Supremacy Games

'Sorry, I thought it was the right term.' Pualani apologized.

'I still believe that it is correct.' Felix frowned his eyebrows and said, 'Maybe it was faulty since they see it differently in their time?'

'Should we try another term?' Malak asked worriedly, 'I don't know if we are going to activate a trap if we failed multiple times.'

'I think it's best that you guys retreat so you can have time to react in case I activated a trap.' Felix advised.

They nodded their heads and walked tens of meters away from him until they reached the limit of the synchronization between him and Malak.

Now that he was all alone, Felix sat in a mediation position in mid-air and rested his chin on his palm, pondering deeply on the puzzle again. 'Dreams will be reached only if someone did what? Seek should have been the plausible answer. Or should I use another synonym? This will broaden the list of answers immensely.'

'I doubt that the owner of such a magnificent pyramid would require the exact synonym of the term.' Felix scratched his chin, 'I can feel that something is wrong here. Like I am missing a piece of the puzzle.'

Felix always felt that it was a bit weird to have three gates with three riddles. Two of them were traps and the last one hosted the herbal garden.

It just didn't make sense because the one who made those traps and riddles clearly wanted someone intelligent to get access to his stuff.

Maybe, he wanted to pass down his research data to a worthy person who appreciates them but no one managed to find the ruins until everything got decomposed.

If he thought like this, it meant that it was impossible for the three gates to operate on luck like this.

Anyone who solved the three riddles gets a 33% chance to open the real gate and obtain its riches.

Even worse, if someone was able to resist illusions or such, then he actually had 100% to get inside the real garden.

What's the point of the riddles and intelligence tests if it was going to be like this?

'It doesn't make sense at all.'

'Maybe, you are just overthinking it?' Asna shrugged her shoulders.

'Well, let's test it out.' Felix asked, 'Spell strive, worked hard, desired for me in hieroglyphics. I want to test them all.'

'You sure?'

'Yes.' Felix nodded his head and said, 'I doubt that the pirates were that lucky to land exactly on the correct term in their first shot. Since I saw them looting the garden with happy grins, it only meant that they didn't die after failing multiple times.'

His reasoning was good but he knew that it wasn't 100% how it went.

Still, he was willing to take the risk because there was literally no way for his squad to leave this pyramid without advancing forward.

After Asna spelled those words for him, Felix practiced a bit and began uttering them one by one but giving 30 seconds of intervention between them.

uttered them or repeated them, the gate refused

that this is not the right method to

literally

was the only method to open it. It was tested

focusing on it, it would be the same as walking in the

a lead hidden somewhere, I just need to find it and use it to

I guess.' Asna yawned in boredom and stopped

riddles first, thinking that he might find the real riddle of the gate if

minutes, matching this with that yet still didn't come out

if he matched the first letter of each word, he might create a bunch of words then connect them into an answer or a

doing so since he needed to

thought was good but the results

put him right back

that my approach

of four pirates' spaceships, leaving only 5 on the planet.

minutes? Why does luck always side with f*cking scum?!' Felix cursed, knowing that it should have been taken those pirates at

by, making him certain that those spaceships were only flying in their direction

path that I was preparing

'Consider it done.'

to enhance my thinking process.' Felix said while breaking into light particles, 'I

everyone as he

situation to them and made sure

stupid shit when

was currently sitting in his UVR's room while

his lighting quick

before as he was starting to eliminate one failed solution

recalling the previously solved riddles and

realized that he

mean six answers. In

make another

you.' Felix thought carefully about those words and

last preposition and pronoun were obtained from the golden gate that he opened to

enough. He

was only one place to get

up slowly after spotting an actual connection between

he merged them into a sentence that totally

moon to the sun to seek

more plausible than other

open the gate is to answer this question that needed to be extracted from those riddles.

researcher planning to create an exquisite test that only those smart enough to think outside of

start, Felix got led by the idea that solving a riddle would open the gate. He did it not only once but twice