The Quest for the Diamond Sword: An Unofficial Gamer's Adventure, Book One
6 were wanderers who spent their time playing pranks on other explorers and generally making trouble They in tentionally did bad things to other people to steal more stuff for themselves There were some griefers who just picked on folks because they thought it was fun and they liked tricking people They’d use TNT to destroy a house or lie and say they needed help and then at tack Steve didn’t want to lose his house or his stuff to any griefers so he was careful not to trust anyone but his villager friends And now zombies were attacking them Steve had to help He tried to convince himself that the Iron Golem could handle the zombies but the desperate cries from the villagers meant the Golem wasn’t powerful enough to defeat the zombies on its own Or even worse something had happened to the stone creature Steve thought of Avery and the books he had gotten from her He could imagine a zombie overpowering her as she raced through the streets in her flowing white robe He wondered if the zombies were destroying John the farmer’s crops He imagined Eliot trying to hide in his blacksmith shop from the vicious monsters The cries grew louder and the images of his friends being attacked by zombies swirled around in his pan icked mind Steve knew he had to help them If he didn’t do something heroic soon he would be a no good coward who let the village get destroyed Although it defied all of his instincts to avoid danger Steve threw off his covers and got out of bed He checked the room for spiders and creepers then went to his chest to get The Quest for the Diamond Sword
Life on the Farm 7 ready For the first time he suited up in all the armor he had made which he loved having but never thought he’d use Luckily Steve had a well-stocked invento ry since he never battled he just collected armor of swords and other tools to protect himself He took out his compass iron sword bow and arrows from his in ventory Then he paused and grabbed his special gold sword just in case he needed it His hands shook His heart raced He was scared It was the moment Steve had always feared and now he was living it
2 someThing goes wrong outside Steve’s house it was pitch dark mak ing it the perfect hour for hostile mobs to feast The monsters had started to climb over the de fensive wall surrounding the village and were swarm ing the buildings inside Many of the torches Steve had placed throughout the village were gone He saw a shallow pit in front of him and knew that a creeper must have exploded destroying the lights and leaving the village in darkness As Steve made his way out of his home he gasped A spider jockey was crawling up the wall of his house The spider’s red eyes glowed in the darkness as the skeleton sat on the aggressive arach nid Steve knew that spider jockeys were rare and could destroy him in seconds A spider’s vision was excellent and the skeleton was a skilled hunter which made a spider jockey a double threat Steve felt his heart beat 8
Something Goes Wrong 9 ing through his armor-clad body He reached for his bow and arrow and took a deep breath Within seconds the skeleton spotted Steve and start ed to shoot An arrow flew at Steve’s chest but bounced off the armor He sprinted away from the spider as it leapt from the wall toward him and the skeleton’s ar rows came closer to Steve’s unarmored legs He ran as he narrowly avoided the arrows Steve turned back and took aim at the spider but wasn’t able to kill the dreaded enemy as fast as he hoped As more arrows flew toward Steve he dodged them swiftly At the same time he re loaded his bow and shot again at the spider Steve knew it was important to kill the spider before the skeleton if the spider were alone without being weighed down by the bony skeleton it could destroy him in an instant Steve slowed down and with a clear eye he shot an arrow at the spider Thunk It hit the spider right in its belly The creature fell to the ground and the skele ton launched a solo attack With one more expert shot Steve was able to take the skeleton down He had defeated the spider jockey He had never beaten such a tough enemy before He grabbed the eye dropped by the spider and put it in his inventory know ing it could be useful later Bursting with energy from the conquest of the spider jockey Steve set off to the village to fight zombies with a bit more swagger in his step Now he was a warrior As he approached the village Eliot the blacksmith ran past him toward his shop
