Supremacy Games

Everyone turned at once towards him, appearing quite enlivened by his exclamation.

"What is it?"

Everyone threw their shovels aside and rode their hover platforms in his direction. Upon reaching it, they were surprised to see a pointy sharp yellow rock, resembling a spearhead.

"Is it a rock?" Erik inquired while leaning closer.

"Let's find out." Malak said as she beamed a small shovel and passed it to Khodri.

In a careful manner, he began digging the sides around the yellow rock, exposing more and more hard surfaces around it.

They weren't separated from the first rock, making them a bit confused about what it was.

Soon, all of them picked up their own small shovels and began assisting Khodri after realizing that something big was underneath.

After five minutes or so, they were all left in a state of marvel at the sight of a humanoid statue holding tightly into a broken spear!

His cracked head was that of an eagle while his back had two broken wings attached to it.

The statue was not small in the slightest as the squad was all standing on his chest. His legs had yet to be exposed!

'Doesn't he remind you of Blacky?' Asna asked with a surprised tone.

'Matter of a fact, he does.' Felix replied.

Asna turned to Lady Sphinx who was bullying Thor and Jörmungandr in poker, and asked her, "Big sis, is there any chance that this temple might belong to you?"

"Hmm?" Lady Sphinx glanced upward to check and responded casually, "Probably belonged to one of my worshipers in ancient time."

Felix was left at loss for words at the sound of that. He knew that the primogenitors' worshipers were spread far and wide in the universe, but he didn't expect that one of Lady Sphinx's ruins would be in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The fact that it was the first ruins he aimed for was quite unexpected.

'Elder, you don't mind cleaning your worshiper's temple right?' Felix coughed.

'Help yourself.' Lady Sphinx gave half a shrug as she pushed a bunch of coins to the center of the table, making both Thor and Jörmungandr sweat a bit.

Immediately after getting her permission, Felix focused back on the squad that was continuing to reveal the statue.

They were so engrossed in their work, they forgot about their fatigue and also the two suns that were beginning to rise from the east.

A few minutes later, they were forced to break out of their focus as the sand around them began heating up, making them realize that it was time to bounce.

"Good work everyone." Malak clapped her hands twice and said, "Let's head back to the spaceship and take a break. We will continue from where we left at dusk."

Everyone nodded their heads and beamed their shovels. Then, they hovered to the spaceship and closed the gate after them, leaving the machines behind.

to their quality and also

...

the conference room

you think these ruins belong

knowing that he was the one who possessed the most

teeth, "The Organization simply

hearing so, the squad began throwing guesses of

think it belonged to one of the

information harvested from the ruins would

nodded their

of the ruins didn't belong to far-off ancient civilizations

went extinct due to an apocalyptic event or got destroyed

ruins didn't have much value in terms of information

spoke about?

be expected that those ruins would have traces and marks left behind

ruins gets sold to Intel traders who would then sell it to high

no intentions of enlightening the masses

information in the lowest layer of the network, making it impossible for the majority to

all the time, allowing Malak and the rest to know

to them, the ancestral being behind these ruins was currently reading a book in enjoyment while receiving a

clear how that poker

***

28 hours later...

had been completely changed compared to

more than two statues and thousands of broken rocks, spread through

been discovered in the left and right corners, the majority of the rubble was

that the guardians were put at the sides

sight of a single opening. Only yellow square rocks were greeting

already given up on this spot

Khodri shouted after taking a sip of water from a

'Nothing here.'

'Same.'

'Just rocks as usual.'

of them sighed in

dug deep enough they were required to use plenty of water to wet the sand plus create walls

...

went by and still, no positive

dropped on his back while

scolded, "Drink the stamina recovery potion

THUUD!!!!

through by a loud noise of

and focused on Nicci as the

view was the sight of a dark hole between two large boulders! Nicci was standing in shock right at the edges