Both of us somehow got back to Orchid, I noticed the brown stuff on the weird sword is mud and... I dont want to remember what else. I cleaned it to reveal something powerful looking.
It was made from diamonds. It had this aqua color too. It could have cost millions, but I found out its true power, when I accidentally sliced a dummy in half with a weak hit. I kept that sword to this day. Its not the same as I found it, but powerful it still is for sure. On the handle I found writings from a really long time.
One of those zombies, who had it probably never seen its true power. 8 god damn hours of research and translating with Creeper Pal only gave us a clue where to find an other piece of this. The translator chart you can see at (/CLASSIFIED/).
It said something about a swamp with a huge tree, North of the coral reef and warm waters, across 3 rivers, over some forests.
We gathered food, water and other supplies, such as medicine and ropes. We managed to tame wild horses too. Using leather we got from our other tamed animal farms, we made saddles.
Creeper Pal was really uncomfortable on the horse as we walked far from home, crossing the rivers at the dense forests full of beautiful trees. Creeper Pal got off the horse after exiting the forest to set up camp. He had one of his feet sank into the mud, nearly making him drown.
We knew we found the swamp. It had the tree too. It was huge, almost the size of the Big Ben's tower, if not taller than that by 2 times.
We started climbing it, while our horses waited outside the massive swamp. We eventually found a way into the tree, a huge hole, and we also were surprised to find something interesting and that this was not just a mistranslation error made by us.
A crystal with an axe inside. Also a skeleton who tried to pull out the axe, on the floor. It had a bit of clothing, it was some kind of wizard outfit you expect to see in Harry Potter movies. They probably didn't want to give up and starved to death. Maybe he fell from the hole.
I got some rope and made our way into the depths of the hole in the very massive tree. I only landed slightly on my face. I should have taken mountain climbing lessons not going to lie.
First we tried to lift the crystal and pull it out of the hole. Who would have guessed it would be heavier than 2 horses and 2 humans.
Creeper Pal managed to break the crystal, when he sneezed with the rope in his mouth, causing the crystal to swing way too much to the left, inside the tree trunk. The rope snapped from the sudden movement and the crystal fell 12 meters back into the hole. It was shattered to like 6-8 bigger pieces and lots of tiny, grain of sand sized dust.
The axe landed with its sharp edge first, on the floor. It got stuck in it. Who ever designed these, surely knew the magic of forging. Now that the axe was out of the crystal, we took a better look at it.
The axe looked powerful too with the same language on the handle. I picked it up and it sliced through the side of the tree, like one of those 1000 degrees knife versus something videos.
When Creeper hit a pile of dirt with it, a tree, size of a house by the way, grew into his face and managed to get stuck on top of it himself.
We got the axe and got back to the town. We cleared a bit of the forest on our way there. We are wanted to do tests, making sure its not demonic. Instead of a long journey home, it was a few hours. The rivers were no match against us making a small tree bridge, made from a couple logs.
On our way home, I showed Creeper Pal the Cyclops's wreck. Gave him a small tour, since he never seen a ship, specially a oil fueled ship, in his whole life. After that we continued walking home to Orchid.
The axe had many more letters and other symbols. Now it only took 6 hours to translate it and to find the next clue to the next super weapon. It lead us too a deep cave with these old ruins with skeletons everywhere. We spotted it. A rock with the shape of a pickaxe.
By that it was confirmed we were at the right place. The pickaxe was not in there however. Just that pickaxe shaped statue and ruins. We made a few theories that, rubble fell on it and it's under it somewhere. A few symbols said to "break rock to free power of (/CLASSIFIED/) " which is very much could have meant anything. We decided to try to break the statue for more clues.
Quickly, we broke the pickaxe shaped rock with a hammer, then found the powerful "pickaxe of death". I mean thats how we called it after MY DEAR FRIEND, Creeper Pal (no Creeper Pal, don't even try to deny, it wasn't you, I clearly remember you doing that) hit a wall and caused a cave in for half of the ruined temple thing. I lost my right boot as we rushed out.
As usual, back to the village, but now we didn't head back to translate. At that point we clearly understood their language. The same stuff. Read the words, head to a place, get the tool, almost get killed by trying it out. We did this with every magic tool we found.
A compass that was able to show us the right path that made me feel like Jack Sparrow, a map that worked like a Mini map in video games, a torch that never burnt out, a shovel, the pickaxe, the sword, the axe, even a fricking HOE! It planted fruits and vegetables so fast, we didn't need food for the town, for 10 months after 5 hits on the ground.
It was weird. Science just couldn't explain anything that was happening. Magic was playing here. Not the fake magic, magicians used, REAL magic. Using that good 'ol axe we cut and planted trees. We eventually noticed that, these weapons slowly run out of their power then it takes like 4 weeks for them to recharge.
We grabbed all the wood from our "totally safe and fine experimental site" to make our vessel. No one knew what gonna happen after we cross the horizon. Many stayed and were scared to leave their town we built together. They been there for generations? I honestly have no idea how long they been there. Time is very much broken around there.
Ship building was very slow, I think I already mentioned I'm not a ship builder. Once the ship was done, we named it the "Good ol' good enuff".
About 6 people, me and Creeper Pal, got on our shipwreck looking mess, said our goodbyes, then hoped to find my home or at least hoped we get out of here. We sailed away from the island right into a fog. The compass shown us the right way.
We did it. We were on the map. Literally seen the name on the magic map thing say "Atlantic ocean".
I was so happy we drank a bottle of wine, near the coast of Cuba. I heard a buzzing sound. Like an engine. Oh hell it was an engine. A helicopter with a sea/water logo sign on it. The marine stuff company I worked for back then. The logo was a bit scratched off. The company simply didn't look after it by the way the paint looked old and mossy. I noticed someone on it. A familiar face.
How did he find us?
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