"Apep? You mean that thing that ran from the Nile River to the Sea of Oceanus? It tasted pretty good..."
The faint curve of Samael's upturned lips sent a tidal wave crashing through Anubis's chest with his casual reply.
Tasted... pretty good...
Before Egypt's Jackal God could process the staggering amount of information in those words, his pupils shrank to pinpoints. He swung the golden-and-brown sand staff in his hand in a full arc, wielding the grim Authority of the God of Death as he struck forward with lightning speed.
Clang!
The shrill clash of metal erupted, kicking up waves of air. The expanding shockwave could instantly turn an ordinary person into a mist of blood.
Within the biting Aether Storm, Anubis, who bore the brunt of it, was like a small boat battered by a ten-thousand-ton wave. Two deep furrows were plowed beneath his feet as he slid all the way toward the outside of the Spear Body Tower.
"Nephthys!"
Seeing that he was about to be blasted off the tower by that overwhelming force, Anubis, forced back to the edge, let out a low roar. He raised the golden sand staff and plunged it into the ground. The dense Death Qi around him folded together like a pair of black wings, sheltering the Jackal God beneath them.
Nephthys, the daughter of Geb, the God of Earth, and Nut, the Sky Goddess, was the sister of Osiris, Set, and Isis; the wife of Set, the god of deserts and war; and one of the Egyptian Ennead.
She was the guardian goddess of houses and the dead, as well as the mother of Anubis, the God of Death.
At last, after awakening the protective Authority inherited from his Mother Goddess Nephthys, Anubis halted his retreat and steadied himself at the