Alex can feel that they are afraid, yet no one is talking. These people are a group of highly trained soldiers, they must have been trained to resist torture before.
Alex moves closer between two people.
"You two, give me an answer in the count of three, the first one to talk will live, the other will die."
"One."
"Two."
"Three."
…
No response...
Impressive... Alex can feel the terror even in the midst of their helplessness, but still, none of them talk. Alex didn't wait for long and active the amulet again.
Two more sacrifices.
Alex looks in their eyes and can see that their spirit is being shaken. He needed to give the last push... He told the group his last resort...
"I bet all of you wants to live and nobody wants to die, but I guess if you betray your organization, you will be hunted down by them or even worse. Your family, your friends, your loved ones, all of them might be in their control. I am sure that some of you were hoping that someone is stupid enough to talk, and then afterward I will let the other people leave once I got the information."
"You thought wrong! I will let only ONE of you leave and all the other people will die here. Don't waste my time! Only the first person who speaks will I let him leave! I will count to three!"
"One!"
"I will tell you everything..."
Surprisingly, it is the guy with the white shirt.
"COMMMANDERR!!!"
The others are really angry that their leader has decided to betray them.
"Spill it."
"I am commander Hans, no one here knows more about our organization than I do. I am guessing from that talkative Robert, you already know part of what we are... Yes, we are built from the last remnants of the Nazi empire, we are the Iron Eagle squadron, part of the Ahnenerbe Organization, our objective is always the same which is to find our true origin."
In 1935, The Ahnenerbe Organization was founded by the Nazi party, it was filled with many famous archeologists and scholars. Since then, they have been excavating ruins and have been collecting relics all over the world. They have found proof of the existence of an extraterrestrial entity since the findings of the first Doomsday artifacts.
Since then, they have been in lust for power and have begun searching for other relics. Their mistake was to turn their mission into politics. They had believed that with a stronger country they could have better support in order to achieve their goal. However, they were wrong. When they lost the war, the remaining members of Nazi SS military agents joined up with the Ahnenerbe Organisation hence the establishment of Iron Eagle squadron.
History wrote that the Ahnenerbe organization had been disbanded in 1945. But in actual truth, their organization kept on building up their forces, doing research, and kept searching for answers. They planted small cells all over the world. They have found and followed the professor for many years. When the professor lost his funding, it was they who set up the science of the human civilization foundation for the professor. They hoped to get more access to the professor's findings and also acquire the artifacts.
"Interesting, how many artifacts have your organization found?"
"I am not sure, there are at least three that I know of. I am one of the three commanders, I know all of us each got one."
"Good now hand over your artifact and ring to me."
"..."
"It would be easier to just kill you and acquire it since I know that when you die it loses its master."
The artifacts can be bound to others when the owner died, but they can also be handed over telepathically by releasing its ownership.
Alex manages to acquire two more artifacts, a low-grade armor, and another low-grade storage ring. There are some items inside, mostly weapons, this is the reason they can bring weapons easily to other countries. The armor could protect its owner to resist any kind of impacts, from low up to medium strength. This particular type should be able to resist two impacts at most. After being used it needs a few days before it can be activated again. This type of armor is quite common later on. But at this time, it could be a life-saving artifact.
After Alex took ownership of the artifact, he kept his promise and released Hans. Alex next sentence surprised Hans though.
"Tell your leader, based on all of his findings, I am sure he knows a little bit about the coming end of days. Tell him that it will come in two weeks. If he is interested to know more he can contact me."
Hans was not sure on how to react as he was not planning to return to the organization, but Alex's message could be beneficial for him, it could become his excuse to return. Hans then wondered what Alex would do to the rest of his team. Release or kill them.
"You can leave now."
Alex then ignores Hans, he doesn't plan on letting him know what he's about to do to them. It only means one thing. Hans will definitely not divulge to the leader anything about his betrayal. He could just say that he was captured and then released. Everything in between will be foggy and all the other men had died. Hans then walks away from the chamber.
"COMMANNDERRR!!! YOU TRAITOROUS BASTARD!!!"
Alex can see the resentful faces of these 12 angry men. They are in despair. Alex hesitated for a moment, but he still decided to sacrifice them to the Amulet. Alex places the amulet on their foreheads one after another.
"AAAAAGGGGGHHH!!!" "NO, NO, NO!!! PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!!! AAAAGGGGHHH!!!"
12 additional sacrifices...
It's a slaughter.
Alex truly doesn't want to do this, he actually hates doing this. It's a different matter between killing an enemy in battle and killing a captured enemy. But this amulet is important for his goal. This amulet could be the only thing that could cure for his daughter. His past experience of killing and seeing too much death had helped him in being decisive in choosing between saving a life or taking a life. This was the main reason he sent Aria and the others out. He knows that not many people will understand what he had done...
After finishing the gruesome affair, Alex frowns. A total of 15 sacrifices had been made, but he could feel the energy inside was barely enough to activate the amulet, it needed more, and yet he only has less than two weeks left.
Alex returned to Mexico City and met with the group, Alex told the professor about the Ahnenerbe organization and reminded him again about the Doomsday.
The professor said,
"All of these stories about the artifacts and the hidden chamber is fascinating, but it doesn't prove the Doomsday will come at the end of this month."
It is not that the professor doubts Alex's words, going deeper, the professor's unconscious mind denies it. He just cannot accept life as he knows will change soon.
"You have been studying this for 40 years, professor. All of your efforts, research, findings is meant for the people. It has all come down to this. You have a responsibility to tell the world and your decision will save many lives."
The professor could not find the words to refute.
"You do what you have to do professor, do nothing or convince as many people as possible, but I really need you to be in Indonesia in the 20th. I need you to help me with a plan."
Alex then hands over the storage ring that he got from Hans and gave it to the professor. Hopefully, it will help the professor to convince more people. He had already moved every item Hans had into his first storage ring.
Alex then told Aria to get a ticket back to Bali. Cindy suddenly called out Alex's attention.
"You're going back to Bali? I have decided to go with you. I want to see the ruins in Bali and I also want to see for myself your preparation and seriousness for the coming Doomsday as you say it. Don't worry, I will not bother you much, in fact, I can help you with the engravings inside the ruins in translating them."
Come to think about it, in his past life, not many people understand the ruins and its engravings. The Doomsday Pillars does not have much information about the ruins, but there might be some connections. Alex wondered why the ruins had artifacts and were already here on earth in the first place. Before taking the flight, he called James Randall.
"The third favor can already start, the date is the 20th."