Chapter 4

|Mike|

Soon after the fight, the crowd was no longer there and I continued my way to the Residents. Though I can't stop thinking of those weapons that I saw during the fight. They were so cool! Like where did get them? How powerful are they? What's the recipe for them?

I suddenly remembered the book that Fernix gave me. I took it out the book and flipped through the pages.

"Not it... not it... HA there it is!"

I found a catalog of weapons which I haven't seen before.

"Woah!" I exclaimed. Again, I've never seen these things before and yet, they look so COOL!

I looked at one of the weapons in the book.

Wither Blade

Type: Sword

Rank: Rare

Can be crafted or has a 15% chance to be dropped upon killing the Wither.

Has a 45% chance of inflicting Wither I on target.

Ingredients: 2 Wither skeleton heads, stick, 2 Nether stars.

"Awesome..." I said.

I then looked at another weapon in the book.

Ice Staff

Type: Staff

Rank: Uncommon

Can only be crafted

Can cast projectiles made out of ice, has a 20% chance on freezing the target.

Ingredients: 3 Permafrost blocks, Iron Ingot, 2 Ice Essence

"Woah..." I was so interested at looking at these new weapons, I wasn't looking on where I was going. I felt something hitting my head.

"Ow...!" I started to rub my head.

I took my attention out of the book and looked to see a wooden wall of a building.

"I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings." I thought.

I suddenly heard footsteps from behind. I turned around to see a male Minecrafter with purple hair, wearing purple-shaded glasses, and wearing a purple jacket.

"Man, this guy sure loves purple." I thought to myself.

"Are you ok there? I heard someone bumping into something." The Minecrafter said.

"Yeah, I'm alright. I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings. I was just finding my way to the Residents to get myself a new house." I replied.

"A new house you say?" The Minecrafter said inquisitively. "Well you're in luck because I'm the realtor here!"

"Wait-you're Percy?" I said surprisingly.

"Yes, I'm indeed am." Percy smiled.

"Oh, in that case... nice to meet you Percy, the name's Mike." I introduced myself.

Percy nodded.

"Seems like reading that book was worth it after all."

"Soo... where do I start?" I asked him.

"Well it's very simple actually," Percy said. "You just need to pick an empty plot and I'll build your house."

"Then let's go." We began to search for an empty plot.

A few moments later we found one. "How's this plot Mike?" The purple haired Minecrafter said.

"It's not bad so I'll go with it. But how long will it take for you to build my house?" I asked him.

"It will just take a minute." Percy took out a strange block.

"What is that thing?" I looked at the new block in his hands.

"It's a structure block, it can make buildings without even building it." Percy placed the block in front of him.

"Whaaat?"

"See those houses over there?" Percy pointed his finger at the houses. "I can use this block to copy one of the houses and load the copy onto an empty plot."

"That's so cool!" I exclaimed.

Percy pressed some buttons on the structure block and a house just appeared on the empty plot.

"Here's your new house Mike, enjoy!" Percy took up the structure block and placed it back into his inventory,

"Thanks Percy"

"Your welcome Mike, I have to go now, I have other things to take care off so good luck." He started to walk off and waved goodbye.

"Good luck to you too Percy!" I waved back at him.

"Well that was easier than I thought. To get a house that quick." I thought.

I looked at my new house. It had a dark oak roof, plain wooden oak wall, some windows, a balcony projecting from the wall, and a sign at the above the door that said "Mike's House".

But enough looking! I want to see the inside of the house.

I walked onto the porch and opened the door. The inside wasn't that good but decent. All it had was an ender chest, a crafting table, a furnace, and a brewing stand.

"Maybe upstairs is better?" I went upstairs to only see a bed in the corner and a door leading to the balcony.

The house wasn't that bad but it wasn't as good as my old one. Though I could decorate the whole place. But not right now, I still want to continue reading the encyclopedia.

I sat down on my bed and started reading the book.

|Percy|

"Another happy customer!" I thought happily. It's wonderful getting "Thank yous!" from everybody, and I'm glad I choose this job! Of course, I couldn't charge any newcomers emeralds when they want a house because then they'll be homeless. But speaking of newcomers, how come more Minecrafters are appearing in Ceno? Didn't the mayor say that Notch will be arriving here soon to explain the destruction of our worlds? He hasn't arrived yet.

But I'm not getting tired of making new houses for people, it's just that I sometimes see sad faces when newcomers arrive. They're sad because they lost something that was dear to them, and I was one of them too. I was a sad bunny after that voice told me that my world is gone. But I'm not sad anymore ever since I took on this job.

Suddenly I heard somebody shouting.

"Hey! Purple Doodle!"

"Oh no... not him..." I turned around slowly to meet my eyes with a Minecrafter wearing Neonsteel armor.

Lance.

"It's Percy..." I said, trying to keep annoyance out of my tone.

"Yeah whatever." Lance rolled his eyes. "Anyways, if you hadn't heard, I killed a thief who took one of my items and everybody was celebrating my victory."

"Ok..."

"And I announced that I was going to throw a party at my house, but there's a problem."

"What is it?"

"My house isn't big enough for a whole lot of people soo... I was wondering if you could make a fourth floor for me, bigger than the other three floors."

"And how big?"

"Well since my house is 25 blocks long... the fourth floor should by twice the length of my house."

"What?" I exclaimed. "50 blocks long for a fourth floor?! Lance, that's too long! It will block sunlight from the other houses! And one of those houses is using electricity from a daylight detector!" I said sharply.

"Pshhh! So? They can just switch it to night-mode." Lance said.

"They won't be happy to run their electricity at night Lance." I warned.

"Just do what I say!" Lance said with a little menace in his tone.

"No! There's no way I can-" Lance suddenly got close to me, right into my personal space.

"I said: JUST DO WHAT I SAY!"Lance spoke threateningly. "Or you want to end up the same way as that thief Seth, respawning with nothing in his inventory."

I gulped at his threat. I couldn't do anything to stop him.

"Fine." I said at last.

Lance backed away from me.

"Good, and I want this construction done by tonight. Got it?"

"Yes..." I said bitterly.

Lance turned around and took his leave, but before he could go...

"The floor will cost 800 emeralds!" I shouted to him.

Lance stopped walking for a moment.

"FINE! You little purple maniac!" Lance yelled without looking back at me. Finally, he stormed off.

"Purple maniac..." I repeated those words in my head.

"I'm not a purple maniac." I spoke sadly, hurt by the name I was called. "I just like purple..."

|Mike|

I touring around the village, looking around to see what it had. After reading the reading the book for an hour I got bored, so I decided to take time looking around the village. If I'm going to be staying here for I don't know how long then I'll have to get used to knowing where these places are.

First, I'm going to tour the Business District. Since I just got myself a new house, I need to get emeralds so I can pay off the taxes. So maybe I can get a job there or sell some items.

After a few moments of walking, I arrived at the district. There were shops and some restaurants around the district. The sight of the restaurants made my stomach growl. I looked into my vision to see that my food bar was low. I had three and a half drumsticks left, ever since I spawned into this world, I haven't ate anything for a while.

I looked through my inventory for any food left but I had none, I wasted all of them while fighting the ender dragon, and man that dragon was hard.

I could go inside the restaurant for food but I have no emeralds.

"Wait." I have an idea! I could sell the dragon egg for some emeralds! No not "some", LOTS of emeralds!

I went towards one of the shops, the shop seemed to be selling weapons and armor.

There was a female Minecrafter with red hair and blue eyes behind the counter.

"Uh hey... I would like to sell-"

"CONGRATULATIONS!" The lady shouted suddenly.

I jumped in surprise at her loud comment.

"What?" I said confusingly. "You're congratulating me for what now?"

"You're my 100th customer silly!" The lady said.

"100th customer? Really?" I asked.

The Minecrafter nodded.

"Cool! So what do I get?" I asked her.

"You get to choose 10 items from my shop for free." The lady turned around and open the curtains in her shop, revealing tons of weapons, tools, and armor hanging from a wall.

"Woah..." I eyes were attached to the sight of these items.

"So what will you choose?" The girl asked.

"Let me see..." I looked at the weapons and armor, many of them were made out of ore that I haven't seen before. I kept looking until a dark-gray sword caught my eye.

The Wither Sword.

"I'll have that Wither Sword please." I pointed at the sword.

The girl took the Wither sword of the wall and gave it me.

"Would you like a second Wither Sword?" The lady asked.

"A 2nd Wither Sword?" I widened my eyes in surprise.

"For dual wielding, duh!" The lady said.

"Ok then, I'll have another one."

The lady gave me another Wither Sword and I placed it into my inventory.

"I am so lucky." I thought to myself.

"You have 8 items left to choose from." The lady announced.

"What else?" I continued looking at the items on the wall. I saw three dark blue tools on there, Cobalt Tools.

I read from the book that cobalt is stronger than diamonds. So I chose the Cobalt Pickaxe, Cobalt Axe, and the Cobalt Shovel.

Next, there was a steel bow which I was interested in so I chose it. Then I chose a scythe which seemed to be infused with dark power. Finally, I got a Cobalt Chestplate and Cobalt Boots.

"You got 1 last item to choose from." The lady announced again.

I looked at the items again to see what else I could get but I didn't know what else.

"Is there anything here other than weapons and armor?" I asked the lady.

"Food maybe..." I looked at my food bar.

"Yeah, but I only got a few." The lady opened a chest and pulled out three strange items, they looked similar but have different symbols. The first had a sword symbol, the second had a wizard hat symbol, and the third had a knife symbol.

"What are those things called." I questioned her again.

"Class crests, these can promote you from your base class, like the on your in now, into class that is more powerful. Like for example, let's say you want to become a knight, you can use one of these-" The lady pointed at the crest with the sword symbol. "to promote yourself into a Tier 1 Knight. You can promote yourself at the Class Transformation Hall."

"I think I get it now, but what are the other two called?"

"This one-" The lady held the second crest up "is a Wizard Crest, promotes yourself into a wizard, and this one-" the lady held the third crest up "is a Thief Crest."

"What should I be? A knight, a wizard, or a thief?" I began thinking which class I should. A knight and thief might sound cool. But a wizard may be the class that I want. They can use tons of magic soo...

"I'll have the Wizard Crest please."

"Sure." The lady gave me the crest and I placed it into my inventory.

"And that's about it." The girl got both of the crest and putted them back in the chest.

"Wait, one more thing." I took out the Dragon Egg. The girl looked surprised.

"Is that the Dragon Egg? From the Ender Dragon?" The lady asked.

"Yep, I killed that thing, but it wasn't easy." I explained.

"Wow you must be strong!"

"I am, but I'll be even better when I use these things in a fight." I said. "So, I was wondering how much will I get if I sold this?"

"I think that would be worth one million emeralds!"

"WHAAAAAAAAAT!?"I exclaimed, shocked at the amount of emeralds I could get.

The lady started to laugh, she laughed so hard that she began banging the counter.

"Hahaha...! You fell for it!" The lady chuckled.

"Oh... that was just a joke. But I'll admit, it was little funny. For a second, I thought I'd be rich."

"Ah... the joke never gets old. If the egg was worth that amount then I'd be broke, but seriously, the egg is worth 250 emeralds. "

"250 emeralds? That's a good enough amount." I said. The lady gave me 27 emerald blocks and 7 emeralds.

"Thank you, Miss! This was very kind of you." I thanked the shop owner.

"Don't mention it, this was your lucky day after all. And my name isn't "Miss", it's Yvette.

"That's a good name, my name is Mike."

"Well it's been nice meeting you Mike." Yvette said.

My stomach growled furiously. I looked at my food bar to see that I had one and a half drumsticks left.

"I have to go now, see ya." I walked away and waved goodbye to her.

"See you later!" Yvette waved back.

My stomach continued to growl.

"Duty calls..." I muttered to myself.