51 - End of Battle

The players were exhausted, they had been battling for over 4 hours straight. During the battle many players received notifications of exhaustion and that they should leave the game to rest for at least 20 minutes before returning.

When gamers saw these notifications, at first they were frustrated with the game that was practically kicking them out of the fun, but when they came out and saw how sweaty they were in real life, gamers were happy with Minecraft for even taking the well-being. of them into account.

While other games just wanted players to spend as much time online as possible, Minecraft demonstrated that it would rather have players stay healthy than spend several hours online.

When Herobrine disappeared, the players saw Notch flying towards the main square of Hypixel and they also went there, after all they wanted to know who would receive the Golden Apple.

Notch was watching the players coming towards the square with a smile, as big as the square was, it would be impossible to fit millions of players at the same time, so the players started climbing the buildings around the city to get the best view of the city. Notch, and also so that Notch could see them and they would have a better chance of receiving the apple.

The players were quite noisy as they chatted about who would have contributed the most.

Some believed it was the players who led, others believed it was the players who fought on the front lines, some even thought the logistics people were the people who contributed the most.

When most of the players got close to Notch, he raised his hand and the players fell silent.

"Citizens of Hypixel, first of all, thank you very much to everyone who participated in this battle. Unfortunately I am unable to give a gift as valuable as the Golden Apple to each of you, but know that if I could, I would definitely give one to each of you. a." Notch began by thanking the players.

"As I can't give a Golden Apple, I'll give you another gift, so that at least in Hypixel you will be recognized as the brave warriors who risked their own lives to protect the city, this cape will be given for free to everyone who participated in the battle of yesterday and today." Notch said as he held out his hand and a white cape with a big golden "H" appeared in front of all the players.

This "H" could either be interpreted as a Hero or as a Hypixel.

As soon as players saw the white cape appearing in front of Notch, a request appeared in front of their eyes.

[Do you want to accept the "Hypixel Hero Cape"? This cape is limited.]

This question was just a formality, as as soon as this message appeared, all players accepted the cape and started equipping it.

In an instant, in Notch's vision as he was flying, players who had previously had several different colors were now more uniformed with virtually everyone wearing this white cape.

Although this white cape is prettier than regular capes, as all players received this cape it was not uncommon. But the smartest players knew that in a few years, when Minecraft had hundreds of millions of players, only they would have this cape, this cape would demonstrate how rare it was.

"Finally, the last gift will go to the player who contributed the most to today's battle. First I will ask him, do you want your name to be revealed to the other players?" Notch asked.

At that moment a floating screen appeared in front of Clint.

As the other players were fiddling with the game's menu to fix the cape, Clint also pretended he was changing the cape and refused.

Notch saw Clint's response and continued. "Unfortunately, the player refused to have his identity revealed, but know that this player was the one who killed the most monsters in this battle, in addition to getting the elimination in both Ender Dragons!"

Players were surprised to hear this.

In the next few minutes Notch just thanked the players and said that the Hypixel would go into maintenance for 24 hours to fix what was destroyed by the battle.

Minecraft would still work normally, but Hypixel would be offline for a day, of course, Notch said it would bring some fun news after the update.

Hearing this the players were frustrated, but after spending so many hours at war, not even they were too excited to play the server mini-games and just wanted to disconnect to rest.

As the players exited Minecraft, Clint and Natasha also logged out, but instead of playing at their house, they were in a special room set up by SHIELD.

Once the battle at Hypixel began, hundreds of agents were dispatched to participate, mainly to gather more information.

While Natasha returned to the real world exactly as she had logged in to the game, Clint had something different on his hand. Just as he saw in Notch's hand, there was a golden apple between his fingers.

For a second Clint had to resist the urge to take a bite of that apple and confirm that it really had the effects Notch had described, but he resisted that urge and got up with Natasha to head toward Nick Fury's office.

Nick had assigned this mission to the two of them, to get this Golden Apple so that the S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists could study it and see if the effects were real, and if the effects were proven, see if it would be possible to mass-manufacture these apples.

With this apple's effect of doubling the user's strength, even if this wasn't as effective as the Super Soldier Serum, this was still much better than having nothing.

And having an army of 1,000 agents doubled in strength by apples like that would be a pretty sizable force in any country.