Mikey received a message from Lucy, he opens the message.

[Mikey, a lot of players have showed up for some reason, some of them were lower ranked, some of them were in the top 100 and had bounties themselves. A huge fight started, we had to get away from there... PLEASE TEXT ME BACK ASAP!!!]

Mikey wants to write back to Lucy, but he can't.

[You can't write a message to this player at the moment]

"What? Why?" Mikey asks himself. He looks at the unconcious knocked out woman. The bounty of 90k Emerald Nuggets is still above her head.

Mikey's memory flashes back to a few minutes ago for a moment

["Why don't you kill me?"]

["Because I want strong people alongside me, and you're strong."]

"I also don't kill people, only if there is no other way." Mikey says to the unconcious woman and picks her up. He takes out his damaged diamond pickaxe and starts mining out an underground area. Once dug out, he blocks it off, lights the inside up with torches and replaces all the stone with wooden walks. He makes it seem like they're inside a house or something.

He can hear explosions in the distance.

"That might be Zoro, can't go there however, I would just get in the way in my current state." Mikey says to himself. He decorates the room a little bit and crafts two sofas with a bunch of wool that he gathered from his sheep, who is nowhere to be seen. Mikey also crafts a table and a fireplace, he creates a tunnel for the smoke to go above ground and lights up the fireplace, the room becomes warmer.

He sits at one of the couches and gently puts the woman on the other one. Mikey starts thinking.

How come so many people appeared here? Have our locations been revealed after getting those bounties? We weren't given any further information, but perhaps the people without bounties were?

Wait no, that doesn't make sense, Christina or Ragnar would've said something as they don't have any bounty on them either...

How did it happen then?

Mikey can't come to a conclusion.

The woman becomes concious and instantly dissapears. Mikey gets on guard.

"Are you really going to attempt to kill me again?" Mikey asks while looking around himself.

She reappears on the couch again, she's still lying on it.

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"Sorry about that, my invisibility is automated." She says.

"Automated?" Mikey asks confused.

"Yes, I will go automatically invisible whenever I can, unless I am unconcious." She answers.

What an ability! Mikey thinks to himself.

"Anyways, where are we?" The woman asks.

"We are underground, after you released your domain and we returned to the real world, it was already chaos everywhere. I received a message from one of my friends, I was told that a lot of players showed up for the bounties." Mikey answers.

"Have we been marked then or what?" The woman asks.

"I don't know." Mikey answers honestly.

"This is very troublesome..."

(BOOM)

The area above Mikey and the woman explodes. They are revealed by three players, whose ranks are 811, 1009 and 2321.

"Here they are! They look exhausted, let's get that bounty!"

The woman takes out a smoke grenade out of her pocket, she pulls the pin and the grenade explodes instantly, forming a large smokescreen.

She grabs Mikey by his hand.

"I will build a nether portal, that's the only way to get out of here." She whispers to him. "Follow me", she adds.

A few seconds pass, Mikey has no idea what just happened, but he appeared in the Nether.

"I didn't think that the Nether was in this world." Mikey says.

"It is, but just as the Overworld, it is quite different." The woman responds, Mikey can see what she means.

First of all, it is insanely hot inside, but because of the extremely low humidity, Mikey, nor the woman get burned to a crisp, it's like inside a sauna. This isn't anything new to them however.

Their portal spawned inside a cave, with netherrack, quartz, and two materials which Mikey doesn't recognize, around them. There are three paths leading from their current location. One of them seems to be an entrance to a dark corrupted biome. Mikey doesn't recognize it at all.

"Let's get out of here before they follow us." The woman says.

They both start running in the same direction (not the corrupted biome), which leads them to the open part of the Nether.

A large lava lake stretches in front of them, with ghasts flying around, and a really scary looking monster that Mikey doesn't recognize. The monster is to their right, its pretty much guarding the path, which seems to be leading in the Nether wastelands biome. Nether wastelands is a common biome with nothing special to offer, besides a lot of quartz.

There's a blue forest biome to their left, which Mikey, is already quite familiar with, the forest is filled with a bunch of endermen, which is also something common.

"What is that thing?" Mikey asks the woman and points at the scary looking monster.

"Shhh, don't make any loud sounds. That thing, it reacts to any sound made by a living thing." She quietly whispers to Mikey.

The monster looks like a dog, not your normal dog however. It has no eyes, and really large ears, along with a massive mouth, its teeth are sticking out, because it literally can't close its mouth, the monster's teeth are too large for it to close its mouth. It is also very big.

The "dog" is walking around, creating a menacing rumble with its big paws. The endermen become vary of it and don't dare to make a sound either.

"Hey, you see that over there? Let's meet there." The woman asks Mikey and points at what seems like another cave opening, the only way to get there is through the blue forest filled with endermen, or by somehow going through the lava lake. There's also the third option, which is to go by the path on their right, and going through the Nether wastelands to the cave entrance, but to their right is the dog.

"Alright." Mikey answers, the woman nods and dissapears.

"THERE HE IS!" One of the men shouts. It's the one with the number 2321.

"Well, he is screwed." Mikey says to himself and starts sneaking away. The man notices the huge dog running straight at him. He teleports behind the dog and attacks its leg. The dog gets angry and becomes faster. The man activates some kind of a special skill which surrounds him with lightning, he becomes faster too, and his attacks seem to gain electric affinity.

Everytime he hits the dog, it becomes more sensitive and more aggresive. A few seconds later, the two other men show up. The one with the number 811 jumps at the dog and starts beating it up with special enchanted gloves. The man with the number 1009 pulls out a grenade out of his inventory and throws it inside the beast's mouth who just opened its teeth.

(BOOM)

The beast doesn't die yet. It takes the men good two minutes to completely finish it off. Meanwhile, Mikey and the second ranked woman moved away even further than they initially wanted. they reached another cave entrance, but this one is at the nether roof. They were watching that entire fight.

"Well, they have some interesting powers." Mikey says.

"I think one of them might have a tracking ability of sort. We are not safe yet." The woman says.

"Where did they go?" One of the men asks.

"They went in that direction! Let's go!" The other one says.

This bizzare, makeshift duo of the two strongest players wanders off inside the cave, as the three men search for them.