Curing mike

Tump* Tump* Tump*

With skillful moves, the clones placed cobblestones on the ground and jumped on them, then jumped and placed cobblestones below, soon building a pillar and reaching the ceiling.

Dink* Dink* Dink*

Completely different from the video game, the Blazes began to hit the walls with the magma rods that surround them, in a few seconds the wall was destroyed leaving the cobblestones floating centimeters from the ground, when they entered they could only see 5 pillars that connected the ground and the floor ceiling.

The clones had chipped through the ceiling very easily and now they were running full speed across the Nether brick roof of the fortress, they jumped into the outer corridor they entered earlier and ran without looking back.

They only focused on what was necessary for the alchemy, they didn't waste time looting the chests since they could do it another time.

"Huh..."

Hearing heavy breathing, the clones looked back only to find countless Blazes piling up in the hallway and chasing after them with murderous intent.

To avoid being followed the clones stopped, in an instant they built a wall with 3 layers of cobblestones that stretched the width of the corridor.

Dink* Dink*

With the sound of metal colliding, the Blazes hit this wall, easily destroying it, but contrary to their expectations, when they broke through the wall, those strange creatures had disappeared.

"Huh..."

Dink* Dink*

With a heavy breath, the magma rods around the Blazes whirled violently as if they were angry, those creatures just came, killed their companions, invaded the fortress for no apparent reason, and then ran like a dog with its tail between its legs.

The clones had broken through the wall at the end of the corridor and covered it again, inside the place of about 50 square meters there were 3 people looking at the clones that entered, a man in a blue t-shirt and jeans, a young man covered in black clothes like a murderer and a terrifying creature with black muscles.

"It's done?"

Mike and Zac were stunned, they had seen the strength of the monsters and there were a lot of them, they were willing to have an intense battle when the clones lost, they didn't expect it to be so easy for them to do so.

"We already have everything, let's get out of here."

Har did not doubt the success of the plan, he knew that the clones would not return unless they had completed everything.

Har and his group left the Nether without bothering to explore more than necessary, they would meet a lot of monsters on the way but they are all Runners here.

The monsters at most have a speed of 10km/h, even Zac as D rank can easily avoid them.

At a speed above all the monsters they followed the cobblestone path they had left earlier, only the clones stopping once to chop luminous stone and grab a few brown mushrooms.

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"Finally back..hah..."

Returning to the family room, Mike and Zac felt a great weight lifted from their shoulders, they breathed a sigh of relief and seemed to have fought a great war.

Who would believe them that they went to hell in their lives, even as Runners had never been in that situation before.

The clones built a bridge and knocked on the door, soon a clone came and opened the room.

"Let's not waste time, follow me."

Mike and Zaz were directed by Har to a new room on the base, which had been set up exclusively for alchemy.

'Oh, how interesting.'

'I didn't find these kinds of buildings when I first entered.'

It is a room 20 meters long and 15 meters wide, it has two entrances separated by a waterfall that falls from the ceiling to a 2×2 square, the walls have two lines of slabs on which chests and torches have been placed, the wall at the end of the room it forms the face of a Creeper and in front of it are two raised spaces to place something.

After the clones gave him the Har materials, with 3 stones and a Blaze rod he managed to make a potions stand on the workbench, also put a Blaze rod to powder.

Under the expectation of Mike and Zac, he placed a potion stand in one of the spaces in front of the Creeper's face, by concentrating he was able to activate it and a new holographic window appeared in front of him.

'My ticket to be unstoppable on the next floors.'

Har looked at this with a bit of excitement, if he carried potions in battle he wouldn't have opponents in the same range.

The window had a space on the left connected to a power bar, on the right were 4 spaces, one at the top and three at the bottom, both sides separated by a downward pointing arrow.

Without thinking too much about it, he placed two Blaze powders on the left to be used as fuel, placed a nether wart on the top right and used water bottles, which were fished by the clones earlier, to put them in the bottom three spaces.

Immediately a blast of Blaze was consumed and the energy bar filled up, at the same time the arrow on the right started to fill up with gold from the top.

For show, Har pulled out the supposed origins book and glanced at several pages with concentration.

'He looks like a real sorcerer.'

'He won't become an alchemy madman right?'

Mike and Zac saw this and didn't dare make a sound, afraid to take Har out of his concentration and interfere with whatever he's doing.

They looked at the strange thing with three bottles in front of Har that suddenly began to emit black smoke, they didn't know what this was but they thought that he had to do with Mike's healing.

After a few seconds, when the arrow was completely illuminated in gold, the underworld wart disappeared from Har's sight and the simple water bottles were renamed "rare potion".

Without giving it too much thought Har put a Ghast Tear on top and let the arrow fully light up, as he did this the clones went to the dungeon that had a cave spider spawn cube.

They removed the coating that prevented the spiders from spawning, with the quick movement of a small spider into the cube and a small explosion of flames, two cave spiders spawned in front of them.

Kyeeeh*

Before attacking them they covered the spider generator again to prevent more generations.

On the surface, two clones of Har took sugarcane from a river not far from the base, dug up the sand to make glass later.

Returning to Har in the alchemy room, the arrow was fully illuminated again, the energy bar on the left had been reduced, and the vials of rare potion had been renamed "Regeneration Potion I".

Mike and Zac could see from the back of the room that the three vials of water had changed color to a purple liquid, but Har didn't stop there, he placed one of the glowstone powders that the clones minced from the underworld and turned these into three flasks in "Potion of Regeneration II".

Under Mike and Zac's daze, the clones came back with bug eyes and fermented it with sugar and mushrooms, handed it to Har along with a vial of water and left the alchemy room.

Har put the fermented spider eye on the top right and 3 flasks with water on the bottom, he soon got the weakness potion and Mike's healing was about to come.

"It's ready, these are the potions needed to return you to normal."

Har took out a vial of each potion and handed them over to Mike, he hadn't turned the weakness potion into a throwable potion as Mike can take it himself.

"This, is that all?"

Mike looked at the two potions in his hand, a vial with a purple liquid and another strange-looking one with a grayish color. It was absolutely disgusting to drink that but he didn't care, he even thought taking these two potions was less than he imagined.

"Is the cure worse for you than the disease?"

Zac to the side noticed Mike's expression and sneered a bit, yet he too was surprised by these two potions.

"It's not just that, one more thing is missing."

At that moment one of Har's clones walked in and handed a golden apple to Mike, they had spent 8 gold bars to cover this apple, ie they just lost 80,000 TP on this little thing.

"What do I do now?"

Mike put the potions in his inventory and took the golden apple, he didn't know the exact procedure so he asked Har for instructions.

Under his explanations, Mike drank the disgusting potion of weakness, a strange feeling invaded his body and he began to emanate purple smoke.

"The potion must have weakened the zombie cells in your body, fighting poison with poison is one of humanity's best methods."

After that Mike ate the strangely textured golden apple, a bitter taste invaded his palate but he swallowed it without thinking. The zombie cells gradually died and new cells were born at an incredible speed, Mike's body began to show changes and fell into the ground convulsing.

"Eeeh, did something go wrong?"

Zac got scared by this situation and looked at Har to the side, he was a bit surprised but it was normal for the zombie villagers to shake during his transformation.

As a precaution for possible unexpected problems, Har gave Mike a Regeneration Potion II to drink.

After calming Zac down by saying that this outcome was detailed in the book of origins, they both watched Mike convulse for a full minute.

In the process, Mike's muscles returned to their original color, surprisingly his foot began to grow from the bones, upon completion, Mike's entire body had been restored as if he had never turned into a Zombie.

End of the chapter