Chapter 224: Chapter 224. Back to the crime scene
Alexa went silent, while I was having a breakdown about my immense losses.
"What am I supposed to do now?"
But no answer came.
Suddenly, the pillars began to glow with a pale purple light, then blocks appeared out of nowhere.
At first, it was a normal pumpkin, but then it was curved.
Next were iron blocks placed in a T shape.
Was Alexa going to make Iron Golems?
I guess that would make sense since normal guardians wouldn't be able to survive in this kind of environment.
Not even the Elders's metal skin was thick enough to survive in the lava.
Suddenly the floor of the room was filled with white smoke, as the Iron golems aperead one after another.
But the process didn't stop there.
While the golems are powerful beings on their own, it wasn't up to Alexa's standards.
That's why I was taken by surprise at what action it chose to do next.
The golems began to grow taller, and the iron skin changed to red with small rivers of lava running on them.
They become similar to magma gorillas that ran faster because of their arms and could deal fire damage since they had lava fists.
The process didn't stop there, as Alexa began to enchant their skin as well.
From what I could tell, it was an Unbraking enchant.
I guess it made sense since the golems were more powerful than before, but their defense was lower.
Alexa didn't stop there; instead, the remaining golems that were unchanged suddenly bulged up like balloons and changed colors from white to pitch black.
Not only that, but it seemed to have transparent feet like it was a ghost with little dots like stars all over their body.
It looked similar to Alien X from the Ben 10, just more blocky.
Operation 'Nether Guardian' is done, aerial, land and lava guards have been designated to protect, the main body.
"Can you hear me now?"
Affirmative Trader, sorry for the wait. I hope nothing too urgent happened while I was busy with creating the new guardians.
"Not really, you moved pretty fast. I was just wondering what did you create?"
They look similar to something that I would know, but I don't think they have the same abilities.
I'm glad to hear they are to your liking, Trader.
I took some inspiration from the tries you did while practicing how to use the Crystal.
The one with short legs and bulged arms, codenamed "Magma Golems" has double the damage and speed of a normal golem at the price of one third of its defense.
But this problem has been solved by Enchanting them with Unbraking.
The second one, codenamed "The Snatcher," is a golem 4 blocks tall with no physical body, which makes it immune to any physical attacks.
Because of this, it can be killed with one strike of any kind of magical attack.
Its main way of attacking is through the soul, ignoring all defense besides Magical Resistance.
Those golems sounded pretty powerful, even with their disadvantages.
The Magma golems were going to be the ground troops and the tanks of the base, while the Snatchers would deal with the more annoying opponents since I didn't know anyone to have the Magic Resistance enchantment.
This gave me some ideas on what to use for my next body.
It didn't need to be the same as this one after all.
"So what do you plan on doing now? The System seemed to trap us in the Nether, too afraid that it's going to be taken over by the Void."
There's a high chance that could happen.
I'm ashamed to admit, but while the Wither was just a newly born God, he managed to do a lot more than what I did from my creation.
The only reason he failed was because one of the old gods decided to join the fight.
Not even I expected them to be strong.
I thought I had enough energy to keep the System at bay, but it seemed that I was playing with its puppet this whole time.
The one who attacked me last time was the real deal, and I couldn't do anything but run away.
Uff, Alexa had it rough right now.
But I couldn't blame it too much since I was shocked by the power of the Wither as well.
The only reason I killed him in the first place was because he let me.
He took a gamble in the hope that I would somehow break the Bedrock, something that he couldn't do, and won.
Not only that, but he managed to reverse engineer the effects of the totem just by seeing them once, under the pressure of the System.
But if the Wither was just a snack for the Ender Dragon, does that mean that the System took us lightly all this time?
The only reason I thought I wasn't killed by the System was because it couldn't do anything to me, or at least not directly.
But it seems that I wasn't annoying enough for it to get serious.
I was now contemplating if I should really get back to the Overworld in the first place.
"Do you think you're safer in this place?"
I do not know, unfortunately.
I'll have to do some scans to come to any conclusions.
"Oh, that's going to take a while then."
Not necessarily. The reason I stayed so much in one place in the Overworld is because the System had control over everything else, and I would've been seen.
While this world has a seed to craft its own system, it's not powerful enough to stop me.
So, we can go and check out the place right now.
The space was ripped apart and I could see the bottom of the Wither Bastion.
The hole was still there, but there were no corpses left behind, to my surprise.
Sure, there was debris everywhere, but no bodies that we could take a look at it.
Did the Ender Dragon eat them as well, or did the Brutes survive and take everything with them?
It didn't matter in the end since we could feel the power leaking from the hole I made, which needed our immediate attention.
It looks like Alexa took the body of the Allay to study this place, but the ripped space was still open.
So I didn't know if it did this for its safety or because it got used to using this body.
The ripped space got bigger, and all the broken blocks began to fly in the air, before going back to their original place.
It was like time was rewinded right in front of me, making me look in awe at the process.
When everything was done, it was like nothing ever happened.
It even had the bodies of the researchers and the skeletons lying on the ground.
I tried to check the inventory of one of the Piglings, but no tab appeared in front of me.
"You've done some amazing stuff, Alexa, but I can't open their inventory."
While the Allay was going from diagram to diagram, I looked over the hole I made that brought this whole disaster.
Even with the full power of Alexa, it wasn't enough to repair the broken Bedrock.
This was the best block the System has ever made, and only with another item made by it was broken.
The irony of this situation.
I knew I wasn't brought to this world by the System but by someone from the Void.
The Ender Dragon told me I was a failed experiment when it possessed Bobby's body, and even the System said that I belonged to 'Him'.
From what Violet told me, 2 beings rule over The End: her Father and her Mother.
If her Mother is the Ender Dragon, then I could safely assume that the Father was the one who brought me here.
I don't know why, but I know he would be the only one who can answer all of my questions.
And the only way to find him was to join the Void.
I looked into the endless blackness and felt a faint connection.
Not one that would let me live if I jumped inside the Void, but one that showed me, that there was something in there for me.
Hah!
He was all about how his body was capable of handling the power of the Void, only for him to be destroyed by it as well.
Maybe that's what that black mist was, filtered Void, seafly for him to consume.
"Do you think he would've succeeded?"
"Do you think you can absorb it?"
Alexa went silent for a while, making me wonder if it was ashamed that it couldn't.
While the Wither was better in the raw power department, Alexa was a machine specialised to solve those kinds of problems.
It made me wonder how the Wither got so far in the first place.
Skills were truly amazing tools that gods could use.
Speaking of skills.
Now that the main body of Alexa was here, we could open those chest without damaging the contents.
I quickly told Alexa about my idea, but it seems that I was a step too late.
What a shame, it looks like those items were connected to the Wither itself.
It makes sense, but it was still a bummer to hear about it.
Out of the ripped space, came in a Snacher and went into the Void without any hesitation.
"Hey, weren't those guys very week against magic? Wouldn't the Void energy count as a magical attack and kill it?"
Well it did blend well in the Void so I couldn't deny that.
But if this was anything like the game, it would just go endlessly down, and take more damage.
But since this was the core of the planet and not a flat world, that would meant, that there would be a wall to stop the Snacher.
The question was, how far did it have to go, before it could bump into it.
This made me wonder if I could teleport into the Void with my enchanted square.
No, that would be too risky, even if it worked.
While Alexa was doing its thing, I decided to go upstairs and get back my golems.
They were too valuable to be left behind after all, and I hoped the Brutes didn't take them because I wasn't there.
Luckily enough, or maybe becouse they didn't know how to move them, I found the golems.
2 were dead unfortunately, but the others we quite fine.
Looks like the Brute listen to me and healed my boys before leaving them here.
WHAT WAS THE END PORTAL DOING AT THE CORE OF THE NETHER?!