Council of the Heir

Chapter Nineteen - minecraft speedrun

Valor looked at his hands, then up at the tree in front of them.

"I don't see how punching this is going to help us," he said.

"Well, it doesn't work like in real life. I mean, your world." Lydia reached out and knocked twice on the center block of wood, and a small crack appeared in the center of it. "You can break it with your hands. Just don't hit it too hard, I don't know if that's smart."

"Oh." Valor shifted around the tree to another one, hesitantly copying her movements. After a moment, the block broke, and a tiny block of wood flew into his hand. "What now?"

"Now, break the rest of the tree, because leaving trees floating is a crime."

"Right." Valor began to break the block closest to the ground, a frown on his face. "...is this your world?" Lydia muffled a choked laugh.

"Uh, no." She cleared her throat. "No, but I'm familiar with it. The rules of my world are fairly similar to yours, with, like, less magic stuff."

"Oh." Valor fell quiet again, and Lydia watched as Herobrine circled the tree in curiosity.

"How so are you familiar with it?" He asked after a moment. "Is this another story you've written?"

"No, it's, ah..." Lydia hesitated, pondering how best to explain the concept of video games. "It's like... a simulated world that one can access through a computer. I really don't know how to explain it better than that without being able to show you, so don't ask."

"Ah." Herobrine pondered this for a moment. "It seems that your world is considerably more advanced than ours."

"At this point in time, maybe," Lydia agreed as she dug up the last block of her tree. "I'm sure your world will develop more over the next few centuries... huh." Now she wondered if Blood Bound existed in the same universe as one of her other fics.

"Alright," she said decisively. "Now I have to break this down. Ah..." Valor was beginning to break the leaves. "You don't have to do that. Once the trunk is gone, the leaves will begin to break on their own."

"Oh." Valor stopped, craning his neck to look up at the blocks of green. "How do they float?"

"Most blocks aren't affected by gravity. Only certain blocks, like sand or gravel." Lydia took one of the log blocks, frowned at it, then gave it a small knock. It split into planks. "Boo-yah."

"What are you doing?" Valor peered over her shoulder as she squatted down and arranged the planks in a square on the ground.

"Making..." she papped the blocks with her palm. Nothing happened. "Hm. Trying to craft something."

"Craft?" Valor echoed, clearly very confused.

"Valor, let her work," Herobrine prodded gently. Valor nodded and fell silent, letting Lydia make several different attempts to craft a simple crafting table.

It took her about ten minutes to work out how to craft- with her hands, that meant pressing the planks together in a square. It was a few minutes longer before she figured out how to place it, which consisted of basically throwing it hard on the ground. Crafting on the crafting table was quite a bit easier to figure out- all she had to do was arrange the crafting materials in the appropriate squares and tap the table for it to craft.

"You know," she said as she lifted a wooden pickaxe off the table. "You have a pickaxe." Valor reached up to where the diamond pickaxe was strapped to his back.

"So I do."

"I feel like that'll probably work here?" She went on. Valor shrugged, but drew it from its harness.