Chapter 3. I'm not alone
I woke up with a sore body again, but this time I was hungry and thirsty on top of that. I took a few apples from my inventory to ease up my growling stomach, but I still had to drink water from the river, luckily I have a wooden bowl so I can scoop some water with it.
I opened the door wide letting the sunlight warm up my skin, I then checked my fenced area for zombies or other monsters, but found nothing inside or outside of it. But what I found out, was that every torch was extinguished, which puzzled me since the ones in the house were still burning.
"Maybe the wind put out the torches? I think I have to upgrade them to lanterns or glowstones from the Nether."
I looked around, I was surrounded by green nature and took a deep breath.
"Ok! Let's start the day, I'll drink some water, check the crops, and then I'll go mining and hopefully I'll get some coal or iron."
I did exactly as I planned, I drank some water from the river and then filled up some bowls for later use, and then I looked over the fence at my growing crops. I think they started to grow since I can see a little green popping out, I then walked towards my mine and summoned a stone pickaxe in my right hand.
Once I arrived at the digging site, I realized that it was very dark in it, and I didn't like the atmosphere surrounding it. I took out a torch in my left hand and I switched from the pickaxe to a sword. I descended slowly into the mine while the torchlight pushed the darkness away from me. At first, I didn't see anything out of place, but all of a sudden the sound of a low growl came from behind me, I quickly turned around to see from the dark corner someone green coming towards me growling and trying to grab me.
I started to panic so I slashed him with force, and it did cut him, but that didn't seem to bother him too much, the wound was clear to see between its shredded clothes, but he was getting closer while I tried to back away from him. I didn't manage to get too far before I hit a wall with my back.
"Well, it's now or never, AHHHH! "
With panic in my heart but cornered, I started to scream and lunged at him, stabbing him in the face, it didn't get too deep, but this move was enough to slow him down severely. I tried to pull out my sword, but it was stuck in his head, and the sword didn't come alone, I panicked and moved more frantically which was a bad move since that made him able to scratch me, bringing me more pain than I expected. I started to scream again and pushed the sword with him, which ended up with him hitting the ground with a loud crack, and then he stopped moving.
I gasped for air as the adrenaline was slowly leaving my body, I brought the torch closer to see the monster better, and there it was, the infamous zombie, he was as tall as me with shredded clothing, his face even with the shape of a square was hard to look at, no nose, some missing teeth, black hair but missing in some places, and the worst of all it was the smell of a rotting corpse.
I didn't know if this world had diseases, but I didn't want to have something like this anywhere near me. Usually, zombies like him would burn under the sun in the game, probably that's how he got here. The body was still here, so it wouldn't disappear in a puff of smoke and leave me with a piece of rotten flesh.
" Does that mean that I have to actually dispose of this body? "
So many questions, but the aching on my arm got my attention, that was the place where the zombie managed to scratch me, it was bleeding a little, but just to be safe I opened my Status.
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STATUS
Name:???????
Health: 18/20
Attack: 5
Defense: 1
Speed: 5.6 blocks/sec
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"So that was 2 hp worth of damage, luckily it doesn't show that I'm infected or any other debuffs, but why did my attack increase?"
I looked at the sword in my hand, then put it in the inventory, and looked at my status again and it was back to 1.
"So, I can change my status with tools and armor, I don't see any levels in here, so I can't get stronger that way."
I took an apple from my inventory and ate it in hopes of increasing my regeneration, then looked back at the corpse. I needed to get it out of here, I didn't want to mine with a rotting body around me. So I put some torches on the walls around me to not have any more surprises, then I dragged the body outside the mine, it wasn't too heavy nor too light so I wasn't putting too much effort into it, but once I got him on the surface I was surprised for the second time In one day.
Once the sun touched the zombie, it combusted with fire like it was soaked in gasoline, I thought I was going to burn my hands then and there, but luckily I was quick enough to let go. The flames lasted around 3 minutes leaving behind only some bones.
"Well, that just happened."
I took a bone from the ground and tried to put it in my inventory, it went in without a problem, then I tried to craft it, and it worked again, giving me some bonemeal. This was good news for my farm since I can now speed grow the crops.
"Maybe this was a blessing in disguise! Let's not think too much about the fact that I could've lost my life right then and there, or the fact that I killed something for the first time, yeah, let's look at the positive side and deal with the rest another time! "
I put the rest of the bones in my inventory and walked to the river to clean my wound. Even if I didn't get any negative status effect, I didn't want to risk it.
After I was done with that, I got back to mining for about half of the day. It was a tiring process where my hands became numb from the constant vibrations, I had to even craft another pickaxe while I was down there, but I was out of torches so I had to end the session there. And it wasn't wasted work, out of this mining session I got a few stacks of cobblestone, a stack of coal, 56 copper ores, and lastly 13 iron ores.
I quickly got into the house and crafted a few more furnaces and put them on my wall, then I divided the iron among each one of them and put some coal as fuel, and then all of a sudden 4 furnaces started to blast the heat in the small room.
Once I was done with that, I emptied out my inventory of the excess items, and then I took out my stone axe to get some more wood since I was out of it already.
The next few hours were spent cutting down trees, replanting saplings, and collecting the apples and sticks left on the ground.
With this much movement, it made me hungry, and even though I ate apples, they were too sweet for a constant diet. I looked at the bonemeal in my inventory and then at my farm, I took it out of the inventory and now I had some white powder in my hand, nothing suspicious with that. I got closer to one of my farm blocks and started to spread it carefully, all of a sudden, the plant started to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the growth stopped as abruptly as it started at one-third of the way.
"Wow! If this isn't magic I don't know what is."
I put the rest of the bonemeal on the plant, and from light green, it changed to a radiant gold. I took the hoe out to cut it like I cut the grass, and I got 3 wheat out of it. Enough to make one bread, I quickly converted the rest of the bones that I had and used them as well.
Now with 18 wheat in my inventory which meant that I could make about 6 loaves of bread, but when I wanted to make the bread, I wasn't able to do it because the red X stopped me again. I quickly checked my skills tab.
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SKILLS
_Crafting lvl 2
675/1.000 xp
_Enchanting lvl 1
0/100
_Brewing lvl 1
0/100
_Trading lvl 1
0/100
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" I don't know why, but I guess I have to be level 3 to craft food?"
I wasn't too far away from the next level, and the most xp I got was from the stone tools with 50 xp each. So I quickly made 7 stone swords and got to the next level, and when I tried the bread again it did work but not the way I expected it to work, what I expected was a loaf of bread, but instead, I got some unbaked bread.
,, Well this is a way to do it, and I guess it does make more sense. Now I have to put them in the furnace to bake. "
I took the iron ingots out and put the bread in, and in 10 minutes I had freshly baked bread.
,, Auci! That's hot, but it tastes like a piece of normal bread, so that was a big success for my diet!"
I ate it all and put the remaining ones in my inventory. Then I took out the iron ingot and tried to make a pickaxe, but I was stopped again by the all-powerful red X.
"Ok! I think that's enough for today, I'm going to stress with this tomorrow, I'm going to sleep!"
Today it was a wild ride, I killed a zombie, mined for ores, used magic to grow food, and even baked a loaf of bread.
I was too tired to do anything else, so I just shut my eyes and went to sleep.