The Legend of Dave the Villager 27

***Spoiler warning:** Plot summary will follow.*

The New Nether

## Overview

**The Legend of Dave the Villager 27** is the twenty-seventh book in the series and the seventh book in Season three. In this book, Dave, Carl, Spidroth and other piglins rebel against a piglin leader named the Empress.

## Prologue

Wretch stands on the prow of the ship, looking at the desolate, rainswept island. Herobrine had been in the abundant laboratory for a few hours now. With no sign of his master coming, he decids to take a walk around the ship.

As Wretch walks towards the quarters, he sees a door slightly ajar. Adam listens to the quiet voices coming out. The voices belong to the witches, talking about how they hate Herobrine's son, Enderbrine. They keep worrying about him, and how he might break out of his father's control and devour everyone.

Suddenly, an tall and thin witch called Isabella stands up. She leans down to open an old, dusty ender chest. When she opens it, she takes out a trident and held it up in the air. It is the Trident of Hexaros, which can suck all the powers of any being. They plan to use the trident against Enderbrine. Wretch seriously considers telling his leader about this, but then a voice tells him to save the knowledge for later.

Meanwhile, Herobrine is back. He scanns the eccentric, quiet island very carefully. Suddenly, a Nether portal pops out and zombie pigmen with tusks pour out. The one at the front speaks up first. He tells Herobrine about their Empress and how they are going to capture him. Following that, they hurl potions madly, trying to bring their white-eyed foe down.

In return, Herobrine holds his hand up, communicating with his dragon. In a matter of seconds, nearly every piglin is on the ground, suffering from the fire. Herobrine then takes out an obsidian sword and cuts the remaining zombie pigmen to pieces. Only one remains: a piglin named Conko. Herobrine asks Conko to tell him more about the Empress.

## Plot

Dave, Carl and Spidroth go into the Nether portal. They see that the Nether portal brought them to a valley full of soul sand, and see lots of big fossils around the place. Dave and Carl are confused about how much the Nether has changed, but Spidroth says that the Nether was fast forwarded, and that was how the Nether has changed so much. Then, some skeletons attack. Dave, Carl and Spidroth defeat them and go to another biome, a forest full of red plants.

Dave thinks that the trunks of the red plants look like wood, so he tries collecting the wood. He manages to turn the wood into red planks, and then turn the red planks into wooden tools and other wooden objects. After that, Carl finds a mushroom and eats it. He then learns it does not taste good, and promptly spits it out.

Then, a little pig creature with four legs comes running in. Carl picks up the creature, but then more of the pig creatures come running in, ready to attack them. Carl gets knocked out of his golem suit, leaving him dazed. Spidroth monstermaxes to defeat the pig creatures. She defeats all the creatures, but that leaves her exhausted on the ground. While Dave sees if she is okay, Carl wakes up and sees a piglin climbing into his golem suit. The piglin runs away with the golem suit, and Carl follows him.

Carl catches up to the piglin by holding on to the golem suit's leg. The piglin keeps running with Carl hanging on for dear life. At one point, he jumps over a lava lake but manages to land on the other side. After a while, he stops, and notices Carl for the first time. He introduces himself as Boggo the piglin. Boggo says the Empress is making everyone turn in a few chests of gold and netherite, and with the golem suit, he can mine much faster. Carl is reluctant to give away his suit, but they agree that Boggo can use the golem suit, then give it back.

Meanwhile, Spidroth wakes up. Dave explains that a piglin got into Carl's golem suit and ran away, with Carl running after him. They follow the piglin's tracks, and find a few other piglins. The piglins attempt to slay Dave and Spidroth, but they give them gold, and satisfied, the piglins walk away.

Dave and Spidroth walk around and see a quarry full of piglins being forced to mine gold. They are being supervised by piglins with netherite armor. Dave decides to let the piglins free, so they knock out all the royal guards and free the quarry. They learn more piglins are being forced to dig pits, so they travel to different quarries, and repeat the process.

Meanwhile, Boggo is off mining gold, with Carl sitting on his shoulder. Boggo finds lots of gold, and stuffs it all into the golem suit. The piglin thinks he has enough gold, so they walk back to Boggo's house. Along the way, Boggo finds a zombified piglin. He strikes it, saying zombified piglins are dum-dums, but it backfires when a group of zombified piglins charge and toss the golem suit into the lava, with Boggo and Carl in it. Carl takes control of the golem suit and hangs on to a ledge, but the weight of the gold prevents him from doing so for long. So, he and Boggo get out of the golem suit, causing it to fall into the lava. Boggo and Carl have to dig back up to the surface, and they get back to Boggo's house. Carl asks Boggo if he wants to rebel against the Empress, and Boggo agrees.

Dave and Spidroth have freed a few more quarries, and then they plan to storm the Empress's castle. They encounter a biome that the piglins call the Basalt Deltas. Dave learns about blackstone, which is the Nether equivalent to cobblestone. He and the piglins mine some of the blackstone to make tools, and they continue their journey to the castle.

Along the way, they find a lava river. There are two-legged red creatures walking on the lava, which the piglins call striders. The piglins say that they can ride the striders across the lava and guide them with warped fungus on a stick. Dave is scared of falling into the lava while on his strider, but he makes it to the other side alive. Spidroth and the other piglins also get across the river and continue the walk to the castle.

Meanwhile, Carl and Boggo gather a group of piglins in Boggo's basement. While they talk about the rebellion, some Royal Guards arrive to get Boggo's gold and netherite. Boggo convinces all of the guards to rebel against the Empress, except for one guard named Wriggo. Wriggo is tied up and thrown in Boggo's basement, and Carl, Boggo and the other piglins start going to the castle.

When they get to the castle, Carl, Boggo and the ex-Royal Guards use blocks to get themselves over the wall. However, they get captured by the Empress's gold and netherite golems. Dave, Spidroth and the other piglins are also captured after trying to sneak in by digging underneath the wall. They find out that Porkins and Steve have also been captured.

Dave, Carl, Spidroth, Porkins, Steve and the piglins are brought to the Empress, who is a blaze made of bones and a pig skull. The Empress says to throw them into a lava pit. But, before they get killed, Boggo says that the Empress is a bum bum head. The other Royal Guards join in, chanting, "BUM BUM HEAD! BUM BUM HEAD! EMPRESS IS A BUM BUM HEAD!" The Empress tries to capture everyone with her golems, and Spidroth monstermaxes, even though it has not been long enough since her last monstermax. The golems are defeated, and Carl gets his own netherite golem suit in the battle, but then Steve says that he has filled the castle with TNT and has set the charge. Everyone runs away, and Dave sees Spidroth in her normal form, exhausted. Carl carries Spidroth and Dave, and they run away, just when the castle explodes.

After the castle explodes, Dave goes to check on Spidroth, who is close to dying. Before she turns into a puff of smoke, Spidroth kisses Dave, and dies. However, they see that Spidroth has not died. Instead, she has turned back into a chicken. Spidroth is very angry about that.

Dave, Carl, Spidroth, Porkins and Steve head back to the Overworld, and all the piglins say goodbye to them. They then continue their adventure to the end portal.

## Epilogue

Herobrine comes to the Nether with Wretch and Enderbrine. They see a giant blown up castle, signifying a big battle. Then, they see the head of the Empress, who is still alive, but barely. Herobrine asks her to join, and the Empress says no. Herobrine looks like he is about to kill her, but he instead lets her go, saying that she will eventually join him. Herobrine then builds her a body made of gold and netherite. Then, he, Wretch and Enderbrine leave.