We start by following Faidon a genetically engineered human like Taph they are all clones of each other. They start by going on a helicopter to find the temple of sacred flames, and they find it but it is in a volcano. After some time they managed to make a suit to enter the volcano. They enter the volcano and upon entering they find a temple. They enter the temple with many traps. They then find government soldiers trying to get the artifact too they fight the soldiers bare handed and defeat them with ease. They then navigate to the narrow paths and find a room with a pedestal and a bag in the corner with some ammo they took it in case they lacked it. They then looked around and realised someone was one step ahead of them and got the artifact already. That was all the info they got, then the hallways slowly shift into a gigantic maze with more dangerous traps < I guess we could say this is a-maze-ing> Faidon says. They then navigate to the narrow paths and find a room with a pedestal and a bag in the corner with some ammo they took it in case they needed it. They then start trying to demolish the walls to escape but the walls are too durable. They panic as they cannot find a way to escape and they have limited food. Later they found a man wearing a pot with pitch black eyes and an uzi. Faidon says, they had difficulty fighting him because he was strong and has more fighting experience. they then saw the gun was customized. After a bit they defeated him, then they saw spartans he says.they forgot to bring enough weapons so borrowed the uzi from the man earlier. They then fought hard and long because they were outnumbered by at least 100 and the spartans were undead. They settled on throwing sleep darts at them and it worked for some reason. then they started eating he says. They stayed for quite a bit until they try to venture farther then they accidentally fire the uzi, luckily no one was injured but the ground broke a bit they then realised that the uzi has magical properties,they then proceeded to shoot the wall to try to escape. Then the gun ran out of ammo they tried reloading the gun with normal bullets but it wont work. They then remebered about the bag with ammo and use it to reload the gun, it worked. they used the gun sparingly to save ammo on research. After some time they managed to escape. They took a small break chatted a bit until they are all in good shape again.

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They start by tracking down the spear and pinpoint it to the goverment facility, they go on the helicopter again to fly to the facility its weird the facility seems empty. There seems to be a invisble barrier, they tried to enter but it was futile. Faidon comments. asks Faidon, they tried but it didn't work, they tried thinking of a way. Then it shook him to make a portal device, after hours of working they made it and went back to enter it. They entered now to hide and retrieve the artifact. they run into a few guards but manage to hide and keep going. Faidon comments . He enters a vent and crawls trough it with difficulty because it is small . During this time the others continue hiding and moving. As he crawls through the vent he sees other rooms like the staff discussing what to do on the spear. Then he found the serum room he takes one and injects it in himself. He then continued crawling and found the room with the spear but it is heavily guarded he thinks to himself, he saw the others and they lock eyes planning to do a timed attack. They enter the room and Faidon gets in the room and attacks from behind and drops all the soldiers unconsious except one. The soldier broke the cage and took the spear. All of them fought against the soldier but it was futile the soldier had immense power. They needed to find a way and quick. They stall the fight until they remember about the gun they got earlier. They shot the soldier and managed to make the soldier drop the spear. They retrieve the spear immidiately then they are found and surrounded. Faidon then starts fighting and he feels stronger and faster he then burns the wall with the spear and escapes in the helicopter from earlier.

Back at the base they then report on what has happened so far to Taph. He then tells them that there are other artifacts they need to get before anyone does. The next artifact they will retrieve is the billowing cloak of Boreas. The anemoi of the north wind winter and ice.