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"Is it that humane?"
Yang Tao looked at the stairs leading underground with some surprise. To be honest, it was his first time seeing such a perfectly aligned The Stronghold.
Normally, The Strongholds are buried very deep underground. Of course, if it's a superflat custom map, The Strongholds can be generated in the air.
"At least it saved me time looking for the stronghold."
The Stronghold is a very strange place. Sometimes, even if an Eye of Ender clearly goes into it, you can't find it no matter how much you dig. And even if you manage to find the stronghold, you can't find the portal frame.
In short, it's annoying.
Following the stairs deeper inside, the stronghold was completely dark. He took out a torch and placed it on the wall to illuminate the surroundings.
There were no monsters in the vast stronghold, nor any sounds. In the dimness, Yang Tao seemed to hear the background music from the game.
"No monster spawns in the Overworld… so it really just became a Backrooms level, huh?"
Clear footsteps echoed in the stronghold. Yang Tao turned a corner and suddenly found light ahead. He quickly ran over and discovered it was the stronghold library.
Strongholds contain many rooms, some with their own special items, such as libraries, prisons, and storage rooms.
The stronghold library had a two-story structure, filled with torches that made it brightly lit. However, besides the full bookshelves, there was also a large amount of spiderwebs, giving the impression that no one had been there for a long time.
"I hope the chests contain some good enchanted books."
Yang Tao took out his sword and cleared the spiderwebs in the library, walking towards the location of the treasure chests.
Two treasure chests would appear in the stronghold library. Usually, they would contain items related to the library, such as paper, books, and enchanted books.
With a creak, the treasure chest placed on top of the bookshelf was opened.
[Enchanted Book]
[Sharpness V]
[Power V]
[Looting III]
[Mending]
Yang Tao was startled when he saw the enchantments on the book.
"How could something like this appear???"
Four enchantments weren't too strange, he had even seen five. But these enchantments were simply not something that could be naturally generated.
Although he wasn't short on enchanted books due to fishing, seeing such a bug-like enchanted book still felt unreal.
"Could it be… that the upper and lower limits for naturally generated enchanted books have been raised?"
Thinking of this, Yang Tao quickly summoned his magic broom and flew to the second floor of the library. In the corner of the second floor, there was also a treasure chest.
He opened the chest, and inside lay two enchanted books. As he focused his gaze on them, their enchantment information immediately appeared.
[Enchanted Book]
[Curse of Binding]
[Enchanted Book]
[Curse of Vanishing]
Yang Tao: "..."
"So it's one extreme or the other, huh?"
Curse of Binding is usually an enchantment for armor. Once you put on equipment with this enchantment, it will 'grow' on you and cannot be taken off unless its durability reaches zero and it disappears.
And Curse of Vanishing is even simpler: it applies to all equipment. As long as the player dies, equipment with this enchantment will disappear into thin air.
Even if death doesn't cause item drop, it can't stop it from seeking freedom.
Just like before, this was the first time he had seen such an extreme enchanted book.
"Forget it, I'll just put it in my backpack as a memento…"
He glanced at the library, resisting the urge to take out a flint and steel from his backpack. It was a rare structure, and he didn't want to destroy it just like that.
Leaving the now-worthless library, Yang Tao continued to explore the stronghold, following the stairs deeper into it.
It didn't take long before Yang Tao joyfully heard the bubbling sound of magma.
"I didn't expect this stronghold to be so well-organized!"
Yang Tao had even seen portal rooms completely blocked off by stone. He had circled the stronghold several times back then and couldn't find it. Finally, he had no choice but to spend time farming a large number of ender pearls to craft an Eye of Ender.
Guided by the Eye, he finally found the completely enclosed portal room behind the stone.
Stepping into the room, Yang Tao first saw the deep blue silverfish spawner. A tiny silverfish was trapped in the middle of the spawner, happily spinning around in its cage.
"A spawner in peaceful mode… Tsk tsk, I'll keep it. Maybe someday I'll get a suitable mod that needs this thing."
Some mods allow players to pick up spawners and place them in suitable locations to create special monster-spawning devices.
Walking down the stone steps to the The End portal frame, a smile appeared on Yang Tao's face:
"Good luck, there are actually three Eyes…"
Naturally generated The End portal frames have a 10% chance of having an Eye of Ender already in place. Theoretically, all 12 portal frames could have an Eye of Ender, but the probability is very low.
He took out the Eye of Ender from his backpack and placed it into the portal frame. The round Eye of Ender instantly transformed into a perfectly square shape.
With a boom, a portal like deep space appeared within the portal frame. Numerous star-like specks of light floated in the deep teal background.
"Indeed, every time I see it, I feel that The End portal looks much better than the Nether Portal…"
After checking the items in his backpack and making sure everything was in order, Yang Tao took a deep breath and jumped directly into The End portal.
The moment his body touched the portal, he vanished from the Overworld.
Yang Tao only felt the scene before him shift, and then he appeared in a broken world. The sky of The End was a void, filled with patternless, static darkness.
The End has no day-night cycle, and like the Nether, it has an unchanging dim light, but despite appearing to be lit, its brightness is still 0.
And before him was the central island of The End.
It was surrounded by distant outer islands, with structures like obsidian pillars, Ender crystals, return portals, and The End gateways, as well as Endermen and the Ender Dragon…
'Wait… where's my Ender Dragon?'
Yang Tao looked at the pitch-black sky. Besides a few thick obsidian pillars, he did not see the Ender Dragon.
"What's going on???"
Normally, the Ender Dragon should be circling in the sky.
Looking at the clearly visible health bar in his sight, Yang Tao felt slightly relieved…
At least it indicated that the Ender Dragon hadn't completely disappeared.
He genuinely didn't care for a 200-health Ender Dragon, but if there was no Ender Dragon at all, that would be a big problem.
Without the Dragon, there would be no way to activate the return portal. Every time he came to The End, he would have to die to get back, which was a troublesome issue…
Fortunately, he had death protection; otherwise, this time he would have been silenced in one go.
He summoned his magic broom.
He flew towards the main island, preparing to look for traces of the Ender Dragon, but as soon as he took off, he stopped in mid-air.
The Ender Dragon hadn't disappeared; she was right on the main island.
She was currently half-reclining on the bedrock, looking at him quite contentedly.
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