POV:Daniel
"Mr President, we hired 100 miners and given them the instruction you had, we expect to see results in one week."
"Good, don't forget to build the farms that I told you and the golem army."
"Yes Mr President, right away."
The secretary turned around and walked out of my office while I got back to my papers.
It was a small pile on my desk, that would keep me busy for a few hours at most.
I never understood the people who were buried in paperwork at their offices.
If you have too much work to do, give it to someone else.
Sure, they could get corrupted and I could lose a few funds, but with the System I made, I would find out quickly the source of it, and deal with it.
Up until now, I didn't have problems, mostly because the pay was good.
"Mister President. There's a man who claims to be the ambassador of the Stone Kingdom. Should I bring him in?"
An ambassador?
I didn't expect something like this so soon.
"Let him in then."
A few minutes later, the ambassador entered my office, and from one look, I quickly remembered who he was.
"Mister Bobby, it's been a while since we last saw each other. How have you been?"
I stayed for a short time in the Stone Palace and had the chance to meet each member of the Royal family, but unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to make too deep of a connection since Merry wanted to leave as soon as possible.
At that time, I realized that Trader had a lot of influence over that place, so I didn't want to stay there for fear that I would be watched at all times.
It was foolish of me to believe that, but I was still glad to make that decision since I don't think Trader would've taken so long to catch me if Bobby had been there to report my shenanigans.
"Daniel, or should I say President Daniel. I didn't expect to see you behind that desk, what happened to President Sun?"
"He's dead, and I took over."
"Can I hear more about that? From what I remember, the people choose their leader, and I don't think it's a fast process."
"You are half right, but due to some circumstances, the whole election process had to be skipped, and I was the right man at the right time to solve the problem at hand."
Of course, the story was much more complicated than that.
My soul compass couldn't tell me the exact details on how long it would take for the Shadow Lord to arrive, but Steve didn't have that problem.
He estimated that he would arrive in a week after he first contacted me, which put a strict schedule on everyone involved.
There are 2 main projects:
- The arrow of death
- Pearl research
The first one was inspired by some people from my old world who made a weapon that could kill a Wither with only one arrow and a lot of explosions.
Now, I couldn't do the same thing in this world since a normal arrow wouldn't be that easy to control or resist the wind pressure it would face.
That's why, I had to do some improvising so that the TNT would still have the same power even if they can't stack when lit.
And for that, I needed to created a different kind of arrow that could withstand that blast.
Funnily enough, the only thing that was durable enough was Netherite.
Unfortunately, I had to make some unpleasant deals with the new ruler of the Nether to get access to so much materials.
That was the weapon that we could use and kill anyone no matter the place in the world.
I even had an upgraded version of it that could travel across dimensions, but I would have to talk with Merry about this since Alexa would make me bleed more if I asked it for help.
The second project was equally important since it focused on finding out more about the abilities of the Ender pearls.
Unfortunately, we were in a forest biome, and Endermans are very hard to find here. They are smart enough to know when they are hunted, and tend to run away.
In the first place, Endermans are mostly believed to be legends in the big cities, since they tend to prank or hunt in the smaller villages who don't have the strength to fight back.
Which meant that we had to send hunters in the Nether.
But they were moving to slow in the new environment, so we made another deal with Alexa.
I swear it holds a grudge against me for stealing from Trader since I felt like I paid everything back that I stole from him.
No matter how much I tried to reason with it, that it was for the greater good, it didn't listen and demanded more diamonds and other valuables.
It was frustrating to watch, to say the least.
The only reason I didn't give up here was because it wasn't my wallet in the end, so it didn't matter.
There were a few important points we wanted to find from the Perls.
Such as what counts as touch and how durable the Perl was.
The first one had an interesting result of 3 gloves over the hand, after that, the Pearl wouldn't register on you anymore.
This resulted with a simple solution for the problem, by tieing the Pearl on a stick.
The second one showed us that it was similar to jello from my old world, or slimes in this world.
In conclusion, it depends.
But with all the preparation done it's was time to welcome the monster.
We found out that the Shadow Lord doesn't teleport like the Endeman. Instead, it travels through shadows.
That's why, when I felt that the Monster was getting closer, we made the whole city a beacon of light.
Suddenly, sleeping glasses had high record sales, and a new festival was born.
The Shadow Lord arrived in the middle of the day, clearly taken aback by the lack of shadows in the city.
He tried to sneak inside normally, but the fact that the capital was a floating city made it impossible.
If he jumped, he would be seen.
If he tried to come from underneath, the smaller islands would see him once again.
So when one of the guards saw him and called the alarm which made the whole city enter its final defense form, it wasn't all luck.
Soldiers were at the edge of the city with crossbows ready to fire, and the Shadow Lord decided to not hold back anymore.
He made a huge jump as arrows with fireworks passed by him while the ones hitting him were brushed off.
The attacks weren't strong enough to hurt him, but they were strong enough to stop his momentum, which forced him to use an arrow with rope to get back to safety.
Nobody knew what expression he was making, but he was pissed no question asked.
After a few more attempts, the Shadow Lord decided to use the bridge and dodge most of the arrows.
But there was a reason we let it out like that, and it was because it was filled with explosions.
With a flick of a lever, the hidden TNT was lit, and the Shadow Lord jumped into the air, getting out of the blast range.
He was safe but stuck on one of the farm islands, and that was our intention as more arrows rained on him.
He jumped into the air once again, some fireworks hitting him, while others didn't.
But that wasn't enough to kill him, and now he finally decided to fight back.
While falling to the island he shot a few red arrows with amazing precision at the larger group of soldiers.
*Boom!
*Boom!
*Boom!
*Boom!
The arrows exploded bringing great casualties to our archers.
Not only that, but he shot a blue arrow at the ground, which made a gust of wind that threw him further into the air than thought possible.
Next, he took out an arrow with a rope and shot at one of the buildings.
That was the moment we lost the advantage we had.
I don't know what that rope was made of, but no blade was strong enough to cut it down.
Because of that, the Shadow Lord managed to get into the city and the massacre began.
We kept using arrows with magic, but his bones were too thought, and the ones that could hurt him were always dodged.
Not only that, but we couldn't use fireworks anymore since it was too dangerous for the citizens hidden in their homes.
The only reason we didn't all die was because the Monster Lord wasn't interested in the common soldier, only in the leader.
He kept jumping from building to building, leaving everyone in the dust.
And just like that, he arrived at the house of the president, where the most powerful and well-equipped soldiers waited for him.
At the first sight, he was shot with slowness arrows and potions.
Then, the diamond soldiers took out their weapons and attacked the Shadow Lord, enhanced by speed and strength potion.
For the first time since we started the attack, the Shadow Lord screamed in pain and frustration.
With my help, they managed to get diamonds faster and other precious materials.
The only thing that would've stopped us, would've been the Enchanting and Brewing methods from the lack of skill.
But with the fall of the System, the problem was no more, and the strength of the kingdom rose.
The Shadow Lord kept jumping and shooting arrows with different effects.
They were much more diverse than the last time I saw him.
Some of them made a dome of darkness, others made an area of poison, and one even made gravity much stronger.
While the soldiers were getting killed or pinned down one by one, a new group of villagers ran at the Shadow Lord while invisible.
Once they got closer, they had brought some sticks with Ender Perls at the end and charged at him like madmen.
As long as one of them touched the Monster, the battle would be won.
The Shadow Lord realized as well, and tried to run away or kill the invisible pests.
Unfortunately, he was to distracted to see everything on the battlefield, so someone managed to touch him without breaking the Perl.
"That's enough! I know where your leader is, I'll deal with him once and for all!"
The Shadow Lord shot a blue arrow into the ground and jumped high into the air.
He was so high, that we could only see a black dot in the sky, when all of the sudden, we all felt a chill ran down our spine.
Not wanting to deal with what was about to come, I took the Perl and put it in a pauch carefully not to break it.
Then I took out my crossbow and shoot at the sky, resulting in 3 fireworks exploding in red.
From the spot on the sky, a huge shadow appeared in the shape of a dragon head.
It was so big, that it covered the whole President house.
But before it could land, I felt my guts being pulled, and I was now on a field with villagers running like they were on fire.
"Smart people."
*RRRAAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!!
*BOOOM!
The head of the black dragon roared and hit the middle of the city with a laud Bang.
"I hope the obsidian cage was enough to stop that attack."
I quickly turned my head at the lever besides me and flicked it.
"1-2-3- Now!"
I broke the Perl from the pauch, and suddenly the Shadow Lord apperead with a confused expression.
And before he could even speak a word.
*BOOOM!
I suddenly felt pain all over my body, as everything turned black and something broke shattering like glass.
I was then surrounded by light and the effects of the totem soon took effect.
When I opened my eyes, I realised that I was falling, so I activated the special ability of the totem to fly.
"I don't have a lot of time, I should get to seafty as soon as possible."
I was quite shocked by the destruction my wepon, and made me wonder if it was more powerful then Traders mace.
I didn't know it's full power, but I hear that it was a gift from the System, so it must be good.
Once Ianded on the surface I let out a sigh of relief, since the fight was finally over.
I didn't feel the Shadow Lord anymore.
"It's a shame he still has the spawner, but at least he would be out for a while."
I went back to the city, only to find out that the other big shots were also hiding with the president in the obsidian bunker.
And unfortunately...it wasn't enough to stop the dragon attack.
That's how I became the president of the Coral Kingdom.
My competition, literally died off.
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"So what brought you here Mister Bobby?"
I asked the man who studied me carefully.