Equestria's New Adventurer
Chapter 15: In Which I Am a Brainy Guy
Previous Chapter Next ChapterMutate and I descended into the chasm. We passed by a bunch of circular altars. They were fleshy and had eyes on top of them. I started to remove the sungla... nope! Nope! NOPE! NOPE! I quickly put them back on. When I took them off I saw that we were actually in the belly of the beast, a remarkably dead beast, but still a beast. The fact that it grows disturbs me now. Very much so. I walked along. A Blood Crawler(I don't own the picture,) came at me. I removed the sunglasses again and lashed out faster than a speeding bullet. I put the sunglasses back on. I got some loot. Crimstone Blocks, a Heart of Crimson and Arachnid Essence. I ran downwards with Mutate. I fought a bunch of Face Monsters and Blood Crawlers. We continued downwards.
When we got down to the big anteroom I lowered my glasses in awe... and succinctly put them back on because of the body horror that is the crimson. There was a golden chest at the bottom for some obscure reason. We opened it and there were two Bands of Regeneration in there. I put one on and gave one to Mutate, along with the Band of Starpower. "There's a combo of those two rings later on. It makes you have more mana and regenerate mana," She nodded. We went down one of the many chasms. I sensed that there were two hearts. I made a hole for us to climb through. I broke both of the hearts. One dropped an Undertaker, the Crimson revolver and one dropped two Panic Necklaces. I tossed one of them and the revolver to her. She put it on.
We went down to the last heart we needed. I broke it and got the Rotted Fork.
The Brain of Cthulhu has Awoken!
I pulled out my blade because I knew it wouldn't quite be the same as the game, I then saw the massive fucking eye balls. I cut at one, it died and split in two. A massive amount of blood splashed onto me. I am so glad that filth doesn't stick to me. If it did I might have to bu multiple sets of clothing! Oh no! I summoned some of the Frostwolves. I became a whirlwind of death and destruction. Eventually all of the Creepers were dead. I heard a roar. The giant ass brain that I'd only barely seen before warped in. It had a giant ass mouth. I took off the sunglasses and was horrified. I snapped out of it when the Brain bit me. It hurt like a son of a bitch. I whipped it out and stabbed that motherfucker. I saw wisps of an outline of three more brains. It teleported elsewhere. I heard Mutate yell and turned around. I stabbed him again. His health bar appeared. I called for three Eater of Worlds. They flew through the air and bit him a bunch of times. When they went away the brain was deformed. I stabbed the real one a few more times. The outline became too hard to tell. I had to depend on Mutate because she's immune to mental(heh, puns) manipulations.
We slowly got the real one down to death throes and when he died he exploded. I got the bag and a bunch of tendrils flew out from him. They started making monsters that were a horrifying mixture of a Blood Crawler and a Face Monster. When I killed one I got something called Vial of Crimson but nothing else. We cut through the horde. I got a rare drop from one. Blood Net Can catch Crimson enemies all the time and can catch Crimson bosses easier. ... Shit. I took it out and caught one of the creatures. Crimson Aberrant Abomination Minion. I brought him out. He spoke in a guttural voice. "Thank you for saving me from that torment, I have had to deal with that for too long, I am the only one who cares though. I used to be one of you, then the brain combined me with a Blood Spider. All of the rest of them were just Face Monsters," I caught another. Crimson Abomination Minion. Well... ok. I cut down a bunch of them. I got another Blood Net and tossed it to Mutate. She thanked me.
I got another rare drop. Blood Moon Attraction Device When activated, each night has a one in two chance to be a blood moon. That will be useful for the Money Trough. We got to the web's center, where everything was coming from. It looked a lot like... THE SOUL CONTAINER!!! It was red instead of the light blue color though. I mined at it and it turned off. I then mined some more, I got Container of Bloody Souls. The creatures stopped spawning. We spawned another Brain after looting three more hearts. There was another Rotted Fork which I threw to Mutate, a Crimson Rod and the stupid light pet. I did equip the light pet though, because a floating heart glowing with a red following me is awesome. I used the Blood Net. Holy fuck! I got 30 of them. I killed the rest. We both stabbed at him. He spawned another Container when he died. I grabbed it too.
We went up to the surface where Crystal Clear was a blood ruby color. He was running around killing Crimson beings while they ignored him. "Why the fuck are you a ruby color?" He looked at me.
"It is another part of my special talent, I can blend into any situation or area. Since you are my ally you can see me, these creatures can't. It strangely doesn't work on dragons... probably because they can smell crystals," Mutate tossed him her Rotted Fork. He looked over it approvingly. "This is a good spear, better than mine in any case. I am glad that I now have two highly strong weapons for defending the Crystal Empire," I nodded at him. "We're going back now?" I shook my head.
"I'll teleport back after I grab something from a long time ago. You guys head back," They nodded and started making small talk while jogging back to the Empire. I went to where I remembered the Container of Frozen Souls was. It was there. It seemed like it was going to overflow. I turned it on to level four, which was some zomponies, some slimes but more windigoes. I cut those bitches up. I continued until it looked like the container was at an alright level. I picked it up. I teleported back to the Crystal Empire.
I went downstairs until I found an arena for the containers. I put one of the Crimson ones there along with the Tundra one. Noone had seen my new ally until then. I heard a shriek. "My lord! There's a monster behind you!"
"Aberrant, can you assure the pony behind me you are sapient?" I heard his gravelly voice behind me. He talked with her. She ended up reassured about him. I went to the smithy that I found the first time I came here. Mutate found me. I made a Blood Butcherer and a Light's Bane. I made a Blade of Grass and another Fiery Greatsword. There's only one more thing I need. I left all of my minion creation things in the chest in my bedroom. I switched to the other world after instructing Mutate how to and leaving her to rule in my stead. I got all of the people in my tree to move to the Crystal Empire except Rarity because she had to stay.
Flim the Traveling Merchant has Arrived!
... Okay. I can deal. I went inside. There was a yellow pony. "I am Flim and my brother is Flam. We were just kicked out of our previous town. We heard there was a spot for a traveling merchant that stays for one day and leaves the next," I nodded. "Would you like to see my wares?"
I hit the shop button. I bought an Ammo Box, a Celestial Magnet, two Crimson Cloaks, a Sitting Duck's Fishing Pole and a Black Counterweight for when I test out the yoyos. I ran to Canterlot. When I got there Luna was waiting. "What are you planning to do Terrarian? The dungeon is full of skeletons, a lot of ponies were hurt,"
"I plan on hunting for golden chests down there. I am in no danger of skeletons," She nodded and walked with me to the dungeon. When we got there she told a guard to let us pass. I swaggered(definitely not walked cautiously) into the place. I saw a bunch of chests with golden chains on them and skeletons, there were a few Dungeon Slimes that I could see. I walked up to one of the slimes and used the dragon claw. Turns out slimes are very flammable(lol, gaming knowledge is useful) and I got the key, along with a bunch of slime, Amorphous Essence and Charred Heart of Acid. Alright. I opened a chest. It contained two Muramasas, two Recall Potions, 4 Lesser Healing Potions and 3 Regeneration Potions. I killed some more Dungeon Slimes and got more golden keys.
The next chest contained two Cobalt Shields, some more Recall Potions and some Shine Potions, along with a gold coin. The one after that had a Magic Missile and some more potions. I fought an optional boss. It was a bigger version of an Angry Bones. It dashed at me. I dashed through him. It did something that hasn't happened before. It caused a debuff that did constant damage. When he got low enough I used a Bug Net
... I did not buy that many Bug Nets. I still had all twenty. Fuck! I forgot that it was a permanent item! I got a Furious Bones Minion... alright. I continued to fight skeletons and opening chests. In the end the rare items I got were; the three I got earlier, two Handguns, two Shadow Keys, and a Valor. I tried to use the Valor. I threw it like a yoyo from Earth, only forwards and it seemed like I got it. After a few minutes it came back and hit me in the face. I decided to train with the wooden yoyo first. I left the dungeon.
"Did you get what you needed?" I nodded. "I hope it was worth it,"
I nodded. "I will be heading back to the Crystal Empire. For some reason I'm the god damn ruler," She looked shocked. She did wave though. I changed back to the Crystal Empire. When I got there my jaw dropped. "Can anybody fucking explain why Cadence is on my throne?" Said pink princess jumped and stared at me.
"I am claiming my birthright as the ruler of the Crystal Empire, you are a monster like Sombra! You killed the entire race of dragons!" I let loose another amazing cackle. She looked at me like I grew another head. "This is exactly my point! You are evil!" I continued laughing.
I then got serious. Deadly serious. She balked at my stare. "Care to test whether people want to be free of my evil if it exists? And whether the ponies want you as a ruler?" She nodded, probably having the idea that ponies are so racist that they'll choose her. It'll be funny. I walked outside at a brisk pace. She followed but could barely keep up, even while running.
We collected all of the ponies and went to the town square. I held the megaphone. "Hello ponies, this dipshit here wants to hold a competition to see who all of you want to be in charge here. So, who do you choose, the one who vanquished Sombra, found the Crystal Heart and defended you from the dragons, or do you want the useless third alicorn from Equestria who goes through enough mood-swings to make a changeling queen posing as her who had a horrible attitude go unnoticed? Do you want me?" All of the guards and common ponies stomped on the ground. "Do you want Cadence, the alicorn of Love?" Most of the nobles stomped. There were way more common ponies and guards than nobles. "Would you please separate based on your vote?" Cadence shook her head no but all of them did so. I motioned for my guards to remove Cadence and all of the people who voted for her. They complied. They were all shouting euphemisms and screaming that they were sorry. I'm not keeping anybody who could rebel.
I went to the Crimson. I made the Night's Edge with one of the Muramasas and all of the other swords required. There was another recipe. Crimson Spine. It was amazing, it was stronger than the Night's Edge but slightly slower. I could then combine them for some reason. They became the Greatsword of Evil. A red sword that changes to purple and back. There were spikes on both sides that were the other color at all times. When the blade was red, the spikes were purple and vice versa. It had more damage than either of them and was faster. It was also bigger. I took it to the training dummies. I hit one and it did 80 damage. My sword's base damage was 70 with a 16 use time. I like it a lot. I took it to the training yard.
This time when me and Crystal had a spar his sword broke. I promised him I'd get him one of the swords later. I'll probably give him a hardmode sword. I went up to my room and went to bed with my sexy changeling girlfriend. I fell asleep. I didn't know what I'd be facing the next day.
Next Chapter: In Which I Learn To Embrace My Godhood Estimated time remaining: 49 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
We see Cadence again, she is not used to getting things to be not her way! The protagonist has gotten a new sword and will give the loot he won't use to the other protagonist tomorrow.