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Nufuli had finally found it. He held his mace, fissure close.
(Activate narrator voice)
This was the ancient city, Minecraft’s deadliest structure. Rumored to be the home of one of Minecraft’s strongest entities, the warden. And here is where my bounty wanted me to go, to kill this “deadliest entity” in return for the supposed location of a command block.
Nuf stood on the edge of a cliff in the cave. He looked down onto the city below in awe. The city was drowned in a cerulean glow, illuminated by scattered lanterns that were fueled by souls of the dead. Skulk painted the caves, slithering and crawling along the walls and floor.
Nuf didn’t want to get his netherite boots dirty, but this is what the bounty called for so he’ll just have to deal with it.
Nuf placed down some water and swam down the stream, his feet planting themselves into the sulk residue that carpeted the ground.
Pillars of buildings from times of old towered over Nuf, casting an even darker shadow into the dark caves.
Nufuli walked through the floundered halls, admiring the architecture. Tattered carpets and burnt out candles lined the halls.
“So how do I-spawn, this thing again? I think the person said to just-make loud noises and I should hear something?” Nufuli whispered to himself.
He placed down his enderchest and grabbed some of his fireworks.
“These should be loud enough…”
Nufuli ignited one, the vibrant colors from the explosion rained down as the cave saw light for the first time.
Something shrieked. Shattering the glass silence that hung in the air.
Nufuli jumped back and gripped his mace in hand, this place was creepy enough already.
“OOOOOKayyy so THAT’s the thing im supposed to hear. Man that scared the hell outta me being honest. The player said I needed to do that three times I think”
He lit another
Screams echoed from the unknown.
He lit another.
The ground shook, a piercing cry shouted out from the earth. The sounds made Nuf Nauseous and blurred his vision, corners of his sight going black.
Holy shit see why no one has ever killed this thing before. This was enough to make even Nufuli feel like prey.
Nufuli’s muscles tensed, the air began to fill with unease. Clicking from the warden reverberated throughout the abandoned halls. Even the ghoulish lanterns began to dim.
Nufuli drank his regular array of potions, particles emitting from his skin.
He could do this.
A roar came from the beast, Nufuli charged out of the destroyed halls and met the entity. It was covered in Skulk and towered over Nuf at least five feet taller. Its bones were exposed and its dark skin looked like it was rotting. Its ribcage was open and a deathly glow of lost souls resided in a place where its heart was. Eye sockets merged, leaving one drooping hole where eyes used to be.
Nufuli took notice of its lack of eyes.
He shot a wind charge away from himself and behind the beast. Its attention shifted and immediately jumped onto the windcharge and broke the ground.
“Holy shit if I get hit like that I’m dead.” Nuf whispered.
Nuf wind charged above the beast, preparing a mace hit with fissure.
Perfect crit.
It let out a shriek from its chest, sending sound waves out and rupturing Nuf’s eardrums.
“WHA-THE FUCK” Nufuli was thrown back agaisnt the wall of an ancient pillar. He scrambled to grab a health potion from his inventory, his vision blurred and his ears were quite literally bleeding.
His heart pounded in sync with the Warden’s footsteps, like an elephant marching on glass.
Nufuli quickly threw a wind charge to knock over a nearby pillar, the sound attracting the monster’s attention.
He got up, crawling to his feet. The monster’s back was turned, all he needs to do is be quiet…
He entered what seemed to be an old entrance to an outpost.
creeeEEEAAAKKK
These dam floorboards.
“Shit” Nufuli cursed under his breath.
Nuf quit the whole trying to be quiet thing he needed to run before that thing blasted him again.
Nufuli could hear the miniature earthquakes that the warden made as it hunted him.
Nuf clutched an elder pearl in hand and teleported away, unfortunately that also made noise. Another sonic boom came tearing through the walls of the degraded city.
“AUGHHHH” I screamed. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I don’t think I can take much more of well, THIS. Whenever that THING does it’s sonic boom attack It feels like my heart is genuinely about to explode. OH SHIT IT”S COMING-
Nufuli wind charged in the air, evading its club-like arms. He held fissure tight, pins and needles gracing his muscles. With his nerves eating him alive he went in for a hit, the creature curled in on itself preparing to let out another ear piercing roar.
Critical hit.
“CAN-YOU-JUST-DIE!” I shouted, carving my mace into its skull. I could feel the bones in my arms fracture as fissure tore through the warden’s cranium.
I screamed in pain, something I had not done in a long time.
I dropped on my feet and rolled away from the hideous mass of writhing skulk and bone. It looked like it was in pain, and quite frankly I’m happy about that. It breathed heavily, almost like it had just run a 5k. It whined and tried to put its hand on its head, but that just caused the creature to bash its skull in even more.
Ha, seeing its demise was satisfying to say the least. I sat panting in one of the many hallways in the vast city, drinking as many healing potions I had on me.
The beast finally collapsed, black ichor leaked from its body, pooling out of its seemingly empty skull. It curled into a fetal position, and through labored breaths it would let out shrieks, not as powerful as they were before but enough to make you able to feel your organs vibrate.
“Man…” I stood up, shaking my arms out and letting the potions take effect, “No wonder why that player needed ME of all people to take this thing out bro that was AWFUL!” I messaged my teammate. They probably knew I was okay, because it’s me, but just incase they were planning on doing something later or something–might as well let em know.
As the waves of sound calmed around the Warden I couldn't help but notice the cyan glow that came from its chest…
I walked a little closer to examine the body, stepping over its pools and pools of blood that coagulated on the floor. Gross
I was caught off guard as something grabbed my arm.
It was skulk.
I panicked, “What the fuck?”
I tried to cut it, I drew my sword and sliced at the fibers that leeched onto me. Useless. I tried to pull my arm out, it just kept on crawling further and further up my arm.
Nufuli tried to pull his arm out, he cried in pain as he dislocated his shoulder. He fell to the ground only for more of the skulk to latch onto him.
As the heart of the Warden dimmed and burnt out, the lanterns faded in unison. The cave was plunged into darkness. Sounds of water trickling down stalactites and bats screeching in the darkness complemented Nuf’s silent screams as the Skulk consumed him.
It hurts It hurts It hurts
I feel it in my eyes, in my throat, in my ears, in my stomach, in my heart. I feel it. I feel it decaying my muscles, I feel it ripping apart my bones. All I can do is try to scream.
Thud
“What?”
Thud
“Hello?”
THUD
I woke up.
“K!ll th3 0n3s th4T d!stur8 U$”
I-I can't, I can't see. I–my goggles, I can't take them off. Why can't I take them off? I can't see anything.
Take them off
Take them off
Take them off
THUD
Kill them
Kill them
Kill them.
Lunar7b0at has joined the game
I8yourch!ld had joined the game
“Oh okay, I think we can find some diamonds down in here” I shouted back up at eight.
“Yo! I’ll come down there in a second–ooOO that looks like a good cave!” eight shouted back.
I placed water down for her to jump into, and handed her a newly made Iron pick. We even found a mineshaft! Eight found a few diamonds, enough for us to make matching boots! We made our way deeper and deeper into the cave, lining out trail with burnt out torches.
“Hey what’s this stuff?” Eight asked.
“Oh I think that’s skulk or something like that” I replied.
“Ew! It’s so gross!” She cried out.
“I know right!” I laughed back.
We made our way deeper into the cave and even made matching leggings too!
“Oh hey Lunar I think I found–AHH” eight landed on the ground landing with a thud.
“Eight where’d you–AHH” I fell down after her, also landing with a thud.
“Where are we” she lifted up her torch, unveiling a huge structure!
“I-don’t know actually-” I said while lifting up my own torch. I was so in awe looking at the ruined city that I didn’t notice the pillar behind me, and I stupidly ran into it and possibly destroyed a part of someone’s base. Whoops!
Lunar7b0at was smashed by Nufuli using [Fissure]
He-he-he-he-h-he-he just, Lunar…I-I-I need to run. I-
I looked back to see a player-I-I-I think? I think it was a player, he just-he just made everything go dark and the next second Lunar-....
I need to run.
Eight ran, ran as fast as she could. She made it out. HE let her live.
What? Who-who was this and why do I feel blood on my mace…how did I even…oh. Right, The noises, the voices…right.
I walked away from the body, what a shame. They shouldn't have come here.
“What did I just…what did I do…what did I…”
Nufuli returned to the skulk, embracing the release of sleep.
(narrator voice)
This is Nufuli, minecraft’s deadliest player, from being able to give the darkness effect and guarding one of this server’s most unknown structures, not much is known about this player. However I am going to need this player’s help to defeat one of the strongest teams on the Wisp SMP, the sever killers. As their name suggests they are on a quest to kill everyone on the server, and no one has been able to stop them.
“Pebbs you know why you can’t come right?” I asked.
“Okayy, yeah yeah yeah whatever Im not as good at pvp as you I get it. You’ve told me a million times already and that is why you want to go RISKING YOUR LIFE to go find his warden guy Nufuli or whatever.” Pebbs teased.
“Okay bro-don’t say it like tha-”
“Loonac, bro-I get it I’m just messing with ya, even I know I wouldn't be able to take Sharpness in a fight”
“You sure about that? In MY opinion, If I were you I would try to fight him and then proceed to get myself killed”
Pebbs scoffed in annoyance, he knows I’m right though. :)
I waved goodbye to HelloWhatsUp and made my way out the door. I equipped my elytra that I stole off of some dead guy and soared above the trading hall.
After some time, I landed.
“So this is the place that player with half diamond said to go” I said to myself before making my way down into the cave.
BOOM
“Augh”
BOOM
“AUGHH AGAIN?”
BOOM
Nufuli emerged from the Skulk, mace in hand. Darkness filled the city once more.
Click
Click
Click
“Oh, you feel, different than the others, your form isn't one of fear” Nufuli whispered, his words echoing in the silence.
Loonac held the turtle master potion as his life depended on it. He stood atop what used to be an outpost.
“NUFULI” Loonac shouted, his vision going hazy.
Nuf flinched at hearing his name, he hadn’t heard it in so long…
In so long…
“Why are y0u her3?” Nuf asked, snapping his head towards Loonac’s voice.
“I need your help!” Loonac shouted down, shakily gripping the potion in his hand.
“L4st time someone 4sked for my h3lp…” Nufuli trailed off, he couldn't remember, he just knew whatever happened wasn’t good.
“This is different! Look, I’m sorry about whatever happened to you in the past but this is important!” Loonac continued.
Nufuli was tired, he wanted to sleep again.
He jumped up towards Loonac with inhuman strength, forcing Loonac’s back against the wall and lifting fissure to Loonac’s chin asking,
“Why sh0uld ! car3?” Nuf asked, ready to strike if he didn’t like what this snowman had to say next.
“BECAUSE-because, there’s this team ca-called the server killers and-and their leader Sharpness wants to end the server!” Loonac said, trying to keep a calm voice. He feared to throw down the potion, looking at the blind player.
“D0nT L3T U$ D!3”
“D0nT L3T U$ D!3”
“D0nT L3T U$ D!3”
The voices rang through every fibre of Nufuli’s being.
He lowered his mace. Loonac throwing down the potion out of instinct. Nufuli winced at the sound of shattering glass, one he had not heard for a long time.
“What is y0ur nam3?” the warden demanded.
Loonac stared in shock for a few moments at the creature, fully expected to have been crushed by now.
“I can h3ar your heart be4t”
“Loonac! I-my name is Loonac,” the snowman replied.
“St4and uP”
Loonc obliged.
Nufuli raised his left hand, his skin tough and callus.
Loonac, trembling, lifted his and shook hands with Nufuli.
“Wait-so you’re actually agreeing to help us?” Loonac asked, still very much fearing for his remaining life.
“D0nT L3T U$ D!3”
Nufuli shivered.
“Y3s” he replied, his voice ran cold. Flames inside soul lanterns ignited and danced throughout the ancient city.
“Ha! PHEW–well that was eas-”
“D0n’t push !t”
“Yes sir–”