POV: Merry Paper

The maze was a success, I would even say that it was doing too good.

Unfortunately, I think it's going to be the only one, and I don't want to think about the costs that went into this.

The traps were amazing, done by the best people in the Coral Kindom, and a big portion of them were made by Steve and Alex.

They somehow managed to combine redstone with Enchanting, which was unheard of!

The layout wasn't that complicated, but the enchantment was, even though its job was to detect monsters through the obsidian walls and send a signal to the dispensers on top.

Daniel also came up with a crazy idea, of making ballistas.

The arrows were made with iron, and 2 explosives on the side that exploded on impact.

They were very effective at keeping the Creeper Lord from jumping over the maze.

Because of that, he wasted most of his time in the maze, and when the final battle started, he was in a rush.

Of course, the monster was still too powerful for the common soldiers to kill. That's why we planed on killing him with the iron arrows.

Unfortunately, he quickly realized the plan and destroyed the towers with the ballistas, making our soldier's job much harder.

That was the moment when we sent the iron squad.

The Monster tried to jump over the iron golems and run to the base, only to be stopped by me.

I was the final boss, and he won't be passing me any time soon.

Before he entered the clearing, I activated my tattoos, which gave me double the strength, and once that was done, I drank a potion that doubled my strength and speed.

This was the reason I could punch the Monster Lord into the ground.

Unfortunately, I didn't expect the Shadow Lord to be here as well.

Every time I tried to get close to him, he jumped away while throwing explosions at me.

I now understood why Trader was so reckless when fighting.

This armor made me invincible!

But the Shadow Lord knew that as well, and always attacked the opening of my face, which made me retreat.

It was such a frustrating feeling, to be so strong yet not able to use it properly.

But the process was almost done, and the Monsters felt it too, making the Creeper Lord take a desperate act and jump towards the base.

As soon as he came close to the blue line, explosives were blown, sending a Netherite arrow at unbelievable speeds through a teleporter that brought the projectile into the Monster Lord and made a huge hole in the obsidian floor.

Half a second later, another arrow came, not far from the first one, making another hole.

This was to make sure that the enemy was hit if he somehow dodged the first one.

The 'Last Stand' was the pinnacle of humanity's ingenuity, and we were all proud of it.

Now the problem was that the Fortress was too good, and even the Mad Prince was impressed by it.

It would be a diplomatic war over who owns this place once this is over.

The Creeper Lord was now sitting in the hole made by the Death Arrow.

Unfortunately, I didn't know if he was dead for sure or if we got the Shadow Lord at all.

I was ready to drop some TNT blocks to finish the job, when I heard something breaking like glass above my head.

Confused I turned around, only to see space ripped itself apart, and a huge creature flew from it while screeching in pain.

What was happening?!

Did Alex and Steve succeed, or is this because they failed?

I didn't know what was happening, and when I looked closer at the tear in space, I recognized that it led to the Nether.

"Wha-"

KKKYYYAAAAAAA!!!!

I couldn't even express my confusion as another scream interrupted on me.

Out of nowhere it became night, and from the huge flying creature, came blue bats that glided towards the soldiers on the battlefield while screaming.

"She's on her last breath! Kill her with the Death Arrow!"

A voice yelled from the other side of the tear, which I recognized to be the Mad Prince.

Dots connected into my head, and realized that this was Lady Phantom, who was supposed to be stuck in the Nether.

Why was she here, why did it suddenly get dark, and what were we supposed to do in this situation?

The Death Arrow couldn't be used for another 4 minutes since it needed to be repaired, and everyone was so distracted with the new Monster Lady that they completely forgot the ones we already had.

I had a decision to make.

Do I go inside and protect Alex and Steve or join the rest of the soldiers to deal with the Monster Lady?

"I'll trust Omar and the others inside to protect the 2. I'll join the big fight."

With one final look at the temple, and then at a hole.

I decided to drop a few more TNTs before taking out my sword and crossbow to kill those phantoms.

Everyone was quite confused at what was happening, but slowly, they realized that the enemy was quite weak, they could barely feel a thing, and the only reason they were afraid was because of the darkness and unknown.

Slowly but surely, the soldiers began to fight back and even gain ground.

The enemy was weak, there was no reason to fear them since the only danger was the Phantom Lady, who was gliding high in the sky.

*Boom!

*Boom!

*Boom!

Explosions were heard throughout the battlefield, and they didn't belong to us.

Who dared to betray us?

I turned around, only to see a green figure quickly pass me.

"Ignore them, jump towards the Phantom!"

I also heard Shadow Lord's voice, but it was much weaker than before.

It looks like he was the one to protect the green monster from getting killed, how annoying.

While this was a surprise attack, the soldiers already had enough experience to gain the upper hand.

They sent the iron golems as tanks, while they were shooting with fireworks and arrows at him from a safe distance.

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But the Creeper Lord didn't seem interested in joining the fight, instead, he made a huge jump and collided with the Phantom Lady.

Clearly, this wasn't part of the plan, as both of them began to scream at each other while falling down from the sky.

The dark sky began to waver, which gave us more hope that we were winning.

Only to be squashed away as soon as the head of a dragon appeared from the Monster Lords.

Daniel warned us about such an attack, and I didn't intend on sitting to get hit by it.

I began to run out of the blast zone while holding a golden totem in my hand.

But no attack came.

Instead, the head of the black dragon swallowed the Monster Lords, and purple light was emitting from its mouth.

Slowly, the light was getting brighter and brighter, like a second sun was rising.

Once the flash bomb was finished, a new monster appeared. It had 3 heads with long necks, it had blue wings as its front legs, and its back was made of bones.

If I had to give the monster a name, it would be a Three-Headed Wyvern.

Its eyes opened, and let out a loud roar that made me deaf. It spread its wings and flew towards us at unbelievable speeds.

*Boom!

The Wyvern landed on the ground, crushing some poor soldiers to death.

It swung its claws and slashed the soldiers in one smooth motion.

Only the iron golems and soldiers with diamond armor were strong enough to survive its attacks, but not without taking heavy damage.

This turned out to be the worst ending, and the duo didn't finish yet!

How were we supposed to fight this thing?

"Don't despair, keep the monster occupied until the Death Arrow is ready!"

Someone came out of the temple while yelling.

It was Omar, and he also had Netherite armor like me.

But unlike me, he wasn't scared, but ready to fight.

I bit my lips in frustration and analyzed the battlefield once again.

The formation was a mess, nobody knew what to do and concentrated on staying as far as possible from the Monster.

Only the golems were reckless enough to continue fighting, and I was never happier to have them on my side.

The fear was still there, but now I felt that I could manage it better, and I saw something unusual at the Wyvern.

While he had immense strength, his attacks seemed clumsy like a newborn learning how to walk.

This is it!

I ran towards the battle with my axe out and yelled at Omar as I passed him.

"The Monster is not used to its body yet, this is the best time to attack!"

He called something back, but I was already gone and ready to strike the middle head.

*Chop!

The dragon head began to scream in pain and the other one hit me to the side.

"Good,*Cough* if it bleeds, it can be killed."

Then I ate an enchantment golden apple.

The battle continued, and the generals organized the golems to attack, while it was distracted with Omar and me.

We were the only ones that could tank its attacks.

But the Monster wasn't easy to kill, whenever we made a wound, a second later it regenerated, its movements were getting more precise, and the heads were trying to form sentences while using abilities to create more chaos on the battlefield.

The right and left head had the same abilities as the Creeper Lord, and the middle one made the soldiers freeze in fear with one glance.

We were slowly losing the battle.

"When is that cursed arrow ready?"

Like a signal, the 2 Death Arrows aperead and pierced the body and heads of the Wyvern.

Unfortunately, me and Omar were in the blast zone so we were killed as well.

The golden totem broke in my inventory and I was brought back from the dead with super regeneration, and ability to fly.

Omar had the same totem, and both of us flew out of the newly made hole.

While the Wyvern was 10 blocks long, the arrows pierced its chest and heads which should've been enough to kill him.

But to our horror, a claw aperead at the edge of the hole, and the Wyvern was dragging itself back to the surface.

"Ahhh, it feels much better now. The minds are in their own head."

"Oh shut up, it was you who wanted to have control everything in the first place! Shadow Lord would've wanted us to share this body not fight over it!"

"Looks like we won, the humans are terrified of us now."

Each head spoke one after another, before stopping and looking at the temple.

The beam was brighter then before, and it looked like it was about to open a portal in space.

One of the heads made a bite movement, and a huge chunk of the temple suddenly disaperead.

"How is that possible! He's not supposed to destroy Obsidian blocks!"

The other 2 heads laughed and flew towards the now open temple.

"Nooo!!!"

The beam of light opened a portal, and 2 creatures came from the portal.

One looked like a Monster Lord, while the other like a human.

The human took out a hammer, and then light erupted from it, taking the shape of a glowing sword 30 blocks tall.

Everyone stopped in shock at what we saw, even the Wyvern.

The human swong it's sword and the Monster Lords were all cut in half with the ground beneath.

With just one cut, the Monster that would've terrorised the Overworld was now gone.

Who was that?

Was it on our side?

The human and monster disaperead, and I heard a familiar voice near me.

Unfortunately, the voice wasn't there to comfort us.

"EVERYONE LEAVE THIS PLACE, OR YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!"

Trader yelled at everyone who was still confused at what just happened.

Then something else came out of the portal, it was a huge claw around 50 blocks wide, and it crashed into the temple, killing everyone inside.

The light was slolwy diming away.