I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated... okay that was a lie, I didn't want to get out of bed, but I had a reason to get out today, and it was not because of the fact that I'm still being tightly constricted by Teles who was still asleep, it was because I wanted to get a jump on my next build.
I walked outside and went to my chest which was still full of materials, I started by placing down cacti on sandy platforms and placed a random block up one diagonal near the cactus piece. You see when a block is next to a cactus, the cactus instantly breaks, which is what I'm trying to do on purpose here. I continued to make a ton of cactus spaces with blocks to automatically break the cacti when they grew, and make a ton of it high in the air, I then placed water to where it would flow the cactus pieces that have fallen into a hopper. We call this an automatic cactus farm, most people only really built these things in public servers because you don't really need a farm like this in the actual game, but in my situation, I actually needed a farm like this.
Now you might be thinking I put a chest to connect to the hopper that collected cacti, but you are incorrect, I instead placed a furnace chain that automatically filled the furnaces with cacti. Putting a cactus in a furnace allow you to smelt green dye, but the green dye isn't the reason why I'm smelting the cactus in the furnace, the real reason is so I can get XP a lot easier! Now you're probably wondering "Sure you have an xp source, but what will you do to fuel the furnaces???" I already had that figured out, thanks to my infinite lava source trick by placing lava over dripstone and into a cauldron, I was able to use the lava buckets as fuel for the furnaces, and the lava makes the fuel last for quite some time!
As I was finishing up my farm, I get greeted with another unwelcomed visit from Mr.Doubt
Hey, look out there is a monster approaching you!|
"verrry funny," I said to Mr.Doubt sarcastically
I'm not the kind of guy who would cry wolf about situations like this pal, just look behind you!| Mr.Doubt warned
I heard someone approaching me from afar, I turned to see that Rei arrived and walked over to my location where the cacti farm was being built. Despite the racist comments I received from Mr.Doubt, I was actually glad to see her, because this was a big part of what I promised her.
"Ah, long time no see Rei! What's going on?" I said as I finished placing the last few blocks.
"Hey! Sorry I've been gone for some time, things have been... well." Rei seemed a bit troubled.
"It's cool, if anything you made great timing, check it out!" I said
".... What is this support to be?"
"I call it, the xp cactus farm, let me explain!" I began. "You see the cactus here automatically fall into the hopper, then brings it to the furnaces to be automatically smelted"
"That's cool and all, but what do you need the dye for?" Rei questioned
"Oh, I'm not doing it for the dye, I'm mostly just gonna throw that stuff away," I said, "The main reason I'm doing this is for the XP!"
I notice one of the cacti finished smelting and approached it. "Alright time to test this out...."
I then approached the furnace with a glass bottle in my hand, I carefully scooped the xp and dye liquid into the bottle and seal it up, I could hardly contain my excitement, it actually worked! I turned to Rei to show her.
"and BOOM! A potion called 'bottle of enchanting'!!!" I said happily
Now of course this isn't how you actually get bottle o' enchanting in the game, you have to either find them in loot chests, trade them for emeralds, or do this strange crafting recipe with lapis (Though I'm not sure if you can do that recipe anymore) But I'm just glad my plan worked! But the tests here have just begun.
Rei looked beyond surprised "I never knew you could do that..." she said amazed
"mhm, and now that I have the ability to make xp bottles (It's easier to say this way) I can now make them in stock, give me some time until I can finish?" I asked
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"Alright! It took some time, but I finally created 3 stacks of my custom xp bottles" (A stack in Minecraft is 64, which altogether is 192 bottles in total) I said
"wow, so that's why you needed all that sand from the desert too?" Rei asked, "So anyway now what?"
"Now, we need to test to see if these things will actually work, let's go down to the cave and trap another monster and throw the xp onto it!" I commanded
"Are you sure this will work?" Rei questioned
"not 100%" I admitted "But if this works I'm at yet another step towards my goals here"
I told Teles what we were doing, and made our way through toward the mines. As we made out way through the tunnel and towards a distant cave, I decided I'd better warn Rei about what Richard said to me a few days ago, but I better break the news to her gently...
You don't have to tell her ya know? I'd think it would be funnier that way!| Mr.Doubt all of a sudden said to me.
"Why do you always say stuff like that? And where do you keep coming from!?!?" I said to Mr.Doubt
"hmm? What did you say?" Rei turned to me head tilted
"Oh umm, say can we stop for a second?" I said trying to change what I just said out loud.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked
"Listen... I don't intend to surprise you here all of a sudden, but... the village chief Richard, he knows about you sneaking under the walls to meet with me." I told her, Rei jumped at what I just said, and I couldn't exactly blame her for that reaction.
"wha- How!?!? I mapped out the perfect secluded place and everything!!!" Rei spiraled
"yeah... nothing gets past Richard, I just don't know how he does it" I jokingly said
"what now? should we start meeting somewhere else from now on?" Rei offered
"It's okay, he said he'll pretend he didn't see you, just don't interact with the other villagers yet, they don't know about your whereabouts at the moment."
"well that's a bit of relief, What really helps me here is the fact that your base is near the edge of the village, you know, where it isn't as busy," Rei said
"oh umm, that's true I guess" I never really considered it, I kinda liked the private location I lived at, especially with no one around when... eh never mind...
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We ventured into the cave a few minutes later.
"Remember, we aren't here for ores, we are trying to capture a hostile monster" I reminded Rei as she nodded to me in understanding.
"Any kind we're specifically looking for?" Rei asked
"Well, nothing in particular, but I would prefer if it wasn't a mob that burned during the day" I decided.
As we ventured further into the cave, we ran into a mob, it was a spider! Actually, this wasn't a bad idea. Spiders are monsters that look just any normal arachnid, but they were giant, their way of attack was to jump and pounce at you, they may not do THAT much damage, but their speed is what made them dangerous, they could also climb up walls, and couldn't fit in 1 block wide walls, Trapping them was always pretty easy.
I see Rei getting ready to attack, "wait! Don't shoot, a spider could work for this!" I Commanded Rei.
The spider saw me and decided to attack first, it charged and lunged itself toward me, I pulled out one of my old stone swords and began blocking its fangs to neglect it from touching me. Usually, spiders don't attack people during the day, but they were still hostile in caves no matter what time it was.
"Build around it while I keep it at bay!" I shouted to Rei
"Right!"
After continuing to play keep away by parrying the spider's attacks, Rei strategically placed blocks assuming where the spider would land to start trapping it, after about 30 seconds of trapping the monster, we finally had to immobile, Rei also made a small hole where I could start splashing xp bottles onto it.
"Alright! Here goes nothing" I said a bit concerned
I began splashing bottle after bottle of my custom xp bottles, I noticed the spider was collecting the xp, but so far no difference. I was worried that my plan was going into shambles, I know the whole xp can turn monsters into humans again the thing was correct according to Rei and Teles, but maybe this wasn't the right way... Might as well keep going.
After going through 64 bottles, Rei and I started to notice something, The spider was starting to mutate, hold up, maybe this really is working, I look at Rei and she was starting to look as hopeful as I was, I kept going, showering the spider with more xp.
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an hour had passed, and I hardly had any of my custom xp bottles left, but before I used them anymore, I noticed something strange about my experiment.
"Rei?" I asked
"Yeah?"
"Can you let the spider out now?"
Rei turned to me a bit concerned "Are you sure?"
I nodded in confirmation as Rei pulled out her pickaxe and broke the trap we build for the spider... well if you still wanted to call it JUST a spider.
"Holy **********" I gasped in astonishment
I turned to Rei, she also couldn't believe her eyes. "Y-you actually DID it..."
The spider had transformed into a human... well Half human basing it off of how much xp was used.
The spider was actually a Girl, by her size you could assume she was a child, but judging by... *ahem* Those... I'd say she was about 17-21 years old? That's just my assumption at least, she had red eyes just 2 of them thankfully, and shortish black hair that was styled amazingly, is it naturally like that? I'm envious of her it takes me a long time to style my hair like this!!!!! She looked entirely human, except for one key feature the fact that she had 8 long spider legs coming from her back, it kinda reminds me of those Ghoul characters I see from that one show.
I reach out my hand and try to comfort her, "Hey! Are you okay? It's fine, we're here to help!"
Luckily she slowly grabs my hand and I bring her close, she clutched the outside of my jacket, I didn't mind though, I knew there is probably a lot on her mind, being a monster one moment and then back almost fully human afterward. I decided to break the ice and see if I can continue to get some information out of her and continue to help because I've gotten this far, of course, I need to take it slow here and continue to make her feel comfortable around Rei and me.
"Are you alright?" I calmly checked. The spider girl said nothing but nobbed her head, I can tell she was still a bit shaky.
"Good good, do you remember your name? If so do you mind telling us?" I asked her
"umm S-Silvia, my name is Silvia," She said slowly
"Alright, Silvia, all I need you to do is just stay calm, try and remember what all happened, and we will get you out of here!" I continued, she may be a young adult sure, but anyone who is anyone would be a little shaken up with the events that all just happened.
Rei stopped me, "You do realize she isn't wearing anything at all correct?"
I paused in my tracks, "Oh umm umm, I don't have any extra armor but, H-here take my jacket!" I said as I took off my blue and grey zip-up jacket, but then I came across another stalemate.
"hmm, I can't really put it on you with these spider legs on your back..." I reported
Silvia then came to realization and said "Oh here then," She began to tuck her spider legs into the skin behind her back, I don't completely understand the process, but soon she appeared as if those legs weren't on her back as all, she looked completely human at that point, convenient!
I proceeded to clothe her with my jacket, luckily my jacket reached down just down her below her waist, it wasn't much but at least she wasn't in the nude! I wish I had some shoes for her though, the caves are definitely a place you would want to have feet protection.
I could tell she was having trouble walking out of the cave, so I decided to let her onto my back and carry her back to my base, unlike Rei, she was actually content with the idea. I turned to Rei and said, "Think you could cover us on our way out of here?"
"Yeah, you got it," Rei said
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We made our way out of the cave and made our way back to the village while walking with Silvia pressed onto my back, before I took her back to my place, I'd better ask this first.
"Do you have anywhere to go? Have your remembered where you lived?" I asked Silvia
"umm n-no..." She responded
"Well, are you okay with staying with us for now?" I offered, I at least wanted to give Silvia free will before I took her to a village where monsters are looked down upon."
"T-that's alright," Silvia said
As we hiked, I started to realized something, how am I gonna get the villagers to trust yet another monster in the village? what am I gonna tell Teles? I can't believe my experiment worked? how much more xp would I need in the future? will Silvia need to live at my base? does she have a home to go to? Have I actually committed murder with the monster I had slain? Have I? Have I? Have I?
I couldn't help but continued thinking... WAIT WAIT NO stop thinking stop thinking!!! That's when I was greeted by that stupid shadow Mr.Doubt
You called? Quite the dilemma you put yourself in...|
"I don't need your help!" I said to him
Well you have yet another monster you need to deal with, now usually you get shoved into these situations, but this time, you were basically asking for it|
"And what? your solution probably would be to just kill her wouldn't it?" I said
You know me too well, but really cut me some slack here Takeo! I'm not THAT platitudinous!!! |
"Then tell me something a better solution here wise guy!"
You already have an illegal monster traveling with you, just sneak this one too in your base using that stupid secret tunnel Rei created!|
"hmm you know that could be a possibility... but I don't want to take unnecessary chances, I will check with the people first THEN try using the tunnel!"
Man, you will go to great lengths to go against what I say | Dr.Doubt said
I know I can't stop you here, all I could wish you here is good luck!| Mr.Doubt sarcastically said as he disappeared.
We continued to make our way to my village, and I practiced a conversation in which to find a way to talk the guards into letting Silvia in the gates, I crossed my fingers as I carried her towards the village... please work!
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