Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Chapter Eight Part 3 of 3: Adam

Adam and Eve (Christian mythology)
Seventeen years old Adam, is the commander of the one army Division that is charged with the logistic supply, sending goods from the city of Cynopolis to the front line along the Southern coast of the Mediterranean Sea prepare for war with Baal. Adam is far too under qualify for this position, with no experience what so ever. But Adam is Seth's second son. The big difference between Anubis and Adam, when Anubis also got his first command as Division commander, at the age of sixteen and was far too inexperienced, he was humble to listen to the advice of his Senior Officers. Adam is not humble like Anubis, he is arrogant and proud. Fortune this is an easy mission of travelling between city states to gather goods to be send to the front line, not needing to go through enemy turf. The Division soldiers are either equipped with a woven basket and a hammer for self defense, or a shield and a spear, to protect the soldiers carrying the woven basket. With each Company there are two carriages, each pulled by two horses, the carriage is commanded and protected by one platoon of soldiers, each platoon with woven basket is protected by one platoon with spear and shield. Their mission here is to gather medical herbs that is to be used for the soldiers on the front line. The ones that was wearing the woven baskets, are female. The rest, are men.

By the order of Anubis, Adam and his troops weren't allow to enter the city and had to make camp, outside the city of Cynopolis. The soldiers of Adam made camp, outside the city of Cynopolis. Anubis ride out with one Company of soldiers to greet them.

Anubis ride his horse to the front of his army, to greet Adam whom is also in the front of his army

"Brother." Anubis said

"Brother" Adam replied "What is the meaning of this, why aren't my soldiers allow to enter?"

"Cynopolis got its own rule, without the permission of our father, no army other then the guards of the city can enter the city in arm. Sure, you are not asking your men to disarm. My men would be carrying the medical herbs out here, for your people to gather." Anubis said

"Alright" Adam replied

The soldiers started transmitting the medical herbs from inside the city, to outside, for Adam's men.

***

Horus and Neith, decided to steal from the herb transportation, where it is most vulnerable. It was late at night, Horus and Neith dressed in black clothing, they managed to evade the soldiers' watch and sneak into the camp.

"These soldiers are just doing their job, don't kill them." Horus whispered to Neith

"Alright" Neith whispered in response.

"Who is it!" Two soldier heard something.

"Sorry my Lord, I am a little bit lost." Neith said sounding a bit like flirting.

"This is a military operation, you are not allow to be here. Placing you under arrest." one soldier said

As the two soldiers moved forward, Neith was quickly to respond, naturally the two soldiers were no match against Neith. Worrying that Neith might hurt them, Horus was quick to help, and threw powder to the face of both. The two soldiers soon fall under a deep sleep.

"Succubus?" Neith said pointing to the powder Horus used

"No" Horus said

"Look like the powder use by the Succubus." Neith said

"I change the formula to make it a sleeping powder, are we going to get some job done or stand here and argue." Horus said

***

Horus and Neith sneaked passed many guards and went to be in front of a tent, with four guards. Neith and Horus attacked two guards from behind and blow powder to their face. The two guards fall asleep. Two other guards attacked them, Neith and Horus also took down the two guards in three moves, blow powder to their face and put them to sleep. Horus and Neith entered the tent

The tent was full of woven  baskets that are full of medical herbs.

Horus took a piece of cloth out of his pocket. Upon the cloth were drawing of the herb that is needed

"This is the cloth that Serket drawn for us, it contain the herb that is needed to cure the plague. Let's split up and look for it." Horus said

"Alright" Neith said

Neith and Horus started looking through the many woven  baskets and start finding the herb that match the drawing.

When they found it, they quickly started to fill their own woven baskets with the herbs.

"Let's go" Horus said, when they had enough herbs

But when they exit, the soldiers that come for guard change, arrived and saw the four soldiers that was asleep

"Intruder! Sound the alarm!" One soldier yelled.

One soldier rushed to sound the alarm, the other three soldiers rush into the tent, just as Horus and Neith was exiting. Horus and Neith was quick to knock out all three soldiers, but the alarm was been sound.

Soldiers was running towards their direction. Seen the situation, Horus was quick to throw his woven basket towards Neith.

"Take the herbs and get out of here. I will cut them off." Horus said.

Neith hesitated for a second

"Go" Horus said

Neith quickly climb onto the trees and using the Amazonian skill she is familiar with swing from one tree to the next, using rope and escaped.

Horus quickly grabbed a long staff and knocked out the few soldiers that was coming his way. These soldiers are logistic, not combatant, much easier to handle and if Horus is able to take on Special Forces and come out on top, logistic should be easy enough for him. But, even so, they got the advantage in number. Horus was able to use his staff and quickly knock down any soldiers that come his way in only one move. The soldier would be able to capture Horus, if they group together first and attack together. But they weren't expecting a fighter of Horus' standard.

"Dame YOU!" Adam screamed, charging forward with his bronze swords.

But Adam's fighting skill isn't even half of Horus. Despite also been trained as a warrior since childhood, Adam's skill is what you expect from a student that come last in class.

Adam try to attack Horus repeatedly with his swords. Horus was quick to dogged to the side and smacked Adam on the back with his staff and another kick that make Adam fall to the ground. After Adam fell, Horus thought Neith must have gone far enough and also escaped.

"After him!" Adam yelled, but the soldiers struggle to find Horus.

As Horus escaped, him came across the one person that is able to catch up to him. Anubis.

"You are under arrest thief." Anubis said

"Thief? That is what you men of Seth, consider this to be?" Horus said

"The city of Cynopolis is prosper, I made sure of that, who are you." Anubis said

"None of your business." Horus replied

"In that case, I need to arrest you." Anubis said

Anubis attacked Horus. Horus and Anubis started fighting each other. The two men exchanged over sixteen moves, but neither one can get the upper hand, in hand to hand combat. Anubis isn't a genius like Horus, he attended a different warrior school from Horus and completed level six and level five training each in five years. He started his training at seven years old and completed level five training at sixteen, he started his level four training at seventeen and completed it at the age of twenty one. For his level four training, Anubis major in military strategy and hand to hand combat and minor in witchcraft.

The basic combat style of Anubis' warrior school, from level five and level six training, is a combination of kicking, punching, knee, elbow, dogging and blocking, similar to modern kick boxing.

Within his level four training, Anubis learned three types of hand to hand combat styles. including a kick base martial art and a punching base martial art, building upon what he already learn, in his level five and level six training. He also learn a fighting style focus on throwing and grappling, combining his training in the three types of martial art, he got the martial art training of thirty eight years.

Amazonian hand to hand combat martial art, for level six and level five they learn a fighting style that combine throwing and grappling. In level five training, they need to chose another one of the two fighting styles, either the one that focus on throwing or the one that focus on grappling, building upon what they already learn on their level six training.

Horus as a person that can progress at a speed twice to everybody else, with thirteen years experience in Amazonian basic fighting style is as good as having thirty six years of training in Amazonian hand to hand combat. In addition due to his training with Khnum in punching base martial art and his pre-existing training in martial arts and his ability to progress at a speed twice to everybody else and Khnum is a great teacher, he is as good as having three years training in this punching base martial art, this make Horus' training in hand to hand martial art to be of thirty nine years.

In addition, both Horus and Anubis within their school of training, they also need to learn a mild fighting style that is gentle and less aggressive, in comparison to the other combat techniques that are more fierce and aggressive. The gentle and mild fighting style is significantly less effective compare to the other more aggressive fighting style that is learned, to use this sort of fighting style against other fighting style in face to face combat, is suicide. The reason for learning this fighting style is due to it is very limited in physical demand, in comparing to the other more effective fighting style, in fact almost no physical demand, what so ever, it is ideal for those who are fragile due to old age or are wounded, surprisingly this sort of fighting style was first inspired when Osiris became pharaoh, so those who are weak and fragile are able to protect them self, as long they are not using it in a face to face fight, against warriors that are trained in the other fighting styles more fierce and aggressive, they will be fine. In addition, due to its users are usually fragile due to old age or are otherwise injured, these fighting style are also design for taking down your enemy before they can respond or even know what is going on, very ideal to be used in surprise attack. These fighting styles are similar to modern martial art form such as Tai Chi or Chi Gong.

Thus, Horus and Anubis are very much evenly matched.

"Your fighting style include both Heliopolis and Amazonian foundation, who are you?" Anubis said

"You know about fighting." Horus said

"I am a crown prince, it is only nature, I am trained as a fighter." Anubis said

The two men once again engaged in combat another eighteen moves, once again, neither side could get the upper hand.

But at this stage, Horus heard the sound of other soldiers nearby.

"I suggest you surrender, the soldier are here." Anubis said

Horus was quick to reach for his pocket to grab more sleeping powder, but realized all the sleeping powders are gone. In his other pocket there are still some succubus powder, not yet been mix in with his new formula to be changed into sleeping powder. The succubus powder can put you in a state of disarray and give men extreme strong sexual urges. Horus was quick to throw some powder towards Anubis. Anubis was quick to cover his face and wave the powder back towards Horus, whom was also quick to cover his face. Horus was quick to jumped backwards and escape into the darkness.

However, Tai Chi Masters generally admit Tai Chi can only be used for health and basic self defense purpose, Tai Chi is a more passive and gentle fighting style, not design to be used against the more fierce and aggressive fighting style, such as MMA, as they got way more fire power. While there are some Tai Chi practitioner claim Tai Chi is a most dealy martial art form, most martial art masters, including Tai Chi master say that is complete BS.



However, this doesn't mean Tai Chi is useless in a fight, just much less effective compare to the more aggressive martial art form, thus it is only good enough to be use for basic self defense. But, the passive and gentle nature of Tai Chi mean it can practice by those who are much more fragile for self defense purpose, such as old ladies and those who have pre-existing medical condition (although most Tai Chi association still make it clear that check with your doctors to see whether you are fit enough to practice Tai Chi, especially for combat) that prevent them from practicing the more fierce and aggressive form of martial arts.

In this video, a Tai Chi master demonstrate how to use Tai Chi to protect yourself against boxers. However, the Tai Chi master also make it clear, using Tai Chi to protect yourself against boxer is really hard, because boxer punch hard and fast, you must have cat like reflex and very fast with your arms, with intense practice. However, most martial artist point out, most Tai Chi practitioners are doing it for health not combat, so they are ill trained to use it for combat purpose. And the Tai Chi master in this video, also point out, if you really want to use Tai Chi in self defense, you need to train with other boxers, to improve your technique. Although, chances are, most police officer that practice Tai Chi are able to use it effectively in combat, as they are professional warriors and security officers, it is unlikely they would practice this martial art form, if they can't effectively use it to defeat most criminals.



Chinese martial artists 韓飛龍 is current the only professional athletic/martial artists that is able to use Tai Chi to hold his ground in competition, against other athletic/martial artists.韓飛龍 self develop a fierce and aggressive version of Tai Chi with same level of fire power to other fierce and aggressive martial art style, but demand the same high level of fitness, as other fierce and aggressive martial art style.

However, 韓飛龍's new version of Tai Chi is frequently controversial in the martial art community, regarding whether it can qualify as Tai Chi as it is heavily influence by Chinese boxing and karate. 



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