Catalan painter Dali responded by swallowing fools and careless, the ingesting with perfect indifference to their protoplasm.
Inside the bubble, daredevils humanoid saw their biological structures analyzed. However, only artificial notions are tolerated, accepted.
Micro high-performance scanners scoured the smallest cells warriors awkward and presumptuous, RSS bizarrely colored bombed. Once the analysis is completed, dissatisfied, bubbles burned their content, dissecting the intruder can not be assimilated, the destructuring up the atom. Then, finally, the gray powder residue, carbon compounds were rough spat with disdain!
Overwhelmed, demoralized and frightened, Tsanu XIII threw a tremulous voice now:
- Daniel Wu is a Roog, a kind of demon demiurge Empowered, a dragon of fire and ice face of which we, Haans poor mortals are powerless! Why do I have listened that damned Zoël Amsq? Why have I succumbed to his venomous words so seductive promise me fame, power and wealth? Benjamin Sitruk worthy second in command, was able to lead us into a trap unstoppable! Tsanu First, the legendary founder, the Ultra powerful, the Federation! I implore you! Welcome me with you! Grant us your mercy!
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The mesh of the Crusaders hauberks gums heatedly attacked by scurvy and were smarting under rays of a scorching sun. Battered, dysentery-ridden, driven by parasites feasting at leisure on the unwashed bodies, deprived of healthy food for too many months, the Franks were more than the fevered and emaciated shadows of themselves. It was hardly the knights stood on their horses and bore the weight of their coats of mail. Column ailing, retired, stretching for several miles and laggards succumbed, swollen members, immediately harassed by scavengers.
Daniel Wu's group did not joined this routed army, composed of ghosts. Currently, the opportunity presented itself finally deliver Stankin jails Turan Shah and return to Damietta. Then he would revive the Einstein and his AI, partially disabled, had nevertheless been able to keep the ship out of phase. This thirteenth century fantastic, slightly deviated from ours, was going to fade, become manifestly unnecessary to the Great playmaker anonymous. Now, and he knew it, anywhere in the world, with a regular witness recall, Daniel succeed in an instant to call the shuttle.
Meanwhile, Stankin how to release that since the tragic death of Ayyub was more guarded than ever? Was he also once again take the peel of St. Bernard of galactic and save Ibertin and Jacques Arnould of Charmeleu? Philip was against the will of daryl android to abandon their doom both masters of Buena Muerte. Whatever their sins, they deserve forgiveness and mercy!
was also surprised that the Sultan did not have tortured, merely make them die slowly, in one of Ibertin in pace, Charmeleu in a cul-de-dungeon where soon the next season, the flooding of the Nile would drown!
For Daniel Wu, he was more than obvious that Stankin was spared, he was imprisoned in a dungeon ordinary, almost insignificant. As for the Baphomet, it now belonged to the Templars and serve as evidence against them in a few decades. Amsq, happy owner of the mandorla, seemed almost overcome. But it did not affect more than that Daniel. He said nothing but he had a backup plan. Perhaps he had resolved to call the Homunculus that slumbered in him ...
Philip knew his persuasive. Daniel had to be resolved to release three prisoners.
But what happened to U of Kiku Tu, also a prisoner, but on board the Raptor fire Zoël Amsq?
The enemy ship had joined the Mexafrica without difficulties at this time, even over time as more relative and flexible environment. The commander Wu does not challenge the resources of his security chief. Kiku was a lot of experience and was not as obtuse as he left, or appear to believe. Surely it would ultimately escape and return Antor and Tony Hillerman. There remained, however, and his hostage Fouchine Von Hauerstadt.
a few miles from the encampment tempsnautes, something unexpected happened: the Crusaders routed suffered another attack, an ambush Egyptians. The Muslims took over the King's person, recognizable by its arms and its standard bearer.
Belle ransom in perspective for gouty Turan Shah who spent his time between the harem, hashish and his hookah catches powder mummy supposed to revive his recent coital languor!
The tyrant had the idea absurd to lock Louis IX in the same dungeon that Hellados. A surprising result was confrontation that could have inspired the writers of Hollywood in quite a bit of imagination in the early twenty-first century! They were reduced, some think, to recycle old comics like Spiderman or X-Men!
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Upon arrival of his new companion in misery, Stankin left his meditative trance. Carefully observing the Christian, he was relieved that he had not dealing with a drunken brute educated but a knight who was approaching forty, a species of giant blond with blue eyes. However, like all humans of that era, and certainly because of the temperature - a small 47 ° C in the shade quite bearable for Hellados - and circumstances, the man stank. This detail did not detract from his civility.
The stranger saluted the oldest prisoner in a voice soft and firm at once, taking a Syriac Stankin converted to Christianity. The alien returned the favor, beating the average French perfectly. However, his customary composure cracking when identified his companion.
- Oh! But you are ... the King of France, Louis the Ninth! My humble and modest person is very honored by your presence!
Knowing the ceremonial Stankin to kneel when the King waved him to stand.
- Sir, let us leave all forms of courtesy. We are not in my palace of the Louvre! These greetings and these accolades do not befit the place.
In turn, without hiding, the king examined the Hellados. The stranger had managed to keep his dignity and a relative cleanliness. In this sordid prison, this was a feat! The precepts of Vestrak Stankin forced to try anything to preserve the superiority of the thinking and civilized animal regardless of the situation. Anything rather than return to the degrading state of nature!
At the bottom of the cell, there was a jug of water. However, the sovereign was thirsty. How long had he not drunk? So he began to get closer to the pot to extinguish the fire of his throat. Stankin understood intervened and, dare put one hand on the shoulder Royal.
- Sire, forgive my impertinence, but this water is for both of us now! It must not be used to quench his thirst. Freshen your mouth regularly you simply one gulp, that's all. Our jailers do we bring a new pitcher after tomorrow night.
As unthinkable as it may be, Louis obeyed. Stankin imposed by his look and his dignity.
King questioned the identity of his companion. A knight Syriac, certainly ... but not one of his vassals of France or a vassal of the English. Educated, cultured, the stranger spoke with some fluency in the language of the Ile de France and no accent yet! What intrigued the sovereign.
Is taking over, Louis attempted a question.
- Sir Knight, I confess, I wonder about you. You are not one of my subjects, obviously. Maybe you belong to the nobility of Britain? ... It does not matter. Your complexion is too dull, too dark. Come you Leon?
- Nay, lord king. My people do say nothing. I am a stranger to these countries, including India and Cathay. Oh! Fear not! There is nothing magic or witch in me. I do not practice black magic point, necromancy as much as I condemn you! I landed here after an unfortunate mishap, that's all. I do not know if one day someone will come to my rescue. The new sultan, Turan Shah spare me, hoping my friends receive a substantial ransom. I can only show me patient and I am resigned to my fate.
- In this case, this infidel will be filled by my capture. As soon as the regent, my mother, learns the news, she will contribute to the kingdom.
- Madame Blanche is known for its high resolution!
- Exactly! Approved with a smile Louis. For how long have you captive?
- Much more than a year if I am correct in my calculations.
- Ah! It sounds short, despite the thickness of the walls. The previous Sultan unfaithful, Ayyub, would have been a very cruel death. As if our Lord had struck him ...
- Ayyub coveted secrets banned words Stankin laconically. He punished himself!
Understanding that his companion would add nothing, the king was satisfied with this response.
hours, monotonous, passed. The two eventually get better acquainted. Louis IX was fascinated by the conversation and knowledge of Hellados. Stankin mastered all the philosophies on earth. He had read St. Augustine, Averroes, Thomas Aquinas, whose fame grew, Plato, Aristotle, the pre Socratics, cynics, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Isidore of Seville, Avicenna, but also thinkers whose names did not speak to the king, Confucius, Zarathustra, Mencius, Lao Tzu, Buddha ...
- Owner of science and scholarship Cathay Universal! Would you have gone through all these weird and wonderful countries failing to be born?
- Yes and no, sire. Cathay you seem far away, I understand that, but for me, this realm is only a stone's throw! I also admit that my best friends on this earth are Chinese. I refer specifically to a certain Wu Deng, my contemporary work to reclaim the art of calligraphy.
A long silence then. Louis IX was meditating. He deeply disliked to accept the consequences of words Stankin. According abroad, every religion, every philosophy had a positive side, it was necessary to preserve and cultivate. Voluntarily, he ignored the negative aspects.
But the Hellados knew full well that at that time believed required to convert the other or, if impossible, to kill him, physically, to save his soul! Tolerance, a concept quite improbable and unthinkable, could not exist in this century because, otherwise, it was allow the evil of human souls freely gather very weak, and then torture them for eternity, after the Last Judgement.
Stankin's eyes, the blame was divided between Christians and Muslims. The time had not come for humanity to reach another step in the scale of mental evolution. Understand why the king of France had destroyed the Cathars, was hard on them, did not mean he approved it! Alas, on this planet time, everyone was evidence of fanaticism and he could not be otherwise!
Feeling that he had revealed too much and that it should in no way alienate the friendship of the monarch, Stankin turned back. The alien then calmed the game
Asked Louis
- Are you then Mohammedan?
He replied in an even voice:
- Oh! Certainly not, sir king.
- In this case, kiss your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ?
- I respect and love my neighbor. I forgive my enemies. I revere my father and my mother and I do bow down to idols! Replied the smiling Hellados.
Louis IX reflected at length on the response and acceptance. It bothered him to dig further. Stankin seemed to him a companion in misery of the most honorable.
For the alien, the message of Jesus was admirable. But it had been hijacked by fanatics and people who only applied power.
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Forty-eight hours had passed and the jailers would soon renew the meager rations of prisoners. Leaning against the wall of his dungeon, overwhelmed by the intense heat, the king was dozing, eyes closed. Even rats ran over his legs were unable to rouse him from his torpor.
Feeling that he was not human, rodents Stankin avoided.
The keys to the heavy cell door rattled while the camera finally opened, creaking ominously. Découpèrent three silhouettes in the half darkness. Three jailers was too much honor!
Immediately Hellados the perceived uniqueness of the newcomers. Undoubtedly, they did not have a sinister-looking and, above all, they do not stink! Moreover, their Caucasian features and detonating one of them, despite the turban that partially concealed had a burning glance, inhuman. Immediately Stankin thought that this individual was a being from another reality and moved normally at the subatomic level. To hide in this world, he sported an image, an illusion, a mask that managed to fool most humans of that era.
In this description, you have recognized the Chevalier Philip! Supervised by Daniel Wu and Andre Fermat, he would issue the Hellados. The captors were asleep promptly by taking neural few moments earlier. In less than two chains Stankin fell on the floor filthy and swarming. This unseemly noise awoke the king. This then saw the broken chains of his fellow prisoner. They were cut at disruptor by Fermat. Philippe peering carefully, he recognized him as one of his faithful knights. In turn, he expected to be released.
- Deliver me, sir, and you'll be rewarded not by money but by the vile land.
- Ah! Lord King, I would like! But I can not! This would complicate the designs of God too! Divine Providence, in His infinite wisdom, decided that you had to endure this ordeal. Your soul is strong enough to withstand the torments of a hard captivity. It will emerge even more beautiful, purified. Believe in my promise, in my words. Your place is already booked through Christ our Lord.
Louis IX nodded, suddenly resigned. The look of Philip had convinced. If God wanted it that way ...
In vassal, submitting to the sovereign land, the white knight knelt and kissed the royal ring respectfully. Louis was not he anointed by God?
But Fermat recalled dryly to the current reality.
- Whoa! Knight! This is not the time to worship a future saint! We have two people to recover.
- Indeed, let us hasten! Daniel adds. The in-pace of Jacques d'Ibertin is twenty feet under. And, when properly administered, taking helladienne unconsciousness that does more than five minutes!
Abandoning the king and then closing the door of the cell, the quartet arrived without obstacle to in-pace, falling asleep here and there the Mamelukes when necessary. Andre spraying the heavy door open to them and took from his ignoble Ibertin rat hole. The man was terribly weakened by his captivity.
- should immediately administer a cocktail of vitamins! Found the ambassador.
sooner said than done, thanks to a special spray. Remained to reach the cul-de-dungeon of Arnold, the last basement, that is to say at the very level of the Nile, where seasonal floods drown prisoners bulky.
Not only there was a new door to destroy that child's play had a disruptor, but also a heavy gate sealed to the floor and a heavy and cruel yoke.
one flip, Daniel is already responsible for the door before the amazed eyes of of Ibertin and Stankin. UFO wondered about the identity of his rescuers.
Unfortunately, despite the absence of noise, the guards woke up suddenly, a general alert was launched and four able-bodied men had to face in melee while a regiment of heavily armed Mamelukes and particularly muscular.
Daniel Wu and Fermat, who did not wish to linger, used their disruptors disruptors to neutralize the Turks. However, the weapons were set to the user unconscious. Philip, as to him, wounded many with their thrust. When the opportunity presented itself, using the famous Stankin helladienne taken with a mastery that could only raise the most sincere praise.
As and when the enemy was neutralized, it was necessary to further verify and Jacques d'Ibertin qu'Ufo followed! Indeed, despite the ban of his master, the cat had been involved in transgenic small group with probably the chimerical hope of enjoying a delicious zakuski. Alas! The pig was very disappointed and, for now, despite whined to the discomfort location, moisture, and the abominable smell of mud and mold that assaulted his nostrils particularly sensitive. It should not omit the presence of rats in a monstrous size that had the good fortune to frighten the animal.
While the company had reached a corridor blocked by a gate lead of ten centimeters thick, it suddenly vanished, and the quartet, stunned, stopped dead! A most unexpected character framed opening new, eyeing Daniel Wu and his companions. The man looked like a sexagenarian of appreciable size, 1m 90, stout, marked to baldness, sunken eyes in a face-featured little riders, dressed in a luxurious suit Prince of Wales but wrinkled, wearing a felt hat under one arm and holding a heavy wool overcoat.
- Sydney Greenstreet! Daniel exclaimed, grinding his teeth. Or rather, here, Mr. Peter, in The Mask of Dimitrios !
- Bravo for your scholarship film, my dear captain Wu! Applauds the replica of the character. As you also know without a doubt, my favorite rant avatar is: "The world lacks goodness!
- Hold on! Hilarious from you! daryl said the android. Supreme Commander of the time you pull the strings of Pavel Pavlovich Fouchine! It has tried to thwart. Look! I know everything!
- or almost! Even today, unfortunately for you, and believe that I'm sorry, I must postpone to promote the action of my colt now delivered in the Moro Naba of Texcoco. Von Hauerstadt can not escape the gaze of her guardian hate.
- I see. Fouchine is particularly stubborn!
- Do not you be out of place? Greenstreet whistled.
- A commando KGB whole very caring for the Duke! Andre sniffed. It looks rather than your Pavel is scared to death!
- You Stankin! Said the avatar.
- You covet, as Zoël ...
- Not at all, dear Daniel Lin! Why bother with this? Charmeleu amply sufficient for my amusement, I have so few distractions ... I suggest you stop there and regain your future.
Raging, Fermat growled
- Whoever you are really what you are, clone, avatar, crazy machine, regardless of your power over things and beings, your grown cynical and false, do not allow you to challenge us, let alone us ridicule!
- Oh! Oh! As I threw her face! Bravo for your level, your courage and your impertinence! However, Mr. Fermat, I advise you to obey my order. For if you do not let me settle the fate of Arnold, who, admit it, you will be a shot, my friend Johann will be happy to disrupt the annihilation Universe bubble Mexafrica! So Von Hauerstadt toggle in the limbo of non-existence, period! Think it twice! Pick: Duke or this kind of fanatical dedication to the devil!
- I'll give you devotion to the devil, "said the knight carelessly. Face me yourself ordeal?
- Sir Philip Ho! Do not meddle in this fight! Exclaimed Daniel.
- I'm not too sure that you win! Andre added.
- Representative of Sire Ogo, Entropy as she the temerity to call themselves, I must try to save his soul!
- Philip Knight, you're wasting your time! Stop! One more step and I destroy everything! This decor and all of you!
- I dare you! Daniel then launched. The Neutral dispersed, you disappear too!
- The Neutral? You called the Neutral, Daniel Lin? You're wrong!
- A second yet ... I order this group ...
- And more ... mumbled Greenstreet in petto.
The daryl android heard but preferred not to meet. He resumed.
- I yield to your request!
- Why this sudden reversal? Andre amazed furious.
- Because Fouchine Amsq and have more than one step ahead of us! Coldly concludes Commander Wu I've never really been convinced of the merits of the issue of Charmeleu! We have liberated Stankin, but Von Hauerstadt is still hostage to Fouchine and thus indirectly from the bad ass! In addition, the mandorla and Kiku are in possession of Zoël Amsq!
- About this ... ... Zoël Daniel Lin, it will beat you soundly!
- A prediction? A projection of what should happen with certainty?
- Not ... An insurance logic. And when will believe to have become omnipotent, he will fall from above! Johann that we do not trample his flower beds. Such is his fate and this, all clock lines!
- I know ... Entropy can not accept a simple humanoid triumph ...
- Absolutely! It applies only to the Destruction of Everything! Once assimilated, the Pantransmultivers disappear ...
- If no one opposes it! Daniel said, shaking his head. Life for example ...
The Hellados who had remained silent until now concludes:
- Mr. Peter, "he said in English, you represent evil, death in its most successful .
- You flatter me!
- This is not a compliment but a fact, nothing more. During my travels I have heard of Duke. Did not he once said: "There are dead useful? Vestrak has told him: "The cause is sufficient." So because of Pantransmultivers fate is at stake, that is Charmeleu to you!
- Thank Stankin wise, bowed with a grin the representative of Entropy. I expected no less from you!
The quartet had decided to abandon Charmeleu. The Supreme Commander then wrapped group anentropique wave which, once again, found himself trapped in the heart of a labyrinthine necropolis! The entity known for a few seconds how the matter would end and she anticipated the reaction of daryl android. She had cheated on him with consummate skill the angel and Daniel Lin.
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