After coming out of the pyramid, Temple kaidrix was very happy. He decided to go further down in the cave. After exploring the pyramid temple, he found an altar, and he saw a mini tower on the altar shining brightly. Kaidrix felt joy in his heart that he is going to have all the mini towers in this cave, kaidrix just rushed forward to grab it without examining the alter or the surroundings but when he tried to pick the tower up, his hand went through it, kaidrix was choked dang is it an halo gram or illusion, dang i have worst luck, kaidrix cursed. This altar was a bit unique; it had a weird pattern all over it, and at its base, it was connected to a big formation. The alter was some sort of mechanical gear, and it was a set of four gears in total on top of each other, from a big one at its base and the smaller one on top, and top of the last gear hovers the tower halo gram; every gear has a dial around it. And on every gear, there were some diagrams of the moon changing.
There was a stone slab on the right side of the altar, and there were some words on that slab, a riddle perhaps!
" Eight faces I wear, yet none are mine.
I wax and wane, but never in time.
From dark to light, I guide the night,
But touch me wrong, and I vanish from sight.
Stacked in silence, the gears align,
Solve my dance, and the tower is thine. "
After some observation watching moon diagrams on the gear dials Kaidrix concluded that this riddle is connected to moon and its shape, judging by the shape on the dials every dial have eight diagrams if moon changing, from the new moon to full moon and from the full moon, back to the waning crescent completing a completing a cycle, but there where total Four dials.
The moon undergoes eight distinct phases as it orbits Earth. These phases, in order, are: new moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Waning Crescent.
But there were a total of four gears for aligning the moon shape. Kaidrix did further investigation and discovered that every diagram can be changed freely into eight moon shapes, so it means that he has to align every single shape into some kind of cycle.
Yes, there was a visible bright full moon diagram in the middle of the last gear. Seeing Kaidrix immediately understood that he had to align four changes of the moon to one side and the remaining ones to the other side, like drawing a straight line in a circle. kaidrix quickly changed every shape and aligned them from bottom to top and then top to bottom to the other side. When Kaidrix finished, the whole altar turned red and randomized all the shapes on the dials, then a light green gas came from the bottom of the altar, which was hard to notice. When Kaidrix noticed it was already too late. kaidrix knew he had messed things up, and this is one of the traps in the alter, kaidrix felt itchy everywhere on his body, and Kaidrix felt the urge to scratch his body, when he did his body started to fell apart his skin turned into black liquid bit by bit he died again miserably. kaidrix was horrified. He was again in his spirit form, and from the look of it, even his spirit was being affected by this poisonous gas. What a terrific end. Sensing his spirit in danger his Dantian sucked him in the Dantian this whole process was not in kaidrix control.
His Dantian glowed with bright blue light, Kaidrix was in a drowsy state. after an unknown period. kaidrix felt his body being rebuilt, and all the poisonous gas was turned gray and fell on the ground like dust. It was very weird for kaidrix. How can a poisonous gas have something that his body needed? His body repeated the same process, he was back to his black metallic sand form. With very little vitality. It was second time he died in this damned cave.
Kaidrix felt lucky to be born with this body; if he were not an immortal chaos body, then he would have died by that hymn in the tower. Yet he was still alive, kaidrix felt he was the most mysterious thing than anything around him. he remembered the book Old Ghost gave him; he needed to drop blood on the book, but he was again with no blood. A sandman. He sensed that if he practiced his spiritual arts, he could recover, but it was a very slow process. The fastest way was to consume beings with vitality and soul. But he dismissed all the ideas from his mind, and focused again on the altar, he decided to further investigate the altar. Then, later, he discovered, the shape of the moon is different on every dial, making each dial four separate cycles with eight forms.
kaidrix was confused; it was really hard to tell a difference between the diagrams; they looked exactly alike, but some shapes were rotated, and the while cycle was rotated to that angle, and this way, it was a total of four cycles kaidrix discovered. He felt confused. After some time, kaidrix remembered that he had read an article on the internet. The post says that Earth has a north pole, a north hemisphere, and then the equator, which is the middle of the Earth, then the south hemisphere, and the south pole. From all these places moon gives you slightly different angles but the same shapes.
kaidrix started from the bottom, tried to remember correctly, he tried, and put a random angle and aligned all the shapes of that angle on the first dial, the first dial, which was biggest and at the base of the altar, glowed with a faint green light. kaidrix felt happy; he just randomly selected an angle. He had no idea of which location on earth you can see the moon at this angle, so he carefully selected another angle and aligned all the shapes of that angle on the second dial. Nothing seems to have happened, kaidrix began to observe the diagrams again. he noticed two pairs have opposite angles, and there is one other angle which does not have any pair. kaidrix was confused, then he thought Earth had five positions, the north pole and the north hemisphere have slightly different angles to the moon shape, but they are in one direction only, but the other direction south pole and south hemisphere are also in one direction but slightly different angle but these two are opposite to each other so they all form two pair of opposite angles only equator have no pair.
But there are only four gears. Should I form opposite pairs for each angle? kaidrix decided to test his theory, and he aligned the opposite angle to the first dial on the second dial, and the second dial lit up green. The light intensity was a little brighter this time, kaidrix then chose the angle with the same direction as the first dial for the third dial. The third dial also lit up, then he chose the opposite for the fourth. All the dials lit up green, and the gears started rotating in opposite to each other. And in the reaction, the Top of the fourth gear opened, and a slightly smaller gear came up floating on top of the tower. Halo gram kaidrix understood. This is the final phase of this puzzle. He can't go wrong here now, all the other diagrams vanished from sight, so he can't see them again. he knew that he only needed to pick the equator angle now, so he was focused, he knew what shapes he had aligned before. So it was easy to figure out the equator angle.
The whole mechanism began to rotate and shake the whole cave with it. kaidrix was vigilant and scared. This cave gave him a lot of surprises, he did not want anything unknown to happen to him. After a while cave stopped shaking and the mechanism turned into a small sphere with a unique pattern on it. This time, the ball was not a crystal but a metal which was made out of iron sand and was not completely solid; the pattern was the only thing maintaining that iron sand into a sphere. This iron ball came flying and disappeared in kaidrix brows. kaidrix immediately felt dizzy and pain in his head, The ball gave kaidrix a lot of information after a while. Felt the pain lessening, the memories that were given by the ball were a universe map, and this ball was one piece of the universe formation, which allowed its wielder to travel across space instantly. But to use this formation, they have to be very powerful in spiritual cultivation because it requires a lot of spirit energy in the other world, your soul will be drained of energy, and might die suffering depletion of energy. Which even kaidrix can't afford at his level.
As he was thinking, kaidrix felt something pulling him from this location into the space. Later, he came to his senses. he was kicked out of the cave. kaidrix cursed. He had not fully explored the cave yet. This whole event for him was really weird; his going into the cave and then all the events in the cave felt unreal. He saw his surroundings and later discovered he was lying at the base of the hill. It was the time of evening. It all felt so unreal, but the evidence was there; kaidrix still needed to recover his body, so kaidrix sat down near a rock and started practicing his spiritual arts. It took all night and the nearby vegetation and its habitat to recover kaidrix. When he opened his eyes, the area was devoid of life, there was no color, and the plants turned to dust. This area of fifty to sixty feet was like a desolate place giving a really sad vibe.
Planet Earth has too little spiritual power, so it is impossible to recover body and soul in one night, and on top of that, recovering a soul is an impossible job because there are countless variables in recovering a soul. But Kaidrix was a different case; his soul and body were different from other cultivators. So, recovering his body and soul was just a matter of time. His Dantian could recover any part of his body and soul. It was like a beast core where all the data is safe, but the difference between the beast core and the kaidrix Dantian was beast core could not function like the kaidrix Dantian. Yes, it can store a beast's soul, but it can't recover it, and also it can't rebuild the beast's body.
The first ray of the sun touched kaidrix face, giving him a warm feeling and a sense of life. He stood on his feet and glanced at the last time on this desolate place, sighing, started walking back to his place. In all these events, kaidrix lost his bag, which he purchased for his journey, and was with him, he decided to purchase the things again. And thought this was the last time he was going to use the money on earth,
Time passed, and Monarik was still preparing. For the journey to leave Earth, Kaidrix and Lumina decided to spend some time with each other. So they decided to travel. The first thing they visited was an Amusement park. Surprisingly, some of the old staff of the amusement park, New Kaidrix and Lumina, young man, I recognised you, you always come to the park now and then, with your mother, you have grown big now, if you had not come with little miss, I would not have recognised you. Hmm, kaidrix, right, your name was kaidrix, where is the young lady who always brought you two to the park? kaidrix was confused. Senior, I am sorry, I do not remember anything. There was an accident while I was a child, and I lost my memories of that time. And.. and the young lady you mention was my mother, she, she passed away.
Kaidrix turned very sad. A shame she was a kind and beautiful lady, I am sorry, young man, for your loss. The old man with his sad face put a hand on kaidrix shoulder and tried to comfort him. kaidrix, with a saddened face, replied Senior, it is been a long time. She passed away, so I have come to terms with it. "Living must live on," after saying old man went away.
Lumina said kaidrix, you loved coming to the amusement park with Aunt, and sometimes she brought me along with you to the park. I was lonely after my mother died, and Auntie was there for me. And you were my best friend, We had too much fun when we came to the amusement park. Your favorite dessert was ice cream, and every time you got one, you were always a drama king, dropping your share, and eating mine. We shared too much ice cream. You were a little bully in my life. And also my protector, you always protected me from the bad kids, who wanted to beat me and steal my things.
Let's go and buy ice cream, let's eat like we did when we were children. Lumina purchased a single cone, staring at the cone and staring at kaidrix, her cheeks flushed red, she tried to back down her words, I think it is different now we are not children anymore, kaidrix said, No, I want to experience that feeling again, I have forgotten what it was like. Then he grabbed Lumina's hand, which was holding the cone, and he licked it. Then he made Lumina lick it. Lumina was blushing, her cheeks were red like flowers, and kaidrix also felt his cheeks go red. It was a new feeling for him.
After some awkward moments, and trying to avoid each other's gaze, kaidrix maned up and held Lumina's hand. It is not that bad a feeling, I like it. Lumina node, in agreement, yes, it is not a bad feeling. lets continue