Doomsday Pillars

The Temple

Alex drives by himself into the forest path to the west. He went to the border between east Bali and central Bali, it took him a few hours. He went there to find one particular temple. There are hundreds of temples in Bali, in here the locals called them Pura. Most of Pura was built by the locals hundred years ago to worship their gods. But there are a few that already there for thousands of year. It was there many generations before, Nowadays none of the local knows who built them and to differentiate between them.

There are similar ancients temples all around the world, these ruins normally being identified through its marks or writings. The oldest writing that can be found from these ruins, recognized as far from the 5000-6000 BC, that's around 8000 years ago. Even though there are many different writings from different continent and culture, today's scholars believe using pattern and astronomical equations that the oldest writing actually came from the same source. Jiahu symbol from China, Vinca sign from central Europe, Indus script from India and the most well know hieroglyphs from Egypt. This is the theory that scientist today believe as the Babel text, the name come from the myth story about the people of the world once speak one language, got really proud and building the tower of Babel to challenge God. In the end, God punishment come and separate them into many different nation and language.

All over the world, some of the places with such writings already been found and studied by the world brightest, but most of them are still hidden. When the Doomsday pillar drop, all of these hidden places were suddenly activated and shown to the people. Each of these places has different relics that the human can use to help against the monsters. Alex knows 3 locations in Bali with such relics. But only one of them he knows he can access right now.

It's already night, Alex just arrives in one of the temples. it's an ordinary looking temple. There are only a few small houses near it. Alex can see some monk still chanting in front of the temples wearing white robes. he didn't want to disturb them, he already knows his destination.

Alex park the car, took his gears and walk a few hundred meters until he reaches the lake. it's such a big lake, 10 hectares square at least. it was dark, but Alex doesn't want to waste any time, after all the place he's going, it won't matter if its day or night. He walks around the lake until he was sure that he finds the right spot. He wore the diving gear and bringing his bag of equipment with him. Using the flashlight he dives deeper into the lake until he found what he was looking for, a small cave opening only the size of 3 meters. He went inside and dive a long corridor, going deeper into the earth for about 500 meter, then he reaches a large chamber, he starts walking slowly, it was such a low chamber but its quite wide, he can found some remains that show other people explore this area before, he keeps walking until one of the corners, this time its a steep cliff. Alex opens up his bags and prepare a climbing gear. He took a rope and slowly pull down a few hundred meters, and finally there it was another pool, inside this pool there was a hidden hole. Again, he dives for another few minutes until he found the hidden chamber.

In his past life, the survivors access this chamber directly from the temple secret passage, but that is not accessible until the temple activated by the pillars, At that time after finding the chamber, Alex do more exploration around the chamber and finally find this alternative passage to go out of the cave. which he is currently now using to get in.

The secret chamber is very small, it's about the size of a basketball court. there are some marking and graving in it. Alex took some pictures with his phone, then he walks into the centre of a room. There was a stone coffin, he pushes open the lid, and there he sees a skeleton remains. the ancient looking skeleton places both hands in its chest holding an ordinary looking ring. Its a bronze colour ring with some little writing in it.

Alex has a big smile on his face, he took the ring, clean it up with some water from the cave, pulls a knife and smears his blood on it. in his mind, he keeps repeating the same word,

"please be working ..please be working.. please... please"

Currently, he was only 50% sure that this artifact would work before the temples activated.

And fortunately, it really does working. there was a little shine just a moment coming from the ring, marking the blood as its new owner. Alex wears the ring and activate it with his mind. it's a dimension storage ring, an artifact that creates a small space to store an item. The size is only 3 cubic meter. but it will be very useful to him. The ring itself is only a low-level artifact but what Alex need is the one store in it. He opens up the ring and there he sees covering more than half of the space.

It's a Golem, precisely its a Rank 2 Golem, a medium level artifact, who will heed and do him every command, With this, he finally will be able to compete with the one with special abilities. He took the Golem out and also activate it with his blood. Fortunately, it doesn't require him to splash his blood all over it.. he won't have enough ..its too big.. It's a 3-meter tall humanoid shape Golem. Its black body is hard and rough as a rock. It has a wide upper body, rounded head, 2 small shiny eyes. It has no mouth so he cannot speak, he only listens telepathically. Its both arms are muscular and very long and almost touch the ground, It makes the Golem legs look very short.

Finally, his first artifact and it's a medium artifact, a Rank 2 golem, He then analyzes the Golem using his mind, just as he expected, unfortunately, this golem has almost zero energy left. If he doesn't charge it, with the current energy It will only be comparable to a Rank 1 standard golem. It might even stop moving altogether if he uses it carelessly. He then searching for something else, In the storage ring, there suppose to be a box that comes with the golem.

"Yes it's here", this thing will be very useful for him, probably even more than this Golem.

Alex opens the box with full expectation.

Inside there is some small crystallize pebble. 

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its the spirit stone.