The Nether would be dark, but can't since nearly everything is ablaze. When Adam stepped into the portal, he was utterly shocked. He had heard that the Nether was a place where fiends roamed, killing everything in sight by shooting fireballs at it. It appeared that this was true, but the Nether had another side to it, a rather hard-to-explain side. It wasn't exactly friendly, but Adam saw people riding blazes and ghasts, training huge armies of zombie pigmen in battle, and rescuing drowning magma cubes from the lava.
The fire guild was a rather serious guild. They were intent on winning this war that would rather obviously never end.But they also had this vibe of respect for everyone, especially those of higher rank. That was another thing about the fire guild. Everyone knew their place.
But there was something about this place that didn't feel right. Although there was this vibe of respect, something was missing. Adam didn't fee like he could trust these people.
A soldier next to him spoke in a gruff voice. "You will be treated like a member of this army during your stay. This means that although you won't be treated lower for not being in the fire guild, you will not be given special treatment to convince you to stay. Think of it as being a soldier, although only temporarily. You will be expected to act like one, anyway. Follow me. The training halls are this way."
The soldier led Adam down a netherbrick path to a huge building. The walls were made of netherbrick with glowstone placed every third row, three meters apart. The ceiling was mainly netherbrick with a ring of burning netherrackaround it. The floor was made completely out of soul sandto train the soldiers to be fast, as the guards next to him explained. At the back end of the booth, there was a glass panel five meters wide and four meters tall, surrounded by glowstone. There was some sort of quartz room behind the panel.
"You will begin your training today by battling an onslaught of zombie pigmen, magma cubes, and blazes controlled by us up in that booth. No ghasts yet, you are too early in your training for that. You will have an iron sword and an infinity bow to work with. You may begin fighting as soon as the mobs spawn." The two guards opened a door to the left of where they were standing. Adam walked forward and the door behind him closed. There was no backing out now.
The guards appeared behind the glass panel, and zombie pigmen began to spawn. Adam attacked them as quickly as he could with the soul sand on the ground. As soon as he attacked one, they all started to attack him, butter swords ready. Adam sliced at the creatures as they advanced, killing them quickly. He defeated the first wave, but more spawned. It was a larger group this time, and they were already hostile.
Adam couldn't run very fast, so there wasn't any point in trying to avoid them, as slow as they were as well. he picked them off, one at a time, finding that to be the best strategy. But what he didn't realize was that while he was distracted by the zombie pigmen, there were other mobs spawning as well. And these weren't zombie pigmen.
Something cube-shaped and squishy landed on top of Adam. He sliced at it randomly, getting a lucky shot, and it died, splitting into four, smaller cubes. Magma cubes. He killed them all, narrowly avoiding the zombie pigmen, and the smaller cubes multiplied as well. Adam finally killed the last of the magma cubes as a huge hoard of zombie pigmen attacked him. It took a while, but he was finally able to kill them all.
Exhausted, Adam leaned against the wall, just as something burning shot at him. There were two blazes in the middle of the room. Nothing else was spawning, but the blazes were challenges enough. They fired again, and Adam deflected the fireballs with his blade. He couldn't get close, since they can fly, so he pulled out his infinity bow and fired away at the mobs. He narrowly dodged some more shots, but he was able to shoot down the blazes.
Adam couldn't fight anymore. He just couldn't. So he slumped against the wall, collapsing to the floor. Upon seeing this, the guards came down from the booth and let Adam out of the training room. Without a word, they escorted him to the bunker he would be housing in while under the custody of the fire guild. There was a chest by his bed with cooked porkchops and two books in it. One was a note suggesting he record his time at each guild after each day to help him decide which he like the most, and the second was blank. He ate the food and picked up the blank book to write.
Fire Guild: Day 1
I am exhausted. Today I was sent to battle a seemingly endless onslaught of mobs on a soul sand floor. I believe they were evaluating my fighting skills.
Although I can barely stay awake, I do believe that in all of this battle, I improved. It's kind of hard not to after all of that work. I fought zombie pigmen, magma cubes, and even two blazes. I don't know how I survived it all. What would have happened if I had died? I'm sure I will figure out during my stay here if I have to do that every day.
The fight was kind of fun, the adrenaline rushing through me and all. I wonder what they'll make me do tomorrow.