One hour passes before Mikey becomes concious again.
His presence was so terryfying that all the wild animals around him didn't dare close the distance on him, even though he was unconcious.
Mikey's entire body aches, his wounds haven't healed yet and he was standing the whole time he was unconcious, so his legs hurt a lot too. Mikey falls to the ground and takes a deep breath.
Mikey looks around... just to see the ultimate monster standing right next to him.
Mikey's entire body shakes and gets filled with adrenaline, the pain in his body stops, he backs off and takes his fighting stance.
In a few seconds Mikey realizes that the monster isn't hostile anymore.
The ghost appears in front of Mikey.
"You can calm down, no need to fight the monster. It won't attack you anymore." The ghost says. "Well, it won't attack you as long as you please its needs."
"Please its needs? What the hell are you talking about?" Mikey asks the ghost.
The ghost pulls out a scroll out of thin air, the same way he did when they were at the top of the mountain.
The ghost hands the scroll to Mikey and dissapears. Mikey opens the scroll.
[The Second Phase Of The Second Trial]
[You have already defeated the Ultimate Chicken Horse Kraken. That however, isn't the end of the story.
You still need to climb up the mountain with the monster's body and burn it]
[You managed to decimate it in the process, and that's why it got revived and won't attack you at all. It will actually just follow you around]
[The monster lost its powers aswell, which means that you need to protect it at night from the other monsters]
[YOU HAVE FIVE DAYS TO COMPLETE THIS TASK. IF YOU DON'T, THE MONSTER WILL REGAIN ITS POWERS AND START BEING HOSTILE TO YOU AGAIN]
"So this is the second phase huh, I mean... seems like the hardest part is going to be climbing that mountain." Mikey says. "And making it in five days... that shouldn't be an issue tho. The mountain isn't THAT high."
Mikey is extremely hungry, thirsty and exhausted. He quickly pulls out some meat out of his inventory which he cooked yesterday.
(About 20 minutes later)
"Alright, I will rest for today, I still have several hours of time before the night starts. I'll just protect the monster throughout the night and start moving once the sun rises. This should be much easier than the first part of this trial." Mikey said.
Mikey thinks that this is going to be very easy. Unfortunately, he still doesn't know what's coming for him...
This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author's consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.
Before going to sleep he tends to his wounds and cuts down a lot of trees. He builds a small hut, he goes inside with the monster, and goes to sleep right after.
(A few hours later)
Mikey wakes up just before the sunset, the monster is sleeping aswell. It wakes up right after Mikey, as if it knew exactly when Mikey was going to wake up.
The ghost appears aswell. He asks Mikey right away. "Are you ready?"
"For clearing this trial? Yeah." Mikey answers confidently.
"I like the confidence, there are just a few more things I have to say." The ghost says.
"What is it?" Mikey asks.
"First of all, only one person besides you managed to get this far into the trial. However, he didn't manage to clear the second stage in the end. As I mentioned before, nobody cleared the second trial yet." The ghost says.
"What? But how?" Mikey asks confused. "I mean, sure, I have to climb a big mountain in five days, but it's not like there isn't food up there. I saw a bunch of wild animals there. So food is not an issue, water isn't an issue either. There were a few lakes on the lower parts of the mountain. The only other issue are monsters at night, but those are nothing compared to that guy." Mikey points at the UHCK.
"Yeah, you're right about that, the man didn't die because of food or water shortage, but because of the second thing that I wanted to tell you." The ghost says.
Mikey feels that something bad is about to happen.
The ghost weaves his hands in the air, the moon turns red and so does the sky.
"What's the meaning of this?" Mikey asks.
"The night will be eternal and much more monsters will spawn... Good luck." The ghost says with a sinister smile as he dissapears into the thin air.
It doesn't take long until several zombies start knocking on Mikey's door. A few seconds later and his entire hut is surrounded.
Good thing I built this hut. Mikey thinks to himself.
So many zombies and other monsters spawn that they start literally knocking the wooden hut down.
"What do I do? It would be easy for me alone to get out of here, but I need to protect that thing." Mikey looks at the Ultimate monster that had lost its powers.
A few seconds later and the wooden hut is knocked down. The zombies, skeletons and endermen get ready to attack Mikey.
But they can't because...
...
Mikey isn't inside the hut anymore?
Mikey actually dug DOWN, and is mining in the underground. He made sure to cover the entrance right after he dug down so that the monsters wouldn't see him and follow him.
"Phew, that was close." He says. "I should probably dig towards the mountain for a few minutes and go back to the surface once I am far enough..."
And Mikey does just that, he keeps digging in the direction towards the mountain, he's actually not sure if he's digging towards the mountain or not, but he's certainly hoping that he is.
A few minutes pass and Mikey can't hear any monsters anymore. He surfaces quietly and looks around. He was digging in the right direction. There are a few monsters in the area, but Mikey manages to find what looks like a path without any monsters in sight.
[You have activated an ability of the "Adaptive Fighter"]
Mikey's eyes change.
Mikey starts running through there with the monster in his hands. He was right, there were no monsters, there is just one problem. The attention of the monsters was drawn because Mikey ran and didn't go silently.
An Enderman teleports in front of Mikey. Mikey quickly puts down the Ultimate monster and literally boxes it up by placing wood all around it.
He quickly pulls out his Duskblade and attacks the enderman. The enderman teleports behind Mikey. Mikey quickly turns around and roundhouse kicks the enderman, sending it flying into the nearest tree.
A lot of monsters start appearing all around Mikey.
"Shit! This is exactly what I didn't want to happen. It would be okay if this was a normal night. I could just fight them until the dawnbreak and keep going after that. But I obviously can't because there is NO dawnbreak." Mikey says to himself in distress.
All of the thinking, fighting and walking without much rest has completely clouded his mind.
An arrow comes flying at him, he cuts it in half with his sword before it can reach him. Mikey looks back at the wooden cage and realizes that it's fine. He dashes at the horde of the monsters and starts fighting them.
(1 hour later)
Mikey had entered a fighting trance. He's fighting with no purpose, he just keeps pummeling all the monsters with his sword and fists. The cage where he hid the Ultimate Chicken Horse Kraken had been already destroyed by a creeper, UCHK has been running around with a bunch of monsters chasing after it. Mikey didn't even realize it, he just kept fighting and fighting. He isn't even thinking anymore, he's fighting on pure instinct.
The ghost appears in the sky.
"This is exactly what happened to the guy who made it this far. He entered the 'fighting' trance and simply couldn't stop fighting. He got eventually so exhausted that he just died out of exhaustion... Quite literally." The ghost says. Mikey can't hear him. "I am dissapointed, I thought that this one could actually make it through this trial, after seeing him defeat the UCHK with such strange means I thought he was stronger than the others. Too bad." The ghost dissapears...
Mikey is exhausted beyond human comprehension, the only thing that keeps him going is his fighting spirit and adrenaline that's flowing through his veins. That however is pointless... unless he can find a way to exit his fighting trance.
[You have received a message from Lucy Hunt]
Mikey suddenly came back to his senses...