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Sup, Prime. I finished the translation you requested just now. I didn't use Google Translation since I prefer to translate between Chinese and English by myself. Here is Cleopatra's lore in Honkai 3rd.

''The year was 60 B.C.. In a darkness before winter dawn, there were torches lit all above the city wall of Cairo. Egyptian guards, armed with swords and blades, guards the last line of defense at the front of Cairo. They drew their bows and fired countless blazing arrows. The arrows struck a trail like flucturating limelight, before they struck the enemies.''

Those Honkai beasts.

''At first, the guards of Pharoah are skeptical about the local informants, believing those monsters apperaing in the world, resembling something from the Underworld, were nothing but exaggration of ignorant peasants. Until every army who fought those beasts were exterminated in an instant, and less than one months, the beasts gathered outside Cairo, like vultures that smelt the scent of putrid meat.''

"Damn, they go up here by stepping on the pile of corpse under the wall."

''Those beasts' apperance are beyond the guards' comprehension. Their adamant shell makes the iron swords of soldiers seemed powerless. Their physical power are limitless, with their bulking muscle can barely reach the edge of 6-meter-high wall when they pounced on it.''

''Now, after days of attack over and over, the following Honkai beasts used their clan's dead bodies as steppen-stone to leap onto the city wall. Every generals who guards Cairo in these days realizes this. It was just after the southwest wall appeared to suffer such after enduring the straigh attack of the beasts.''

"Fight for Allah and Pharoah!"

''A soldier screamed and tried to bearhug one Honkai beast and leap from the wall, seizing the chance that it hadn't back on its feet. Sadly, the beast was so powerful and agile that it torn the solder's neck and toss him away almost instantly.''

"Fight for Allah and Pharoah!"

''People around them reisted their fear, in favor of showing their pride for protecting the capital of this kingdom that endured a thousand of years, as well as their hatred so much that they even tried to swallow those inhumane monsters alive. The crowd flowed to that beast, but most of them were killed in one instant turn. Their swords fell along with their hand that held them, and their body mixed together in the pool of blood on the top of wall.''

Finally, the soldiers on the wall payed the price they can never afford to kill that one Honkai beast.

But they have no time to cheer and have no time to celebrate.

''The first beast that got itself onto the wall had torn out enough space and time. It fell down quickly, but it killed most of the guards even quicker. Behind it, the second and the third beast climbed onto the wall instantly. On that moment, the hot blood of the soldiers turned cold.''

One of them fell to his knee, crying tears of despair.

All of a sudden, they realized one thing.

''The tough line of defense in front of Cairo was about to get breached, after the city's days of defiance. Behind them, more than a hundred-thousand women, children and elderlies will have no escape.''

All the unwilling and regretful feelings were about to crush them, when--

"Pull yourselves together! You are my soldiers! You are the pride and shield of my kingdom!"

''With the cold but bright speech, a golden rod struck into a beast's skull, as if it descended from the midair. A teenage girl with long black hair soon followed. She stepped on her rod and struck the head of the beast on the top of the wall.''

"You are my guardians! You must assure the empire shall flourish!"

She pulled out her rod and the blood flowed, following the trail of which her hand had waved.

"P... Pharoah..."

"Her Majesty Cleopatra!"

The golden jewels of the girl glimmered at the brightness of flame, and the shimmer followed her bouncing figure.

It was like the chariot of sun borrowed her light of pride that once only belonged to Gods.

The golden rod bashed the skukk of remaining beasts, like punishments from the deity.

''When the dawn approached, the girl with long ebony hair, with her golden jewels and the rod that gave her half of Gods' authority, bathed the mourning sun beam and stood at the messy pile of dead Honkai beasts, showering in their blood. She slanted her rod and struck it on the wall.''

In the end, no Honkai beast dare to cross the city even in one step.

''At the seventh day after the encirclement, Queen Cleopatra VII sits on the throne of her Egyptian palace, where only a Pharoah can sit. Cleopatra lowered her head and gazed upon the young girl captive who was escorted into the hall of her palace.''

''The Pharoah has a weak look. She hadn't been sleep properly for days, and she walked on the wall to assist generals and gave orders to some soldiers. She will even take risk to join the fray when necessary.''

Just like today, before dawn.

In fact, the spirit of the young girl Pharoah was weakening.

"Ahammed, is this the important information you talked about, so that you can make an excuse to disturb my slumber?"

She furrowed her eyebrows.

''The captain of the Pharoah's guards, named Ahammed, lowered his head slightly. He stepped aside and pointed at the slender girl behind him. The girl was tied by ropes and knelt in the center of the palace.''

"Forgive me, Your Grace. However, this woman tried to open the gate of our city at dawn, when those Honkai beasts retreated for now. We discovered her, and her fellow vendors are all Romans."

''"Romans?" Cleopatra became more impatient. "Rome is now hostile to us. Any questionable Romans should be executed on sight. Did you forget about it already?"''

''"But..." The captain of guards seemed hestitant. "This Roman woman has her own way to defeat those monsters that encircled Cairo, or so she claimed."''

''That's when the Pharoah opened her eyes and looked at the knelt Roman in front of her. That girl had curly black hair, with brand new bandages stuffed in her mouth, probably to prevent her from biting her own tongue. The girl gazed back. Even when she knelt, her body still looked tall. Likely as a respond to Cleopatra's, she lifted her chin slightly.''

''The female Pharoah hadn't seen such an arrogant Roman for a long time. Although the girl seemed shabby, Cleopatra still smelt scent of musk from the girl, a scent that could be found on any Roman aristocrat.''

"Release her, for now"

"But, Your Grace... She almost defeated our squad of ten guards all alone."

"Release her. In this place where Horus oversees, no one can harm me."

''Ahammed lowered his head and agreed. He untied the lasso on the girl. Then, the girl removed the bandanges from her mouth and coughed several times.''

"Is this how Cairo treat its guest?"

"That depends on whether you're a guest or enemy... I'm rather regretful that they didn't use overused bandages on you. Who are you exactly, young lady?"

"I'm nobody, but an ordinary Roman vendor."

An ordinary Roman vendor?

Cleopatra squinted her eyes, "Ahammed, drag her outside..."

''"All right, all right," The girl rubbed her wrist that were tied up for too long. "My name is Mark Anthony Critius. I'm the woman who is destined to take charge of one-third of Rome ten years later."''

"Why did you push the door?"

"Because the beasts outside were the least in number, so I thought it was necessary to take my merchant company back to Rome. They'll be my first supporters in Rome."

"With the fewest beasts possible?"

Anthony giggled for the Pharoah's question.

Her giggle were full of sprite of youth, with supreme confidence from her shining eyes.

(Later...)

''Cleopatra had watched her soldiers destroyed the last nest of Honkai beasts. Those beasts were once ferals and was twisted into such forms by some infection. However, possibly due to the flaw of its source, the infection was imperfect. It made them to keep some instinct of nocturnal animals.''

''"This is their last lair." Ahammed, the captain of Cleopatra's guards informed in front of her. "Nothing can threaten Cairo from now on."''

''The 20-year-old Pharoah didn't answer. She only leered at that Roman merchant who was chewing an apple nonchalently, before she turned away to further place.''

''"Anthony?" She suddenly spoke out the girl's name.''

The girl beside her lifted her eyebrows, "What is it, my respectful, beautiful and blessed Lady Pharoah?"

''You should call me My Majesty. Cleopatra nearly spoke that out, but she didn't.''

"Romans are nailing on Egypt, and I always believe there will be a harsh war between nations."

''"What? You started to trust all Romans because me, as a Roman, helped you?" Mark Anthony shrugged her sholder. "That's not a bright thought. In there, they will swallow a naive lady like you, leaving not a single bone behind."''

''"No," The Pharoah sighed and closen her face to Anthony. Her obsidian black eyes halted the girl's chew on her apple, because it made Anthony shocked. Antony swallowed the food in her mouth after quite some time.''

"Anthony, you brought the source of infection to Egypt and turn those animals into monsters. It made my realm decading so much that I have to submit to Rome and knelt in front of Caesar's dress, so that she would help me to clean up these monsters roaming in Egypt. It'll be your political base for you to take over one-third of Rome in a decade."

''The girl wents silent and looked away after awhile. She had no feeling over eating her apple. She threw it away like throwing some tantrum.''

"I once thought you say something else, like how you get impressed at my wit and in mad love with me willingly," Anthony mumbled with some disappointment, but this point both she and the female Pharoah in front of her are deducing how much of the disappointment are true, until Anthony lifted her head.

''"Yes, right, that's why I came to Egypt. I did everything. And then what?" Anthony continued after rubbing her hands with her robe, "You find this out, try to kill me and declare war on Rome, right?"''

''The female Pharoah shook her head. This ruler of her kingdom smile sightly.''

''Her charm was amazing in morning light. For the very first time, Anthony saw the stone-cold Cleopatra smiled. The soft sunlight rubbed the wheaten skin of the queen and her facial outline, like a wrist made of beams.''

"If I do willingly, will you in love with me, Anthony?"

''The girl swallowed her saliva subconsciously. Everything she once considered in her mind were mushed up.''

"No one won't fall in love with a beautiful lady like you."

"Good, Anthony, I'll fall in love with you and vice versa," Cleopatra replied with a gentle but venomously cold tone, "Then I'll marry Julius Caesar."

''"Oh, so you are forcing me to kill our own Emperor and claime you and your Egypt." Anthony frowned and gritted her teeth.''

"Call it my revenge if you will, because this dynasty will fall in your own toxic spite. This is the curse of Pharoah, a sweet toxin from the last king of Ptolomaic Kingdom."

''Looking at the grumpy face of Anthony, Cleopatra's gaze are full of sorrow, but still she laughed. She spoke out, word by word, the words of which Mark Anthony Critius desired to hear and yet also resisted to hear.''

The Pharoah slowly opened her lips...

"I love you, Anthony."