Supremacy Games

"Elder Sphinx, Please give me a chance to recover those materials for you!" Felix stopped relying on anyone but himself as he begged loudly for his life, "It may not be now, but I am confident in bringing them back! Isn't that much better than just killing me to vent your frustration?"

Seeing Felix behave like this, the Jörmungandr decided to help him out by saying, "Give me some face and grant him a chance to redeem himself as he said."

Felix's eyes gleamed a bit after getting some support.

'She will give some face to elder right? After all, I am not worth that much.' He thought with a hopeful expression.

Alas, Lady Sphinx's cold gaze didn't change even a bit as she looked at the Jörmungandr and said, "Jörmi, stay out of this."

She turned to Felix and criticized, "With your lowly strength, I doubt you can obtain even a single secondary material in the next couple thousand years. By then, I would have already concocted that potion and moved on to a difficult one."

"So just be a good lad and die." She said lastly before gazing at Felix with a penetrative gaze that made his soul freeze, causing the consciousness space barrier to start cracking!

However, a millisecond later, the effect had gone away as Lady Sphinx eyed Felix playfully and said, "What can run, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks; has a head, but never weeps; has a bed, but never sleeps?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

At lose for words, Felix kept staring at Lady Sphinx's while having his entire back drenched with cold sweat.

Meanwhile, Asna and the Jörmungandr didn't know how to respond to the situation.

The lucky bastard truly was really saved by a riddle since Lady Sphinx had said exactly ten sentences before wanting to kill Felix!

But Felix knew that he would be dead whether he answered or not as Lady Sphinx seemed hell on bent on doing so.

Hence, instead of thinking about the riddle, Felix started brainstorming on ways to offset her suppressed fury that she clearly wasn't displaying.

'Promises are useless and begging didn't work as well. I need to offer her something tangible that would offset her anger. But what do I have to give that can move a knowledgeable being like her?' Felix.'

'Something that she doesn't know of.' Felix's eyes brightened up after realizing that he had something unique to only himself in the entire universe!

The fact that he was the only potential candidate to host multiple Elemental Manipulations!!!

if you read my memories or listen to me for a few minutes, I can

Sphinx was slightly interested

better answer in the next ten seconds."

what he meant, Felix recalled the riddle and started pondering on it with his hand

the Jörmungandr but he

8...7....6...

run, but never walks; has a mouth, but never talks; has a head, but never weeps; has a bed, but never sleeps?' Felix guessed the answer after a quick analysis, 'Is it a river? Rivers always runs and they could devour anything. They have endings connected to seas or oceans that could be considered as

3...2...

answered and held his breath immediately in

like she was

Pheew.

what he said before quickly, worrying that he didn't hear

a look of intrigue as she inspected Felix's forehead where the tiny hidden purple dot was

an element manipulation." She pondered while toying with her cat's mustache, "With little Asna's help and the human's bloodline integration system, you managed to gather a tiny portion of my consciousness and was hoping that I will

correct?" She asked while eyeing Felix, making him nod his head in embarrassment

realize that

to him while she was still alive in some

"If you went and attempted to accept another elemental manipulation bestowing, you would have ended up imploding until not a single

I wanted to first do some research on it before making

lie since the Jörmungandr had clearly told him that he simply was a potential candidate,

and looked down on Felix openly, "You think you have what it takes to research a solution for

said I will succeed." Felix looked at her calmly, "But I am willing to

Sphinx smiled beautifully after hearing so.

was left at

coming and he started dreading talking with her

Jörmungandr truly didn't like when he said that he didn't want to woe her because

only open their ears and

more

into each other's eyes and answered

smile withdraws back, appearing like

Felix believed that she had multiple personalities each for a species she was

or something?" The Jörmungandr complained, "This is why no

having this habit in the first place?" Lady Sphinx confessed, "It's to keep you guys away from me and not bother me with requests

her speechlessly, "Then turn