Night had fallen, and much to Brian's complicated feelings of surprised, disappointment, and somewhat realistic expectations: trees actually felled like regular trees, though they were easy to hack into blocks; then there was the fact that even though it was dusk, nothing like monsters were out at this moment, and there had been no slimes whatsoever. Brian was thinking about lighting inside the house, but by the time it was built, surprisingly with the help of Andrew, Andrew had already placed torches, that seemed to come from nowhere, inside, with a table and two chairs; a couple of beds to boot. Even Brian was impressed by the preparedness of Andrew in this.

"Well, I actually kind of like this house."

Andrew chuckled, "Well, sure. You're the one that mostly made it after all."

Brian gave a somewhat cold stare to Andrew and asked in a similar manner, "What are you trying to say?"

Andrew put up his hands in a defensive manner and smiled, "I was kidding! Just kidding!"

Brian sighed slightly but then smiled faintly. If this really is the game, this Guide is already so much better than they were in the game…

"Anyways, now that the house has been built, we can worry about other things, like the infestation to the North."

"Right. The infestation. What can you tell me about it?"

Andrew sighed as he sprawled out a map before Brian on the table, showing him a map of a place Brian had never seen before, a continent that was certainly nowhere on Earth.

Maybe it's just an island?

"Well, the only things I can tell you about it is that I would highly recommend not going there for now, since we have the worst possible equipment for it right now. I have a sword and a hammer as well, but they're like weak, and the reports we've gotten about the infestation… Well, let's just say that I'm expecting that anything there will not be anything that you've ever seen before."

Brian gulped a little, wondering to himself that if this really was the real world, how the hell did he get into this job, to this extent, and not even remember a single thing. At this point… Thinking all of this was somehow Terraria would probably make more sense…

"Well, have you seen it for yourself?"

Andrew shook his head, "Like I said, all of these things are from reports, but… I already know the infestation has progressed to a very critical state… Maybe we really should let you have a see for yourself. I'll even go and see it for myself as well."

Brian frowned to himself, Guides always stayed at the house, or spawn point, right? Maybe it's just the game turning into some sort of reality that's changed it? I mean just look at the three dimensional aspect alone…

Brian nodded and agreed to checking out the infestation. And with that, the duo headed out, once it was morning, towards the north.

On the walk there, Brian took note of the biomes changing from the forest to a sort of snow biome. So even this is similar… Through the snowy fields, trees were sparse, and critters even sparser. The duo waded through the snow, and all this while, Brian was inquiring about the infestation.

At this point, he was almost dead certain they were in some sort of reality that was either exactly like Terraria, or was extremely similar. However, the issue at the moment was figuring out if Andrew was talking about Corruption or Crimson, as the way he's called it an infestation didn't confirm it either way, though by right, it was safe to assume Corruption.

Brian sighed, if only I had spent more time in worlds with Crimson…

"Well… there it is."

Andrew had gone up a small hill, just a bit ahead of Brian, who was just cresting the hill as Andrew finished saying that. Once his eyes could lay on the area ahead of him, they widened in shock and disbelief.

The area in front of him could easily be described as another realm, another world. The ground was sickly, with no grass, and whatever grass there was, it was dead, black, or in the process of becoming both. The trees seemed to have been consumed by this otherworldliness and had turned in a fashion of decay, but they still seemed as though they were firmly alive. Just up ahead, not much further, Brian could see a deep schism in the ground that ran below what he could see, but he knew what this all was.

It was Corruption. The realm of decay and disease, and also the first "evil" the game had thrown at him all those years ago when he first played.

Almost immediately, Brian turned to Andrew and spoke with haste, "Alright, let's go, we've seen it."

"But… We just got here. I want to see for my own eyes what the report said about 'floating creatures'."

Brian's face paled, "We need to seriously go, now!"

At the last word he spoke, he heard that familiar sound of the creatures rising out of the schism he saw not too long ago, and watched as those disgusting Eater of Souls floated towards them, now seeing them in full view, eyes atop their tan-ish bodies, their pincers gaping open, and inside…

Andrew then immediately said, "Yeah… I think you're right."

With that, the two ran as fast as they could away from the Eater of Souls, but much to Brian's expectations, albeit a lot of dismay synced, the creatures were catching up to them. Entering back into the snow biome, Brian immediately cried out to Andrew, "You have that sword right?!"

"I do, but I already told you, it won't be enough to stop those… things!"

"I don't care, just give me the damn sword!"

Hearing the Eater of Souls purring with the vile sounds that they made, Brian's spine just about near crawled out of him as he felt the goosebumps erupt on his skin.

"NOW!"

Finally, Andrew managed to get his backpack off while running away, and tossed the orange sword towards Brian, who caught it, nearly dropping it. Quickly gasping from shock then relief, Brian quickly looked over the sword.

A copper short sword… Oh, so NOW this world goes with the way that Terraria does…

Then it occurred to him he would only have a short reach, but he had full control of his body, therefore he should be able to swing the short sword like a broadsword, which was the only downfall of a short sword in his opinion.

Turning around, Brian readied into a stance, the sword held out like an actual sized sword, feeling absurdly light in his hands, giving him the feeling it would bend if he used it on the Eater of Souls that were now coming towards him at relatively high speeds. Andrew stopped as well, but naturally some ways ahead of Brian.

Brian took a deep breath, and shook off the feeling that it'd bend like a piece of wet paper against the skin of the Eaters, and observed that there were two of them. He waited for the first one to come closer.

Closer… Closer… There!

Brian lunged, attempting to get the biggest reach he could with the sword, feeling all of his strength going into that one lunge. With this Brian felt that maybe it could work!

"Pbbblt," along with the sound of a raspberry tongue, Brian realized that the sword had actually bent against the skin of the Eater of Souls, and realized that the thing had almost gotten him within his pincers.

If it wasn't for Andrew, that is.

Andrew saw that Brian was going to go for a lunge and had already ran closer to get Brian out of the way, which he succeeded in doing.

Brian, almost delirious, just realized that the sword he thought wouldn't bend, actually did, and now he was running in true fear of being eaten by one of the creatures that were still floating as fast as the duo could run. Finally, the snow biome had changed into the forest, and with that, the duo's running speed increased without having to wade, and the Eaters started to slowly lose distance against them, and eventually, howled with their disgusting roar, and floated back towards the Corruption. When Brian and Andrew saw this, they immediately sat down and gasped for air.

"What… What made you think that copper sword would even do anything?!"

Brian gasped for some more air before replying in defense, "Well… I thought a sword was still a sword."

"No! That was supposed to be at least decent for us to use against the forest creatures that wanted to attack us!"

"Forest creatures?" For a moment, Brian forgot that slimes did pose a threat to them at this level still, not to mention the sun just starting to set.

With this, Brian groaned, with volume growing, and eventually he finally screamed and shouted, "Why did it have to turn out like this!?"