8 Clash of Titans (EDITED)

Ender summoned Sleipnir, his ghostly-flaming skeleton horse, and hopped onto the saddle. Sure, he could have used Fenrir as a mount, but there was something undeniably badass about riding an undead, eight-legged nightmare horse.

Plus, Sleipnir was fast.

Very fast.

In mere moments, Ender arrived at Set's Temple—and immediately regretted looking at it.

The architecture was so hideous that it felt like the universe itself was weeping. It was a twisted, poorly built structure, like a corrupt politician's house, except the architect had zero experience and was likely also corrupt.

He narrowed his glowing eyes, scanning the atrocity before him.

"Che. Truly incompetent."

Then, his gaze landed on Set's army of dinosaurs.

And his eyes sparkled if they were not already.

'Damn, imagine if I had my own T-Rex army…'

At that moment, his objective shifted, and he was no longer here to just kill Set; he was here to pillage him.

(Meanwhile, Inside Set's Temple)

Set sat atop his obsidian throne, his seven serpentine heads lazily swaying. He was aware that Gaia's 'lover' was coming after him.

And he did not care.

To his senses, the approaching mortal was nothing special—just an extraordinary human with foreign energy and a decent physique.

"Hah! That's it?" Set sneered, a smug grin stretching across his fanged mouth. His slitted eyes flickered toward Sleipnir.

"Hmm… the horse is amazing, though. I will ride it after I kill that being."

(A/N: Eew!)

He leaned back, deciding to not even bother dealing with the fool himself, like any self-respecting third-rate villain, Set did what third-rate villains do best—

He sent his minions.

The Dinosaurs, massive and bloodthirsty, roared in response, their red eyes glowing, their instincts urging them to kill.

Or at least, they were supposed to.

Because… they hesitated.

Set frowned. "What the—?"

Annoyed, he used his divine will to force them into obedience, their minds bending under his command.

Satisfied, he waved them off. "Go. Kill him. And bring me his corpse."

Then he closed his eyes, fully expecting to wake up to the sight of Herobrine's mangled remains.

(A Few Moments Later…)

"OI SET! ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?! BRING YOUR SCALY ASS OUT HERE, OR ARE YOU STILL GETTING POUNDED BY SOME TITAN?!"

The booming voice shattered the air.

Set's eyes snapped open, and his brows twitched and immediately used his divine senses to check the situation—

And what he saw made his entire being glitch in disbelief.

(Ender-A Few Moments Earlier)

Ender was deep in thought, strategizing how to take Set down.

He considered summoning some Diamond Golems, Giant Zombies, Mutant Bosses, and Wardens to test the Elder God's strength—

But then…

A horde of red-eyed dinosaurs charged at him, radiating pure, bloodthirsty malice, any other sane person would have panicked at the sight of a stampede of prehistoric apex predators.

Ender just raised an eyebrow because he felt the same strange connection he had with hostile Minecraft mobs, and like any reasonable streamer-turned-godlike entity, he did the most natural thing possible.

He raised his hand like a traffic cop.

"STOP."

The dinosaurs froze and their red eyes flickered and turned white.

Ender blinked. "Huh."

He snapped his fingers just to test something.

The dinosaurs sat.

He tilted his head.

The dinosaurs tilted their heads back.

A slow grin spread across his face.

"Noice. Now I have my own dinosaurs."

He turned his glowing gaze toward Set's temple.

"Thanks for the gift, Set."

Silence.

"... "

No response.

Ender smirked. "You forced me to say it."

~~~

(Present)

Set hovered above the battlefield in his humanoid form, a dark aura swirling around him. His multiple eyes gleamed, filled with disdain.

"Mortal (lol), do you think controlling my creations would stop me?" He sneered. "They are merely a fraction of my strength. Very well, it seems I must deal with you myself."

With a casual flick of his wrist, Set summoned a pulsating green orb, its surface shifting like liquid venom, and hurled it at Ender.

But before it could land—

Ender and his mount vanished, reappearing a good distance away, with a sigh, Ender unsummoned Sleipnir and cracked his neck.

"Seriously? Did you actually expect me to stand there and take it? Bitch, please."

His white eyes sparked with lightning, arcs of electricity crackling around him, and a massive lightning bolt thundered down from the sky, aimed directly at Set.

The Elder God didn't bother dodging as a smug smirk curled on his lips. "Vermin, do you truly believe these mere sparks can harm me? I have defeated Toro—"

ZAP!

"AAAAARGH!"

Set screamed like a bitch.

Ender grinned. "I really love overconfident villains."

Not wasting time, he amplified the bolt's power tenfold, adding a Smite effect that made it deadlier than divine retribution. The sheer force of the impact ripped through the sky, causing a shockwave that sent sand and debris flying.

The moment the explosion obscured his vision, Ender didn't wait for the Elder God to re-emerge—

"Poison Ball!"

A massive sickly-orange sphere, the size of a car, shot toward the explosion site, hissing with toxic energy.

"Void Lightning!"

A dark vortex tore open the air, sucking everything toward it as a torrent of crimson lightning bolts rained down, turning the area into an apocalyptic wasteland.

For a moment

There was silence, no screams, no movement.

Ender couldn't help but think, 'Did he… die? Just like that?'

Then—

PAIN.

A searing, burning agony spread through his shoulder, his eyes snapped down to see a green snake, its fangs sunk deep into his flesh, its venom already spreading.

"Oh, hell no."

With zero hesitation, he grabbed the snake's head and crushed it like a soda can, but the poison was still in his system.

Ender's expression remained deadpan as he casually pulled out a bucket of milk from his inventory.

Glug, glug, glug.

Just like that, the venom—capable of killing Elder Gods, was completely nullified.

Set, who had reappeared, looked utterly baffled, one of his many heads was missing, yet he stood there, completely intact.

"You are strong," Set admitted, his voice laced with intrigue. "I will give you that. What is your name?"

Ender smirked, cracking his knuckles, "So it is the introduction part; well, I am Herobrine."

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