A few days have passed since I've been captured and the Mad Scientist made sure to visit me every day to gather more data on me, we slowly started to build respect for each other as we exchanged information on what we knew.

"So you're saying that the Nether dimension is smaller than the Overworld, and one block there is equivalent to eight in our world? How does that work?"

"I don't know, but there was a theory in my world that said the Nether was actually beneath the layer of Bedrock of the Overworld, but was dismissed after further investigations."

"Yes, that would make sense, but the System made a separate dimension and threw it as far away as possible to not corrupt anymore."

"True, it's different than what I expected as well, but probably the people that live in the Nether know a lot more."

"Ah yes, the Piglings or the Brutes as you said, are you sure you don't want to tell me how to make a portal there in exchange for a better room?"

I looked hesitant at the Mad Scientist who clearly was hungry for more knowledge, and my body was getting sore from sitting in the same position for days.

"I don't need another room to live in, instead let my limbs move a little since I can feel my body getting sick."

"Only this? You've been a good prisoner while you stayed here so I'll grant your request."

After he said that he called four vexes to hold me down while he broke the chains from the wall and placed another piece of chain that magically merged with the other ones.

I tried to move around and try to escape but my arms were too weak from lack of movement and the floating ghosts were surprisingly strong.

Soon my chains were longer and I could lift my torso but couldn't stand on my feet, since the chains were not long enough.

"Finally I can feel my blood running through my veins, you're pretty brutal with your prisoners just so you know."

"Glad to see you enjoying the upgrades, so how do I open the portal to the Nether?"

I did a few exercises to feel my limbs once again even though I couldn't do much. But Solomon was patiently waiting for my response.

"I'm going to open a portal in front of you, as long as you bring me to Violet to see if she's ok."

Solomon's eyes started to narrow in displeasure at my request.

"I don't trust you enough to let you out of those chains. Request for something more reasonable or you won't get anything at all."

How rude, why would it be unreasonable to see my friend that you're threatening me with?

"What if you brought her here instead? I'm sure you can put her to sleep and carry her here for me to see that she's unharmed."

The man looked at me with suspicion but accepted the deal.

"You're lucky that I keep your monster friend constantly asleep otherwise I wouldn't accept this deal."

With that, the man left the room together with his four floating servants leaving me alone to study the cell I was in more closely.

There was nothing here except for a lamp on the ceiling, I looked through my inventory and started to think of a way out, unfortunately without my tools or armor I had limited options to use, so I took a wooden block from my inventory and placed it beside me to lay my back on it.

A few minutes later, the iron door was opened and Solomon together with his floating servants where bringing my friend inside with great effort, since she was quite big and heavy.

They didn't bring her close to me, instead, they placed her based the door and sat down to recuperate their breath.

"Here *huff* she is *huff* now it's time for your part of the deal, and don't you dare make any more requests otherwise I would let my vexes kill her to vent their frustrations."

I looked at the floating vexes who were more than eager to slice my friend with their iron swords, not something plesent to see, so I studied her instead.

She was sitting down, sleeping peacefully with rows of chains all around her body to keep her in place.

She didn't have any injuries, which greatly calmed my conciseness.

"Let's not do anything rush, I made a deal and I intend to keep it."

Then I placed the Crystal that I had with me on my left side beside the wooden block so Solomon couldn't see it that well.

"This is a Crystal, it's a tool placed in the obsidian frame and select the dimension you want to go with, in this case, the Nether."

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Solomon took out his enchanted monocle and looked at the floating crystal with fascination, careful not to get too close to it.

"This is truly something made by my ancestors, those enchantments are so complicated that only they could do something like this. I want to study it more closely in my lab, what tools do I use to get the item dropped?"

"It's best if you use a diamond pickaxe with silk touch on it, and you can only place it on an obsidian block."

He kept nodding his head but his eyes were still on the floating Crystal almost hypnotised.

"You better not lie to me, otherwise your friend would suffer."

Then he took out a diamond pickaxe which I could only assume was mine and got close to the base of the Crystal to break it.

Right as he was beside me, I held the Undying Totem in my hand and closed my eyes preparing for impact.

*BOOM!

A huge explosion came from the broken Crystal, me and the Mad Scientist was designated on the spot, the four vexes were blown away by its blast and Violet was rudely awakened by the damage to the Crystal, but since the wooden block was in the way, it didn't injure her heavily.

Right as I was disintegrated, I felt a warm light similar to when I was first revived around me, and then the small room where I was held captive was suddenly illuminated by a pillar of light.

I could feel the totem in my hand being broken as bones and flesh quickly grew back and I was back to life with strength similar to the God apple.

I quickly got up since the chains were broken and I saw how Solomon went through a similar transformation.

Without giving him time to get used to his new powers, I kicked him down and built a coffin around him with wooden blocks.

He tried to get up, but I kept him down with my feet until I placed a wooden block on top of his head making him unable to get out of the coffin easily.

To make it even harder for him, I placed a bucket of water at his feet and covered his final escape with another block.

Now I was waiting for him to drown, or replace any blocks that he would break.

My heart was beating loudly in my chest, and strength went through my veins and I could feel that I could take on the world.

If this is how I feel, then Solomon must be in the same boat, he will surely try to escape out of the box, so I had to be prepared for anything.

From behind me, I could hear high-pitched cries that caught my attention.

The Vexes seemed to be angry at what I did and took out their sword to attack me.

Just as I was about to start punching them, a huge shadow teleported behind them and with its huge hands grabbed two gray beings and crushed them to death, making the other freeze in shock.

Violet came to the rescue, and she didn't look happy.

"Violet! Glad to see you awake, help me defeat those before Solomon gets out!"

"Hands....off....MY HUMAN!"

And with one last yell she killed the remaining vexes, before looking at me with relief since I didn't have any injuries.

Both of us looked at the box in the corner of the room and saw that a block was slowly being broken.

As expected a minute later it was broken, but I was ready for this so I quickly placed another block in its place to Solomon's displeasure.

Before I placed the block down I managed to see what Solomon was doing, and I didn't like what I saw.

The Mad Scientist was using my diamond tools to break the blocks and my enchanted diamond armor to resist longer underwater.

And because of the helmet, he could stay underwater for hours!

I quickly scanned the room in case there was something I could use.

The iron door was broken from the blast, and on the ground, I saw some splinters from the wooden block, a diamond pickaxe, and a monocle.

I quickly ran to get the monocle and put it on my eye to see what was going on with it.

Suddenly the world turned gray around me, and I could see Violet and me being surrounded by a dark smoke, then I locked towards the Scientist and I could vaguely see his siluate, unfortunately nothing more.

Then I took my diamond pickaxe back and placed down the Ender Chest I had in my inventory.

From there I took a black knockout potion and got back to the struggling man.

Soon the block was broken once again but this time, Solomon quickly placed his exe in the empty space so I couldn't place another block.

But I didn't plan on doing that, instead, I threw the potion at him making his moves very sluggish.

The effects of the Undying Totem were still running through his blood, so the potion didn't manage to fully knock him out, but his movements were slower, and the effects of the potion lasted longer than that of the Totem.

"Give up Solomon, you don't stand a chance against me and Violet, even with what you have! If you surrender now, I promise that I won't kill you."

The man looked at me then at Violet and finally at his inventory.

From there, he took out a bucket of milk and started to drink, making all the effects on him disappear.

"Ok, I surr-"

Before he could finish his, sentence, Violet teleported right beside him and punched him into the side of the head, making him fly and hit the obsidian wall.

"Violet, he was about to surrender!"

I quickly went to check and see if the man was alive, and to my relief he was, just unconscious.

"Well, I kept my promise I guess, plus it's better if he's unconscious for a few hours. Let's go and loot this place!"

After taking my armor off him, and checking his inventory one last time, I left the prison that I was in for a few days and went back through their dark castel and bypassed all the guards with Violet's help.

Soon I was on the floor that held all the labs in the outpost, and I quickly took all the research books and papers that caught my attention.

At one point I didn't have enough space in my inventory or the double chest that Violet was carrying, so I had to improvise and make a bag with the cow leather and carry the rest of the books that way.

After one final check, I took out my Flint and Steel and burned everything that was wood and quickly run back to the underground prison.

There, Solomon was still unconscious, so I tied him up with the chains from the other cells and placed him on top of the chest that Violet was carrying.

"I know you don't like him for what he did, but we still need to get all the information out of him, after that, you can kill or torture him all you like."

I only got a low grunt from her which was enough for me.

Then I took out the Flint and Steal one more time and use its last durability to open a portal in the middle of prison.

The irony of how many times I had to escape through another dimension didn't escape me.

On the other side of the portal there was a safe space for me to start our journey home, so I passed the obsidian frame and took out my loaded crossbow and shoot the portal.

*BOOM!

The space started to tear itself apart and the connection between the two worlds was broken.

I took out an enchanted compass, and followed the way it guided me.

"Violet, let's go home, I really need some sleep."

And an aproving growl soon followed, as Violet followed me back home.