My body felt amazing as I flew. Below me stretched what I remembered as an incredibly beautiful plain, since the terrain of this entire place was perfectly symmetrical. It was something incredible. I'm sure even Vegetta would enjoy being in a place like this.
I looked to the side and noticed a much denser forest.
"I should start collecting stuff. Apparently in this Minecraft I'm in survival and creative at the same time. At least I won't get bored too quickly," I said as I descended and looked at my first… well, second block mined in this world. The most important thing to advance in my adventure.
"A wood block… oh yeah, hell yes," I said as I threw a punch.
When I hit it, the block broke into a perfect cube, leaving the tree floating with absolutely no logic.
But as a great sage once said…
"I won't question it," I thought while planning my next move.
"Inventory."
The inventory appeared in front of me, showing something strange: the creative and survival areas at the same time. Weird, but fascinating. I couldn't complain much—it was my first time dying… or at least I hoped so.
I quickly went to the building section, and what I saw made me smile.
The wood block appeared next to the dirt block I had mined earlier without even noticing.
I mentally clicked it, and the wood block appeared in my right hand.
"Is it infinite too?" I wondered curiously as I placed it on the ground.
When I placed it, I realized the obvious: it was clearly infinite as well.
I opened the normal Minecraft inventory. I noticed my character there: a white-eyed being in a static pose. On one side—or rather both sides—there were defined slots. On one, four vertical spaces for armor. On the other, the most important thing in Minecraft: the classic crafting grid.
"Will it get consumed if I put it here?" I wondered while placing the wood block and seeing how it produced four planks.
When I mentally clicked them, I noticed something.
"This one isn't…" I thought, confused.
Although it would practically be infinite since the wood block was infinite. I kept placing more blocks, noticing that instead of stopping at 64, the number kept rising—68, 128… and so on until I got tired of clicking.
Apparently, it wasn't as simple as I thought.
I lay down on the grass while thinking.
"So it's like having infinity and at the same time not. Having everything and nothing," I thought with curiosity. This personal mode I had was strange. I didn't know if it was unique to me or just an advantage of arriving in this world.
But I didn't care. That just meant more work.
And as the next great worker—and future owner of a legendary arm—I'd have to work differently from the rest.
I stood up, ready to begin the most important thing in this world.
I placed four planks in the crafting grid, which by intuition formed a crafting table.
When it appeared in my hand, I noticed it was stackable too, so just in case I made a lot of them.
When I reached 128, I placed one on the ground.
By instinct I said:
"Crafting table."
When I said it, another window opened in front of me, showing multiple options with what I could craft.
Which was basically just wood… but hey.
I realized this version only showed what I could craft with materials I already had, so I made a mental note to remember most of the game's recipes.
Obviously, the first thing I crafted was all the wooden tools.
First sticks. Lots of sticks.
Then the rest.
The tools didn't stack like other items.
"I've always wanted to know what it feels like to dig like in Minecraft," I said while looking at a nearby cave.
But suddenly, a sound echoed.
A strong twist in my stomach made the one now known as Herobrine blink in confusion.
I looked down.
Apparently… I was hungry.
Weird. I didn't even know I could feel hunger.
But I didn't care much. I assumed it was essential for any living being… even someone like me.
I looked around, trying to find a pig or something similar.
And what I saw made me smile.
"Piggy, piggy…" I said while flying toward the pig.
The pig simply stared at me with a blank expression.
I didn't give it a chance.
I quickly summoned the bow I had copied earlier from the skeleton—who I should visit later once I finished my work.
I pulled the string to the maximum and aimed at its head.
I fired.
The pig didn't suffer. Its body disintegrated into particles and two objects floated in the air.
"Works for me," I said.
A pig spawn egg.
And pork.
"Very good. Double reward," I said as my hand absorbed both items.
I checked my inventory. Everything was stored correctly.
I wanted to test part of my theory, but first I had to cook the meat. No way in hell I was eating it raw when there were so many ways to prepare it.
Dusting off my hands and now having a practically unlimited food source, I began flying again while searching for a cave.
I tried to remember where I had come from, since apparently I didn't have coordinates.
I even tried saying:
"Coordinates.""Enable coordinates.""Dox myself.""Jarvis, activate coordinates."
As expected…
Nothing worked.
So I did something smarter.
The most basic thing in Minecraft.
I built tall wooden markers every certain distance so I wouldn't get lost like an idiot.
Eventually I found a cave.
It looked small, but hey—never judge a book by its cover.
I marked the entrance with a rough structure and entered the cave with wood and a promising future.
Without knowing that the strange structure I had found earlier had already caught someone's attention… or maybe several.
But back to the real topic.
Inside the cave, I tested something.
Could I obtain materials without the correct tools?
I touched the stone wall and broke it with my hand.
"As I thought," I said.
No block dropped.
So certain materials required the correct tools.
I took out my pickaxe and mined the stone.
This time I got the material.
Then I found andesite and gravel, which I mined as well.
"I want to build the Vegetta planet," I said.
Finally I found something I had been searching for.
"Coal…" I whispered with comedic tears.
I had spent two hours in that cave and found nothing.
My first ore.
I even caressed the block.
Suddenly, a zombie crawled out from a crack in the wall.
We both stared at each other.
…
…
…
The zombie slowly crawled back into the crack and disappeared into the darkness.
I stayed there like an idiot watching it leave.
"How embarrassing…" I muttered while resting my forehead on the coal.
The caves here were very different from Minecraft.
Very different.
Sometimes I had to crawl through tiny spaces, leaving blocks behind to mark the path.
And yes—there were worms. Strange creatures not from Minecraft.
I tried collecting them too.
But apparently I could only obtain things from base Minecraft.
So yes… I had limits.
Then I saw a mutant spider.
I wouldn't attack it unless it attacked me.
The spider stared at me.
…
I stared back like: what do you want?
Then it noticed the stone sword in my inventory.
And jumped at me.
"What the hell?" I said while dodging.
The spider shot webs like freaking Spider-Man.
"What?" I said while cutting the web with my sword.
This definitely wasn't in Minecraft.
The spider looked at me like I had killed its entire family.
So I had no choice.
When it jumped again, I dodged and stabbed it in the head with my sword.
It turned into ashes.
A spider spawn egg and spider eye floated in the air.
I grabbed both.
Every item added to my collection… and my future Roman empire.
"Or… what was I doing again?" I murmured.
Then I saw the coal again.
"Oh right."
My pupil-less eyes were the only thing lighting the cave, and I didn't want to rely on that.
I mined the coal.
I could convert it into blocks—but they weren't infinite.
Still…
"But hey, infinite torches," I said confidently.
I placed one on the ground.
The cave lit up.
"Now I can explore better… although…"
I stared at the torch.
"Does it follow physics?"
And that, young ones, is how someone spends five hours sitting like an idiot staring at a torch that refuses to burn out.
The worst part?
I started hallucinating that it was dimming.
Even the zombie from earlier came back to stare at it.
"What are you looking at, wey?" I asked.
The zombie just stared with its green, slightly rotten face. Its jaw looked a bit crooked.
It barely had eyes.
Kind of like me… except I at least had them, just without pupils.
"Hey… can you see me?" I asked.
It kept staring like: do you think I'm going to answer you?
I sighed.
"Watch the torch for me. I'll be back in a few hours."
I patted its shoulder and left.
The zombie stood there for a while.
Then started walking around the torch.
Meanwhile, I went off toward the next objective every Minecraft player eventually seeks:
Iron armor.
Another perspective
"Hm? This project is still active?" said a tall white figure while staring at a screen.
"I didn't expect this to still be running… should I go check it?"
A large hand rested on their chin.
"Why bother? As long as it doesn't draw my attention, it's not worth it."
They looked at another white figure standing still like a statue.
"I'll have to use you, my dear subordinate."
"Notify the selected individuals who once participated in this mission that Planet Cube-X23FM is active again."
The figure looked upward.
"I don't know why I even say it out loud… you already know, don't you?"
They sighed.
"Whatever. I'll just control you."
The subordinate's body twisted slightly before being sealed inside a bubble.
"How perfect do I have to be for this empire…?" the subordinate murmured faintly.
"If only I had controlled that little one before she threw her tantrum…" the tall figure said while shaking their head.
"But it doesn't matter. If this project is still active… maybe I won't need that little one anymore."
They smiled.
"I hope you're well… you carry the essence of three powerful ones."
They paused.
"Though mine alone would have been more than enough."
And Herobrine had no idea what he had stepped into in this world full of mysteries.
End of Chapter 2