Well, I guess "Welcome to the Seventh chapter of the fanfic." - Crafted Reality.

Btw, you've been ripped a quote off. Just joking. QoTC.

"Ho ho ho. Meeerrrryyyy Christmas!" -Santa Claus (Wait. I thought Saint Nicholas was well-built, because he was a soldier. You would think that driving a chariot 24/7 would make you tired, and would make you well-built throughout time :/.)

Misfortune and Travels

Chapter VII


"I sure am glad I have this really warm longcoat." I refered to my attire, which allowed me to resist the snowing weather better. "I'm not sure what will happen to me without it."

"Speaking of which, you have to remove it." Cerulean said. "Otherwise, you'll get spotted easily." To emphasize his point, he suddenly got a bow and shot a red-colored sheep a few... dozen blocks away. "But it's okay if you don't. I, afterall, have a stash of Invisibility potions right..." Cerulean made a Wooden Shovel then dug a spot near a tree. "Here."

I peeked into the hole he made, and there was a single chest. In the chest, I could see a lot of potions. There were the usual potions, like Strength, and Speed, but there were other colored potions too, and had different shapes. Almost as if they were made for throwing.

"Head's up." Cerulean said, and tossed something to me. I immediately caught it by reflexes.

I examined the potion in my hands. It was gray-blueish in color. "Is this an Invisibilty Potion?"

"Yes." Cerulean brought out a identical potion and showed it to me. "I have an extra here, which I will use."

Why would Cerulean give me Invisibilty Potions. Invisibilty is similar to Stealth, and stealth is vital for robberies at banks- and what are robberies? Anyway, we won't be using Stealh/Invisibility unless we were either doing a 'robbery' or we were escaping silently...

So we were going to escape silently.

"I could hear footsteps. Take off your armor, then drink the potion." He whispered, before his armor disappeared and he drank his potion.

I also did what he did.

A shovel appeared- which was Cerulean, then it dug some snow on a random direction, leading towards a glowing pit- probably lava, then a Snow Block appeared, and plugged the hole to his Potion stash.

Being invisible feels really wierd. But in my arm, which is still visible to me, I could see another buff similar to the Speed, but had a different Icon. It looked like a faint, blue outline of a blocky person.

*Crunch crunch*

Now I could hear some noisy footsteps. Of course, walking on fresh snow could be quite noisy, especially if you don't know how to walk on snow. It happened to me before.

Well atleast, the constantly snowing weather covered our footsteps.

A group of four Iron Armoured crafters appeared, wielding Iron Swords. A single one appeared important, and he wore a Diamond Helmet, and had an Enchanted Diamond Sword. Over his head, were the words 'ChasingDepths'.

"Sir look! A trail of unsnowed Grass." A guard said, pointing to the dug snow Cerulean made.

"Aye. Good eye. Follow the trail." ChasingDepths ordered, and they all went to explore the trail.

As I was watching them stare in marvel at the Lava pit, I saw a Diamond Longsword float in the air, and suddenly, all the guards were knocked into the Lava.

I could hear screams of pain, and I could hear a bunch of 'hissing' sounds.

"Come on. Let's go. Follow the sword." Cerulean said, just as he ran through the clearing. I followed suite.


Gone were the snowy wastelands, replaced by rocky wastelands.

In the small patches of Grass that grew, there were a handful of animals to be slayed for food source.

"Wow. You visited an awfully lot of wastelands to live up your name." I commented off-handedly.

"Yes. 3 Wastelands I suppose. Nitebane was situated in a gravel wastelands- not to mention a cliff. But I guess Lazuli isn't a wasteland anymore, seeing trees surrounded it. And Exter, well..." He pointed to the vast, gray landscape. "Aside from the few patches of Grass, this place is essentially dead."

Aside from the rolling hills of Stone, there were also small patches of Lava pits.

"I wonder what sword you use. It's slightly different from the ones I usually see." I said.

Cerulean brought out his Longsword in response. "You mean this? Well, I got it from the Tinker- which lives in the Exter by the way. I bought it from him for about, hmm... 100 Emeralds."

"Wow. That's expensive." I commented.

"Of course. It is, A Tinker's Exclusive afterall. And you only get them through two means: Either you're someone important in a kingdom or a group and they rewarded you with one, or you're just rich enough to afford it."

"So... I guess it's going to be hard to get my hands on a Tinker's Exclusive?"

Cerulean paused in silence, thinking. After a few moments, he replied. "There is an alternate way. You could steal one from a Vault, though that would require patience and a lot of Invisibility Potions, though if you managed to steal one, then nice."

"I suppose it's plausible." I said.

"It is." He confirmed. "The cult of Nitebane usually does that, except that they steal it from a Crafter, then usually kills them afterwards." He responded. all the while having a straight face.

"Do you even feel remorse at killing someone?" I suddenly asked, out of the blue.

"What made you ask that?" He countered my question with one of his own.

"You... just killed 4 Crafters before. You pushed them in the pit."

"Listen, Mono. Sometimes, if you want to live, you have to drop all feelings of remorse. Some people would take advantage of your Mercy, and the tables will turn against you." He sighed to himself tiredly. "Anyone whom you encounter that attacks you, and if you somehow have a feeling that they would betray you, then don't hesitate to kill them."

"But... even the one who are innocent?"

"Yes. They could spawn a hateful feeling for you. It is best to nip the rose in the bud, before it could grow thorns." He said, once again poetic-ly voice not withholding, then looked at the sky. "Nighttime is about to occur."

I looked at the sky in response. The sun was, indeed just hanging precariously in the edge of the horizon. "It is." I confirmed.

In the edge of the horizon, I barely see a stilhouette of buildings.


Well... That was fast.

Inventory:

Monologue_Master: Iron Helmet, Diamond Chestplate, Iron Leggings, Iron Boots, Diamond Sword, 5 Golden Carrots, 5 Steak, 1 Speed Potion (3:00), 1 Speed II potion (1:30), 2 Regeneration Potions (2:00), 1 Strength Potion (3:00).

Cerulean_Wastelands: Leather Helmet {Blue, Protection III}, Diamond Chestplate {Projectile Protection IV}, Leather Leggings {Blue, Protection II, Unbreaking I}, Diamond Boots {Blue, Feather Falling II}, Diamond Longsword, 40 Steak, 4 Golden Carrots, 45 Emeralds, 1 Book {"Philosophy I have in life"}, 1 Stone Pickaxe, 1 Iron Pickaxe {Effeciency III, Unbreaking II}, 1 Strength Potion (8:00), 3 Splash Potions of Healing II