Chapter 564: Digging (2/2)

”Anyway…” Turning her gaze down, she stopped her jubilation, shifting her attention back to the peculiar mystery once again.

Carefully she bore her slender right hand into the sand once again, carefully plunging it deeper and deeper. As her palm was buried halfway into the golden grains, she began to assist with her left, digging away the resistance, gradually increasing the makeshift hole.

Slowly, but steadily she reached deeper and deeper, soon reaching the destination she wanted causing her yet another round of shock and surprise.

Her fingers have touched a smooth, flat solid surface. Unlike the sand all around it, this was clearly not a natural phenomenon, but soon, as her fingers reached towards what felt like the very edge of the object, it was clear it was an artificial creation, the work of some master, a craftsman.

Crysta exclaimed with shock as she realized the hidden meaning behind this discovery. For a moment she hesitated, she looked away, towards the direction of their gathering point.

Should she leave this here and get the others? Or should she continue excavating, and instead, make sure that what she found would be the entrance they were looking for? What if it's something else?

'What if…' Her eyes glimmered with a flash of greed, her smile turned into a nasty smirk at the thought. 'What if it's some treasure? Wouldn't that be the best? We could score some points finally!'

Convinced that her line of thinking was correct and that instead of rushing to the others without proper knowledge of what the nature of her find actually was, Crysta began to madly dig, widening the currently fist-sized hole wider and wider.

Soon, the edge of the object began to take shape as the copious amounts of sand were cleaned away.

As she looked at it, Crysta furrowed her brows, her expression souring.

”What is this actually?” She asked with confusion. The object that she found seemed to be the top of something. It was rectangular shaped, solid, sturdy, clearly resembling that of a brick, the basic building block. She couldn't identify the material without a doubt, as though it seemed durable and stiff, she couldn't say it was simply some sort of stone. It wasn't just a worthless rock, as even now, as she kept on clearing its surface, a strange smooth crystalline shine began to reveal itself.

'Hmm… Is this some sort of rare Earth-type element?' She wondered, giving a few gentle rubs, caresses, clearing more of the sand away in the process.

As the last of the rubble was cleared off, it was time for Crysta to yet again turn shocked at what she saw.

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