"Where is it...should be around he-*bong!"

I had swimming for half an hour already looking for a huge dome-like structure similar to the schematics, but I only found an invisible block that I hit with my head.

"What was that?"

I tried to knock at the invisible block, only to get the sound of a glass block.

"They can't be... they wouldn't be that crazy."

But as I kept knocking around the invisible block, I only saw more and more like a barrier at the bottom of the sea.

"Those crazy people...they made the whole base invisible. How did they do it? How much resources they put into this?"

I could only laugh nervously at the ingenuity of this base, putting everything I knew to shame.

I shook my head to get myself together, there should be an entrance somewhere at the bottom.

And I was right, as I swam along the invisible dome, I saw the entrance of the base hidden as a crack in the earth, and with great precaution, I entered it.

Darkness started to envelop me even when I had night vision, my eyes got heavier and sleepiness was running through my mind, making me realize that something was wrong.

That's when I opened my status window and saw what was happening with me.

I had so many debuffs that I didn't know how I got them in the first place! Weak Blindness, Heavy Mind, Slowness, and Mining Fatigue.

Clearly, the Elder Guardian was somewhere around here where I couldn't see.

But I didn't see its face jump scaring me like in the game.

All of the sudden, I felt a huge presence on my right which instinctively made me use the trident to get away.

So I did, right as I heard a loud metallic snap behind me.

I took out a bottle of milk and brought it to my mouth where there was an air pocket from my armor enchantments, then I spit the cap and drank the milk making all the status effects wash off.

Now I could see what attacked me, and it brought me horror.

It was as tall as Violet and double her in length, it was all made with metal except its eye which brought shivers down my spine when I looked at it.

Its skin was pale white with pulsating red and blue circuits.

Every move felt heavy but its speed was unreal, catching up with me in no time.

I took my shield out, ready to face any attack, but instead of using a beam or crushing me, it opened its hidden mouth reviling the abis guarded by rows of sharp teeth.

It tried to swallow me whole!

I couldn't block that!

So I used the trident to get away, hearing another loud snap behind me.

Without stopping, it turned towards me and swam at great speeds.

This made me realize something, the effects of the armor don't work on it!

I used the trident to go deeper into the crack, which to my luck was faster than the speed of the Elder.

After I arrived at the bottom, I took a speed, strength, and night vision potion to fight the monster.

Just as I finished those, the Elder appeared with its eye glowing red.

I felt chills run down my spine so I placed two obsidian blocks and hid behind them.

The red beam hit my defense with force.

It was a 2x2 beam that was stopped by obsidian, but once it hit the stone floor it made a big explosion pushing me out of the cover.

The Elder swam once again with its mouth open ready to swallow me whole, but this time I would do something different.

I took my trident and launched myself towards the monster, not in its mouth, but at its eye.

The creature closed its mouth and ducked, but not fast enough to get out of my sword range.

I felt my sword contacting its 'skin' only to leave a scratch behind but no blood or circuits were shed.

This was not good, that attack was powered by a Netherite sword with strength and speed.

If I did only this much damage, it would take me an hour to kill it.

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The other guardians would be here by then!

What should I do?

I tried to move around as much as possible, hitting him from time to time, but no idea came to mind.

I built a few obsidian towers where I would hide from its powerful beam when I was a second too late and it managed to bite one of my feet.

The pain was signaled to my brain, but the foot was still in its place protected by the armor and a heart was taken as damage.

That was the first time I took physical damage in this armor, but to my luck, it was still amazing.

The hearth regenerated in no time, and a plan started to form in my mind.

With little hesitation, I took out a God apple and started to eat it, while swimming away from the monster.

With each bite I took power ran through my my body, and once I was done I could feel that I could win this fight.

The Elder seemed to realize the same thing and started to act more aggressively, preparing its laser while trying to swallow me.

Now that was different.

But I didn't run away this time, as his wide mouth was about to bite me I stood on top of its sharp teeth taking minimal damage.

Before it would use more force to bite me, I put the trident in such a way that it would stop it from doing that.

The trident was strong, but I could hear it grown from all the stress it was under.

Good thing the plan didn't stop just there, as I took out my pickaxe and hit the ceiling of its mouth.

Since my sword can't slash this metal, I'll mine into it with my most powerful pickaxe.

And it worked as a hole appeared where I hit and the Elder started to move frantically like it was in pain.

After two more hits, I couldn't hold it anymore and I was 'spit' out without my trident.

That's not good.

That was the only weapon long enough for me to use as a stopper, and now I was seeing how it got broken under the Elder's powerful jaw.

"Well...that's not good."

The Elder turned and hit me with its laser, and since I didn't have the trident with me, I couldn't dodge it, making me experience the attack for the first time.

My flesh was burning and healing at the same time, pain was the only thing I knew at that moment until the attack was over.

The damage was minimal, but the pain was still there, and after that attack, I was in its jaws once again struggling to move under its teeth that were munching on me.

This was death by a thousand needless, my resistance and regeneration could keep up, but I was fighting against a machine, not a living being, so the effect would run out before its battery.

I had to come up with something to get me out of here.

I tried to remember everything I had in my inventory since the space was too cramped for me to see it, and after some quick thinking, I took out a firework.

Unfortunately, the teeth managed to destroy it before I activated it.

I took out my pickaxe and placed it so it couldn't close its mouth fully, but I couldn't move comfortably enough to get out.

So I took out another firework and managed to pull its string making bubbles appear everywhere, and then a bang.

Damage was done to the Elder and me, but I could regenerate while it couldn't.

So I quickly swam out not forgetting to take my pickaxe.

The creature was angry, and another beam was formed and hit me at full force, pushing me further away.

Pain was all I could think of.

While the damage was not a lot, being burned alive and dragged through a floor of knives was not pleasant.

I felt a threat coming from behind, and as a last desperate move to catch some breath, I swam towards the obsidian pliers I built not long ago.

I took a deep breath, placed a crystal on top of it, and punched it with all my might right as the Elder was about to bite again.

The explosion was powerful, and both of us were thrown back taking a lot of damage.

Its face was distorted with a bleeding eye and jaw missing, while my arms were no more and eyes destroyed leaving me in complete darkness.

But there was a distance between us.

I was a living being drugged with the most powerful buffs slowly regenerating back to full health.

While the Elder was a golem with the eye of flesh.

I won.

And my assumption was right, as my vision came back making me able to see the damage done.

With a mad grind, I took out my pickaxe and swam towards the wounded guardian.

It tried to swim away but it was too late.

I kept hitting it with my pickaxe like there was no tomorrow until It completely went still.

I took deep breaths trying to calm my wild heart, but I won, I was alive and it was dead.

I looked around at the destruction that our fight caused and was glad that it was underwater and not in a city, otherwise there would be nothing left behind.

Just as I was about to get back to exploring, darkness slowly crept on me, and my mind was getting heavy.

How could this be possible?!

Was there another Elder Guardian around?

Then I was hit by a red laser pushing me away and burning my skin.

Just as the attack was finished, another laser beam hit me doing further damage and pushing me even further.

There were 2 Elder Guardians?!

I couldn't win this fight, I had to run!

But I had a double debuff on me, and the only reason I wasn't unconscious was because of the God apple.

It's such a shame to waste such a good item but I had no choice, I can't even see my enemies right now, much less fight them.

I took out my second bottle of milk and drank it while trying to swim as far away as I could.

All the effects were gone, and I was surrounded by darkness since I was in a ravine, but I could see two huge shadows getting closer to me from above.

I had no choice but to use one of the dangers potions, even if it had its drawbacks.

I took out another potion and drunk it quickly.

Time seemed to stop in front of me, or more exactly it moved so slow that it seemed to stop.

This was the experimental potion Speed X made by Solomon.

Once I drank this I was 10 times faster for 1 minute but once it was done, I can't move for a whole hour from all the muscles pain.

I couldn't end the fight in 1 minute, and I don't think I can get far enough in the same time, so I was going to make a gamble.

I drank my last Night Vision potion, and contained to run deeper into the darkness.

Finally the revine seemed to stop and show me a huge door made with Netherite blocks.

I don't have enough time to search for the way to open the door, so I took out my pickaxe and broke away the three layers of defense, before blocking them off with obsidian blocks.

I was inside the dome, but instead of a dark ceiling I saw a dome made of glass and I could see the see beyond.

In the middle of the dome was a huge temple just like in the game with a few exceptions.

It had a few towers made with precious ore including netherite, and a huge garden filled with animals that I haven't seen in any world.

Unfortunately, I couldn't enjoy the view, as my time was running low, so I made an obsidian box around me, just as the potion wore off, leaving me to fall on the floor like a pupet without strings.

Pain was all over the body, but it was nothing in comparison to begin burned alive.

So with grate will, I took out a splashing potion and moved my body over to brake it.

At first it cracked, then it broke boosting my regeneration.

This should cut the time to half for my muscles.

That was good, nothing should be able to brake my obsidian box in that time.

As I was starting to relax, I heard a voice in my mind.

Welcome intruder, what do you seek?