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

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      “Whatever,” continued Geno. “Well it turns out that she had a fire resistance potion on her, and so she went back through the lava and jumped out behind you. She stabbed you in the back and flung you into the lava. I dragged you out of the lava and healed you and Leonidas, and while I was doing that they escaped through the portal and broke it.

      “After that, I set you up on the bed in your inventory, and Leo stayed to guard you while you rested up. I ran back to the jungle and led the legion of troops back here. The medics got to work fixing you and Leo up, and we fixed the portal. I sent a couple of scouts into the Nether to see where they were. When they came back, they told us that they had just entered into the Nether Fortress.

      “So here we are. As far as we know, they’re still in the fortress. Thirty men are circling, ready to take them out if they try to escape. We know better than to try to find them inside that maze, so we’re trying a … different tactic.” A sly smile broke on his face at these last words.

      “And …” said Becca, a wide smile spreading across her face as well. She liked where this conversation was going.

      “We’re gonna blow the entire fortress off the side of the mountain,” Geno said, sounding like a child eagerly anticipating Christmas. “Right now Leo and a team of ten guys are laying TNT around the structure. When they’re done, they’re going to detonate the entire fortress, and if they’re still in there, they’re going to die, and if they try to escape, the snipers will get them.”

      “Excellent!” Becca chortled. She loved watching stuff blow up, and if her stomach didn’t hurt so much she would have insisted on marching up there and helping them lay down the explosives. “When are they getting back?”

      As if in response to her question, Leonidas jumped down from atop the fortress, redstone torch in hand.

      “Well, that’s it,” he grunted. “Dynamite’s all over this fort. Soon as they lay the redstone down here, we’re ready to blow this thing up.”

      “What took you so long?” sneered Geno. It had taken twice as long as he had anticipated for Leonidas and his team to set up the explosives. “Hurry it up or they’ll get away!”

      “Hey, at least you don’t see me waitin’ around here like a useless sheep for your girlfriend to wake up!” snapped Leonidas.

      “He’s got a point, Geno,” said Becca. “It was nice of you to stay here and all, but next time you should go and help lay down the explosives.”

      Geno grunted and turned away from his friends. Honestly, he thought, sometimes I wonder why I don’t just kill both of them.

      The figure in iron armour laid down the final redstone wiring along the ground, and he looked up at Leonidas.

      “The wiring is ready, sir, and the premises have been evacuated. You may commence detonation when ready.”

      Leonidas nodded, and the player backed away from the redstone wire, closely followed by Geno, who looked irate as he carried Becca over one shoulder, the latter of whom was still prattling on about how Geno needed to think things through more. Leonidas was about to touch the redstone torch to the wiring when he hesitated for a moment.

      Did he really want these players dead? No, he did not. As a matter of fact, though he would be killed for admitting it, he secretly admired that they had enough defiance and courage to try to overthrow the tyrannical King. The server had been so much better before the King had become so paranoid.

      Leonidas remembered an earlier time, a time of peace, a time of prosperity, when the King was fair and kind to those of all levels. Then came the darker influences on the King, mainly his advisors, Caesar and Charlemagne. They had stolen Leonidas’s peaceful life in the desert. With the threat of the death of his family, the King’s men forced Leonidas to commit heinous acts for RAT1 until he was completely desensitized to murder.

      And now he was about to kill three players who were trying to prevent his fate from falling upon the other young players of Elementia.

      All of this ran through his head in less than a half a second. Leonidas wished he could refuse, but he knew the consequences, and he knew that there was nothing he could do to prevent it from happening. There was no hope for him any more.

      Leonidas touched the redstone torch to the wire, and the pain that he had kept bottled up was projected in the tear that trickled down the side of his blocky cheek as the entire Nether Fortress exploded in a shockwave of fire.

      Stan was a half mile underground, but he was still seriously shaken when the mega-explosion above him went off. He had to give credit to Charlie. It was his quick thinking and mining instincts that had gotten them deep enough to be safe from the explosion created by RAT1. He knew now that they were being hunted by the assassin team known as Royal Assassin Team 1, or RAT1, which was composed of sword master Geno, demolition expert Becca and archery prodigy Leonidas. Apparently, according to the Nether Boys, they were a highly esteemed search-and-destroy group that the King sent after particularly evasive or dangerous targets.

      Well, thought Stan as Charlie began to tunnel upwards, he was honoured that the King believed that he and his friends were a threat worthy of addressing with the most highly acclaimed assassins in Elementia, but this also came with a problem. Namely, that the King believed that he and his friends were a threat worthy of addressing with the most highly acclaimed assassins in Elementia. If these guys were willing to follow them all over two worlds, Stan guessed that he and his friends would have a pretty hard time finding their way to the End with these assassins in pursuit.

      For the time being, however, Stan thought as Charlie hollowed out a little Netherrack room for them to plan their next move in, they had to focus on getting out of the Nether. Stan voiced this opinion to the others as soon as Charlie had finished the room and set up the torches.

      “We have all the Blaze Rods we need, so the next thing we need to do is get out of here and break the portal. That way,” he reasoned, “we’ll be able to start hunting the Endermen, and they’ll be stuck in the Nether, at least until they figure a way out. We can use that time to get as far away from the portal as possible.”

      “Good thinking, Stan,” agreed Kat. “Now that we’ve got people after us, we’ve got to get to the End as quickly as possible.”

      “Yes, I agree,” said Charlie, nodding. “We’ll stop back by our old house to get our stuff and pick up Rex and Lemon, and then we’ll go off into the desert. We’ll keep moving around so they won’t find us, and we’ll hunt Endermen at the same time.”

      Kat nodded, and Stan said, “OK then.” He turned to the Nether Boys, who had been huddled together away from the others whispering. “So, what about you guys?” he asked. “What are you going to do when you get out of the Nether?”

      “Well, first, we’re going to kiss the sand beneath our feet,” said Bill.

      “Then, we’re going to breathe in air that’s under thirty degrees Celsius,” said Bob.

      “And then, perhaps, build a shrine to the clouds and swear that we’re never going to take them for granted again,” said Ben.

      “OK,” said Kat, rolling her eyes. “We get it. You’re going to be very happy to be back in the Overworld. But what are you going to do? Long term, I mean.”

      “Oh,” СКАЧАТЬ