(Michael's POV):
I had spent a long time traveling around the crimson biome and have encountered various monsters. The number of flying types I had to face isn't a funny joke and gave me a hard time navigating. More monsters spawn in groups and attack while calling in reinforcements for some reason.
After two hours of navigation I had seen multiple large mounds of crimstone with no bubble like in the entrance. I was on the verge of giving up since I have explored the east side of the crimson biome completely. After some time, I had arrived to the center of the biome which has a huge mound. It out-scaled all the mounds I have seen so far.
I walked around the giant mound and found a large entrance that seems to be coated with a thick layer of bubble. Jackpot~
I went through the bubble and felt very uncomfortable passing through it. After going through the entire bubble I felt partly heavy and have feelings of something important being blocked.
I checked my stats immediately and noticed that the manapool is completely blocked. Bro, good thing I took the two weapons beforehand.
As I enter deeper into the chasm, I start to feel the presence of monsters spreading within the area below me.
"Damn, what am I supposed to do against these..."
What I've encountered so far are groups of face monsters and crimeras... Both monsters came from the familiar game of Terraria. Oh yeah, speaking of which this game just took in Minecraft, Terraria, and a few other games... Was it properly bought by a richer company? Or was it plagiarized? We currently have no information on that.
After entering a certain depth, I start to encounter the familiar face monster along with a new type. The look of the new type terrifies me overall, a freaking large spider...
These monsters don't really have a useful drop except vertebrae which is actually a material that can be used for a certain object.
It's not really known as of the moment though but it was said that it was pretty useful.
I prepared my scythe and swung it to eliminate the monsters in my path, I rushed downwards to keep the scythe as stacked up as possible. The good thing about magic weapons is that they don't really get disabled if the activation was passive or toggle. The trident is an active item and requires us to pour some mana to attack using the back.
I sliced through most monsters effortlessly due to how sharp Denzel made this weapon. It will give me a powerful clear speed on dashing down towards the chasm.
After about two minutes of rushing down all the monsters, a wide, dark room was in front of me. Without magic, my lighting would be horrible so I brought some torches and glowsticks. The types I brought were the ultra-bright ones.
I threw a torch down but ended up landing in water after a thirty feet drop.
That's unfortunate...
I threw a bunch of glowsticks at once this time and properly spread it around to make the area visible. I partially regret my decision of a spread-out styled throw...
When I looked out to the ground, it was a wide and deep area filled with nothing but multiple chasms, pools of water, crimeras and face monsters... And freaking spiders...
"Jeez, Denzel would've freaked out if he saw this many spiders..."
Fun fact, Denzel has severe arachnophobia... Mine was only pretty mild.
I jumped down now that I can see the ground and the possible spots I might fall down on.
I landed gracefully on the ground without taking fall damage. I then start to swing my scythe around like a maniac and cleared off all the monsters within the room in the matter of ten minutes.
After clearing all the monsters, I took out more glowsticks and stuck them on walls or so. Keeping light and vision will prevent monsters from spawning in certain dark spots. Having a lit up arena is important when fighting against boss monsters. That was a lesson I learned when I was fighting the Eye of Cthulhu.
I moved around the entire wide area to get used on my footing against the boss. I may require myself to dodge consistently or move around the area pretty quickly. So I started doing some running around for a short while. The glowsticks that I set up will not despawn until I go too far off the area. After some practice, I entered a chasm but was filled with water. Great, what do I do now?
I reached the end of the chasm and took out a dynamite stick. Now let's see about this...
I moved back and allowed the dynamite to detonate. After that I suddenly felt chills going down my spine.
I threw down another glowstick as one got destroyed from the explosion. I saw an item drop down which looks somewhat like a revolver and a bunch of musket balls.
I went down and took the item drops and swam back up the chasm. I was moments away from drowning but managed to barely scrape off from dying.
"The Undertaker? Guns aren't really my thing so I'll give this to Denzel because he might use it as a schematic to create a pair of guns for his arsenal."
The thought of passing these weapons to Denzel was a standard idea to help him generate a perfect all-rounder arsenal of weapons.
I went down another chasm which has literally nothing this time but a single heart that's visible already.
"So that's what I broke huh? Could be nice if I get the zodiac artifact from that..."
In all honestly, I would like to spare myself from encountering the boss... I've had my fair share of trouble with bosses already.
I took out another dynamite and threw it after ignition. I distanced myself before the explosion and started echoing screams all around me...
"This is a little creepy, I gotta say that..."
I moved to another chasm and repeated the process. After returning back to the wide room, the first thing I saw was a gigantic brain that's surrounded with small eyeballs that look like large cells around it. The gigantic brain has tentacles flinging around at the bottom, just to the side of the brain stem.
The brain moves around slowly but is closing in. The cells surrounding it started flocking over me mercilessly. I started cutting down each and every single cell I can find while keeping my distance as much as I could. I continuously ran back, turn around and clear as much cells as I could. When I noticed, the brain had disappeared completely and teleported right on top of me.
"!!!!"
The cells that dispersed during the disappearance started to move back towards the brain and surround it like a shield. When I looked closer, new cells started to spawn from the brain. Oh that ain't fair!
I dashed out before I get swarmed by the cells once again. After keeping distance, I turned around and saw that the cells start to act as a forcefield around the brain. This, is not like the game I used to play... This is like a real fantasy world...
While being in awe, the cells started to converge their way towards me once more. I had laid out an idea to just simply throw my trident through all of the cells. I instantly jousted through half and penetrated the brain. It simply got stuck and spewed out multiple cells at once as a result.
As I am running out of options, I decided to take care of the small fry that started to disperse first. The brain disappeared and the trident fell down to the ground. Without magic, I cannot use any of my tricks but just continuously slice off these cells that are spreading around.
The cells start to converge towards the brain that appeared a few meters above me. I dashed out towards the more cells and sliced of all that passed through me. When I checked, I can only see around ten remaining. I dashed forward and sliced down the remaining cells that converged to me. After slicing all of it, the brain that was facing towards me, blew off the front and revealed a heart beating inside it. Disgusting, there's even an eye there.
The issue is that, it's moving way faster this time.
Hitting the brain tissue didn't affect it one bit. As after the shedding of the front, twenty cells spawned around it. I made my situation worse by striking the tissue instead of the heart.
"Khah!"
I got rammed by the gigantic brain just like how a large truck would ram into me. I then get slapped by a tentacle from below and took more damage before the brain teleported away.
After coughing out blood, I looked around to become attentive to where the brain shows up. I then noticed that the brain teleported away from the trident. Using the chance, I dashed towards my other weapon and formed a dual wield stance. As the brain got close, it teleported again. I sliced off the extra cells and healed myself back up quite a bit. After the brain revealed itself again. I directly threw the trident and struck the heart. It got knocked back really well but teleported away instantly, dropping the trident.
I moved to the corner to prevent any surprises but it did not help at all.
"Holy fuck..."
Sixteen brains appeared at the same time... All of them didn't move from their spot but started to extend their flinging tentacles to destroy me.
"!!!"
I started dodging around desperately as each tentacle did damage the ground. I panicked so much I ended up stepping on mid-air.
"Shit!"
I used the scythe and stabbed it on the ground to raise myself up. I then noticed one brain gushing out blood from the heart.
"There you are~"
I dashed towards the brain that was in the opposite corner. It was high up so I had to run up the bulky wall and launched myself outward.
I raised my scythe very high and prepared to stab through the blade on the heart that's gushing out blood.
After a front-flip, I destroyed the heart and removed it from the brain, effectively killing it.
I then land down on the ground gracefully while holding out the scythe in a cool pose of a scythe user.
I sat down and rest up for a while before taking both the loot and the zodiac item Seymour requested...