Chapter 2
How Can I Get Woods If I'm Not Allowed To Go Out?
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Morning.
As Sera woke up from his slumber, what greeted him is pitch-black darkness, unlike before where he always get overwhelmed by the sunlight.
But soon, the sound of footsteps can be heard, then the sound of someone unlocking something resounded.
After that, the light finally peeks in towards the corner.
"It's morning already" A man's voice whispered but since they are in a cave it reverberated in the whole cave making Sera hear it.
"Yeah" Another man said while heaving a sigh of relief for an unknown reason.
The former nodded and they finally partially opened the door as light pass through them, making their eyes instinctively close.
Then the two immediately run out of the cave while unsheathing their iron swords.
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Meanwhile, Sera is wondering why the two men parted and unsheathed their swords but what he wondered the most is...
How can they get oxygen here??
Sera is puzzled, he didn't know how being trapped inside a place and not having air still left them alive.
No, more like there's still oxygen around but where it comes from is a myst-
Sera stopped and suddenly remembered one thing.
'Hmm... if I remember it correct, then there are windpipes here all around the corners'
'It seems that my ancestor, before building this, also build pipes where the wind will head inside the cave and not only that, because they are worried that if it rains, the windpipe will be our death since it only brings in and does not bring out'
'So they made holes on it to ensure that the water will go to another direction, or to the dirt'
"Heh pretty clever but that's common knowledge" Sera scoffed at the boasting of their grandfather in his memories.
He also remembered that there's a Frost Moon and Pumpkin Moon Event that happened when he is still a month old.
And he now remembered that they will experience these two events this year.
And luckily it's still January, he still had time to prepare on such occasions.
Seeing that the place brightened up a bit by the sun, Sera inspected his surroundings and was surprised that there's a lot of Sunflowers.
'So they know huh'
Sera kept looking around then eventually found something.
"Stones"
What he is seeing right now is the mountain of sacks of stones in the corner but then he hesitated a bit.
"What can I craft with stones?"
Sera having said that remember something and immediately imagined his inventory.
'I knew it!'
Grinning excitedly to himself Sera inspected the equipment and found that they are too common.
'Figures'
"So I had a copper pickaxe, axe, and a sword" Sera said while he was inspecting his surroundings.
By now, the other kids are already waking up.
Aside from the Seraphine family, there are also another 4 families at this cave.
Matalino Family.
Malakas Family.
and lastly, Robin Family.
The three families all had 6 members while our family only had me and my mother.
Apparently, this kid's father, uncle, and big brother all died when It unexpectedly rain and raincoat zombies shortly surrounded them.
Now he and his mother are the only ones left.
Luckily, even though that's the case the other families help us since they said that we are all a big family in this cave.
Anyway.
"This is bad"
Yeah like really really bad.
'I won't be able to use my abilities if these people are hindering me'
Sera bit his lips in helplessness and calm down.
'I need to find a way or else I won't become strong'
'I know they are a burden but I'm not a cruel person I'm not some Chinese protagonist so I can't abandon these people'
'The kids will pester me since I'm their friend and also because our number is too small, resulting in no playmates'
'The adults won't let me out'
'The adults will train me...'
Sera thinking this, want to cry...
'Damn these limiters, I can't do anything to them cause I love them'
Sera walked toward a corner and looked around for anyone looking.
'Nevermind the limiters, if they notice me and reprimand me I will ignore them'
As he said that, A pickaxe made from copper suddenly appeared before his right hand.
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Copper Pickaxe
4% damage
4% critical strike chance
Fast Speed
Very weak knockback
35% pickaxe power
-1 range
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Sera look at what he's going to destroy and found that it was a stone.
He then use each of his hand and use it to swing the pickaxe down.
Pak!
Then he swung it again.
Pak!
Pausing for a bit Sera noticed something and scrutinized his eyes.
"Huh?"
Surprised, Sera blinked then remember something.
'Dang I forgot a copper pickaxe in Terraria can break a stone block with just tree swings!'
Sera grinned in satisfaction then he swung his pickaxe.
Pak!
Pausing for a look, Sera saw a cubic block of stone in front of him then the stone suddenly flew at him making Sera step back in surprise.
He searched his body only to find nothing.
He then imagined his inventory and saw a block of stone at one of the slots.
'Heh' Grinning, Sera continued swinging the pickaxe while the people in the surrounding is wondering what he is doing.
Well, 60% of the people here are kids.
There are only 5 male adults, 4 female adults and the rest are kids.
The kids are composed of 6 boys and 6 girls.
10 of them are the same age as Sera and the only two left are babies, both boy and girl, a twin.
The kids here are the children of the deceased and their uncle or auntie decided to take care of them, no, more like they had to.
Matalino Family had 1 boy and 4 girls, the twin is in here.
Malakas Family had 1 boy and 2 girls, there's also a twin here.
Then the Robin Family only had 2 boys.
Lastly the Seraphine..... of course it's only Sera.
...
One of the kids can't hold back his curiosity anymore and approached the swinging Sera.
"Sera? What are you doing?" A boy with shoulder-length black hair and black eyes asked.
"Hmm... Kyle?" Surprised, Sera turn to the boy and paused for a bit before answering.
After all he need to remember the name of the kid first.
Sera continued his digging and answered the kid "I'm just digging to create some weapons"
Baffled, Kyle put his right hand on Sera's shoulder to stop him.
"Wait what can you create with stones?" He said looking at Sera curiously.
"Arrows" Sera said and remove Kyle's hand from his shoulder.
Puzzled, Kyle imagined the arrows and remembered that arrows had iron as their head!
Meanwhile, Sera look at the deep hole in front of him then he checked his inventory and found out that his stone number is 6.
Then he look at the hole in front of him.
'Wait..... how big is that stone block?!'
(In Terraria, A door is 3 blocks and the height of the player is only slightly smaller than the door, so I think a block, sized up to 0.7 meters, and since he was a kid, that might be big for him, if I remember it right a 10 yr old kid height is around 1 meter to 1.2 meters, so with 6 blocks being destroyed, meaning he destroyed 3.5 meters of the place)
(Pretty big if I may say, cause human height is only on 1.6 to 1.8 meters and that is 3 meters)
Note: He dug a hole and didn't dug the wall If you had the wrong imagination.
Sera inspected the hole he made and found out that the hole is so big that he can get inside!
Shocked, Sera turn his head to the spectators and he found out that they're also stunned that he manage to dig a hole that fast.
That hole will take a normal human 3 hours!
Sera smiled wryly and his brain work like crazy trying to think of a reason.
Not being able to think of anything, Sera abandoned the idea of continuing and decided to try finding wood.
After all, he already had 6 stone blocks!
An arrow only needs 1 stone block and 1 wood to be crafted.
Moreover, if you crafted the arrow, you will get 25 of it.
Meaning he already had 125 arrows on his arsenal if the wood is not missing.
'Now, how can I get woods if I'm not allowed to go out?'