Since he was going to challenge a boss, he had to choose a good location.
It wouldn't be good if it flew around and damaged chunks or if the drops fell into the void.
Wherever the rails reached, the chunks were there.
With the chunks expanded to this size, finding a suitable spot wasn't hard.
On the way, Galen Yu stopped by to check the Nether Portal.
It was just as he expected. The zombies were lured away by the Profiteers, and even if any managed to cross the tracks, they ended up inside the Nether.
The few that wandered onto the Sky Island were a tiny minority, easily dispatched by the Guard Villagers.
At this stage, they didn't pose much of a threat.
What surprised him was the situation near the Nether Portal.
"Where did these Iron Golems and iron ingots come from?"
Near a specific Nether Portal, Galen Yu looked at the Iron Golem before him.
He stood face-to-face with its red eyes, their gazes meeting.
Since the last Iron Golem died in battle, he hadn't really made any more.
With the Giant Guardians and the Architect, there wasn't much need for Iron Golems for protection; he had only made one or two for insurance.
But where did this one come from?
Judging by the drops on the ground, there was more than one.
He was certain the ones he built were at home, so he looked into the Nether Portal.
Suddenly, Galen Yu realized.
Villagers!
Depending on the version, the specifics of Iron Golem spawning varied slightly, but they always involved a few factors.
Villagers, a village, beds, and solid blocks.
Most of the area was covered in rails, but to test the Nether Portal, he had removed a few rails days ago, meeting the spawning conditions.
Villagers frightened by monster zombies would attempt to summon an Iron Golem, and at night, the number of Crisis Zombies was massive.
Being in a constant state of panic almost guaranteed an Iron Golem would spawn.
In other words, besides the Villager Lure, he had inadvertently created an iron farm?
And he didn't even have to worry about collection.
A Copper Golem ignored the rails and slowly walked over from the Sky Island.
Upon reaching the spot, it looked at Galen Yu, then at the Iron Golem, and finally at the iron ingots on the ground.
One of the added effects of the Great Wall of China was that Copper Golems could be trained.
They could learn to attack, and the prerequisite training was picking up drops.
Otherwise, it wouldn't even pick up a dropped sword, making it an unfit warrior.
Once it picked up an iron ingot, the Copper Golem's base code was triggered, causing it to place similar items into the same chest.
He watched the Copper Golem running back and forth within the chunk, automatically collecting iron ingots.
"A fully automatic iron farm!"
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry at making this by accident.
It seemed he could make a few more Copper Golems in the future.
With the iron farm, the Sky Island might lack anything else, but it was unlikely to lack iron.
Add to that the high-efficiency Creeper Farm, and his firepower was set.
The audience noticed this as well.
"Where did that Iron Golem come from?"
"It's so far away; it doesn't look like it spawned with the blocks."
"There's so much iron on the ground! I've never seen that before!"
"Could God Yu have come up with some high-tech thing we don't understand again?"
"I still haven't learned the Redstone devices from a few days ago. I don't get it, I really don't!"
If Galen Yu could see the bullet chat, he would have surely chuckled.
Even with his experience, he had almost missed it; it was natural for others to be confused.
"Beacons need iron to upgrade, so this is a perfect supplement!"
Reaching a suitable spot, he placed the Soul Sand and Wither Skeleton Skulls.
He had found these in the Nether earlier and had kept them at home unused.
In vanilla, Beacons provided attribute buffs in a fixed area, but he wondered what they would become in this block world.
Would they be stronger, or offer other benefits?
He was quite looking forward to it.
Right in the middle of his task, a notification suddenly rang out.
[THE PLAYER FROM INDUS KINGDOM HAS DIED. THE PENALTY WILL ARRIVE IN THIRTY SECONDS!]
[PROUD SOULS DESTROYED. FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS, ALL PLAYERS HAVE GAINED TRIAL ACCESS TO SLASHBLADE.]
[UPON COMPLETION, THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST PROGRESS WILL PERMANENTLY RECEIVE THE FULL SLASHBLADE MOD AND TRIGGER A NATIONAL DESTINY REWARD!]
Kapil is dead?
Galen Yu was slightly surprised.
Seeing the rankings change, he knew that most players besides himself had chosen to form an alliance.
He didn't care that he wasn't invited; playing with those people wouldn't have been useful anyway and would only have slowed his pace.
Kapil was a decent player, and with the alliance, Galen Yu thought he'd survive until the end of the crisis.
At least until day forty or fifty, when zombies started placing blocks.
To think he'd die so soon?
'The Proud Souls were destroyed, not dropped. That looks more like Kapil's active choice.'
Noticing the details of the announcement, Galen Yu pondered.
He didn't believe Kapil was kind enough to give away his most precious items before dying.
There was a high probability that some melodramatic plot involving betrayal or schemes had occurred.
Now that the alliance was formed, any player with a brain wouldn't choose to stir up trouble now.
Facing the zombies was the priority, and the alliance surely had protection mechanisms like disabling friendly fire.
To be so obsessed with SlashBlade and still do something so despicable...
"Did the Samurai Nation make their move?"
With a guess in mind, Galen Yu was pleasantly surprised.
When two sides fight, he was the one who benefited?
Galen Yu was all too familiar with SlashBlade. It was an old mod with impressive power.
"Did the Samurai Nation make their move?"
With a guess in mind, Galen Yu was pleasantly surprised.
When two sides fight, he was the one who benefited?
Galen Yu was all too familiar with SlashBlade. It was an old mod with impressive power.
Competing for progress?
Isn't this just a free gift?
Sitting at home while a mod falls from the heavens?
At the same time, he felt a bit fortunate.
It was a good thing that damn alliance didn't invite him. Defending against zombies together sounded good on paper.
But in practice, it was disappointing.
If he had actually joined, there probably wouldn't have been many benefits, just a lot of trouble.
Hearing him guess the culprit in a second, the audience laughed.
"To guess the reason so quickly—is God Yu's deductive ability really that strong?"
"Deductive ability is one thing, but I feel it's more due to the stereotype of the Samurai Nation."
"I didn't believe in that stuff before, but since the Samurai Nation appeared, it's actually true!"
"The world-renowned bastards! I'm dying of laughter!"
"Now that the reason is guessed, can God Yu help avenge our Kapil?"
"SlashBlade is also very powerful. Making it is definitely worth it. God Yu will definitely do it!"
"Don't be so sure. Like the Samurai Nation said, Galen Yu isn't a god. There must be something he doesn't know, right?"
"Hard to say. If he really knew how, he'd have started by now. He's still messing around with who-knows-what."
"If he really figures out SlashBlade, I think it wouldn't be bad if our Indus Kingdom just surrendered..."
Although there had been unpleasantness before, after the stunt pulled by the Samurai Nation...
The Indus Kingdom audience was completely out of options. Some began to consider the issue of surrender.
"Speaking of which, Galen Yu and Kapil haven't even met, right?"
Seeing those comments, Fries laughed.
They haven't even met, yet people are already thinking about surrendering to him.
Part of it was the Samurai Nation's doing, but Galen Yu's personal charm was indeed strong!
"To win without fighting—the ultimate tactic of the Art of War!"
"But Soul Sand and Wither Skeleton Skulls?"
After laughing, Fries was also curious about what Galen Yu was doing.
As he watched, his expression slowly changed.
He thought there would be another ridiculous operation like the Redstone devices or the Nether Portal.
But as the last skull was placed, no device appeared. Instead, a boss health bar appeared.
"He didn't make a SlashBlade or anything else."
"He actually summoned a boss in his own chunk?!"
Most importantly, he looked at the red light on the horizon.
Tonight was a Blood Moon!
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