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2024-11-04 13:31:36“What?” Tydeus asked the old man.
Apphathorus, with fear written all over his face, asked Tydeus, “Is it true that you killed Apophis, the great beast of the dark world with…”
“With my bare hands. Yes, I like it sounding that way?” Tydeus intercepted Apphathorus.
“No way!” Apphathorus exclaimed gently.
“So how were the Iron Mask able to capture you? If you could kill such a gigantic creature like Apophis, how in the world would it be difficult for you not to save yourself from ordinary pirates?” Apphathorus asked curiously again.
“Capture me? Who said they captured me?” Tydeus said, almost laughing.
“So how did you get here? How is it that you are here now?” Apphathorus asked fastidiously.
“To do something unusual as I have said before. I came here to complete my job”. Tydeus replied confidently.
“Job?? What job? Who comes into a prison to complete a job? That sounds like madness.” Apphathorus replied to Tydeus, his face covered in confusion.
Tydeus looked at him and smiled again.
“What?” Apphathorus asked, his face squeezed like he had been talking to a madman.
Tydeus got up and looked towards the cell's gates.
“Alright, enough of the questions. Get up, let's go; we don't have much time anymore”, he said to Apphathorus as he wiped his trousers off dirt.
“Let's go? Go to where? Where are we going?” Apphathorus asked curiously as he got up from the floor.
“Just follow me,” Tydeus replied Apphathorus as he kept moving towards the cell's gate.
The rest of the prisoners remained in their seats, staring at them and wondering where they were going. If Tydeus had an escape plan, it would have worked perfectly before he entered the ship. Not here when he is now locked up in a cell somewhere in the Iron Fortress.
“What are you doing? Are you… are you trying to get me out of here?” Apphathorus asked curiously as he walked behind Tydeus.
“Yeaaa, something like that”, Tydeus said as he held Apphathorus's hand, leading him to the cell's gate.
“Oh thank you. Thank you so much. If you successfully get me out of here, I have a few pieces of gold; I could share some with you.” Apphathorus said as he continued following Tydeus.
“Few pieces of gold? Pss! I have collected a bag of gold already; I'm still yet to collect my balance,” Tydeus said with a confident smile on his face.
“Bag of gold? What are you talking about?” Apphathorus asked curiously.
Tydeus turned to him suddenly and said, “Listen, your people paid me to get you out of here, and these questions you're asking me are making us run out of time, so can you help us both by keeping your mouth shut? Or do you want me to change my mind? I get paid either way, remember that”.
Apphathorus immediately held his mouth with his hands, realizing he had a chance to be free again.
“Good!” Tydeus responded as he kept on moving to the gate.
But Apphathorus doesn't seem satisfied; there's still something Tydeus is not telling him.
“Oh okay. Bu… but hold on a second, How do you plan on escaping this place? This is the Iron Fortress. We are in the middle of a sea” Apphathorus lamented again as he continued following Tydeus.
“Ha! In the middle of a sea?...” Tydeus replied with a confident smile on his face.
“...I brought the Iron Mask here”.
“Huh? You what? What are you talking about? You brought the Iron Mask to their base?” Apphathorus continues to question Tydeus like he is talking to a madman.
“Yup! You see that bird over there?...”
Tydeus said as he pointed towards a bird standing in an enclosure like a window in the cell. It looks like the bird Tydeus saw on a pirate's shoulder before they entered the ship.
“...It knows how to deliver letters well,” Tydeus answered Apphathorus who remained confused but just kept following Tydeus.
Tydeus got to the cell's gate; the other prisoners remained in their seats, looking and waiting for the magic Tydeus was about to perform.
“Okay, so what now?” Apphathorus asked as he turned his face to Tydeus.
“Just keep quiet, old man”, Tydeus replied Apphathorus with a straight face.
“All right, we are ready to move out!!!” Tydeus said aloud
“Took you so long.” A voice responded to Tydeus from outside the gate.
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Only two pirates were guarding the gates of the prison.With an astounding shock, the other pirate guarding the cell's gate turned to his colleague.“What do you mean took you so lo…”Before he could complete his sentence, Rakeh, Tydeus's friend who has been disguising himself as one of the Iron Mask pirates since, threw a spinning kick to the face of the other pirate, hitting his head on the wall.Rakeh pulled off his pirate's Mask, picked up the keys from the other pirate's pocket and opened the gate of the cell. “Come on man, move out, let's go. We don't have much time anymore” He said as he pulled Tydeus and the old man out of the prison. “This pirate outfit looks good on you,” Tydeus said hysterically to Rakeh. “Oooh, spare me the crap; what the heck have you been doing in there since?” Rakeh questions Tydeus as they begin running, finding their way to the nearest exit.“I was only having a little conversation with our man; I wanted to be sure so we do not make a mistake rescu
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“Oh boy!” Rakeh whispered as he held Apphathorus behind him.“Giant gate in the front, pirates behind. Good job, Rakeh!” Tydeus said sarcastically to Rakeh.“Oh brother, I don't plan on hitting anyone tonight”. Rakeh responded to Tydeus as they kept on measuring their distance from Galdashkeh at the front towards the gate and Gryza and the other pirates behind.“Hitting someone? I feel like killing someone already”. Tydeus responded as he began massaging his knuckles, getting ready to fight.Gryza, with a weird smile on his face, said, “You've got pirates behind you and this giant gate in your front,”“There's no way you're getting out of here alive. I have locked the gate and the keys…”“I have tossed it into the river.”“Good job, Gryza!” Galdashkeh responded out of nowhere.“Then we will do something about the gate”. Rakeh responded to Gryza as he kept close eye contact with the rest of the pirates surrounding them.Gryza and Galdashkeh burst into laughter after hearing what Rakeh
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“If you have another way to escape, that would be better. This gate? It can't be broken. I know the metal it was made from”. Apphathorus, who was hiding near the gates, told Tydeus.“Oh really? Which metal?” Tydeus asked as if he was about to receive lectures from a physics teacher.Apphathorus moved towards the gate, feeling it with hands and said to Tydeus “It's bronze, an alloy of copper and tin. I think we should just find another route to escape.”“Old man, are you going to help me bring down this gate?” Tydeus asked with a weird smile on his face. “Uhmm, no”“Then keep quiet!” Tydeus shouted at Apphathorus who was flexing his science muscles.When it comes to breaking down a giant gate, flexing physical muscles would help faster than scientific muscles.“We don't have much time!” Rakeh screamed out of nowhere as he kept on battling with the other pirates.Tydeus, looking at the giant gate again, took a deep breath as he cracked his knuckles.Gryza, who was about to attack Rakeh
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Tydeus raised his big boot and brought it down forcefully on Galdashkeh's testicles, crushing his balls. “Aaarrrggghhh! Somebody help me!” Galdashkeh kept shouting and screaming for help.Gryza immediately closed his eyes pretending to still be unconscious. Tydeus has once broken his left arm, crushing his testicles to be worse.“This should teach you a lesson. But if I ever set my eyes on you again, I promise you; I am going kill you myself”, Tydeus said angrily to Galdashkeh, who remained on the floor groaning and holding his balls.Tydeus ran outside the Fortress to catch up with his friends. The whole Fortress continued to tremble with noise coming from the inside, the prisoners continued fighting the pirates to escape.“Do you need to waste any more time? We were about to leave you behind,” Rakeh, who had been waiting for Tydeus, said with a straight face.“Yeah, I told you I needed to attend to an unfinished business”. Tydeus replied as he ran towards Rakeh and Apphathorus.“Wh
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Tydeus looked up suddenly; the wind had already lifted the waters; if it came down, it would crash their boat deep into the river.*BOOM!!!!*“Everybody jump!” Tydeus shouted at his companions, and they all jumped into the river.This might be Tydeus's last mission. He has survived many tremendous dangers, but swimming out of a storm in the middle of the Nile might be the last history he is going to make. Galdashkeh and Gryza, from the top of the Fortress, saw as Tydeus and his men fell into the river and their boat wretched.“At last! He dies and dies for good”. Galdashkeh shouted exuberantly as Gryza beside him continued laughing. Their enemy has just killed himself.Tydeus swam and grabbed Apphathorus who was starting to drown. They all held on to the woods of their wrecked boat.“Where the heck is the ride?” Tydeus shouted as he held Apphathorus who had already fainted, onto a wood.“I don't…” Sakoh was about to reply to Tydeus when a big ship sailed towards them, and a rope lad
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