I was shocked when I heard what the Chief said, he then dragged the man in pain closer to the Nether warts and took out an enchanted golden exe.
Without thinking I took out my loaded crossbow and shot at him, but something unexpected happened, instead of hitting the Chief, it exploded right in front of me *Boom!
The crack between the chest was too small, which resulted in my back hitting the wall from the explosion.
Soulstone was startled by the sudden explosion and dropped his exe right in the head of the man.
Unfortunately, that didn't kill him, but now a wave of pain washed over him which resulted in the loudest scream of pain and panic I ever heard.
"Oh shut up, will you! I can't enjoy your suffering like this anymore."
And the chief raised his foot above the man and kicked the exe deeper until it hit the floor.
The man stopped and went limp.
He was dead.
While that was happening, I finally managed to get myself together after the explosion and now I had to make a decision.
Should dig away and run?
Or should I get out and fight him?
"Who are you? Reveal yourself!"
Fight it is then, if I run away I won't be able to come on this side of the Nether ever.
I took out my diamond pickaxe and broke myself out, where the Chief waited for me with a diamond sword ready to fight.
He froze and looked at me confused, and that turned to anger.
"I don't know which servant you are but I'll enjoy torturing you!"
He then jumped at impressive speeds for someone his size and reached me in a second.
I quickly took out my shield and stopped the incoming sword, and with my right hand, I swung my diamond sword at him, which I unfortunately missed.
"An enchanted Diamond sword?! You're not a servant, you're the spy that I kept looking for, how naive of you to reveal yourself. I'm going to enjoy every second you scream!"
Then he took out his golden axe and jumped once more towards me, and in response, I raised my shield once again.
It was a mistake.
The Chiefman was a heavy but nimble man, so when his weapons touched my shield, it was too late for me to realize it was a trap.
He didn't want to slash me, he wanted the crush me, so all of his weight was now on top of me.
The man was so fat that I had to put one knee down and both my hands for support.
Suddenly I didn't feel the weight anymore, instead, the axe was used as a hook to pull the shield away from me, leaving me exposed.
The brute didn't waste this opportunity as he kicked me with force onto my side taking air from my lungs and the sword slipped out.
It hurt like I was hit by a hoglin, I even fell three blocks to the side giving me more bruises.
"Is that all you're capable of? That sword is wasted on you, where is your almighty armor?"
He started to get more excited and now he was preparing for another attack.
Weapons raised he started to gain momentum to crush me once again, but I put a stop to it just by placing a block in his way.
Since it was instant, he didn't see it coming so his knees hit the nether block and his face landed on top of it.
Still in pain, I got up and punched the man in the face, making him groan in pain.
I didn't continue the attack, instead I went to grab my sword and loaded another firework.
"How did you do that, what kind of enchantment did you use?"
I didn't bother giving him an answer instead I shot a firework towards him.
The Chiefman quickly shielded himself with his tools, which was a big mistake.
*Boom!
"Ahhhhh!"
The man screamed in pain as flesh was burned on his arms.
But even through that unbearable pain, he didn't let go of his weapons.
He didn't scream for long, instead, he looked at me with cold eyes took out a golden apple from his inventory, and ate it, which was pretty impressive with how bad his arms looked like.
Soon, flesh started to regenerate at visible speeds, and in a second he was all healthy and ready to continue the fight.
But I didn't stay and just watch as he healed himself, I loaded my crossbow once again and shot at him, but this time he jumped out of the way hitting the wall in the back instead.
*Boom!
The man wasn't playing with me anymore, he was fighting like a warrior, and that meant that I was in danger.
I didn't take my sword out, instead, I quickly built a wall that forced the man to stop otherwise would have had another accident.
The room was three blocks tall so, I couldn't tower up and he could jump over the new barricade.
But I didn't give him the chance to do that, as I quickly placed blocks on the ceiling as well leaving space only in the middle.
And I could say with confidence that even if he could pass through the gap, it would be very hard for him to get here safely.
That meant that I was free to shoot at him like a fish in a barrel.
"What kind of enchantment is this!"
The man yelled with anger and a hint of panic.
But this was an advantage for me, so I wouldn't waste it by explaining what was actually happening.
I took out the crossbow from my inventory, but this time it was different, this one was enchanted.
The man focused on my weapon and tensed his body ready to jump out of the way.
I pressed the trigger towards his feet, and the Chiefman jumped on the right, but this shot was different from the previous ones, since from one firework suddenly three appeared.
*Boom! X3
The man was hit and fell on his back, with flesh getting burned before quickly regenerating, the effects of the apple were still going.
Before he could get up I jumped through the barrier gap and loaded another firework.
*Boom! X3
This time all three of them hit the Chiefman, which did more damage than before, even the enchanted regeneration couldn't keep up with it.
But this wasn't without a price, as the enchanted crossbow broke in my hands and moved to be used again.
It only had two more shots left and I made them count.
I quickly ran towards him while he was trying to get up even in great pain, so when I arrived I kicked him in the gut before taking my sword out and stabbing it in his head.
The room got quiet and the Chiefman froze in place before going limp.
He was dead.
The adrenaline was still going through my veins but was slowly calming down.
I fell down on the ground trying to catch my breath.
"What did I just do? I have to run now before they're going to search for me."
I took deep breaths, trying to calm down, everything happened too fast for me to process what just happened.
As I sat down with my back on the wall I saw something different that I wasn't able to see in the heat of the fight.
The nether warts were vastly grown where the two corpses stood, everything in a five-block radios was fully grown, like someone used bonemeal on them.
"Does the soul of a person work as bonemeal on the soulsand?"
Is this why the Chiefman took the man in this room, to grow his garden?
That was a sick thing to do.
After I calmed down I looked at the Chiefman inventory to see if he had anything valuable on him.
I don't know how long it would take for the servants to notice the disappearance of their master, but that doesn't mean I would leave this place without any spoils.
Unfortunately, the man didn't have too many valuables on him, only a few golden ingots, food, some golden apples, and his weapons, also this weird lapiz block enchanted with Curse of Binding, Tracking, and Ruler.
I didn't even know about two of them, but I was too afraid to pick it up since it had a Curse of Binding so I left it there.
Unfortunately, he didn't expect to have a fight today so he didn't take anything of value.
I took his gold, apples, and the diamond sword that had Sharpness 3 and Unbreaking 2 on it.
Then I turned towards the chest only to see Violet visible once again with a relaxed face.
"Did anyone hear the commotion?"
She reassured me that nobody heard us so nobody would come and see what was going on.
This made me a little relieved that I had some time to loot this place.
I quickly checked the chests in this room and was disappointed once again once I found out that it only held some nether warts, enchanted golden hoes, and blocks of soul sand.
I didn't take anything from there since I already had enough of those items at home, instead, I turned towards Violet.
"Can you please continue guiding me toward the treasure room?"
Violet opened her third eye once again and looked all over the area, before closing it and signalling to follow her.
With this I followed her at a quick pace, not knowing how much time I had left until I arrived in front of a wall.
It was a dead end.
"This isn't the treasure room, this is a dead end!"
Violet kept pointing at the wall until I finally understood what she was referring to.
"There's a secret room beyond the wall?"
She nodded her head and teleported in the hidden room leaving purple paricals behind.
"I'm sure there's a hidden mechanism that I can use to open this door, but I don't want to bother looking for it, so let's break it!"
I took out my trusty pickaxe and broke the dark wall, then the nether rock wall, and again a black wall.
But that was the least one as now I was in a large room easily twenty blocks in diameter.
The room was split into two parts, one held the majority of the chests together with an enchanting setup and a few brewing stands.
There were also a few bookshelves filled with books written by brutes instead of the System.
On the other side of the room, there were six chests in total, there wasn't anything special about that side of the room with the exception of an enchanted iron armor that stood on a stand like a line between the two sides.
First I checked the closest chest around me, and it was a true treasure trove.
Diamonds, emeralds, iron, gold LOTS OF GOLD, Redstone, potions, crops, milk, and much more.
I also checked the enchanting setup and saw a few journals related to experiments with enchanting.
From what I gathered by looking through them, it was way inferior then what I knew, but I kept a few that caught my attention and moved to the potion setup.
Here I had better results, a lot more recipes that I didn't know, and some of them used interesting ingredients such as strider milk, soul sand, and even glowstone blocks.
For now, I only took the books with the information and the diamonds.
As I looked through those chests I found something that I was hoping to find in here.
Netherite ingots, 20 more exactly.
It was a jackpot, so I quickly took them, afraid that their going to disappear in front of me.
I'd checked everything on this side of the room, so now I looked towards the smaller part but equally majestic part of the room.
But first I had to check the enchanted iron armor that stood as a line.
What was its deal?
And when I took it off to see those enchantments, I was taken by surprise.