The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 149: Fiery Hair’s Awakening

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Neheb had always lived his life behind the shadow of his big brother, someone much stronger, more talented, and more successful than he was. Despite his large physique and how he was physically talented at an early age, his older brother eventually bested him even in battles one-on-one through the ability to learn his patterns. The Pharaoh was an exceptional fighter, philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, scientist, and also a genius mechanic.

All the fields that the young princes had to learn at a young age, he mastered them all, and even the sole saving grace for Neheb, his gifted physical strength, was overcome by his brother. At the end, he was unable to compete for the succession of the Pharaoh throne, losing his chance early on in his life.

His mother, disappointed in him, neglected him and no longer loved him the way she did when he was much younger. Always living in the shadow of his brother, Neheb could only see as his brother did feat after feat and took dozens of consorts to bear many children. He was given full authority over the Empire’s Intergalactic Military Forces, and even the strongest of all Mechanical Gods.

Because of his life circumstances, Neheb grew up to be insecure about himself, always trying to boast in front of others and act aggressively against even his loyal servants, always trying to boost his fragile ego. When he was told that Merneith had run away with Ra, he quickly saw this opportunity as a way to prove himself to his brother.

To show him he was at least worthy of being given a Mechanical God, and to become more than just a General in his army. He wanted more than just that—to become an Advisor and perhaps something else.

To challenge his brother for the throne, a right that every sibling of the current Pharaoh had only once in their lives. As long as he could accumulate enough renown and forces...

However, when a gray portal sucked him and all his fleet into another world, one that seemed like a joke version of their own planet, he felt furious and frustrated.

He didn’t want to be here, even less to be stuck with his brother’s horrible wife and his family. He hated all of them.

BAAAM!

So when he was smacked with Peperina’s gigantic blazing hammer and was thrown down, his patience reached its limits, and his entire body started growing redder out of pure anger.

Aker’s body was bulky enough to withstand the powerful blazing hammer, but it was still pummeled down into the scorching sands below.

However, Neheb’s Golden Bloodline Ability activated as his anger reached its limits.

“Don’t… Underestimate… MEEE!”

With a frustrated roar, the man’s powers were imbued into his machine, Aker. An Ancient Egyptian God of Earth and the Horizon, sometimes even representing the Underworld, was always shown as two lions looking to the west and the east, with two mountains in between them and a red sun.

A rather obscure Egyptian god compared to the members of the Ennead, but that held its own tremendous powers related to its myths.

“ROOOAARRR!”

Its two lion heads roared mightily as it charged sunlight from its red mirror, and then, while flying up to the skies again, the giant machine started firing two beams of red sunlight from both of its lion heads, all while spinning around.

“Careful! Fiery Hair!”

Peperina quickly defended herself as she unleashed the power of her growing Spiritual Divinity. The Moonlight White Hare imbued her body with its brilliant pink and silver-colored essence, protecting her from the explosive attacks.

At the same time, Fiery Hair covered her body and reinforced herself using her developing Martial Techniques. Combining Primal Power with Ki and even Mana, her black skin suddenly gained a metallic sheen.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

As Neheb attacked them both frantically, he materialized a sword made of gold and silver, which he swung against the two at the same time.

This sword was actually his Golden Bloodline Ability!

“{Montu’s Battlefield Blade}!”

Montu, the God of Conflicts and Battles, an Ancient War-God of Egypt, believed to be the manifestation of Ra’s Scorching Sunlight. Neheb was required to gather Sunlight through the Sun Ra Mirror in Eker’s body to manifest it completely.

However, when he did, he would always turn the tables of a war and immediately annihilate anything in front of him!

The enormous blade, shining with the brilliance of the sunlight and covered in fiery red flames, swung vertically and horizontally, reaching Fiery Hair.

“You’re strong, yes, but can you handle the scorching blade that has sliced through entire spaceships, you gorilla woman?!”

Neheb laughed as he attacked Fiery Hair; the cavewoman’s fiery red eyes overflowed with flames. She squinted her eyes as the attack reached her within a split second.

She knew she had a body made of flesh at the end of the day. When fighting a being made entirely out of metal and capable of participating in interplanetary battles, it was obvious she wouldn’t be able to resist the blows as easily as fighting an orc, for example.

She knew this very well, yet Fiery Hair would simply not just escape; the flames that flowed through her entire body gathered within her flesh and soul, releasing and converting into just golden flames.

“Fiery Hair must… push her limits too!” she roared. “Or I will never be able to catch up to… Bing Bing’s brilliance!”

The brilliant light that Bing Xue was. She provoked many to envy her, others to love her, and some to admire her. Meanwhile, Fiery Hair loved her, yes.

But she also wanted to reach her strength. As the warrior known as the strongest within her tribe and even other tribes, Fiery Hair had always loved fighting and surpassing her limits.

To the point where she dedicated most of her life to growing stronger,

“The power of the Primal King… Fiery Hair will surpass him now!”

 As she roared, the blade reached her, slicing through it all.

SLAAASH!

It felt as if space itself had been slightly bent by the blade’s sharpness! Peperina panicked as she saw Fiery Hair being split into two.

“FIERY HAIR!”

As she leaped towards Aker and swung her hammer, striking the mechanical god down and stopping it from attacking Fiery Hair, she saw the girl’s body falling from the skies.

“No, this can’t be! Fiery Hair’s…! Huh?”

However, the rabbit-kin girl quickly blinked in disbelief as both of Fiery Hair’s parts came together once more, composed entirely out of golden flames; there was no blood loss or internal organs or broken bones.

“Fiery Hair... has attained something new!”

With a mighty roar, the cavewoman giantess rushed down as her entire body, now composed of golden flames, rushed towards Aker.

“W-What?! You’re still alive?!”

Neheb screamed, quickly firing lasers of red sunlight against Fiery Hair, which the cavewoman quickly destroyed with her bare hands.

This was followed by massive spears of stone emerging from the sands below, which he summoned through the powers of Aker’s Earth Manipulation abilities.

However, Neheb was quite terrible at using them, only relying on his blade to do most of the job.

“Get away from me!”

Neheb continued attacking Fiery Hair, who rapidly evaded his lasers, and then, with giant metallic claws coming at her, she swung her hands, unleashing her newly attained technique.

A combination of her abilities so far and of fully awakening the true power of the Children of Fire.

To turn her entire body into Primal Power and Flames…

“{Primal Flame Body}!”

The primal flames that burned at the beginning of the world were believed to be the origin of all life by the tribe of the Children of Fire.

These golden, endlessly burning flames—she attained them!

“{Meteoric Fists}!”

Her fists rushed towards Neheb, resembling massive fists that clashed against Aker’s massive body, leaving behind gigantic holes and covering the machine in flames.

BAAM! BAAM! BAAM! BAAM!

“Ugh! S-Stop! STOP!”

Neheb screamed, frustrated. As he channeled the power of his Golden Bloodline, a second massive sword was summoned. With two enormous golden blades, he aimed to slice Fiery Hair into smithereens!

However.

“{Spiritual Moonlight Divine Domain}!”

FLUOSH!

For a moment, space around Aker and Fiery Hair transformed, becoming a complete night, with a shining silver moon above the skies.

Peperina rushed down, her weapon merged with her armor, as she gave up all her defenses through her Worldsmith Ability, turning into a huge silver and white-colored hammer with pink- and purple-colored jewels imbued into them.

Even her clothes changed, absorbing her Domain’s Moonlight and transforming into a white and purple dress with bracelets and rings, white boots, and purple jewels across her body.

It was like…

“A Magical Girl Transformation?! I imagined it, and it happened! Oh my gosh!”

Peperina was screaming inside, but she kept her cool outside, swinging her massive hammer against Aker not once but multiple times as several mirages made of moonlight appeared around the mechanical god.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

Walls of stone and spears made of rocks tried to intercept or stop her; lasers of crimson sunlight attempted to pierce through her body, but her mirages baited most of the damage, while Peperina kept leaping around rapidly.

“How is she so strong out of nowhere?!”

Crack, crack…!

CRACK!

Peperina continued spreading cracks across the body of the Mechanical God, which Fiery Hair took advantage of, rapidly attacking the man with her Meteoric Fists.

A barrage of attacks covered Aker from every angle, constantly beginning to make the Mechanical God fall apart into pieces as he screamed in agony.

“GRAAAAHHH!”

The twin lion heads continued screaming, firing beams from their jaws, which Fiery Hair and Peperina easily blocked or intercepted with their attacks.

Meanwhile, Neheb, who had never fought beings of this caliber before, acted incredibly clumsily, unable to keep his cool in battle and lacking proper experience fighting someone strong with his machine. He was easily overcome by fear!

“Wait…! Wait…! Please wait! Have mercy!”

As he screamed for mercy, the girls didn’t give him any. Peperina made her hammer grow to its maximum level, while Fiery Hair created a huge spear made of flames, firing it at Aker.

“No mercy!”

The two girls roared in unison as the spear of flames pierced through Aker’s crotch area, filling its circuits with primal flames that didn’t easily turn off.

“No, no, no! WAIT!”

As Neheb started being burned alive by the heat, Peperina swung her hammer, hitting the spear with all her force and using it to pierce through Aker!

CRAAASH!

Aker’s entire body was split apart and then exploded into many pieces at once, engulfing Neheb inside in a sea of flames and melting steel.

“Uuuaaagggh!”

BOOOM!

The Pharaoh’s brother had a swift death.

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