Pixelator's Diary

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* **Censored Swearing (not joke)**
* **Emotional Flashbacks (joke)**

Here on out will be the entries of Pixelator's Diary ever since landing and waking up on Nemract.

## Monday - The Beginning

**CLUNK... KSHH**

*Alright, the pod just launched, here we go, hopefully I land on a good continent, or just not in the middle of the sea. Any continent works!*

### Monday Update I

**BOOM... CLANG**

*The hatch, is it opening? **KSH***

It opened. TARS. I just got out. I looked at the robot TARS but he had just been switched off. Gone for the permanent nap. There was still some power in him, so I rummaged through the pod for any items. *Three moons, where am I? Nemract? Never heard of that before.* I found some of my own gear and quickly packed it into my inventory. I knew it probably wouldn't work as my statistics must've worn down, so I used the emergency compartment and took out a tazerstaff and some shurikens. Designed to not require levels, classes, mastery or attributes such as combat skill points. This tazerstaff is weak and low on power, but I could transfer the remaining power from TARS to the staff. That's exactly what I did and then my tazer staff upgraded to a better form, as if electricity was it's type of EXP, it had more voltage settings and 5 times more possible voltage output than before.

I saw a wall in the distance, surrounding a small base near the ruins of a village. "Huh?" I said. I then looked at my wrist, and saw the watch. I opened the group chat and saw a message from Oli.

Oli:[[Hey, I've woken up.]]

I immediately responded.

Pix:[[Where are you? I'm in the borderlands.]]

Oli:[[Silent Expanse]]

A level 100-110 area. Most of us were at level 90 or so, even if his skills hadn't faded he would barely survive the area. It's no doubt they definitely faded. The silent expanse's timewarp flag makes time move differently, meaning that either it faded slowly or even faster.

Pix:[[Uh... I'll try to meet you at the borders. It has the flags '''Protected, Timewarp, Umbral, Spell Void''' and '''???''']]

Oli:[[Yeah about that. I have no gear and my skills are dying]]

Pix:[[Oli, check your cryogenic escape pod, you might find an emergency item storage chamber with a tazerstaff and some more items that aren't level or skill locked. You can also make the tazerstaff more powerful by harnessing energy from your bluestone golem.]]

Oli:[[Thanks Pixelator, seeya soon.]]

### Monday Update II

I just made contact with Oli. I can't ping his signal yet, but we can still communicate. I'd have to turn on Locations, but first I have to investigate this base. It's seems small and empty. Must be a single person or a duo, possibly at max a trio living here. Maybe I can get some help...

   I didn't know what to make of it.

It was quite simple, but I didn't want to get attacked or ambushed by anyone, so I decided to scout it out with my cloak ability. I was completely invisible, but my items were still 20% visible. I looked around, but the wall looped all the way around. There was almost nothing I could do as there were no hills or mounds that I could stand on nearby to take a look. So I decided to approach it. I heard some breathing behind the door and I disabled my cloak ability and I pushed open the door and dashed inside but quickly hit a wall and I got slashed by something sharp.

### Monday Update III

I looked around and there it was. A villager, with an iron axe. *Did I stumble upon a lumberjack's home? This guy seems pretty young, he must be low level, I can take him, but then again, my statistics, and my weapons, maybe it'll be enough.*

I groaned, it was painful, being slashed. I grip my electro-staff and charge the volts while pointing it at the Villager threateningly and get into a battle stance. "Stand down!" I yelled. "Who are you! And WHY did you ATTACK me?" I looked around and asked. "What even is this place." I proceeded to threaten the Villager again, but I can't remember due to being engulfed in a burning sensation as flames hit me and didn't disappear for a long time, it felt like a few seconds, but something weird happened in the middle of it.

### Monday Update IV

I don't know what happened in that period. I vaguely remember someone calling me, lots of voices. "*My family, my friends...*"

*A deep void. I was trying to figure out where I was and then it felt like I got hit by a truck.*

*It had all come rushing back to me. My time in the real world, I lived in Australia, not in the big cities, but I had lots of friends. I was an average kid. Then I started a new school and planned to go to India but Covid struck. I made lots of good friends, I was smart, I participated in speeches, I was a great kid. I had lots of skills, I could code, I loved reading, playing with friends, speaking in public crowds, well not too great, but I was good enough to actually do it multiple times and be the few or 10% that had the courage. I went to a university, a good one abroad. Made more lifelong friends and I had a job. I found someone I liked. It was a calm life. Then war struck. 2039, 4 years after I got a full time job and met my beloved. I knew the nukes were going to eliminate everything, so my family and I got an underground bunker with lots of supplies. There were crops, and more necessities to survive. We all joined the Aetheria server when the bombs finally struck.*

*My cousins, so close to me as if they were my actual siblings. My parents, my partner, all my friends from school and university. "Hello?" My hand drifted through the memories that flew by. "No... They have to be alive... Please, please just be alive." All of the memories flashing by, from the moment I first gained consciousness as a child, to the moment where I got elected as prep school vice captain, to my graduation, my first job, my first house, the family and friend reunions... all the way to the moment I got everyone to log on with me into the Aetheria servers.*

*"No, no, no. NO! I don't even know where everyone is." I started to tear up and fell to my knees while covering my face with my hands as I cried. "I'm an idiot. I should've just lived my life and last moments with the people I love and the people who were with me through tough times." I stopped as a voice reached out. "But then, you wouldn't have met Oli, Speechy, Formula, Sound or anyone else. And don't worry about people from Earth. You taught them the game in the few months after the war started. They practiced, they must've understood. Everyone is fine, but you can't give up now. You must search the world, all the dimensions if you must." I took my hands off my face. I looked up and saw a divine presence. Maybe something like a god giving me a vision. The last tears flowed out, and I stood up. "Right. I can't stay here much longer. I can't die to the fire. I have to defeat that guy, then I can negotiate terms of peace when he's weak enough to surrender, I don't want to kill anyone."*

### Monday Update V

The fire hits me, I snap back to reality. I've lost health, massively. Around 5 hearts remain, and that's not good at all. I'm still burning and it stops. Smoke covers the area. A gloomy fog. I could make out the villager's outline, and after the smoke began to dissipate I heard a voice. "Raze, what are you doing-" "That's not my name-" I took this moment to attack the villager that slashed at me and quite possibly sent me into another dimension. My health had regenerated a bit, 10 hearts now. I realized why I was so slow, the armor I was wearing. It was quite heavy and uncomfortable to move in but saved my life, regardless I couldn't do much with it on. I took the risk and took it off. I pushed the electro-staff to full voltage as I charge at the villager named Raze. I struck his shoulder and pinned him to the wall while stunning him with the electro-staff's shock. I look to see a human. The one who called the villager raze. I thought he would attack me and quickly threw a shuriken at him to pin him down. It worked. *They're not so resillient, the villager is strong though, and I see potential in them, it needs to be unleashed, maybe I could train them.*

The guy yelled out in pain. "Gah! Ouch!" It was a human. "What was that for?" I responded to them with the reasoning that I wanted to prevent them from attacking and apologized. I took out the shuriken and tried to patch up the wound at that time, as he said "Oh no" followed by "Wait" and I realized the villager had woken up and was ready to attack me. I had turned around swiftly and rushed at him with a shuriken and tried to throw a few punches. It hit him and he was paralyzed at the moment. Oh, I forgot to mention, he was armed with the electro staff so I tried to take it from him and shocked him slightly. I also hit him with my dagger "Deadly Deceit". Only used it once when I killed someone on a covert mission of peacekeeping, but this time it worked well and got Raze or whatever his name was down to the ground.

He surrendered after I noted that he was a singular hit from death. I tossed him a golden apple and tried to tend to his wounds by applying some soothing gel on the shock marks. I asked them what year it was, before looking down at my watch and exclaiming. "2 YEARS?!" I then promised that I would fix their door but told them I was busy, as I needed to find Oli. His ping showed up when I checked how long it had been since the incident of the meteor clashing with our rocket. "Goodbye." I decided to look around for a steed. I found a great horse and tamed him. Called him horsey. I had set off on the journey and packed all the supplies from the cryo-pod into my stallion's saddle bag. There was more than enough space. I had bid farewell to the Villager, named Gravel Stonecube (Gravel), and the Human, named Lucas Redwool (Luke).

## Tuesday - The Silent Expanse

Travelling... Travelling... *ZzzZzz **GAH** STAY AWAKE PIXELATOR, COME ON, ONLY 10,000 BLOCKS UNTIL OLI.*

### Tuesday Update I

This horse was a fast horse. I had stopped at a town and paid for an hour at the Enchantment Table and got swiftness V on the horseshoes and saddle as well as unbreaking IV and Protection VI. They quickly covered the distance of 40,000 blocks or so after travelling non-stop for a whole day and not stopping to rest. I did give the horse a lot of stamina potions and took a few myself to keep us going.

[BIOME DISCOVERED: THE SILENT EXPANSE]

It popped up. Must be where Oli is. Interesting.

I had seen a lot of chaos and Oli had changed direction. It was all coming from where he was.

***NO, NO, NO!*** I thought. I fell back into a lighter version of the void from earlier imagining the memories with Oli and how he might be dead soon but quickly snapped back to reality and I threw a lot of speed and leaping potions at my horse. I fed him a notch apple before charging ahead. The speed was ridiculously high. Double that of the average speed. I was quickly closing the distance.

8,000 blocks were left as I messaged Oli when I realized how screwed he might be and didn't wait for a response but charged ahead.

[HANG ON! GIVE ME 5-8 MINUTES, GONNA SAVE YA!]

He located me and changed direction to face towards where I was. *Good, it'll be faster*. I thought.

5,000 blocks were left. I knew I had to hurry so the horse reached a record breaking speed of 120 kbph (kilo blocks per hour) after I gave him the most powerful speed potion I had which lasted 5 minutes. Within 2 minutes, we got to 1,000 blocks and he seemed to have pearled as I saw the distance suddenly drop to 500 blocks and we met Oli shortly after. He jumped on and I threw an explosive to deter the nameless anomaly.

### Tuesday Update II

I saved Oli, and handed him food as he looked starving. He quickly inhaled the Cinnamuffin I gave him as well as the other food. He fell asleep as I felt him hit my back. He was very tired.

I forgot to mention I had placed trackers on Gravel and Luke, and they had moved around from the base they had. Seemed like they were adventuring.

We rode for a good while, until we got tired, even I was about to sleep, so was Horsey.

I woke up Oli. "Hey, wake up, let's make camp." He agreed with me.

### Tuesday Update III

"Hey, did you find any of the others, and the bluestone golems, mine was TARS, I think yours was CASE."

Oli was surprised. "They had individual names? It must've faded off mine. The Silent Expanse makes bad things happen quickly and good things happen slowly. It's evil."

I knew the Silent Expanse was evil, but that was too evil for a place. "Wow. Anyways, I think Luke and Gravel are nearing us."

Oli looked up again. "Luke and Gravel?"

I sighed. "Long story, lemme tell you as we drink some flavoured and fizzy drinks and eat food. And I also need to fix up this patrol golem, hah! Done, it's mini, but it should protect us."

**...**

### Tuesday Update IV

I had told Oli everything, except the part of where I entered that void. I'd ask him later when we weren't so stressed.

"Wow. That's a lot of info, anyways, I'm tired, you look tired too. The horse already slept. Let's sleep?" Oli said after I told him everything that happened.

"Yes. I really need sleep." I responded.

After a while I was dreaming, and I was back in the void. Except this time it had a purplish hue.

*Huh? What in the realms is this?*

*I felt uneasy here. The smell of death reeked from this entire place. I had no idea what to name it.*

*Maybe if before I was greeted by a vision sent to me from a positive divine being, this means I might have a vision sent to me from a negative divine being.*

*It seems as if there are planets here. Asteroids, interesting, I liked space and stuff about space as a kid. No, it wasn't the "I want to be an astronaut." thing every kid said, more as if I was interested in Black Holes, supernovae, stellar engines, etc.*

***BOOM***

*I was shocked by a sudden crashing sound. A presence of pure evil.*

*It couldn't kill me, but if it was going to threaten me or warn me of something, I could deduct what it might be saying based on past, present or future events.*

*I didn't understand what it was. I couldn't see it but the purplish hue enlarged and the planets disappeared into the black or the purple. It became lighter and I saw a shadow outlined by a great light.*

*A quasar blackhole? No, the shape is changing, it's more complicated, a demon king, a demon or devil god?*

*I saw claws extending, horns, armor, shoulder pauldrons.*

*I was paralyzed in fear at the sight of such an enormous beast.*

***Pathetic. Absolutely Pathetic. You have no idea what is coming. You can't stop it. The Enderman is the only the first and weakest. You will die a horrible death. You won't ever find your family, your beloved, your friends. Everyone you care about will perish, but it's no grudge I have against YOU, rather I love death, destruction and doom, so, I have given you a warning, I will watch as your pathetic efforts to thwart the imminent bloodshed fail.***

*He disappeared, and I fell back into a normal sleep.*

## Wednesday - The Enderman

***BOOM.***

I woke up. "WHAT THE HELL?" ASSASSIN? THIEVES?" I looked at my tracker. "No, it's them. That little $%!\*. Darn that golem will take forever to repair."

### Wednesday Update I

I had no idea why they would attack me. I mean, I still healed them after the fight, but maybe they wanted to eliminate me once and for all... Although they are good, they can't be part of the so called prophecy to kill me, the lord said the Enderman was the first. I'd look out for an enderman, but it can't be an ordinary one, right?

I tried to wake Oli up. No luck, I buried him in a hole with a pickaxe and covered it with obsidian for when he woke up and to protect him.

I saw an arrow flying, it must've been an explosive arrow. It's curving right towards where Horsey is in his pen. I picked up a rock and threw it to collide with the arrow and it stopped the explosion from hitting Horsey. I spotted Gravel and Lucas, I don't know what happened but I saw a bright light for a mere second and quickly snapped back to see an explosive arrow coming at me. I dodged it only to see 2 more coming at me from each side, I dodged ahead and was knocked far ahead. I landed in some smoke and before it cleared I activated my Cloak ability making me invisible after throwing 3 shuriken at Gravel.

I saw Lucas going in for the charge at my previous location, and he hit the ground with his Overblade Ultimate. Lucas was disoriented, so I ran at Gravel and threw Kunai knives at him. He deflected them with his shield and they went off track from my location. Around 10 blocks away from Gravel and 20 away from Lucas I ran full speed and uncloaked with my electro-staff shining as bright as one of the full moons due to the electricity. I managed to stab Gravel and electrocute him for at least 3 seconds, at which point I pinged Oli's watch with multiple loud alarms to wake him up.

I was stupid to do that as Lucas was running at me and used his overblade ability to smack me into the ground. I had tried to dodge but got slammed into the earth and kicked away by Lucas. "Lucas, don't attack me, I just want peace, put the sword down, I'm unarmed. I'm sorry for attacking you originally or attacking your base and the broken door." Lucas look puzzled after I said this and Gravel had woken up. "Huh?" Gravel said and Lucas continued with. "Wait, what?" "We thought you were going to get reinforcements." Lucas said. I responded with telling them. "Reinforcements for what? Attacking you? If I wanted to kill you and plunder your base I would've done it as soon as I met you. I wouldn't have been merciful enough to heal you." I looked to Gravel. "And if you wanted to stop me, you could negotiate, trying to blow up my friend and I at night isn't the best way to contact me." Luke responded with "Oh." And gravel continued. "Uh, we didn't think of that." "Sorry." Luke said.

I said it was fine. I know, I'm too forgiving, but I don't want to kill them. They have potential and who knows, they might be the keys to stopping the silent expanse and the demonic divine entity. I invited them over to our camp. The sun had risen, so we had time to wander around and get back to the Gravel and Luke

I was talking to them and I felt it. A presence of evil. Not as strong as the one I felt last night. I ran through my memories back to what the demon king had said.

" ***The Enderman is the only the first and weakest.*** "

I turned around slowly and saw a 6 block tall enderman, double the size of a normal one. It spoke the classic ender speak. I translated it to "Remember me, Lucas?"

Lucas froze in fear after saying "NO, NO!" and Gravel was also paralyzed in fear. I saw Oli finally getting out of the hole I dug and I charged with all the energy remaining in the electro-staff at the Enderman, meaning that I had to hit this or I would lose the battle. I hit it and pierced it's leg. It screamed in pain. "***HGRRA***" I tried pulling the staff out but it snapped in half as the Enderman stomped his leg. "No!" I shouted.

I got knocked out for around a second from the shockwave and I remembered what the divine voice had said.

*"You must search the world, all the dimensions if you must."*

I got up and saw Oli massively damaging the Enderman with his Ult "Dance of Ice and Fire" but due to the level fading it got cut short mid-combo and the Enderman took the opportunity to smack Oli away. "NO!" I screamed.

Lucas and Gravel had regained their composure and teamed on the Enderman but were heavily damaged and barely dodging the powerful attacks.

I knew it was time. I took out my Sound Cleavers, the ideal weapon for this technique. I hadn't used this technique or weapons in front of my friends ever. I went on a peacekeeping crusade solo and met a master who taught me this technique.

I used all the sub-divisions of this mastery I knew. I threw compact gunpowder pearls that I sliced when near the enderman creating explosions that dealt heavy damage. I used the ability, [BURSTING BLOOM] As a cut multiple times and passed through the Enderman, continuing the combo with more normal hits and the ability [ROAR] as I smacked my blades down on the ground and it created enough friction to ignite the gunpowder on my cleavers and knocked the Enderman back. My eyes went white and I used the ability [RESOUNDING SLASHES] in which the friction lit gunpowder in such a way mini fire-work like explosions hit the opponent. I used the ability [EXPLOSIVE IMPACT] and caused another powerful explosion after pulling the enderman towards me by piercing it like a fishing hook.

I used the ability [SMOKE SCREEN] to disappear in a cloud of gunpowder dust which ignited soon after blowing up the Enderman. It must've healed in the time between Oli's Ult and when I started attacking it due to Lucas and Gravel not being able to deal sufficient enough damage for it's regen powers. It's health was now at 20% and it smacked me into the ground after hitting me with a combo of 2-3 strikes.

### Wednesday Update II

*What the- Back in the void... Sigh... Come on, wake up!*

*What am I missing... String Performance? STRING PERFORMANCE!*

I woke up and the Enderman had regenerated massively as it cackled at a comfortable health of 50%.

*Time to put an end to this. I TOLERATE THIS NO LONGER!*

『***String Performance***』

My eyes were white. I lost control of my body and everything happened instinctively while following the orders of a part of me that I never unearthed before. My forehead had a split in it that was expanding due to the stress of how fast my body was moving and how much energy I was exerting.

***BEGONE BEAST! YOU SHALL NOT LIVE ANY LONGER! THIS IS FOR MY FRIENDS, MY FAMILY, MY PARTNER, MY WORK, MY LIFE, MY EFFORTS!***

*What the? How in the 255 realms? AHRG*

I felt the pain as my muscles pulled and stretched, one of my ligaments torn but my body still continued with the Ult. The ultimate was never this long, but then again, the whole purpose of Mastery Based Ultimate is to Continue until the opponent is dead or until it is physically impossible to continue. My mind was not restricting my body, so it kept going until I took control again.

It felt like I was burning and hit by 5 trucks while being cut and slashed, I felt pain all over my body. My body fell and I remember the Enderman screaming as the others fought it. I somehow managed to get up. It took over again and used all the remaining energy I had left to quicken my healing process. It surprisingly worked, although I still had that scar on my forehead but I covered it up as I watched Lucas kill the enderman with his Overblade shouting. "FOR STELLA!" That must've been someone he cared about, anger and vengeance was burning in his eyes. It seemed like he had also been overtaken by something similar. I had a bit more energy left, and I used it to pop a enchanted golden apple. It healed me, which was amazing news for me who had experienced a lifetime's worth of pain all combined into massive pain for a few seconds.

### Wednesday Update III

I fell to the ground, but the golden apple had helped as I was able to get up on my own when Oli came to help me. Gravel was celebrating with Lucas.

I popped a few more stamina, regeneration and strength potions. "Wait, how did that even get out here?" Gravel asked.

"It's a dungeon boss, I noticed that with my analyze monster, you did too, right Pixelator?" Oli asked me. I simply nodded, I didn't say anything more, I was still recovering, and I'd talk to them as soon as we reached "The Castle", Oli was also a bit shocked when I saw him, maybe he saw something as well.

"Maybe it was a nameless anomaly?" Oli asked.

"Nameless anomaly? Wait, didn't one of those chase you in the Silent Expanse? Wait, did anyone attack any Tol Altars?" I asked him.

"Well yeah, but the one that chased me spawn naturally... No one has had approval to attack a Tol-Altar but there was a summit to attack one recently." He responded.

"My level is in the Mid 80s, stats have faded around 15%, what about you Oli?" I asked him about our stats.

"Mid 40s... Sadwoo." He responded.

"What? Oh right, Silent expanse, speeds up negative things and slows down positive things. Really evil." I said. "The cryo-chambers were worth it, otherwise you might've been level 0 now. Anyways, how do we destroy the Silent Expanse, it's pretty large right?"

Oli told me the size was around 700,000 sqkm, or sqkb (P.S. I'm considering Kilometers and Kiloblocks the same).

Lucas got confused and told us to explain what the Silent Expanse was and then Gravel said it was a long story.

"Wait, how do you know that?" Oli questioned. "Yeah how come I've never heard something like that before?" Lucas asked.

"You weren't looking in the right places. There used to be tons of information until Herobrine came along and destroyed it. Besides, I don't really want to talk about it." Gravel told the both.

"Ok, well any information would be appreciated." Oli said.

I decided to be more direct. "Gravel, was this information from your home, before the Herobrine attacks?"

"Yes, now go away!" Gravel replied, becoming more annoyed and aggravated.

"If you don't want to talk about it's fine, but information would be great for the AEG and all other clans." Oli told Gravel, being slightly less subtle and trying to apply pressure.

"No!" Gravel stubbornly responded to Oli.

Oli asked me if I have a new base here, which I don't. I told him that the only base I know is the one that Lucas and Gravel live in.

I noticed Gravel walking a small distance away from all of us after which he placed down a training dummy and proceeded to swing at it relentlessly.

I remembered the thing about near-death experiences and I muttered what the Devil King or whatever it is said to me.

"The enderman is only the first." It turns out instead of thinking it in my own voice I muttered it, so Lucas and Oli gave me a look as Gravel was still swinging at the dummy.

I thought about telling Oli and Lucas, as well as Gravel, but I needed to clean my Sound Cleavers, I also needed to sharpen them again and ensure I was completely healed.

### Wednesday Update IV - Elmglow

I had called out Gravel and he eventually destroyed the dummy with a final powerful strike.

Oli had suggested we go somewhere. "Where to?" I had asked him. "Elmglow is close by, only 2,000 blocks." Oli told us.

I got on my horse and Oli sat behind me. Gravel and Lucas got on their own horses and we rode at a slow pace.

After a while, we finally reached Elmglow. It was similar to Owl's Reach, except it was made solely for travellers. We entered on our horses and immediately saw cabins with lights coming from inside. There was a giant cavern draped with leaves, vines and other overgrown plants.

There were some roughly carved out stairs that led up into the cave. It seemed very uncivilized. We were guided to the area where travelers are meant to rest and saw small tents.

"Wow." Oli said. "Those look really small." I remarked. Another traveler near us laughed. "You kidding me? You guys have never heard of expandable homes? That thing could fit multiple families in it!" Oli looked disgusted. I didn't show it, but I now had doubts about this place.

Gravel said he was going to camp outside and Oli agreed too. After they walked away, I looked to Lucas who signaled to me asking if we should follow them. I replied with a nod. "We'll go too." I said.

I noticed Oli setting up camp a few decablocks away from Gravel's temporary abode. Lucas also went to his own corner and set up his own miniature house. I decided to set up mine on the other corner and all of our tent-like structures were in a square shape. I constructed a campfire in the middle of it all and went to check on the others. Lucas was sharpening his sword and Gravel was swinging at another dummy, which seemed to be made of a stronger material. I checked on Oli and he was looking through his inventory. "Hey." He said. "Yo." I responded. "I need food, I only have some chicken, that's cold now, you have anything else?" I took out a stormberry roll. "Saving the cinnamuffins for later. I made a campfire, you can heat up the chicken there." Oli thanked me and then I went off into my camp. After organizing my stuff I decided to sleep.

### Wednesday Update V

*A cold empty void, again. A bluish hue. The same angel appeared again. I remember it from the first time during the battle against Gravel when I landed on Nemract.*

*The Light Angel appeared. I tried drawing a depiction of it but barely matched the majestic look of the shining light.*

*I looked at it. "Hello. I got a warning from the devil god divine demon guy, do you know anything about that?"*

*The angel looked slightly worried but then calmed down quickly before responding.*

*"That is, horrible news. I never expected it to be so soon."*

*I was even more confused and shocked. The Angel knew about it, but it's earlier than expected... "Did you meet my friends, Gravel, Lucas or Oli? Or even anyone else?*

*"I only contact you. Another angel has gone to meet Oli, and you were right, near death experiences trigger these visions, but only early. Another thing to note is that being in contact with such people for longer durations of time since their visions without breaks causes it to happen to others as well. Oli will also regain all his memories, but he is strong willed like you, he will continue and with the help of the angel have hope."*

*"Wait, so Oli hasn't regained his old memories?"*
*"He should've or may have not. Time works differently, he might finish his by the morning, you might just fall into a normal sleep and wake up hours later. But this is not as important as you meeting the Demonic Terror, which is only one of it's names. A very powerful force of darkness. What did it warn you about?"*

*"Wait, let me remember. Ah yes, it said something about how it will watch my efforts to thwart the imminent bloodshed fail, and the Enderman is only the weakest and the beginning. He also said something about how he has no grudge against me but just loves doom, death and destruction. Which was repeated one more time. He was huge! Planetary, no, easily Stellar level, I saw planets and asteroids get consumed. There was a purple hue in a black void with a Giant shadow demon with a purplish glow and extending claws, shoulder pauldrons and horns. Terrifying."*

*"... This is horrible. Well, divine entities cannot interfere apart from visions, so don't worry about him, but the Silent Expanse is spreading and more and more anomalies along with Tol Altar guardians will start spawning. Dungeons will start breaking making the bosses permanently killable but allowing them to be set loose. I saw you kill the enderman boss and how you use the potential, although that was not your limit yet. In fact, you have the potential to defeat creatures with strength tenfold or more along with Oli, Gravel and Lucas. Just be on the lookout, and I recommend you talk to Oli about this as well, no point in keeping it a secret, he would've experienced it too. Later Gravel and Lucas might as well, something like these visions. Now, say no more, go back into your sleep. Good night Pixelator, hopefully I see you soon."*

*I fell back into my sleep. I thought that maybe that day where I exerted so much energy I had to eat a notch apple to stand up was just a scratch of my power. I was only level 80-90, and there was a level 100-110 area, so there must be a way to go beyond level 100.*

## Thursday - Farewell Elmglow

I woke up. I quickly started packing my things as I noticed Gravel and Lucas were packed. Gravel had already set off on his horse, and Lucas was about to go. "Wait!" I told him. Lucas looked back. "What?" He asked. "Could you wait up for Oli and I, and tell Gravel to wait as well?" I asked him. "Our horses will run out of stamina soon, we'll probably wait a while for them to recharge, so you'll find us and the most we'll rest is throughout one whole day." He responded before taking off.

I packed up any stuff they left behind, including our small shelters. I woke up Oli and helped him pack up his shelter, we packed the heavier building materials into the horse's saddlebag.

I was going to talk to Oli, but I didn't get the chance. We kept on seeing lots of other things on our journey that we talked about, and I wanted to mention it when we were in a relaxed state, probably at a camp or at The Castle.

**\* \* \***

Eventually, in an hour or so, we saw Gravel and Lucas resting around a campfire. I commanded Horsey to slow down and he did, facing the side. "Hey, how long are we going to stay here?" I asked.

I waited for a response.

"Throughout the night." Lucas replied.

"Alright." I said, gathering around the campfire and placing a sleeping bag nearby after getting off Horsey. Oli did similar.

I didn't mind the others too much and started crafting some cobblestone walls, I placed 2 high around our campfire with 1 entry/exit which consisted of 2 fence-gates on top of each other, so that skeletons couldn't shoot. I placed torches on the corner areas of the wall so nothing would spawn inside the perimeter area.

I asked Oli about his past life as a human and whether he remembers some of it. "Not really, I mean, I have these strange dreams, but really, that's all..."

"Well, has a divine being ever contacted you? Because, that's how I got my memories and those strange dreams."

Oli just looked a bit shocked, and remained silent. "Well, that's a lot... Ok, I'm going to sleep, it's late... We also have to get to the base..."

"Alright... Goodnight." I said, as I prepared to sleep.

## Friday - Betrayal

I was in a purplish void dream, and I saw an entity.

It was the enderman from earlier.

*"!yap lliw uoY" was all it said. I translated it from Enderspeak to English, it had said. "You will pay!"*

*I was furious. "YOU'RE DEAD. SHUT UP!" I shouted at the creature. It looked at me, perplexed. I sighed and then translated my words to Enderspeak. "!PU TUHS .DAED ER'UOY" before I smacked it into the abyss. It was, just a vision/memory after all, the Enderman creature was already dead. There was no point in worrying about it anymore.*

### Friday - Update 1

I woke up due to a clashing noise all of sudden, Oli was still sleeping, I heard Lucas shouting all of a sudden. "GRAVEL?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" I rushed outside, Cleavers in my hand, and looked around, Gravel was nowhere to be seen. "Lucas! LUCAS!" I shouted. He looked at me. "What the hell happened here?" I asked, confused, did Gravel ditch us, were we under attack? "He's gone... He was sweating, cold, shivering, when I was about to sleep... Now it's midnight and some loud noise woke me up, and Gravel was just... gone. I'm alright... but Gravel... I don't know..."

I started connecting the dots, if Gravel was sweating and suddenly went cold, as well as shivering, could he be possessed by a ghost-like Entity? I researched about Nemract, and that is completely possible in this unreleased glitchy continent.

"Come to our tent, it's better if we're all close..." I said, as I turned towards the tent. "Alright." Lucas said, I turned around and he was walking towards me, but then all of a sudden I saw a ghost like transparent entity slam into Lucas, and it slammed him into the ground. "GAH!" He shouted. I sped to the area and struck the place where I last saw the undead, but nothing happened. "Come on! Hurry! Let's go!" I shouted, as I signalled to Lucas to run into the tent, I readied ROAR incase the entity neared us again, but as I turned around to run into the tent, the white entity appeared before us again.

I quickly contacted the angel by entering my mindspace. "*WHAT THE HELL IS THIS???*

*"It's a glitch. It only hunts terrarians. You must run... Please. Don't die..."*

*"CRAP"* I thought, after exiting the mindspace. *Everyone here is a human... this is horrible.*

I got flashbanged for around 10 seconds, but my Sound Mastery wasn't called SOUND Mastery for nothing. I used my other senses and heard a lot of glitching noises. I got to the exact location in a split second and used Resounding Slashes, as I regained my vision.

My blades didn't hit anything though. I saw that they had just blown up some dirt and rocks, but then I saw... Gravel... The entity was gone? Did I kill it? Or was this a mirage, a trap?

"GRAVEL?!" I shouted. "WE THOUGHT YOU WERE GONE!" I kept my distance in case it was a undead familiar, or that entity... I slowly approached and signaled to Lucas to stay back, as I gripped my cleavers and spun them using the chain that attached the two of them to block any incoming projectiles.

"Hey Pix." Gravel said. "You're probably wondering how or why I am here." A smirk emerged on Gravel's face. "Yeah?" Luke said tenatively. "I am know to you humans as Entity303. Pixelator and Oli, you guys must've heard of me."

*"SH\*T"* I quietly said. "*He's not lying... I smell death."* I stood in shock and fear, then I bolted for the tent to wake Oli up, but Gravel had raised his hand and stopped me in place. He then raised his other hand and pulled Oli out of the tent, his body soaring through the air. *DARN IT* I had thought... There was nothing to do... Unless.......

I quickly forced myself into a deep sleep, with the intention of entering my mindspace and meeting the Angel, I could ask for advice and possibly trigger that ability that ignores my pain and my body's limitations to kill Entity303.

*"Hey? Hello? Angel Person?! ARE YOU THERE?!?!!?"*

*"Hello Pixelator. You have learnt to contact me in case of an emergency, what happened?"*

*"Yeah um... Entity 303 possessed Gravel and has held me frozen in place, he's also levitating Oli, can you help me or give me some advice? Maybe you can tell me how to activate that inner beast mode rage of mine again? That would be really nice right now."*

*"Focus on your memories. I can't guarantee you can kill him, but if you manage to kill his host body, he can't do anything much until he finds another Aetherian to possess. As far as we know, Gravel is the only Aetherian there, the rest of you are humans."*

*"Wait, **kill** Gravel? I mean he always was a jerk but... Lucas would be really mad..."*

*"It's alright, Entity303 takes care of his hosts and Aetherians, but he hates humans. So Gravel will respawn at his original world spawnpoint, in the ruins of his old village Meesur."*

*"Well... Then I guess it's time. Seeya later Angel. We shall meet again soon."*

I looked through his memories and brought out the rage and feeling to find the people who are lost and avenge all of the fallen. I didn't go out of the realm yet, I had to prepare myself for the battle, and I took this moment in my subconscious realm to plan out my strategy and emergency tactics. I also confirmed that in the rage, 303 can't control anyone using Gravel's body. *What a shame, if he dies permanently, that would be bad...*

“YOU STUPID HUMANS RUINED MY WORLD!” Gravel said, starting to get angry. “YOU TOOK IT AS YOUR OWN AND TREATED MY PEOPLE LIKE DIRT, AND NOW YOU WILL SUFFER FOR IT!” He said, flying into a rage. Then, Lucas yelled out, “Gravel, Stop!”. Then, Gravel turned to face Luke. Gravel’s face was completely black. “What on earth?” Luke said in surprise. Suddenly, a white robe appeared out of thin air and enveloped Gravel. “What is this?” Luke said. Then, two glowing red eyes emerged from the darkness of Gravel’s face. He had taken the form of Entity303.

I woke back up and noticed it. *SH\*T. I* thought. *He turned into Entity, wait no, it's just an appearance, he's still using Gravel's body though, so I can kill him. I gripped my sound cleavers tightly and rushed through my memories of my life on Earth as my pupils started to fade and my eyes began to glow.*

***DIE YOU FILTHY BEING!***

That's all I thought on my own, and I broke the telekinesis spell quickly as I quickly turned and used BURSTING BLOOM to shorten the distance between me and Entity303. “Ah, so you are approaching me? Instead of running away, you’re coming right to me?” Gravel said after entity had changed his face once again back to Gravel’s.

I spun my blades around. "I can't beat the $#!@ out of you without getting closer." I walked closer and breathed slowly. "Let's see what you got emo boy." "Game on." Gravel said, then turned back into Entity303. I frowned and closed the distance between me and Entity, I followed up with a combo of regular slashes and launched both of us into the air, I quickly used RESOUNDING SLASHES in the air and as we fell down I used ROAR to create an explosion. I used too much force and knocked myself back as well.

The Glitch teleported out of the way before I did a finishing move. Then, Entity303 placed down a sign.

**Enough of your games.**

**It is time that you**

**perished.**

Then, Entity303 pulled out his scythe. "Ok, I get that he's evil and all, but that was really sick!" Lucas said. I moved extremely fast, creating fake after images surrounding Entity 303. All my after images had their own unique slice, kick, swing, punch, ability or combo that was aimed at Entity303. Entity303 charged forward, swinging his scythe around in a majestic circle, cutting at the forms all around him. I saw him swinging at the air, so I leaped up in the air and dove down, knocking both of us to the ground. The mist cleared, and I said "***BEGONE YOU BEAST*** ".

As I said this, Entity303 suddenly spawned a block in front of me, midair, closing the gap between us. I wasn't fast enough to go for a direct hit, so rather I just clashed my blades together, with the gunpowder smeared on them, it created an explosion twice as large as the ROAR ability usually did, and both me as well as Entity303 had been knocked to the ground. I didn't care, so I got up with lightning speed and ate a god apple. I was not at the least bothered about stopping and healing, I just wanted to kill Entity303. After this, Entity303 simply stared at me. I could tell he didn't know what to do next.

I took this opportunity to dash at Entity303 and I started spinning with my blades in a tornado like manner, at speeds close to that of sound, but as I blinked, Entity303 had disappeared, and then he appeared behind me as he dropkicked me into the ground, I took a massive hit and my cleavers flew a few blocks away from me. *Damn... No one can help me... Come on... Oli?? Wait... SOUND! Sound is the smartest person I know, he's also very strong, I think if he's nearby, I could get him to come and help us, maybe his skills didn't deteriorate.*

I looked at my watch, but I noticed something new.

[ SOUND ] ONLINE: 20km away

*"YES! LET'S GO!"* I thought. I had quickly tapped in the digits to call Sound, but he didn't pick up, so it went to voicemail.

[ "Hey uh... Sound? Are you there? Anyways... Please help me... I got in a battle with Entity303... I sent you my live location, please come fast." ]

"*I might as well be a pile of XP and items if Sound doesn't come help me.* "

I checked my messages.

SOUND: [ Ok. I'll be there in 10 minutes. Try not to die. ]

I thought about this, it was like when Oli was in trouble, and then I had to come to save him and told him I'd be there. Now Sound is telling me not to die and I'm in trouble.

While I was thinking, Lucas had come to cover me, and tried talking to Gravel, with some cheesy movie lines, Gravel was just angry. I had to get up and quickly dashed in front of Lucas. "LUCAS! IT'S NO USE!" I said as I spun my blades. "Gravel has chosen his side, and he isn't on ours." My blades clashed with Gravel/Entity303's scythe, and I applied so much force to where the handle was close to choking him.

Unfortunately, Entity303 probably was cheating, now that I think of it... because he just glitched and teleported a few blocks behind me, which wasn't very cash money, and had knocked me to the ground. I quickly turned to see him raising his scythe, and all I did was grip my cleavers for cover.

He swung his scythe down at me, but I blocked. Then, he looked even angrier, and was probably going to do that, but faster and with more strength. I quickly rolled out of the way, but him slamming the ground managed to knock me into the air due to the shockwave, so when I was going to try to get up, I couldn't due to being in the fricking air.

Then, when I looked up I saw Entity303 already with his scythe over his head, looking right at me. I tried to grab my cleavers, but then realized they'd flown out of my hands, 3 blocks away. That's when I started contemplating my decisions in life.

### Friday - Update 2

Why did I decide to play this stupid game on the day of the war? Why would I? I was living a fine life, and that little safehouse bunker could've let us live longer, but no, I convinced everyone to join the Aetheria server.

Maybe dying together would've been better than this fate.... Everyone, all scattered across this hell of a server, aka, world. We have no idea who's alive and who isn't and dying without anyone else in the family knowing. Screw this bullshhhhh... no. Lucas saw me writing this earlier, and said I swear too much already, I should probably stop swearing in my diary too.

Well then. You might be confused, if I was about to die, how I am writing this? Well that's because I didn't die! Just as Entity303 was bringing the scythe down upon me, a sword flew in the air and knocked the Scythe out of his hands. I looked at the direction the sword came from and saw him. It was Sound! I balanced on my arms and kicked Entity303 in the stomach with both my legs. I stood up quickly and grabbed my cleavers. "SOUND! IT'S BEEN SO LONG!" I shouted, happiness in my voice and eyes. There was no time to waste. We had to kill Entity303, aka Gravel. I greeted sound and quickly told him what happened, basically I just told him "hey bro help me kill this emo nerd" and then I flexed my chain spinning skills and I spun the chain attaching my blades around, preparing for Round 2, or was it Round 3? Doesn't matter. Entity was already flying towards us with his scythe, but I blocked it with my weapons.

Sound used Dash along with Spin Dash, while parrying all of 303's attacks. He then sidestepped closer to me, yeah kinda like the one you see tennis players doing, like that. Anyways, while Sound came to me, 303 walked back, and teleported around 10 blocks away or so, probably the blink ability, or the benefits of being a glitch.

"Alright can you please tell me what's going on?" He asked. Sound downed a mana potion as he asked me this, probably so whatever charge up 303 was going to do would be deadly. He had taken a battle stance like me, as he noticed 303 backing away. Lucas clattered around clumsily, and Oli.... was somewhere......

I took a deep breath, while maintaining my glare at 303, I responded. "I found this villager and human, fought them, decided it was a misunderstanding, became friends, then I left to find Oli, and while we were sleeping, they attacked us again, so then we fought, and a giant enderman boss appeared, we killed that, went to elmglow, and on our way back, the villager, Gravel, turned into 303." I quickly said while quickly glancing back and forth at my abilities cooldown, mana bar, and 303.

Remember how I mentioned Lucas was clattering around like a few lines above? Yeah, 303 took advantage of that, teleported using some ability, definitely not Blink, much more powerful than that one. He aimed for Lucas. I saw my ability was available, and I used it.

***BURSTING BLOOOM***

I launched myself forward, slicing the air, I definitely passed through Entity303, and chopped him up into a thousand pieces for a second, before he regenerated. I then blocked the scythe about to pierce Lucas. "HEY LUCAS WATCH IT!" I shouted. "AH!" He shouted, and backed away. "TRY NOT TO DIE." I instructed him.