Lucky for Steve, he found a small natural mine in a place where he could still see the guiding tower he loved and hated. Steve appears tentatively placing a torch in the mine, and then a white figure appears.

"Draw, wind, whoosh!" A sharp arrow slashed through Steve's face, but Steve reacted the moment he lowered the torch.

The skeleton's eyes reflected a sharp light, and then he took the arrow again, drew the bow, and ......

Steve decided that the defense could not be perfect, so he rushed at the skeleton archer with his stone sword.

The moment Steve slashed the skeletal archer, he was already wound.

Steve slashed a second time, by which time the skeleton archer had fully drawn the bowstring.

"Whoosh!" The arrow shot fast and wrong, and Steve moved behind the skeleton archer with a displacement, and then hit a critical blow with a sword, killing instantly!

A pile of bones scattered, and Steve picked up two bones on the ground.

"Hey! Vulnerable. Steve looked at the bone in his hand and sneered. Suddenly, another arrow was fired at Steve, and without any defense, Steve was hit in the head!

"Oh my! And also! Because of the rules, Steve just had two hearts. He jumped backwards the moment he was hit. The skeletal archer hiding in the shadows hadn't yet appeared, and Steve heard the zombies roaring again.

Soon, a dark green figure ran out, and Steve hid around the corner, waiting for the creature to turn the corner, and instantly slashed out with an axe!

If you look closely, it's not the zombie that you slashed, but the skeleton archer hiding in the shadows!

The next second I slashed, the skeleton archer once again killed Steve's two and a half hearts. Now that Steve is crippled, 65% of his HP will burp as long as he gets three more arrows from the archer!

Am I going to die here right now with my backpack full of gear (which I don't have, actually)?

No way!

Steve had already landed a critical hit, and now he only needed to do one normal damage, and the skeleton archer who sneaked up on him twice was going to turn into a pile of bones! Steve's left stone axe and right stone sword turned the skeleton archer into a pile of bones before he could shoot the next arrow. In this pile of bones, there is also an arrow.

However, Steve didn't have time to pick them up, and the moment he appeared to attack the skeleton archer, another arrow flew from the side, and Steve moved to the side. The dodge was perfect, and another skeleton archer who didn't know where to shoot the dark arrow hit the stone next to Steve, and Steve replaced with a stone axe, ready to kill the zombies that had already appeared in front of him first.

Steve didn't hit the zombie with the axe, but the moment Steve hit the zombie, an arrow hit the zombie. It was this arrow that sent the zombie forward a small block and attacked Steve!

Now Steve only has 4 lives!

Steve saw that something was wrong and pulled out the apple as he stepped back. When he retreated to the corner again, he nibbled on the apple in his hand.

"Boom~" The apple was crushed by Steve, and with it, his life was slowly recovering.

Slowly stepping back, Steve added another torch to the hole.

There is now at least one zombie and a skeleton archer hiding in the shadows in the natural mines. The zombie has disappeared in half health, and it only needs to be slashed with a stone axe to get rid of it, and that skeleton archer I can slowly make a wall out of blocks after eliminating the zombie, and then attack closely!

It should be ok!

His feed is full, but his health is still 6.5 bars. Steve's HP is slowly increasing, and it is estimated that it will take some time to regain its strength.

Steve started his concentration, and then the moment he saw the green figure, he went down with an axe.

The zombie dies straight away, and then an arrow hits Steve in the shoulder again, almost just after the zombie just died!

"Oh shit!" Still the skeletal archer! Steve, who had been plotted by the skeleton archer 3 times today, couldn't help it and rushed straight over. He was confident that he would be able to destroy the skeleton archer before he could get two shots.

With an arrow, Steve dodged with a repeated sideways jump, dropping a torch as he dodged.

In the second arrow, Steve relied on his dexterous position to place a torch again, and by this time he could already see the skeleton archer! The skeletal archer stood around the corner and took his bow again. The light of the torch shone just on the quaint bow, and the white head loomed.

Steve dodged the third blow with anticipation, at which point Steve's health returned to 5.5 health.

Steve didn't refill the torch this time, and he didn't have time to wait for the stone axe to recharge again.

Steve rushed over and struck the skeletal archer with an axe!

The skeletal archer's bow had been drawn again, and Steve, who needed to recharge, immediately jumped backwards and repeatedly.

Steve slumped down as he watched the arrow reach his eyebrows, the arrow narrowly grazing his forehead.

"Hey! Your Dead Date! ”

Steve jumped heavily, and the axe slashed directly into the skull of the skeleton archer, and with the sound of the skeleton falling apart, the skeleton archer turned into a bone, a bow whose durability was gone.

After finishing the skeleton, Steve immediately replenished the torch and retreated out of the cave. I took out the apple in my hand and began to eat it.

Combat is undoubtedly the most satiety, especially if you deduct blood. Steve's satiety level had dropped by 2 points just a few moments.

With the entrance of a large red apple, Steve's wounds began to heal.

The next road, there is not much obstruction, all the way to replenish the torch digging and mining.

Luckily Steve found 2 pieces of iron in it.

Steve looked at the stone axe, which was running out of durability, and put down the crafting table to craft an iron sword. Although Steve could make a shield to defend himself, Steve didn't want to do that. Because the shield is only useful against skeleton archers, you will still be hurt when you encounter zombies or something. Steve wouldn't have gone out of his way to find skeletons until he had made a decent set of armor.

Making an iron sword is different. The attack speed is a little faster, and the attack is "1" higher, so that the stone sword that originally attacked 6 became an attack of "7". Monsters that originally required 4 calls to die can now be dealt with with 3 calls, which relieves him at least a quarter of the burden and risk of fighting.

Carrying a pickaxe, Steve was a little tangled now. There are two paths in front of him: the first is a straight road, which has a somewhat downward appearance. The second was an upward path, but just after a little up, it began to rapidly descend again, forming an almost vertical downward channel.

The second route is significantly riskier, and Steve wouldn't have taken that risk without much food. Steve decisively chose the first path. Steve walked all the way, and there were very few monsters, only to find a zombie at the end of the first road. The poor zombie was immediately reduced to a piece of carrion and a few points of experience.

The exploration of the first road did not reveal anything. Steve dug forward with a pickaxe, but a few clumps of granite unexpectedly yielded no other results.

Steve returned to the cave the way he came, ready to go home and pack his things first. But Steve, who had just walked out of the cave, seemed to see that it was still noon, and seemed to see that it was a little hot, and paced back and forth in the cave.

"To explore or not to explore?" This is an important question.

(End of chapter)