The Complete Elementia Chronicles: Quest for Justice; The New Order; The Dusk of Hope; Herobrine’s Message. Sean Wolfe Fay

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      By far, the ones doing the most damage were Bill and Bob. Bob’s arrows downed pig after pig after pig, and Bill had adopted an unusual strategy of catching the Pigmen on his fishing hook from afar and casting them deep into the lava sea. They didn’t burn, but instead they just swam around aimlessly in the molten lava, not interested in the fighting anymore.

      It took a while, but the seemingly endless supply of Zombie Pigmen finally trickled down and eventually stopped when Kat decapitated the last one. Bob went to check whether the coast was clear. It was, and the six players walked across the plain and soon came to the house of the Nether Boys at the base of a steep Netherrack hill. The house was entirely covered in Netherrack, so it blended into the environment in such a way that you would have to know the house was there to see it. The inside was made entirely of cobblestone, which, for Stan at least, was a sight for sore eyes. It was the first of the familiar block that he had seen since entering the nightmarish Nether.

      They saw a crafting table, a furnace and some chests. Other than that the house was completely empty. Stan asked why they had so few possessions after living here so long.

      “We were banished here, don’t you remember, kid?” said Bill, slinging his fishing rod over his back. “And besides, if you try to sleep in a bed in the Nether, the bed will explode.”

      “OK.” Stan didn’t even bother questioning it. He was so past wondering about the many breaches in the laws of physics in this wonderful, dangerous game called Minecraft.

      “So to get your Blaze Rods,” said Bob, sitting on the cobblestone floor and leaning against the wall, “we’re going to have to get to the Blaze spawner in the Nether Fortress.”

      “Yeah, the Apothecary mentioned something about the Nether Fortress,” said Kat, chiselling her initials into the cobblestone wall with her sword’s point. “What exactly is the Nether Fortress?”

      “It’s a maze made out of dark red brick that’s incredibly dangerous to navigate,” replied Ben. “Luckily, we happened to live right near the closest Nether Fortress, and even luckier is the fact that we’ve done a little exploring and it shouldn’t take too long to get to the Blaze spawner. We’d better be prepared, though. Once we enter that room we’re going to be up against a never-ending swarm of Blazes, and those things are a nightmare to kill.”

      “What makes them so hard to kill?” asked Charlie.

      “Well, for one, they can fly,” said Bill. “And for two they have the annoying tendency to spam fireballs at you. When the three of us first made it into the Blaze spawner room, we barely made it out alive. Great fun, really, but we didn’t even try to fight them.”

      “Mind you,” interjected Bill, “we’ve had a lot more experience fighting Ghasts since then, and we could probably figure out a winning strategy for killing Blazes, but we should still be careful.”

      “The Nether Fortress is very close to this location,” said Ben. “We actually chose to build our house here in case we ever wanted to explore it some more. We have a few times. It’s awesome to explore that giant labyrinth. Anyway, it’s right up this hill outside.” He exited the house and started up the hill, followed by the other five.

      It was quite a sheer hill – more like a cliff face, really. At one point, another Ghast tried to blast them off the cliff side, but Ben managed to kill it with deflected fireballs, and they kept climbing.

      “Oh man, why is it so hot in the Nether?” said Kat, gritting her teeth as she wiped the sweat from her brow. She was closely followed by Charlie and then Stan.

      “Well … I’m guessing … the fireballs and … the lava sea may … have something to do … with it,” panted Stan as he dragged his shovel behind him. “And who are you … to complain? You’re … wearing shorts … and a T-shirt!”

      “And also you’re … not wearing … one of these wicked heavy … iron chestplates!” gasped Charlie. Kat glanced down quickly at her neon-pink shorts and then again at the light tunic over her orange T-shirt. She blushed in embarrassment and did not speak again for the rest of the climb.

      At the top of the Netherrack cliff, there was a monster standing by that tried to attack them. It was a large cube of magma of various shades of dark red, and had glowing yellow eyes that opened up like a spring as it leaped forwards to attack Ben. He calmly identified it as a Magma Cube and sliced it in two with his sword. Stan was totally caught off guard when the two halves of the monster morphed into two smaller Magma Cubes. One of them caught him unaware as it tackled him, and he would have been knocked back down the cliff had Bill not caught the strap of Stan’s chestplate with his fishing rod. Ben kept killing the Magma Cubes, and the pieces of the dead ones kept reanimating. They were easy kills, though, and soon all of them were dead, leaving a pasty orange substance on the ground that Bob pocketed for later use.

      “Magma cream,” he pointed out. “You use it to make Potions of Fire Resistance.”

      Now that the Magma Cube was good and dead, the players turned their attention to the structure in front of them. It was composed entirely of dark crimson bricks, and there were stairs that led up to a tunnel made out of the bricks, which had torches lining the walls. The tunnel went straight into the side of another Netherrack cliff. There were no distinct architectural features of the building. In fact, Stan was surprised to see that the exterior looked very plain.

      “Those torches weren’t put there naturally,” said Ben. “We put those up the last time we visited this place. If we follow them, it should lead us straight to the Blaze spawner room.”

      They walked into the corridor. Stan was pleased to realize that it was slightly cooler within these brick halls. He followed the Nether Boys as they took turn after turn, following the torches. Slowly, Stan began to realize just how big the complex was. There were windows in the sides of the corridors, and more often than not there was nothing to see out of them except for Netherrack. However, now and then he could see that they were suspended over the lava sea, and a few times he saw magnificent lava falls flowing from the ceiling of the Nether and into the lava sea. Stan realized that he might well die during the fight with these monsters, so he took the time walking down the corridors to appreciate just how beautiful the landscape of Minecraft was.

      After going down endless corridors and through a few rooms with staircases and small farms of some type of seed that Stan guessed was the Nether wart the Apothecary had told him about, they finally arrived at a corridor that was not lit with torches. At the end of this corridor, Stan could see a block with a yellow figure revolving within a black cage, very similar to the block that spawned Cave Spiders in the abandoned mine shaft. He knew that they had reached the Blaze spawner.

      “So, what’s our strategy?” asked Charlie eagerly.

      “Personally, I say we should just go in there and beat the things to death before they get a chance to attack us,” said Kat, pulling her sword from her waist.

      “Not so fast, sister,” said Bill. “Those spawners can set up to three of those things on you at a time. As much fun as it would be to just charge in there and beat the Blaze Rods right out of them, I think we have to think this one through a little more. Anyone have any ideas?”

      There was silence for a moment. Then much to Stan’s surprise, Charlie spoke up and said, “How about I drink my Potion of Fire Resistance and draw their fire, while Bob, Kat, and Stan shoot them down?”

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