It took Bren a few days to recover, thanks to Leon who shown him where all the medical supplies were, Bren could at least fix himself up with the basic knowledge he knew.
It was the third morning and Bren was in the dining hall eating more cooked pork, Leon somehow could cook the meals and had provided Bren with the meat.
"So Leon" Bren asked to the friendly Enderman, he looked up, alert to Bren.
"We need to go to the end, I've been thinking about it, and clearly we can't stand by while that evil lives in the end." Bren said to him, finishing the meat. Leon nodded his head slowly.
"But the question I wanted to know is this…how do I get in, and how do I kill what is pretty much an evil god" Bren said putting his hand on his chin in thought.
Leon of course was silent, Bren had talked to Leon though yes and no questions these past three days, and mostly Leon talked to Bren through pantomime and gestures.
"Well what I'm more concerned about is that I'm not a good sword fighter. I know some basics for survival, and I can kill a pig but that's as far as I know I can do" Bren said sighing, "Should have taken that course in high school but instead I did cooking" Bren said, Leon let out an amused sound.
"Yeah go ahead, laugh at me for not predicting that I would be saving the world and instead learning how to cook" Bren said to Leon.
Leon began to walk away and motioned for Bren to follow.
"Lead the way my good tall man" Bren said following Leon through the halls and soon they came to an old barracks, Bren knew what Leon wanted.
"Alright I'll see what I can do, but I doubt target dummies are going to be a good practice, I can only do so much against something that doesn't move or attack" Bren said as they walked through the iron door, and then he heard moaning and clattering.
"Oh Notch" Bren mouthed as he saw in multiple cages zombies and what looked like walking skeletons.
"You captured these?" Bren asked, turning to Leon
Leon nodded his head and then pointed to some old iron swords.
"Let me guess, you are going to release them for me to kill…kinda harsh training don't you think?" Bren asked Leon, Leon just was silent.
"Right…." Bren said grabbing the blade and Leon went to a switch and pulled it, it opened the zombie cage and two zombies shuffled out, it looked at Leon but then looked at Bren and began to moan loudly, they found their prey.
Bren held his blade up, ready to fight. "Bring it on you walkers" Bren called out and he swung his blade down on one, its arm left its body but that didn't stop it from trying to bite Bren's sword arm.
"Oh no you don't!" Bren cried out sending a left hook right into its face and Bren was surprised to see its head went flying away
"How bout you?" Bren asked the other, he didn't expect an answer except the standard groan.
The zombie tried to grab Bren but Bren swung his blade and the arms were now gone.
One more swing and the zombies head went off.
"Ok not gonna say that was easy but I won't say it was hard" Bren said panting, Leon seemed pleased.
Bren spent the rest of the day training against zombies. Leon had clearly used his time he had to himself to capturing plenty of the undead, and minus a few scratches Bren was unharmed through it all.
"Well that was entertaining at least" Bren said over dinner, Leon had provided beef this time.
Leon nodded his head, Bren was a natural, he wasn't a godly sword fighter but Bren was learning the basics and advanced techniques from the old books in record time. Much faster than any knight normally would.
"So how long do you think it will take for me to be ready to beat the demon god?" Bren asked, "A week?"
There was a brief pause.
"Of course not, it isn't that easy" Bren said letting out a chuckle, "I'm not stupid"
Leon let out a few content sounds; it was obvious he was enjoying the company of something that can speak.
"So tomorrow more training right?" Bren asked, Leon nodded his head.
"Alright then" Bren said.
The next day came and this time training came outside, Bren was outside of the large fortress in a forest, on his back a quiver, his task, hunt the wild pig around here. He figured out the task when Leon brought him the bow and arrow, and then pointed to some cooked pork for breakfast. The connection wasn't hard to figure out. Now Bren while he didn't have a lot of experience with a sword, at least beyond swing, swing, stab basics, he was really good at archery.
Bren crouched a bit and saw some tracks, pig ones.
"Perfect" He thought pulling an arrow from his quiver; he followed the tracks and saw the wild pig near the river, drinking some water.
"Ok, sorry I got to do this, but a man's got to eat" He thought silently, he began to arm the bow and take aim, and then fired. The arrow hit its mark, piercing the pig's head and killing it.
"Now for the meat" He thought drawing his knife and getting to work getting the meat.
He wasn't aware he was being watched, from the bushes a figure watched Bren as he began to carve out the meat.
Bren pulled out a bone, "Got it" He said tossing the bone behind him and got to work cutting more, the figure came out of the bushes and Bren turned around to see….a wolf.
"Oh hello" Bren said turning to the wolf who had its attention on the bone.
"You want this?" Bren asked picking up the bone and holding it. The wolf barked lightly.
"Ok" Bren said setting the bone down in front of the wolf. The wolf looked at Bren and then took the bone in its teeth before running off.
"Well at least it didn't want to kill me" Bren thought to himself as he finished up the meat. He went to his pack and pulled out a special bag to carry the meat it, in essence it was a basic bag, albeit bloodied, but it worked nicely enough to carry the meat.
He put the meat in and began to hike back to the fortress, but then heard something, skittering sounds.
"Oh what now!?" Bren cried out drawing his bow, he dropped the meat and had an arrow ready, he was ready for anything, but then he felt something cover his head, he touched his head…it was sticky
"Oh notch…this had better be gum" He thought looking up; he saw multiple spiders in the trees.
"Oh give me a bre-"He was pinned to the ground by one large one, holding him down, he could feel webbing covering his lower body.
"Let me go!" Bren cried out and he punched the spider in the upper body and that seemed to push it off but then he felt more web fall on his body from the spiders above.
"No!" He thought struggling in the increasing webbing bonds but then he could see from his uncovered head that the spider he punched off was skittering to him again, most likely ready to eat him.
"Eaten by a spider…I always expected my death to involve an airship crash driven by a drunken Skylord…." He thought sadly
He closed his eyes ready to die but then he heard growling and he opened his eyes, he saw the spider about to kill him stopped in its tracks, and Bren saw in front of him, a wolf with a bone in its mouth, it dropped it and barked at the spider, the spider backed off for a moment and then it reared back holding its legs up, it was angry.
The wolf growled and then jumped the spider, taking a huge bite right on the spider's head, the spider unable to bite back seemed to twitch in pain as the wolf bit more and more on the spider's body, until the spider stopped twitching, the wolf let go and the other spiders scurried off.
"You came back for me?" Bren asked as the wolf began to tear into the webbing, freeing Bren.
"Thanks, really I owe you one" Bren said pulling webbing out of his hair.
The wolf barked.
"You want to come with me?" Bren asked, the wolf barked again, and then licked Bren's hand.
Bren smiled at his new canine friend. "I'll call you Fang, a little silly I know, but I think you deserve that title for taking out a giant spider all on your own" Bren said as Fang as he was now called let out a bark of approval. Bren was happier now; he had another friend on this island…
From the trees, a figure watched, it was the silent one, the one he thought he killed. In his hands was a blade of pure black, and his eyes, soulless, continued to watch Bren and Fang as they made their way back home.