Part 4: The New Home

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When the sun rose, he packed some food supplies on his pouch, and got out of the Healbloom Field, not before collecting some megacures for the trip.
He started going for the bloodflower tree, and squeezed some bloodflowers into a jar; it may come in handy to bribe any vampires that got on his way.
As he got past the Music Plains, he rested on the canopy of Wise Nature.
☘️ "Greetings young man, it's always nice to see you"
🗣️ "Morning Wise, sorry for what happened last night"
☘️ "Don't worry about it, young man, for scratches come and go, it's not worth getting mad for; anger only causes damage to one's soul"
🗣️ "Thank you Wise, and now is when I need your wisdom the most: I need a new base, the one on the Healbloom Field got spotted"
☘️ "Are you sure you want a new home, instead of fighting for your current one? Its magic inhibition can't be found elsewhere"
🗣️ "I know, but I don't think I have a choice; a vampire tried to kidnap me and will probably try to make an ambush any moment now that she got time to prepare"
☘️ "Very well, you could look for a new one near the bloodflower tree, or maybe next to the Wishing Path"
🗣️ "The bloodflower tree? But that's where vampires like to hang at night! How can that one be a good base?"
☘️ "You see, there's a cave below the bloodflower tree, and it's difficult to even see, let alone enter; but once you get the hang of it, it may become a great hiding spot: who would think to look for you on the one place where they least expect you to be at, close to vampires' base"
🗣️ "I guess that one could work. But before I get there, I'll get some more resources, I'm alredy out of magmaleaves"
☘️ "Very well young man, I wish you the best of luck"

He began his journey by going arround the goblin town in the Music Plains. He saw the door he burned last night, being rebuilt by the goblins. He felt remorse, but it has to be that way; his sanity can't handle more crazy blood moon nights.
He got across the Music Plains, and reached the Titanic Hollow.
He collected some Anti-shrooms there, but just afterwards, a giant butterfly triggered a huge wind with its wings, sending the human flying into a giant grass blade. The sound of his landing adverted a ghost that was nearby, and it got into action. As the human got up, he saw his pouch landed away from him, but before he could reach it, it started to float. This shocked him for a split second before realizing why it was floating. He threw some water at it, which made it stumble its float. He started chasing it, but it floated away, and as he was getting near, it jumped above him, and moved tauntly. It was getting on his nerve.
He saw a multiberry on the ground, ate it, and started sucking in air. This managed to get the ghost out of the pouch.
🗣️ "You guys are so annoying, get a life"
The ghost just laughed and left.
The human continued his journey, and finally got to the Flame Canyon. As he started descending, he saw a lot of destruction at the gates of the orc's ravine. He remembered what the vampires with the zombie army had planned when he was hiding.
He still had to sneak his way in, as now more than ever, the orcs would be even more territorial, given their ravine's state. He went from boulder to boulder, evading the orc guards' eyesights, and finally made it inside. The once marvelous minecart system was in ruins, and most magmabushes were left on their sticks, with no magmaleaves for the human to collect. But one bush was kept clear. One the human discovered on previous sneak-ins, behind some rocks, out of the mine's sight. He grabbed several magmaleaves with extreme care, and got out of the canyon.
He went back to the Titanic Hollow and picked up some multiberries, before finally going back to the bloodflower tree.

At last, there he was. Foot of the bloodflower tree. It was a specially sunny noon; he should be safe from any vampires that may want to eat bloodflowers. Not like there were any to eat, as it wasn't the season yet.
He went looking for the cave Wise Nature told him, and even tho it was very hard to find, eventually he noticed how the dark spot between the tree's roots weren't of dirt, but of darkness; the cave's entrance was there. He dived in, and rolled into a small cave, big enough for him to store resources and make a bed. He took a stick from his pouch and crushed a magmaleaf on it, illuminating the cave. He placed the torch in the ground and got out of the cave to find cottonvines. As he got some, he started knitting them into a blanket, as well as 3 cloths; cottonvine cloths are watertight, so their uses are diverse.
He then picked up some logs from fallen trees and went back to the cave. He carved the logs into planks using a flint rock he had, and made a suspended bed with the planks and the blanket. At last, he planted the songflower he had into the ground, hoping no more crazy nights would devoid him of sleep.
Only thing left to worry about was food.

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