Minecraft: A New Adventure

by Blackdrag-rose

Dungeon Crawling

Following the trio scouting out the surrounding area, tracking down the various dungeons that were scattered around the various regions near their village, Octavia and the others returned to find that Pinkie had crafted the three stones that were required to make the Soulcubes they needed for their final objective.

"You've returned. I take it you have some dungeons for us to delve into?" Pinkie asked, though at the same time she swung her scythe around before placing it on her back, showing off her skill once more, not that the others needed a show since they knew she was delving into Vaults whenever possible, so it was possible her strength was higher than before.

"I'm positive I know where we can find an undead Soulstone, but the aberrant and demonic ones still elude us." Octavia replied, as she agreed with the others, the demonic one had to be somewhere in the Nether, it made sense when one took a moment to think about it, though that still made them wonder where they might find the aberrant stone, "We're sure that the demonic one is in the Nether, unless some demonic boss happened to appear in this dimension, but we had no ideas as to where we might find the aberrant Soulstone."

"Well, let's just start hitting dungeons and see what we find." Pinkie said, as while she was disappointed in the fact that they didn't have all the information to tell her where everything was located in this world, so they could focus on tearing down all of the powerful enemies standing between them and the Admins, she was eager to do something with the others again.

Steve and Alex glanced at each other before the four of them made their way out of the village, for the first time since their attack on the parasite dimension, where everyone took to the air and headed for their first destination, as Octavia was sure that they could find an undead Soulstone in the dungeon in the desert. As they flew over the continent they also kept an eye out for anything that might be tied to the Crimson Cultists, since there was no telling what those fools were up to, only to find that everything was still fine and allowed them to reach their destination without much delay. Once they hit the desert everyone glanced out at the area around them, keeping an eye out for their target before Octavia spotted the cubed entrance that looked like weathered sandstone or some sort of material they hadn't gathered yet. Of course Pinkie just had to take a few blocks for herself, to use them in the future if she wanted, and while she landed and did that Octavia and the others landed nearby, where she felt some powerful creatures lurking in the depths of the structure.

The staircase in the middle of the cube took them down to the first floor, where they discovered that it was the same as all of the dungeons they had been in so far, they had to clear out chambers before locating the path downward, though the sensations Octavia felt indicated that there had to be more floors than what they were used to. Such a thing meant that all sorts of monsters were here, possibly multiple bosses that could increase their potential to obtain the items they needed to forge one of the three Soulcubes. They also discovered all sorts of new enemies standing in their way, tall figures that were wrapped in bandages, Cryptkeepers, tall sandy scorpions called Sutiramu, brown Imps that had blades on their arms for some reason, Clinks, and many other new foes. The only reason they knew those names was because Pandora quickly told Pinkie and Pinkie informed them of the information she had been given, though at the same time they found that the monsters of the Desert Crypt were definitely tougher than the other monsters they had faced so far.

Since these were new monsters the group made sure to study them for a time before doing battle with them, Steve using his sword to cut into his targets while blocking stingers with his shield, Alex picking and choosing her targets as she loosed her arrows through the air, Octavia summoning her magic to blast some of the monsters, and Pinkie just headed down a path on her own, swinging her scythe while leaving a trail of bodies in her wake.

"Honestly, I'm not even surprised anymore... and this means that we'll find the stairs faster." Steve remarked, because he and Alex were now totally used to seeing what Pinkie and Octavia were capable of with their various abilities and powers, in fact whenever one of them held back it was a little disappointing.

"Indeed, though don't forget to break the Spawners that we discover." Alex stated, where she and Octavia turned down the two paths that were linked up with the chamber they had found their way to and took one each, using their weapons to deal damage to the enemies that were coming from where they were looking, allowing Steve to deal with the Spawners in the chamber before they were overwhelmed.

Eventually they found a chamber that had a large golden worm monster that was sleeping, meaning it woke up once they entered it's domain, though while it wasn't one of the bosses it was still strong, even though Octavia stuffed a large fireball into it's mouth and let it blow up once it had been swallowed, blowing the monster up. Pinkie caught up with them after that happened and discovered that this had been a Crusk, the golden version since there were two other versions, those being light white and light brown, before they discovered that it had been guarding the path downward. After that the four of them delved into the depths once more and repeated the process, three of them going down one path while Pinkie did her own thing to save time, though this time Octavia's group found an imposing creature first. The tall Imp creature was a dirty brown color and seemed to enjoy thrown pieces of earth at it's targets, causing them to split up and attack it from three directions, Octavia tanking the hazards by blasting them apart with her magic.

It was tougher than most of the monsters in the crypt, that much they could tell at a glance, but eventually they brought down the Crypt Executioner and found that it dropped a number of items, ten diamonds for Pinkie to collect, a few iron bars, what appeared to be the blade from it's arm, and a spherical object that Octavia carefully picked up.

"An Imp Soulstone... interesting." Octavia said, where she could see that the Soulstone looked like a magical eye of sorts, as odd as that sounded, while she could feel something inside it, meaning that if one of them used it they would be able to summon an ally of some kind, a combat pet she guessed, though as Pinkie collected their spoils she handed it over for just a moment and grinned, as Pinkie was able to even duplicate these, "Well now we won't have to worry about losing any of the Soulstones we're looking for... just have to hand them to you for safekeeping and we'll have as many as we need."

Pinkie chuckled as they delved deeper into the crypt, finding that there were more monsters like those they had faced so far, where everyone found that none of their foes got stronger the deeper they went, as if the dungeon was set to a very specific level, so they were able to hack through the smaller enemies with ease. While they delved into the depths Octavia discovered something interesting, on one of the taller walls that they walked by she spotted what appeared to be an old diagram of obsidian that was placed on a single pillar, four pieces before being topped off by a diamond block. After that there were two more pieces of obsidian before it braced off in a 'T' shaped formation, two to the left and right before one last piece went downward, and below all of it she found an inscription that read 'Lunar Grue'. She showed it to the others for a moment and all three of them shared their thoughts with her, it looked like a summoning recipe, meaning while this place didn't have any of the Soulstones they needed, even with Pinkie finding a dragon in the depths that might have one of it's kind's Soulstone, it had an important clue.

After jotting down the formation in front of them they continued down into the depths and discovered that the final boss was just a more powerful Zoataur, the flightless earth dragon that they had spotted when the Golem attacked the village of the desert, and with their power it took them no time to bring it down as well, giving everyone more loot to claim for the future.

"Check this one out." Pinkie said, holding up a fiery looking Soulstone that had to be the one that belonged to the dragons, one that they would have likely needed to claim if they had been planning on taking out Pandora's dragon, which they all knew had been part of the plan before discovering that they had her as an ally, before she smiled, "You know, I might be able to make it so we can get specific summons from them... might make things easier for all of you, since you guys still have to fly from place to place."

Octavia chuckled as they gathered their loot and proceeded to head back to their village, as they needed to take stock of everything they had found inside this crypt, not to mention the information that had been on the wall, before working on the next stage of their massive plan to weaken the Admins, and she was looking forward to the next few steps.

Comments

[Booster Spice]

the more mobs they take out, the possibility theyll pick up items so rare the average player would only find one unless they specially built massive autofarms or excavated a country crater of blocks?

Pinkies practising craft with every variation of recipie she is given, as well as asking the dicine if theres anything she should be looking out for, unless unlockable recipies unlock if supported in the Mod even if you dont have the recipie to follow if you accidentally find it through experimentation?

[Blackdrag-rose]

11343451 In game the players have the recipe book, which naturally updates whenever you gather new items... Pinkie, on the other hand, likes to experiment and she has Pandora backing her, the latter wanting to bring her Admin brothers down, so she's got a cheat code, of sorts, to figure out all the recipes she and the others need.