With trembling fingers you push the last bolt into place. The telltale click makes you shudder. there it is now. the ultimate truth of imperial power. you revealed the secret. it's in front of you only a few steps through the impenetrable darkness of the dead city. silver light is reflected on the rotten walls of the lifeless earth. the
Breath of the past millennia smacks you as you stride knee-deep through the shallow waters of the immortal viaduct. the smell of death and infinity makes you tremble as the claws of knowledge take you captive. the knowledge creeps into your mind with fiery certainty as you see it. the tops, golden, decorated with silver ornaments. the sails of deep red cloth blow in the breathless wind. the
Rotten wood that trembles to the beat of the eternal sea and crunches ominously. there it rises, on the clear water, lifeless and motionless. Caligula's boat. All the ridicule and all the hate has passed in time. weightless swearing and venomous screams. the splendor of his dignity and the desire for immortality spread before you, in diamond clarity.
You managed. you have found the one treasure that was thought to be lost forever. You step carefully through the shallow wet. The smell of sulfur and plague sends shivers down your spine as you spot the first skeletons through the clear surface. Slaves, victims of a rule born of pride. All their torments and all their suffering have this treasure
preserved for thousands of years. A last testament to a glorious time never seen since. You swim towards the boat. The smell of long-dead flowers tickles your nostrils. The last attempt forever to convince you that even in the past years everything
but was so much better. And as the cold wet soaks your clothes and your limbs tremble in fear, you understand that immortality is born not in what you have, but in what you are and leave to the world. So I congratulate you, brave explorer. Your name will go down in the history of archeology forever. But now it is up to you to decide the value of your find. will you share it or will you understand that all the power, all the gold, cannot outweigh the impermanence of your existence.