Fire explained while walking through the tunnel: "For zombies it works like you would expect. If you kill the brain, the zombie dies, so go for the head. Skeletons just need to be smashed to pieces. If you break one of their arms, they can't harm you, they don't have much physical strength. For spiders, pierce the head with your sword and avoid being bitten. For creepers it's the usual tactic. Charge, hit, retreat but should never attack the head, this makes them instantly blow up. For enemies you don't know, like higher undead, just let me handle that. And most importantly, don't stand right behind me, skeletons will focus on me and I will have to dodge the arrows and if you are standing behind me you will be hit. Don't look at endermen under any circumstances, they will destroy you. Everyone gets three drops of the golden apple concentrate, that's close to the amount that would kill a normal human. freeZe should be safe since she is a mage."

"Seriously?" TehLulz asked.

"Yes, seriously." Fire answered "Any less would leave us at a disadvantage in battle, I need to go for the highest safe dose here. If you drink too much, you die from the potion but if you don't drink enough, you die from the mobs."

"Okay, then…" TehLulz replied.

"Hey, Fire, mind stopping the talk about death, it makes me even more nervous." freeZe said.

"Hey, you are the one with the black belt here." Ambigious said to his sister.

Fire explained: "It would be better if you were using the sword, punches don't do anything to zombies as they don't feel pain and are pretty tolerant to wounds, just cut their head off and be done with it. You can still smash skeletons to bits if you want."

The end of the tunnel was coming in sight, they increased their pace.

"Another thing." Fire said "Skeletons don't always have bows, sometimes they have swords or battleaxes and sometimes are unarmed. We're almost there."

He pulled the bottle of golden apple concentrate out of Brad's bag and gave everyone three drops, including himself. Unchosen started stepping left and right, as if he couldn't keep himself upright anymore, then he fell to the ground.

"Crap!" Ambigious shouted and knelt down next to Unchosen. "You alright buddy?" he asked.

"Wow, what just happened?" Unchosen asked, he sounded very confused.

"You drank the potion and fell." freeZe said and then added: "Almost had my heart stopping." Then she turned to Fire. "What exactly happened? You said that an overdose results in death, so what exactly happened?"

Fire replied: "He wasn't at risk of death, some bodies react like this when given a high dose. It should take care of itself any moment now."

Unchosen was on his feet again and said, still somewhat dizzy: "Good thing I didn't die, so let's go."

Unchosen was the first to step out of the tunnel, which had started making strange noises.

"Get out of there, it is going to collapse!" He shouted.

He was right, a few seconds after they ran out of the tunnel the first bits of dirt and stone started falling down from the ceiling. They were now standing in the Graveyard of the Forest. Trees completely covered it in a thick layer of wood and leaves, it was dark but courtesy of the potion they could see, even without much light. At the first look it was a beautiful place but if you looked closer, there were skeletons and rotting corpses lying around in the dark, some were badly damaged as if something heavy had crushed them, other ones were caught up in arm thick vines with sharp spikes on them, impaling their ribcage and skull. At the third look, there were also all kinds of shining and glistening gems scattered around the floor, diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds were only a small part, most of the gems were less valuable. Also there were swords made of iron and armor made of gold and iron lying everywhere, some still on their former, now skeletal, wearers.

"That's disgusting." freeZe commented.

Fire said: "Yes, it is but we now need to focus on where we are going. And don't pick up any treasure, I promised Oalrhm not to take any, he draws his energy from it." He then pointed over into the valley. "There, five zombies, two skeletons, a creeper and three spiders. Remember what I told you about attacking a creeper's head? I will demonstrate it to you."

The monsters were still a good fifty meters away and hadn't spotted the group yet. The skeleton and the zombie looked the most disturbing as they were basically human, only skeletal or rotting. Fire took the bow from his back and put an arrow on the string, pulled it back and shot it at the creeper, it was a perfect headshot. At first nothing seemed to happen but then the creeper began to swell and exploded with a loud bang, echoing from the walls of the graveyard and ripping a large crater into the dirt. The blast killed three of the zombies, one skeleton and all three spiders.

"Oh, I see why." TehLulz said.

Fire nodded and put his bow onto his back again, instead he pulled out one of his stone swords and slowly walked towards the group of mobs in a crouching position, the others instinctively followed his example.

"Remember." Fire whispered. "Don't stand behind me, the skeleton will try to take out the most dangerous enemy first, which is me. I will have to dodge the arrows."

The others didn't say anything but nodded.

They were now only a few meters away from the group of mobs who were just standing around the crater the creeper had ripped into the ground. Suddenly the skeleton turned around and spotted them, put an arrow on the string of its bow and shot at Fire, he dodged the arrow with ease but the skeleton was already shooting the next one. Meanwhile the zombies walked towards Fire in their sluggish way of walking. But right before they reached the arrow dodging Fire, their heads fell off, behind them appeared Ambigious and TehLulz, grinning.

After seeing the other skeletons being executed in such a way, the remaining skeleton stopped shooting at Fire and shot at Ambigious instead, the arrow just got stuck in the wood. With a hiss of rage the skeleton shot another arrow, which hit a little higher, right under Ambigious' neck, but that was the last arrow the skeleton would shoot, Fire had already crushed its skull and broken its ribcage with a huge downward swing of his stone sword.

They didn't have much time to rest after that, they heard freeZe scream and as they turned around they saw that a spider had knocked her off her feet and was attempting to bite her head off. Unchosen, who was the closest to her, cut off two spider legs in one swing. Crippled by the pain the spider turned around to attack Unchosen. He ended its life with a well-placed sword stab through the arthropod's head.

"Thanks Unchosen." freeZe said while standing up.

"No problem." He answered quickly while looking for more mobs.

Fire said: "The next mobs are over there." And pointed over to the other side of the graveyard, where a few skeletons were standing, then he said "We don't care about them, just continue walking towards the other end."

Fire walked over to Ambigious and pulled the arrows out of his armor. They continued walking until freeZe spotted three creepers and an iron armored zombie.

"That will be difficult, our swords can't pierce its armor and I can't use the enchanted arrow again because there might be monsters capable of sensing magic in here. The enchantment I used on the Shop Guy sends out a strong pulse. I will need to go with a regular arrow or a lightly enchanted one and hope that it works. You four take out the creepers. And remember, no head hits." Fire explained.

The zombie looked just like a regular human in its iron armor, the visor was down, it was also holding an iron sword in his right hand, which seemed to be enchanted. Fire didn't take any chances and started firing away at the zombie. This wasn't ideal, the arrows were too short for him to properly pull back the bowstring, which reduced the speed of the arrows. After three arrows he noticed that the helmet had some kind of protective enchantment on it.

He sighed.

If the zombie's helmet was enchanted, he absolutely had to use enchanted arrows, he didn't want to attack in close combat unless he absolutely had to. He went through his mental list of enchantments with low energy pulse and found two suitable ones. One that drained magic and one that pierced armor. He couldn't use them both on the same arrow as the first one would neutralize the second one, the armor piercing one also was not guaranteed to work. In the meantime the zombie had come closer and was about twenty meters away from Fire. Fire couldn't see the others but he was assuming that they were doing well since he hadn't heard any explosions. Fire focused and put the arrow on the string, then he made a short low-pitched sound, a single enchantment rune appeared on the arrow. After being shot, the arrow was faintly glowing, nowhere near the light flash of the powerful armor shattering arrow.

As the arrow hit the zombie's helmet, there was another flash and the helmet stopped shining, the zombie didn't care about that and continued walking towards Fire, it was now only a few meters away, not enough time for Fire to shoot another arrow. Fire decided that he had to go for a close range attack, he circled around the zombie at high speed, then suddenly attacked.

He didn't attack the body, he attacked the right hand of the zombie. It fell off after Fire had placed a quick cut with the claw of his left index finger. The zombie tried to pick up his weapon again but failed because its hand was missing. Fire jumped into the air and kicked the zombie in the chest, making it fall over, then he picked up the iron sword. It was a bit damaged but enchanted, he was glad the zombie didn't hit him with it because it would have cut through his armor. Now Fire was using the zombie's sword against its former owner, cutting its head off.

When Fire looked for the others, he suddenly heard a high pitched sound, similar to that one when he threw the ghast fireball. A projectile hit the ground one meter to Fire's right, it seemed to be some kind of spell since there was nothing at the impact spot. Fire turned around and then he saw it. A skeleton, taller than the normal ones, it was wearing a blue and black robe with fitting cowl, a dark aura surrounded it, its eye sockets had blue glowing flames in them.

This was bad, in his current state Fire was not equipped to properly deal with a skeletal mage.

The skeleton raised its hand, moving its jaw like it was whispering unheard spells, a blue dot appeared above the hand it held up, growing into a glowing and pulsating ball. Then, suddenly the ball zoomed towards Fire, no matter how slow everything around Fire became, the projectile was just too fast for him to dodge…