Chapter 17: The Old Man Mound

During the reign of the Firefiend, the coordinates between the next Hell and the Overworld are extremely chaotic. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Hell has always been synonymous with chaos.

After the death of the Fire Demon, Withered returned to take charge of the next term, and naturally began the restoration work. Although progress has been slow, the good thing is that Withered is a powerful undead creature that has existed for thousands of years, and has an almost infinite lifespan, and can continue to live in the world as long as its consciousness is not extinguished.

This is true of almost all undead creatures, consciousness, soul, and for undead, dark undead creatures, self-will is more important than the body that is made up.

Over the course of a thousand years, Withering has gradually sorted out the coordinates of the next Hell and the various locations in the Overworld, and then slowly adjusts it.

That is, to correspond these coordinates one by one.

Although it is very tedious, it is one of the few things to pass the time for the withering who is in the next term and sleeps all day with nothing to do, so it is not impossible to treat this as work.

There is a benefit to adjusting the coordinates, as more and more coordinates are mapped to the coordinates of the Overworld, the connection between the next Hellworld and the Overworld will be even closer. In this way, the teleportation between the two realms will become more convenient.

In any case, the next Hell in the Minecraft world is different from the taboo Hell in other worlds, and there is nothing to be taboo about here.

After all, there are a lot of resources that we still need to go to Hell to collect.

Although the monsters here are chaotic camps if they are divided according to the faction, in fact, the zombie pigmen who occupy a large number of people are actually neutral, and as long as you don't strike first, the zombie pigmen will never attack you.

Other monsters are relatively rare, and if you encounter them, you just need to run away from them.

After a few moments, we were taken to the edge of a cliff by the wither.

[This is it.] 】

Withered in mid-air, he said to us.

"Huh? I thought I was going to run a long distance, but I was there so soon? Akai said in a little surprise.

[The coordinates have not been adjusted here, so the coordinates are still in chaos. 】

"I see, that means that as long as we reopen the portal here, we can go directly to the target location." I nodded, already understanding Withering's words.

Actually, there is nothing difficult to understand.

[Exactly, since this is the case, the old man will go back first. 】

The deep and old voice, withering and dragging a black trail, was far away from us in the blink of an eye.

Akai and I watched the withering walk away until it disappeared and began the construction of the portal.

With a minimum of resources, ten obsidian portals were built, and after I set the bottom on fire with a fireball, the shuddering portal was complete. Although the appearance is not very good as always, and it is also uncomfortable when transmitting, it can be used. It's not that we haven't thought about how to improve it, but unfortunately it hasn't.

"Alright, let's go." I clapped my hands and moved my joints.

Akai took a deep breath, and the feeling of about to set foot on his homeland again made Akai's heart unconsciously heavy.

"Hoo ・・・・・・"

Together, we entered the portal, and in an instant, the landscape began to distort uncomfortably, and after a few moments, the surroundings went dark.

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The Far East, the Far East Plains.

A thousand years ago, it was a place of peace and tranquility.

However, since the war between the magic side and the technology side 500 years ago, the land under the nuclear bomb and the forbidden spell has become devastated and the environment of this land has changed drastically.

Now, after years of washing, this originally verdant continent has been transformed into an ice field without an inch of land.

In a corner of the snow-white world, a black portal protrudes from the void.

Space distorted, half-ranging, and two figures jumped out of the portal.

"It's uncomfortable to die!" Akai covered his dazed head and shook it vigorously, but the scene in front of him was still chaotic.

"Hmm・・・・・・" The huge mental power made me barely able to see the situation in front of me.

The cold snap raged, and we returned from the extreme heat of hell to the cold of the Overworld for a time.

"A few more times and 100 percent of you will catch a cold and get sick." Sitting on the snow, I raised a fireball to warm up the temperature around me.

Half an hour later.

"Almost, I'm finally recovering."

Akai breathed a sigh of relief, this ultra-long-distance teleportation took much longer than before. It's like teleporting from one side of the planet to the other.

After resting, when the five senses were almost recovered, we officially began to observe the scene in front of us.

"It's desolate." I sighed slightly, and then, with the staff tapping lightly on my feet, a gust of air rushed by, shaking the snow and ice away, revealing the bare ground.

Akai squatted down and touched the cold frozen soil, this is the land of his hometown, and now he can't see the scenery that used to be.

"Let's miss it while walking, we won't have enough food to stay in this hellish place for a little longer, and I'll just take a week's worth with me when I go out this time." I checked my backpack and said seriously.

"Well, even I can feel it when I get here, that deep breath, how ominous." Akai looked into the distance.

On the distant horizon, the sky was dark, and lightning and thunder roared between the rolling clouds.

The ominous aura that came from that distant place can still be clearly felt here.

"How many years of monsters・・・・・・" I complained.

"Who knows." Akai shrugged.

The power of the immortal seed is accumulated by the precipitation of time, in other words, the longer you live, the stronger the power. Fortunately, we are human beings, so we have been able to achieve such an achievement in just a few years, which is comparable to those thousand-year-old monsters.

At this time, Akai and I suddenly heard some strange sounds mixed with the howling of the cold wind, like ・・・・・・wolf howling?

After inexplicably glancing at each other, we decided to wait where we were for a while, so we filled the campfire with another handful of charcoal.

A moment later.

We didn't have to wait too long, the wolf howl in the distance got closer and closer, and after a while, many snow-white figures appeared around us.

"Hostility?" I frowned, but didn't feel any hostility, and the wolves stopped a hundred meters away from us.

After one glance at each other, we decided to take another look at the situation.

Suddenly, the wolves parted, and an elderly white wolf, who seemed to be the patriarch, came to us with a slow pace. After yelling at us, he turned and walked in one direction, as if to signal us to follow.

"In that case, let's follow the past." Not to mention caution, I was just curious, after all, even if these wolves were a hundred times more numerous, they would not pose much of a threat to me and Akai.

"Yes." Akai said he didn't have much to say.

・・・・・・

Following the old white wolf, the rest of the pack had dispersed and disappeared.

Across the surrounding ground, a continuous stream of icicles rises from the ground, like gigantic bamboo shoots, which take the place of trees and dot the vast desolate snowfield.

After flipping through the last iceberg, the old white wolf leader quietly left, but what caught our eyes made Akai and I constrict.

"This is ・・・・・・," I muttered.

"yes, I see." Akai said softly, with a relieved tone.

The huge skeleton in front of him, three stories high, lies between the icebergs. However, for us, it is extremely nostalgic.

As I got a little closer, the skeleton of the giant wolf became more and more spectacular.

"Looks like you've gotten stronger."

The aura that came from the skeleton was not much better than that of the King of Ender and the King of the Jungle.

Raising his head, Akai stared at the hollow eye sockets on the huge skull and smiled, "Is there anything we need to accomplish?" Well, even if you don't say it, I can probably guess it. ”

At this moment, a subtle wave came from the huge skeleton, and Akai and I closed our eyes in unison.

Half a sound, this familiar soul fluctuation gradually dissipated.

Scattering a jug of cloudy wine from our backpack on the ground, we turned and walked away, heading out into the gloomy sky in the distance.

At this moment, let the soul rest in peace.