POV: Undying Flame
For the next few days, I gathered enough materials to let Blue make some potions that I think would help me survive in the other world.
He seemed surprised when I first told him about my plan, he didn't like it, he tried to stop me but I had to remind him that I had to be the one that should do this risky mission to show our sincerity.
After a few grunts, he accepted it only if I promised that I wouldn't die stupidly with this plan.
I just laughed and said to him that I planned to die in battle.
Now I was with Blue in front of the portal and he finally handed me the potion.
"I don't know where you got this idea, but theoretically it should work. This is a regeneration two potion that is only possible because of the materials that I got from the fortress. From what Bobby told me, there's no such thing as a level two potion in their world. The system doesn't let them. But our world doesn't follow the system, so I could make it from some ancient scrolls, but this is my first time making such a potion so I don't know how long it would last."
After the long explanation, he finally handed me to the potion.
"Thank you Blue Flame, and sorry for making you worry so much."
He just gave me a tired smile and nodded his head.
I then turned towards the portal and took a deep breath before passing to the other side.
I didn't feel any different in the first few moments, maybe just a bit colder than usual which was a new experience.
But I didn't have to wait for too long before my head started to hurt, and my stomach was next as well.
I quickly had to take the regeneration potion before I couldn't move from the pain.
Once the liquid run through me, I could feel the change right away.
I could feel my health fighting back the sickness and even overcoming it.
"Are you ok there?"
Blue asked concerned.
"Yes, I've never felt better actually. It works Blue! I can go to another dimension without dying!"
"I'm glad to hear that Chief, but you have to move quickly before the time runs out."
"How long does it last?"
"The normal regeneration potion would last around an hour, but because this one is a better version than the original one it would last shorter. So about half an hour."
I was shocked to hear about the short time I had in my hands. Most of the potions usually last between two to three hours, but now I'm in an underground tunnel in a new world and I have to find someone in just half an hour.
"I still have two more potions don't forget."
He then carefully passed me the bottles through the portal, which I quickly took.
"Good luck out there chief, and don't die."
I nodded and started to climb the ladders.
The portal was deeper than I thought, the black stone turned gray and finally, I was in another long and cramped tunnel.
I continued walking until I arrived at a huge room filled with chests and a lot of other entrances to different tunnels.
I curiously looked around, but the tunnels seemed like they were spreading endlessly.
"Is this how they mined for iron? How did they manage to mine so much in such a short time?"
I looked in one of the chests and I was shocked by the number of block, but what truly shocked me was the amount of gold they had.
It was stacks upon stacks of gold, it was so much gold in this chest that it would make a normal pigling think it was dreaming.
"I knew they were not normal, but not this abnormal. They could've bought the whole tribe three times over if they wanted to."
I decided to close the chest, since I didn't want to be tempted more than I already was.
I look around some more until I found another ladder that was going up.
"I guess I'm still going up."
So I started to climb the ladder toward a strange light.
But once I got to the top I was beyond shocked by what I saw.
Something cold run through my lather clothes, the colors of everything were so vibrant, and the ceiling... the ceiling was so high that I couldn't even see it.
I didn't know how to react, I knew that it was a different dimension but I didn't expect the difference to be so big, it felt like everything was overwhelming me and I didn't know what to do.
*SLAP
"Focus Undying, you have a mission to do, and it's timed on top of that."
The slap brought me back to reality so I finally started to act more rationally.
I looked around some more and I saw some storage houses made of cobblestone and another brown block that I didn't recognize.
"This must be their tribe."
With that knowing I started to walk towards that closed house.
There I finally saw someone that looked like an outsider with their big nouse just wandering through the strange houses.
"Hey there, do you know where I could find Bobby?"
The stranger turned towards me with a curious look but didn't say anything.
"Can you understand me?"
I walked closer to him but suddenly stopped once I saw a huge shadow appearing from the corner of the house.
It must've been three blocks tall with broad shoulders and a small head, the creature was white like the iron armor and had long arms that almost reached the ground.
The creature looked at me confused and reached his arm towards me, I tried to run out of its reach but I was already caught and lifted like I was just a piece of string.
The iron creature showed me to the stranger, but he just raised his shoulders like he didn't know what to do with me as well.
Since they both seemed confused the creature just walked from person to person asking what to do with me. Nobody seemed to know who I was or what I was, some of them weren't even interested in me.
Finally, there was someone that could talk.
"Wha their big guy, I still can't get used to you... Iron golem was it? What do you need."
The person talked with the iron giant with a bit of fear in his voice.
"Hello there stranger my name is Undying Flame, can you please tell this iron golem to let me down?"
He finally seemed to notice me captured in one of the iron arms. His eyes narrowed with suspicion.
"Who are you, and what happened to your nouse?"
"My nouse? That's my normal nouse, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Anyway, I came here in search of a man named Bobby."
The man got tenser when he heard that name.
"Why do you need him?"
"I want to apologize for a mistake that I and my people did to him."
Once he heard that his expression started to relax.
"Then your a few days too late I'm afraid. He was called to the palace to meet with the princess and I didn't hear from him ever since. I'm only here to take care of his village while he is away. My name is Tobby by the way."
He raised his hand for me to shake it. But unfortunately, I was only able to just stare at it since I was still held by the golem.
"Oh yeah, Iron Golem you can let her down."
The golem nodded his head and gently let me down.
"Thank you. When do you think Bobby would come back?"
"I don't know, I'm still waiting for a letter that would tell me his situation."
"Then I have to get to him, I can't afford to wait for an unknown amount of time."
"Well, the palace is a few days away from here."
"A few days? I can't-"
Suddenly pain run through my head like never before, followed soon by the pain in my stomach.
The potion effect wore off already so the pain came back with force.
I quickly took out a potion from my inventory and drank it like it was no tomorrow. Which it was in my case if I didn't.
Finally, after the last drop was in my body I could feel normal again.
"Are you ok?"
Toby asked me worried.
"Yes, but I better get back home quickly before I run out of potions."
"Well as I was saying, Bobby is too far away, and I don't think you know how to get there even if I told you."
This wasn't a good thing to hear. If Bobby went to the palace, maybe he was already telling the people from the fortress about our tribe's location.
I had to do something and it had to be fast.
"Can you perhaps guide me to the palace? Of course, it won't be for free, I could trade you some potions in exchange."
I said that to him while holding the last regeneration potion in my hand.
"Hmmm, I'm also worried about my friend so I'll accept your deal. Well, take my horses to get there faster, when do you want to leave?"
"I need a few hours to get ready, so I'll come to you as long as you are still in this village."
He nodded his head in understanding so I started to sprint towards the ladder that went deeper.
I almost got lost through the tunnels but after a few minutes, I was back at the portal where Blue waited for me anxiously.
"Undying! Your back!"
Blue said with a relieved voice.
Which made me realize that I may stayed a little too much in the other dimension.
"Of course I'm back. I told you that I wouldn't die in such a stupid way."
He just smile at my comment and asked me how the apology went.
"Unfortunately I didn't meet him, he was called to the palace apparently and he didn't respond for a few days."
His face started to turn white when he heard that.
"W-what are we going to do now?"
"You'll get back to the tribe and move everyone to a new safe location while I go searching for him to give him the apology.'
"That's too dangerous for you, and I don't think you have enough space In your inventory to hold that many potions."
What he said was true, with only half an hour of regeneration I couldn't make a journey of a few days, so I had to think about a solution.
"If only we had some redstone I could make the potions last longer even if it's the weaker version."
"Redstone?"
"Yeah, it's like the glowstone dust with the exception that is red."
This made me think about the many chests that were in the large room, one of them had a lot of ores including what I think was redstone dust.
"I think I can get you one of those but I have to borrow it from Bobby's chest."
He didn't look too comfortable with the notion of almost stealing but understood the cause.
So I quickly got up the stairs, and run through a few chests until I finally found the Redstone dust, which I took a stack.
Blue thanked me and started to brew the potions right then.
After a few minutes of waiting the first batch were ready.
"Ok, here's one. But be careful since this is only a normal regeneration potion and it won't be as strong as the last one."
I took the potion, passed through the portal, and drank it.
The wait wasn't long before I could feel the change, it wasn't as strong as the first one but it was enough to keep it on hold.
"It's good enough, make me a few more and I'll leave as soon as possible."
"I don't think you'll have enough time even if you have the extended potion."
"Then what do you suggest we do, we don't have a lot of options here."
He took a big breath and then spoke.
"I'm going to teach you how to do it yourself, and once you know I'll give you all the Ingredients you need to make it yourself."
That made me stop and think.
And it was a pretty good idea. Only the people in the overworld were limited by the system, and we didn't have that to stop us.
"That's a pretty good idea, please teach me."
So far the next half an hour we stood at the brewing station where Blue showed me how to make a regeneration potion.
After everything was done, I had the materials, the tools, and a few potions made from the lesson.
"Thank you Blue again, and take care of the tribe while I'm gone, Bye!"
I waved my hand and went through the portal once again.
It was time to explore the new world.