Staircase.
"This looks like some kind of enormous computer." Alex took a look at the pillar emerging from the ground.
"And this is old, just the tree was about 3000 years old this one..." Alex looked around to discover the house that was almost blackened from old age.
"I don't know how did it now detiriorate but this can be more than 15000..." He said this and managed to take one of the 12 Supreme Cores from Lian Hua's hand.
"Okay let's see." Alex put his hands on the pillar and...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Tried to take it out of the ground.
Everything shook when he did this and he stopped immediately, Alex could feel some kind of dread when he tried to destroy the contraption, Like something was targeting him, it was a creepy feeling.
"Some kind of Defence mechanism?" Alex put his hands on his chin.
Every important machine on Earth had a defensive mechanism so nobody would be able to steal it or take the ideas, This one may not be the exception, Before Alex deactivated the mechanism he would not be able to take the pillar out to see the inner workings of this thing, he wanted to see to make sure he was right and this was a construction.
he could use some kind of clue but there was nothing around that could tell him what to do, Alex was very much stuck in one place in his investigation, but He decided to do something here and.,
"Hm..." Alex went behind the house and circled the tree, He felt this tree had some connection to the House.
"Some kind of code?" Alex slithered his hand on the cracks in the tree to see if it did anything.
But nothing worked.
"Ah wait." Alex took out one of the 12 Supreme Cores and put it down here...
Nothing happened.
"Damn... What is this thing?" He was tempted to punch and destroy the house, but the eerie dread once again washed over him, warning that any action could be disastrous.
After a while, Alex grew weary and sat down on the tree, examining the twelve Supreme Cores. The tangled strings of chaos energy inside the cores resembled a puzzle.
"Wait a minute... This pattern," Alex realized, discerning a familiar shape.
The pattern appeared as a circle, visible in both the cores.
Alex stood up and inspected a tree branch.
"I see now," he muttered, getting to work.
BZSSSSTTTT!
After three hours of painstaking effort, he completed his work. The core now bore the same pattern as the tree log.
Alex placed the core on the ground.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Light flowed through the pattern, causing it to illuminate brightly.
BZSSSTTTTT!
BZSSSTTTTT!
The log descended, unveiling a large staircase.
"Bingo," Alex grinned and descended the stairs.
In the shack.
In the shack.
"Agh... My head." Lian Hua just woke up and looked around.
"Wait....THAT BASTARD!!!" She stood up instantly fuming with rage, she remembered she was with Alex when he knocked her out with one punch, and Lian Hua was shocked.
"I have the best defense in the entire Association, how did he knock me out that easily... is it because i didn't have my guard up?" Alex used Space Shatter Fist... but he held back so only vibrations would go through the target, This was a weak attack in general, but it could make the target knockdown while their head spinning, and you had to get close to the target.
"Where is he." Lian Hua stood up to look around.
"Hm?" She saw Pillar was a little wobbly...
"Oh... OH OH NO!!!" Lian Hua ran away from the shack to see the log...
And...
"What is this." She looked down to see a big staircase downwards.
"Did he find out something and that's the reason he knocked me out? not cool man." Lian Hua went down her anger still there but not too much as if Alex discovered something that they hadn't managed to do in a long time, that would be more than enough payment for the knocking down part, Lian Hua cautiously went down in the Staircase, Lian Hua was quite old more than 800 years old, but she was still cautious.
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"What the fuck." Alex looked around to see the staircase going down and down, sometime later the walls disappeared and he could see the circular staircase going down on some kind of hole, it was so big he could not see the end of this staircase, Alex scratched his head and went down slowly.
He didn't have anything to rush and he had to be careful right here, who knows what would happen if he rushed the exploration? He went down slowly but surely.
He also discovered the stairs turned from stone to Cement... a Very surprising discovery as he bearly even saw quartz in this world not to say Cement.
"Looks like i am getting to the right assumption," Alex confirmed his theory once again and made sure to investigate this kind of place in the future.
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15 Hours Later.
"How deep is this." Alex was stupified. he went down at least 15000 steps right now, he was so deep within the earth that Alex felt he was going down to the core of the planet, He feared if he would be able to take the heat coming from the core, But for some reason it was still the same temperature as before.
"Looks like the big cement wall is protecting from the magma, But Cement can't do that... is this not the Material i think of?" Alex said this and sighed, he continued to go down to get to the main room.
And finally, after all this time he reached it. he went through the entire extremely long tunnel and went down many steps to reach the final step of the staircase and finally, he managed to see.
The light appeared on the horizon as he went through it. the
"Oh my god."
End Of Chapter.