Syphon: Guardians of the Fractured Realms by Kunego Chad

Author:Kunego, Chad [Kunego, Chad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: What The...?!? Publishing
Published: 2016-05-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“What! You found that in an ancient pyramid? How old IS that thing, exactly?”

Cora stared at it intently. Granted, it wasn’t exactly the same as the one on Samuel’s arm. For starters, this one was shades of red and gold while his was blue and silver. The head and body of this one appeared to be more powerfully built while Samuel’s would be better described as sleek. She tried to spot more differences as Professor Waide gently laid it down on his desk, on top of the silk wrapping.

“Honestly, we haven’t been able to determine it’s exact age. Every method I’ve tried to identify it with has come up empty. Acids, files, hammers, and more recently, X-rays, ultrasound, and lasers, have had absolutely no effect on it. I haven’t found anything yet that can even scratch it, let alone test it. The best I’ve been able to do is estimate it’s minimal age, based off other things we recovered from the pyramid. Some of the pottery dates the pyramid back to around one hundred and eighty thousand years B.C., based off carbon dating.”

“What! How’s that possible? If all that’s true, then how come we haven’t heard anything about all this.”

Cora noticed the professor’s face sag slightly before he took another sip of his scotch.

“Therein lies the great tragedy. Apparently, that whole structure was designed to protect that thing,” he said, waving at the jewelry on his desk.

“As soon as I picked it up, there was a brilliant flash of light before the entire structure started shaking. I barely remember grabbing it and trying to get to safety before the whole place collapsed and was buried under hundreds of tons of sand and rock. We lost over thirty people that day, some of whom were buried alive in there. Others were sucked to their death in the quicksand that formed as the structure sank.”

“Quite honestly, I’m not even sure how I survived. All I know is that I had somehow made it out while others didn’t. When the survivors of my team found me, I was several hundred feet away from the opening, clutching that to my chest like it was a child.”

“I was delirious for several days before I finally came to my senses. From that disaster, I’ve devoted my life to trying to figure out who could have made something like that, and more importantly, why history makes no mention of them. Sure, I’ve seen crackpot theories, like it was made in Atlantis, or something similar. I’ve even had to fend off some folk who swore it was from aliens. None of it really answers the question of who created it or for what purpose. For that matter, the biggest question is, how were they able to create it? Our currently technology can’t even figure out what it’s made out of, yet it’s nearly two hundred centuries old. The oldest known remains of homo sapiens are around that same age, so how would a race that used rocks

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