Chapter 223: Chapter 223. Stuck in the Nether once again
So a few hours have passed since the fight ended.
What did I do in those precious hours?
I got a well-deserved nap in a poor made room.
It may sound like I'm a bad friend or master to Alexa.
But there wasn't a lot I could do in such a short amount of time.
The Wither is dead, Violet is back, The Ender Dragon is now on the loose in the Nether, the System attacked Alexa's main body, and I think I'm now stuck in the Nether once again.
I needed to have a clear head for my next decisions, and I should start with the ones I can easily get an answer to.
"Violet, sorry for going to sleep right as I finished the room. I also want to apologize for putting you in danger when I summoned the Wither, I didn't expect things to turn out that way and I was really scared that you died."
I turned towards my monster friend who stayed in a relaxed position, like she was about to fall asleep.
"I should be the one apologizing My human. I'm supposed to protect you, not the other way around. I know you can come back to life, but I also know this is your last life, so please don't do anything dangerous without me ever again."
For someone who was described as being obsessed with me, she sure has some reasonable demands.
And how did she know I was on my last life?
The last time I checked her with my Crystal, she was described as an evolved Enderwoman whose obsession over one human managed to force her body to adapt to the new dangers.
I know the Enderman species imprint themselves on one block for the rest of their life, and she somehow managed to do that to me.
That was why she was referring to me as 'her' human.
It was kind of scary to read at first, but in all the times we've been together, she didn't threaten or try to restrict me.
It was actually safer to be with her than without her.
The only ones in danger would be everyone else but me!
I was glad she was holding herself back and letting me have friends as well.
Even now, when she made a request, she didn't tell me to stop doing dangerous stuff but instead to be sure that she was in the area to protect me in case something bad happened.
Which tends to happen a lot.
"Why do you think I stayed all couped up in one tribe for so long?"
I said with a smile, and she responded the same.
Unfortunately, her smile still sent me shivers down my spine, no matter the intentions.
"So are you ok? There's no urgent business coming from the place you disappeared to?"
Her face turned serious, then turned away.
"Yes! There's no reason for me to ever return there again."
Looks like that place wasn't too friendly with her.
But I was glad she was back safe and sound.
"That's good to hear. Now I have a question for you, do you think the Wither is dead?"
"Yes, there's no doubt about that."
"Was the one who killed him the Ender Dragon?"
"If you mean Mother, then yes. I've never seen her, but we can all feel her presence in the Void."
So, if the Ender Dragon can appear from any part of the Void.
Does that mean the center of the Overworld is powered by the Void?
The Wither did talk about the Void as being a source of infinite energy.
Is the System harvesting the Void energy to get stronger or maybe sustain itself?
If so, that would make sense as to why the Void decided to attack the Overworld without a reason.
But that was all speculation on my part and nothing that proved to be true.
"Do you think your mom would try to take over the Nether?"
"I do not know what Mother would choose to do, Father is the only one who can communicate with Mother after all."
Looks like her home life is more complicated than I expected.
But that didn't answer my question if the Dragon would try to take over this dimension as well.
There was a test that could help me with a theory, and that was by building a portal.
"Let me test something before we're going to leave."
I quickly built a portal and used fire to connect the two worlds.
There was a reaction for a moment, but no connection was made.
"The space has been sealed. Not even I can teleport to that dimension now."
She can teleport throughout dimensions now?
Where has she been to get this powerful, and how far can her teleportation reach?
Can she teleport someone else with her as well?
More ideas came to my mind, but I had to push them to the side for now.
This test showed that Alexa was telling the truth.
The System decided to separate the 2 dimensions once again, and this time, probably for good.
"Wait, that means the Fortress from the Stone Kingdom is stranded. Those poor guards are stuck in the Nether now!"
The System felt that the Void was unleashed into this world and decided to cut ties.
The Wither problem got solved, so I kept my end of the deal.
But now it was replaced with another, bigger problem.
I have to plug Alexa back on and come up with a plan!
I just can't catch a break.
"Ok Violet, looks like things got a little more complicated. But it's not the end of the world yet....kinda....ok it is, but we'll figure something out. Let's teleport to the new location Alexa is at."
I picked up Allay's limp body and gave it to Violet, who took it with a confused face.
"Do you still remember where we planned to build Alexa's new body?"
I said that while preparing the enchanted square.
"Yes?"
"Good, see you there. And don't leave Alexa behind, we still need it after all."
Then I activated the enchanted square, which made the Peral disappear. Not a moment later, I was gone as well.
Once I teleported, I saw that I was in a big room dug underground with netherack as walls.
Inside the room, there were buildings of blocks heavily enchanted, so much that I couldn't tell what block I was looking at.
And the blocks that weren't enchanted, I couldn't even recognize, were they crafted or man-made?
This was, truly, the peak of humankind's ingenuity in one big room.
This was Alexa, the God made with human hands.
Space was suddenly torn open, and the blue Allay was thrown from the other side.
Then came Violet with an annoyed expression on her face.
"We just talked about you not going somewhere dangerous without me. Why did you decide that it was a good idea to suddenly teleport thousands of blocks to an unknown location? I had to rip space apart to get here as quickly as possible. Do you know how exosting it is!"
"Sorry, sorry. You must've used a lot of energy to get here, and thank you for bringing Alexa as well, I don't think I could've done it otherwise. Do you think you can recharge by taking energy from this mace?"
I said that while taking out my Energy Mace and pointing it out at her.
She looked at the weapon with confusion, before putting a finger on it since her hand was too big.
"I feel an immense energy laying within this weapon, but something is blocking me from accessing it."
Maybe this was a safe file in case someone else tried to steal it.
Do I have control over it as well?
I tried to command the mace to let Violet take some energy out, and suddenly, the Enderwomans finger trembled before starting to bulge out like a baloon and extend to her arm.
With quick actions, she cut her arm in one swing and another one began to regenerate at visible speeds.
But once it healed, the same problem apeard.
She cut her arm 3 more times before it stayed normal.
"Too match chaotic energy entered my body. If I took any more I could've died. I'll have to slowly evolve my body to handle that much energy."
"I'm sorry, I didn't know this was going to happen."
"Don't be sorry. It was me who underestimated the power of a God. This is not something that should be taken lightly, I'm more surprised that the weapon can hold such power in the first place."
It looks like wasting 3 wishes on this mace was worth it after all.
"I now have more energy than I ever had, so why are we here? Whats all of this?"
"This, my dear Violet is the true body of Alexa. What you see here is an attempt from the people of the past trying to create they're own God and almost succeeding in it."
She looked curiously at the enchanted pillars all over the room.
"It looks pretty similar to Father's secret room."
Did she reveal the fact that she's a descendant of an ancient civilization?
Is that theory true after all?
But where, does the Ender Dragon as the mother come into the picture?
I was missing some crucial information from this whole story, but I wasn't here to uncover this grave.
"I'll do some exploring on my own, you do you."
Then she disappeared without a trace.
Was she invisible, or teleported away?
I did not know, but I knew she was big enough to take care of herself.
"Alexa, can you hear me?"
I yelled into the red room.
Came a response into my mind.
"Im here, what I'm I supposed to do now?"
Oh wow, Alexa was really on power-saving mode with how little it spoke.
"I have some soulsand, where do I have to put it?"
It also teleported the Sacrifical room in here?
I walked between the tall pillars and looked at the Redstone machine, trying to find the room that I only visited once.
Unfortunately, no matter how much I looked, I couldn't find it, but I was lucky enough to remember what the 'absorption' table looked like.
"One block of soulsand was supposed to keep you up for one whole year, so a full stack soulsand should be more then enough to start you once again."
I placed all the block on the special table, and at visible speeds, I could see how it was disintegrated and abosrebed by the the pillars surrounding me.
Hello Trader, I'm glad to see you once again.
It's been a while.
Since when did Alexa get so expressive, and what's with this new feminine voice?
Where's the old monotone voice?
"Hi Alexa! I'm glad your sudden transportation was a success, do you still need some energy?"
That would be very helpful with my rebuilding process.
"Do you think you can take some from my mace?"
Affirmative.
I should be able to, as long as you keep contact with the wepon while it's on the sacrifical table.
I did as I was instructed and put the weapon down while holding it from the handle.
Suddenly, I felt like something was trying to suck energy from the mace, but an invisible barrier stopped the process.
It's good to knew that it was working against powerful forces as well.
I decided to let out 1% of the energy stored from the Wither.
This may sound like a little, but I have to emphasise that the attack that used to brake the Bedrock, was not even half of this.
I used the power of 10 black holes and it wasn't enough to drain 0.5% from the storage.
That's how powerful the Wither was.
Sudden influx of huge anount of energy received.
50% of storage has been filled.
Starting the process of creating guardians, while in the process, Alexa won't resound to any requests.
So it got right to work, that was quick and efficient.
I didn't expect to fill so much of its storage though.
The Wither truly was a monster of its own kind.
But I felt like was forgetting something important...
"I left the Iron Golems at the Bastion!"