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"What a monotonous life..." Alex thought as he cut down a tree to keep warm from the cold.

Alex was a young man who was always interested in webnovels and games, his dream was to die one day and transmigrate to some magical world, where he could use magic or similar things, as life on earth was very boring for someone like him, who had no money and no friends.

Until one day he fell into a silo full of corn while working on the farm he was hired to, and choked to death inside.

A slow and painful death, but it made Alex excited thinking about the possibility of transmigrating to another world.

Fortunately for Alex, it actually happened, but unfortunately not the way he imagined it. Rather than appearing in a world of magic, medieval, dungeons, monsters, or something like that, it actually appeared on a snow-covered mountain.

There was nothing but a log cabin, snow and trees all around him.

For the first few days he was excited, imagining that at any moment some magical master, a dwarf blacksmith, or even a dragon could appear for him to meet and learn from them, but unfortunately none of that happened.

Today Alex had been on this isolated mountain for a month with no contact with anyone, and that was driving him crazy.

While preparing a rabbit meat to eat, finally something different happened in the dreary new life of Alex.

[System download completed...]

[Initiating initial operations...]

Alex was shocked to see these messages!

"Finally!!! I've waited so long for this!" He squealed in happiness as he started dancing at being finally blessed with a system.

[System started.]

[Introduction: The target was selected to make use of a beta system for transmigrated users. The system name has not been decided, but the user has full rights to use all features.

Features: The user will use Gaming Points to be able to create new games. Each player will be able to receive unique items as in-game rewards that can be cashed out for real life.

The games created by the user will have to be made through the platform provided by the system, as the user does not have a computer, the user will receive a computer as a gift from the system, only the user will have access to the game development system.

The more players that play the user's games, the more Gaming Points the user will receive, being able to convert these Gaming Points into more complex functionalities for the game, or even into useful things for the user, such as clothes, objects, knowledge, everything is available for the user.

But if the host cannot make games that will please the public, unfortunately we will have to find another host.]

After reading all this Alex had mixed emotions, initially he was very excited to receive a system, then he felt a little sad to see it was just a system for someone to make games, but soon after he got excited again to find that he could use those Gaming Points in the game so he could get anything he wanted, including knowledge.

Excited, Alex looked around his little cabin and discovered that there really was a computer there!

It was a computer a little different from what he imagined, as it had a very futuristic look and was extremely compact, but when he turned on the computer, Alex instinctively knew how to work the computer, which didn't cause any problems for him.

Unfortunately he only had three programs on his computer.

[Game Developer]

[Game Analytics]

[Game Following]

Even though he searched the entire computer, he didn't have any other programs, that is, he couldn't access the internet. This initially frustrated Alex a bit, as he was used to being connected to the internet in his previous life, even working on a farm, but after spending 30 days without any contact with it, luckily he wasn't so uncomfortable anymore.

With a careful expression, Alex clicked on the [Game Developer] app.

So a window appeared in front of him.

[What style of game do you want to create?]

[Basic RPG - 5,000 Gaming Points.] [Advanced RPG - 50,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A RPG - 500,000 Gaming Points.]

[Basic Adventure - 1,000 Gaming Points.] [Advanced Adventure - 10,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A Adventure - 100,000 Gaming Points.]

[Basic FPS - 500 Gaming Points.] [Advanced FPS - 5,000 Gaming Points.] [FPS Triple A - 50,000 Gaming Points.]

...

Several different game genres popped up on Alex's screen, and within each option, he could see that there were different features. For example, a Basic FPS game, there were only a few slots for making maps, few slots for making weapons, and so on. As a Triple A FPS, the user could make giant maps, lots of different weapons, and so on.

At this point Alex got a little thoughtful. He only had 400 Gaming Points. Initially he thought if he could buy some things like a television for his cabin, or delicious food, but for the small amount of Gaming Points he had, that would hardly be enough to make a game going down, let alone left over for him to buy something For yourself.

As he looked at the list of game categories he could make, Alex saw something that caught his attention.

[Basic Sandbox - 200 Gaming Points.] [Advanced Sandbox - 20,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A Sandbox - 2,000,000 Gaming Points.]

This was the game style with the greatest variation between the price of each model. Being the game with the cheapest Basic model in the store as much as the game with the most expensive Triple A model in the store.

But Alex knew the reason for such a large price discrepancy between the models. This is because the better a Sandbox game is, the more freedom the player should have, so the more things the game should offer the player to do.

Seeing the low price of the game, Alex knew that this would be the game model he was going to make, first because it was cheap, and second because he already knew what would be the ideal game to make in the first place.

A game that wouldn't be very difficult to make initially, that didn't have many complicated features, but even though it was very simple, it still attracted a huge amount of players to play every day.

Clicking to use the Sandbox model, Alex saw that his Gaming Points had dropped from 400 to 200 in one second, but he knew that if he could make this game, he would earn much more in the future!

A game that shook the world, both adults and children loved it.

[Minecraft]

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Using the game development system was easier than Alex imagined.

He was initially worried that he had never studied game development in his life, especially programming. But when interacting with the system's computer, Alex felt that everything was much simpler than he imagined.

If he needed an item to work that way, he just had to type that it should work that way, and the system would automatically fill in the functionality the way he envisioned.

Using Minecraft development as an example, when he told the system that he wanted the sand and gravel blocks to have gravity, the system would go straight into his mind and understand what he wanted to do.

Of course, he even thought about trying to imagine Minecraft and telling the system to do it that way, but in doing so the system sent a notification to him that left him a little scared.

[To represent the host memory game perfectly, a fee of 50,000 Gaming Points will be required. As the host memory functionalities are very advanced, it will be necessary to upgrade the game to 'Advanced Sandbox', which needs another 200,000 Gaming Points fee. ]

After seeing this message, Alex stopped being lazy and started thinking about every aspect he would put into the game on his own.

Most of the game stuff he could do using the basic system resources, as Minecraft wasn't a game with a lot of stuff, he didn't need to spend a lot of Gaming Points on development.

Of course, that's because he decided to use one of the older versions of the game.

The game wouldn't have the latest updates like Caves Update, Nether Update, Villager and Pillager Update... but it still had a lot of stuff available, much more advanced than early versions of Minecraft in its previous world.

Curious, Alex asked the system something. "System, is it possible to make the game available for players to develop mods?"

[It is possible, but as the game is not made using any of the platforms in this world, the user will have to spend 50 Gaming Points to develop a mod development platform. ]

"Hmm...that's good. I approve. Even though it's a little expensive, it's still essential for this game." Alex said with a smile on his face.

"But system, you said the game is not made using any of the platforms in this world, how does that work?" Alex asked.

[The game is developed on a more evolved world platform, which reduces the expense and time needed to make the game. Of the 200 points spent on choosing the game style, 50% is used to convert the game to an acceptable platform in this world, while the other 50% is used for features used in the game itself. ]

"An acceptable platform in this world? How so?" Alex asked with a frown. He thought this game would be played on PC or a console.

[The advanced world platform is made for playing games where the player is teleported to other worlds. However, on this platform if the player dies in the game, he also dies in real life. That's why it's necessary to modify this platform so that only the player's conscience goes to the game world, and add a security system so that the player goes back to the original world if he dies in the game. ]

As he read this message floating in front of him, Alex felt the hairs on his body rise. He thought he was just developing an ordinary computer game, but he was actually working on a program that sent people to other worlds?! If there was no such security system, would players die in his games?

Luckily there was this security system, so Alex was more reassured about it. Over time he even got excited imagining what it would be like to play Minecraft in person.

He had seen videos of people playing Minecraft in VR in his previous life, but nobody really liked it, they said it was too weird and claustrophobic. Some professionals even said it was because of the hardware limitation at the time.

But according to what the system said, Alex would not have to worry about this limitation and could experience the game perfectly.

With that in mind, he was even more concerned about making the game better.

To turn the game's lighting into something more realistic, he even paid another 50 Gaming Points to add a pack of Shaders to the game world. It would be very strange to enter another reality and the sun is weak, the water has no reflection.

After that the graphics were amazing.

The problem was when he started to feel like he had forgotten about some things in the game.

"What do I do..." Alex asked himself worriedly.

He played Minecraft for many years, but it's one thing to play it, another thing to remember every detail, every block, every mob.

Until he realized he still had 100 free points.

"System, is there anything I can do to remember all the details of a game?" Alex asked worriedly.

[User can purchase a Memory Capsule for 50 Gaming Points. This capsule will make the user remember everything related to something specific for 24 hours. After 24 hours, the memory about it will start to fade if the user doesn't pay attention to that thing again, but if the user really concentrates on what he wants to remember, he can remember that thing again, but not so easily. Ps. Using multiple memory capsules on something specific can make that memory permanent. ]

Reading that in the message floating in front of him made Alex break into a satisfied smile. He could still save 50 Gaming Points after using the memory pod.

Without thinking twice he bought the capsule and swallowed it.

In a few seconds a lot of memories started to pop into his mind, initially it hurt a little, but as time went by it only got slightly uncomfortable.

Until he completely adapted to that memory and went back to developing Minecraft.

Alex was determined to finish Minecraft tonight.

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"It's finally ready..." Alex said in a tired voice as he finished reviewing the game thoroughly.

He had been awake for 21 hours developing Minecraft and reviewing until he could no longer find any Bugs.

"It would be nice to actually have lots of Gaming Points to be able to let the system play the game using just my memory... unfortunately my remaining 50 points are way off the 50,000 points needed to be able to do that..." Alex sighed as he fiddled with the computer .

In the [Game Developer ] program, there was a [Test ] button. Alex couldn't think about how the game would be after being submitted, he was really looking forward to testing the game right now, but the fatigue he was feeling was very heavy, to the point that he found it difficult even to go to the bathroom.

So, after washing away the dirty cutlery, which he used to eat the rest of the rabbit he had hunted, Alex lay down on his bed and slept very peacefully.

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The next day, Alex woke up excited to test the game. First he put some wood to burn to warm him up, and enthusiastically pressed the [Launch ] button in the program.

In the blink of an eye, Alex found himself in a completely different place. Instead of the small cabin he'd lived in for the last month, surrounded by pine trees and lots of snow, this time Alex was finally feeling warm again.

"This...this is magic!" He yelled excitedly as he looked around curiously.

There was green grass, oak trees, sheep, cows, everything he had imagined was in front of him.

The only problem that made him feel a little uncomfortable was that the whole world had something different... everything was square! But unlike the minecraft he saw through his computer screen, this time everything around him was square, it was like the whole world was squared to match itself.

With emotion, Alex ran towards a tree and did something he always imagined it would be like.

*Punch*

Alex punched a tree! But instead of what he imagined, the trunk of the tree did not break, but began to show cracks.

*Punch, Punch, Punch *

After three more punches, the tree trunk actually broke, and just as Alex imagined the tree remained in place, floating as if nothing had happened.

The experience of seeing this happening through a computer screen and making it happen with your own arms was completely different.

*Punch, Punch, Punch, Punch *

Alex continued to break trees until something happened. The leaves on the trees began to fall, and between the leaves a bright red apple also fell.

Curious, Alex took the apple and took a bite of it.

"What a divine taste!" He yelled in excitement making his blue shirt sway over the sides.

Finally Alex noticed something different. This should probably be the first thing a person entering this world would notice, but having played minecraft for so many years, Alex just ignored it without realizing how weird it was.

His hand that held the apple was square, his arms were rectangular, when he took his own face, he felt that his face was also square!

As he ran towards a nearby river, Alex saw a very familiar face.

"Steve..." He said shocked.

Looking at one's reflection and seeing Steve was shocking. But unlike playing on the computer monitor, seeing it with your own eyes was strangely...normal.

His eyes moved naturally, his mouth moved naturally, there were square teeth that for some reason could eat the apple well, his hand had fingers that even though they were square also looked natural.

All of this got Alex very excited making him explore everything. He had adapted crafting to work in a more "magical" way. The player still had the inventory, but crafting had been revamped.

Opening the inventory, Alex used his mind to make a cookbook come out. The book contained all the things a player could do with the materials he currently had, and the more different things the player got, the more pages the book would receive.

Initially minecraft didn't have this book, but this made many casual gamers not try to play the game as it was too difficult, so in later versions the developer added something that Alex also did in his game.

Following the recipe given in the book, Alex opened his inventory and took the other item that newbies would receive. A black box with a tool symbol.

The box had nine compartments where the player could place the block miniatures and items they had. By following the recipe in the book and placing the blocks and items in the right places, when closing the box it would glow and when opened again, the finished item would come out of there.

Alex had changed more things in the game to make gameplay more fun for players, but that he was too lazy to test for now.

Seeing that the game was starting to get dark, Alex realized that it had probably been 20 minutes since he entered the game.

As he ate an apple on minecraft, he felt he wasn't hungry, but his body in life really was probably feeling it, so he decided to quit the game for something to eat.

With a satisfied smile, Alex rose from his computer chair and marveled at the system he'd been given.

If he can keep using this system to make more games, the people of the world will go crazy about it. Even he, whoever made the game was dying to play, so who will say other players?

With a smile on his face, Alex used the mouse to click the [Launch ] button.

Under the system, this button would make the game launch on all non-exclusive digital platforms, that is, as long as it wasn't a digital store for a console, or a digital store for a game brand, all stores that accepted developers independents would have his game listed on the shelves as if he had actually signed up to promote his game there.

After hitting [Launch ], Alex decided to look at the system store and see if he could buy some cheap food so he wouldn't have to go hunting any more animals.

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Meanwhile, in an apartment in the suburbs of NY, a chubby young teenager was browsing the world's most famous online game store.

Unfortunately he was very bored. All the games were very similar, it was either a game about Captain America in WWII, or a game where a soldier had to fight Nazis, or worse, a game where the company just wanted to take money from players, making them spend a lot to be able to stay strong.

Ned didn't have the money to play this type of game, so he was always weaker than other players. That's why he gave up on that kind of game.

But no matter where he looked, Ned couldn't find any interesting games to play.

He even went to the "Recently Added" tab, but he couldn't find anything there.

Until he saw something that caught his attention.

Among several war-themed games, there was one game that was standing out a lot for being different.

A pixelart that apparently represented a land, with a name written across the front in square fonts.

[Minecraft ]

Curious, Ned clicked on this different game and saw that the game page didn't have much information. The only information I had was some promotional images of a square man apparently looking after a farm, with pigs, cows, sheep, horses.

"Is this a game where the player is a farmer?" Ned wondered aloud as he became interested.

He had never seen a game where the player was a farmer. He was tired of war games, so watching a game about a farm seemed fun.

Seeing that the price of the game was only $20, he felt it could be worth it, after all if the game could entertain him for a few days it would be enough.

"I just hope this isn't one of those games that sucks the player's money..." He thought as he pressed the [Play ] button.

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When Ned pressed the [Play ] button, he strangely felt a slight dizziness before seeing that everything around him had become clear.

Having been in the dark room for a long time, Ned took a while to adapt to the light.

At this point he was extremely scared!

"Shit, did I die? Will I become a soldier in my next life?! Please nooooo....!!!!!" Ned yelled as he started to cry and knelt on the floor.

But when he knelt down, Ned felt like he was kneeling in grass. Confused, he wiped his own tears and looked around, only to see a very bright and colorful world.

"Is this... is this heaven? Is heaven a square?" He asked himself confused as he tried to understand what was going on.

Until he saw a screen floating in front of him.

Curious, Ned approached and saw what was written.

[Minecraft ]

[Single Player ]

[Multiplayer - Coming Soon ]

[Quit]

Seeing this Ned was shocked.

"Is this... is this the game?!" Nervously he hit the exit button, and feeling the dizziness he'd previously felt, but now a little weaker, in a flash Ned found himself in his own room again, with the Minecraft Launcher screen in front of him, with the mouse over the [Play ] button.

"I returned?" He wondered as he looked around his room, which was just as he had left it before he left.

Ned was scared of this game, but like a good nerd, Ned was even more curious about it. After all, if this was a game, it was his duty to complete the game completely. Even more so because it was such a different game, he was tempted to dig deeper and see what would happen.

Then with a confident expression, like a warrior going to an unknown war, Ned pressed [Play ] again.

When he opened his eyes again, Ned found himself in the same green, colorful, and square world he was in before, but this time he didn't press [Exit ], but rather [Single Player ].

When he hit that button, the screen vanished in front of him, making Ned look around curiously.

The first thing he noticed was that his arms had turned square. 'It's probably to match the world, right?' Ned asked himself mentally.

On his back he felt a backpack, so out of curiosity he grabbed the backpack and opened it.

But instead of seeing what was inside, Ned saw a screen floating in front of him, with a book and a box, and several empty spaces.

Curious, he reached into his backpack and reached for the book.

Magically the book came out of his hand.

Opening the book carefully, Ned began to read the instructions and was a little confused.

While holding the book, Ned walked towards a tree and took a breath before punching the tree.

*Punch*

As soon as he closed his eyes in fear of the pain the punch would bring him, he heard the crunch of bark breaking, but the pain he'd been waiting for didn't come.

More confident now, Ned punched the tree again, and saw that it was even more cracked. Followed by other punches the torso suddenly broke and turned into a small block that floated in front of him.

"Is this floating?" He asked shocked as he ran his square hand between the two trunks to see if there was nothing holding it, but really there was nothing!

Picking up a small floating block, Ned put it in his own backpack and found a diversion.

Not caring what the book was telling him to do, Ned started punching everything, trees, dirt, sand, stone. Everything he punched sometimes broke.

Curious about these little blocks, Ned decided to throw it on the ground and see what happened.

*Bamf*

The small miniature block he was holding suddenly grew and returned to its former size as soon as it hit the ground.

"Woahh!!" Ned was shocked.

He loved playing lego as he had several different lego collections, but he never imagined he could play with such a big lego.

So without thinking twice, Ned started breaking up all the land he saw along the way and started putting the small blocks in his backpack.

When he felt hungry, Ned ate one of the apples that fell from the trees and savored the sweet taste of those fruits.

"If apples in real life were so good, I wouldn't mind going on a diet..." He said in a low voice as he finished eating the apple and prepared to make his first build.

With a confident look, Ned began to toss the blocks of earth to the ground. He had taken many blocks of earth to make this great construction.

*Bamf, Bamf, Bamf*

Several blocks were piling up until they finally formed a large structure that he was proud of.

"This is my castle, and I am the King! King Ned! Mwaahahahaha!" He started to laugh out loud as he looked around.

*Bruuuhhh*

Suddenly, a deep voice was heard near Ned's castle.

Curious, Ned looked around as he wondered. "What is this, is it another player? But I'm playing Single Player...maybe it's an NPC?"

*Bruuuuuhhhh*

The voice got even louder, making Ned a little uneasy.

As long as he played behind a mouse and keyboard, Ned wasn't afraid of NPCs, but now that he was in the game, Ned was getting really scared.

"Who's there?" He yelled as he looked around.

It was completely at night, it was almost impossible to see more than 10 meters away.

This was making Ned even more afraid.

Until Ned finally saw the silhouette that was making the noise, but instead of being relaxed, Ned was terrified.

"Is this a Zombie?!!!!! I thought this was a farm game, why is there a zombie here?!" Ned was horrified. He was scared of real zombies, and now he was seeing a zombie in front of him coming with its arms outstretched like it was going to eat his brain at any moment.

"Shit, shit..." He grabbed his own backpack and pulled out the book to try and see what he was supposed to do. But because it was so dark, Ned couldn't read anything.

He had left the entrance to the castle open, thinking it would be easier for him to pass that way, but who would have thought he had opened the henhouse door for the fox to enter?!

Not knowing what to do, Ned did the only thing he had done so far.

*Punch, Punch, Punch *

Ned began desperately pounding the ground and digging a hole for himself to hide.

When he was completely in the hole, Ned took a miniature earth block and not the top part, getting stuck in a 1x1x2 space.

Ned didn't know it, but by pure instinct he had used the most famous tactic in Alex's previous world for novice players who were afraid to play Minecraft at night, dig a hole and wait until dawn.

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"Hmm, the food looks good, 1 Gaming point for a pack of 20 CupNoodles? Doesn't seem like a bad deal." Alex was entertained looking at the system store.

He had looked to the other tabs for what might be useful to him, and aside from everyday things that were cheap, the rest was very expensive.

He could get powers from anime, movies, but it was very, very expensive.

[Dominic Toretto Driving Skills: 3,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Deadshot Weapon Mastery: 10,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Gray Fullbuster Ice Magic: 100,000 ]

[Megumin Fire Magic: 500,000 Gaming Points. ]

Unfortunately even Dominic Toretto's driving techniques were at a price Alex couldn't even think to pay.

So he just contented himself with looking at the price of food for now. He was rooting for Minecraft to succeed and generate more Gaming Points for him.

Alex didn't know what the world he was like, since he got here he was trapped in this mountain, with no contact with the outside world, so he was afraid of meeting a dragon, or a demon lord who controlled this world.

"These 20 CupNoodles can last for 10 days, I think that in 10 days Minecraft has already generated me at least 1 Gaming Point, right?" He asked himself a little uncertainly.

But because of the hunger he was feeling, and the lack of industrialized food he was feeling, Alex gritted his teeth and spent 1 Gaming Point to buy these CupNoodles.

"This is divine... I missed this so much!!" Alex exclaimed happily as he feasted on the noodles.

Until he saw something that caught his attention on the computer screen.

[1 Active Player in 'Minecraft' ]

"What? Has anyone already bought Minecraft? But it's been less than 30 minutes since I made it online..." Alex asked himself both surprised and confused.

Opening the [Game Following ] program, Alex saw that there was an icon of an active player, with a small one-eyed button next to that player's icon.

Curious, Alex clicked on the icon and saw that his computer screen was playing a world of Minecraft, as if he were in spectator mode.

On the screen, there was a worried Steve looking around, apparently afraid of something.

"He's been playing for just over 20 minutes...so he's past his first night? This is surprising, I remember my first time playing minecraft I had died to a skeleton's arrow at night and nearly died for that player to survive the first night in such an immersive game is commendable." Alex said to himself with a smile as he sucked some CupNoodles.

Gradually he became more and more entertained watching this player venturing into the world of minecraft.

When he saw the player about to have a heart attack when he saw a Creeper exploding next to him Alex almost died laughing.

"This is like watching one of those well-crafted animations from my previous life, those people had so much talent that they could make such compelling stories in minecraft, this kid seems to have a talent for entertaining people." Alex smiled as he continued to watch.

Without him noticing, an hour had passed and he was still watching this boy's adventures in this new world. "Maybe this is the fun of those gods who reincarnate humans in unknown worlds? Maybe I'm fun like that for someone? Nah, I just sat in front of the computer and made a game, I guess I'm not that interesting."

But after saying that, Alex realized something. "But this player is interesting, how about I develop a way to stream this?"

With that idea in mind, Alex minimized [Game Following ] and opened [Game Developer ].

Using the mind commands for the system made it very easy to implement streaming mode in the game, unfortunately this cost Alex another 30 Gaming Points as it wasn't part of the basic Sandbox game mode. But he was satisfied with that, after all, he knew the power that livestreams had in his previous life to convince players to buy games.

Hitting the [Update ] button, Alex smiled and looked at that player's screen again. Unfortunately he had been the only person to buy Minecraft so far, but it wouldn't stay that way for long.

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Ned was having so much fun, he hadn't even noticed that almost two hours of play had already passed. After discovering that he could make swords, pickaxes, shovels, armor, Ned became addicted.

He wanted to mine deeper and deeper into the caves, but he was afraid of encountering some unknown monster.

After he saw that green monster that explodes he was shocked.

But that didn't stop Ned from venturing into the surface and shallower caves. So he got his first iron armor.

Looking at the shining armor between his arms made Ned very proud, he had conquered this armor with a lot of effort, which made him value it even more.

But as Ned admired his iron armor, a floating screen appeared in front of him.

[A new update has come up, do you want to update the game now? You will need to restart the game to apply updates. ]

Seeing this Ned was surprised. From what he had seen when he bought the game, it had been released today, and was there an update already?

But despite the doubts, Ned decided to accept and disconnected from the game for three seconds before returning to the world again.

"So fast? Maybe it could just be a little bug fix..." Ned said out loud as he went back to admiring the armor in front of him.

When he went to put his old leather armor in his backpack, Ned saw something different there.

Next to the backpack was something that wasn't there before... a camera!

"When did I get a camera? I don't remember crafting this." He said to himself a little uncertainly.

When he took the camera, he saw a small screen explaining what it was,

[This is the streaming camera. To start a live broadcast it is necessary to log in to the desired platform account. ]

"This... should I? Last time it didn't work out very well..." Ned wondered before shaking his head. "Damn it, I won't lose anything with this anyway, why not give it a try? Certainly other people will be amazed by this game too, this could be my opportunity!"

With conviction, Ned logged into his Twitch account and pressed the camera button to begin streaming.

As soon as the camera light turned red, he got a little shy as he held the camera not knowing what to do.

[PParker: Hey Ned, are you trying streaming again? What is it? It's a movie? Dude, be careful, you could get sued for this... D: ]

Seeing his best friend's text, Ned smiled and replied. "Hi Peter, this isn't a movie, look, it's me!" And he started to move his arms as he waved from side to side.

[PParker: What?! How are you doing this? Are you using body tracking? How did you get so much money?! ]

"Hahaha, it's not body tracking, look, this is the house I built, in the beginning it was just an earth castle, but then I took some stone with my pickaxe and managed to exchange the land for stone, now it's much tougher!" Ned said as he started to show with the camera and explain the things he's done in the world since he started playing.

[PParker: Woah!! How are you doing this?! Pls tell me! I want to try too! ]

[dark _knight: Hey bro, what's this? I was passing through other livestreams and saw that yours seems to be using CGI, are you a V-Tuber? ]

And so more people started arriving on Ned's livestream, some came out of boredom, others came because friends called, but after joining this weird livestream, no one could leave, everything was very new and magical for them, Ned often had to explain the most basic things in the game over and over, but no one got tired of hearing it as he walked around this world holding the camera.

Viewers were feeling like they were somehow watching a human from another world as he explored it, it was so much better than a movie!

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Alex was thrilled to see people liking the player's livestream, who apparently was named Ned.

"Finally some entertainment!" Alex squealed in happiness.

He didn't have any form of contact with the outside world, only being able to do things related to the game, so being able to watch other people interact was already a big step forward for him.

[Ding ]

[Ding ]

Two new notifications came from the [Game Analytics ] app.

In this show he could see how the game was doing, how much it sold, how long players were online, and that sort of thing.

Those two notifications only meant one thing, he sold two more copies!

Ned's livestream had 40 people watching him, and the number was continuing to grow. For someone like Ned who only had 1 follower before he started playing, getting 40 people together was awesome. And these people calling more and more friends was becoming a great free publicity for Alex's game.

[Units sold: 3 ($60) ]

"My game has already sold $60! This is amazing!" Alex was happy as he rushed to open the [Converter ] tab to calculate how many points he could earn from these sales of copies of the game.

[$60 = 0.3 Gaming Points ]

"Urhgg... that's not even 1 Gaming Point? So I'll need $200 to get 1 Gaming Point? To make another 200 Gaming Points Sandbox game would I need $40,000? Damn, that's too expensive! What a conversion! ridiculous is that?" Alex yelled in frustration.

"I need to calm down, $40,000 is only 2,000 units sold... not a lot, right?" Alex wondered uncertainly.

Minecraft in his previous world had sold 600 million copies, which was equivalent to 120 billion dollars if it sold at $20 each copy, with such huge potential, Alex didn't have to worry that it wouldn't yield anything for him. The game would probably take a while to start generating more profit, but he shouldn't be in a hurry.

With his mind made up, Alex thought about eating another CupNoodles to celebrate, but remembering that each CupNoodles this one was costing $10, he felt a little guilty for eating this, after all, it was almost 20% of what he had already earned with the game so far...

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With a source of entertainment, the day went by pretty quickly. Alex used the rest of the day to continue watching Ned's livestream and felt that it was a lot of fun, way better than sitting in the cabin doing nothing like he was being forced to do before.

The next day, Alex opened [Game Analytics ] and saw the Minecraft stats.

[Minecraft ]

[Units Sold: 41 ($820 ]

[Average time played: 5 hours. ]

[Peak simultaneous players: 34 ]

"This... do I already have enough for 4 Gaming Points?!" Alex was excited. He would no longer have to regulate his own food for fear of not having enough money to support it.

Adding to the 19 Gaming Points he had previously, he could now convert that money and have 23 Gaming Points.

It wasn't much, but he had noticed that more players had started making Minecraft Livestream, which would draw even more attention to the game, providing more sales for it in the future.

"I think the next thing I should develop is multiplayer. This will attract even more people, but before that I need to collect 50 Gaming Points..." Alex chatted to himself.

He wanted to launch Minecraft with multiplayer mode, but to do that he would need to pay more points, which he didn't have much left, so he had to just leave the [Soon ] button next to multiplayer in the game.

With 50 Gaming Points he could buy a server that would support 5,000 people playing online, which was a pretty good number considering that 5,000 people would earn him 500 Gaming Points.

"For now all I can do is wait..." Alex sighed as he opened [Game Following ] and started watching Ned's livestream again. He was surprised that there were already 93 people watching Ned's livestream, that was pretty fast growth for someone who didn't have any followers yesterday.

Until a notification popped up in front of him that left him a little confused.

[Ding, a Mutant just purchased the game, do you want to allow the mutant to use his abilities in the game? ]

"A mutant? What are mutants? Maybe humans who killed a beast and absorbed the essence of it? Or a human who was born with problems?" Alex started to wonder curious, still thinking that this could be a world of magic. He knew the X-Men, but for some reason he was so focused that this could be a world of Dragons and Magic that he didn't think it was a mutant he knew well.

"What does it cost to allow this?" Alex asked the system.

[To allow mutants to use abilities in the game requires 25 Gaming Points for 1250 mutants, if user wanted to allow mutants to lend abilities to humans in game, 25 Gaming Points will be needed for 1250 humans to receive abilities. ]

Seeing this Alex was shocked. That would be very interesting to see. Humans are prejudiced beings, he doesn't doubt that these mutants suffer prejudice wherever they go, but allowing them to lend abilities could make humans see them differently.

"I'll do it when I have enough Gaming Points, it's good to be a considerate game developer!" Alex thought with a proud smile.

He just didn't know that this move would attract a lot more attention than he imagined around the world.

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Kurt Wagner was looking for a fun livestream channel to watch, but he was tired of just seeing people playing shooting or war games, these games were cool to play for a year or two, but since he was a kid these were the only types game he had available to play, it became very repetitive...

Until one day, while rummaging through the Twitch website, Kurt found something different.

A livestream with a very intriguing title.

[Minecraft: Another World ]

Curious, he clicked on this livestream to see what was so special about this game, but what he saw surprised Kurt.

On his screen was a small square man holding a camera and talking to people while tending a large farm.

If the man wasn't square, Kurt would think this was just an IRL livestream from some farmer who just wanted company. But no, the square man was wearing armor on his body while he had a sword strapped to his waist, this was not something that happened on farms.

Curious he typed a message in the chat.

[Crawler: What is this? I am new here. ]

Kurt didn't imagine the man's answer would come practically in an instant.

"Haha, this is your first time friend Crawler? Don't be surprised, everyone is like that after seeing Minecraft for the first time. This is a virtual reality game where you go to another world and you can have your own adventures. side of the barn? I was the one who built it with my own hands!" Ned said excitedly as he pointed to the house he was so proud to build.

Kurt was very surprised to see this, as the man responded almost instantly. 'Is this really a game? I was thinking it was some kind of movie, or some new technology for V-Tubers, but the way this man is acting and showing everything around him while interacting with objects, it really feels like a game!' Kurt was excited.

With excitement he opened the game store and bought the game right away.

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It had been three days since Kurt had purchased Minecraft. He was completely addicted to this game. His friends at the mansion were also curious about why Kurt was always 'sleeping' in his computer chair, but when they found out what game he was playing they were just as excited as he was and started playing it too.

"Kurt, I found that if you pair Blaze Powder with an Enderpearl you get an Ender Eye, which shows you the direction of a dragon dungeon!" Kitty Pride said to Kurt excitedly as they ate breakfast.

"What?! A dragon? I thought the most powerful monsters were the Endermans! Where did you get this Blaze Powder?" Kurt asked very surprised.

"I found it in an abandoned mine chest, unfortunately I could only find one, so after using the Ender Eye a few times it broke..." Kitty said a little discouraged.

Suddenly, as they were talking, Evan Daniels approached them and said excitedly. "Guys, Ned found you can go to hell in minecraft!"

"WHAT?!!!!!" (2x)

The two screamed in surprise at this, they thought there was only one dimension in Minecraft, but was there a way to go to hell?!

"Yes, remember he made the door to his castle with the obsidian he had taken with a diamond pickaxe? Then, without meaning to, he set fire to the forest near his castle and the door to his house turned into a portal to hell!" Evan said excitedly as he grabbed his cell phone and showed it to the other kids.

Because of the volume of Evan's voice, the other kids were curious and also came to see his cell phone. Onscreen, Ned was in a world with red rocks and lava instead of water.

Suddenly Ned saw a big castle made of red blocks and started to get excited to get those blocks to use in his castle.

But the young people didn't pay attention to what he said, everyone was talking excitedly about the hell in the game.

"Damn! I didn't know there was a hell! I thought there was only one dimension!" A little boy said.

"Is there more to this hell?! Stronger monsters?!" Another boys said.

"Look over that castle, there are black skeletons holding swords! They must be very strong!" A girl said excitedly as she pointed towards the castle.

In the mansion's canteen, all the young men were around Evan as they watched the livestream of Ned venturing through hell.

Until Ned killed a yellow fire-breathing monster and dropped a strange item he didn't know what to serve.

"Is that!!!" Kitty Pride screamed in surprise.

"What?" Kurt asked her confused.

"That's the Blaze Powder I told you about! Damn it, so we have to go to hell to get that! I have to go to the bedroom to get diamonds fast, I want to fight the dragon!" Kitty said as she ran out of the canteen.

But just as she was running through the cafeteria, she bumped into someone and fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" the person asked worriedly. "Don't run inside the mansion, it can be dangerous."

"Miss Munroe, I'm sorry I'm not running anymore." Kitty said a little embarrassed as she scratched the back of her head.

"Why is everyone so excited?" Ororo Munroe asked in surprise as he saw all the young people excited and arguing about something interesting.

"This... this is a new game we started playing. It's a game that takes you to another dimension and has an amazing adventure, I was running because I wanted to go to hell and kill a fire-breathing monster!" Kitty said excitedly.

Hearing these words from Kitty left Ororo a little confused. If it was just a game it would be hard to get these kids so excited, so, curious, she silently approached the kids and saw her nephew Evan's cell phone.

On the screen was a small square man talking to the camera and fighting off some black skeletons, while every now and then he took a pickaxe and started breaking down the castle.

She was having a hard time understanding what was going on until Kurt Wagner said something that surprised her.

"Yes, I already told you, you don't need to be so afraid of dying, it hurts a little, but you can go back to the place you died and retrieve the items." Kurt said as he explained something to the younger boys.

"But Kurt, last time a zombie ripped my arm off and I was really scared, it's really weird looking at your arm and not seeing anything." A boy said dejectedly.

"Don't worry about it, after a while you get used to it, the first time I entered that world, I felt very uncomfortable not having my tail, but over time I got used to it, until a zombie ripped my leg off. ! It hurt a lot the first time, but as time went by I didn't feel it anymore, it's just that you always carry food in your backpack and it will grow again!" Kurt explained excitedly, causing the kids to be shocked at how brave he was.

"Mr. Wagner, what do you mean by pain?" Ororo asked intrigued.

Seeing that one of the teachers was listening to his conversation made Kurt a little embarrassed, but he quickly responded. "Don't you know Minecraft Mrs. Munroe? It's a game where you are literally teleported to another world, your body is sleeping in real life, but your consciousness goes to another world, it's magic!" Kurt said excitedly.

But when he saw Evan's warning expression beside him, and the students around him, he realized he'd screwed up. He shouldn't have told the teacher about Minecraft, as she'll probably say it's dangerous and they shouldn't play.

"This, but it's just a game..." Kurt said a little scared.

But at this point it was too late, Ororo was worried about the students and instructed everyone to avoid playing this 'Minecraft' game for now as she was going to tell Professor Xavier about it.

The students were sad because they wanted to go to the world of minecraft and invade hell, but they knew they couldn't disobey the teachers at the mansion.

Ororo did not stay with the students for long and went directly to Professor Xavier's office.

"Professor..." Ororo said respectfully after entering his office.

There was both Professor Xavier and Hank McCoy and Logan. Apparently they were discussing methods for the kids to focus more on training and studies, as lately they weren't focusing much.

"Yes Ororo, you arrived at the right time." Xavier said with a warm smile.

"I'm sorry Professor, but this time I came to talk about something else, a danger the students are facing." Ororo said with concern.

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Alex was extremely happy. Minecraft was selling a lot more than he thought it would sell in the first week.

[Minecraft ]

[Units sold: 321 ($6,420)]

[Average time played: 6 hours. ]

[Peak of simultaneous players: 241 ]

He had already sold over $6,400, which was equivalent to 32 Gaming Points!

With that he could finally launch the game's multiplayer mode, which would definitely attract more players, as well as making current players even more addicted to the game, as playing alone was fun, but playing with friends was several times more fun!

With a smile on his face, Alex sat down at the computer and started setting up minecraft's multiplayer mode.

Using 50 Gaming Points, he bought a server that would support 5,000 people, which would be more than enough for the player-base now.

First he activated a LAN Servers option, which would be free. On this type of server, as long as the two players had the game and were connected to the same internet network, they could connect to the same world together.

Secondly Alex decided to add a mode where the player could buy a world online, the world would cost $1 a month and the player could invite up to 10 people to the world with him, if he wanted more slots he would have to buy separately.

That was an idea that Alex had when making the multiplayer mode. As the game was made on a very different platform from his previous world, it would be impossible to get hosts for players to make their own servers, so in order to accommodate these people he decided to make a system to host himself. Players would have no lag at all, and would just pay a cheap price to play with friends.

If someone wanted to make a big server with many slots, people would have to pay a lot more money, and then it would be up to the server owner to make the server profitable with the micro-transactions they chose.

And finally, Alex decided to make some servers for himself, to encourage players to play the multiplayer mode, ie he would make some minigames on a server that players could join.

The server name would be the name of one of Alex's favorite servers in his previous world.

[Hypixel ]

But he couldn't make many minigames with the features he currently had available, so he chose only two of the simpler but a lot of fun minigames he liked to play.

[Build-Battle ] and [Hunger Games ].

Luckily he didn't have to build the lobby manually, the only thing Alex needed to do was imagine what the lobby would look like, or rather, remember what Hypixel's lobby looked like in his previous world and tell the system to build it.

With a smile on his face, after a few hours of setting everything up, Alex finally hit the [Test ] button.

The dizziness he received the first time was gone, after getting used to playing this game it faded with time, so Alex just blinked and in the next second he found himself in the world of Minecraft again.

But unlike normal, now he was in a medieval town, with a big purple portal facing him, around him he could see some stalls with Villagers that could sell some useful things to players.

With an excited smile on his face, Alex headed for a Villager he had programmed.

*Hrmm*

The Villager made his usual sound as he made a screen appear floating in front of Alex.

After changing the settings on the window a bit, Alex finally pressed confirm and felt a light come down on him.

With a smile, Alex ran to the nearest mirror and found himself there.

Instead of the standard "Steve" Skin that he had previously worn, Alex was now wearing a skin with a worn brown shirt, light gray pants and black shoes.

He had made his own skin to match the name he would use in the game.

Through the mirror, Alex could see a name floating around.

[Notch ]

That was the name he chose for himself, both as a form of admiration and an homage to the true creator of Minecraft.

The Skin he had been made based on the original Notch Skin, the only difference being that instead of a long beard and a bald head, Alex changed to a bald beard and a head with long black hair.

Skin was pretty simple, but Alex liked simple things, so he was satisfied with that.

That was his idea, the characters Skin change would be free once a week on the Hypixel server, if someone wanted to change it before a week, he would have to pay $1 for each time it changed, resetting the time again.

As players liked to be unique, Alex thought it would be interesting to allow players to change their appearance as well. The changed skins in Hypixel worked on all Minecraft servers, including SinglePlayer mode, so even if a player didn't like playing with other people, he would still need to come to Hypixel to be able to change his own appearance in the game.

And when he came here, he was likely to be interested in one of the games. Those who are more violent could enjoy playing Hunger Games, and the more peaceful and creative had fun playing Build Battle.

The server had a Vip system, where the player could pay to have unlimited Skin swaps, colored capes for the player to wear, and be able to choose the color of the name above their head.

Nothing that would give you an edge against other players, but still allow players to support the game, and help the game earn more income.

After testing the minigames, Alex was satisfied with what he had done and decided to quit Minecraft.

Seeing that there were 298 players online in the game, Alex felt it would be a good time to notify that a new update had been released.

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Ned was very happy the last few days, and the big reason for that was that he got to know Minecraft.

Minecraft was not only an extremely fun and innovative game, it was also the game that changed his life.

From a high school student, to a streamer who had over 500 people watching him every day.

Most Minecraft players got to know the game through Ned's livestream, so these people liked to see him play it from time to time.

The money Ned was getting on the livestream was pretty good, in just a week playing minecraft he had made over $600, which for a kid who was still in school and just staying at home playing video games was amazing.

But today something familiar happened.

While he was using Nether's stones to make his castle even more intimidating, a screen appeared in front of Ned.

[A new update is available, do you want to restart the game to update? ]

Seeing this Ned was excited and without thinking twice pressed the button.

[Yes! ]

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Restarting the game was a very quick process, so right after going back to the game's start menu, Ned was explaining to viewers what was going on.

"The last time there was an update like this, the game had unlocked the option for people to livestream while playing, what will the game add now?" Ned asked viewers.

[PParker: Maybe another dimension like hell? ]

[Crawler: I think it might be new monsters! ]

...

Viewers started making their own guesses, but when Ned walked over to the start menu screen, he was surprised by what he saw.

[Minecraft ]

[Single Player ]

[Multiplayer - Available ]

[Quit ]

"Multiplayer mode is available!!" Ned yelled in excitement, making viewers as excited as he was.

[PParker: Hurry, start playing, I want to know what it's like! ]

[Crawler: Damn! I wish I could be playing, but my teacher forbade me... ]

[PinkyPenny: I feel sorry for the comment above. ]

[Randomviewer1: I feel sorry for the comment above. +1 ]

[Randomviewer2: I feel sorry for the comment above. +2 ]

[Randomviewer10: I feel sorry for the comment above. +10 ]

[Randomviewer50: I feel sorry for the comment above. +50 ]

Kurt almost cried when reading these comments, but curiosity about the multiplayer mode kept him focused on the computer screen while he waited for Ned to play.

And Ned didn't let these people down. When clicking [Multiplayer ], another window appeared.

[Hypixel - 15/5,000 ]

[Create own server? ]

Ned didn't want to create his own server, so without thinking twice he clicked on Hypixel and was teleported to that world.

What he saw around him stunned Ned.

Unlike the simple castle he was building, the buildings in this world were gigantic and very well made.

There were very tall houses with beautiful roofs, small simple houses, stalls with villagers behind them who seemed to be selling something, and most attractive, a large purple portal in front of it.

"That portal leads to hell?" Ned asked himself in surprise. He had never seen such a large portal, he even felt intimidated by it.

Around it were 15 more surprised players looking at the big portal.

Looking around, Ned saw that they all looked the same as he did, which made him a little uncomfortable. The only difference was two players who appeared to be girls, who had a female skin.

But before Ned could complain about it, he saw a person different from the others.

He was a player with long black hair, a brown shirt and gray pants. On the back of this player was a red cape with the face of a creeper that swayed in the wind. Above that player's head was a name.

[Notch ]

This made other players' attention shift from the portal to that player immediately.

"Hey buddy, how did you change your appearance? And where did you get this cape, is it an item?" Ned ran and asked this unknown player. For some reason Ned felt that this cover made this player really cool.

The player stopped and looked at Ned, before cracking a smile and pointing to a Villager, then he turned and continued walking between the houses in that place and disappeared out of sight of the players.

Seeing the villager that this player had pointed to, the other players ran to that spot before a screen appeared in front of them.

[Would you like to change your appearance? You can only exchange again after 7 days. ]

Without thinking twice Ned began to change his appearance to a little darker skin, a yellow shirt and black pants, besides a crown on his head. It was a very simple look, but it already made Ned feel that he was different from the others.

The other players also started to change their appearance, there were even two people who put on an outfit similar to Captain America's uniform and started laughing about it as they hugged each other.

But Ned noticed that there was no cape for him to choose. Then he looked around and saw a gold banner with the word VIP on it.

Curious he approached the flag and saw another screen appearing in front of him.

[VIP Banner ]

[The advantages for VIP players are... ]

[Would you like to become a VIP? ]

Ned saw that the price was only $5, so he paid immediately. He managed to earn a lot more than that while doing a livestream, so he didn't bother to become a Vip.

Soon he chose a golden cape and put it on his back.

When walking down the streets, the other players were surprised by this player's cape and also ran into the Banner before putting on their own capes to feel special.

While they were doing this, the number of players in the Lobby increased a lot.

Initially there were less than 20 people, but now it was getting pretty busy with apparently more than 100 people walking around the place to explore.

"Let's play a game?" Ned asked the chat excitedly.

Without him noticing, his livestream, which previously had only 500 people, now had more than 900 people, probably because of the novelty of this new mode.

Initially it seemed interesting to see him playing alone in the world, but at some point it got a little repetitive, but now it was different, he was in a public place with over 100 people, and they were all square like him, but as weird as that was , for some reason people accepted it very well and started to feel that it was cute.

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While Ned was trying out Multiplayer mode, Kurt was on the verge of tears in his room.

Multiplayer mode looked like a lot of fun, but he couldn't play!

As he went to the cafeteria for dinner with the other students, he noticed that they all had the same frustrated expression on their faces, probably also wanting to play Minecraft Multiplayer mode, but because of the teachers they couldn't.

Seeing how depressed the students were, Ororo went to Professor Xavier's office to see if he had discovered anything about this game, whether it was harmful or not, but when she walked into his office, Ororo saw that Xavier was apparently sleeping in his chair. .

Concerned, she approached him quickly, but before touching Xavier, Ororo saw on his computer screen a square character running back and forth with a smile on his face.

'Is he having fun walking around again...?' Ororo was shocked to see that Professor Xavier was apparently playing this game and having a great time.

'Well... if even Professor Xavier is having fun playing the game, I think I can allow the students to play too.' Ororo thought cautiously, but she was curious why this game was so much fun for these people.

'Maybe I should try too?' She asked herself confused.

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While the students at Mansion X were excited to know they could get back to playing Minecraft, Alex was flying around the Hypixel server and watching the players in Spectator mode.

It was interesting to see how these people were acting, and strangely these people were like the people in his previous world. The way they talked, the way they acted, it was all very much like his previous world, which gave Alex a sense of familiarity with it.

'It's like I'm still in my old world... there are even people with superhero skins hahaha.' He chuckled as he looked at some players who wore Captain America clothes. 'Is this a parallel reality? A world where there are wizards? After all, I can learn magic through the system, it would be a little weird if I was the only one who could use magic in the world... No, the system said there were mutants too, so maybe it could be a version that there are monsters in the world? Maybe it's a world like Solo Leveling.'

But as he floated invisibly and watched the players, Alex noticed one player different from the rest.

Having been playing Minecraft for at least a few days, most players were already used to the most basic things in the game and focused only on what's new.

But there was a different person.

A single player with long hair was just sitting in a lobby chair and watching the other players. Sometimes he got up and paced, but apparently uncomfortable standing, this player sometimes came back to sit.

Curious, Alex decided to approach this player and try to understand him, after all, for a game developer, understanding his own audience was fundamental.

Flying into an alley, Alex turned off invisibility and approached that player while looking at his Nickname.

[Professor]

"Your Nick will likely become valuable in a while." Alex said as he approached the seated man.

The Professor was surprised by another person approaching him, the first thing he noticed was that person's long hair, which made the Professor feel familiar with this man. 'He must also be bald outside of this game.'

"Like this?" Professor asked curious about the man's statement. He was normally used to always knowing the superficial thoughts of the people around him, but upon entering this world, he found that he couldn't use his own mutant powers, which on the one hand was a little uncomfortable, but on the other hand it was an experience. refreshing.

Alex saw that this player did not understand what he meant and did. 'This player must be a noob.' Alex thought with a smile, happy that even noobs were interested in Minecraft.

"Nicks like 'Black', 'White', 'Blue', 'Red', 'Happy', 'Sad' will be rare nicks in the future, as many people will consider using it as a nick, even 'Professor', as I believe other teachers will also think about using this as a nickname. Maybe in a few years, or even months, some player will contact you in order to buy your nickname." Alex said with a smile as he explained patiently.

Upon hearing this player's explanation, Professor understood what he meant and thought this situation was interesting. He wasn't short of money, so he wouldn't mind money offers for his nickname, but having people interested in it made him feel good.

"What about yours? Will yours also appreciate in the future? Notch isn't something I've heard before." Professor said with a curious expression.

"Maybe in the distant future, but it's not something I can control." Alex replied without explaining why. He didn't want to say that he was the creator of this world and that probably when people found out his nickname he could value himself a lot.

Professor was quite intrigued by Notch's answer, he really wished he could use his powers on this player to know what he was thinking, just like he always did with the people around him, but no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible to use that , it was like he was a normal human in this world, just like the others.

"What's your reason for coming to Hypixel?" Alex asked curiously.

To answer that, Professor thought for a moment and didn't feel that there was any problem in revealing the truth about it. "Some students at my school were playing this game and I was worried that it might be dangerous, so I decided to test it out. I ended up finding out that I could walk in this world again, which made me really like it here. I'm not interested in battles against monsters. or other players, just being able to walk around freely and see people going from one place to another is a lot of fun for me."

Hearing the Professor's response, Alex felt he could understand this man more. Probably a public school teacher who cared about his students, and from what he said about being able to walk, he was probably a wheelchair user, which made Alex feel quite proud.

He thought Minecraft would just be a fun game for people, but finding out that wheelchair users could freely walk around here would probably be of great help for those people in the future.

"I'm glad you liked the game, I hope your students have fun here, but don't leave their studies aside to play too haha." Alex laughed as he answered the Professor.

While the Professor was happy to talk to a person just like him who also had the same insecurity with his own head (he thought Alex was also bald), Alex was happy to talk to such a unique player in his game that he gave some ideas very useful for future Minecraft development.

The two chatted for a few hours, before Alex felt he should go out to follow the game's stats and see if there was anything he could fix.

After saying goodbye to the Professor, Alex went down an alley again and disappeared out of sight.

But what Alex didn't know is that this Professor he thought taught in a public school was actually one of the smartest people on earth. An Omega-level mutant with a Ph.D. in psychology who could read people well even without his own powers.

As soon as Alex left, Professor began to reflect on the conversation he had with this other player.

'He seems like a good person, but the way he locks Minecraft and Hypixel together, he's probably the creator of this world, or one of the creators and seems to be pretty proud of his work, especially seeing so many people having fun here. A force capable of making a parallel world like this one, he must be a much more powerful being than I can even imagine, but luckily he hasn't shown any hostility to humans or mutants, apparently he just wants people to have fun in the world. that he did... like a god!' Charles Xavier was shocked by the hypothesis he made.

'Fortunately he likes people, if not, with the power he has, there would hardly be anyone powerful enough to go against him. I must remember his name, 'Notch', and always keep my guard up. Just in case, try to remain neutral, but if you have to choose between being aggressive or friendly, always be friendly.' Xavier thought as he nodded.

'Now as to the confidentiality of this, I must keep all of this absolutely secret. If anyone finds out about this being, the world could turn to chaos...' Xavier was frightened by the possibility that other people would irritate this person by coveting his power.

While Xavier had his internal monologue and was getting more and more scared, Alex was humming happily as he walked out of the world, thinking how nice it was to talk to a teacher after so long.

He figured that this man must have had a lot of difficulties with the students, since even strong and healthy teachers had problems controlling children, he as a wheelchair person must have 10x more problems dealing with it.

If Alex had known how powerful this Professor was, he wouldn't have thought that at all, but to Alex, 'Professor' was just a nice public school teacher.

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Looking at [Game Analytics ], Alex was shocked by the numbers he was seeing.

[Minecraft ]

[795 Games sold - $15,900 ]

(Available for withdrawal: $9,500)

[Average time played: 7 hours. ]

[Peak of simultaneous players: 586 ]

[Total earned on servers sold: $156 ]

In just one day Minecraft had sold almost 500 units! That was an astronomical number that Alex didn't even dare imagine before! He thought that because of the Multiplayer mode launch, the game could probably sell 100 more copies in one day, breaking the previous record, but who would have thought that in just one day the game had sold nearly 200% of the total copies it sold. he had?!

"These players are apparently very satisfied, as these new sales are likely to have come from players convincing friends to buy, or players making Livestream about the game." Alex tried to deduce where so many sales came from.

'But that's not something completely incomprehensible, after all, I also only decided to play minecraft the first time because my friends convinced me in my previous world. These players are probably the same too, they may have seen Minecraft videos and livestreams, but because they felt it was very different and complex they may have avoided starting to play the game, but when they found they could play with friends who could teach they, they decided to buy soon.' Alex thought. 'And probably the most basic game modes available from Hypixel can greatly influence these people's choice, as [Hunger Games ] and [Build Battle ] were games that anyone could play.

Not to mention that launching [Build Battle ] mode had greatly encouraged these players to enter Hypixel, as I hadn't yet added [Creative ] mode in Minecraft Vanilla, so the only place these players could pick up blocks infinite and building things freely was there.

For people who liked more creative skills, this seemed perfect, making everyone feel happy with this new Update.

Alex thought of things he could do with the money from Minecraft sales, but for now he decided to just let it accumulate a few points before he could cash out and do some other Update for Minecraft.

For now, the hype around the game was enough to make sales remain constant, probably those sales that happened today were just a peak, and from tomorrow it would start to fall again until it stabilized at a lower value, but Alex already was satisfied with these statistics.

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In a hidden temple in the Himalayas, several monks practiced stick fighting. These people had given up their earthly life in order to serve the master of this temple, at least for a while before they could go back and satisfy their own desires with the things they learned.

Some of these people had pure desires, other people in the future would do terrible things against humanity, but all of this was nothing unknown to the master who guarded this place.

This master could be known by many names around the world, but his identity was always a secret, and what he could do was never revealed much either.

The only thing that all the disciples knew is that the master was very powerful, to the point that hardly anyone on earth would have enough strength to deal with this master who apparently already knew everything.

But while people trained and thought their master was omniscient, their master was actually amazed to come across something that even he didn't know.

This master was actually a woman. Because of the magic she controlled, her hair had completely fallen out, leaving a smooth shiny bald spot on her head. As much as she had no hair and had lived for hundreds of years, she was still a very beautiful woman.

But this beautiful woman was shocked as she held up a necklace made in the shape of an eye that glowed with a green light.

"What is this? Why can't I see what's changing the timeline so much?" She asked herself scared.

For some reason, today as she was doing her routine weekly timeline check, something started to change things a lot. Because she couldn't see the cause of this change very well, she could only see fragments of the result of this timeline shift.

Fortunately, the changes that were taking place were positive around humanity, people who would once hate each other were starting to change to colleagues or friends, in this new timeline, people who once fought to the death, were now apparently reconciling and starting to become have fun together.

This was unthinkable to her, as she knew it was their destiny to act this way and even fight to the death this way, but for some reason, there was a hidden force controlling things behind the scenes correcting the timeline of a way that humanity was becoming even stronger than it could have imagined.

Battles that in the future could kill billions of people because of this new timeline were having completely different developments.

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" The Elder asked herself scared as she saw the timeline being messed up like this.

But for some reason, despite using one of the Infinity Gems, she still couldn't see anything about the being that controlled this change in the timeline. It was as if this being was not part of this universe, but still continued to interfere in a positive way in everything that was happening.

Frustrated, the Crone continued to use a lot of magic on the Eye of Agamoto to try to uncover at least one clue as to who this being so powerful was that it was changing everything in the timeline, and after spending 80% of her magic power, the Crone finally found out. a clue.

[Minecraft ]

It was the only word she could pick out of the jumbled timeline she was seeing. This was the thing she saw that had apparently initiated this break in the timeline, shifting into something she didn't recognize.

"What is Minecraft?" She asked herself confused to see that the name was too simple. "Have humans discovered a way to mine other ores and craft new weapons? No, that doesn't seem to be true... Maybe the humans discovered Wakanda and started mining the Vibranium from there? It doesn't seem very possible either..." She started to formulate numerous hypotheses about this, but in the end she chose the most obvious answer to her question.

"Google, what is Minecraft?" She typed into her computer curiously.

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The Elder was shocked to see her Google search result.

[Minecraft is a magical game! ]

It was her first internet search result, and it was a post on a site called Reddit.

[Minecraft is a magical game! ]

[Hi guys, this is my first time posting something on the /games subreddit. Last night I was bored and started looking for some livestreams to kill my boredom, but honestly I was pretty tired of just watching people play shooting games, or war games with Captain America.

Seriously, do you only play games like this until today?

Anyway, while I was looking for something fun to watch, I saw a livestream of someone I had never seen before. There were 1,000 people watching that live stream of a game called Minecraft. This is a game I have never seen before. Initially I thought it was another boring shooting game, but on thinking about it, the name didn't seem to fit with a shooting game, so I decided to give it a try and watched some of that livestream.

That was the best thing I did on my night! The livestream was from a player named "NedTheKing", which at first I thought was just a random egocentric player, but upon entering the game, I saw a square character building a castle with his bare hands! That man had my respect, he always said that his dream was to be a king, so in that game he had the freedom to build a castle and fulfill the little dream he had, something that moved me a little.

But what really surprised me is that I initially thought what I was seeing was some kind of CGI, or a game cutscene, but no, during castle construction, that square character was interacting with the chat, sometimes even even showing things that other people asked, like an interactive movie.

This got my attention a lot, so I decided to send a chat message asking if he had anything else besides the castle, and to my surprise, he answered my question by climbing the highest tower of the castle and turning the camera away from the wall... Guys, the man had built a giant farm with several animals, while telling us that it was to feed the people of his kingdom!

I asked where the people of his kingdom were and he told me he would buy the server so people could join when the castle was ready.

I was kind of confused by this, as I didn't know how he would make these people go to such a magical world.

Until he got a bit tired of building and went into [Multiplayer ] mode. There was a giant city there with hundreds of other people! All were gamblers who laughed and had fun while chatting and playing in the Lobby.

Minecraft is magic! I just purchased the game and hope to participate in this magic with other players too. ]

Upon finishing reading this great post, the Elder was alarmed. If she claimed to be the second most powerful magic user on earth, no one would have the courage to claim to be the first.

So seeing that these people were apparently going to another dimension left her alarmed, as she believed that even she could not do something like this with so many people and give them so much freedom.

Curious, the Crone searched for "NedTheKing" on google and found Ned's Twitch page, who luckily was Online now playing Minecraft.

Looking at the number of spectators, the Elder was surprised, there were 1.4k people watching him playing this game, and the spectators were slowly rising, which meant that in a few hours it would be an even larger number.

Looking at the live stream screen, she saw a small square man running in a square abandoned city.

This little man held a stone ax as he opened a chest and began to laugh.

"Guys, I managed to find a diamond sword! We're going to win this game!" Ned celebrated as people in the Chat cheered with him, saying he was very lucky and could finally enter the Ranking.

The sword was Translucent Blue, which made it very beautiful and exquisite.

After watching the sword, Ned ran to a place in the center of the map while looking at a compass and following the direction the compass was pointing.

After three minutes he found another little square man, but this last one apparently had worse armor than Ned, and was much more tired than Ned, with the armor even having some flaws.

"Looks like he fought someone else recently, it's just the two of us left, this is our chance!" Ned said excitedly to the chat as he ran to the tired man.

The man didn't notice Ned until it was too late. Ned's sword pierced the man making him blink red, but no blood came out. This was a game measure to show that the other player took damage, but not to scare people who were afraid of blood.

The man died to Ned with a startled expression, until in front of Ned a screen appeared.

[Congratulations, player NedTheKing, you completed 37 wins and took third place for most wins on the entire server, do you want to appear in the Ranking? ]

"Yes!" Ned said excitedly before being teleported back to the Lobby.

There were hundreds of people there, some were eating fruit and talking, others were sitting on the floor telling stories, others were advertising their own servers in the Lobby. If no one knew what this was about, they would probably think this was a peaceful city from a distant world.

But Ned didn't even pay attention to this, he quickly ran to the Villager side that sent them to Hunger Games matches and noticed that one of the villager's bodyguards had changed, it was a player in a yellow jersey with a little skin. dark, completely wearing very nice bronze armor that wasn't available in the game, and above the player's head was a name.

[NedTheKing ]

"It's me guys! I'm here too!" Ned yelled excitedly at his viewers, which attracted the attention of players around who looked at him in confusion, but after realizing that he had the same name as one of the Hunger Games Villager bodyguards, they soon understood that he was he had taken one of the Top 3 spots recently and was excited about it, making people come to congratulate him.

The Crone watched all this with amazement, while watching this livestream she tried to open a portal to that dimension and try to understand how it worked, but as much as she was seeing the place, she couldn't locate it at all, not even she, one of the most powerful beings in the universe couldn't understand or locate this place, as if it didn't exist.

But the Crone knew there was something else behind this game, and if she couldn't find anything about it, it only meant one thing, the person who made it was far more powerful than she was!

This statement made the Ancient One uncomfortable, but with an open mind she decided to test this game called Minecraft, for the safety of humanity.

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"This..." Alex was shocked at the amount of sales.

[Minecraft ]

[1,321 Games sold - $26,420 ]

(Available for withdrawal: $20,020)

[Average time played: 7 hours. ]

[Peak simultaneous players: 910 ]

[Total earned on servers sold: $456 ]

[Total won in VIPs: $3,960 ]

[Available Gaming Points: 1]

"Twenty thousand dollars... that's a lot of money... if I convert it to GP it will give a total of 100 GP that I can withdraw at any time... considering server and VIP earnings, 122 GP! I got rich !" Alex was excited as he began to dance back and forth in his little cabin. "Finally I can stop eating CupNoodles!"

Alex really loved the taste of CupNoodles, but eating the same thing for two weeks was making him a little queasy.

It had been a week since Minecraft Multiplayer mode had been released and Alex was avoiding looking at the game's Sales Stats to feel a surprise, but he didn't think the game's sales amount would more than double this week!

"Following the amount of players making Livestream minecraft, in addition to word-of-mouth, the probability that the amount of copies sales will double this week is very high!" Alex was excited as he analyzed the game's sales statistics.

"Today I will feast on celebration!" Alex said excitedly as he opened the system store and prepared to choose a good meal.

[Shokugeki no Souma Hamburguer - 2 Gaming Points. ]

Alex was looking at this option wondering whether or not he should buy it. If he converted the GPs to dollars, this burger would cost $400... it was a much higher price than he was used to paying for food, considering that each CupNoodles cost 0.05 GPs.

"Today is a day of celebration, I should enjoy it." Alex thought hard as he bought this $400 burger .

Looking at the packaging, it didn't look much different from the sandwiches he'd eaten in his previous world, but as he bit down, Alex could easily tell he felt an orgasm of flavors.

"This is worth every penny..." Alex said as he panted after taking the first bite of that divine burger.

While eating Alex even forgot the things he constantly thought about the game he should improve.

But as soon as he stopped eating those thoughts came back to him again.

He had an idea of

something he could do to improve Minecraft to attract new players, and keep retaining old players as much as possible.

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Kurt and 4 more X-Men had decided to buy a Minecraft server and $1 . Initially they intended to buy a server for 100 players, to accommodate as many people as possible, but he figured that too many people in a world could just become disorganized, so he and the top X-Men had decided to buy a server just for them.

The team consisted of Kurt (Nightcrawler), Kitty Pride (Shadowcat), Scott Summers (Cyclops), Jean Gray (Marvel Girl) and Anna (Rogue).

They had formed this team to try to kill the dragon that existed in the game, they didn't know what the reward was for slaying the dragon, but they figured it would definitely be something very good, and the experience of fighting without their powers was something very new, which made the group's synergy evolve even more.

Among the group of 5 players, 4 of them were extremely excited while playing minecraft.

Scott was so happy to be able to walk without having to wear sunglasses all the time.

Jean was happy that she didn't have to control her own powers within the game and was listening to other people's memories all the time.

Kurt was glad he could have normal skin, not being a little embarrassed by the blue hairs that came out of him.

And Anna was the most emotional person among them, as inside Minecraft she could touch other people without being afraid.

Anna could tell that the happiest moments she's had in recent times have been inside Minecraft, especially being able to hug her friends all the time, it was something she had never felt before.

She had purchased Minecraft because of Kurt's insistence that the game was a lot of fun. Unlike Kurt, Anna wasn't very fond of video games, but Kurt was so persistent and mysterious about it that she had no choice but to buy the game with some of the money she had saved.

Upon entering the game, like any new player, she had been both frightened and amazed by this square and colorful world.

Initially she just wanted to play this a little bit to make Kurt happy, but after starting to play it for the first time, she only realized that she had spent 5 hours playing it after Kitty poked her in the back in real life while she was in the game world.

As Kitty knew Anna's powers, she only touched the part that had clothes.

But Anna's surprise came the next day, when she logged into the "Hypixel" server to meet with Kurt.

When she entered the server, Anna was a little scared and lost. There were hundreds of square people walking around near her, and she was too scared to touch anyone.

But at some point she felt a hand on her shoulder, and worse, that hand had lightly touched her bare neck!

Frightened, Anna pulled away from the person's hand as she looked back, afraid she had killed the person who had touched her, but unlike what she imagined, the person was perfectly fine, as if nothing had happened.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't take your shoulder like that all of a sudden." The man said with an embarrassed smile as he scratched the back of his square head.

Seeing that he was okay, Anna was shocked as she watched this man. He wore a brown shirt, with long black hair and a red cape that made him look like a hero in the game.

"That... no problem, I just freaked out." She said a little shy as it was the first time someone had touched her and she didn't fall into a coma.

"It's okay, it's my fault. I just saw that you were still wearing the Female Standard Skin and decided to show you where you can change your appearance. But if you feel uncomfortable there's no problem." The man responded with a smile.

Anna looked over the top of this man's head and saw that his name was [Notch ], which was a name she had never seen before.

"It's okay, you didn't feel anything touching me?" Anna asked, but soon realized the ambiguity of her words and added. "I say... aren't you feeling uncomfortable?"

Notch was confused by her question and looked at his own square body before answering. "No? I feel like I'm perfectly fine, why?"

Anna was shocked by this but responded quickly. "It's nothing, I was just worried that my fright had affected you."

"Nah, I'm a tough person, it takes a lot scarier things to scare me hahaha." Notch replied with a smile.

"Do you...do you mind if I try to touch you?" Anna was very curious about this, and couldn't help but ask. But right away she noticed the ambiguity of her words again and complemented it with an apology. "I mean, the game is very different, I want to see what it feels like to touch here, to see if it feels like real life."

Notch raised his eyebrows at this and felt it was plausible, after all, even his previous world's most advanced VR technology couldn't reproduce the touch sensation like current Minecraft did.

"All right." He said with a smile as he held his hand out to her.

Anna realized that she shouldn't have asked this, as in case something went wrong, she could leave this man in a coma, but her curiosity was consuming the girl. This was her first opportunity to touch other people without feeling so guilty, and if it really worked, this game could change her life.

Still a little apprehensive, Anna was about to give up touching this man, until he suddenly reached out a finger and poked her wrist where the skin was exposed!

Anna looked startled at the touch, then turned to the man worriedly. But seeing how he had a smile on his face like everything was fine, Anna's heart suddenly sped up.

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Kitty was worried as she looked around the big city of Hypixel. Everywhere she looked there were hundreds of square people laughing and talking as they walked together.

The problem is that the friend she was expecting had difficulties with crowds, so she even started to believe her friend had given up and left, but luckily after a few minutes she saw a female character who clearly belonged to her friend.

Long reddish-brown hair with a white streak on each side while wearing a black outfit. It was definitely her friend.

"Hey Anna, where have you been?" Kitty asked Anna after reaching her.

"That...I was talking to a guy." Anna said with a smile as she reached out slowly and touched her fingertip to Kitty's arm.

Initially Kitty was thinking about who Anna might have found, until she felt Anna had her finger touching her arm, which was a little weird, until she was extremely shocked as her eyes fluttered between Anna's finger and the her face.

"Are you... are you touching me?!" Kitty cried out in emotion as she felt the touch of Anna's square fingers on her arm. Without thinking twice, Kitty opened her arms and gave Anna a big hug. "How are you doing this?! Have your powers been nullified in this game as well?"

Anna was smiling as she answered. "Yeah, remember the guy I said I was talking to? He tapped my shoulder to show me where I could change my appearance and I was a lot more shocked than you!"

"This is amazing! People will be very excited about this news! Let's meet them!" Kitty said excitedly as she took Anna's hand and led her to where the rest of the group was.

Upon arriving where the rest of the group was, Anna was shocked by what she saw, all the other X-Men also had happy smiles just like her.

Scott was very happy to be able to play without the glasses, Kurt was happy to have skin like other humans and Jean was happy not to hear the thoughts of anyone near them.

After talking about their happiness at having their powers disabled in this world, the X-Men even forgot the main reason they came to this world, which was so they could play together.

They didn't even remember it, and spent hours talking and exploring the Hypixel, until something caught their attention.

All minecraft players saw a screen floating in front of them with text they had never seen before. Regardless of whether these players are playing multiplayer or singleplayer mode, everyone has received this notification.

[New World Event! ]

Curious, Kurt clicked on this screen and saw an explanatory text appearing in front of him.

[World Event: Kill The Ender Dragon! ]

[The world of minecraft is known for having beautiful landscapes with monsters of different species and dimensions, just as in the Overworld there are skeletons, in the Nether there are the Wither Skeletons. But have you ever wondered where the Endermans came from?

This monster does not originate from the Overworld, but from a dimension called "The End", which is protected by a powerful Void Dragon.

Now, the Villagers ask the humans for help in killing the mighty Ender Dragon.

Players who kill Ender Dragon by the end of the event will receive a Limited Cloak with the Dragon's face, plus a key to use the large Hypixel portal for a different game mode!

For those who fail to kill the Ender Dragon before the end of the event, they will no longer be able to receive the cape, but the key will still be available!

On the altar next to the big portal in Hypixel there is a space for the player to place an egg, once an egg is laid, the player can choose 4 people to gain access to the new game mode as well.

[Time remaining: 6 Days, 23 Hours, 59 Minutes, 46 Seconds. ]

Kurt was shocked to see this ad. Previously they only had speculation about there actually being a dragon in the game, but now it has been proven that there really was one, and those players who manage to kill the dragon will be able to receive a Limited cape from the game's first event! Just thinking about him sporting this cape to other players in the future made Kurt's smile light up.

"Hey, isn't this Dragon the one we wanted to kill?" Jean asked confused after finishing reading the game message.

"Yes, that's exactly it, let's go to the server I bought, there I'll teach you the basics and we can start our adventure to kill this dragon!" Kurt said excitedly.

"Let's go!" Kitty also squealed excitedly, as she had so much fun with minecraft.

The other X-Men were a little confused by the sudden happiness these two were feeling, as this was their first time playing a game like this, and they didn't know the advantage of having a limited item from the first event of a game.

If they had known that a cover like this could sell for tens of thousands of dollars, they would probably have been even more excited than Kurt and Kitty.

---

Meanwhile, sitting in front of the computer was Alex, watching with a satisfied smile the players' reactions to the first event he was developing in the world of minecraft.

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Alex was watching with a satisfied smile the players' reaction to the first event he was developing in the world of minecraft.

Alex knew Minecraft had a big problem. The game didn't have a 'Quest Line', meaning new players never know what the game's objective is and most just do what they want for a while before they stop playing.

This issue was resolved in Alex's previous world after players discovered that there actually is an objective in the game, namely, killing Ender Dragon. But to kill Ender Dragon players needed to do a lot of preparation before that, and discover some items they didn't even know existed.

So, as Minecraft already had over a thousand active players, Alex decided to speed up this process by encouraging players to kill Ender Dragon, which would make players research more about the game to understand how to progress, which would likely make a Wiki of game being created, in addition to giving a satisfying prize to those who succeeded, it would be one of the most successful mini-games from Alex's previous world.

The Dragon Egg will be the first item that can be shipped between the Single-player world and the Multiplayer world. In Alex's previous world the Dragon Egg was of no use, but in his minecraft it will serve as a key that players will struggle to obtain.

Alex had just killed Ender Dragon in Creative Mode, as he didn't have much patience to do that in Survival Mode, as it didn't even give him a good reward, but here it would be different, this would be the players' "first mission" , and Alex was excited to see how this would develop.

So far, Ned's livestream was the best way to know how players would react to it.

In his livestream there were 400 viewers, and while he was reading the message on his floating screen inside the game, some viewers with faster reads had already finished reading and were commenting on the chat.

[What?! Minecraft has a dragon? ]

[I can't believe... in a week whoever manages to kill the dragon will win a limited prize? I'll start playing now, bye guys. ]

[Damn... I was still in doubt whether I would buy minecraft or not, but this event will be unique, I'll break my coin piggy and buy this game now! ]

[I bought the game today, does anyone want to join me in killing the dragon together? I pay the server! ]

[I want! Add me... ]

[Me either! ]

[I'm going to buy now, is there a problem? ]

The players' reception for the event was better than Alex imagined, at this minecraft pace it would spread even more, and that's exactly what he wanted!

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Shuri was currently in the Wakanda castle laboratory while doing some research on Vibranium.

Out of curiosity, she was researching how some ores interacted with each other, thinking about the possibility of using ores that could supplement Vibranium for her brother's costume.

[Utilities for Obsidian. ]

She googled to see if she could find any recent research with any findings that might be helpful to her, but unfortunately she was already on google's second page and hadn't yet found any new articles that might be helpful.

Until just before she closed the site, a publication caught her attention.

[Using obsidian to open a portal to hell. ]

Shuri knew that technology was something that moved very fast, but even she, Wakanda's greatest genius, couldn't think of how to use Obsidian to make a portal, let alone go to "hell".

This post made Shuri think this was just a post from some lunatic, but seeing that she didn't have much to do, Shuri decided to click through to see what it was.

[Using obsidian to open a portal to hell. ]

[Hi guys, do you remember that a few days ago players didn't know what Obsidian was used for? So, on NedTheKing's livestream it was proven that Obsidian can be used to make a portal to hell, and according to Minecraft news, there are some important monsters there to find Ender Dragon.

For those who want to make a portal to hell, watch the video tutorial below. ]

Shuri was a little disappointed, she thought it would be a post of a lunatic talking a lot of nonsense, but actually it was just a player divulging information about a game.

Despite this, Shuri was a little curious to see what it was like. She had already tried the American games, but most of them were about war and destruction, which made her feel like it was too boring and stopped paying attention to it.

But when she hit play, what appeared on her computer screen shocked Shuri.

There was a square man talking to a camera in a very natural way, he was using a translucent blue pickaxe to constantly hit a very tough looking black ore, and after he hit for a few seconds, the ore broke and turned into a small block that floated on table position until man broke.

Shuri didn't even realize that he spent 10 minutes watching this video until the man built the portal and went into a dimension that really felt like hell.

But what shocked Shuri even more was when she started thinking about the technology involved in this. Unlike movies or games, everything she saw in the video looked real and alive, the human breathed very realistically despite being square, and the scenery rendering was perfect, even allowing her to see a mountain miles away. away from the man who was recording the video.

Without thinking twice, Shuri googled Minecraft and found this game in the biggest game store in the world.

The price was only $20, which for the princess of the richest country in the world meant nothing, but what surprised Shuri is that the file size was very small, the download was completed in less than 5 seconds.

Initially she was frustrated thinking she had fallen for a false advertisement, but when she pressed to play, Shuri felt that her perception of 'Genius' was being destroyed.

'The person who did this here is a real Genius.' She thought to herself as she started to play slowly.

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Alex was very pleased with the growth of Minecraft, but he didn't know that the game was actually being the focus of a major agency to prevent it from spreading.

The more than a thousand players came only from people who told their friends about the game, as this agency was doing everything to prevent the game from being known.

Initially they ordered the game store that was selling the game to take the game off the air, but the store said it didn't even know the game was there. They suspected that the developer of this game had hacked their website in order to sell the game itself, but after some time trying they found it impossible to remove that game.

There was even an emergency maintenance on the store, taking all pages offline, but despite that, the game page was still available, as if it had its own dedicated host.

The government agency also tried to shut the game store down, but the same thing happened, the Minecraft page was still there, like it could hit that.

Their only luck was that they were able to control their store's promotion so that the game didn't appear on the home screen or as a recommendation to players.

The same was done at Twitch, the place where players could livestream playing. Neither the agency nor the site's developers were able to take down the players' livestreams.

But just like the game store, they managed to hide the livestreams from these players, so no one would know about Minecraft.

Unfortunately, in both cases, it was impossible to prevent the game from being known by other people, causing the amount of hits on both sites to increase every day.

If this government agency weren't trying to keep Minecraft from making itself known, it's very likely that news programs or internet influencers would have already been talking about the game and getting hundreds of thousands of people to start playing it.

"Culson, give me good news." Nick Fury said as he looked at Culson as he entered his office.

"Sir, even Stark said he had no idea how to do something like that. In his words, 'If this had been done by a human genius, I would be the only one who could do it.'" Culson said with a tired expression.

He had been busy with the 'Minecraft' mission for a week, where he had to find out who the creator of this game was, or at least some hint of it.

"So Stark thinks this was done by aliens?" Fury asked curiously.

"He didn't say it was made by aliens, he just said he would be the only human who could do something like that." Culson replied.

"This is within my suspicions, this technology is very advanced, to the point that I just believe it's Alien Technology, a mutant power, or magic, but among the three examples, the first two have a higher probability." Fury spoke his thoughts, which made Culson raise an eyebrow in astonishment.

"There is a small piece of news, but I still haven't been able to confirm the basis for this." Culson said in a slightly hesitant voice.

"Which is?" Fury asked.

"Players say there is a player very different from the others. He was the first player to appear in Hypixel with a different skin, as well as being the first to find out about the skins, but unlike other players, he was treating it with a lot natural, as if it were no surprise, unlike how the other players were acting. His name is Notch." Culson responded in a professional tone.

"Notch..." Fury repeated this player's name so he could remember it in the future. After hearing Culson's explanation, the best spy instincts in the world were screaming at Fury that there was something wrong with this person.

"Romanoff has already finished her mission with Stark, so you'll instruct her about Minecraft and make Notch's information available so she can contact him inside the game. Because he's a man, the chances of her finding something out of it will be higher ." Fury gave an order that made Culson nod his head before leaving the room.

Fury was also doing his own investigations into the game, he had played both Singleplayer and Multiplayer modes. In the other world he had a black character, with black clothes and long black hair to match the outfit.

If Xavier or the Crone saw Fury's character, they would know right away that he was just like them.

As Fury explored the Singleplayer world with his character, a transparent screen appeared in front of his face with a message from the game.

[A new update is available. ]

Fury was curious about what would have changed in this world for such a sudden update to come.

When exiting the game, he clicked [Patch Notes ] to see what had changed.

[Minecraft Version 1.0.4 ]

[The 'Dragon Slayer' event has been updated, so a new feature has been added to the game.

Item Withdraw: Special items can be taken out of the game to the real world for a certain cost.

Available items:

Ender Dragon Cape - Available to 'Dragon Slayer' Event winners. Gives whoever uses +1 Charm.

Strength Potion - Available to the 20 players with the most wins in Hunger Games mode at the end of each week. Gives whoever uses +0.1 Strength (Cumulative).

Lucky Potion - Available to the 20 players with the most wins in Build Battle Mode at the end of each week. Increases the probability of a little good thing happening during the day. (Using more than one potion on the same day amplifies this effect).

To make gaming even more fun, Hunger Games and Build Battle have received a Duo mode, where players can team up with friends to play against other players. (Duo wins will count as 1 win for each player.)

With these changes, we hope players will call friends to play our game modes together, we guarantee the rewards are better than you can imagine, and it will be as magical as Minecraft was the first time you decided to play.

- _Jeb. ]

Fury was shocked by this news. If what the game said is true, which he doesn't doubt it is after he's experienced the game himself, this will cause word-of-mouth to increase exponentially!

"Son of a bitch!" Fury yelled inside his office.

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As a bald man screamed in rage in an office, Alex chuckled with glee as he saw this option the system had made available to him.

He could buy the Minecraft cape and potions in exchange for Gaming Points, but what surprised him even more was finding that he could give these things away to players!

He could decide how these items were given away, of course, the Gaming Points price of the prizes still existed. But who said Alex needed to pay for these Gaming Points? The players themselves could pay for it themselves!

Alex found he could buy two bottles of potion for 1 Gaming Point, which made him even more surprised when he remembered the price of the sandwich he had paid.

So that meant each potion bottle cost $100 . Alex was willing to make players pay $50 for the potion bottle while he would pay for the other $50, which he was sure players would pay.

"Damn, even if I charged $1,000 for each bottle these players would want to pay..." Alex said with a frustrated expression as he stared at the reflection of his shirtless body in the mirror.

He had drunk a Strength Potion to test the result, and it was beyond his expectations.

Each potion gave the user +0.1 Points to their Strength, and since the system said the average Strength of an adult is 10 points, each potion is equivalent to increasing the strength of an average person by 1%!

It may not seem like much to increase someone's strength by 1%, but thinking about it in the long run, if someone stays in the Top 20 for 4 weeks in 3 months they will have their own strength increased by 12%!

Alex knew that the competition for these portions would be fierce, as no one would want to let this opportunity pass. With this players would call their friends to play Duo with them, which would make more players coming, more people commenting, and consequently even more people coming to play!

As much as Alex would pay $2,000 (10 Gaming Points) per week, which is currently a great value, in a few months this will become negligible considering that more and more players are joining the Minecraft VIP, even just charging the monthly fee. VIP's Alex will be able to pay these Gaming Points for the potions and earn a significant profit from that!

"I could charge more for these potions, but I'm an honest game developer who doesn't want to exploit my players. I don't want to become an EA someday..." Alex sighed as he stopped watching his own muscles in the mirror.

The change the potion brought him after taking just one was not very significant, only slightly increasing the circumference of his arm, but by taking 10 potions, Alex saw that his arm really did grow a lot. If before he was like an ordinary young man, now he looks like a young man who trained for almost a year. Best of all, he didn't have to make any effort, just spend money and drink potions.

"If I remember correctly, Minecraft was a big hit in my old world, even while I was still in Alpha, why isn't it still selling so much in this world? All the players who played it were delighted with it..." Alex sighed uncomprehendingly the reason. He had no way of knowing that the world's largest security agency was desperately trying to cover up his game for the world, since he didn't even know that agency existed.

That subject aside, Alex opened Ned's livestream to see what the boy was up to.

"Peter, beware of the Ghasts, if they attack you, use your sword to send their fireball flying back!" Ned yelled to another player who was with him on the Nether.

Livestream's title was [The King will become a Dragon Slayer! ].

Alex was amused by how Ned acted, but was surprised to see his friend in the game. As much as this friend of Ned's was wearing iron armor in the game to protect himself, Alex was shocked by the iron armor the boy was wearing underneath.

More precisely, Ned's friend Skin was someone Alex liked a lot, Iron Man!

When Alex saw that there were some players with Captain America Skins, he thought it was a coincidence that players here also liked Marvel movies, and it was even more evident when he saw this player with the Iron Man Skin.

"Hehe, Iron Man really is a cool hero, it's comforting to know that this world is not that different from my old world. Maybe the comic books here are similar too?" Alex wondered as he watched the two boys trying to break into a Nether Fortress.

Until a brilliant idea came to Alex's mind.

With a smile on his face, Alex entered Minecraft as another character. This time, instead of logging into the Notch account, Alex decided to use the character he liked a lot.

This character's appearance was identical to Steve's appearance, apart from the eyes. While Steve had blue eyes, Alex's Skin had no pupil, leaving only the white part of the eyes, which made everything even more frightening.

[Herobrine ]

That was the name of the account Alex was using, and with a smirk on his face, Alex decided to have fun while tormenting the players.

To do this he hid the Namertag from him, which other players couldn't do, and used some sounds that players never heard to create a sinister atmosphere in Minecraft.

Many players had already been tormented by Herobrine in Alex's previous world, which makes many wonder if that was true or if it was just a Troll wanting to deceive others. But in this world it will be different as both options will be correct, both Herobrine will exist, and it will be a Troll wanting to have fun with the players.

[Start ] Alex pressed the button to connect to Ned's server.

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Ned was happy to be able to play with his friend Peter. As Peter had little money, since he used his internship money at Stark Industries to help Aunt May pay the house bills, there wasn't much left for him to use for fun, so Ned used the Livestreams money to buy Minecraft for his friend.

Peter was very happy to be able to play Minecraft, but what surprised Ned even more was how well Peter played. Strangely Peter had very good reflexes! He could see monsters very easily, and had a lot of flexibility to dodge attacks or parkour across the map.

"Hey Peter, Blazes' spawns are up front, don't destroy the spawns, let's kill the Blazes to get the items they drop first, as we need it to find the dragon's lair!" Ned said excitedly to Peter.

He wanted to be one of the players who would finish Minecraft in that short time to get the limited cape, he couldn't quite understand how the cape could be delivered to him in the real world, but he figured the game company would ship it to players via mail.

He had just started livestream today, but out of the 300 viewers he got in the first minute, the number was growing fast to get back to his average 1.2k viewers.

This was a number that Ned couldn't even dream of, especially since he didn't even get publicity from the site, so all these people came from other people recommending it, or from people who were looking for random livestreams around the site.

"Come on Ned! Let's be the first to kill the dragon!" Peter said excitedly as he laughed and ran down the Nether Fortress.

"Yes! King Ned and Knight Peter will be first!! Mwahahaha!" Ned yelled as he pointed his sword up and laughed with Peter.

But while they were killing the Blazes, something strange happened.

"Ned, did you call someone else?" Peter asked a little scared.

"No, why?" Ned was confused.

"This...I think I saw a person on the other side of the Nether Fortress..." Peter said a little uncertainly.

"Someone else? You must have mistaken it for a PigMan, that's normal." Ned replied nonchalantly.

They continued killing the Blazes, until Peter saw this person once more, but this time a little closer than before.

It was a Steve like the other players, but unlike the players, there was no name on top of that person's head, and his eyes glowed white!

"Hey, who are you?!" Peter yelled at this person, startling Ned once more.

But before Ned saw it, as Peter's eyes blinked, the person disappeared again.

"Hey Peter, what's going on? Why are you yelling? I already said dude, it's just a PigMan." Ned said a little angry for being scared.

"No Ned, it was a Steve." Peter replied seriously.

"A Steve?"

"Yeah, he was looking at us while his eyes sparkled." Peter explained.

Meanwhile the chat people were also confused.

[Has anyone logged into the server? ]

[There was no message in the chat saying that someone connected. ]

[Maybe it's just a bug? ]

[But Peter said it appeared twice, it would be weird if it was a 2x Bug. ]

[Guys... is it a ghost?! ]

[A ghost? Minecraft is not a horror game. ]

[But aren't Ghasts ghosts? There are Zombies, Skeletons, it's not impossible to have a ghost. ]

[You are right... ]

The number of people watching started to skyrocket with this mystery emerging. Of the 800 viewers that were before, it has now reached 1,400 .

"Hey Peter, the chat people are thinking it's a ghost, is that it?" Ned asked.

"A ghost? Could be..." Peter said a little uncertainly.

For the next few minutes that thing didn't show up again, which made Peter, Ned and Chat more relaxed.

Until suddenly, as they walked through the Nether Fortress looking for chests, everything went dark.

A horror song with a female voice started playing in the background, which made it all the more frightening.

[Have you seen the Herobrine?

Roams your world in the default skin

oo-oo-oo-oo-ooohh

Though he was removed he shall rise again

Watching you from a distant shore

He'll come back stronger than before

Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooohhh

When the darkness comes he will strike for sure... ]

Ned panicked, he was terrified of horror games, and what was happening now was exactly what happened in horror games before the protagonist died.

"PETER, RUN TO THE PORTAL!!!!" Ned screamed in despair, completely ignoring the chests he could get.

[In the fog is where he waits

Even up to these present dates

Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooohhh

If you go against him you will meet your fate

Watch your back you know where he hides

He can come at you from all sides

oo-oo-oo-oo-ooohh

Miner beware he will never die. ]

Peter was also very scared and started running with Ned to cross the portal back to the overworld.

The portal was in a beautiful green forest, so they knew that once they went through the portal this ghost would not appear anymore.

But when they saw their surroundings, Ned and Peter were shocked into place.

The forest that used to be green and beautiful, with many leaves on the trees that provided some shade in the place, was now completely dry.

The leaves on the trees disappeared, leaving only the square trunks standing.

But what scared the two of them most was what they could see from afar.

A player with Steve's Skin was standing watching them with bright white eyes. Standing like a statue, not moving a muscle as he stood among the trees in the forest.

Ned and Peter were also frozen. They've never been so afraid of anything in a game in their life. Mainly because Minecraft doesn't look like a game, so seeing something so scary in person in front of them was terrifying.

Suddenly a bolt of lightning fell from the sky.

*Katchaa*

And when the lightning hit the ground, the leaves of the trees magically returned to normal, and the player who watched them from afar had disappeared.

On Ned's livestream, at that time there were 3,400 people shocked.

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"What the fuck..." Ned wondered aloud confused and scared.

"I...I don't know..." Peter also said confused.

Meanwhile in Ned's livestream chat there was confusion among the viewers.

[Hey guys, what the fuck? ]

[Fuck... I have no idea... ]

[Minecraft is also a horror game? ]

[What movie is this? ]

[This is not a movie, it's a game called Minecraft, it's on Steam! ]

[This is a game?!?! I thought I was watching a horror movie! ]

[Did anyone understand that song that was playing? ]

[I heard some "Herobrine" and some confusing stuff! ]

[Herobrine is the name of this player? ]

[Is this a player? I thought it was a monster! ]

[Maybe this is a Minecraft monster? ]

[It's quite possible, since he had his own music. ]

Various theories were popping up among Ned's viewers, people were stipulating whether this was a Hacker or a monster.

People even cut that part of the livestream and started posting it on other sites so that other people could also see what they saw.

Within hours, this subject became trending.

[Herobrine, a movie, a game, a monster, a ghost... no one knows. ]

It was the most viewed post about Herobrine.

Even though Shield was desperately trying to prevent users from accessing these articles, but apparently everything related to Minecraft was impossible to delete, the only thing they could do was prevent this publication from being recommended by the sites' algorithms.

But that didn't stop other players from telling friends and sending the links directly for them to join and see.

The publication was already with over 100,000 views and was rising rapidly.

The comments were diverse.

[Is this a new movie they're making? Why are the characters square? ]

[I have to admit, even though it's weird to see these square characters their animations are very realistic, the developers of this movie must have spent a lot of money to use motion-capture on it! ]

[Guys, this is not a movie, it's a game called Minecraft, you can look it up on Steam and you'll find the game so you can play and try it out too! This isn't even a Cut-scene of the game, but true Gameplay! ]

[A game? I'll search. ]

But suddenly, a print appeared in the comments of this publication leaving players a little relieved.

[Minecraft minor update. ]

[Herobrine has been removed. ]

Some players who didn't know about Herobrine were confused and went researching it to see what this removed Herobrine was, but when they saw what it was, they were very happy that it was actually removed.

[Damn, that was scary! If I had been playing and this happened to me I would have had a heart attack! ]

[I'm glad Herobrine didn't show up to me while I was playing... ]

[Damn, I wanted to see this Herobrine with my own eyes, he looked so cool! ]

[Me either! It must be fun to play a horror game on minecraft, has anyone found a server with this theme? ]

[I'm going to change my minecraft skin to Herobrine Skin hehe. ]

When Alex logged onto Hypixel the next day, dozens of players were wearing a Herobrine-like skin. Of course, their eyes were different, as Herobrine's eyes had no pupils and glowed, while players could only make their pupils white. But that was enough for them to enjoy themselves.

Several players asked to take pictures with these people with Herobrine Skins to post on social media.

Alex noticed that the number of minecraft sales had increased a lot. Of the 1,900 units sold the day before, today it had 7,000 units sold.

In order not to make Hypixel chaotic, Alex programmed so that only players with 2 hours of SinglePlayer mode could use Multiplayer mode, making the number of players in Hypixel not so crowded yet.

'Really, good publicity for the game is really always done by the players themselves. If I had been trying to do paid advertising, it probably wouldn't have attracted so many people, but by making a mystery to the players, they were already spreading the game to their friends.' Alex thought with a smile as he flew over the Hypixel.

The atmosphere among the players was very good, there were many players desperately playing Hunger Games and Build Battle, while other players tried their best to kill Ender Dragon, but still, there were casual players who just hung out in the Lobby chatting with friends and having fun when exploring the big city from the server.

Seeing these people happy, Alex thought it was worth developing Minecraft. Just as it was happy for a cook to see the dishes he made being enjoyed by people, for a game developer the same thing happened to seeing people having fun in the games he made.

After a while Alex spotted a well-known person walking around the city of Hypixel with a curious and shy look.

With a smile on his face, Alex flew into an alley that was empty of Hypixel and became visible again.

Walking casually through town, Alex "coincidentally" bumped into the person he had noticed.

Anna was startled when someone bumped into her, but seeing who it was she felt better. "Notch!" She said happily.

"Hi Anna, what a coincidence!" Notch said with a smile.

"Yes! I was looking for the Banner to buy VIP but with so many new people showing up I felt a little uncomfortable." She said as she scratched the back of her neck.

"Ahh yes, don't worry, it's a few meters in that direction, if you want I can accompany you there." Notch said with a smile as he reached for her.

Anna was a little surprised by how he was acting, since even playing Minecraft for a few days, she was still not used to physical contact with other people, after all, habits of a few years can't disappear in a few days, not to mention she must still maintain this habit in the real world.

But still, she decided to enjoy this experience of holding a man's hand while walking around town for the first time.

Cheeks slightly reddened, Anna took Notch's hand and followed him as she enjoyed the sensation.

It took them three minutes to walk from where they were to where the VIP Banner was, but in Anna's mind it was only three seconds. They didn't say anything to each other in that time, but they both enjoyed the silence as something comfortable.

So much for Anna who hasn't had any contact with a man like that for years besides her first boyfriend, who she left in a coma after a kiss, So much for Alex, who had only dated a farm girl in his previous life, but because they don't match, they broke up in just a week.

"Here we are." Notch said with a smile to Anna.

"Thanks." She thanked him with a smile that Alex found quite cute.

"Anna?" A voice asked in surprise.

"You know me?" Anna asked confused as she looked at a man with long hair pacing back and forth.

"Ohh, you're that public school teacher!" Notch said with a smile after recognizing the man.

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"Ohh, you're that public school teacher!" Notch said with a smile after recognizing the man.

Hearing Notch say that made Charles confused for a few seconds, until he realized he hadn't told Notch his true identity, which must have made Notch think he was just an ordinary public school teacher.

"Hello Notch, didn't expect to find you here." Charles said with a smile.

"Me neither." Notch replied with a calm smile.

Charles felt a little worried around this player, as he imagined that this player was actually the creator of this game, that is, someone very powerful.

He had already encountered many powerful beings during his journey around the world and the research he did, powerful mutants, powerful humans, he even heard of some beings with powers far above normal, like demons.

For someone to be strong enough to make a world like this, this Notch must have the power comparable to a demon, or similar to it, something people think of as the gods.

As much as gods may seem unreal beings, Charles has already researched a lot about Apocalypse, who was also considered a god, so for him this was not something far to imagine.

Fortunately Notch apparently didn't have the malice for people like Apocalypse did, so Charles didn't treat him like an enemy just yet.

"I didn't know you were playing too, Professor." Anna interrupted Charles's internal monologue with a surprised expression.

"Just as you have your shortcomings nullified here, so do I." Charles responded with a smile as he stretched his legs and pointed at it.

When he learned that Anna and Scott had so much freedom in Minecraft he was also very happy, after all, after looking for so many ways to help his two students, he only managed to design the glasses for Scott but nothing for Anna.

"Ohh, is he your teacher?" Notch asked in surprise with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes." Anna replied with a small smile on her face. She was quite happy at school for Mutants, but was still afraid to tell normal humans that she was a mutant, for fear of suffering attacks because of it.

"So Minecraft was approved?" Alex asked with a small smile as he looked at the Professor.

"Yes, so far there is nothing dangerous in the game, and as the school I teach is for special children, seeing that they can act normally here in the game was held in high regard." Charles responded with a smile at Notch.

"That's good, it amuses me to see so many people to play too." Notch said with a smile. "Anyway, I have some business to take care of, I hope you have fun."

"Bye, Notch." Anna said with a smile.

"Goodbye, Notch." Charles also said goodbye.

As soon as Notch left, Anna wore a worried expression as she approached Charles. "Teacher, is it okay to tell him we're from a school for special children? He's one of the few normal people who treats me well..."

Charles smiled at Anna's concern. "Don't worry Anna, from what I've talked to him about, he doesn't seem like a person who cares about that, and from the way he treats me, he apparently believes I'm just a public school teacher."

"That's nice." Anna smiled once more before heading to the VIP Banner.

Charles noticed Anna's smile and couldn't help but sigh. He knew that his students were usually happy at the school for Mutants he had built, but even so, the students' concerns were always very evident. Seeing Anna smile was already something very rare, but since she started playing Minecraft, she started to smile more and more, to the point of changing some of Charles' beliefs.

'I worried so much about this game, but it would be cruel to stop students from playing Minecraft. A place where they can act normally, without worrying about finding out they're mutated...when will humans stop seeing us as something bad...?' He thought a little sadly.

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Meanwhile, Kurt, Kitty, Scott and Jean had already made a portal to the Nether and were killing Blazes there to get enough materials to find the Dragon.

They all had full diamond armor and had trained the game mechanics a lot to be able to fight relatively safely.

"Damn, when will Anna come in?" Kitty asked a little breathlessly as she tried to breathe in Nether's warm air.

"She said she was going to buy a cape at Hypixel to look prettier in the photo we're going to take after killing the dragon." Kurt replied as he organized his backpack.

"What?!" Kitty and Jean yelled in surprise that they hadn't thought of it.

"We have to go too!" The two girls yelled before disconnecting from Kurt's server to go to Hypixel to buy capes to use in the photo, leaving only Kurt and Scott there.

"Hey man, don't you think girls are acting a little different these days?" Kurt asked Scott confused.

"You still don't understand?" Scott replied as he sighed and sat down in a corner of the Nether Fortress.

"What?" Kurt asked confused.

"You know, you have that watch the professor made for you to disguise your appearance, but we have a lot of limitations out of here. I couldn't even remember what the colors were like before I got into minecraft, as I always had to wear those ruby ​​glasses. , Jean couldn't meet other people without reading their superficial thoughts, and Anna I don't even need to say much." Scott said as he pointed to his own eyes.

"Our life here is different, right?" Kurt said with a sigh.

"Yeah... while in the real world we're seen as monsters, here we're just normal people. Seeing girls being able to act like normal girls is also comforting, after all, that's what we fight for, right?" Scott said with a smile.

"Yes, to be seen as normal..." Kurt smiled too.

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[He did it! ]

[Finally! ]

[Kek Kek Kek ]

[If it wasn't for Peter, he would never have done it hahaha. ]

[I wish I had a friend like Peter to help me get the cover too... ]

[Peter must be a martial arts fighter in real life! ]

Viewers were arguing on Ned's livestream chat as they watched him finish killing Ender Dragon with Peter.

Initially no one thought they would be able to kill Ender Dragon as they knew Ned wasn't such a good player, in fact they liked watching Ned's livestream because he was funny and when he died he was very angry. This made most of his viewers think it would be impossible for him to kill Ender Dragon.

But nobody expected Peter to be such a good player! Peter had very good reflexes, it seemed he always knew when he was in danger and could dodge monster attacks at the right time.

There were over 5,000 people watching Ned's livestream at that time. Many players were curious to know what would happen when the dragon died, and what was the key the game had said.

"Finally!!!" Ned screamed happily as he watched the Dragon die.

"We did it!" Peter was also very excited as he ran to Ned and watched the dragon disintegrate in midair as he screamed.

After the dragon died, a lot of experience points fell from the sky like rain, causing both players' level to rise quickly, but they didn't even care about that, as after killing the Dragon they thought the game would be over.

"Hey Peter, I think that's the dragon's egg!" Ned yelled excitedly as he ran towards the egg.

"Wow! That's giant! Will a dragon be born out of it? Can we ride dragons?!" Peter said excitedly as he looked at the egg with fascination and started to beat the egg to get it.

"Wait!" Ned yelled scared, preventing Peter from continuing to beat the egg. "What if the egg breaks and never appears again?"

Peter was startled to hear this. "That...so what do we do?" he asked confused.

"Hehehe, we can break with this!" Ned said excitedly as he picked up an item Peter had never seen before. "A player in Hypixel told me that to get the egg right you need a piston!"

[WHAT? ]

[I didn't even know this item existed! ]

[Damn, I was going to crack my egg without knowing it! ]

"Which player told you that?!" Peter asked excitedly.

"It was Notch!" Ned said with a smile as he started to place stone blocks under the egg before placing the piston.

[Ohh, so it was Notch! ]

[It had to be Notch, it seems he always knows everything. ]

[Yes! Two days ago I was complaining that I couldn't get diamond, but he told me that layer 13 was where there was most diamond, so I went into my world and dug down to layer 13, and after mining there for 5 minutes I I found a diamond! In less than an hour I had several diamond tools. ]

[Also with me! Once I was asking other players what RedStone was for and nobody knew what it was for, until Notch came along and said you could make vending machines! Then I took a bunch of RedStone and looked in the cookbook, there really were a lot of blocks that I didn't know existed, and they really were machines! ]

[Can you make machines in Minecraft? ]

[How does Notch know so much? ]

[Maybe he played for a long time? ]

[Did he take all the blocks and study the cookbook? ]

[But that wouldn't explain how he knows that layer 13 has more diamonds. ]

[Hey... does he work at the Minecraft company? ]

[It is possible! He always seems to know everything. ]

[But in the update it made it seem that whoever works there is called _jeb... ]

[Idiot, do you think Minecraft was made by one person? ]

"We achieved!" Peter squealed excitedly as he looked at the small dragon egg floating on the ground after the piston activated.

"Hahaha, finally we can get our dragon cape!" Ned squealed excitedly as he ran and grabbed the egg from the ground to look. "Let's go to Hypixel!"

Without thinking twice, Peter and Ned disconnected from their server and connected to Hypixel.

At that time the square was very busy, there were thousands of players walking from one place to another, some were just talking, others were looking at the leaderboards to see who had more wins in the two mini-games on the server.

The number of players had grown a lot in the last few days, which made Hypixel get more and more excited with more people, and even though thousands of people were on the server, the city always seemed to increase, making players never feel like it was crowded. .

But when the two connected to the server, a warning appeared in front of all players.

[Congratulations to 'NedTheKing' and 'PParker' for being the first to kill Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'NedTheKing' and 'PParker' for being the first to kill Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'NedTheKing' and 'PParker' for being the first to kill Ender Dragon! ]

Three warnings sounded, causing the Hypixel players to go momentarily still, before starting to scream in excitement.

"Has anyone got it?!"

"Was it Ned?!"

"Damn! Where is he?"

"Did he really make it? Damn, I lost the bet..."

As Ned was the greatest Minecraft Streamer, almost all players knew who he was, as they had either known the game for him or heard about him from friends who introduced the game to them, and knew he was trying to kill Ender Dragon 4 days ago.

When he appeared in Hypixel with Peter, players quickly recognized them by their Nicks and their skins, and soon began to congratulate him on being the first to kill the dragon.

Some players were even kneeling down to him like he really was a real king, which made Ned's smile even wider.

But when he raised his hand with a small purple egg, the players fell silent and cleared a path for him to pass with excited eyes. Everyone thought that egg must be the key to opening the server portal!

Alex had added the option for players to be able to bring the Ender Dragon egg to the server, so it wasn't unusual for him to be able to do this after killing the monster.

Ned was also very excited, and in a few minutes he arrived at the big purple portal that until now had been useless, while thousands of players followed him with curious eyes.

Many gamers even logged out of Minecraft quickly so they could watch Ned's livestream and see what was on the other side of the portal, making the viewership rise to over 9,000 people.

When Ned reached the portal, he saw that there was a small white altar made of quartz blocks.

Very carefully, he and Peter held the Dragon's egg and slowly placed it on the altar.

As soon as the egg touched the white quartz block on the altar, a purple light flashed, causing the purple portal to change completely.

What was once just a large purple portal with stone edges now took the form of two large obsidian dragons that met in a circular shape, making it look even more majestic.

A purple light illuminated Ned and Peter, making black and purple cloaks with a dragon head appear on their backs in a magnificent way, leaving players dazzled.

It even made some players want to disconnect from Hypixel immediately so they could kill Ender Dragon as well and get a cape like that, but they controlled themselves and stayed to see what would happen next.

But the biggest surprise for them was before Ned walked through the portal...

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Before Ned could go through the portal, a new alert appeared in front of all players.

[Congratulations to 'Crawler', 'Summers', 'Kitty', 'Jean' and 'Anna' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'Crawler', 'Summers', 'Kitty', 'Jean' and 'Anna' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'Crawler', 'Summers', 'Kitty', 'Jean' and 'Anna' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

"Damn, we weren't the first!" A teenager's voice emerged from the spawn leaving Hypixel players in awe.

They had already been surprised to learn that someone had already killed Ender Dragon now, but suddenly another group appeared that had killed Ender Dragon too?!

[Congratulations to 'Princess', 'Milaje1', 'Milaje2', 'Milaje3' and 'Milaje4' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'Princess', 'Milaje1', 'Milaje2', 'Milaje3' and 'Milaje4' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

[Congratulations to 'Princess', 'Milaje1', 'Milaje2', 'Milaje3' and 'Milaje4' for killing Ender Dragon! ]

"Ohh, were we the third group?" A young girl's voice sounded in Spawn.

"????"

At this point the players were even more shocked, it wasn't enough for two groups to have killed Ender Dragon at the same time, now there was also a third group?! And who were these people named 1, 2, 3 and 4? Did these people even bother choosing a name for themselves?

Ned and Peter were shocked as they looked at the two groups approaching.

The first group wasn't abnormal, just a group with two boys and three girls, which wasn't too different from normal, but the second group was very strange!

Four women were walking around a girl like they were that girl's bodyguards even in the game!

"Is this 'Princess' actually a real princess?!" A player asked his friend as they watched the group approach.

"I think so? Maybe the women around her without the girl's bodyguards?" The friend replied.

"I would do anything to get a princess girlfriend, would she accept me as her boyfriend?" The player said with a goofy smile.

"At least in Minecraft she's pretty pretty, look over there!" His friend said as he pointed to 'Princess'.

"Be quiet, I would even accept being her dog if she really is a princess." Another player said with a smile.

"Hahaha, who will want you for a dog?" Another player laughed as he heard this.

But soon they stopped talking as they looked at the two groups that came closer and closer.

"Come on, come on, come on, I want my cape!" Kitty said excitedly as she hopped from place to place towards the altar.

Kurt and Scott had a happy and proud smile on their faces, even though they weren't the first to kill the Ender Dragon, they saw that Ned and Peter, who were wearing the dragon cloaks, had not yet entered the portal, so they still they could go in together to see what was on the other side.

Shuri and the Dora Milaje also walked proudly towards the altar to pick up their cloaks. Shuri had a big smile on his face in anticipation of getting the cover, while the Dora Milaje didn't show any reaction on their faces, as if they were emotionless mannequins.

When they reached the portal, Shuri opted to let Kurt's group use the altar first, as they killed the Dragon before them.

"Damn, this cover is amazing!" Kitty squealed excitedly as she swiveled around to see her cloak swinging.

Jean and Anna just stared at the covers with a smile on their faces.

The three girls had changed their skin outfits before slaying the dragon to black and purple outfits to match the capes, which made them look even prettier wearing it, while on the other hand, Kurt and Scott who wore normal clothes looked like a little out of place next to the three pretty girls.

After this group took their capes, Shuri and the Milaje also took their capes and they were stunning just like the other girls. Mainly Milaje, who while wearing the capes were looking even more intimidating, and Shuri who for some reason was cuter wearing this cape color.

Players around were blown away to see so many beautiful women (by Minecraft's default) wearing these capes in front of them. Both the three girls from the second group, and the five girls from the third group, they managed to attract the attention of everyone around them.

"Shall we go through the portal?" Shuri asked with a smile to the other two groups.

"Let's go!" Kurt and Peter responded in unison, which made them both face each other and laugh together.

With one step they took, their view shifted to something completely unexpected on the other side, leaving both them and Ned's livestream viewers shocked.

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But if these players were surprised, at that point there was someone who was even more surprised, a person flying in the invisible sky was extremely shocked.

Alex hadn't realized what universe he was in until now, but after seeing the names of these people, Ned, Peter, Crawler, Summers, Jean, Kitty, Anna and most of all, Milaje, he finally understood who they were, and what universe he was in. was!

This universe had mutants and Anna couldn't touch people. This was something Alex found a little strange, but nothing too surprising.

Professor was a wheelchair user who happened to be Anna's teacher, which by itself didn't represent much more than a pleasant coincidence.

However, when he finally saw everyone's names together, Alex realized something was wrong.

When he saw the Milaje and saw that they were black women with military training he finally managed to fit all the pieces together!

There was only one place in the universe that there were black women with military training called Milaje, Wakanda!

And for Wakanda to exist there was only one universe that Alex knew, and in that universe there was also a Ned, a Peter, a group of 'Special Children' that fit perfectly into Anna's group...

The Marvel universe.

"Holy crap!"

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When players walked through the portal, they were shocked! What existed on the other side was something very different from the main city of Hypixel, in fact, for someone who was used to playing in this VR world of Minecraft, it was something even more frightening.

Ned didn't know what to do. He was at that time on a floating island in the middle of nowhere, as he looked around he saw a portal on another floating island nearby.

[Wow, what is this? ]

[Ned was banned from Hypixel? ]

[Can Ned break this island? ]

[Idiot, if he breaks he will fall and die. ]

[No imbecile, in Hypixel no one can break or place blocks, is this island a private world for Ned? A place where he can make a house and call friends? ]

[That makes sense! ]

[Damn, after killing Ender Dragon you get a house in Hypixel?! I need to kill Dragon! ]

"Maybe I should go to that portal?" Ned asked the chat. "That portal doesn't look like the portal I came here for, maybe it will take me somewhere else?"

[Perhaps? ]

[It might be... ]

*Punch, Punch, Punch *

Ned was quick and broke the tree with his hands.

[Wow, he really managed to break the tree! It really can make a home in Hypixel! ]

[Damn, I want a house too! ]

But Ned wasn't even thinking about having a place to break and build in Hypixel, but in that portal. He was very curious where this portal could lead him, so with the wood he got from the tree, Ned built a bridge to the other floating island and crossed through the portal.

On the other side of the portal, something even more surprising emerged.

Instead of the generic houses in the traditional Hypixel Hub, in this place the buildings were much bigger and more detailed, Ned could see a bank, a giant farm, an auction house, several things he had only seen in roleplaying games.

[Damn, Minecraft turned into an MMORPG? ]

[My god, this is amazing! ]

[I WANT TO PLAY TOO! ]

[Please someone play with me, let's kill Ender Dragon together! ]

Ned was shocked into place, just looking from side to side curious about this new place.

Until he saw that there were already 7 players in one place... talking to a Villager?

As Ned approached, he saw that it was some of the other players who had also entered the portal. Princess and the 4 Milaje, Kitty and Summers.

"Look, another player has arrived!" Kitty said excitedly as she waved at Ned.

"What are you doing here?" Ned asked confused. "Have you guys found out anything about this place yet?"

"So far we haven't found out much, this Villager said he'll wait for the other players to arrive to explain it to us." Kitty replied with a smile.

"Does the Villager speak?" Ned asked shocked.

"Yes." The Villager replied not very interested.

"Wow." Ned sighed.

[Damn, is this artificial intelligence? ]

[Damn, I didn't think I could talk to the Villagers! ]

[I've tried this before, but they wouldn't answer me. I think this Villager is unique. ]

Within minutes the other players appeared. Finally the Villager looked at the players again and started talking.

"Welcome to the Hypixel Skyblock Experience. As the first players, you were given the right to have a guide with you, initially it was supposed to be just a group, but as you came together it will be easier to explain to everyone at once." The Villager started by saying. "Here in Hypixel Skyblock, each skill has a level, the higher your skill level, the better your proficiency. For example, come to the mine."

Players followed the Villager, passing a large library with an enchantment table in the middle, and a forge with several Villagers working to make items.

"Take it." The Villager said as he tossed a wooden pickaxe to Ned.

Ned took it by reflex. "What do I do with this?"

"Break the coal." The Villager replied.

Ned didn't think much and simply mined the coal. Therein fell two coals, but instead of being an empty place where the ore was, a block of Bedrock appeared there.

"Okay, now what?" Ned asked confused.

"Your mining level is 1, my mining level is 100 . Look at the difference." The Villager said before taking Ned's pickaxe and breaking another block of coal.

To the surprise of Ned's players and spectators, instead of just 2 coals falling from where the block was broken, just like Ned, more than 50 coals fell from there.

"That..." Ned was speechless.

"Damn! How do you do that?!" Kitty asked excitedly.

"It's simple, the more you mine, the higher your mining level gets, the more monsters you kill, the higher your combat level gets, and that happens for all abilities. Come with me." The Villager said as he walked back to the center of town.

Once there, the Villager gave each player 2 coals. "Each item you get can be sold for Hypixel Coins, that is, the higher your skill level, the more coins you can earn, with the coins you can buy divine swords, blessed pickaxes, mythical armor, it all depends on the money that you have it, or if you prefer, you can make these items with whatever resources you can and sell it to other players."

"Damn..." Kurt was shocked.

"Can I get that powerful?" Scott was also shocked.

But then Villager said something that shook these players' minds.

"Mayor elections will take place in 21 days, players will elect a mayor, and the mayor can make requests to game creators. These requests can be money for himself, ease for players, or even make the game harder, as long as it's not impossible, developers will do their best to meet." The Villager said.

[Holy crap... ]

[Fuck, I want to be mayor! ]

[I WANT TO PLAY! ]

But at that point, no one was more shocked and excited than Ned, as he saw the possibility of becoming King of Minecraft for the first time!

At that time there were over 20,000 people watching Ned's Livestream.

As of that day, Shield could no longer control news about Minecraft.

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"A new game that came out a few weeks ago is becoming an internet phenomenon. Thousands of players are trying it out and at least 9 out of 10 people say they've never played something this fun."

"But because of this unknown game, many influential people are starting to say that this could be a danger, as so far they don't have any information about the company that developed the game."

"Today we're going to interview the biggest influencer of this game. According to him, he was the first person to buy Minecraft, and according to the thousands of viewers who watch his livestreams on the internet, this really is a true fact. game item in real life."

"Ned Leeds, or better known as NedTheKing, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed on our channel." The reporter said with a smile as she looked at Ned.

"Hi guys!" Ned said with a smile as he looked into the camera.

If it was the Ned from a few weeks ago, he'd probably be too excited, or too shy to say anything, but after livestreaming to tens of thousands of people, he's gotten used to having so many people watching him.

"Is that the one you got for killing the Dragon in the game?" The reporter asked curiously.

Hearing this, Ned smiled and stood up to show his cloak better. "Yes, I got this cloak for being the first to kill the Dragon, with my friend Peter. It's pretty, isn't it?"

The reporter looked at Ned and the cover, and even though Ned isn't a pretty teenager, but wearing that black cover with purple he really became more elegant, it's like taking a normal boy and putting him in a designer suit, definitely it looks more beautiful.

"Absolutely, but I have a question. How did you get this cover?" She asked.

"That... for those who don't know, when you start playing Minecraft you just sit in your chair and it's like your conscience goes to another world. And after I left the game, the cover was in my hands, as if had gone out with me when I left the world." Ned said as he gripped the cloak with emotion.

"It really looks like something magical. Do you happen to have any clue who the creator of Minecraft is?" The reporter asked.

"Initially I thought about the possibility of it being Stark Industries, but the more I played, the more I realized that this technology was still way ahead of the Stark technology, so I started thinking a lot and discovered a person who might be the creator of match." Ned said confidently.

"And who would that person be? Maybe it's Hummer Industries? Or Oscorp?"

"Neither is actually a person with unknown real identity, the only thing I know is his Minecraft nickname." Ned said as he sighed. "And this may not even be the real creator of the game."

"And why do you think this person is the creator of Minecraft?" The reporter asked.

"When all the players were lost, he always seemed to be someone who knows the answer, when someone asks something that no one knows, he's the person who knows. " Ned said sincerely.

"I see, and what would his name be?" The reporter asked.

"Notch." Ned said with a smile.

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"Hey guys, is Notch really the creator of Minecraft?" Kurt asked his friends, who were also wearing a black cape with purple.

"I think it's possible, at least in the few interactions I've had with him, he's always seemed to know more than the others...just like..." Scott was finishing explaining when he was interrupted.

"Like who? If I may ask the question." Professor Xavier came into the living room where they were talking with a smile on his face.

But what shocked the students was that both Professor Xavier, Mrs Munroe and Hank were wearing the cape on their backs with smiles on their faces, plus Logan was apparently using his cape as a rag to open a beer, not even wearing that on the back.

"Professors, did you also kill Ender Dragon?!" Kitty asked shocked.

"Hahaha, yes, we decided to use Minecraft to be able to train unarmed and powerless combat, and I have to say, it's really refreshing! It's been a while since I needed to hold a sword." Ororo replied with a smile.

"Humph... those bad swords, if I had my claws we would have killed that lizard a lot faster." Logan snorted before drinking the beer he was holding.

"That...I didn't expect you guys to be playing Minecraft too." Jean said still surprised.

"Initially we started playing to see if the game was dangerous or not, but it turned out that we started having fun there and decided to get this cover too." Xavier responded with a smile. "We even think that Minecraft can be recommended for all students to train unarmed combat, so they don't become dependent on their own powers. Especially in Hunger Games mode, which pushes a person to the limit."

"Humph, that's just a child's game." Logan said as he pulled out a clear bottle of red liquid and handed it to Hank. "Take it here, I got the Strength Potion this week, try studying it and see if it's safe." He said before turning around and heading to the kitchen for more beer.

"He was in the top 20 at the Hunger Games?" Kurt asked incredulously.

"Yeah, he actually came in second because of his instincts, only losing to one person." Xavier replied.

"For whom?" Scott asked surprised to learn that Logan had lost to someone.

"You guys already know this person... Sabertooth." Xavier replied.

"What?! Is he playing that too?!" The students screamed in amazement.

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"Sir, that's what we got." A red-haired woman handed a black and purple fabric to a black man with an eye patch.

"Romanoff, what did you find out about this cover?" Nick Fury asked as he looked at the cover.

"We had installed cameras all over the place to see where this cover would come from, especially if someone came personally to put the cover there, but it really was like that kid described in the interview, it's like the cover is always there. we noticed that the cover just popped out of nowhere in our hand as soon as we disconnected from the game." Natasha started to describe what she felt and what it was like. "Plus we tried to recreate this cover and noticed something special." She said with a serious expression.

"Which is?" Fury asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"As much as the same person wears this cape or the cape we've recreated perfectly, the viewer's reaction is different. It's like this cape is enchanted with some kind of magic to make it more beautiful." Natasha reported everything she saw.

"You mean this cape has something like a charm? And that it really makes people see who wears it as prettier...?" Fury asked incredulously. "Why would someone do something useless like that?!"

"But when it comes to potions, we got four Strength Potions and two Lucky Potions, according to our studies, this Strength Potion for some reason actually manages to stimulate our body to develop more muscles in a few minutes, to the point where it really makes a difference between the punch of a person before and after taking this potion. As for Lucky Potion, we haven't been able to come up with conclusive results, just speculation that it actually increases the luck of those who drink it a bit." Natasha reported.

Fury was shocked by this, if a potion like this really exists, it is extremely necessary for Shield to get as many of these potions as possible, after all, with the amount of weird things going on in the world, Fury knew that just normal humans wouldn't be enough to handle thereby. "What about side effects?"

"None were found in either of the two potions, plus of course those who drank the Strength Potion need to ingest more nutrients to maintain new muscle, but as the amount was so low, it wasn't even considered a disadvantage." Natasha finished speaking.

"Okay, let's set up some teams to get as many potions like this as possible. What about Notch, did you get any information?" Fury asked with a serious expression.

"We can't find any fault with him, even if he acts like just an ordinary player, I feel there is something different about him but unfortunately we don't have any proof, not even seduction was possible with him." Natasha said frustrated.

"Okay, just keep watch in case he does anything suspicious." Fury said before dismissing Natasha.

"What are you trying to do with this...? It's not possible that it's just money you want, someone with that much power wouldn't need something as mundane as money..." Fury thought trying to understand Notch's mind.

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"I'm rich hahahaha!" Alex was dancing happily in his little cabin as he looked at Minecraft's report.

[Minecraft ]

[71,206 Games sold - $1,424,120 ]

[Average time played: 9 hours. ]

[Peak of simultaneous players: 52,110 ]

[Total earned on servers sold: $20,643 ]

[Total win in VIPs: $194,975 ]

Available Gaming Points: 1

Alex was shocked when he saw that he had sold over $1,000,000 with Minecraft, and after converting that money to Gaming Points, he found that adding the Servers and VIPs together, he would have over 8,000 points to spend at will.

Without thinking twice, Alex opened the System store and bought a large Shokugeki pizza at Souma and devoured it without even worrying about the price.

"Pizza is meant to be eaten when you want to celebrate something! Mwahahaha" Alex squealed happily as he stood on the chair and ate the pizza with a hero's stance.

He was already tired of eating CupNoodles, so being able to eat a pizza as delicious as this one was something amazing for Alex.

But right after that he felt a little bad, after all, good news makes you want to spread it to friends to celebrate together, but it was at this point that Alex felt that he didn't have many friends... In fact, the only person he could consider as a friend would be Anna, who in fact he found out was a mutant from the world of Marvel.

So after thinking about it, Alex put the pizza aside and started planning for the future.

"I know Minecraft will still earn me even more Gaming Points, but as I'm in the world of Marvel, in the future maybe I really need some powers to survive, but those powers are very expensive, some cost hundreds of thousands of points, then I will need even more points, meaning even more games or ways to win money!" Alex knew that Minecraft hadn't even unlocked the full potential it had, in his previous world Minecraft had sold hundreds of millions of copies, and in that world it hadn't even reached hundreds of thousands of copies yet, so he could still earn even more of that in future.

But Alex wasn't satisfied, he didn't even know what year it was, how long before Thanos would arrive, or even if Thanos had already been killed.

"I need to develop more stuff to accelerate Minecraft's growth... what can I do?" Alex started to wonder.

The first idea he came up with was to develop a Minecraft tournament, as he knew that E-Sports attracted a lot of competitive players and casual players who enjoyed watching it.

On the other hand he remembered some famous mods from his previous world and found that he could sell these mods as DLCs, which would attract even more audiences who liked different things that base Minecraft didn't have.

"It's time to spend some points to invest in Minecraft!" Alex said excitedly.

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Ned was addicted to playing Skyblock. Initially he thought it would just be a fun little mini-game, like hunger games or build battle, but he was very wrong about that.

The grinding and farm system in Skyblock was addictive! The more you played, the more you evolved and the more things you could do in the game! If before he thought Minecraft Vanilla had no limits, he had to admit that Skyblock further broke limits he hadn't even realized existed.

It had been a week since he killed Ender Dragon, and after that several other people also killed the dragon and were able to start playing Skyblock. It made this game mode kind of a VIP feel, as if because only people who killed Ender Dragon can play, it has become a mini-game that only elites meet.

Ned's livestream was still known as the largest Minecraft livestream in the world, even though other streamers emerged, Ned was the only one who kept an average of over 10,000 watching, and during peak hours that number even tripled.

So even though the vast majority of players couldn't play Skyblock, they could still watch Ned play and see what it's like.

"Maybe I should do a potato farm? I think this could make me a lot of money..." Ned told the chat.

[That! ]

[Potatoes for victory! ]

[Make the kingdom of potatoes! ]

[Death to pigs! ]

But suddenly, a window appeared floating in front of Ned.

[A big new update has arrived in Minecraft. Visit the game's official page, or Launcher for more details. ]

Ned was surprised, this was the first time a message like this came up, before it just said it had an update and players had to restart the game, but this time it seems like it had more explanation?

"Guys, I'm going to disconnect from the game and share my computer screen so you can see this news with me." Ned said as he disconnected from Minecraft.

Within seconds his awareness returned to his own body and he focused his vision on the computer monitor.

[Two new DLCs have arrived in the world of Minecraft. ]

[For players in love with magic, the DLC ThaumCraft is for you!

Thaumaturgy is the capability of a magician to work miracles. The practitioner of thaumaturgy is a thaumaturge, thaumaturgist or miracle worker.

This is what this mod is all about - drawing magic from physical objects in the form of Essentia and reshaping it to perform miracles. ]

Ned was surprised by this first DLC, he didn't think it was possible to do Magic in Minecraft! Initially Ned thought there might be magic classes in Minecraft, as players could use swords, shields, axes and bows, the only thing missing was magic to make a perfect RPG, but unfortunately he never discovered anything related to magic other than potions .

But now it was available! That was amazing, Ned was really looking forward to buying this DLC right now to start playing it and experimenting with making magic with your own hands.

Playing a game with magic was fun, but playing Minecraft with magic will be a unique experience for each player, as unlike other games, players feel that they are really in another world with another body, meaning magic will also feel extremely real!

But as excited as Ned was, he started reading the other DLC.

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Shuri was a little bored. Initially she had a lot of fun playing Minecraft, especially as she tried to invent machines with RedStone, but as the days went by, because of the simplicity of this, Shuri ended up feeling that the game was becoming a bit boring for her.

That was the problem with geniuses, whereas normal people would take months to learn how to craft an automatic farm, for Shuri who was smart enough to make the Black Panther suit, thinking about making automatic farms, or big redstone circuits was very simple. for her.

When she was getting ready to log out of the game, she saw the notification that there was a new DLC and decided to check it out, after all different things could come.

Seeing ThaumCraft's description, Shuri felt that it was quite boring and not that interesting to her. Despite having a lot of new things, apparently they weren't complicated things, just basic things that any common person would be able to do if they had the time available.

But when she saw the description of the second DLC Shuri's heart sped up as her eyes sparkled.

[If you feel that ThaumCraft is not your cup of tea, you might be interested in IndustrialCraft!

IndustrialCraft introduces numerous features across a variety of areas in Minecraft, including resource processing, mining, agriculture and the player's armory itself. It accomplishes this through the use of a proprietary energy system of Energy Units, or EU, and includes an array of generators and blocks to provide and store this energy and a much larger stable of machinery and tools to use this energy in their own ways! ]

Shuri was shocked, curious she started seeing promotional images of this modpack and was even more excited to play. From the promotional images she could see that there were different types of machines, she would have to design the best place to build her factory, the best layout to build it, get the resources, use machines to process the resources and use that to do other things .

There was so much she would have to do that Shuri's smile kept growing.

Without thinking twice, Shuri bought the $10 DLC and after a few seconds of installation she went into Minecraft to build an amazing factory!

Not only Shuri, tens of thousands of players around the world were amazed by these Minecraft DLCs and almost everyone bought at least one of the DLCs to try out, this included the bigwigs from the world of Marvel as well.

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Unlike players who were surprised by these DLCs, Alex had different feelings. As he had already discovered that he was in the Marvel universe, these DLCs were specially selected to attract the greatest amount of audience to Minecraft, so that he could focus on the next game he wanted to develop.

He knew that in this world there were many geniuses with such a high level of intellect that the geniuses of his old world couldn't even compare. And worst of all, in this world there was practically a genius for everything, be it a genius in robotics, genetics, shooting, construction, space, things that Alex couldn't even imagine much, he knew there were people with almost infinite knowledge about that.

So, after thinking about what mods he could add, Alex found that ThaumCraft and IndustrialCraft would be the mods that would make players spend more time in the game, and that would cover the greatest amount of players, after all, those who weren't interested in exacts could playing the magic DLC, those who preferred exact calculations could play IndustrialCraft which was focused on machines and resource usage, while those who didn't have a clear preference could play both mods.

But with that Alex was already feeling that Minecraft was reaching a bottleneck. Not a public bottleneck that could play the game, but a development bottleneck. The game was practically complete, and after a few weeks Alex even intended to sell a platform for players to make mods, where they could sell their own mods, or make it available for free.

At this point Alex didn't have much to do with Minecraft, so he thought it would be a good time to develop another game.

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"Master, where are we going?" Wong asked confused as he looked around. Even as a monk, Wong was well versed in the culture of normal people, so seeing the world with cars, cell phones and computers was no problem for him.

"Don't worry, this time I will show you a truly unforgettable experience." The old woman said with a confident smile as she looked at Wong and her other disciples. Today she was wearing a different outfit than the disciples were used to. Usually they just saw her wearing a green and yellow outfit, or even a white outfit, but unlike normal, today she was wearing a long black and purple cape with a dragon face on the back, and to match she wore the other pieces of black clothes with purple.

As much as this outfit was very different from normal, the disciples had to admit that the Crone was even more beautiful in this outfit, despite being bald.

"The last time this such unforgettable experience caused me to go bald for three months..." Wong grumbled in a low voice so the Elder couldn't hear, but by the smile she was giving him, he knew she had heard.

"I'll forgive your language today, mainly because I know it's going to be difficult to maintain self-control with what I'm going to show you. Please follow me into this store." The old woman said as she entered a dark shop.

Curious, Wong looked at the store's nameplate and found it was a Cyber-Cafe. Initially he was curious about what the Crone wanted to show them, but now that they came to a Cyber-Cafe he felt less interested. When he was still an ordinary young boy he came to this kind of place all the time.

"Master, I know this is a cool place, but I can't understand what you mean by unforgettable experience." Wong said, receiving nods from the other disciples.

Hearing this, the Elder smiled and replied. "Tell me Wong, what are these people doing on computers?"

Wong was confused by this question, but he looked around and saw that a man was sleeping in front of his computer while a color film played on the screen. Looking at a woman nearby he saw that she too was sleeping as a square movie played on the screen.

This surprised Wong and the other disciples, as they didn't realize everyone would be paying to sleep here, until a wild idea came to Wong's mind.

"Master, is there a demon hypnotizing these people!?" Wong yelled alarming the other disciples who immediately went into battle stance to fight the demon that could appear at any moment.

"No need to worry, there are no demons here, this is actually a game everyone is playing with their own consciences. And that's what I brought you to try. In this game there is a different style of magic, and I want it to you guys study this magic and tell me the difference between the magic of this game, our magic, and whether this game's magic can somehow be used in real life." The Elder explained.

Hearing what she said, the disciples finally understood what they should do, some were excited that they could play, others were relaxed that there were no demons, only Wong was 100% serious as he thought about the Crone's task for him and the other disciples. .

Unlike other disciples, Wong was always educated in Martial Arts, rather than Mystic Arts. Of course, he knows Mystic Arts, but he doesn't practice it, mainly because of his lack of talent for the magical part of the world, forced to focus only on Martial Arts.

But from what he's heard from the Crone, apparently there's more to this spell in this game, and if he's among the research team for this spell, maybe it has something to do with him? Wong got excited and quickly paid him so the other monks could use the free computers and soon they slept in front of the screens just like the other customers.

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"Wong, I think we should sleep..." A man in monk's clothes and a bald head said with a tired expression to Wong.

Wong was confused, after looking at the sky he replied. "Why? It's still daylight, monsters aren't even showing."

Hearing this, the monk was shocked and responded. "I'm not talking about the game, but about ourselves, I think it's been 50 hours since we've been playing non-stop, as much as our bodies are better than average humans, many brothers have already passed out from sleep." The monk said as he pointed to the bodies of players lying on the ground.

Luckily for these players, as their bodies were square, they were in no danger of falling to their side while sleeping.

Wong saw that the other monks were very tired and decided to disconnect from Minecraft with them and return to Kamar-Taj.

The more tired monks were carried by the less tired monks and within a short time they arrived. Unlike the other monks, Wong was perfectly fine. Sure, his reasoning was a little reading for having gone so long without sleep, but he had studied magic in such a fun and innovative way in that game that he didn't even feel the time pass.

After accompanying the disciples to their dorm, Wong went to his room and decided to write down everything he learned in the game so he wouldn't forget.

As he sat at his desk, Wong felt a strange sense of familiarity. As he had spent so many hours in Minecraft sitting in his desk trying to come up with theories for DLC ThaumCraft, when Wong sat at his own desk at home he felt like he was just doing something like he did in the game.

The problem is that this gave Wong a wild idea, he remembered making a Thaunometer, an item made with gold borders and some crystals with elemental properties, which allowed him to see the elements of objects in the game and get inspiration from it. to develop your own spells.

But as he had just done it within the game, Wong felt it was a silly idea.

Thinking to rest his head for a bit, Wong turned on the television to watch the news around the world.

But what he didn't expect is for the news to talk about Minecraft.!

"So what are the results, doctor?" A reporter asked a smiling old man in a white coat.

"This is a miracle! Besides there are no side effects, even old people like me can drink without worrying!" The old man said excitedly as he took the microphone from the reporter's hand and started talking to the camera. "I'm Dr. Heinstein, I teach at Yale University, if you have potions like this, I'll buy each one for $500, no, $1,000! If you're one of the 20 players who got a Minecraft potion this week I I'll buy this potion for $1,000! Even if it's a Lucky Potion!" The doctor was making an announcement before being interrupted by the program staff.

But that was enough to shock Wong. Not because there was an old man publicizing himself on television, as he was surprisingly used to seeing this kind of person without shame in it, but what surprised him was that while the old man was publicizing, there was a message on the screen that shocked Wong .

[University doctors around the world are surprised by the potions brought from Minecraft! "This is a medical revolution!" They say. ]

And if what that old man said was true, it means that even people at Yale, one of the most renowned Universities in the world, were proving that Minecraft things worked in real life.

But if what they were saying was true, didn't that mean that even the Minecraft magic DLC stuff would also work in the real world?

Wong was shocked! Every hair on his body stood up and he quickly got up from his chair and went to a chest near his bed to get some items.

Wong has had a lot of bad luck since he was born. His father was a very powerful sorcerer who worked for the Crone, but unfortunately Wong was born with a very weak talent for magic, something that made him practically forced to give it up and focus on Martial Arts.

But who knew that a chance to use magic would actually come his way?!

At this point Wong even remembered the smile the Crone gave him while they were at the Cyber-Cafe, which made Wong feel even more excited, as he knew the Crone knew something they were still discovering.

"Maybe that's it! My chance to practice magic!" Wong said excitedly as he focused on developing a Thaunometer.

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While Wong was marveling at ThaumCraft's magic, there was another person shocked by a Minecraft DLC as well.

Shuri, who had started playing IndustrialCraft just for fun, was now completely focused on a large pile of books in front of her as she wrote nonstop on a blank sheet.

Shuri had thought Minecraft was just a very creative game, but the more she played this game, the more Shuri was shocked, even more when she disconnected from the game and noticed there was a black cape on her lap.

But if anyone was even more shocked it was the Dora Milaje, who also had their cloaks in their hands when they left the game, which made the entire palace go on high alert while people thought there was an intruder among them.

But when they found nothing, the only explanation for it was magic!

Shuri thought Minecraft magic was something that could be very fascinating to study, but she didn't think the technology in this game was also so powerful!

Initially, while she only saw it as a game DLC, Shuri found it a lot of fun, but when she found herself thinking about the feasibility of using many of these technologies in real life, Shuri was surprised at how high the probability of success for this was!

"Maybe I should try this out?" She asked herself shocked as she stared at the paper in front of her.

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A few weeks passed in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile the Minecraft audience has become increasingly large, not just people wanting to play and killing monsters, but also people playing Minecraft for other purposes.

"Are you sure about this? I might as well video call him." An old lady said a little worriedly as she sat down in front of an old laptop.

"Don't worry Grandma, I've been wearing this for a long time. You know Uncle Jhon who sells cookies near the church? He's also been wearing this for a few days, if you want you can even ask him." A 12-year-old girl explained to her grandmother patiently with a smile on her face.

The old woman was a little scared, but upon learning that old Jhon was also wearing it, she was a little less worried and decided to try it on her own, as if it really worked like her granddaughter had said it would be too good for her.

"Okay, what do I do?" The woman asked determinedly.

"Just use your mouse and click 'Play'." The young girl pointed to the screen.

Slower than a normal person, the old woman clicked the Play button and felt that everything around her was turning black. Even though her granddaughter had previously said that this would happen, the woman was still very scared about it.

But in a few seconds her vision changed to a beautiful world, with bright greens and a blue sky that she couldn't see for a long time. Because of this woman's old age, her eyesight had deteriorated a lot, but in this world she could see clearly, as if she were still very young!

"What had she really told me to do?" The old lady remembered after observing the surroundings for some myths.

After a bit of doubt, she clicked on Multiplayer and chose Hypixel. The vision around her changed again, but this time only the world around her was different, quickly turning the blocks of grass and wood into blocks of something like stone and concrete, forming a beautiful medieval city.

"This is magic!" She said with an astonished expression as she looked around.

The city of Hypixel had gotten a lot bigger than it was originally, there were now many squares and several Villagers selling food and drinks to players in exchange for emeralds that players brought back from SinglePlayer mode.

Even though in Hypixel players didn't feel hungry, it was still comfortable to sit with friends in a store in town and eat something while chatting.

"I know, right?" A voice came from the old lady's side.

Curious, she turned and saw a player with long black hair and a simple brown outfit standing next to her, wearing a very pretty cape.

"Yes, my granddaughter convinced me to come here, but I didn't know it was such a wonderful place. I can walk normally without any bones hurting, I can see perfectly without even wearing glasses... everything is so magical." The woman said satisfied.

By the calm way of speaking of this woman, and by the fact that she said about her granddaughter, the player understood that she must be an elderly person and became more respectful towards her. "Are you by any chance looking for someone? Or maybe looking for something to do? There are some fun games around here."

The woman was enjoying the scenery while talking to the player, until she heard him ask her what her objective was here and she got scared. "I forgot my appointment! My friends said they wanted to have tea here today, I think I'm late! How am I supposed to find them...?"

The player heard this and opened a smile on his face. Scenes like this were happening all the time, especially this week when Minecraft finally burst the bubble of being just a game for young people, older people started playing and they were also amazed by this world, maybe even more amazed than young people that they could feel things they haven't felt in a long time.

"Well, there is a tea house in a neighborhood nearby, if you want I can take you there." The player said with a smile.

The woman was surprised by this, but the happiness was very good, even if it wasn't the right place, she could just blame her friends for not explaining well how to find them.

"That would be a great help, thank you so much!" The woman said with a smile.

The player accompanied the woman to the most famous teahouse in Hypixel and noticed that several groups of women were gathered there drinking tea and talking as if they were noblewomen from a distant past. But as weird as this might be in the real world, on Hypixel it wasn't surprising.

The woman was very happy to be able to meet her friends and turned to thank the player who helped her come here, but when she turned back there was no one else.

"Hey, where did he go?" She asked herself confused.

Luckily she had seen his name above his head as they were on their way here.

"Thanks for that Notch, maybe we'll meet one day." The woman said with a smile as she turned and went to her friends' table.

This woman may be just an ordinary old woman in Minecraft, but in real life she is extremely powerful. But the player she thought was just an ordinary young man was also someone with a special identity, but neither of them knew that.

The woman only knew that the young man's name was Notch, and Notch just thought that this lady was an ordinary old woman and didn't even bother to memorize the woman's name.

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Natasha was now in the elevator at Shield headquarters on her way to meet Director Fury.

While some agents got in and out of the elevator, she just remained thoughtful looking at an empty spot.

The agents only watched her momentarily before getting back to what they were doing, not wanting to upset this woman, who they knew held one of the highest positions at Shield.

Natasha didn't even pay attention to the eyes of these people, as she was already used to this kind of thing, and mainly because she had a lot to think about.

The mission she was currently in charge of was much more complicated than she had imagined, mainly because it was a completely unfamiliar environment, and of course, because her appearance didn't matter much in that environment, which was something that made previous missions much easier. her.

But luckily she still had many ways to get what she wanted with the years of knowledge and training she received for this type of mission.

After a few minutes the elevator was practically empty, if not for Culson with her.

"Are you enjoying the game?" Culson asked trying to start a conversation.

Natasha felt that Culson was a nice person and responded. "I wouldn't say enjoying it, but I can see why this is as successful as it is."

"Yes, it has become a phenomenon... I heard that practically 90% of children in schools are playing nowadays, and even a small part of these children's parents decided to play too because of their children's insistence." Culson said.

"Yeah, probably if I were a normal person I could be going through that too, it's hard to see something like that and not be amazed if you've never come into contact with things like this before." Natasha commented.

"It is true." Culson confirmed.

"But what about you? Did you like the game?" Natasha asked a little curious.

Culson was a little thoughtful before answering. "I felt it was a little fun, especially the part of riding horses and riding around the world, betting horse racing or stuff like that, but it's still not my teaspoon. I prefer games that involve cars, racing and adrenaline. To fight monsters in a game is not something that surprises me so much because of my work."

Natasha agreed with what Culson said. While working at Shield they've come into contact with many strange things that ordinary people thought only existed in science fiction movies. So fighting these monsters in the game wasn't very exciting, of course, besides the fact that the technology just blows them away.

Culson said goodbye to Natasha on one of the penultimate floors and let her go alone to Fury's office.

After knocking on the door and receiving confirmation that she could enter, Natasha began to report.

"Sir, this was a very complicated task, especially after so many people started playing Minecraft, the suspect was hardly found among so many people. he was invisible all the time and only appeared when he wanted it to happen.

Of course, we didn't have hard evidence for this, but all investigations and witness comments confirmed that this hypothesis is very high." Natasha said.

Fury sat thoughtfully in his chair as he thought about it all, until he asked. "And did you get in touch with the suspect?"

"Yes, after acting like an experienced player and gaining access to Skyblock, I started interacting more with other players and 'coincidentally' the suspect started appearing more to me and the players I met." Natasha replied.

"Hmm... it really makes the suspicion about him increase even more, from what the agents have described, the Skyblock really is something of a place for the game's elite in terms of battle, did you notice anything suspicious about these people? After all, to be there everyone had to kill the dragon, and as this game is in VR, the skill needed to do that is far superior to what ordinary people can do in such a short time." Fury asked.

Natasha heard Fury's question and made a slightly angry expression. "Unfortunately yes, I noticed that some people frequenting the Skyblock are actually probably soldiers or ex-soldiers who play Minecraft. Some are quiet people, others act just as idiots as the Shield employees after hours. I couldn't draw any conclusions from where they really are, but having managed to kill Ender Dragon in such a short time, I'm guessing they're not normal people." Natasha replied.

"And that boy?" Nick asked.

"Ned Leeds, student at Midtown High, no very flashy data about him, just an average student who apparently got very lucky to be the first Minecraft player. Being just a student, he has a lot of free time and plays for many hours of Minecraft. day, probably even giving up studying school stuff to play. His monthly income has already reached 4 digits and is close to reaching 5 digits.

In addition, he apparently already received 2 potions, managing to conquer Top 20 in the Hunger Games for two weeks. His physique got stronger and his body fat was slightly reduced. Nothing remarkable to those close to him, but it still matches our data on these potions.

I believe the investigation into him can be discontinued." Natasha finished reporting.

"I agree with that, we can just watch from afar and watch his livestream every now and then for anything suspicious, but besides that we can stop the investigation of the poor boy." Fury replied indifferently. "But what about your assignment today?"

Hearing that Natasha was proud and opened a smile. "Everything is ready, in a few hours I will meet him."

"Very good agent, I'm confident you will succeed in this." Fury replied with an expression still indifferent.

"Thank you, Sir." Natasha replied before leaving.

Today she would have an encounter with a Minecraft player, the Shield's prime suspect.

Notch.

But what they didn't know is that he had already discovered Natasha's identity and agreed to it out of curiosity.

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Alex was developing the next game to release after Minecraft. Of course, he wasn't going to release the Minecraft game as high as it was, he intended to do other events in Minecraft before releasing the next game so that the next game wouldn't be something that rivaled Minecraft and made the Minecraft audience choose to quit to play.

Alex's idea was to first let Minecraft reach a large player base, and after the public clamored for more games he would release.

But that didn't stop him from developing the next game. The idea he had was something much bigger than Minecraft, mainly in terms of Gaming Points. A game with a story for the player to get involved and at the same time with a lot of freedom to play and have fun.

But to develop this he would need a lot of time. As much as the system could use his memories to develop the games, Alex noted that some things from his previous world could be changed to make it more pleasing to players in that world.

Just as he did with Minecraft to make it bigger with world events, rankings, awards and a virtual society, Alex also intended to do that with the next game.

But that matter aside, Alex had a date today. Not as romantic as he didn't care about getting a girlfriend yet, after all, he didn't even know how he was going to get off this mountain, and he had a lot to occupy his mind.

But the main reason is that the person he was going to meet was not someone he was romantically comfortable with, after all, the woman was known as Black Widow, and as the name suggests, the number of men who died from being in love with her it wasn't small.

This time he would meet with her to see how the Shield was reacting to Minecraft and find out what their intentions were, of course, without them knowing that he already knew their identity.

"It's almost time." Alex told himself as he looked at his watch.

Before long, he closed the game development program and joined Minecraft.

Hypixel City was much busier than it used to be. Minecraft sales were already close to 200,000 units, so you'd expect at least 30,000+ players to be in town at busy times, after all, it was the biggest server in the game.

A few smaller servers started to pop up, and one that Alex had the most fun watching was a server called 22bt, which made him remember 2b2t from his previous world and think of the coincidence that players from that world also use a name so similar to the that he already knew. A server of anarchy that players could do whatever they wanted.

Of course, as it was a VR game, nothing related to obscenities or anything too heavy against another player's wishes was allowed in Minecraft, so if anyone did that they would be banned from Minecraft immediately, being forced to buy another copy of the game and this new one. account would be kept under observation by the system to prevent something like this from happening in the future.

As the city was busy, Alex expanded this and added entertainment methods for players.

Emeralds that were nearly useless in SinglePlayer mode had good monetary value in Hypixel, making many players actively seek this ore while playing in order to play with some things in Hypixel with friends.

Entering a cafe run by a Villager with artificial intelligence, Alex saw that it was empty and sat down at a table overlooking the window, to continue watching the players outside.

Seeing these people playing and having fun around town gave an idea of ​​a world event for Alex to do, after all, it was fun causing chaos while everything was so happy.

"May I ask the reason for the smile?" A female voice came from beside Alex.

He turned and saw the player \[Natália\], or in her real name, Natasha Romanoff.

"I thought of a funny situation. You arrived early." Alex responded after seeing that Natasha had arrived 5 minutes before the scheduled time.

"But you arrived even earlier." 'Natália' replied with a smile because she arrived early and Notch was already here before her.

"I don't have a lot of work to do so I have some free time to wander around Hypixel." Alex replied.

Natasha raised her eyebrow slightly. She thought he must have a lot of work to deal with these nearly 200,000 players, but apparently it wasn't all that much work.

"What do you work with?" 'Natália' asked showing a lot of curiosity.

Alex had to admit, this spy's acting is very good. If she applied to be an actress, with her looks she could definitely land the starring role in any movie.

"I have a farm. I'm not a big fan of busy places, other than Minecraft, of course, after all it's just a game here." Alex replied before asking Villager for a cup of coffee.

At Hypixel there were exclusive foods and drinks, as well as coffee or juices. This type of food could not be obtained in normal Minecraft, which made many foodies play Minecraft just to look for emeralds to come and taste Hypixel foods.

"Oh I was thinking to myself Minecraft is a very magical place, is this really just a game? My friends even think this is something like another world." 'Natália' asked pretending to be really just speculating.

But Alex knew that she was actually trying to get information from him, both about how Minecraft worked and whether he really was the creator of this game.

"Do you really think that? Well, it's not unfounded as it's very realistic." Alex replied. "But considering the method of getting into the game, being able to do Livestream and all that other stuff, I find it hard to think that it's not just a game."

"That makes sense, but I still can't stop doubting that Minecraft is just a game." Natalia commented she was taking the coffee that Villager brought her and Alex.

"Well, I've read some stories on the internet about games like that, but that was in the distant future. With the technology from Stark Industries, I don't doubt that this game could be something experimental for them and they're just trying to cover it up. " Alex said a theory.

"Maybe, but as Tony Stark likes to show off, I find it hard for him not to say about this game anywhere. If this really was his he would have already told everyone about it and made a big splash about the game." Natalia gave a counterpoint.

"But are you afraid of the game?" Alex asked Natasha with a smile on her face.

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"But are you afraid of the game?" Alex asked Natasha with a smile on her face.

Natasha saw Alex look deep into her eyes and felt insecure for the first time. She was used to handling many missions and her disguises were always perfect, it was almost impossible for anyone to distrust her, but seeing the way Notch was looking at her, Natasha really felt that this person knew who she was and what her intentions were. .

But after a second she composed herself and responded. "Fear? Maybe humans fear the unknown, don't they? Maybe this could be something done by an evil person with impure intent?"

Alex let out a laugh. "Yes, who isn't afraid? It's natural for humans to be afraid of things they don't know, that makes sense, but one thing I learned on my farm is that it's better to use the fear of tigers to build a fence so that the foxes don't kill the chickens. Often the tigers we're afraid of may even be killing the foxes without us knowing, but because of that tiger we have a fence that protects the chickens from less dangerous things."

Natasha was shocked to hear this. If the analogy of what Notch said was true, it meant he was saying they might be afraid of Minecraft and try to protect themselves from it, but that there are dangerous enemies in the dark attacking all the time and they didn't even notice.

"The conversation was very pleasant Natalia, but unfortunately I have to feed my pigs now, I hope you have fun." Notch left after a few more minutes of conversation, leaving Natasha alone in thought.

This conversation with Notch was very enlightening. At that point she was pretty sure Notch really was the creator of Minecraft, and that he knew she was part of the Shield. That analogy of his was a warning to Shield. 'You may fear me, but my help is needed, even if you don't know it.'

"I have to report this!" Natasha logged out of Minecraft and ran to Fury's room to report the entire conversation. Even though she recorded everything 'in secret' via the game's camera system, still a personal report with her thoughts on the case was essential.

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"Hey Tony, didn't you really make Minecraft? My superiors keep pestering me to find out the truth." A male voice came from the stairs.

Tony Stark who was currently working on one of his armor turned angrily and answered. "Rhodes, for the umpteenth time, I didn't make this damn Minecraft!"

James Rhodes came down the stairs with a frustrated expression as he looked at Tony. He knew that Tony hadn't made Minecraft, after all, if Tony had made the game it would probably be called StarkCraft. But still he had to ask again because of his superiors.

"Fine, I won't ask any more. But have you figured out how this game is made yet?" Rhodes asked hopefully.

Tony asked out loud. "Jarvis, how is the Minecraft decoding process going?"

Suddenly, a robotic voice rang out from the workshop speakers. "Sir, only 1% was able to decode."

Tony was shocked by this, he had asked Jarvis to decode Minecraft at Rhodes' request two days ago, he thought this would be an easy thing as apparently this was just a simple computer game. But he didn't think Jarvis wouldn't be able to decode just 1% of the game.

"What was decoded?" Tony asked.

"Just the website, which looks like a simple sales page on the 'Steam' platform but apparently has its own server that can't be analyzed or taken down. Not even my best DDOS attack had any effect, like you at it sometimes says, 'It was just a stone in the ocean'." Jarvis replied in a robotic voice.

Tony was shocked. He is known as the greatest genius of mankind, Jarvis is the best artificial intelligence ever invented, why this simple computer game cannot be analyzed by him?

Ignoring Rhodes, Tony sat down in front of the nearest computer and decided to try decoding this game himself. The game download completed instantly and Tony soon began trying to hack the game file to try and get the information he wanted.

But to Tony's surprise, he wasn't even able to access the game files. According to the program he developed for this, not even the software's protection language was understandable, apparently something far above what his program supported.

"Shit! How did he do that?!" Tony yelled in shock.

"Nobody knows, the Pentagon has already hired all the most famous hackers wanted by Interpool and none of them have even managed to decode the game page. It's surprising that Jarvis managed to do that in such a short time." Rhodes commented.

"Of course Jarvis is better than those nerds who just stay at home cloning rich people cards." Tony said proudly. But right after looking at the computer screen again and seeing that he couldn't decode any of this game he quickly lost that pride and felt frustrated.

"Do you think you can figure something out?" Rhodes asked worriedly, as this was the first time he had seen Tony this frustrated about something.

Tony is a guy who always looks happy, always flaunting the money and intelligence he has at every possible opportunity. Even hacking into the courthouse computer where he was tried for possessing the Iron Man armor, but this trusting friend of his at the time was showing such frustration now that it was surprising.

"Do you have any questions? Of course I can do it, I just need a few more days to develop a better decoding program so it can understand this game's language and I'll tell you the news." Tony said confidently again. "There's nothing in this world that I, Tony Stark, can't understand, and it's not going to be a simple computer game that's going to take that title away from me!"

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Alex needed a day to develop the event he was planning. This would be Minecraft's biggest event, as the game now has over 200,000 copies sold.

With Minecraft sales alone, Alex had already earned approximately 20,000 Gaming Points, and considering VIP and DLC sales, that figure rose to approximately 30,000 Gaming Points.

That was an amount Alex couldn't even dream of when he had just received the System, but now 1,000 Gaming Points could be earned very easily.

Alex decided to look into the skill store and see if there was anything useful for him.

[Skills Shop ]

[Dominic Toretto Driving Skills: 3,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Elf Breath: 5,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Deadshot Weapon Mastery: 10,000 Gaming Points. ]

...

[Gray Fullbuster Ice Magic: 100,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Megumin Fire Magic: 500,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Natsu Dragneel Dragon Slayer Fire Magic: 1,000,000 Gaming Points. ]

What little pride Alex took after seeing that he had 30,000 Gaming Points was drained after seeing that he didn't even have enough to buy Ice magic. But among the things he could buy, there was something that caught Alex's attention. Curious, he asked the system for more details.

[Elf Breath: 5,000 Gaming Points. ]

[Description: A style of meditation used by elves to absorb good properties from nature. This breathing has no direct effect in combat, but helps the user consume better nutrients from food, rest better during sleep and if used for a long time tends to increase the wearer's longevity.

Ps.: They say it has a beautifying effect. ]

Alex was shocked by this ability, the price of it was too high considering that after converting it to dollars it would be the equivalent of $1,000,000 .

But after seeing the effect it had, Alex bought it without thinking twice. He knew a lot of things he wanted to do during the day, and having to sleep 10 hours every day was very limiting for Alex, so something like that was essential. Not to mention the effect of nourishing the body and increasing longevity. If something like this were put on the market, let alone $1,000,000, even a trillion dollars would be cheap.

[Purchase! ]

After buying this, a flurry of information surged through Alex's mind, much like the memory pills he had used to remember the details of Minecraft.

In just a few minutes Alex found the perfect way to practice this Elvish Breath and put it into practice.

*In, Out, In, Out, *

Alex spent 30 minutes in the lotus position and quickly felt the difference that breathing in this way made for his body. Compared to the way he breathed before, it was as if he now breathed the pure air of green farms whereas before it was as if he was breathing in a toxic waste sewer.

It was difficult for Alex to explain in words, but in just 30 minutes of breathing like this Alex felt his body was ecstatic, thanking for the fresh air and gradually repairing the damage caused by the weather.

Alex didn't have a way of measuring how much Elven breathing had repaired his body and rejuvenated it, but he knew that if he breathed like this 24 hours a day for a few years, he would definitely age several times more slowly, ie, holding that breath Elfica Alex could live several times longer.

Seeing that this skill cost 5,000 Gaming Points and already had such a miraculous effect, Alex kept trying to buy other more expensive skills and see what it could do with him. But in the end he controlled himself and didn't buy anything else.

He only had 25,000 Gaming Points now, and he would need that to make the next game.

[Basic RPG - 5,000 Gaming Points. ] [Advanced RPG - 50,000 Gaming Points. ] [Triple A RPG - 500,000 Gaming Points. ]

He already had enough to make a Basic RPG, but he wanted the next game to be something much bigger, so he intended to collect another 25,000 Gaming Points to develop an Advanced RPG.

As much as that was a very high amount of Gaming Points, with the amount of daily Minecraft sales, Alex calculated that he would need a maximum of two weeks to gather that amount, or if the event he held was well received by players, perhaps that time would be shortened to just a week.

With a smile on his face Alex sat down at the computer and began to develop the event he would do for Minecraft.

This would probably be the most memorable event in the game, as Alex intended to make this a main theme among the games he was going to make.

Minecraft didn't have a story mode, but Alex intended to make one with this event.

Hypixel would be invaded, players would need to fight to protect the city, or it would be destroyed and they would lose the features that made it so fun.

Monsters would come from the skies, the earth, the underground, from everywhere. The villagers would be scared while the players would be the only ones able to protect the city.

Players would need to band together against a powerful enemy that even controlled dragons like kittens.

The amount of monsters attacking the city would be desperate, but Alex already had in mind a way to make the players manage to deal with that.

Of course, he didn't intend to let players solve this problem, at most these players would be able to make the enemy back down, but with that Alex would be able to create the first story of the game, a story that would continue through the new games and that would make players shiver only to remember the enemy they would face.

The enemy that would bring the world together, someone that perhaps not even Thanos could match.

That enemy that would go against the Minecraft system, which appeared only once in history and which later became just a legend.

In a few days players would know despair, because Herobrine would return.

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Alex was very excited to make this event work, so for the next 2 days Alex just planned everything that would happen, and even when it would happen.

For starters, Alex needed a moment where few players were online, but among those players there was someone recording what was going to happen.

As Minecraft was a different VR game, many players tended to play Minecraft while they slept, as their bodies would go into sleep mode while their minds went to Minecraft, which was enough for people to do for a few days.

But Alex had added a function in the game so that the player would be unable to play if he did it for 3 consecutive days, since the function of sleep was not only to rest the body, but also the mind, so to prevent players from going crazy , Alex only allowed them to play non-stop for 3 days before forcing them to sleep.

As players tended to stay overnight in Minecraft, Alex found that the best time to run the event was 10:00 .

This was the time the children and teenagers were at school, and most adults were working.

Of course, Minecraft became known around the world, but for now 80% of the Minecraft audience was still US, so relying on US weather was still the most effective way to calculate things for Alex.

With a smile on his face Alex managed to complete everything after 3 days.

The time to develop this event should have been 1 day less, but Alex was all the time thinking about keeping the Elvish breath active, it was not hard to notice when he stopped using the Elven breath, as the feeling of breathing in a sewer it came whenever he stopped.

But always thinking about breathing that way was a lot harder than Alex imagined. He always forgot to use this breath and got dizzy from the bad feeling of breathing normally, causing him to have to stop developing the event and focus on Elvish breathing again to clear the body of the impurities he inhaled.

When Alex slept he felt like he was being hugged by angels, having such a comfortable sleep that it was difficult to wake up, of course, other than the hours he woke up from stopping using Elvish breathing. But after 5 hours of sleep, as much as Alex wanted to stay asleep, he couldn't do it anymore. His body was full of energy begging him to go do something to spend it.

Unfortunately he couldn't develop the event with this excess energy, as he would just sit in front of the computer typing on the keyboard, which made him restless.

To resolve this, Alex got up and left his little cabin.

After the launch of Minecraft the only thing Alex did outside the cabin was gather some firewood to light the fireplace and warm up.

Even though almost a month had passed since Alex had released Minecraft, the snow outside his cabin was still as thick as when he came to this world.

Since he now knew he was in Marvel's world, Alex was curious as to why no one had found him yet. There are many powerful beings in this world, even one of the most powerful beings in the universe lived on earth and had a big bald head.

Alex thought the Crone would come to talk, or rather interrogate him about Minecraft, but that never happened.

Knowing the woman's personality, Alex knew that she had probably been trying to locate him for a long time, but if she hasn't come by now, it's probably because this place is isolated by something.

The only thing Alex could think is that what is isolating this world from the outside is something System had done with some of the powers in it, but Alex didn't really care about that.

At the moment the only thing he thought about was expending his energy, so with Elvish breathing active, Alex ran through the dark forest into the night at a speed he didn't even know he could reach.

His body muscles were getting healthier every day, to the point where body fat was being consumed daily to tone his muscles, making Alex's body stronger than ever.

Alex knew that in order to stay with the current body he was in, he would have to diet for several months while attending a gym with an intense workout. But with Elvish breathing, Alex got the same result just by eating, sleeping, and exercising a little for those three days.

And Alex knew that the longer he used Elvish breathing, the healthier he would become.

"No wonder elves were so cute, with something as magical as this technique, it's impossible not to be cute..." Alex told himself as he looked at his reflection in a large block of ice on the way back to his cabin.

The sun was already rising, so Alex felt he needed to shower and get ready to start the event today.

But there was something that made Alex a little suspicious.

He had never gone as far from his cabin as he did today, and as he ran it was dark, which prevented him from seeing it, but now that the sun was rising, Alex could see perfectly well that there was a cave near his cabin, a cave he had never noticed.

"What's inside this cave? Maybe a bear?" Alex wondered as he approached the cave.

But the closer he got to the cave, the more Elvish breathing told Alex that too much foul air was coming from inside. It wasn't impurity as something evil, but as if too many mineral molecules were in the air, which would be very bad for anyone who breathed it.

"Is this pollution?" Alex wondered in surprise as he felt it.

Until a hunch came to Alex's mind.

"Could this be a tunnel to a city? After all the city air has a lot of carbon monoxide..." Alex wondered with a hand on his chin.

He was tempted to go into that portal and see which city was on the other side, but he knew that right now there could be many powerful humans trying to find him, and since his body was more powerful these days, he wasn't even close to power. scratching these powerful humans.

"Going through it would put me at unnecessary risk. Maybe I'll go through it when I have enough strength to protect myself..." Alex said to himself with a determined look before turning away and heading back to the cabin.

On the way home, Alex turned to the cave with longing in his eyes, but every time he just gave up and tried to ignore it.

It was something very tempting for a person who had been isolated for almost 2 months to be able to get in touch with civilization again, but for now he intended to be content only with contact with other people through Minecraft.

"Maybe one day..." Alex sighed.

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After showering and eating a system breakfast, Alex sat in front of the computer and prepared to start the event he was planning.

Alex planned this event to last 7 days, and after those 7 days the trailer for the new game would be released to players. Even though Alex still didn't have enough Gaming Points to start making the game, he had already planned out most of the features the game would have and the things he would need to change to make it work in this world, so the development process would be fast.

And with the hype he was planning for this event, Alex was sure that Minecraft sales would take off and before 7 days he would already receive the remaining Gaming Points to develop the game.

It was 9:50 am, of the 200,000 people who bought Minecraft, at that time there were only approximately 27,000 people online in the game. That's considering people playing Singleplayer mode, Hypixel and private servers. Considering that at peak hours the game had over 150,000 people online, it was now one of the times with the fewest players.

But that was exactly what Alex wanted.

With a smile on his face, Alex used the Herobrine account and logged into Hypixel.

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Wong and the sorcerers of Kamar Taj were part of that small amount of players that was online in Minecraft.

As this was the Crone's task, every day they logged into the game to try to learn about Thaumcraft's magic. And since they had no obligations like work or school, these disciples basically spent the entire day at the game.

But as it was so tiring just to be on a private server they bought to study magic together, sometimes they would log into Hypixel to eat some game food, or even play the mini-games that the server had.

With the release of Thaumcraft and Industrialcraft, it became easier for players to kill Ender Dragon using the resources that came in these DLCs, so the population of players playing Skyblock had increased a lot as more players got the Ender Dragon egg.

And Kamar Taj's disciples got addicted to playing Skyblock too! The economy system of this mini-game was amazing! It should be known that to be accepted as a disciple of Kamar Taj it was necessary that one had a very important destiny, both great entrepreneurs and geniuses in some area were common to see in that place, so when they killed Ender Dragon and started to playing Skyblock, you could say they have become one of the main groups there.

"Hey Wong, did you manage to find out anything about magic tonight?" A disciple asked with a frustrated expression. They had already tested it and found that Thaumcraft's magic really wasn't impossible to do in the real world, but even with that finding, putting it into practice was an entirely different matter.

"I've tested a few things and I think I've made a very important breakthrough, maybe in a few weeks I'll be able to make a practical Thaumnomicon. Of course, I'm still not sure if that will work, but if it's really true, this could be a revolution for human magic. !" Wong said excitedly.

Humans in the Marvel universe couldn't control magic and generate it on its own, forcing users to sign contracts with demons or extract magic from other planes in order to do something.

But with the knowledge they received from Thaumcraft, it was quite likely that they could finally start using magic for even more amazing things in the future, and might even stop relying on other dimensions someday!

*boom*

A huge explosion sounded, alerting all players who were resting on the Hypixel!

Players were shocked, those who play minecraft have already got used to explosions, as dying to Creepers was a frequent occurrence for players, even playing with TNTs was something they did with ease. But this time it was different, the explosion that happened was something on a much larger scale!

Looking around, players saw something they couldn't believe.

Around the city of Hypixel was a great wall that players were never able to scale. Even though many tried, there were no blocks to hold up to the top, just leaving players stuck there with doubts about what it was like on the other side of that wall.

But now something they never imagined has happened. In the great wall there was a hole!

Wong was shocked and looked around confused, the other players didn't know what to do either!

Suddenly a notification popped up in front of all Minecraft players, even players on Private Servers or players in SinglePlayer mode.

[Dear citizens of Hypixel, the city is under attack by an unknown force. Please help protect Hypixel! ]

"What?! The city is under attack?!" The disciple beside Wong screamed in fear.

That was the reaction of the thousands of Minecraft players, they thought that Hypixel was a comfortable and cozy place that the Minecraft developers had made for them to rest, but who would have thought that this place could be attacked?

[The quest "Protect Hypixel" has been activated. If you want to participate in the quest, enter Hypixel and help protect the city. If players manage to defend the city from the invasion of the unknown enemy, everyone who participates in the defense will receive a gold limited cape, embroidered with 'Hypixel Defender'. ]

If before players were just scared about this invasion, now their mindset has shifted 180 degrees. Especially after reading the word 'limited' referring to the cover.

Almost every player had seen one of the players wearing the Ender Dragon cape proudly parading around town, and they were frustrated that they couldn't have a cape as cool as this one, but now the opportunity has arisen?!

They knew that almost every player would accept the task, so almost everyone would be given a cape like that and it wouldn't be as special as the Ender Dragon cape, but with the speed that Minecraft was growing, soon new players arrived, and then who wouldn't be jealous of their covers?

"Let's fight!" A player shouted excitedly.

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The X-Men were startled when a summons came from Professor Xavier for everyone to gather in the mansion room.

Most students studied at the mansion with private lessons from mutant teachers, only a small minority went to regular school. So when Professor Xavier called everyone together, they were worried, it already had to be something very urgent to call the more than 100 people at the institute.

"Hey guys, is Magneto taking a hostage town?" Evan asked as he approached.

Kurt thought for a moment and replied. "Something like that is probably going on, otherwise the teacher wouldn't interrupt everyone's classes."

"I'm happy, our next class would be with Mr. Logan, so missing one of his classes is cause for joy." Kitty said with a big smile on her face.

As they walked to the conference room all the students started speculating about what was going on. Some thought Magneto was attacking humans, others thought some new enemy had emerged, there were even some students worried that people had discovered they were a school for mutants.

Until Rogue, better known as Anna, screamed in fear. "Hypixel is being attacked!"

When the students heard this they were all shocked!

"What do you mean Hypixel is being attacked? Does the government want to take down Minecraft?" A student screamed in fear.

"It can not be!" A girl screamed.

"No, Hypixel City is under attack!" Anna yelled to warn the others.

Hearing this they were momentarily relieved, until they remembered how big the walls of Hypixel were and thought of what must be happening for Hypixel to be attacked.

"Who is attacking?" A girl who was normally very shy asked angrily.

Even Anna was scared by the reaction of this girl who was always sweet and cute to everyone. But she still responded with a bit of fear. "No one knows who it is, but there are two Ender Dragons flying over Hypixel while zombies and skeletons have broken through the wall and started to invade the city, but players are thinking it might be a person." She said as she continued to watch the news on the internet.

"Who?" Students asked apprehensively.

But before Anna could respond, a familiar voice answered before her as she entered the conference room.

"Herobrine." Professor Xavier said in a serious voice.

The students were shocked by Professor Xavier, they didn't even know he played minecraft!

"Professor? Why do you know that?" Anna asked a little confused. She already knew that the professor played minecraft, but she didn't think he cared so much about the game that he already knew this news.

According to the website she was reading, the city had started being invaded 10 minutes ago, shouldn't the professor have been worried about Magneto's actions since he called the meeting?

'Unless...' Anna was shocked to imagine something.

"Because that's why I called all of you here. I know that among the Xavier Institute students, pretty much all of you play Minecraft, and I realized how well this game does for the entire mutant community, since in Hypixel everyone they can act like everyday people and even interact and befriend other people without worrying about their own safety. I heard about the Hypixel invasion 5 minutes ago, so I called you all over." Professor said in a serious voice.

Upon hearing this Anna felt that what she imagined was really right.

The students were still surprised to know that the teacher thought so highly of minecraft, but as they remembered the friends they made, and the happy times they had in the game with other strangers, they felt that the teacher's words really made sense. .

"Professor, you summoned us to..." Not even Scott Summers, who was the leader of the younger X-Men, believed that Professor Xavier had summoned everyone to what he was imagining.

But when the teacher responded they finally believed it. "Yes, I called everyone to ask you to join Hypixel and help defend the city, I will also connect so we can fight humanity together and defend that place that has always treated us so well."

Professor Xavier had a big smile on his face, and the confidence he displayed inspired the students. Before they just saw Minecraft as a much more fun game than the others, but after hearing the teacher's words they finally understood how important it was, and they didn't want to let Hypixel be destroyed by anyone.

"Let's go!" Kurt yelled excitedly.

"You can count on me!" Evan was also excited.

"And with me."

"Also with me!"

...

Soon the students ran back to their own rooms to access personal computers to play, other students went to the library, even to some classrooms to play games, as not everyone had their own computer and all the public computers in the house were busy.

At that time more than 100 mutants connected to Minecraft to help defend Hypixel.

And it wasn't just at Mansion X that people gathered to help defend Hypixel, in some communities, companies, many industries stopped what they were doing to help in the Hypixel battle.

Even Shield dispatched some agents to fight in the battle of Hypixel, on the one hand to get more information about this mysterious game and what was going on, and on the other hand to protect the city that provided various strength potions for them all. weeks.

People who didn't know what was going on were confused as they walked around town and saw some stores being hastily closed.

Some people even thought that the towns they lived in were being attacked, but when asked why the stores closed they were even more confused.

"Hypixel is being attacked? Why is this so important to you?"

"Are you giving employees time off because you have to play? What kind of boss are you?!"

"What the hell is Hypixel?"

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"The east wall has been invaded, we need people to help defend!" A player came running to the town square.

Here, in the town square, several famous players were gathered. Most of these players are known through the Hunger Games Rankings or the Skyblock Rankings.

Among these players, all were wearing colored capes. But among these people there were some who had more prestige than others, and these were the people who wore black capes with purple accents, the cape of Ender Dragon.

"We're going to send Team 38 there, they just defended the west wall and got a lot of powerful items." Shuri said with a serious expression, as if she really was an experienced general of a large army, which contrasted a lot with her cute appearance.

When monsters started to invade, players didn't have equipment to fight these monsters, so they just punched until they killed the monsters. But luckily they found that killing monsters was dropping items like swords and armor, which made it much easier to kill more and more monsters.

Initially players were just attacking without any coordination, until NedTheKing started issuing some orders for more efficient ways to attack and players started listening to his tactics to improve the city's defense.

Unfortunately, Ned was just an ordinary student, so his tactics were limited to just the war strategy games he had played before, but soon other players with Ender Dragon cloaks came up next to him and they started arguing about tactics, even that a small chain of command has formed between the players.

If this were another game, players would hardly listen to other players and just act as they pleased, but this was Hypixel. Here they really saw and interacted with other people in person, a place where they could have a lot more fun than traveling to other countries, so nobody wanted to do something wrong and be the cause of the downfall of this magical city.

"All right, Team 38, please go to the west gate and help the teams there defend the wall, don't let any monsters invade!" Ned yelled to the 38 players, who soon ran to the west gate holding the stone swords they received from killing monsters.

The players soon discovered that the attack was being carried out in waves. The first wave gave players wooden swords, the second wave gave players stone swords, the third wave they didn't know yet.

"Those dragons haven't attacked yet..." A man with long black hair said with a thoughtful expression.

His nickname was [Teacher ].

"Yes, as with each attack wave the equipment is improving, maybe these dragons only attack after players have diamond swords." A woman replied.

Her nickname was [Natália ].

"Has anyone gotten a bow yet? Dealing with dragons without bows will be a suicidal task." A white-haired black woman commented.

Her nickname was [McQueen ].

"Not yet, so far the amount of skeletons in the waves was very low, none of them dropped a bow. But maybe in the next waves this could be higher." Ned replied.

"Reporting to the leaders, 200 more players have connected in the town square and want to help in the battle." A player arrived at the command center with an excited expression.

Because of this player's cape, people might think he was also part of the players' command team, as he wore an Ender Dragon cape, but this player only spent a few minutes in the command center and got really bored before he decide to go out and help the fight into their own hands.

This player's nickname was [PParker ].

Ned and Peter were at school when the Hypixel attack started, but when they found out what was going on, the two ran away because they were sick and managed to escape classes very easily. As both had very high grades, it was not difficult to convince the teacher to release them to go home.

"Very well, take them to the weapons warehouse and tell them to each get a wooden sword, if they get a stone sword they must return the wooden sword to the warehouse, and let them know about sword donations." Ned said with a smile to Peter.

"OK!" Peter responded excitedly before running back to Spawn and taking the players to the Warehouse.

Players had obtained many wooden swords in the first wave, and when they received stone swords from the second wave, the leaders decided to save the wooden swords for new players who wanted to do battle, while the surplus stone swords would be stored for the players to use after they die.

When they died the swords they used disappeared, so they always needed more weapons.

PParker took the new players to the warehouse and each received a wooden sword from the player named [Milaje02 ]. They were in charge of the warehouse as they were very smart and disciplined.

"Did Team 01 manage to kill the Boss?" Shuri asked Professor Xavier.

"I haven't heard from them yet, but I trust those players' sense of battle." Professor replied with a smile.

Team 01 was the X-Men team. Among them were Kurt, Scott, Jean, Anna, Kitty and Logan, who just wanted to fight and kill monsters. Xavier, Ororo and Hank were at the command line.

*boom*

Fireworks sounded in the center of the city, which made players scream in excitement and start attacking the monsters even more excitedly.

When players killed the first wave Boss, fireworks sounded in celebration, so as it happened again this can only mean that Team 01 managed to kill the second Boss as well!

"I think we have our answer, Princess." Professor replied with a smile.

"Yeah, glad you got it." Shuri aka Princess responded happily.

Players soon finished killing the monsters as they regrouped in the center of town to hear their next orders.

After each wave the players had 15 minutes to rest and shower in real life if they needed to, so this was also the time they would gather to discuss new ideas.

At this point, while the players were talking seriously downtown, Alex was flying invisible through the city with a smile on his face, he was prepared to implement the second part of his plan.

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While players had 15 minutes of rest, Alex was controlling a new feature he added to Minecraft and no one knew.

Until the second round, there were only normal monsters that attacked the walls, and a bigger monster that represented the boss, with more health, more damage and more speed than normal monsters. But for Alex it was just an entrance to the grand feast.

He had planned that today there would only be three waves of monsters, so players would spread about what happened in the city and that would bring in even more players to help defend the city the next day.

But to end the day's attack well, Alex had planned something special.

In his old world there was a very famous Minecraft mod called Mutant Mobs, which basically added mutant mobs much more powerful than normal game mobs.

Initially Alex intended to use these mobs as the bosses of each wave, but then he dropped that and decided to make it something special, as he intended to make it big, so with a smile on his face, Alex finished preparing the scene he had. he imagined and flew out of town before becoming visible again.

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The players had divided up the items they had collected and were all very confident for the next wave of monsters.

Until suddenly thunder sounded.

*boom*

The players were startled, as a few seconds ago it was still daylight, but after the thunder the game turned into night and they could only see two small white dots floating in the sky.

"What is that?"

"Maybe it's two stars?"

"But there are no other stars, the sky is clear."

"So I don't know..."

Suddenly the two white dots approached and the players could finally see what it was.

"Is that...is a player?" A player asked in surprise.

"That looks like a Steve..." Another player commented.

"But he doesn't have a name on top of his head." Another player said.

"I know! It's Herobrine!" A player screamed in shock.

"Wait, is Herobrine real?!" Players were surprised by this.

Looking up at the sky they saw a Steve with bright eyes and no pupils, this perfectly matched the description of Herobrine they had heard about, and even the look and feel of the video they saw.

Unlike players with Skins that looked like Herobrine, which only left the pupil white, this Herobrine's eyes were really glowing!

At this point a creepy music started playing in the background causing some players to start shaking.

But before it got too heavy, Herobrine started talking. "So it means that you are the ants that are protecting the Hypixel..."

Hearing this the players were even more scared. Herobrine's voice was very low and full of noises, as if it was being modulated by some program, but players knew that it was impossible for something like this to happen in Minecraft, so they thought that this was really a voice from hell.

"Haha, too bad, so many ants willing to die to protect my city...don't worry, after I destroy this I'll make a city even better!" Herobrine said with a disturbing smile. "But you won't be welcome!" He yelled causing another thunder to fall from the sky.

At this point the players were really scared, to the point that some even dropped their own swords in fear of fighting this enemy.

But at that moment, on the one hand the sky started to lighten again and Herobrine frowned.

"Stop brother...you know you don't have to do this..." A familiar voice sounded very sad.

Many players were confused because they already knew this voice but couldn't remember who it was.

Until they saw another figure flying in the sky and were shocked.

"Is this...is Notch?!" A player yelled.

Upon hearing this player's scream, players soon realized that it really was Notch who was flying in the sky. Most players knew Notch and liked him a lot, as he always helped others, and even players who never met Notch had heard of this player from their friends.

But they were very confused about why Notch could fly, after all, no player could fly in Hypixel other than when playing Build Battle.

"So he really is the creator of this world." A calm, friendly voice said to himself with a satisfied smile on his face.

[Teacher ]

But because of the silence that was in the area, all the other players heard it too and were shocked by this revelation. No one knew who the creator of Minecraft was, and there were even some people who speculated it was Notch, but no one really believed it.

But seeing him flying in the sky now was the biggest proof of that they could have.

"Notch really is the creator of Minecraft?!" Players were shocked again.

"But why did he call Herobrine his brother?" Soon this question arose in everyone's minds, but Herobrine screamed angrily preventing that thought in the players' minds.

"Shut up! Don't ever call me that again!" Herobrine yelled angrily and more lightning began to appear, causing the sky to turn dark again.

But Notch let out a sad cry and warded off the darkness once more.

"You will always be my brother!" Notch yelled sadly.

"Miscs, deal with these ants!" Herobrine screamed angrily as he made countless rays fall from the sky.

Where lightning strikes, dozens of zombies would appear and run frantically into the city. Soon the players realized what was happening and started to defend themselves.

"Brothers, defend Hypixel! Don't let Herobrine destroy our city!" Ned screamed like a king, making all the players around him squeal together as they ran towards the monsters with their eyes gleaming.

They realized that Notch and Herobrine had a deeper story and were dying to know what that story was, but the monster attack didn't allow these players to just watch and made them rush to defend the city.

*boooom*

Until a huge beam fell to the ground, causing several blocks around to be destroyed.

In that place a giant zombie with huge muscles appeared.

"Zombie... Smash!" The zombie screamed with madness as it ran towards the players at a very fast speed and killed every player in its path.

Notch and Herobrine began fighting in the sky until they slowly flew away from the city as they fought.

Players were excited to see what would happen and fought with all their might, but on the other hand, in a remote city in Brazil, an American man was shocked while looking at a Livestream on his cell phone.

"Is that...is a Hulk?" Dr Bruce Banner wondered in disbelief as he saw the Mutant Zombie attacking the players.

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After "Notch" and "Herobrine" left the players' view, Alex made "Notch"'s body disappear and became invisible again.

He programmed the game so that every few minutes some thunder would erupt in the direction "they" came out, so players would think that there really was a huge battle going on there.

And after that calmly flew back to the city while he was invisible.

As he flew back to town, Alex looked at the amount of spectators who were watching this.

[NedTheKing - 72,145 Viewers ]

[Shuri - 37,484 Viewers ]

[Crawler - 9,526 Viewers ]

When the event started, there were 20,000 Minecraft players, now there were 70,000 players defending the city. Probably the rest of the players who weren't in the game were watching the livestreams, and this has made Minecraft streamers soar up the Twitch rankings, drawing even more audiences to the player streams, thus snowballing more people. attracted more people.

Alex looked curiously at Crawler's livestream comments to see what people were saying.

[Damn, is this a movie with several different views on each livestream? ]

[This is amazing, it's better than the movie I saw in the cinema today! I'm going to call my girlfriend to my house to watch Minecraft! ]

[So on this livestream the movie character is a frontline warrior? While the livestreams above are people from the command line?! This is amazing! I've never seen a movie like this! ]

[Herobrine and Notch seem to be brothers! What an incredible plot! The population of this town thought that Notch was just an ordinary person but found out that he is a god in disguise among them! ]

Alex was confused reading these comments.

"Are these people thinking this is a movie?" He wondered not knowing what to do.

Until some comments emerged explaining the situation.

[Guys, this is not a movie, this is the PC game! Anyone can participate in this story and fight alongside these people, they are all players, just look for Minecraft on Steam! ]

[Guys, this is not a movie, this is the PC game! Anyone can participate in this story and fight alongside these people, they are all players, just look for Minecraft on Steam! ]

The person who commented on this was a Livestream moderator, who had to send this message multiple times in the chat so viewers could see it.

Kurt had told this moderator to explain to the audience what was going to happen while he focused on the battles, as Kurt was on Team 01 and couldn't help but pay attention to the battle.

After these comments, viewers were shocked by this information and quickly searched Minecraft on Steam to see if it was true. When they saw that this really was a game they didn't think twice and paid the $20 to participate.

The average game price was $60 to $70 for each game, so being able to play Minecraft that looked so amazing for just $20 was something they didn't even hesitate before doing.

Alex soon noticed that the Minecraft sales number was going up really fast, probably because it was happening across all the livestreams, which made him very happy.

That was exactly his purpose for this event, to make the game even more famous to attract a lot more players.

Alex looked again at Crawler's stream and saw that while fighting Mutant Zombie, there were two very skilled players with a lot of synergy.

[Wolverine ] and [Sabertooth ].

If it was before knowing which world he was in, Alex would probably just think that these two players were great friends who had been training together for a long time, but knowing that this was Marvel's universe, Alex has already discovered the identity of these two players.

But still he was shocked at the synergy they had and how well they fought together. Though he could hear the two of them cursing and mocking each other as they battled the Boss, Alex knew they had spent at least 100 years fighting together, so they knew each other well enough to cooperate in battle without even realizing it.

"Maybe Minecraft brings these two brothers together?" Alex wondered with a smile on his face before closing Kurt's Livestream.

The Mutant Zombie Alex made was much tougher and more powerful than the Mod from his previous world, so players had to fight death for almost two hours until the Zombie was almost dead.

But the less life the Zombie had, the stronger it got, which made the battle even more difficult.

You could say that in this battle, if it weren't for Logan and Victor, the battle would probably take twice as long.

But Alex knew it was time for the Show to end, it was better to end this battle before the players got tired or bored, after all, this was just a game.

So just before Mutant Zombie died, Alex made "Notch" appear next to him and went back to acting like he was Herobrine.

"Arrrhggghh, Notch, I'll be back and with a much stronger army next time!" Herobrine yelled as he held his apparently injured arm, drawing the attention of the players around him, who smiled with great satisfaction when they saw that Notch had won.

Soon a great thunder engulfed the Mutant Zombie and made the monster disappear, just as it did with Herobrine, leaving only the weaker smaller zombies that died after a short time.

The players started to scream with happiness to see that they had actually defended Hypixel!

But soon that happiness crumbled when they looked up.

*Coff*

Notch, who had a confident posture as he looked at the place Herobrine had disappeared to, coughed up a large amount of blood as he quickly flew to the top of one of the buildings surrounding the square.

The players froze upon seeing this scene, they had seen how powerful Herobrine was and so many things he could do, but seeing how confident Notch came back they thought everything was fine.

But when they saw Notch cough up blood they froze.

Apparently this battle didn't go so well.

Soon Notch said in a tired voice. "Guys, he's stronger than I thought...coff coff...this battle...has weakened me too much, maybe I won't be able to deal with him next time he comes...for now I'll allow you guys bring armor to Hypixel to prepare for the next battle...please call friends for help, otherwise I think we're going to lose our city..."

Notch said before collapsing on the roof of the building, out of sight of the players before turning invisible and disappearing.

Alex was already invisible in the sky as he watched "Notch" perform and the players' reactions.

When he saw the players' despair, a smile appeared on Alex's face.

'Yes, that's what I want, be afraid and bring help!' He thought excitedly.

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[Now for the news of the day: Hypixel was attacked, thousands of residents died in the battle, but in the end, the citizens of Hypixel still managed to defend the city against the monsters that attacked the place. ]

Heimdall was confused after seeing a Midgardian woman telling the news of what was happening on her planet.

Heimdall was known for having the ability to see even creation, but in order not to be overwhelmed by the unimaginable amount of information, he limited himself to just observing Asgardians traveling to other worlds.

Of course, so as not to get bored, Heimdall sometimes watched other civilizations and enjoyed learning interesting things.

One of the things that Heimdall was interested in was television, more specifically the Midgardian news channel, as on these news channels he could know the most important things happening on that planet without needing to expend a lot of strength.

But today Heimdall was confused by what he saw on the Midgardian news.

"Did a war happen? A city was invaded and thousands of Midgardians died?" Heimdall wondered confused as he looked around the planet but couldn't find anything the woman was saying on the news. "This is weird...maybe this is false information?"

[For those of you who don't know what I'm saying, this battle took place in a game called Minecraft! This is a game that is becoming quite popular around the world, to the point that during the attack on the city of Hypixel today, several stores around the world closed so that the owners could battle and defend the beloved city. ]

Heimdall raised an eyebrow in astonishment upon seeing this. On television the Midgardian was showing several images of the battle, and despite the odd square appearance of the images, even Heimdall couldn't see much of a difference between these images and reality.

From what he heard of this Midgardian's explanation, this was a technology far ahead of time on this planet, which allowed Midgardians to go to another dimension and fight without worrying about death!

Heimdall was petrified, the more he listened to this Midgardiana explaining about this game and the effects this game was having on Midgard, the more Heimdall felt this matter was getting more serious and that he should inform All Father as soon as possible!

Especially after Heimdall tried to use his vision to try to see this other dimension called Minecraft and found he couldn't see it!

It is known that in the thousands of years that Heimdall protected Bifrost, there was never anything Heimdall couldn't see in all nine realms. And now he knew of the existence of another dimension and found that he couldn't see anything from that dimension!

Maybe in this dimension there might be powerful enemies just waiting for the perfect moment to attack Asgard, and until a few minutes ago they didn't even know about the existence of this dimension!

Before going to report to All Father, Heimdall continued watching the news to gather as much information as possible and saw something that left him even more shocked.

In the videos shown by the Midgardian woman, Heimdall saw two unknown gods!

[Little is known about the reason for the battle that took place in Hypixel, but what players have discovered is that apparently the world of Minecraft was created by Notch and Herobrine who are brothers, but something happened between them that caused Herobrine to get angry of Notch and wanting to kill all the humans and take Hypixel for himself. Fortunately Notch fought Herobrine while letting the citizens of Hypixel deal with the strongest monsters, but from what Notch told players, the upcoming battles will be even tougher. So as the person in charge of our newspaper's culture board, I recommend for adventure-thirsty people to buy Minecraft and have fun with the family playing this game, maybe you'll have a few hours of fun playing this! ]

Heimdall didn't pay attention to the part where Midgardiana was explaining that this was just a game and that this was just a cultural recommendation for Midgardians, he had been shocked to see the mighty battle between Notch and Herobrine and all the hair on his body stayed goose bumps.

At one point he imagined himself fighting those two gods and many times he couldn't even see himself being able to do any harm to those gods, as in just a small fraction of their battle, dozens of houses were destroyed and even the thunder, something that only the prince of Asgard Thor had the right to command was being used in battle.

"Are they gods with the ability to steal deities? Or maybe just use deities from other gods... it's still extremely important, I should go immediately inform the All Father of what's going on so he can prepare for a possible battle !"

Heimdall was determined and quickly left Bifrost after a long time and ran towards Odin's palace.

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While Heimdall was scared of Notch, Herobrine, and especially the Minecraft "dimension", the creator of it all, Alex, was sitting in front of his computer while watching Ned's livestream as he sipped a milkshake without even having a clue that the event what he planned was having such a huge impact on the world, and even on other worlds!

For him, the only thing that mattered right now was selling more copies of Minecraft and accumulating more Gaming Points to develop his next game.

Just as he imagined it would be, this event was a huge thing, as it caused Minecraft to sell tens of thousands of copies in just the first few hours, a number that will likely increase further once the word gets out.

"What a yummy Milk Shake... I'm glad I decided to try it today." Alex said happily as he continued to drink the Milk Shake lying in the chair not knowing that several world leaders were having an extremely important discussion because of the game he played.

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Bruce Banner was still shocked after seeing the livestream on his cell phone.

Currently he was hiding in a small town in Brazil, as he knew the US government was after him, one of the best places he thought to hide was Brazil, a place with relatively low public safety and not so much government. concerned about what citizens do, meaning a perfect place for an international criminal.

There were even rumors that Michael Jackson and Hitler were hiding in Brazil as they knew they would hardly be found here, but Bruce knew that these rumors were just rumors of idle people.

Here he worked in a factory that paid minimum wage, as well as accommodation and meals.

With the money he received, Bruce didn't have to worry too much about expenses, as he could just buy the essentials and drink with the friends he made in that country.

But yesterday he heard something interesting from one of the men who worked at the factory.

"My son started playing a game called Minecraft, have you heard about that? Even my wife plays when my son isn't using the computer." Jorge said after taking a sip of the beer.

"Minecraft? Never heard of it." Lucas responded with a disinterested expression.

"If I were you I'd do some research, after my son started playing Minecraft, he stopped still with the bums who live near my house, and he's even messing around less at school. As long as I say if he does something like that wrong he will go three days without playing Minecraft, he has become even more obedient." Jorge said with a smile as he continued to drink his beer.

After hearing this, Lucas became interested and asked Jorge to explain more about this game.

"It's a simple game, any computer can handle it, even if it's an old computer. After you pay R$40, the game is installed on the computer and anyone can play there, it's like magic, you can enter the world with your mind and even eat and drink there!" Jorge said with a big smile as he remembered the foods he tasted at Hypixel after his son explained how it worked.

Lucas was shocked at first, but after thinking that this game must have been made by some genius in the USA, he calmed down and thought that this was something normal, after all, they say that in the US there is even a man who wears an armor of robot that flies around the city shooting lasers, making a game like that shouldn't be that hard, right?

But while Lucas thought this was normal, Bruce who was also drinking with these two men was shocked. He was still following some news from the US and knew that this type of technology was still a long way off from their current times.

After he got back to the factory, the first thing Bruce did was log on to the employee dorm WiFi and look up this Minecraft guy.

As much as he worked in a factory, Bruce was a genius scientist who had an advanced knowledge of nuclear physics, so like any good scientist, Banner was curious to see what this new discovery could bring of innovation to the world.

To the point of even wondering if this technology could somehow help him with the problem he had after being affected by a gamma ray bomb.

But what Bruce didn't expect was to see that the livestream looked like something out of a Disney movie! No, even better than Disney movies, it's almost impossible to distinguish between this game and reality other than the shape of people being square and everything around it matches that.

But as boring as the square design can be, Bruce felt drawn to this story that was happening and continued to watch the livestream for hours on end.

Finally, he saw Notch asking the players for help and asking if there were others who could help.

Bruce was already tired of just working during the day and drinking at some bar at night, so he thought. "Why not?"

In the dorm there were some old computers for the staff to use, so using some of his savings, Bruce bought this game which cost R$40, or in his old country's money, $20, and prepared to go to sleep while the game downloaded to slow internet from the factory.

But to Bruce's surprise, the game download was completed in just a few seconds.

Initially he thought he had been tricked into buying a pirated version of the game, but after seeing that this really was the game's official Steam page, Bruce got a little worried and hit "Play" to connect to World of Minecraft.

But unbeknownst to Bruce, he wasn't the only one who connected to Minecraft, his mind connected to the game, causing Bruce's conscience to go to Minecraft, but inside his mind there was also another conscience.

Hulk was asleep until he felt his consciousness was attracted to a bright place leaving him very scared and angry.

But when he saw that his size had decreased and his strength was much smaller than it normally was, Hulk got even angrier and started punching everything in his path.

To Hulk's surprise, in this place he could punch anything he wanted. From earth, trees, stone, animals, even ugly people called villagers.

Hulk never felt so happy in his life, he was always forced to hold back and when he smashed something everyone yelled at him and kept shooting at him, but in this place Hulk could smash anything he wanted and no one would criticize him. .

With a big smile on his face, the Hulk yelled. "HAPPY HULK, HULK CRUSH EVERYTHING!"

And so, unbeknownst to anyone, the person with the highest record for broken blocks had started playing Minecraft, and that person was none other than the Hulk!

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Bruce Banner played Minecraft for a few hours and felt the game was a lot of fun.

But what shocked him most was how did this game company manage to make the player aware of this game?

As much as he wondered about it, Bruce couldn't find any satisfactory answer to that question. None of the possibilities he could think of made sense.

He was even more surprised when he saw news of players getting capes or potions from the game in real life and that it actually applied real effects to people outside of the game!

But what really took him to realize was that the anger he needed to control all the time was now gone after he played Minecraft!

Since Bruce was hit with the Gamma Rays, he was constantly angry, and always needed to minimize the effects of that anger as much as possible in order not to turn into the Hulk. But after playing Minecraft, that anger he had been having trouble controlling for so many years had completely disappeared!

"This...the Hulk disappeared after I played Minecraft?" Bruce wondered in disbelief.

But what he didn't know is that while he was in the real world, Hulk hadn't stopped playing Minecraft yet.

Hulk at this point was getting a bit angry in Minecraft, but because he had so much fun in that world, he could still think straight as he looked at the rock he had been hitting for 10 minutes.

[Bedrock ]

"Hulk can't crush this rock... but Hulk wants to crush this rock..." Hulk told himself as he looked at Bedrock feeling confused for the first time in his life.

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Alex didn't realize that even Hulk was having fun in Minecraft, much less that Asgard was considering Minecraft as something dangerous. But even if he did, he wouldn't worry too much, as he knew how many powerful beings there were in Marvel, and he knew that since he hadn't been attacked so far, this place he was in was probably safe.

Of course, he knew he needed to improve his own strength, but he was in no rush to spend his Gaming Points on powers now, as it was better to invest in more games and earn even more points per day.

Minecraft sales after the Herobrine attack soared like a rocket.

As he heard players commenting that the battle was announced on television and even with Minecraft's Shadowban on the internet many people learned of the game, the number that once took several days to reach 200,000 sales was now reaching 1 million sales. !

It had only been 20 hours since the Herobrine attack, but Minecraft had sold nearly 800,000 copies in such a short time. Even though the world was trying to hide this mysterious game, internet people still managed to spread the word about it and let more people find out.

Alex was predicting that by the end of the event, Minecraft would have sold at least 10 million copies, or maybe even more!

With 5 million copies Alex would already have enough Gaming Points to make a Triple A RPG. Initially he intended to make an Advanced RPG, but with the speed that Minecraft was selling, Alex decided to change his goal to make a Triple A RPG.

He currently has 140,000 Gaming Points, which is almost 5 times what he had yesterday.

"Hehehe, if players are having so much fun with Minecraft, there's no way I can't be excited about how they'll react to the next game!" Alex said laughing as he ate another Shokugeki no Souma sandwich.

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"Have you discovered anything important?" Nick Fury asked in an annoyed voice as he glared at his agents.

Clinton replied in a serious voice. "The physics of that game is different from the physics of our world, I tried shooting some arrows there and I feel like it's much easier there than when I do it with my own bow."

Maria Hill also shared what she found. "The engineering team at SHIELD started researching Industrialcraft and they started testing whether it's really viable in our world or not, but according to the engineers, it really does have a chance to work. The problem is that our current technology is too limited to do those things in a short time. Maybe Tony Stark can help with that."

Fury nodded and decided to contact Tony Stark again, he thought he would only need Tony for the Avengers initiative, but he found that he would need Tony's genius mind to try to understand Minecraft before he even accepted to join the Avengers.

"What about Thaumcraft, has anyone discovered anything?" Fury asked.

In this the agents faced each other looking for some answer, but everyone could only shake their heads in denial. They didn't have any solid knowledge of magic, so testing it was unfeasible.

"That's understandable. Now let's talk about the elephant in the room. Did you guys find out anything about Notch or Herobrine?" Fury asked in a heavy voice.

"My team couldn't find anything on either of them other than public information that Notch is apparently one of the oldest Minecraft players, which infers that he is possibly the creator of that world, while Herobrine just appeared on a Livestream scaring two players , but neither of them had done anything substantial before that." An agent said in a tired voice.

This agent had spent the last 20 hours looking for any kind of information about Notch or Herobrine, but it was as if these two people had never existed before. He even searched for similar names of children who were born several years ago, mostly siblings, but nothing was found.

Until Natasha got up and reported what she thought. "Notch is apparently not a bad person, I'm pretty sure he really is the creator of Minecraft, but no proof that he was the only one. , or maybe Minecraft was another world they ruled over, but if I can give my opinion, while Notch is an apparently good guy, Herobrine is the opposite, where I would classify as a cruel and bloodthirsty villain."

"A cruel and bloodthirsty villain..." Nick Fury repeated with a tired expression.

He knew they couldn't handle it, especially if one of these two such powerful beings came to Earth, so the only thought on his mind was to speed up the Avengers initiative and let Super Humans handle it.

'Fortunately the Captain is already recovering...' Fury thought as he remembered the Captain he planned for this team.

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Alex was unaware that SHIELD was discussing Notch and Herobrine, and even an investigation into siblings born with those names around the world was being carried out, but even if he knew, Alex wouldn't care. Not even the Supreme Sorcerer could find out anything about him, let alone SHIELD that still relies on technological means to find him.

After coughing up blood, "Noch" flew away from the players and became invisible again.

He was very surprised at how well these players were organizing. Teams were set, warehouses, supplies, distribution lines, everything was running so well that Alex couldn't imagine a better way to make it happen.

Alex saw the players in some places celebrating the victory, while in other places the players were arguing about Noch and Herobrine, but he didn't want those players to be left with their guard down even after the battle was over.

Alex's idea was to make players think that monsters could appear at any time.

"Hehehe, they say nothing is so good that it can't get worse... but the Creeper always manages to spoil those plans." Alex said to himself as he picked up a creeper egg, but unlike regular Creeper eggs that were green and black, this egg in Alex's hand was green and red.

Several rookie players were heading to the warehouse to get a wooden or stone sword wanting to join the battle. Some players had even just bought minecraft and have already come to battle after watching livestreams on the internet and not even playing singleplayer.

Among these rookie players was Bruce Banner.

This was his first time getting into Minecraft multiplayer, so he just acted like the other players and was guided to the warehouse to get a weapon and join the battle.

"Players who have never played Minecraft, please stay on this side, while experienced players stay on the other side. We need to differentiate you to increase efficiency." A player named [Milaje04] yelled at the players.

Upon hearing this, 90% of players went to the novice player side, while only 10% went to the experienced player side.

This surprised [Milaje04] as each time she asked this question to players coming to the depot, the number of newbies compared to veterans increased.

'Minecraft is getting more and more popular...' She thought in shock.

But before she could say anything, a rookie player pointed away and asked confused. "Hey, what's that green monster with four legs?"

Hearing this the veteran players just ignored it thinking it was a random Creeper while paying attention to [Milaje04] who was handing out weapons to them first.

But as time went on, the number of rookie players screaming about this Creeper started to increase, until one veteran player finally looked confused.

When he saw the monster, he realized that it really was a Creeper, but looking at the size of this Creeper and how long its legs were, the player was shocked as he pointed at the Creeper without being able to say a word.

Upon seeing this shocked player pointing somewhere, other veteran players unconsciously followed the direction this player was pointing and were just as shocked as he was.

"Shit, what the fuck?!" One player cursed.

"Is that a fucking Creeper?" Another player was shocked.

When Milaje04 saw the Creeper these players were talking about, she was just as shocked as they were.

"Shit, shit, I need backup..." She said shocked. But since she was a soldier in Wakanda, Milaje04 reacted quickly and shouted at the players. "Quickly! Enter the warehouse and get swords by yourself, remember, get only one sword! We need to kill this Mutant Creeper and protect the warehouse!"

Hearing Milaje04's scream, players were shocked and excited.

Soon the warehouse was filled with players opening chests while taking swords and leather armor to fight this giant monster.

Veteran players who had already picked up equipment had already run to the Mutant Creeper and were trying to use Kiting strategy on this monster, but unlike normal Creepers that just exploded, this giant Creeper also attacked, this Creeper's range was greater than that of players , so to attack the Creeper at least one player had to be attacked first.

"Back off!" A player screamed after hitting the Creeper.

Hearing this, the players retreated before coming back and attacking the Creeper after a while.

In between, low health players moved away from the Creeper to eat and recover health, while full health players returned to the monster to try and hit it.

Even with players taking precautions, newbie players who didn't understand strategies for dealing with monsters in Minecraft were still dying very fast, but the death of newbies was also creating a lot of opportunities for veteran players to do a lot of damage on the Creeper.

Unlike regular Creepers, this Mutant Creeper had a lot of health, so players had to hit him hundreds of times for him to die.

If all players were skilled, it would be easy to kill the Creeper without anyone dying, but since 90% of the players in combat were rookies, the amount of players killed was very high.

Milaje04 was at Milaje02's side watching the battle and protecting the warehouse from other monsters that might emerge.

Seeing the amount of rookie players dying to kill the Mutant Creeper, the two women felt a pang in their hearts.

When monsters die, they drop equipment for players to pick up, but when players die, the equipment disappears. Every rookie player who died in this battle was a set of equipment that they lost forever.

"If this battle lasts too long we will lose all our supply." Milaje02 said in a heavy voice.

"If we can kill this Creeper it will be worth it." Milaje04 said confidently.

But after a while, the two Milaje frowned and looked at each other in confusion.

"That's a Creeper, but why doesn't it explode?" Milaje04 asked Milaje02.

But before Milaje02 could respond, they saw this Creeper Mutant's big legs twitch before the Creeper Mutant darts into the air.

Seeing the Creeper practically flying, the players' hearts froze.

"Shit..."

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"Shit, I thought we had already won the battle, where did this Creeper come from?!" A player who was celebrating far away saw a Creeper flying and got scared.

"Damn, there's a giant Creeper flying around?!" Another player was shocked to see the Creeper in the sky.

"Wait, that's the Warehouse over there!" Another player screamed in fear as he started to run.

Players knew that this was the Warehouse where they kept their spare weapons and armor for the players who were joining the battle, if the warehouse was destroyed, these new players could only use their bare hands to hit the monsters, and seeing how powerful the monsters were becoming, that would be a suicidal task.

"We need to protect the Warehouse!" Another player screamed in fright as he also ran towards the Creeper.

Those players who thought the battle was already won suddenly got scared and ran towards the mutated Creeper.

Alex who was flying over Hypixel had a smile on his face when he saw this. That's what he wanted, if players got used to peace they wouldn't be ready for war in Minecraft.

Of course, Alex was exaggerating a bit, but his original intention was to play with the feelings of these players so that when these people left Minecraft, they would tell their friends how amazing this experience was and that would bring even more players.

After the Creeper jumped, as soon as he hit the ground everything around him exploded, including some chests that players were using to store items.

But to help in the battle, the players who were protecting the wall also came back and started fighting the Creeper.

Alex didn't want players to have the satisfaction of killing a Mutant Monster on the first day, and wanted to save that experience for later days, so with a smile on his face he flew away.

Suddenly, in the sky of Hypixel Notch appeared again. This time he looked even weaker than when he disappeared earlier. Probably his wound was getting worse, but he still came back and flew to the Creeper.

"Get away from him." Notch said it in a calm way, but I could see how weak his voice was getting.

Seeing a pale-faced Notch flying towards them, the players soon began to persuade Notch.

"Don't come Notch, you need to rest!" One player yelled worriedly.

"Yes, rest, we can handle it." Another player said scared.

"Yes..."

"Don't come..."

The players were worried about Notch, but Alex who was controlling Notch was frustrated. Even though he was going to help players get rid of this Creeper, he also didn't want to give the satisfaction of killing the Creeper so soon.

But soon he had an idea to deal with it.

"We're running out of time!" Notch yelled worriedly.

Soon thunder fell from the sky and hit the Mutant Creeper.

When struck by thunder, the Mutant Creeper was left with blue lightning bolts floating around him. Players who were close to the Creeper were hit by small lightning bolts that leaked from the Creeper and took some damage.

Because of the equipment they were using, players could actually defeat the Creeper, but it would take hours and a lot of destruction to the city.

Upon understanding this, the players quickly walked away from the Creeper and let Notch do what he wanted to do.

Alex had to control himself not to smile at that moment, but still Notch maintained the pained expression he wore as he pointed a finger at the Creeper.

When Notch's finger pointed at the Creeper, a purple portal just like the Nether portal appeared at the monster's feet and sucked the Creeper into the other dimension.

Notch turned even paler and started panting, showing the players how tired he was.

But still, Notch flew to a higher position above the city, a place where all players could see him, and finally spoke up.

"Citizen of Hypixel, unfortunately Herobrine got what he wanted. Since I was born I have tended an apple tree, but for hundreds of years the tree did not bear fruit. Then, after so many years, the tree finally started to sprout fruit. 10 years ago. These fruits were constantly growing and were born healthy yesterday." Notch finished saying and took an item out of his inventory.

In Notch's hand, in front of millions of players, a golden apple appeared. This golden apple was so beautiful that it even glowed.

"This golden apple is one of the fruits of the tree I planted. Unfortunately the tree only bore 3 fruits, one of the fruits was taken by Herobrine, another is this golden apple in my hand. The third apple had no owner." Notch said with a heavy expression.

In front of the millions of players and tens of millions of viewers at home watching the players' livestreams, Notch ate the golden apple.

Immediately Notch's body began to heal at a sharp speed.

Notch's pale face returned to a healthy color while his hair, which was a little dry at this point, returned to a lot of shine.

Players were shocked, to have such a result not even a Singleplayer Healing Potion could do.

Soon Notch continued. "As you can see, this Golden Apple can heal all of a person's injuries. But not only that, it can also improve a person's physique to twice its current value."

"Herobrine is my little brother, but he was always stronger than me, now that he ate a golden apple and his body was twice as strong as before, even though I also ate a golden apple the distance between us two just increased."

"So I ask for your help, help me protect Hypixel and the person who has the best stake will receive the last Golden Apple as a reward. Of course, you can also bring the golden apple into your world as well as potions and previous covers."

When Notch finished saying the last sentence, silence descended between the players. They were shocked by this, this golden apple was miraculous! It could cure any disease! It could double someone's strength!

If a sick person got the apple, the person would be instantly healthy.

If a person in a wheelchair got the apple, the person could walk again.

If a poor person got the apple, the person could sell the apple for millions of dollars.

Soon the players woke up and started talking excitedly, everyone wanted that apple!

Even though some knew they could never achieve it, it was still worth a try!

And while players were excited about this, world governments also started holding emergency meetings to discuss this golden apple!

And Alex just watched it with a big smile on his face.

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After the golden apple announcement, Alex finally disconnected from Minecraft to rest.

As much as he hadn't done much physically during this battle, mentally Alex was very tired of having to control Notch and Herobrine, as well as setting up everything necessary for it to work.

With a curious eye, Alex opened System to see how many Minecraft copies he had sold during today's event.

[Minecraft]

[1,600,000 Games Sold - $32,000,000]

[Average Time Played: 9 Hours.]

[Peak Concurrent Players: 912,110]

[Total Earned Servers Sold: $70,643]

[Total Earned VIPs: $3,190,975]

[Basic RPG - 5,000 Gaming Points.] [Advanced RPG - 50,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A RPG - 500,000 Gaming Points.]

[Basic Adventure - 1,000 Gaming Points.] [Advanced Adventure - 10,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A Adventure.] - 100,000 Gaming Points.]

[Basic FPS - 500 Gaming Points.] [Advanced FPS - 5,000 Gaming Points.] [Triple A FPS - 50,000 Gaming Points.]

[Basic Sandbox - 200 Gaming Points.] [Advanced Sandbox - 20,000 Gaming Points .] [Sandbox Triple A - 2,000,000 Gaming Points.]

Alex was shocked, the number of copies sold before the event hadn't even reached 300,000, now that number has jumped to 1,600,000!

And to Alex's surprise, every time he refreshed the status page, sales were still going up very quickly.

[1,610,000]

[1,620,000]

[1,630,000]

"Really, after this event, no matter how world governments try to hide Minecraft, it will be impossible, even more so with the Golden Apple, after knowing about it probably all The world is telling their friends and asking them to come play. If they're lucky, they can win this apple and become millionaires, if they're not, at least they can have fun with their friends and family." Alex said to himself very pleased with the idea he had for this event.

He was already getting angry at S.H.I.E.L.D. and the governments for enforcing a Shadow Ban on Minecraft, thus preventing the game from growing, but now that people are talking about Minecraft Offline, the government will no longer be able to control it.

"Minecraft sales in this world will probably be even higher than in my old world, since here even adults and seniors will enjoy the game without thinking it's something childish." Alex said satisfied as he watched the numbers go up.

"With that $32,000,000 I can convert into 160,000 Gaming Points, which would be enough to make an Advanced RPG, but considering Minecraft's rapid growth, I'd better dedicate myself to making this event more fun. Probably until the end. of the event I already have 500,000 Gaming Points to play the next game." Alex made up his mind before buying something to eat and rest his mind a little, after resting he intended to try harder to improve the event the next day.

Around the world something no one imagined happened. A computer game has conquered people of all ages and all social classes.

["Good evening Fox News viewers, I believe that during the afternoon of this day, many viewers around the country must have encountered a very unusual situation, no?" A man wearing a smart suit said on television at an American family's home.]

"See love? I said it's true, it wasn't just my boss who gave me the day off, but this happened to several people, I didn't get fired ..." A man said frustrated as he looked at his wife who was mad at him.

He had come home earlier because his boss said he had to go home, buy Minecraft, and help defend Hypixel. Even the $20 expense to buy Minecraft the company would pay for the employees.

According to the boss, this would be part of the work as a Home Office.

The man was very happy to be given time off to play a computer game, even though he had never played a computer game before, but as his son always played it, he saw that it was something easy, much better than staying at work carrying boxes. .

But as soon as he got home, his wife started hitting him asking why he wasn't at work.

Even if the man explained, his wife didn't believe that someone's boss would pay employees to go home and play computer games.

Despite the woman complaining, the man ignored her and started playing the game, as he didn't understand the game very well, he was afraid his boss would find out that he didn't play and take a day's salary from him.

Upon entering the game, the man was very scared, but after understanding how it worked, the man participated in the Hypixel War and felt as if he had participated in a great world war, while helping his countrymen to defend his country against the army. enemy.

During the war the man felt his blood boil, but after the war ended and he disconnected from the game, the man saw his wife staring at him with a murderous expression.

After 30 minutes of bickering, the two finally sat down on the couch to watch the news.

For the happiness of the man, the presenter of the program has already started the program by talking about what happened today around the country and about the war he participated in.

["This afternoon, many companies closed early, while some even encouraged employees to go home and buy a game called Minecraft to participate in a war to defend the city from the players.

The whole battle was full of emotions and twists, until the players discovered that the main battle was being fought in the skies of Hypixel!

Two brothers were fighting over the city, one of the brothers, known as Notch was helping the players and also being helped by them, while the other brother, Herobrine, was controlling the monsters and wanting to defeat the players.

In the end, it was discovered that this battle was being fought mainly to get a golden apple, a fruit with miraculous powers that can cure any disease and bend a person's strength!

And this fruit apparently can be brought to the real world!

Many hospitals are now buying old laptops for patients who want to play games and have trying to get a chance to receive the Golden Apple have the opportunity to play, while friends and co-workers are forming groups around the world to organize and be able to affect the war in a positive way to get the apple.

According to the game's official website, tomorrow at 10 am Herobrine will attack again, so in case anyone wants to buy something tomorrow, I recommend leaving early or leaving to buy later, since the chance of the market you want to go to is closed.'s too loud."]

Hearing this, the man's wife was shocked and looked at him, not knowing what to say.

"See? I told you I wasn't lying!" The man said as he scratched the injured arm his wife hit.

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As Minecraft sales skyrocketed and people around the world were going crazy over this new game, Alex who was at home eating bacon and pepperoni noodles was surprised to receive a notification.

A few days ago, to understand how far Minecraft players were willing to go, Alex set out some secret achievements. Every time an achievement was completed for the first time, Alex received a notification with the person's name and information on how they completed the achievement.

Even though Alex spent some Gaming Points to complete this, he felt it was important, after all, knowing your audience is the biggest foundation for a service provider.

Among these achievements were [Kill 10,000 players in Hunger Games] or [Place 100,000 blocks in Survival mode], and hundreds of different achievements.

Among these achievements, Alex has already managed to identify who were the players with the best building skills, best battle skills, players most dedicated to planting and harvesting food, even players who most enjoyed fishing.

For fun, Alex had made a nearly impossible conquest.

[Destroy a BedRock.]

In Alex's previous world, it was common knowledge that BedRock was indestructible, even if the player turned on an autoclicker to attack alone and left with a Netherite pickaxe hitting the Bedrock for 1 year the stone would never be broken.

But in the Minecraft he created, Alex decided to make an Easter Egg. If a player were to hit a BedRock for 6 hours with their hands, the BedRock would break.

Of course, to make it even more difficult, unlike other blocks where when the player hits and the block changes appearance to a more destroyed one, BedRock would always keep the appearance for 6 hours, until after 6 hours and 1 second it would be broken.

If it was a normal person, after hitting BedRock for 5 minutes and seeing that the stone's appearance hadn't changed, the person would just give up and think that this was impossible.

But oddly enough, Alex received a notification on his computer that someone got the achievement [Destroy a BedRock].

"That... how is that possible?" Alex was shocked as he looked at the game logs and saw that one player had actually been hitting a BedRock with his hands without any tools for 6 hours straight.

And the most impressive thing is that this player only had 8 hours of gameplay in total, that is, this player only stayed in Minecraft for 2 hours and spent the other 75% of his total game time breaking a BedRock.

Curious, Alex went to see this player's other achievements and he didn't even have a Craft achievement or a Crafting Table, that is, this player spent 2 hours breaking things and another 6 hours breaking a BedRock, who is the lunatic that would do something like that?

Alex quickly turned this player's SinglePlayer game into a private server and joined.

Of course, Alex entered invisible and didn't let any messages appear in Chat notifying him that he'd joined the match.

Looking at the game data, Alex quickly found this player's location and teleported to him. The player was on the lowest tier in the world, and from what Alex saw, the player came here just by breaking the block below him, but the most surprising thing about this is that the player didn't have a pickaxe, so he did it all with just the hand.

Curious, Alex looked at the player and saw that he was throwing punches with both hands in both directions while yelling.

"ANGER HULK, HULK WAS A LONG TIME BREAKING BLACK STONE AND UNDER THE BLACK STONE WAS ANOTHER BLACK STONE!" The player with Steve's Skin was screaming to himself while punching his hands in all directions.

Initially Alex found this player's reaction funny, but upon hearing what this player was saying Alex stopped laughing and was shocked.

'Did that player just say Hulk?' Alex thought trying to understand.

With a mental command, Alex tried to find out what this player looked like in real life, but he couldn't find any bodies.

With another idea, Alex searched the records for a player named Bruce Banner.

A total of 7 players with that name were found, after looking through the IP of these players, Alex saw that there was a player with that name who was playing from Brazil, and coincidentally or not, it was the same IP as that player who was yelling Hulk.

'He really is the Hulk...' They were finally convinced of the truth and were shocked.

With an amusing thought, Alex decided to change the Hulk's Skin on his own.

In a snap of his fingers, the Hulk who previously had Steve's standard appearance, changed into a muscular green-skinned man, shirtless and wearing purple shorts.

Hulk was so angry that he didn't even notice his hands had changed color and kept breaking things.

With an unusual idea, Alex decided to do something fun with Hulk.

Using mental commands, Alex changed a parameter for the Hulk, according to how many blocks he breaks, his punches are as powerful as the game's tools.

By breaking 1000 blocks with his hand, he will be able to break blocks as if his hands were wooden tools.

By breaking 10,000 blocks with his hand, he will be able to break blocks as if his hands were stone tools.

By breaking 100,000 blocks with his hand, he will be able to break blocks as if his hands were iron tools.

By breaking 1,000,000 blocks with his hand, he will be able to break blocks as if his hands were diamond tools.

By breaking 10,000,000 blocks with his hand, he will be able to break blocks as if his hands were tools of netherite.

As much as this would take millions of blocks to complete, it would probably make the game more fun for the Hulk, and as this would only work in SinglePlayer mode, it wouldn't affect other players, just practically serving as a mod for the Hulk.

'Maybe you can have fun in tomorrow's invasion...' Alex said mentally as he looked at the Hulk breaking blocks while remembering the Mutant Zombie.

The battle between the two would be fun to watch.

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The news about the golden apple made Minecraft have another sales boom, now people weren't joining the game just for fun, there were millions of people joining the game with the aim of learning about the game as quickly as possible to be the most useful as possible in war.

Alex was looking at the stats quite satisfied after waking up.

[Minecraft]

[4,000,000 Games Sold - $80,000,000]

[Average Time Played: 6 Hours.]

[Peak Concurrent Players: 2,811,110]

[Total Earned on Sold Servers: $320,143]

[Total Earned in VIPs: $9,510. 275]

Less than 24 hours after the event started, Minecraft went from a game with 200,000 players to a game with 4 million players.

Alex knew that the amount of people who knew about Minecraft was much higher, mainly from the fact that he opened Twitch and saw that there were millions of viewers watching Minecraft, but after all, Minecraft was very mysterious.

A game that used people's minds to control the characters was something that a large part of the population was still afraid of, it's not like everyone will see a news in one day and on the same day already buy the game to start playing, even more so after seeing government warnings about the danger of Minecraft.

Instead of acting like lab rats for this game that came out so recently, people preferred to stop and wait to see what would actually happen. As tempting as the golden apple was, their lives even more tempting.

Not to mention that Minecraft stated that Strength and Lucky potions will still be sold as prizes to the best players, so people still felt they had a chance to get valuable things in the future.

Of course, Alex was already expecting this, in fact, Alex was more pessimistic than optimistic about it.

In Alex's mind, Minecraft would need at least 4-5 days after the event to reach 10 million players, but after looking at the current data, Alex has already realized that probably even today Minecraft would reach 10 million players.

"Acting like Herobrine is very tiring, I think I can finish this attack today and start preparing the new game starting tomorrow." Alex said to himself as he ate an English breakfast before entering Minecraft.

Inside Minecraft, players in Hypixel were already getting ready for Herobrine's next attack.

Fortunately the city of Hypixel was very big, to the point that even with almost 3 million people connected the city was still quite spacious and no one was squeezed.

Of course, to fit in the 3 million people people had to spawn far away from each other, and if friends wanted to meet up, they would have to send each other's location through the friends list and use jump points to jump from one place. to another faster.

During the time between yesterday's attack and now, the players' command center has been greatly expanded. As much as players with Ender Dragon capes wanted to monopolize decision-making power, they knew it would be impossible to do so with an army of 3 million people.

So several divisions were made. Some people were responsible for logistics, others were responsible for guiding novice players, others were responsible for the battle itself, others led reconnaissance to know where the monsters would spawn, others handled communication, among many other functions.

Of course, there were many people who were dissatisfied with being just soldiers and wanted to be one of the commanders as well to be more participatory and have a greater chance of receiving the golden apple, but that was impossible, since if that were the case the army would have more commanders than what soldiers.

Because they couldn't command, thousands of people decided to ignore these players and create their own army, where they convinced soldiers from the main army to come out and join them, with many promises about a better chance of winning the golden apple.

So the main army was separated into smaller armies.

But even with these small armies emerging, the vast majority of novice players joined the main army, as it was the largest army and the one with the greatest chance of getting the golden apple, in addition to being the army with the most people to teach new players what to do

Alex had no intention of intervening in this. In the same way that he loved watching videos of players playing on anarchic servers like 2b2t in his previous life, Alex felt like he was seeing anarchy among these players.

Alex even thought that if Herobrine accepted players for his faction, probably half of those players would follow Herobrine, turning this into a big Faction vs Faction battle.

But for now that's not what Alex wanted to do with Minecraft. Alex wanted to make Minecraft more of a relaxing game than a game of wars and battles.

To make players battle Alex intended to introduce other games specializing in this.

Alex's mind was full of roleplaying game ideas that he could make to make this players' desire to war more and more frantic, too bad he only had enough Gaming Points to make a single game.

'In the future I will have a lot of Gaming Points, so I can put my ideas into practice much faster.' Alex thought as he flew invisible and watched these players.

In the end, as Alex flew around invisible, he found something that shocked him.

A group of four players was praying around a pentagram drawn on the ground with dropped items.

'?????' Alex was confused.

But when he got close he almost died laughing.

"Mister Herobrine, we are your most faithful believers, please give us a chance to demonstrate our loyalty, we are willing to give our lives to you!"

"Mister Herobrine, we are your most faithful believers, please give us a chance to demonstrate our loyalty, we are willing to give our lives to you!"

"Mister Herobrine..."

"Mister Herobrine..."

Seeing this, Alex flashed a playful smile and switched from Notch's account to Herobrine's account.

'Let's make this more fun.' Alex thought.

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The four players were wearing skins with black clothes as if they were believers in some evil cult, the pentagram on the floor made with red items made everything even weirder, but Alex felt it would be fun to play with these people.

Using the Herobrine character, Alex stood in the center of the pentagram making the items disappear.

Seeing the pentagram disappear, players were frustrated.

"George, this won't work, we've been trying to get in touch with Herobrine for several hours and he's never responded. Items are missing 7 times already." One player said.

"Let's have faith, you know that if we follow Notch like the other players we'll never have a chance to receive a golden apple, the only chance will be following Herobrine." The player nicknamed [JungleGeorge] responded with a sigh.

"We only have enough items for one more pentagram, if that doesn't work I'm giving up." Another player said frustrated.

Alex was invisible in the center of the place where the players made the pentagram as he watched their discussion.

When the players started throwing the items on the ground to make another pentagram, they noticed that the items were being attracted to something in the center of the pentagram.

Confused, these players started throwing other items, but only the red items were being absorbed.

"What's up?"

"Did we bug the game?"

Suddenly, a pair of glowing eyes appeared floating between the four players.

Upon seeing those glowing eyes without any bodies, these players' hearts began to tremble uncontrollably.

They just wanted to pray to Herobrine as some means of being able to join the other faction, just like in other games they've played, but seeing those glowing eyes staring at them made these players regret it.

Unlike other games where they saw everything happening through a screen, in this game they were seeing everything in person. When remembering the chaos and destruction that Herobrine caused yesterday during the battle, and remembering that they saw in the newspaper that Minecraft seemed to make players connect through the soul, something immediately popped into the minds of these players.

'He's going to take my soul...'

To make the situation worse for these players, a song came up in the background.

[Have you seen the Herobrine... roam the world with the default skin...]

This song sung by a female voice as if it was made in a church made these players desperate.

Without a second thought, the four players used the mental command and logged out of Minecraft.

Alex saw the four players disconnecting and had to resist the urge to disable the option to leave the game.

But he knew that doing so could cause a lot of bad press for Minecraft and potentially lose a lot of players in the long run.

"Hahahahaha." Seeing the four players disappearing from the game, Alex couldn't help himself and started laughing out loud.

He did nothing but put his eyes to light and play the Herobrine theme song, but that was enough to terrify those players.

'Making a horror game would also be fun.' Alex thought excitedly as he turned invisible and returned to the Hypixel sky.

The final battle would take place today, and Alex could finally start developing another game.

Minecraft was already growing very fast, he knew that just in time Minecraft would already become one of the biggest games in the world, the extra attention he was going to give Minecraft would now be unnecessary.

Alex might just release some updates and some events in the future and the game would continue to grow exponentially.

Players from various armies were gathered in Hypixel, the time for the final battle was approaching.

Veteran players were excited, while rookie players were scared.

It was normal for people in a modern society to have to fight a war on such a massive scale was unimaginable. Only people who went through the army could handle this more calmly for the first time.

But even though several armies emerged, players with the Ender Dragon cape were still gathered in the main army, no one knew who would make the biggest contribution to the war, but everyone was being very helpful for it to be them.

With each person dedicating 120% to get the golden apple, numerous useful ideas were adopted to increase the strength of the players, monsters today would definitely be more powerful, especially those Ender Dragons that were flying above the city, would probably attack today too , so players have already developed techniques for every monster they've ever seen, including the Mutant Zombie and Mutant Creeper.

In an isolated place, a player different from the others also appeared. This player was green-skinned and apparently of a very young mental age.

The first thing this player did when he arrived at Hypixel was try to break city blocks, but unfortunately many blocks were indestructible which started to make this player angry.

But this player's anger at the blocks was quickly overshadowed when he saw other players.

Unlike him who had the green skin, these players had skins that fluctuated between white, beige, brown, black, something that this green player had seen before, but suddenly, he saw a player with blue skin! Then a player with red skin also appeared, and soon the green player saw many people with different skins just like him, which left the green player confused.

The green player naturally is Hulk, who was summoned from SinglePlayer mode by Alex to the Hypixel.

Hulk initially thought that when other people saw them they would get angry or scared and try to kill him, as they always did when he took control of Bruce, but incredibly, people just looked at him and then ignored him, as if he were a normal person here.

Suddenly Hulk heard something. "Hey Hulk, are you part of an army yet?"

Hulk heard his name and was even more confused, looking at the man wearing a black cape in front of him.

Hulk couldn't read, so he didn't understand that it was written [PParker] on top of the other player, and he didn't even know how the other player knew his name was Hulk too, but seeing that this person was talking to him in a normal way , Hulk tried to respond in a normal way too.

"Hulk doesn't know what an army is." He replied while scratching his head.

[PParker] saw that the player with the nickname [Hulk] maybe has some mental illness and felt a responsibility to help him, so very patiently [PParker] treated [Hulk] like a child and explained everything about Hypixel and what was going on. happening.

This is a friendship that no one could ever have imagined would happen, but perhaps because of Peter's kind heart and Hulk's naivete, it could be a friendship that has quite an effect on the way the universe goes!

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The scale of the war was bigger than Alex imagined.

In the first hours of the war, he only used regular monsters, as there were a lot of novice players.

But as time went by, more and more monsters were appearing and the armor of these monsters was getting more and more powerful.

Millions of players died to the monsters, as they had never participated in a battle like this, but as time went by, players got used to it and their ease of killing the monsters got better.

Seeing that the players were already getting Iron tools and armor, Alex decided to use the Mutant Mobs.

Initially he only used Skeletons and Mutant Zombies.

Upon seeing the mutant zombie, a player with the green skin and the nick [Hulk] got very excited and went to try to fight that monster, but with a single punch he died.

After a while that player came back again and managed to dodge the zombie's punch, but died again.

So players began to observe the tenacity of this player Hulk against the mutant Zombie.

Some players even noticed the similarity between the Hulk Skin and the Mutant Zombie's appearance.

Alex who was controlling everything opened up to Twitch to see how the war audience was doing and was shocked.

[NedTheKing - 3,543,132 Viewers.]

[PParker - 3,213,765 Viewers.]

[Crawler - 2,965,521 Viewers.]

...

[Minecraft Total - 21,655,321 Viewers.]

Seeing this Alex was shocked, in the old days Minecraft didn't even have even more than 500 thousand viewers, but now during the war the total has risen to more than 21 million!

And looking for Minecraft on Google, Alex even saw that there were several smaller television channels that were even broadcasting the war with live commentators!

["I have to show respect, do you see that player next to NedTheKing with the long blond hair? That man with Nick from [HistoryIsPower] is the dean of the history course at Cambridge University, the number one university in teaching History and Philosophy of the world!

The tactics that the Dean is using to deal with the zombies are famous tactics that mankind has used in the thousands of battles we have had in the past!

These young men next to the Dean are all shocked by these tactics, but for students of history, this is something extremely common. Who knew that nowadays we could see a recreation of so many famous tactics from our history?"]

This was a cultural television channel, Alex would never have imagined that Minecraft would be broadcast on that channel where the focus is to transmit culture and knowledge to the spectators.

While Ned's Livestream was focused on controlling the troops, Peter Parker's Livestream was focused on the battle against the Mutant Zombie, or rather, focusing on the battle between Hulk and the Mutant Zombie.

Viewers at first were mocking the player named Hulk, but as time went on they realized that Hulk was getting better and better in battle and becoming more and more proficient in dealing with Zombie Mutant!

Gradually the spectators who had been mocking Hulk, were now rooting for him, for him to show others that he could handle the Mutant Zombie on his own!

Even some players were watching the livestreams on small floating screens as they played, something Alex had recently added.

Among those players was a player with Nick from [Dr.Banner]. This player initially wanted to fight on the front lines to see what it was like, but after seeing that he didn't have enough motor coordination to fight long enough without dying, [Dr.Banner] decided to work with the logistics for the war, his boss at factory in Brazil had given all the employees time off because of this war and the employees gladly accepted.

Since [Dr.Banner] was in the logistics, he had more free time than the front-line players, so he could put some livestream on to watch while he played.

Before he was watching NedTheKing's Livestream, but after getting tired of the boring strategies, he went to watch PParker's Livestream.

But what shocked him was that on PParker's Livestream there was a player desperately struggling. Viewers sent messages in the chat madly motivating that player, treating him like a real warrior!

But [Dr.Banner] felt that player was very familiar.

The green skin, no shirt, no armor, no weapons, just fighting with fists while screaming, was very familiar to [Dr.Banner], but as the player was too far away from [PParker], he couldn't read his name right.

But seeing the messages in the chat [Dr.Banner] froze.

[Hulk, you can do it!]

[Hulk is representing me!]

[I wish I could fight the Hulk!]

...

Lots of supportive comments were normal, but the name people were praising that made [Dr.Banner] go stunned .

"Hulk... the player's name is Hulk?!" Bruce yelled not knowing what to say.

In his mind a number of things went through at the same time, most notably the anger problem he had before playing minecraft, which suddenly disappeared after he played the first time.

Initially Bruce thought it was just a coincidence, but after a while he felt like the Hulk had disappeared.

Now, seeing Hulk fighting a Mutant Zombie that looked like him, Bruce Banner felt like he finally got it all.

"So you mean Hulk has been playing Minecraft since that time? And people still like him?" Bruce Banner was still shocked.

In the real world everyone treated Hulk like a monster, very scared of him, but in Minecraft Hulk was being treated like a hero!

With many doubts, Bruce banner decided to try something.

Opening the friends list, Bruce wrote a name in the search tab.

[Hulk]

Soon three results appeared.

[Hulk]

[Hulk1stFan]

[ILoveHulk]

Bruce was shocked by the other two player nicknames, but he soon ignored the other two and sent a friend request to [Hulk].

If that person really was Hulk, Bruce felt he should have a conversation with that player in person.

But soon a message emerged.

[Hulk rejected your friend request.]

"??????????" - Bruce

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As the hours of battle passed, many players became tired and had to stop fighting, while players who had just logged in took their place.

During the battle the number of novice players playing started to grow even faster.

[Minecraft]

[7,900,000 Games Sold - $158,000,000]

Alex knew that Minecraft at this point had already gotten out of control, even though the government of every country in the world said that players' minds would be controlled when they played Minecraft, still millions of people would buy the game.

Not because people weren't afraid anymore, but because at that point people's friends were already playing Minecraft, and seeing their friend having fun in this innovative game while they were just watching was something that made people very frustrated.

So to not just watch friends play, people started buying Minecraft to play too, so a snowball was emerging, to the point that even Alex who had estimated Minecraft sales to be 10 million by the end of the war was still a conservative estimate.

During the battle, Notch and Herobrine appeared in the sky and fought several times. Because of the golden apple, Notch managed to recover, but Herobrine was even stronger than him, so in most battles Notch lost.

With players surviving, Herobrine began using increasingly powerful monsters, to the point where even the Whiter Boss was released.

Players had never seen this three-headed skeleton before. They had already seen that the White Skeleton in the Nether dropped its head, but they didn't know that you could make a monster like that with three heads.

Many players even wanted to go back to SinglePlayer mode to test this out and see if they could create this monster too, but seeing that the battle was getting even more difficult now that this Boss came along, players gave up on that idea and took bows to shoot this monster. .

The Whiter Boss was throwing exploding heads at players, which initially killed a lot of people, but as time went on, players who were always very adaptable were able to deal with it and kill the Whiter Boss.

Unfortunately, when White died, Herobrine was furious and released the two Ender Dragons that were flying over the city.

Seeing the two dragons descending from the high heavens to attack them, players became desperate, especially those players who have never fought the Ender Dragon.

Seeing those dragons flying in the city and destroying all the blocks they passed, the players became more and more desperate.

The players' command line started to get chaotic and everything was falling apart.

Until players with the Ender Dragon cape who were once commanding the army joined the battle.

Both Team 01, which is the X-Men team, Ned and Petter, as well as Shuri and the Milaje ran towards the dragons and started attacking the monsters while leading the players to the front lines.

On the other hand, two players were on the roof of a tall building in Hypixel.

[Natalia] and [Hawk].

Or better known as Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton, two SHIELD agents.

On direct orders from Nick Fury, the two were ordered to get this Golden Apple at all costs, so despite working with the players, Clint and Natasha had prepared a plan to deal with the dragons.

They knew they couldn't handle the weaker monsters with just the two of them, so they decided that they would try to take the last shot to kill the two dragons.

While Natasha would protect Clint, he would be focused on shooting arrows at the dragons to get the kill.

This was a strategy they saw on the internet. As this was their first time doing any mission related to games, the two decided to search the internet for strategies from other games and see which would be the most viable for them to use.

On the internet it always said that the person who gave the last attack on the Boss could receive much more reward than the other players.

And since Herobrine was like a God in this world, Clint and Natasha disregarded him as a Boss and focused their attention on the dragons that had been flying over Hypixel since yesterday.

"The life of the first dragon is dropping." Clint said as he pulled the arrow from his bow.

Natasha, on the other hand, was battling the fireballs the Ghasts were attacking them with a sword.

As they were the players who were at the highest place in the Hypixel, the attention of the Ghasts who were monsters that flew at high altitudes was completely focused on them.

Natasha didn't answer Clint and continued attacking the fireballs with her sword, very focused.

If she missed the timing of the fireball counterattack, it would explode and send the two of them flying downward. Even if they didn't die from the explosion, they would likely die from the fall damage since they didn't have a bucket of water to do MLG.

But Clint didn't need an answer from Natasha, the two already knew each other so well that he knew her silence was confirmation of the trust she had in him.

Since archery in Minecraft was even easier than in real life, Clint calculated the amount of arrows in the air and the damage those arrows would do to the Ender Dragon and finally fired.

Swoosh

The Ender Dragon's health was dropping fast because of the amount of arrows from the players, but as a Herobrine monster, the Ender Dragon's health was several times higher than the life of an ordinary Ender Dragon.

But still, because of the constant rain of arrows all the time, the monster finally died.

Players were excited about this and focused their attack on the remaining dragon.

Millions of players had already died to these dragons, but no one gave up, everyone wanted the Golden Apple.

After a few minutes of attacking, the Dragon's health was finally at a critical level.

Clint once again shot an arrow after much calculation and watched as his arrow killed the second dragon.

After killing the dragons, players with bows pointed their arrows at Herobrine and started shooting.

Herobrine saw that his most powerful monsters had died and he screamed in anger.

"Filthy bugs, don't think you've won this battle, because it's not over!" Herobrine screamed before running away and disappearing in front of everyone.

Players were shocked by this.

"We won?"

They started to wonder.

Until Notch flew downtown and screamed.

"We won!"

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The players were exhausted, they had been battling for over 4 hours straight. During the battle many players received notifications of exhaustion and that they should leave the game to rest for at least 20 minutes before returning.

When gamers saw these notifications, at first they were frustrated with the game that was practically kicking them out of the fun, but when they came out and saw how sweaty they were in real life, gamers were happy with Minecraft for even taking the well-being. of them into account.

While other games just wanted players to spend as much time online as possible, Minecraft demonstrated that it would rather have players stay healthy than spend several hours online.

When Herobrine disappeared, the players saw Notch flying towards the main square of Hypixel and they also went there, after all they wanted to know who would receive the Golden Apple.

Notch was watching the players coming towards the square with a smile, as big as the square was, it would be impossible to fit millions of players at the same time, so the players started climbing the buildings around the city to get the best view of the city. Notch, and also so that Notch could see them and they would have a better chance of receiving the apple.

The players were quite noisy as they chatted about who would have contributed the most.

Some believed it was the players who led, others believed it was the players who fought on the front lines, some even thought the logistics people were the people who contributed the most.

When most of the players got close to Notch, he raised his hand and the players fell silent.

"Citizens of Hypixel, first of all, thank you very much to everyone who participated in this battle. Unfortunately I am unable to give a gift as valuable as the Golden Apple to each of you, but know that if I could, I would definitely give one to each of you. a." Notch began by thanking the players.

"As I can't give a Golden Apple, I'll give you another gift, so that at least in Hypixel you will be recognized as the brave warriors who risked their own lives to protect the city, this cape will be given for free to everyone who participated in the battle of yesterday and today." Notch said as he held out his hand and a white cape with a big golden "H" appeared in front of all the players.

This "H" could either be interpreted as a Hero or as a Hypixel.

As soon as players saw the white cape appearing in front of Notch, a request appeared in front of their eyes.

[Do you want to accept the "Hypixel Hero Cape"? This cape is limited.]

This question was just a formality, as as soon as this message appeared, all players accepted the cape and started equipping it.

In an instant, in Notch's vision as he was flying, players who had previously had several different colors were now more uniformed with virtually everyone wearing this white cape.

Although this white cape is prettier than regular capes, as all players received this cape it was not uncommon. But the smartest players knew that in a few years, when Minecraft had hundreds of millions of players, only they would have this cape, this cape would demonstrate how rare it was.

"Finally, the last gift will go to the player who contributed the most to today's battle. First I will ask him, do you want your name to be revealed to the other players?" Notch asked.

At that moment a floating screen appeared in front of Clint.

As the other players were fiddling with the game's menu to fix the cape, Clint also pretended he was changing the cape and refused.

Notch saw Clint's response and continued. "Unfortunately, the player refused to have his identity revealed, but know that this player was the one who killed the most monsters in this battle, in addition to getting the elimination in both Ender Dragons!"

Players were surprised to hear this.

In the next few minutes Notch just thanked the players and said that the Hypixel would go into maintenance for 24 hours to fix what was destroyed by the battle.

Minecraft would still work normally, but Hypixel would be offline for a day, of course, Notch said it would bring some fun news after the update.

Hearing this the players were frustrated, but after spending so many hours at war, not even they were too excited to play the server mini-games and just wanted to disconnect to rest.

As the players exited Minecraft, Clint and Natasha also logged out, but instead of playing at their house, they were in a special room set up by SHIELD.

Once the battle at Hypixel began, hundreds of agents were dispatched to participate, mainly to gather more information.

While Natasha returned to the real world exactly as she had logged in to the game, Clint had something different on his hand. Just as he saw in Notch's hand, there was a golden apple between his fingers.

For a second Clint had to resist the urge to take a bite of that apple and confirm that it really had the effects Notch had described, but he resisted that urge and got up with Natasha to head toward Nick Fury's office.

Nick had assigned this mission to the two of them, to get this Golden Apple so that the S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists could study it and see if the effects were real, and if the effects were proven, see if it would be possible to mass-manufacture these apples.

With this apple's effect of doubling the user's strength, even if this wasn't as effective as the Super Soldier Serum, this was still much better than having nothing.

And having an army of 1,000 agents doubled in strength by apples like that would be a pretty sizable force in any country.

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Alex knew that the person who received the golden apple was Clint Barton, aka HawkEye, the SHIELD agent. And he didn't care too much about what SHIELD was going to try to do with the apple, as System had confirmed that items made by System could not be replicated, only used as inspiration.

For a world where there is already a Super Soldier Serum, there is no shortage of inspiration for these people.

As SHIELD worked crazily and Minecraft players finally rested, Alex started looking at Minecraft sales.

[Minecraft]

[19,200,000 Games Sold - $384,000,000]

[Average Time Played: 6 Hours.]

[Peak Concurrent Players: 14,051,165]

[Total Earned on Sold Servers: $1,120,143]

[Total Earned in VIPs: $61,510,275]

The smile on Alex's face was huge.

"I'm rich!" He squealed happily while bouncing in the same spot.

With a quick account made in his head, Alex saw that with the sales of Minecraft alone he already had 1.92 million Gaming Points, and with VIPs this figure rises to more than 2 million Gaming Points.

"With this amount of GP I can finally make a Triple A game without worrying about the quality, I can even add several features that didn't exist in the original games to surprise the audience even more!" Alex said as he thought through the possibilities.

"Although to make a game as great as I am imagining, I will need a lot of time. Even with System's help to speed up the process, to implement more practical and innovative things for users I will need a lot of research and a lot of testing... " Alex realized it wouldn't be that simple.

His goal was to make an open world MMORPG game. And not just a game like that, but also making this world so complete that players could treat this other world like a second life!

The main factor that encouraged Alex to do this was something he had seen a few days ago.

[Time Dilation: 10% = 1,000,000 GP]

Initially Alex was confused to see this feature, but when he saw the description of it he was shocked!

10% time dilation means that while in the real world 100 minutes pass, in the game world 110 minutes pass! That's 10% more time!

If he bought 1,000% time dilation, 1 hour in the real world would be 10 hours in the game world!

As long as a person played 12 hours a day while sleeping, the game would take 5 full days! This would practically be an amplification of the lives of people on earth, as they would have a total of 132 hours a day!

Even if the person was not interested in the game, that person would want to enter the world to study, rest or do various other activities!

For people who had to work every day, this would be the equivalent of working for a day and resting for 5 days in the game, a dream life for anyone.

Alex was very excited about this idea, of course, he didn't have enough money for a 1,000% time dilation, at most he could start with 10 or 20% as time dilation was very expensive, but in the future he was confident of increase that time dilation and virtually provide eternal life for players!

"For now I need to study this game better, but as Minecraft has already reached a peak in sales, I can use part of my free time to develop a simpler game. After all, since Minecraft can already be independent, I can use these GP to invest in another game that will bring me more profit." Alex said thoughtfully.

The MMORPG idea was very ambitious, this was something he wouldn't be able to do in a few days, so to have another game in his portfolio Alex opened the game development program and started developing the next game.

Alex saw that many players liked Hunger Games on Hypixel, but as the chests were always in the same position and the only thing players could do was grab chests and hit each other, the graphics showed that this was the first mini-game that 90 % of Hypixel players played when they joined the server, but 70% of those players stopped playing this mini-game after 3 rounds.

From this data, Alex deduced that the Battle Royal mode was a very popular idea among gamers, but since Hunger Games didn't have a lot of variety, people were disappointed and stopped playing after a few rounds.

"With this demand for Battle Royal I have some game options I can make to supply these people..." Alex said with his hand on his chin.

In his previous world there were 4 games that dominated this mode.

The first game was Fortnite, which was very successful in first world countries, as it was a game with a heavier graphics and you needed a good computer to be able to build faster.

Fortnite's buildings are a great differentiator of the game that add a lot to the variation of gameplay, as it's something that players need to learn to become more competitive.

The second game was PUBG, which was very famous among people who had difficulty building, in addition to having very realistic physics for shots and for the characters, which gave the game a more serious tone for the players.

The third game was Apex Legends, which had a big difference because each character had different abilities that made the gameplay unique.

Finally, there is Free Fire, which was a Chinese game for cell phones with a weaker graphic that was very successful among underdeveloped countries where the population did not have the money to buy powerful computers to play other games.

Looking at the four alternatives, Alex had no doubt what game he would make for this world, after all, disregarding the limitations players had in his previous world, there was only one game that provided exactly what Alex wanted. his players feel.

"With a Battle Royal game I can earn money by selling Skins and Battle Pass... hehe, this can even be more profitable than Minecraft." Alex chuckled at the thought of how much money players would spend on the game he was going to make!

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Having decided which game he was going to make, Alex wasted no time and started development on that game.

Unlike when he was making Minecraft, this time Alex didn't have to worry about not having enough GP.

When he made Minecraft, Alex only had enough GP for him to put in some shaders and other simpler settings, and then with the game's sales increasing he added more stuff to the point that Minecraft reached the state it is today.

But this time it would be different, Alex wasn't going to spend all the GP he had making this game, at least he didn't intend to spend all the GP he had at once.

[Battle Royal Basic - 2,000 Gaming Points.] [Advanced Battle Royal - 20,000 Gaming Points.] [Battle Royal Triple A - 200,000 Gaming Points.]

Without a second thought Alex chose to do a Battle Royal Triple A for 200,000 Gaming Points.

As soon as he spent that money, in the game development program a lot of features were unlocked for him to use.

Weapons, vests, helmets, scenery elements, countless different things appeared for Alex.

Now that he had experience in game development, it was much easier for Alex to start developing this new game.

First he started developing the game's map.

One thing Alex knew was very important for the game was that there were landmarks on the map, like a school, a few small towns scattered around, a chair, a factory, forests, rivers, and many other things.

As the game was made to be played in a virtual reality instead of a computer screen, Leo had to enlarge the size of the map to make everything a little more realistic, but he didn't increase it much so that the duration of the games wouldn't be longer. very large.

The idea of using a flying school bus to bring players in was something Alex found very creative and also decided to use.

So Alex focused on the game developer and didn't even notice how many hours had passed in real life. When his belly was already begging for food Alex finally snapped back to reality with a satisfied smile.

"Okay, even though the game is not ready, I can already start promoting the game to attract players interested in playing." Alex said as he started to plan how he could make an interesting trailer.

"Hahaha, he's going to be pissed when he finds out about this, but it's going to be really funny." Alex came up with a genius idea to attract both the Minecraft audience to the new game and to attract a new audience.

In a luxurious Malibu mansion, a man was working with some mechanical components while listening to some classic rock songs.

The way this man worked with these components was very skillful, as if this man had been used to doing this sort of thing for several years.
Suddenly the man remembered something and asked aloud to the void. "Jarvis, tell me, what did you find out about Minecraft?"

Then a voice came from the speakers where the music was being played. "Unfortunately I couldn't crack the Minecraft source code, Mr Stark, not even their website could be hacked."

Hearing this the man finally stopped what he was doing and asked once more. "What's the latest Minecraft news?"

"According to reports around the world, the amount of people paying to play Minecraft is growing exponentially. It is estimated that in the near future the game could reach a volume of at least one billion dollars in sales." Jarvis replied respectfully.

Hearing this, the man, Tony Stark, raised an eyebrow in surprise. He never imagined that a game company could grow so much in such a short time, especially with technology that not even Jarvis could decipher!

Doesn't that mean that this game company's technology is even better than that of Stark Industries?

"Jarvis, what's the name of the company that produced Minecraft?" Tony asked.

"The company is called Mojang, Mister Stark." Jarvis replied.

Hearing the company name Tony thought aloud. "Mojang... if I'm not mistaken this is Swedish. What does Mojang Jarvis mean?"

"Mojang means Gadget in English, Mister Stark."

"Is the company Swedish?" Tony asked.

"The location of the company has not yet been confirmed."

Hearing these details, Tony could no longer think of any other way to further study this company with technology as inexplicable as Minecraft's other than playing the game.

"Jarvis, buy me Minecraft, I plan to test this game to see how it works." Tony ordered.

"Mr Stark, I think it might be more interesting for you to play something other than Minecraft." Jarvis persuaded.

Tony was confused and asked. "Because?"

Jarvis explained. "Maybe you're interested in the trailer for their next game."

Before Tony could ask another question, a trailer appeared on the big screen in the garage where he was.

In the trailer, a movie began to play. Tony was surprised by the image quality of this film, not even movie cameras could record something with such a good image.

But when Tony saw the small print in the corner of the screen he was surprised.

[Actual gameplay footage.]

'This is not a movie with real people, but a game graphic?! Not even Minecraft has such good graphics, is this Mojang's new game?' Tony mentally asked himself as he continued to watch.

In the trailer, a group of four people were coming out of a shed with the camera focused on their backs. A woman in a hoodie, a woman in a pink teddy bear costume, a retro blue robot, and a man with a banana head wearing a stylish suit.

Each of the four was holding a heavy weapon in their hands as the light outside the shed grew brighter.

Until the moment they left the shed it was possible to see a man flying in front of them wearing red and gold armor with a bright chest and eyes.

Tony Stark: "???????????????"

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Tony Stark was seeing that red and gold armor flying across the game screen and had to look to the side to be sure.

Seeing the Mark 3 armor safely tucked away he relaxed, but soon he saw that the armor's appearance in the trailer video for that game was identical to his armor!

"Shit, who gave this Mojang the rights to wear my armor? And since when did I become a villain?!" Tony Stark asked yelling angrily.

"The Mojang company never bought the rights to use your armor in the game, Mister Stark." Jarvis replied politely, ignoring how Tony was acting.

Tony was furious. He'd heard of some street vendors selling pirated Iron Man merchandise without paying him royalties, but he never imagined that anyone would be brave enough to wear his armor in a game for free!

Worst of all is that the company of this game didn't even announce that they would use his armor in the game, they just used it and posted it!

Without a second thought, Tony took out his cell phone and called Pepper Potts as soon as possible, what he immediately wanted was for the Stark Industries legal team to find the person responsible for Mojang and sue them for using the Iron Man armor image without the due rights.

But of course, this task for Tony would be impossible since the Mojang company didn't even have a headquarters in this world, let alone have someone responsible for a legal part where he could be sued.

Alex was practically in a tortoiseshell, a place where not even the Supreme Sorcerer could find him with little searching time, a place where neither Heimdall nor Odin could see with their magical eyes, let alone ordinary humans could find him for send some kind of process.

But while Tony Stark was furious at how unashamed Mojang was to copy his armor in this game, players around the world were shocked.

Most people had known Minecraft just a few days ago and were still marveling at how amazing this game was, how magical the technology was to be able to see distant friends and relatives in this other world, and suddenly a floating screen appeared in front of them. their.

[Notch invites you to see a trailer for a game he developed.]

At this point, the name Notch was as famous as Minecraft, perhaps in some places Notch might even be more famous than Minecraft, as around the world, with As Minecraft was becoming successful, small vendors started developing simple plush or plastic Notch and Herobrine toys, and many children enjoyed playing Minecraft at school using their dolls.

Unfortunately System did not yet have an option to sell toys to maximize its profit. But Alex already had an idea to do that when he went to Earth in the future.

But with so many sellers making Minecraft toys, the name of Notch and Herobrine was already very famous in the world, so when players saw that the legendary Notch sent them a request, many people didn't even read the message and accepted.

While people who weren't in Minecraft had to watch the trailer via YouTube, those inside the game had a different experience.

Ned was live now, there were over 100k viewers watching him play Skyblock.

As most people hadn't killed the Ender Dragon yet, they had a lot of fun watching Ned play Skyblock and learning things from them as he got stronger.

The progression part of Skyblock was much more addictive than regular Minecraft, as in Skyblock players could improve everything from the size of the island, like how much money they would get by planting things on the island and selling them, to how fast they could be. they broke blocks that would earn them more money.

Everything could be improved, which made people who played completely addicted to this mode.

Suddenly a message appeared on Ned's screen, surprising both him and the viewers who followed him.

[Notch invites you to see a trailer for a game he's developed.]

"Notch has developed a new game?!" Ned was shocked after reading the notification.

[Damn, I haven't even played Minecraft and Notch has ever made another game?]

[Is this new game also in another world like Minecraft?]

[I don't think so, it must be so hard to make Minecraft this way, make another one game like Minecraft would probably take more than 10 years.]

[Maybe it really could be another game like Minecraft, after all, no one knows how Notch made Minecraft, it's possible he really is a god who makes worlds.]

Viewers' comments were divided between people who believed the new game was like Minecraft, like it was another world, while others thought the new game was perhaps a regular computer game.

As one of Notch's most hardcore fans, Ned didn't even think twice before clicking through to see the trailer Notch uploaded.

When he confirmed that he wanted to see the trailer, Ned who was on his island in Skyblock suddenly felt his vision go black, everything around disappeared he couldn't see anything.

Suddenly, a sound came from in front of him and a garage door opened from the bottom up.

As the door started to open, the light outside began to pour in and Ned saw that there were four people in front of him.

From left to right there was a blue robot, a man in a suit with a banana head, a woman in a pink teddy bear costume, and a girl with a hoodie covering her head.

The four people were holding firearms in their hands, which made Ned quite scared, as he had never seen a gun in his life.

But suddenly he felt a weight in his hand and saw that he was also holding a machine gun!

When the garage door finally opened, a man wearing red and gold armor was flying in front of him.

The four people in front of Ned suddenly pointed their guns at the flying man in the armor and the man in the armor aimed his glowing hands at the people as if to fire an energy beam.

Ned also subconsciously pointed his gun at the man in the armor before his vision went black and he returned to his island in the Skyblock.

Both Ned and his livestream Chat were shocked.

They were used to Minecraft, which as much as it had monsters, it was still a medieval-themed sword game, but personally getting into a shooter made Ned's blood boil as his legs went weak!

Finally the chat reacted.

[Damn, that was Iron Man!]

[Ned wanted to kill Iron Man?]

[Was Iron Man going to kill Ned and his teammates?]

[What the hell kind of awesome game is that?]

At this point there were approximately 8 million players online in Minecraft, and at least 6 million watched the trailer.

Considering people watching the livestreams of people playing Minecraft, there were at least 10 million people who watched the trailer for this new game within the first minute of launch.

The video Alex posted for players to watch was linked to a YouTube link, meaning the Fortnite trailer reached 10 million views in less than 1 minute!

The next minute a bomb exploded on the internet.

[The new Game from Minecraft's Creator!]

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The Fortnite Trailer launched and in 1 minute it reached over 10 million views. 

The trailer was less than 60 seconds long, so as most people watched 100% of the video, YouTube's algorithm began to promote the video intensely, causing the video to have already reached 70 million views in 30 minutes. 

People who didn't already know about Minecraft became aware of the game because of the Fortnite trailer, and Minecraft sales that were already skyrocketing have now taken off for good.Hundreds of thousands of copies of Minecraft were sold every minute, millions of new users downloaded this strange game and began to discover this new world to try to understand why it was so famous.

This groundbreaking technology finally burst the bubble SHIELD tried to create and became known to the masses.

"Shit, order YouTube to delete this video now!" Nick Fury screamed in rage, but Maria Hill knew it would do no good.

Tony Stark was frustrated, as Pepper Potts said that Stark Industries' lawyers were unable to locate anything related to Mojang, Minecraft or Fortnite.

And while those people were having a lot of different impressions, old Minecraft players were going wild with the announcement of this new game.

The Fortnite trailer could be played multiple times, so many players started watching the trailer inside Minecraft's virtual reality to feel what it feels like to hold a gun. 

Most people were very scared when they saw Iron Man pointing the laser guns at them, but despite being scared, the emotion they felt was unparalleled.

[This is amazing, as a gun collector I say with propriety that the gun we hold during the Fortnite trailer is a Colt Model 933, I don't mean to say that it's based on a Colt Model 933, but rather that it's a representation perfect weapon! Both the weight, even the temperature was perfect. If you have a passion for weapons like I do, you can test and confirm my point.]

Shortly after the trailer was released, several people started shooting video about various topics related to the trailer.

People analyzing the weapons, analyzing Iron Man's armor, analyzing the environment, analyzing the background music, it's all been analyzed by these fanatical gamers.

And while those players were spreading Minecraft even further, Alex was at home watching the aftermath of that trailer with a big smile on his face.

"Okay, the result is as good as I imagined. As most players are still discovering and getting to know Minecraft, I don't need to rush to launch Fortnite right away, ideally I release a few more Teasers and develop a satisfying Battle Pass, plus some cool skins to make the game's launch event really good." Alex continued his planning while looking at the data.

The Fortnite trailer reached 400 million views in the first 24 hours, while Minecraft, which had almost 20 million copies sold when the trailer was released, due to the bursting of the SHIELD bubble, doubled the amount of sales, reaching 40 million.

Alex was watching his Gaming Points rise at a frightening rate!

Despite having already spent 500k Gaming Points on the development of Fortnite, Alex looked at the system and was shocked at how many Gaming Points he had.

[4.200.000 Gaming Points]

"Four million..." Alex said scared as he looked at that number.

A few months ago he was still a poor guy who had to eat CupNoodles to survive without spending too many Gaming Points, now he already has 4 million!

"I know that 4 million isn't even a drop in the bucket to develop the metaverse I want in the future, but with so many extra points, I can refine Fortnite to a quality I couldn't even imagine." Alex said. "What will it cost to do something like a Virtual Hub for my games?"

This idea came to Alex when he thought of a movie he watched in his previous life, Ready Player One, where players entered another world, and within that world they could teleport to other worlds, like a virtual Hub.

Just as Steam made the Hub available for Steam VR, where the player entered a virtual mansion to choose which game he could play, Alex had the idea of doing that too, but making people's social interaction available through the Hub, leaving everything Online .

When this idea first came up, Alex was quick to look into how much it would cost to develop this. But when finishing the simulation, Alex was shocked by the price of 10 million Gaming Points... This was not for the development of this Hub, but to allow the integration of other games to the same Hub.

"Okay, maybe I'm not as rich as I thought, but thinking about the speed I'm earning Gaming Points, it won't be impossible in the future, even more so when I have two games generating Gaming Points simultaneously." Alex got excited thinking about it.

As he saw that he had so many Gaming Points, Alex returned to Fortnite development, but now with a much more wasteful mindset.

While before he just chose a slightly simpler Shaders to avoid so much expense, now Alex has made a variation of Shaders available for the players to decide how they would want to see the game.

As for the Battle Pass, Alex thought it would be interesting to use his favorite Battle Pass from Fortnite in his previous life, the Chapter 2 Season 2 Battle Pass, with the level 100 Skin being Midas.

The most interesting thing about this skin is that Midas has golden fingers, that is, every weapon that this skin holds is golden, and even if Midas throws the weapon away, the weapon remains golden for other players to take it, which was a very creative implementation. After finishing what he had to develop for the day, Alex saw that he still had over 4 million Gaming Points and decided to check out the Skills Shop again, to see some power or something else for him to buy, as he now had more confidence than go to a human city.

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Alex opened the system store and went back to looking at the things he could buy with Gaming Points.

[Gaming Shop]

[Dominic Toretto Driving Skills: 3.000 Gaming Points.]

[Elven Breath: 5,000 Gaming Points.]

[Deadshot Weapon Mastery: 10.000 Gaming Points.]

...

[Gray Fullbuster Ice Magic: 100.000 Gaming Points.]

[Megumin Fire Magic: 500.000 Gaming Points.]

[Natsu Dragneel Dragon Slayer Fire Magic: 1.000.000 Gaming Points.]

Those were the Skills he had seen before. Thinking that Natsu Dragneel's Skill seemed so expensive to him earlier, but now it had become something that he could buy 4 without even blinking an eye, made Alex quite satisfied.

Of course, he still didn't intend to buy this Skill, as much as Dragon Slayer Fire Magic is quite interesting, Alex was thinking of buying something less flashy first.

As it would be the first time he visited the human world after he came to this world, Alex intended to buy some discreet power and some object that could help him deal with things if something got out of hand.

As for the object, Alex already had something in mind.

[Autobot BumbleBee - 700.000 Gaming Points]

Alex's eyes were shining as he looked at that option.

BumbleBee perfectly fit what Alex needed for protection in the human world, both BumbleBee's car form was extremely discreet, just looking like a sports car, and he could use weapons while still in car form to protect him, just looking like a being a technologically modified car, and in very extreme situations, BumbleBee could still transform into his robot form, where he would have a plasma cannon on his wrist that caused a lot of destruction.

In addition to BumbleBee, to feel safe without exposing too much, Alex also bought [Dominic Toretto Driving Skills: 3,000 Gaming Points], [Deadshot Weapon Mastery: 10,000 Gaming Points], [Glock G19 - 1,000 Gaming Points], [Ammo .9mm x60 - 200 Gaming Points].

With Toretto Driving Skills Alex felt he could control a car to do things he never thought possible before.

With Deadshot Weapon Mastery and the Glock pistol, Alex felt safe dealing with ordinary humans without ever missing a shot, thus being able to deal with threats without killing the aggressor if it was not really necessary, further reducing the attention he would attract in the world.

"Now I'm just missing something to protect me from mental attacks." Alex thought as he looked at System's store of what he could buy.

[Snape's Occlumency Magic - 150.000 Gaming Points.]

"Perfect!" Alex thought excitedly, with this magic he could build mental barriers that would block both mental attacks and people trying to snoop into his mind!

Seeing that there were quite a few Harry Potter spells, Alex seriously thought about buying other spells, as they weren't as expensive as Occlumency.

[Alohomora Spell - 8.000 Gaming Points.]

[Wingardium Leviosa Spell - 10.000 Gaming Points.]

[Episkey Spell - 14.000 Gaming Points.]

[Accio Spell - 20.000 Gaming Points.]

[Apparate Spell - 100.000 Gaming Points.]

[...]

[Magic Wand - 500.000 Gaming Points.]

[Wandless Magic Proficiency - 1.000.000 Gaming Points]

"That's a little pricey isn't it?" Alex said with a slightly somber expression.

With BumbleBee, Occlumency, and Weapon Skills, Alex had consumed almost 900,000 Gaming Points, if he were to buy other spells he would prefer to use Wandless Magic, as it would be much better in the long run, so increase his spending to at least 2 millions of Gaming Points when adding the other Spells.

"I think I can wait a while to get other spells." Alex complied, but set a goal of getting at least the main Harry Potter spells, as that was quite useful.

Of course, he understood that he would also need to buy something else for this.

[Harry's Magic Power - 500.000 Gaming Points.]

[Voldemort's Magic Power - 1.000.000 Gaming Points.]

[Dumbledore's Magic Power - 3.000.000 Gaming Points.]

[...]

"Damn, that's even more expensive..." Alex's expression grew even darker, as he knew that he didn't have Magic Power in his body either, and that extremely expensive price from Dumbledore didn't mean that he would be as powerful as Dumbledore, either. rather that he would only have the same amount of Mana as Dumbledore.

"Ok, one thing at a time, I'm satisfied with what I'm going to buy." Alex nodded and activated [Snape's Occlumency].

Before long he felt a lot of knowledge coming to his mind, about how to build a mental shield, about Snape's experience building his mental shield, and even experience defending the mental shield.

Alex was very excited about this, as apparently Occlumency relied on the caster's creativity to produce a very secure shield.

"That's like Tower Defense!" Alex got excited as he thought of something.

"Instead of just building a big wall of protection, I can use the Fortnite Save The World strategy and make a big path for the enemy to go through, but make that path so full of traps that even if it's open to my mind, it's almost impossible for him to reach after so many attacks. That way I could know where the enemy will go and concentrate my efforts in just one place, and if the enemy is really more powerful than me, he won't do so much damage trying to invade my mind, since that theoretically the path will be open." Alex got excited as he started to build.

Despite having Snape's experience, Alex still needed 30 hours to complete the defense.

"It's finally done!" Alex was a little tired, as he slept less than usual for that, but soon he bought a Shokugeki No Souma food that could revitalize his energy.

In the last 30 hours, Minecraft sold another 5 million copies, which earned him another 500,000 Gaming Points, it wasn't enough to pay what he spent, but Alex already imagined that, sales would stabilize for a while until some another such gigantic event happened again.

Of course, while other companies would be screaming with joy at having "low sales" of 5 million units on the day, Alex just happened to feel that this was normal.

With a Glock hidden in his belt, Alex went outside his cabin and made the purchase of BumbleBee, which he still hadn't confirmed.

By spending the 700,000 Gaming Points, as well as the dim light that appeared when he bought the Glock, a much bigger light appeared in front of his house.

After a few seconds this light dimmed and a big yellow robot appeared in front of Alex.

Despite being 5 meters tall, the large robot had round eyes glowing blue, looking at Alex curiously, which greatly lessened the oppression this large monster could cause.

"Hi Bee, I'm Alex." Alex introduced himself with a smile.

The yellow robot raised its robotic eyebrows before waving its hand and preparing to respond, but nothing came out of its mouth, making the big robot embarrassed.

Alex remembered that Bumblebee's communication system was broken, and since his cabin didn't have access to a radio signal, it was difficult for him to communicate.

He quickly opened the system and saw that it only cost 20,000 Gaming Points to fix Bee's communication system, which Alex paid without thinking twice.

BumbleBee saw a golden light appearing out of nowhere and something started to change inside him.

Alex smiled once more and said. "I guess now we can talk."

Bee looked at Alex and tried to speak again. "Hi?"

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Hearing his own voice, BumbleBee got excited and continued. "Hello! I'm BumbleBee! Thanks for fixing my communication system!"

Alex walked over to Bee and shook his head. "No need to thank me, I brought you here, it would be the least I could do for you."

Bee looked around, confused, and asked. "Where is 'here'? I can't locate this place with my tracker."

"I would say this is the safest place in the world, my home. Of course, in a different world than yours." Alex explained, but without giving too much information.

Bee obviously didn't quite understand what Alex meant by that. "So... why did you bring me here? Not that I'm not grateful, as I've been looking for a place to hide from the Decepticons for a while."

Alex nodded and explained. "I needed someone to keep me company at home as much as I needed a car to take me around the world, so I thought you would be a good option, of course, if you don't want it I can send you back anytime."

Bee was surprised by this. Was this human so powerful that he could bring him to another world just because he wanted company? If the Autobots could get such a powerful ally, perhaps they could finally stop the war with the Decepticons.

Thinking that Alex was treating him very well despite being so powerful, BumbleBee got really excited and decided to befriend Alex.

Bee has always been the youngest and most energetic Autobot. If it were other Autobots maybe they would be more skeptical, but Bee loved to make friends, and seeing that this could be advantageous to the Autobots gave him even more advantage to do what he liked.

"No need to send me back, I want to stay here!" Bee said excitedly.

Alex smiled and took his cell phone.

"Do you think you can transform into this car here?" Alex said as he turned the screen over and showed it to Bee.

Bee looked at the cell phone screen and started scanning that car from that angle before speaking. "Can you show me more images so I can scan the car from all angles?"

Alex nodded and showed a video that this car owner had posted of a 360 degree tour around the car, even with the custom interior.

Bee only needed 30 seconds to scan everything before starting the transformation into vehicle mode.

Alex watched this with bright eyes, as he has always been a Transformers fan, and transforming robots was always so cool!

The first time he transformed took a little longer, taking a total of 15 seconds to transform, but after that time, in front of Alex was a beautiful Yellow Nissan GTR R35 with Rocket Bunny Boddy Kit.

Alex almost drooled while looking at this beautiful car!

(Visual Representation on Discord: discord.gg/ky35Kv7GHr)

Even though Alex's cabin was surrounded by snow, Bee had changed the tires to off-road tires so that he could drive in this terrain without any problems.

"Is it like that, Alex?" Bee asked excitedly.

Even he had never transformed into such a beautiful car. He always preferred cars that were a little "cute", according to the other Autobots, so finally transforming into such an imposing car made Bee quite proud.

"It's perfect Bee!" Alex said excitedly as he ran to the driver's door and got in the car.

Looking around, Alex was shocked that Bee had managed to perfectly replicate the video he'd shown her, down to the smallest details of the interior.

Of course, there was a difference. Instead of the "GTR" logo written on the steering wheel of the car, there was the Autobot logo in its place.

"Can I drive, Bee?" Alex asked politely, after all Bee was not just a car, but practically a real person.

"Sure, I'm dying to test this new look out on the road, Alex!" Bee also responded excitedly.

As Bee always transformed into more "cute" cars, he was never very fast due to lack of aerodynamics, but this new form of his made something in his body tremble, he wanted to experience speed.

"So let's go!" Alex said excitedly as he stepped on the gas and drove towards the cave he had found a few days ago while practicing the Elven Breath for the first time.

He knew that on the other side of the cave there could be a human civilization. He didn't know which one it was, it could be Marvel, it could be DC, or even it could be another world, but now he didn't care, he worked for so long he wanted to have fun.

Due to the off-road wheels that Bee fitted, Alex drove smoothly through the snow and into the cave.

To his surprise, in this cave there was not just one tunnel, but several.

Apparently only one of the tunnels was open, while the others were obstructed by rocks, which Alex just ignored and went to the open tunnel.

In 5 minutes he and Bee saw a light on the other side.

"Alex, I can feel radio waves on the other side of the tunnel." Bee warned.

"Okay Bee." Alex answered without worrying too much.

When they exited the tunnel, they found themselves in a forest. Alex looked back in the rearview mirror and noticed that when he pulled away from the tunnel, it became invisible!

"Bee, save the location of the tunnel please, I think we'll need it when we go back." Alex warned.

"Okk, that's already saved." Bee replied.

Finally, after a few more minutes they finally came out of the forest.

Seeing a large two-way lane that stretched for several kilometers in a straight line, Alex didn't even care where he was and warned Bee.

"Bee, can you change the tires to something sportier?"

Before Bee could answer, Alex felt the car getting lower. "It's done, let's go!"

Seeing that Bee was also so excited, Alex smiled and shouted as he stepped on the accelerator. "Let's go! Hahaha!"

On that straight road, Alex floored the pedals as he heard Bee's exhaust making a deafening rumble.

In less than 4 seconds the car was almost 200 kilometers per hour (120 mph)!

Despite the speed, Alex still felt the G force pinning him to the seat in the same way, which meant that the car still maintained the same acceleration!

In 6 seconds they were at 300 kilometers per hour (180 mph), but Alex didn't feel that the acceleration was slowing down!

At 8 seconds Bee reached 400 kilometers per hour (250 mph), where Alex finally felt the acceleration slowing down.

At 10 seconds the acceleration finally stabilized. They were traveling at 480 kilometers per hour (300 mph).

Alex felt that his heart was almost bursting out of his mouth, with so much adrenaline he was feeling.

"Yaaaahoooooo!!!!!" Alex squealed excitedly as Bee blasted "Murder In My Mind" to full blast on the radio.

Of course, a normal GTR couldn't reach that speed, and even if it could, the probability that the tires wouldn't hold up or the car would lose stability due to a small mistake would be huge.

But Bee wasn't a normal car, he was an Autobot with technology thousands more developed than the car makers on earth.

If it weren't for Alex stopping accelerating so much, even though the acceleration has slowed down, reaching 600 kilometers per hour (370 mph) would be no problem.

The two were extremely excited.

Alex was seeing a Red 1962 Corvette in the distance in front of him, but in a few seconds he passed it without being able to see any features of the driver.

On the side of the Corvette was a sign reading "Welcome to Salem Center".

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Swooosh

The two people who were in the Corvette only saw a yellow flash passing by at a frightening speed.

Just the wind caused by the car's rear vacuum was enough to make the Corvette destabilize.

Looking at the speedometer, the driver of the Corvette was shocked to realize he was going 160 km/h (100 mph) and when this yellow car passed them it was as if they were standing still.

"Fuck Scott, what the fuck was that?" A boy with blue hair said in shock as he looked at the yellow car disappearing into the distance.

Scott, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was still shocked. He was always proud of his 1962 Corvette, even though it was an old car, Scott had already taken that car to the track reaching 230 km/h (140mph) a few times.

But this was the first time he was so shocked to be overtaken by someone.

"I think it was a Nissan GTR, but that sure wasn't pure." Scott said to Kurt beside him.

"Do you have any doubts? We're doing 100mph and that GTR passed us like we were standing still, at least it was doing 220mph! Damn!" Kurt was excited to remember.

"They say in LA these cars are pretty common, but I don't think even LA cars could keep up with this crazy guy." Scott commented.

After a few minutes of talking about it, Scott and Kurt officially entered the city.

"Hey Scott, look over there." Kurt pointed in one direction.

Scott was curious, but when he looked, the heart of a car enthusiast like him began to race.

Parked on the side of the road was a beautiful Nissan GTR R35, not only was the original car beautiful but this model had a Rocket Bunny Body Kit as well as some decals which added to the car's attractiveness even further.

Next to the car was a boy with messy grayish white hair, strangely his eyes were red and his teeth were a bit elongated, like a small animal's.

(Like the cover of the book.)

As much as these characteristics were strange individually, in the boy it seemed quite harmonic.

Despite having such a distinguished appearance, the boy was just leaning against the car while holding a glass of Coke in one hand and biting into a large slice of pizza in the other hand, with a very happy expression.

Due to the boy's appearance, he looked to be no older than 20, which was pretty close to Kurt and Scott's age, and added to the fact that the boy was driving that beautiful Nissan GTR, Scott didn't think twice about pulling into the spot. next to the boy's car.

Seeing the red Corvette pull up beside him, the boy glanced at it with a raised eyebrow and looked curiously at the driver.

Scott smiled as he got out of the car and greeted the boy.

"Hey Bro, what a monster you driving huh." Scott said excitedly as he pointed to the GTR.

Normally Scott was a very serious and reserved person, but when it came to cars, Scott's heart was back to being like a child's.

The boy who was eating next to the car smiled, with the small fangs of animals, and replied. "Bee is really a little monster, even I am surprised by him."

Beep, Beep

After the boy said that, the car beeped the alarm twice as if it had responded, which made Scott even more excited. He also wanted to be able to install this in his car!

"How many horses does the "Bee" have?" Scott asked excitedly, remembering the name the boy said. He knew that car lovers liked to name their cars, just as Scott called his Corvette Scarlet because it was red, the kid calling his GTR Bee made sense because it was yellow.

He knew that the most powerful GTR in the world had 2,500 Horsepower, and by the speed that this boy passed him, the difference between them maybe wasn't too big.

After all, Scott couldn't accurately measure the speed of the GTR when it was overtaken.

Hearing Scott's question, the boy stopped to think for a while and answered. "I didn't get to pass him on the dyno, but I'd say maybe 4-5k horsepower as he hit 300mph on the road here."

Hearing this, both Scott and Kurt felt their legs go wobbly.

The most powerful GTR in the world only reached 317 km/h (197 mph), and to hear that the Bee in front of them achieved almost 50% more than that shocked them.

"Dude, what did you put on that hood? An airplane engine?" Kurt asked.

The boy just chuckled and nodded. "Almost that."

Knowing the power of that car, Scott and Kurt didn't doubt what the boy said.

The three talked for a few more minutes until the boy finished eating.

"Do you guys know anything cool to do in town? It's my first time here and I wanted to have some fun." the boy asked.

Upon hearing the boy's question, both Scott and Kurt remembered that they were going somewhere before stopping to talk to the boy.

"Damn it, we forgot about meeting the girls!" Kurt screamed in fright at the memory.

"Jean will be furious." Scott complained.

Until Kurt soon thought of something. "Hey bro, how about coming with us, we're going out with some friends to a festival they're having in town, want to come with us? It'll be fun."

Hearing this, the boy thought for a while before nodding his head and agreeing. "Clear!"

Kurt and Scott were excited about this, as this kid seemed really cool and since they shared the same tastes in cars, the three soon bonded.

Deciding that the boy would follow them towards the festival, Scott and Kurt returned to the Corvette while the boy returned to the GTR.

Hearing the almost deafening roar of the GTR's exhaust, Kurt and Scott exchanged glances and smiled excitedly at how beautiful the noise was.

But on the way to the festival they noticed something.

"We forgot to ask his name, didn't we?" Kurt laughed at the situation while Scott was a little embarrassed about it too.

Meanwhile, in the Nissan GTR, Alex was belting out a song that was playing on the radio as he followed Scott's Corvette excitedly to this festival, hoping it would be fun.

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Alex was quite surprised at the coincidence of meeting two of the X-Men while taking a walk while driving Bee.

He passed by Scott's Corvette so fast that he hadn't recognized that he was driving it, but when he saw Scott wearing the red Ruby glasses and Kurt beside him with slightly blue shoulder length hair, it was easy to recognize the duo. .

As he saw that there were some shops selling NY-style pizza around, Alex had decided to stop by to try the flavor, as he had never tasted it.

Unfortunately his expectation was not met, as he was only eating meals from the world of Shokugeki no Souma, where they managed to enhance the taste of food to the maximum, this pizza was not as delicious as he imagined.

But that wasn't bad either, to the point where Alex ate it all.

Remembering the name of the city, Alex realized that he had entered the city where the Xavier Institute was located, that is, the home of the X-Men.

Knowing that the two boys he was talking to lived in this town, Alex decided to ask them if there was anything interesting he could do, as he wanted to take advantage of the day off.

But he didn't imagine that Scott and Kurt would ask him to go to a festival with the other girls.

'Will Anna be there?' Alex wondered as he drove Bee behind Scott's Corvette.

As the city is not a large metropolis, Scott's Corvette is already well known in the region, so despite being a very beautiful and eye-catching car, people passing by had already seen this car a few times, which lost some of its novelty. , but the yellow GTR with that sporty look quickly attracted attention.

Where they passed there were people pointing and picking up their cell phones to record.

Initially Alex thought it was cool, but over time he got used to it. For someone who had millions of people staring at him in awe as he wore Notch's Skin, having a few dozen people staring at him that way didn't affect him that much anymore.

In a few minutes Alex saw a very busy square, around there were many parked cars, which made it difficult for him to find spaces to park as well.

Luckily Scott apparently went to a less crowded spot and parked next to a large SUV that looked a bit military.

'Perhaps this SUV is the car that the girls used to come, I remember that the Xavier Institute had many vehicles for various types of situations.' Alex thought as he finally pulled up beside Scott.

"Bee, if anything suspicious happens, you can come to me in car form first, if I need your help you can transform into your robot mode, but let's avoid drawing attention to your robot mode for now." Alex explained, to which Bee agreed without a hitch.

"Alex, if there is a problem you can use this device. I noticed that several people were using something similar to record us on the way here, which I took the liberty of analyzing and playing a slightly improved version." Bee said as a yellow cell phone appeared in the glove compartment she just opened.

Alex raised his eyebrow in surprise as he picked up his cell phone and looked at it, he was even surprised that the operating system was iOs, but remembering how advanced transformers technology was, he soon understood that this was not that surprising, after all, for a robot that shoots lasers and can copy any car, it's not a big deal to just make a replica of a small cell phone.

Looking at the phone, Alex thought it was cool that the skin also had some stickers from car equipment brands like HKS and Voltex, making the phone look like it was made exactly to match the car.

"Okay Bee." Alex said smiling as he opened the door and got out of the car.

"What's up with Scott? I thought he'd get there before us." Kitty complained as she looked around the place they agreed to park.

"I thought so too, since he drives like a maniac." Jean Gray also complained looking around.

Only Anna stayed quiet as she leaned against the wall and fiddled with her cell phone without worrying too much.

To be honest, she didn't even want to leave the house, but since she knew that the theme of this festival was interesting, she decided to come with the girls.

The biggest reason she doesn't want to come is that Scott will probably be trying to get Jean's attention, even though she doesn't care much about him, while Kurt and Kitty will probably go off to play by themselves since they like more childish things.

So, like most times she hung out with these 4, she was likely to be left feeling isolated.

Of course, Jean still paid attention to her, but she knew that Jean also liked Scott a little bit, so it was hard to feel good about it.

Brooooobobobo...

Soon a very loud noise attracted the attention of the three girls.

Jean and Kitty stopped talking, while Anna stopped looking at her cell phone and the three looked in the direction of the noise.

They knew that Scott's car engine was quite powerful and his car's exhaust made a lot of noise, but compared to the noise they were hearing it wasn't even close.

All of a sudden they saw Scott's red Corvette coming around the corner in the distance and they thought he had done some modification to the car to make that noise, but a few seconds later a beautiful yellow sports car appeared following slowly behind Scott's car.

"What car is that?" Kitty asked excitedly, as she had never seen that car before.

Jean was also confused as she looked at that beautiful yellow car. Even she who was not very fond of cars and previously felt that they were just means of transportation, now had to admit that this car looked very stylish.

Only Anna recognized what car it was slightly. "I think the name of that car is GTR."

She had seen a video where a youtuber had recently bought such a car, so the name of the car was still fresh in her memory.

But this yellow GTR she was seeing was much prettier than what she saw in the video.

"Maybe this car will be modified." She soon deduced, when she heard the car rumble again.

Thinking about how different this yellow GTR was compared to what she saw in the video, Anna was surprised to imagine how much time and effort this person put into the car.

What surprised the girls even more was that when Scott pulled up next to them, the yellow GTR pulled up next to Scott!

"Maybe it's some friend of Scott's?" Kitty asked confused.

Since Scott's Corvette was a convertible, it was possible to see him and Kurt before they opened the door and got out of the car, but the GTR's windows were completely blacked out, making it impossible to see who was driving.

It took the person inside the car a few seconds from the time he turned off the car until he opened the door, but when the boy left the room, the three girls had different reactions.

Kitty thought it was really cute that the boy had teeth like a little animal.

Jean was surprised that she wasn't hearing this boy's thoughts like she heard other people's.

And Anna was surprised that the boy who got out of the car was exactly the kind of boy she liked.

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Although Anna dressed in a goth style, she didn't like goth boys very much, since while she dressed like that, she was very vain, taking very good care of her hair, always treating her skin well, but the boys of this style were very careless, with long dry hair, almost always wearing old clothes, and some didn't even use perfume.

The boy who left the GTR, who seemed to be a little older than her, had white hair and red eyes that resembled a vampire. If it weren't for the fact that his teeth looked like a little animal when he smiled, she would have thought she'd met a vampire!

'What a cute smile...' She thought as she stared at the boy.

When the boy looked at the three of them, suddenly his gaze met Anna's where they stared at each other for just a few seconds before Anna got a little embarrassed and looked away.

The boy smiled even wider as he walked towards them, and put his cell phone in his pocket.

Kitty was surprised when she saw that the boy's cell phone matched his car, which she thought was really cute.

"Hi girls, this is a friend we made on the way, we stopped to talk to him near that Bubble Tea shop that Kitty likes, so we were a little late." Kurt explained as he pointed at Alex.

Scott also explained. "He just arrived in town and asked if there was anything fun to do while he was here, so we asked him."

Alex was quite relaxed and waved to the girls as he introduced himself with a smile. "Hi girls, I'm Alex."

"Hi Alex! I'm Kitty!" Kitty introduced herself with her lively personality.

"Ohh, your name is like Kitten!" Alex teased her, making the little girl smile excitedly.

"Yeaaaah!" She agreed.

Hearing Kitty introduce herself, Jean snapped out of her surprise at not being able to read Alex's mind and politely introduced herself. "Hi Alex, I'm Jean."

"Hello Jean." Alex responded politely as well, as she seemed like a more mature and serious girl.

Glancing at the last girl, Alex saw that she was a little shy and waited.

"Hi... I'm Anna." Anna also introduced herself.

"Hi Anna, I like your hair." He said as he pointed to the white streaks in her hair, which made her smile.

While Alex just took it naturally, the other 4 people were surprised to see Anna's attitude.

She was always a girl with a very strong personality, which went well with her dark makeup, so to see her acting a little shy like she was, everyone was quite surprised.

Seeing that everyone was a little pensive about something, Alex broke the silence as he looked at the two boys. "What about you? You haven't told me your names yet haha."

Scott and Kurt looked a little embarrassed before replying with a smile.

"I'm Scott." "I'm Kurt."

Nodding, Alex asked again. "What about the festival? What's the theme of it?"

Hearing this, the others got excited to remember and went to the SUV to get something from the trunk while answering.

"This isn't officially a festival, but the town's community decided they would meet to sell some Minecraft-related merchandise, you know?" Kitty explained.

Hearing this, Alex raised an eyebrow. "Ohh, I do. Sounds interesting."

Even though Alex was the creator of Minecraft, he was curious about the game products these people made.

Suddenly he saw that the five of them put on the Ender Dragon capes they received from the game, while Kurt asked him. "Do you also have any Minecraft skins?"

Alex thought for a while before nodding and opening the trunk of the car.

With the trunk open in a position they couldn't see, Alex spent 1 Gaming Point and exchanged it for an Ender Dragon cape as well, which surprised the X-Men group.

"Do you have a cape like that too?! What's your in-game name?" Kitty asked excitedly as she looked at Alex's cloak and saw that it was exactly like theirs.

Alex just shook his head before explaining. "I'm just a lone player."

Seeing that Alex didn't want to say much, they soon changed the subject and walked towards the festival.

While driving, Alex hadn't noticed the other people wearing capes, but now that he was walking in the crowd, Alex noticed that there were many people wearing the capes with the "H" of the players that protected the Hypixel.

This cape was not like the Ender Dragon cape, where the player received it for free, the Hypixel cape had to be paid for by the player in order to be able to bring this to the real world.

And Alex didn't give a discount, to produce 1 skin of this era it took 1 Gaming Point, so Alex set the price of the skin to $220, so he could still profit from sales.

Due to the high price, not many people bought it, but this small amount was only compared to the total amount of players, the last time Alex saw the cover sales, the total number had already exceeded 500,000 units sold.

This gave Alex a profit of 50,000 Gaming Points, which wasn't that much compared to the total amount he had now, but it was still a very useful amount.

"Look, that store is selling golden apples!" Kurt was excited as he headed toward the store.

The others were also curious and went to see this apple.

When they passed among the people, everyone looked at them in amazement due to the Ender Dragon cloaks they were wearing.

As much as there were some stores selling counterfeit covers, no store could imitate the quality of the original covers, which was seen at a glance.

I mean, for this group of people, seeing this group of six people with Ender Dragon capes, it could only mean that it was six people who actually killed the Ender Dragon in the early days of Minecraft!

"Is that yummy?" Kitty asked curiously as she looked at Kurt eating the golden apple.

Kurt just put on an ordinary expression and took another bite before answering. "It's a love apple with a golden color."

Hearing this, the other people were a little disappointed, but they still decided to buy a "golden apple".

Even Alex bought one and started to eat while looking around.

Looking to the side, Alex saw that Anna was a little uncomfortable and asked her. "Everything is fine?"

Anna saw Alex's concern and just sighed. "I just don't feel very good in crowds."

Alex nodded and started talking to her to see if she could distract.

Surrounding them were various Minecraft-themed things, but nothing that Alex found particularly interesting.

The things that sold the most were replicas of diamond capes or swords, which coincidentally was also something that sold a lot in his previous world.

Despite these things being interesting to others, Alex just felt like something average.

"That was kind of fun." Said Kitty as they walked back to their cars, while carrying various accessories that she thought were cool.

Even Jean, Kurt, and Scott were carrying a lot of stuff, which left only Alex and Anna carrying nothing but a diamond sword in Anna's hand and a pair of Blazes' head plushies that Alex bought to hang on Bee's rearview mirror. .

"You like yellow, right?" Anna asked as she looked at the yellow plushies in Alex's hands, and thinking about his matching car and cell phone, she was even more sure of it.

Alex looked at her and smiled. "It's a beautiful color."

When the X-Men finished packing the boxes in the SUV, they asked Alex.

"Hey Alex, what about going to our house? We're going to order pizza today." Scott invited Alex.

But thinking it was almost night, Alex was a bit tired and intended to go home first while he got back to developing Fortnite.

"Sorry guys, I still have work to do, maybe next week." Alex answered.

Hearing this, they were a little disappointed, but reluctantly accepted.

"Okay, anything I'll message you." Kurt waved his cell phone.

Alex had exchanged phone numbers with everyone, which would make it easier to contact him the next time he went out to rest.

When Alex left in his GTR, Jean commented something that made the others startle. "I think he's also a mutant."

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Alex had a lot of fun with the X-Men, but he knew he had a lot of work to do at home.

A pleasant surprise he got was that he didn't need to use any of his protective measures.

"I got lucky hehe." Alex hummed in the car as he stepped on the gas.

If Alex only had his normal driving skills, he might not even have the guts to go faster than 160 mph (257 km/h), but with Dominic Toretto's driving skills, Alex was over 250 mph (402 km/h). /h) without much concern, even an urge to talk about "family" was appearing in him, but he soon shook his head thinking that this was some meaningless nonsense.

As Bee had memorized the way back to the cave they came out of, Alex just followed the path Bee marked on the GPS and accelerated without much concern.

"So you think you found a mutant, Jean?" Professor Xavier asked with a surprised expression.

Jean was a little embarrassed to answer. "I'm not too sure about that, after all he didn't show any power, the only thing that made me suspicious was that unlike other people, who I hear their thoughts occasionally, Alex already didn't let any thoughts show."

Xavier was even more surprised by this since he knew how powerful Jean's telepathy was.

"Although this indicates that he is a telepath, I think it's best not to jump to conclusions. During the weekend we plan to have a barbecue to celebrate everyone's help in defending the Hypixel, as he had an Ender Dragon cloak you could call him." Professor suggested with a smile.

Upon hearing this, each had a different reaction.

Jean thought it was a good proposition and was curious about Alex's power.

Kitty was excited because she found Alex quite amusing.

Kurt and Scott were excited because they thought about the possibility of taking Alex's car for a ride.

Anna, on the other hand, was a little shy, but excited to think about it.

"All right!" To everyone's surprise, Anna was the one who replied that she would invite Alex to the barbecue.

When she realized what she had done, she lowered her head in embarrassment as the others laughed.

Alex had arrived home in no time. Since Bee was not a normal car, Alex also bought some things for Bee to enjoy.

"Hey Bee, how do you like your room?" Alex asked as he looked at an open space beside his house.

Bee, who had reverted to robot form, got excited as he looked at Alex.

Alex had to admit, Bee's appearance got a lot more menacing after he got the GTR parts. While Bee still maintained his normal form, or the times he turned into a Beetle in the movies he saw, Bee only looked like a child, but with the GTR form, his robot mode became much more aggressive, with straighter lines and threatening.

But the way Bee was acting completely broke that impression of Alex, after all, Bee looked like a puppy looking around with bright eyes.

When they were in the human world, Bee had access to the internet and found a lot of interesting things, as he was standing in the parking lot while Alex enjoyed the festival, Bee took the time to find out things about this world.

On Cybertron they didn't have much of a home and bedroom concept, so when Bee saw that he could have these fun things he got really excited.

"I've never had a room, how cool would you think it would be, Alex?" Bee asked looking around.

Alex thought for a while and asked. "Do you need a bed?"

Bee didn't even have to think before answering. "No, it's more comfortable to rest in car mode."

"Then how about we make something like a game shed?" Alex asked as he explored the System store.

"What is a game shed?" Bee asked confused.

Alex this time didn't respond and spent 3 Gaming Points to make a big shed first, the size that Bee could stand without lowering her head.

As Bee was 5.1 meters (16.7'), Alex had to make the shed 6 meters high.

Inside, Alex bought some things Bee might like.

He only needed 5 Gaming Points to buy an Xbox Series X, a Playstation 5, a Nintendo Switch, a PC Gamer, and a 4k Projector pointed at a large wall. If it was just to buy these things, Alex wouldn't need more than 2 GP, but he spent 3 GP buying a custom controller to fit nicely with Bee's hand size, which was almost 3x the size of a normal person's hand, plus of a mouse and keyboard set that also fit Bee's size.

Around the room, Alex bought some Hexagonal LEDs and turned them yellow, making the room look much more like Bee.

With Bee's technology, Alex knew that he could control video games or the computer without the need for a keyboard or controller, but Alex knew that this would become boring for him, as it would be like using Hack to play.

Of course, in addition, Alex also bought a couch and a gas pump, which Bee commented she thought tasted interesting. Even a garage for Bee to rest in case he felt like he wanted a more secluded place to sleep.

"Okay Bee, you can turn on the video games with your Tech controller, I've installed lots of fun games in each one, and the computer also has a game I made that you might like." Alex smiled as he explained.

Bee looked at it quite surprised. Not just with Alex making things appear out of nowhere, but also with how interesting those things looked.

Sitting down on the sofa which was very soft and sturdy, Bee was very excited.

He'd seen these things in some videos he'd watched on the internet, and he'd seen that humans had a lot of fun with them, so he'd been willing to try.

"Thanks Alex! Let's play together!" Bee said while holding the giant controller and mentally connecting the Nintendo Switch to the projector.

Alex intended to go work on Fortnite, but seeing how excited Bee was to try it out for the first time, he felt it would be cool to be a part of Bee's first experience with human video games, and considering how Bee helped him by being his car, Alex felt that I owed him.

"Sure, let's go!" Alex went to Bee's side and bought a chair that was his size, as Bee's couch was too big for even him to climb on.

As Alex didn't have many luxury things at home, as he used to have few GPs, now that he had plenty he wasn't stingy and bought a very comfortable massage chair.

While they were configuring the Switch, creating the profiles, Bee made a profile with the yellow icon and the name "Bee" while Alex made a profile with the red icon and used the name Notch, as he liked that Nick.

Bee saw Alex's nickname and was surprised as he had seen it before. "Alex, did you make Minecraft?"

Alex nodded matter-of-factly. "Yeah."

"So Minecraft is your game that's installed on your computer?" Bee asked a little excited.

"Yup." Alex also nodded as he watched Bee select Mario Kart for them to play.

Bee thought it was cool that Alex made the game that humans were talking about so much on the internet, and he wanted to test the game to support his new friend.

Seeing that Bee was enjoying Mario Kart a lot, Alex realized that Bee was also a lot of fun and was happy that he chose Bee.

Initially he thought that Bee would come without a conscience when he shopped at System, but seeing how much fun it was to have Bee's company, Alex was happy to have Bee to talk to now.

While the two were having fun playing Mario Kart, Minecraft players were holding an event that attracted a lot of attention around the world.

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Not since the Hypixel War event has Twitch seen so many viewers.

After much discussion, the company's executives decided that they would allocate most of the advertising resources to Minecraft, since while the second most watched game had only 150k viewers watching simultaneously, Minecraft maintained 2 million viewers at all times!

During peak hours that number rose to an incredible 5 million!

And among Minecraft streamers, the biggest was NedTheKing, who currently had 1.3 million viewers watching his live stream.

Many would think that NedTheKing was doing some championship, or a raffle for viewers, or maybe even a livestream with some famous person, but no, what Ned was doing was a political campaign!

On the livestream screen, Ned was standing on top of a makeshift stage that players had made in the Skyblock lobby as he looked down at the thousands of players looking down at him.

"Dear citizens of Hypixel Skyblock, the Mayoral elections are approaching and as you know, I, NedTheKing, have always been very sincere with all of you about my goal.

Unlike other candidates who promise lower fees for using farm points, I don't intend to promise any of that!" Ned said with a serious expression on stage, as his Ender Dragon cape fluttered in the wind.

Upon hearing this, the players watching this speech were furious, but Ned continued.

"We know that farm zone usage fees are low, if we lower them even further the government won't be able to pay for everything, which will slow down the speed at which items spawn, further reducing the gain for all of us!

What I intend is to allocate the fees in a more efficient way, thus increasing the spawn speed for the resources in low level zones, so that newbies can earn money faster, while I will use the higher amount of income from newbies to increase the rarity of ores in high level zones!" Ned said with great pride the idea he had.

Upon hearing Ned's solution, the furious players were stunned, until they understood that this would actually work well for all of them, causing the players to scream excitedly.

"Down Mayor! Down Mayor! Down Mayor! Down Mayor!"

Though they yelled Ned Mayor, Ned was just hearing "King Ned!"

Running against Ned were even some former politicians from the real world, as they saw the possibility of gaining power and influence in this game that was growing so fast, but while these people were still stuck in retrograde ways of thinking, Ned who knew Minecraft very well knew how he could please the players perfectly.

While politicians thought that promising to lower taxes would mislead players, Ned knew that only real benefits would make players favor him.

Unlike the real world where politicians would have 4 years to develop things that voters liked, in Hypixel this time was only 14 days, that is, if the mayor was not satisfactory enough, in two weeks he would be replaced.

So Ned thought of something he could do in a short time that would please the players to secure his position as mayor.

Fortunately, from Ned's smile and people's excitement, the probability of him winning was very high.

After the speech, Ned walked over to his two friends who were waiting to the side.

One of his friends was someone he treated like a brother in reality, [PParker], while the other was someone they met in the Hypixel war, [Hulk].

Seeing that Hulk was getting stressed from standing here so long, Ned suggested that they go fight a Boss in the Skyblock's combat zone.

After Peter befriended Hulk, he discovered that this big guy really liked fighting monsters and breaking things, so he suggested to Hulk that they go to Skyblock, since there were many powerful Bosses.

Hulk wasn't very interested, until Peter said in a simpler way that there were strong monsters there and so Hulk got really excited.

Ned and Petter helped Hulk to kill the Ender Dragon the first time, thus managing to take Hulk to the Skyblock, where Hulk spent practically the entire day fighting.

As Hulk did nothing but fight, his mining and carpentry were very low, which made Peter and Ned have to help him get armor, but over time they saw something strange.

Despite still wearing level 20 armor, Hulk was fighting level 80 monsters!

It seemed that the more Hulk screamed, the more damage he dealt increased!

But Ned and Peter didn't worry about that, seeing how simple the Hulk's mind was they saw Hulk as a child, they felt they had to take care of like their little brother.

"Ahhhh!" Hulk started yelling angrily as he looked at the screen floating in front of him before clicking no.

Peter guessed what it was and asked. "Was that boring man again?"

Hulk who was furious screamed. "Yes, Hulk hates Banner, Banner can't stop pissing off Hulk, Hulk hates Banner even more!"

Seeing Hulk's reaction, the audience on Ned's live stream began to angrily comment as well.

[This Banner is very boring!]

[Yes, who could stand a person adding you non-stop?]

[If someone finds Notch, we might suggest an option to block a person!]

[Good idea!]

[Yes good idea!]

Peter and Ned looked at each other for a few seconds before Peter sighed and opened his friends list.

He didn't like doing that, but seeing how annoying this Banner was with Hulk, Peter decided to send Banner a message.

Seeing that the friend request he sent to Hulk had been declined again, Banner was frustrated again.

Initially he was overjoyed as he was feeling that he was back to being a normal person again!

He could go out and have fun with other colleagues at work, he could even watch soccer and cheer for a team, he could get mad that his team lost, all without worrying about getting mad and Hulk destroying everything.

But after a few days, Banner felt something was missing from him.

As much fun as it was to go back to being a normal person, seeing the Hulk news in the Hypixel Banner started to feel lonely.

When he saw that Hulk had a personality, and even participated in Ned's livestreams with a childish and simple persona, Banner started to have a guilty conscience.

"Maybe Hulk was just a kid this whole time..." Banner said guiltily.

If Hulk really was just a kid, Banner started to think about how he had treated Hulk like a disease, thought about the army trying to kill him all the time, everyone just treating him like a monster, while Hulk was just a kid who didn't control well. his feelings.

"I guess I should try to meet Hulk 'in person'?" Banner thought about trying to kill the Ender Dragon and find Hulk in the Skyblock.

When he logged into Minecraft, a friend request came to him.

[PParker].

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Alex didn't know about Peter and Bruce's conversation, but he didn't care either.

After having a good time with Bee and getting a good night's sleep, Alex returned to Fortnite development.

If there's one thing Alex knew about Fortnite, it's that the game managed to both draw a lot of love from fans, and was also great at attracting hate from players.

This was mainly due to the construction mechanics during battle.

As much as this was the game's differential, Alex knew that for novice players it was very counterintuitive to build instead of just shooting like in regular games, and over time, players who didn't adapt to building mechanics increasingly more complex ones began to frustrate more than have fun.

So Alex decided to take a more advanced approach to the game, leveraging some ideas he picked up from other games.

First, he would do Arena mode, which was the mode with building enabled, and he would also do a No-Building mode, which players obviously couldn't build, just shoot and make sure they had good aim.

This was something Fortnite did in its previous world that brought a lot of players frustrated with building back into the game.

Another thing that Alex would do is a Ranked system just like League of Legends, where there would be Rankings that went by Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, GrandMaster and Challenger.

This system would be a way to induce players' brains to produce more dopamine when they see their rankings going up.

Behind the Ranked system, Alex would make an MMR system where players would have points that would speed up their rankings, and would pair players with other people who had the same level of gameplay.

To set this level of gameplay and the person's MMR, Alex had to spend 100,000 GP by purchasing software with an AI. too advanced not to cause players frustration.

Just like his previous world's Fortnite, Alex decided to add Bots into the game, but unlike his previous world, which the Bots were horrible, Alex intended these bots to be just a little worse than the MMR of that round, so even the worst player of the game could have fun and feel good about killing someone thinking it was someone else.

With his hand on his chin, Alex was thoughtful. "What attracted many players to the Hunger Games in Minecraft was the prizes, what can I give away in Fortnite?"

Alex was trying to think of several things, but he wanted something that matched the game.

He knew he couldn't give players weapons, as that would be too dangerous.

But after a while, Alex had an idea.

"I know that this game will be very popular among the military, probably the Challenger Rank will only be mastered by elite soldiers, while the other players won't have a chance to get something good, so I can make two reward levels!" Alex got excited as he started to code.

First he was developing a roll of bandages. These bandages, just like in the game, could heal any wound the person wore, but each bandage only healed the wound from one location, that is, if someone had an accident and someone else used this on their chest, the chest wounds would be healed, but the arms and legs would still be injured.

This reward was very useful for everyone, but very simple, so Alex decided to put that every player above Rank Gold would receive a bandage like this as a reward at the end of a season.

In addition to the bandage, Alex also made a commemorative cape that represented the rank of the person that she could use in the following season to flaunt, which just like in Minecraft, could also be sold for $220 if someone wanted to use this in the real world.

As for the reward for Rank Challenger players, Alex decided to make an improved version of the bandage, which was released much further down the line, but which Alex felt would fit as a good reward.

It was a green spray can with a "+" icon on the front, which the player could use during the game to restore wounds on the body, one can was enough to recover 150% of the player's maximum health, but Alex changed this to that in the real world this was enough to speed up the target's recovery from wounds, being enough to turn a dying person back into battle ready again.

Alex knew he couldn't block military personnel from playing Fortnite, so he decided to make something that would be useful to them, but also not be used as a weapon to kill.

With the rewards set up, Alex shifted his focus to setting up the build mode, what items could be collected, vehicles, vehicle mechanics, and other things he felt were important.

Fortunately, Alex didn't have to configure each Skin individually, as the System could use his memories to make skins much faster, since most skins didn't change game mechanics.

Only Reactive Skins had to be configured more carefully by him, but Alex didn't care.

In addition to the skins he planned to make, Alex also made the most attractive point of the trailer, the Iron Man Skin.

Obviously Alex wouldn't give this skin as a reward for people to redeem for the real world, he just made the Skin for an NPC he set to travel around the map.

Different from what the players thought, Iron Man would not be a villain in the game, but a "hero", that is, if someone killed another person, Iron Man would go towards her, and if he saw that person he would shoot.

The NPC wasn't invincible, but it would take a lot of effort to defeat.

If the players managed to destroy him, the armor would be destroyed and people would discover that it was empty and Tony was not wearing the armor.

However, they could receive the armor's boots, which allowed them to fly freely for 60 seconds.

"Tony will be furious that people will hunt him down just so they can fly like him." Alex thought excitedly.

He knew that the boots couldn't fly by themselves, and that there were many flaws with his idea in logical terms, but he didn't care, as this was just a game, the important thing was to attract players.

"It's not like he's going to find me anytime soon, right?" Alex chuckled to himself.

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Despite System greatly speeding up the game's development, it would still take Alex a few days to finish Fortnite.

While he was having dinner in Bee's room, Alex felt his phone glow and saw that it was a message from Anna.

"You can play without me for a while Bee, I'll answer some messages." Alex waved to Bee who was on the couch with the video game controller in one hand while the other held a gas hose, which he found very tasty.

"No problem." Bee answered without worrying too much.

They had developed a routine of playing together daily after Alex's dinner, which brought their friendship closer.

Alex could say that Bee was his best friend, and Bee could also say the same about Alex, although the two had known each other for a few days, the two had many interests in common, which brought them very close.

[Hey Alex, are you free tomorrow?] - Anna sent a message.

[Yes, why?] - Alex replied after thinking that Fortnite was almost ready, but he wanted to take a rest before the game's debut, as when that was released he would be very busy.

[We're having a barbecue tomorrow, do you want to come?] Anna asked a little nervously.

She had said that she was going to invite Alex to the mansion when the Professor asked a few days ago, but she was too embarrassed to send him a message after that, which delayed her message a lot.

Since the barbecue was the next day, she felt she needed to send it in today or she wouldn't get another opportunity.

[Sure, send me the location and I'll go, what time will that be?] Alex asked interested.

[You can come around 11:00 am if you want to bring some swimwear, we have a pool here.] Anna replied right after sending the location.

[Cool! But I think I'll avoid the pool, maybe enjoy some sun? Hehe.] Alex denied the pool because he knew Anna couldn't get in due to her mutation.

During the festival he felt quite comfortable with her, and knew it was a lie if he said he wasn't interested in this girl.

So much so that after returning from the festival he decided to dedicate himself to his Occlumency.

This was an idea he had when thinking about dealing with her, as he knew that her power used touch to invade the person's mind and steal some memories and the person's powers.

But this invasion was so powerful that the person's mental defenses were destroyed, causing the person's brain to immediately induce a coma for protection and repair.

But he figured that with well-developed Occlumency he could guard against it, so perhaps he could have more intimate contact with her.

The level of Occlumency he bought was only Snape's level, which was already quite high, but considering how potent her ability was, he proceeded to use the knowledge he received to further increase his mental defense.

Anna was happy to see that Alex didn't intend to go into the pool, as that way they could spend more time together.

[I don't want to go to the pool either, so I can keep you company with the sun!] She replied excitedly, before getting a little embarrassed as she realized that maybe she's shown too much happiness?

'Does he think I'm hitting on him?' She thought worriedly.

[Excellent! Then we can be together.] Alex also responded positively, which calmed Anna's heart a lot.

'What clothes should I wear?' She wondered as she looked at her wardrobe.

As she liked the Gothic style, she had few clothes to wear in the sun. She didn't want to stick with a long-sleeved shirt, as that would make her look like an outsider around everyone else in lighter clothes.

Not knowing what to do, Anna ran to Jean and said with a scared expression. "Jean, help me..."

Seeing Anna like this, Jean got worried and stopped what she was doing. "What's up Anna, is everything okay?"

Anna shook her head. "I don't have anything to wear to the barbecue tomorrow."

Jean was surprised to hear this, as Anna always wore the dark, long-sleeved clothes to their barbecues. "Why are you worried about that? Maybe... it's because of Alex?!" Jean thought excitedly.

Anna got a little shy and just nodded, she knew she couldn't hide it, especially since it was Jean, who from time to time heard the thoughts of others.

Seeing Anna shy, Jean had a big smile on her face and went to her wardrobe. "Look at my clothes, maybe there's something you like!" Jean said as she started sorting out clothes that would fit well with the occasion.

Anna came to Jean since the two had similar body proportions. Although Kitty was very helpful, Anna knew that Kitty's breasts were much smaller than hers, if she wore one of Kitty's clothes she might not even be able to breathe.

As for Jean, her breasts were almost the same size as hers, so even if maybe it was a little tight, she would still manage to look good in it.

While looking at the clothes, Anna finally saw something that she liked and that suited her.

"Hey Jean, can I get this bathing suit?" Anna asked as she held the bathing suit in front of her and measured to see if it would fit her, luckily the size was perfect.

"No problem..." Jean smiled as she looked at Anna in the bathing suit. "I think Alex will like what he sees."

Anna heard Jean say that and got shy again, before hugging her bathing suit and going back to her room.

Even though she couldn't get in the pool with the others as she could touch someone, Anna still wanted to wear a bathing suit, as she knew Alex would like to see her wearing one.

Jean laughed at Anna being shy like that. She was used to Anna always being angry and not having much patience to deal with what she didn't want, when someone teased her like that she would probably give the person a middle finger and tell her to fuck off.

But as she was shy because of Alex, she changed into a simple shy girl who was embarrassed to even speak.

"I don't think Bobby is going to be very happy about this..." Jean sighed at the thought of Bobby, the ice boy, who had a crush on Anna.

But thinking about Alex's confidence, as long as Bobby didn't use his powers maybe it wouldn't cause so many problems.

Unfortunately for Jean, Bobby wasn't as cool-headed as she'd imagined, and the barbecue wasn't going to be as peaceful as it had been.

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The next day, Alex woke up earlier as he didn't have any clothes to wear to the barbecue and thought it was a waste to use GP to buy such a simple outfit when he had almost a billion dollars in his bank account.

So after eating a light breakfast, Alex called Bee and drove to Salem Center again.

Despite the city being small, with just over 5,000 inhabitants, the Salem Center Mall was quite large, with 80 stores and a wide variety of choices.

Alex had passed by here on his way to the festival with Scott and Kurt, so he remembered this place.

"Hey Bee, do you want me to buy you something?" Alex asked as he drove at 200mph without much concern.

"Hmm, I saw that there are steering wheels to put in the video game and I was curious about what it's like to drive. Can you buy me one, Alex?" Bee asked a little nervous since he had never asked Alex for anything.

Alex thought about it and was surprised to think that Bee, who always turned into a car, had never driven!

But thinking GameStop's racing wheels would be too small for Bee, Alex thought that he might develop a racing game in the future for Bee to enjoy.

"I think their steering wheel size is too small for you, how about I make a racing game in the future? That way you would feel something more realistic." Alex suggested his idea.

Bee thought for a few seconds before replying excitedly. "Of course! I've always wanted to drive. Do you think you can put planes in too? I've always envied the Decepticons being able to transform into airships while we can only transform into cars."

Alex smiled and nodded. "Sure, I'll put cars, planes, boats, military vehicles, whatever you feel is fun, but what do you want me to buy today then?"

Bee thought some more and said in an embarrassed voice. "I think I want a cleaning set, I feel like there are some parts of me that might need more attention with cleaning."

With internet access, Bee saw that car owners usually cleaned some places very carefully, which made the cars look much nicer, and even smelled with some very good scents.

Cybertronians like him aren't very fond of washing themselves, as they have a technology that cleans their bodies sporadically, but thinking about the videos he's seen of owners taking care of cars, Bee felt it looked like fun to let Alex clean him like that.

Seeing Bee's request, Alex agreed and didn't expose Bee's thinking even though he knew that Bee could clear himself.

Even though Bee could show a lot of maturity, Alex noticed that Bee normally just acted like a child who liked affection and attention, mainly because in his race this is not common.

Perhaps this was why Bee became attached to Alex so quickly, something Alex would not complain about, as he also enjoys Bee's company very much, and feels that Bee asking for this is like a kitten asking for a comb to brush its fur. As much as it's something the owner has to do, the kitten feels great having its fur brushed.

Driving the yellow GTR, Alex once again attracted a lot of attention in the small town of Salem Center, mainly with the echo of Bee's exhaust, which was very loud.

He just ignored these people's reaction and went to the stores to buy the things he needed.

Taking advantage of the fact that he was already here, Alex visited some stores with good quality clothes and bought several different sets of clothes for him to wear, in addition to the ones he would wear to the barbecue today.

For today's barbecue, Alex had bought a set of a white Hawaiian-style T-shirt printed with a few flowers and the buttons undone halfway up his chest, while wearing red shorts that were short to just mid-thigh, with white flip-flops and a black with gold glasses that he liked.

The combination of the color of the shirt and sandals with his white hair, and the shorts with his red eyes made the outfit leave several store attendants speechless.

Although the outfit looks simple, but as the store was quite luxurious, Alex had spent $1,300 on this set alone, considering the other clothes he bought, the total spent was almost $30,000.

Seeing Alex swipe the credit card without worrying about the amount, the store attendants were even more shocked, and even handed Alex their phone number before he left.

Unfortunately Alex had no interest in these women and just threw it in a garbage can in the parking lot.

After putting things in Bee's trunk, Alex finally drove following the location Anna sent him.

Despite the city being small and things being quite close, the location Anna sent was quite far, as the school was a few miles away from the city.

Since Alex's average speed outside the city was 200 mph, it didn't take him long to reach the Xavier Institute.

From a distance he saw that the gate was closed, but as soon as his car approached the gate began to open automatically.

"I wonder if the gate is automatic and opens for anyone?" Alex wondered confused.

But what he didn't know is that even 1 mile away, the X-Men already knew he was coming, not because he was under surveillance, but because the noise of Bee while Alex accelerated was loud enough for them to hear by far.

Especially Anna, who was sitting under an umbrella while having a non-alcoholic drink made by Professor Ororo.

Beside her was Bobby, trying to strike up a conversation with her but failing miserably as he didn't know what to talk about and Anna didn't pay as much attention to him.

When she heard the loud noise of Alex's GTR she got up quickly and started to get ready, to make sure there was nothing wrong with her.

Seeing Anna like that, Jean and Kitty started to smile, knowing the reason for her getting dressed like that, while the other X-men were confused by the noise that was getting louder.

"It's Alex!" (2x)

Scott and Kurt said excitedly as they got up and were going to take control of the gate to open it as soon as Alex appeared.

As they imagined, just 15 seconds later, a yellow GTR appeared in front of the mansion's gate.

Kurt didn't even wait for Alex to ring the bell and pressed the button on the remote for Alex to enter.

Seeing such a beautiful and different car coming in, not only did Scott, Kurt, Jean, Kitty and Anna notice, but the other young X-men also noticed and looked on with curiosity.

Some girls looked at the car with a bit of excitement, while most of the boys were shocked as they looked at the car almost drooling.

Before anyone could do anything, Anna walked in the direction the car parked and saw the door opening.

When Alex got out of the car and saw Anna he was a little lost.

The only thing he managed to say was:

"Wow..."

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"Wow..." Alex said when he saw how attractive Anna was.

Anna was wearing a very exotic bathing suit. Despite having long sleeves that went to her wrist, when the fabric reached her shoulder this ended and it began to go down the side of her body in a "V" shape until it closed just above the groin. At that point it formed into shorts that only covered the top of her thighs.

Alex looked at those long white legs and was delighted. Not just the legs, seeing her belly sticking out, and the breasts that were only covered by a simple bikini top was enough to make Alex's mind imagine many things.

When Anna saw that Alex was looking at her that way, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, since that's why she borrowed this swimsuit from Jean.

But after a second of happiness she got a little shy and looked down.

Unfortunately, when she looked down, Anna saw that Alex's shirt was half open, which let her see his defined chest and a bit of muscle in his abdomen, which made her mind work even faster, trying to imagine what the rest of it was covered like.

'Is he that strong?' Anna wondered mentally in shock.

Alex didn't have such defined muscles, but for so long practicing [Elven Breath] his body underwent great changes. Not only were his muscles sharper, his hair was silkier, his skin was smoother, and his facial features were more delicate, further enhancing his appearance compared to how he originally looked.

"Coff..." Kurt coughed a little awkwardly to interrupt these two, who stared at each other for 2 minutes without saying anything.

Hearing Kurt's cough, Alex and Anna woke up from their stupor and both became shy.

Luckily Alex had thicker skin and after breathing for two seconds he reverted to a smile showing his teeth like his fangs and greeted Kurt. "Wsup Kurt! How are you doing?"

Kurt was happy that Alex was able to act normally again and smiled. "Hey Alex! How was the road here?" He asked as he looked at Bee.

"This time it was quiet, I came a little slower." Alex replied as he opened Bee's trunk to get some premium meat he bought from Shokugeki No Souma for 15 GP.

"Slow? I can't believe you managed to drive the Bee slowly..." Scott who just arrived said incredulously.

Alex looked at him and smiled even wider. "Yes Scott, I only came at 200 mph."

Scott and Kurt were shocked as they exchanged glances.

While 200 mph was the maximum speed Scott's Corvette could reach, Alex considered that speed to be slow while driving Bee?!

Hearing this, Scott's and Kurt's heart quickened as they stared at Bee even more intently.

Seeing that Alex was walking away, Scott couldn't take it anymore and shouted in a slightly uncertain voice. "Alex... can I... take the Bee for a ride? I'll let you drive Scarlet."

Alex turned and saw Scott's expression, which looked like a puppy asking for something from its owner.

But instead of answering directly, Alex took the yellow cell phone out of his pocket and turned to Bee to ask. "Bee, what do you think?"

Scott and Kurt were quite confused by Alex's reaction, but suddenly they heard a bang coming from Bee's exhaust and saw the two doors opening, practically inviting them to enter, leaving both shocked.

"I think Bee already answered you, right? The keys are in there, no need to look." Alex responded with a smile as he turned to Anna after putting the yellow cell phone in his pocket, calling her to go with him since the two were going out with Bee.

Alex did this to make it clear that he was the one who controlled Bee's doors and engine with an app on his cell phone. If Bee refused, he just pretended that he was jealous of the car, but as Bee accepted, there was no problem.

Apparently Bee was a little bored and didn't feel like he got enough sightseeing, so he agreed to go for a walk with Scott and Kurt who were Alex's friends.

Despite Bee "being his car", Alex already considered Bee as a friend, so he wouldn't make Bee do anything he didn't want to.

"I'll introduce you to the people." Anna responded to Alex's look, but didn't have the courage to look him in the eye, still a little embarrassed.

"These are..." Anna started introducing the students who were at the pool and walked with Alex towards the barbecue, where the older X-Men were.

"You already know Jean and Kitty, this is Miss Ororo, Mister Logan and Professor Xavier, and those over there in the corner are Bobby and Evan." Anna introduced each one, whom Alex greeted with a polite smile.

Although because his smile was so different with those teeth looking like a small animal, several people were curious about it and smiled back at Alex.

Jean and Kitty waved and greeted Alex back excitedly, Miss Ororo was very polite to Alex like a caring mother, Logan just grunted and went back to preparing the barbecue, Professor Xavier smiled at Alex as polite as Ororo, while Bobby looked at Alex with an ugly expression and Evan smiled and waved at Alex, making Bobby even angrier.

Alex smiled at Bobby, but seeing his reaction, Alex chose to just ignore Bobby and went to Logan to deliver the meat he brought.

"Mr. Logan, I bought this meat from a special place on the recommendation of a cooking friend." Alex handed the meat to Logan, who raised an eyebrow as he looked at the package Alex handed over.

Without much ceremony, Alex watched as Logan ripped open the wrapper and smelled raw meat.

Logan was apparently taken aback by the smell of meat and sniffed again to be sure.

"Your friend recommended well, boy." Logan said as he took out some meats that were roasting and put in the meat that Alex brought, as if those meats weren't even worth delaying the preparation of the meat that Alex brought.

Alex just laughed at that as he understood that this meat came from the Mito Family, the biggest meat supplier in the anime, with the highest degree of quality one could expect from a piece like this, compared to that, the other meats were just trash.

After handing the meat to Logan, Alex walked over to Anna, who was walking towards him with two glasses in her hands.

"This is yours." Anna said as she extended a hand towards Alex.

Alex also smiled and reached out to take the glass from Anna's hand.

She was holding the glass right at the edge, to prevent her and Alex's fingers from accidentally brushing against each other.

When Alex noticed this, he purposely avoided her fingers and safely picked up the glass. Although he had confidence in his Occlumency, it was best that he left it to do it when they were alone, as it would be too flashy to do it in the middle of so many people.

"Hmm, this is delicious." Alex was surprised by the taste of this drink and praised it.

Evan who came close to him with Bobby said with pride. "This was made by my aunt Ororo."

"She's very talented." Alex praised again with a smile for Evan, who looked very friendly.

Unfortunately that couldn't be said for Bobby standing next to Evan, who had a dark expression after seeing Anna bring Alex's drink.

While Alex was talking with Anna and Evan, Jean and Professor Xavier were talking while looking at Alex in amazement.

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"Do you think he's a mutant, Professor?" Jean asked curiously, as she still couldn't hear Alex's residual thoughts.

Of course, just in case she opted not to actively read Alex's thoughts, as that might alert him and invite unnecessary hostility.

Professor Xavier looked at Alex thoughtfully. He was surprised that he was feeling the same thing as Jean about Alex's mind, as he couldn't hear anything even if he released some of his telepathy control.

Considering that his telepathy was several times more powerful than Jean's, it already demonstrated how powerful Alex's basic mental defenses were.

But unlike Jean, Professor Xavier's curiosity made him decide to take a quick peek into Alex's mind, to make sure he wasn't a threat.

Using mental power, Professor Xavier found it strange that invading Alex's mind was easier than he imagined. But contrary to what he imagined, he still couldn't see Alex's thoughts, and he was in a dark corridor.

Confident in the strength of his telepathy, Professor Xavier started to follow the corridor wondering what could happen, until he felt that a large truck tire was falling towards him!

Looking around, Professor realized that he was surrounded by these truck tires!

Without thinking twice he turned around and tried to run away to take as little damage as possible, but still a big tire hit the Professor in the back. As he was floating, the Tire made him fall to the ground, which happened to be full of pieces of wood with iron nails pointed upwards, which caused great injuries to the Professor when they trapped the rubber of the tire holding his back to the ground.

Despite the pain, with a little mental power the Professor pushed the tire that pinned him to the ground and went back the way he entered Alex's mind.

With his power, the Professor was confident he could pass through this tunnel fast enough to be barely hit by those tires, but he knew that the more mental power he used, the easier it would be for Alex to detect that he was in his mind, so the Professor preferred to get out of Alex's mind and keep things as they were.

Upon returning to the real world, the Professor felt his mind a little tired. Despite being hit by two weak traps, it still caused some mental stress for the Professor.

These traps were copied by Alex from Fortnite Save The World, the Fortnite Tower Defense mode that Alex played in his previous world. Using the knowledge of Occlumency he created the trap corridor which worked exactly as he planned.

If the Professor saw a big wall in front of him, the probability of the Professor trying to break that wall bit by bit was very high, but seeing an open corridor to the inside of Alex's mind, he decided to follow the corridor, which was overloaded with traps.

The Tire traps in the ceiling and the Nailed Boards were just the most basic traps Alex placed at the beginning of the hallway, as they wouldn't take as much work to repair and would be enough to kick out weaker mentalists. The deeper the opponent went, the more powerful the traps.

Jean saw the Professor's tired expression and understood what he had just done.

Worried, she looked at Alex and saw that he was talking to the other mutants as if nothing had happened, which made her sigh in relief.

Mutants were already very discriminated against, although he didn't know they were mutants, Alex was one of their few normal friends. If he was offended by the Professor's intrusion, she would be very angry.

In fact, Alex noticed the Professor's invasion, but he chose to ignore it and let the Professor be the first test subject for his Occlumency defenses, and as he imagined, that was perfect!

He made these defenses to deal with Anna's powers, which were as raw as a point-blank cannon shot, while the professor's invasion was more subtle, like multiple shots from a silenced pistol with infinite ammo.

As much as the two attacks represented danger, the damage Alex was preparing to deal with Anna was much greater than the Professor's.

"One day I will teach you!" Evan said excitedly to Alex.

"Of course! I'll think that's cool!" Alex responded by smiling positively to Evan's offer to teach him to skate someday, after Alex said he had never ridden one.

"How about, want to come with us, Anna?" Alex turned towards her and said with a smile.

Anna didn't think twice and nodded, happy with the invitation. "I want!"

The one who wasn't happy was Bobby, who was getting more and more furious with Alex, who even managed to arrange a date with Anna in front of him, something he never managed!

"Hey guys, let's play darts!" Kitty squealed excitedly as she brought out a large target and a box of darts.

Hearing this, the young people got excited and approached.

Anna looked at Alex and asked worriedly. "Do you want to play?"

Alex didn't understand why she was worried and was about to accept it, but Bobby spoke first.

"Or are you scared?" Bobby said with a cocky smile.

Alex: ????????

Confused, Alex looked at Anna trying to understand where he offended Bobby for him to act this way towards him.

Anna just sighed, knowing Bobby wanted to prove his fragile masculinity in front of her and try to humiliate Alex.

"Let's play, sounds like fun." Alex just shook his head and ignored Bobby, just looking at Anna as Evan was already heading towards Kitty.

Anna was a little worried. As an X-men, practically everyone there received combat training, both to deal with hand-to-hand combat and to deal with ranged combat, that is, their aim was very high.

Especially Bobby, who had the power to control ice, as he normally threw ice from afar, his aim was even better than most of the other students.

While she didn't care about Alex being worse than other people at the prank, she also didn't want Bobby to use it to try to humiliate Alex, who was her guest.

"Well, you seem confident, do you have any secrets?" She asked noticing the expression on Alex's face that didn't look like he was just going for the fun of it.

"How about a bet?" Alex smiled, showing teeth that Anna found very cute.

"What bet?" She asked as she crossed her arms, already imagining what he intended to bet.

Seeing that when Anna crossed her arms, her already big breasts got even bigger, Alex thanked her for not taking off her sunglasses and looked away before answering. "If I win, you'll take a ride with me in my car."

Anna heard Alex's bet and really liked the idea. If he'd asked her this without a bet she'd probably have taken it, but since it was a bet, it made it a lot more fun for her. "Okay, what if you don't win?"

Alex put his hand on his chin and thought for a while. "How about I let you make a wish? After all, I already made my wish in case I win."

Anna thought for a moment and nodded excitedly. "But it'll just be a car ride, no big deal, okay?"

Alex knew that even though Anna was shy, this request was not due to her shyness, but rather out of fear of hurting him with her powers.

Then he showed confidence and answered seriously. "Don't worry, I won't do anything you don't want."

Hearing that, Anna had a small smile on her face and said as she walked towards Kitty. "So let's go!"

Bobby who wasn't far away heard their bet and got even angrier, to the point where the temperature around him was rapidly dropping.

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"How?" Kitty had a shocked expression as she looked at the target.

Not only was Kitty like this, but all the other kids were the same way!

To make things more fun, they determined that they would play the game in a championship format, where if a person was eliminated they would lose the chance to continue competing, and only the winners of the previous rounds would remain.

Matches were decided at random, so it was pretty fair.

Usually when young mutants played, they used their powers to help, which made it even more fun. But since Alex was among them today and the Professor warned that Alex didn't know they were mutants, they decided that this would be a game without powers, after all, theoretically it would be unfair to compete with Alex who was just an ordinary human while they used powers.

But they didn't imagine that Alex had [Deadshot Weapon Mastery], meaning as long as he was using something that could be used as a projectile and was within his force range, it would be virtually impossible for him to miss without outside interference.

While the youngsters were struggling to hit the bullseye, Alex was hitting at least 30% of the time, with the other 70% being when he hit the ring next to the bullseye.

Of course, this was deliberately done for Alex, as it would be unfair for him to hit the bullseye 100% of the time.

After winning two games, Alex found himself up against Bobby.

"Hey, Bobby is playing really well too. I don't think I've ever seen him hit so hard." A boy said in surprise.

"It doesn't surprise me that much since he has to practice marksmanship all the time." One girl commented, thinking of Bobby's power training. "But today his condition is really good."

Bobby heard the compliments and looked at Alex teasingly.

Did Alex really not understand why Bobby had to be such an asshole? It was simple for him to understand that Bobby's hostility was due to Anna, as he was looking at Anna's reaction the whole time, but did he really think that showing that attitude would make him look better to Anna?

Anna was looking at Alex worriedly, afraid that Bobby wanted to do something to Alex.

But Alex just shook his head and opened the System screen, which only he could see, and made a purchase without anyone noticing.

Alex felt his body changing, as something started to flow through his veins, before the feeling disappeared and he just felt that this was normal, and new knowledge came to his mind.

Fortunately, Occlumency was very helpful in this regard, as it made the process of separating that memory and organizing it much easier so that it didn't overwhelm his mind.

"Bobby, you go first." Kitty said as she looked at the result of the coin she flipped.

Bobby nodded proudly and flashed Kitty a smile.

If it was normal, Kitty would even feel happy with Bobby's smile, since she also thought he was cute, but she didn't like how Bobby was acting today, so she just ignored it.

Bobby took the javelin in his hand and threw it with confidence, hitting the bullseye for 50 points!

Confident, he looked at Alex who didn't show any reaction. And since Alex was wearing sunglasses because of the sun, Bobby didn't even know if Alex was looking at him, which made the temperature around him drop even more.

Snorting, Bobby ignored Alex and threw the next two darts, hitting Bullseye and the center ring, earning him 125 points.

"Damn, Bobby is playing great!" The boys commented excitedly.

"Go Alex, you can do it!" Anna couldn't stand it and said an encouraging phrase to Alex.

Hearing this, Alex looked at her and smiled.

Bobby was even more furious when he saw this, since although it felt good to be praised by others, the one he wanted to praise himself was Anna, making the temperature drop even lower.

Taking the three darts, Alex didn't think too much and threw it, hitting the inner red part of the 20-point zone, that is, the 20 points were tripled to 60 points!

"Woah!" Viewers were excited.

"Damn, how lucky! He managed to hit the spot worth the most points!" A girl said excitedly.

Kitty saw this and was surprised, as she realized that Alex had always targeted Bullseye. "Did he get mad at Bobby and lose control?" she wondered confused.

But to everyone's surprise, not only did Alex hit that spot once, but all three darts hit the same spot, making Alex hit 180 points!

"Damn it, how did he do it?" Evan commented shocked.

"Damn it, at first I thought it was luck, but hitting the same spot three times shows that he did it on purpose!" One girl was shocked.

As they were playing with the rules that whoever scores 301 points first would be the winner, Bobby was furious to learn that he would likely lose in the next round and would just play to act like a clown.

The temperature dropped once more, but this time Bobby glared at Alex so angrily that he ran towards Alex wanting to punch him.

Alex was surprised at Bobby losing his temper, but he thought fast and jumped back, dodging Bobby's punch.

Bobby saw that he missed the punch and gave up using his fists. With his hand pointed forward, a large amount of ice began to come out of his hand, heading towards Alex.

Seeing this, the mutants were shocked. Even the teachers were surprised to see what Bobby was doing. But they were so far away that there was nothing to be done.

"Alex!" Anna screamed in fright as she ran towards Bobby.

Her idea was to use her power to make Bobby pass out before Alex was hurt, but from the distance she was, she knew that Bobby's ice would reach Alex before her.

But out of all the people, only Professor Xavier and Logan were surprised to notice Alex's reaction.

Professor was paying close attention to Alex, wondering how he would react to this situation, while intending to use his power to knock Bobby out before Alex was injured, but when he saw that Alex was completely calm, he was surprised.

Already Logan, who had very refined instincts, could not feel any fear of Alex, as if he had even expected that, which made him just stay beside the barbecue taking care of the meat that Alex gave him, without much concern.

Seeing the ice getting so close, Alex who was already waiting for it opened a small smile and just like Bobby, he also stretched his hand forward.

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With his left hand extended forward, in a split second a blue magic circle appeared in front of Alex. This circle had the appearance of a large snowflake, very shiny and attractive.

Through the magic circle, Alex controlled the Mana he just acquired to make a large wall of ice appear between him and Bobby, to protect him from the attack.

But Alex didn't intend to stay still while receiving this attack, so Alex made a small pillar below his feet and climbed this pillar up to the height of the wall, giving Bobby vision, who was still confused where this other wall of ice came from.

On Alex's right hand, another blue magic circle appeared as he pointed at Bobby.

From this magic circle a large dragon emerged and started flying towards Bobby while letting out a loud roar through its mouth, making the temperature even lower to the point that even the pool began to freeze for being close and some closer students felt shivers. .

Bobby looked at that big ice dragon flying towards him and froze.

His mind went blank, not knowing where this dragon came from and what he could do to deal with it, as his powers were still going towards the wall that Alex made.

Bobby thought he was the only one who could control ice, but this ice dragon wasn't under his control...

In desperation, Bobby looked around and saw that behind the dragon was a person, Alex, who was almost covered in a glowing blue circle apparently controlling the dragon!

Alex only intended to let the dragon inflict a minor wound on Bobby before cancelling, but looking to Bobby's side, Alex saw Anna with a startled expression, which made his heart stop for a second before he raised his hand and commanded the dragon to fly to the sky.

That dragon was one of the most powerful spells he learned when he bought [Gray Fullbuster Ice Magic] a few minutes ago. Luckily the package also came with Gray's knowledge of Ice Magic, and luckily without the downside of the boy's habit of taking his clothes off.

Gray had the strength very close to an S-Class Mage in Fairy Tail, but because he wasn't mature enough, he just had to be content as an ordinary Mage.

But in Alex's hands, that magic blossomed beautifully.

Seeing that Bobby was no longer attacking, Alex controlled the ice dragon to land calmly next to where they were, and canceled the magic circle, making the dragon stop moving and just stand like an ice statue, just like the wall of ice. ice he made to defend himself against Bobby.

Since Alex didn't want the others to get cold, he used the magic circle to absorb the ice from the pillar and ice wall, and to the onlookers' surprise, even the ice that Bobby used to attack was also absorbed by the magic circle. from Alex.

Seeing how surreal this was, everyone was shocked.

Even Professor Xavier and Logan who were calmer were surprised as they looked at Alex.

The first person to react was Anna, who ran to Alex to check if he was hurt.

"Is everything okay, Alex?" She looked over his body looking for any injuries, but apart from a few small snowflakes that got on his clothes, Alex was perfectly fine.

Alex saw Anna's concern and had an idea. This time, a small magic circle appeared in his left hand, causing a thin layer of ice to appear in his right hand, which he used to poke Anna's forehead.

Feeling the icy touch on her forehead, and seeing that Alex was perfectly fine, Anna was speechless as an indescribable feeling surged through her.

She noticed that Alex was careful not to touch her directly, which meant that Alex already knew about her powers, but the affection that Alex had for her this whole time, even if he already knew about it, made Anna stay very happy.

And thinking about the sensation of the touch on the forehead, although it felt a little cold, the sensation was the same as if his hand had touched it, since the layer of ice was very thin.

Shocked, she looked at his left hand which was controlling a beautiful glowing blue circle and his right hand which was covered in a thin layer of ice and looked at him doubtfully.

Alex caught Anna's gaze and smiled at her as he extended his right hand towards her.

Anna was a little afraid to take Alex's hand, but seeing his cute and confident smile, Alex couldn't resist and gave his palm a light touch.

Seeing that he was perfectly fine, Anna was bolder and placed her hand fully in his palm, perfectly feeling his big fingers holding her small and delicate hand as if it were a dream.

Ignoring the temperature of his hand which was a little cold, otherwise she felt all the sensations of holding a real person's hand!

Of course, this layer of ice was so thin that it took Alex a lot of control to keep it active. Gray didn't even have such fine control, to the point that every now and then Anna's skin touched Alex's skin, which caused her powerful power to enter his mental defense and destroy everything for a split second, but he soon it made ice to cover the place the hides had touched and his mind began the process of repairing the traps.

If it was anyone else, that simple fraction of a second of touch would be enough to completely knock them out, but because of Occlumency, Alex was able to handle it just fine.

Seeing that Alex was using the ice to hold Anna's hand in a way he never imagined he could, Bobby became dizzy and fainted with rage.

If he had known it was possible to do this, he would have created ice gloves a long time ago and used it to win over Anna!

Unfortunately, he didn't know that his control over the ice was miles away from what was needed to get close to what Alex was doing.

If he just made a thick layer of ice Anna wouldn't feel a thing, and it would just feel uncomfortable to touch it, as it would freeze her hand. So wouldn't it be better to wear leather gloves?

But neither Alex nor Anna thought about him, while Anna patted Alex's hand like a child with a new toy, Alex just looked at her with a smile.

Seeing the two's reaction as if there was no one around, the other people were a little embarrassed until they heard a loud noise of an exhaust coming on.

Recognizing the sound of Bee's exhaust, Alex snapped back to reality and looked around in embarrassment.

Especially when he saw Logan looking at him with the frown that made him feel like a young man who'd come to meet his father-in-law.

'Oops...' Alex regretted letting himself be carried away by the moment. He could have done it in the car when he went for a walk with Anna, but now that Logan saw it he just sighed and accepted his fate.

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"So you mean you're not a mutant?" Professor Xavier asked Alex in surprise, as he thought the only explanation for Alex's powers was the X gene mutation.

As for the glowing circles? He just thought it was part of the mutation, like another way to manifest his powers.

Alex, who was sitting next to Anna, still holding her hand, smiled a little and replied as he tried to ignore Logan who was cutting a piece of meat more aggressively than necessary while looking at him with bloodthirsty eyes. "No, I'm not a mutant. Actually, this is magic."

"Magic?" Ororo asked in surprise, as she already saw magic rituals when she was in Africa, although the magic she saw wasn't as powerful as Alex's magic.

Nodding, Alex continued. "Yes, it's called Ice Magic, not only is there Ice Magic, there is also Fire Magic, Lightning Magic, among many other different types of magic. Even spells that use zodiac keys to summon spirits to help in battle."

Alex decided to just tell them about Fairy Tail's magic, as he knew they couldn't confirm any of it anyway.

Hearing about Lightning Magic, Ororo's eyes sparkled as she asked in an excited voice. "Do you know Lightning Magic?!"

Seeing Ororo's expectant expression, Alex felt bad before answering. "Unfortunately I haven't learned it yet, as it's too complicated. But I intend to learn one day."

It's not that Alex didn't want to learn it, but the magic he wanted was very expensive.

[Laxus Dreyar Dragon Slayer Lightning Magic: 2.000.000 Gaming Points.]

Laxus' magic was twice the price of Natsu's magic, and for Alex who only had 5 million GP, that price was still too expensive for him to casually pay.

When Ororo heard that Alex didn't know Lightning Magic she was a little disappointed, but when she heard that he was interested in learning she felt better.

"If you want I can help you study something related to lightning, as I can control it." Ororo offered with a beautiful smile.

Alex was grateful for her intention, though he knew it would hardly help, but perhaps he could help her with training after he learned magic from Laxus.

"Thanks a lot, if I need help I'll let you know." Alex responded with a smile.

Seeing their interaction, the Professor also made a suggestion. "If you're interested, Alex, you can join us sometime for training. All of the boys here are mutants, and we conduct training with everyone so that the abilities don't get out of control."

Alex just nodded, not saying much.

"How did you know I was a mutant and you couldn't touch me?" Anna asked confused as she shifted her gaze between Alex and their clasped hands.

Alex had already thought of an excuse, and responded naturally. "Actually, I noticed that you avoided physical contact with anyone, so I thought you had cleanliness OCD. But when Bobby showed off his mutant powers I related it to the way you were acting, or how Scott was wearing his sunglasses. until the night, and I thought maybe that was a feature of your skill."

Anna heard this and was a little embarrassed that he thought she was OCD with cleanliness. "So you're not afraid of me for being a mutant?"

Alex looked at her worried expression and gave her a reassuring smile as he squeezed her hand. "Are you afraid of me for being a wizard?"

Anna quickly shook her head.

"Then why should I be afraid of your powers, isn't it the same as me?" Alex answered.

Hearing this, Anna's eyes lit up, before she thought of something that would make her sad again. "But you can control your magic, I can't control my powers."

"I can control my magic 'now', but when I learned it it was also quite difficult to control, and it took a lot of training to deal with it. I believe your powers are the same way." Alex held her hand tighter, wanting to reassure her.

Seeing Anna's expression improve, he understood that it worked.

"I agree with your words, Alex. I believe that with training everyone will be able to do unimaginable things." Professor added with a smile, making Anna more confident.

"I'll let you talk, see you later Alex." Professor said before controlling the chair to move away from Alex and Anna.

Alex waved to the Professor with the hand that controlled the Magic Circle and answered. "Until later!"

When Anna saw the Magic Circle in Alex's hand, she realized something and let go of his hand quickly. "You must be tired right? I'm sorry, I missed holding someone's hand so much without having to wear a glove."

Alex had to admit, it was quite tiring to keep the thin layer of ice in his hand while focusing to rebuild Occlumency's defenses, but he found that his progress in Ice Magic and Occlumency was very fast at that!

With practice Alex felt he could use Ice Magic to cover the hand without a glitch, or with a little more time he could hold her hand without the ice and let Occlumency deal with her powers without damage.

Of course, this would take a while, as he would need to train a lot, but thinking that the training would be while he was holding her hand gave Alex a lot of motivation to train.

"I'm just a little tired. But if it's to hold your hand, it's worth it." Alex smiled as he looked at her.

Anna saw Alex's smile and looked away, becoming even more embarrassed.

'How can he make me so embarrassed?! I'm not like that!' Anna complained internally, but the feeling of happiness in her chest didn't allow her to kid herself about that.

"Then I let you train." Anna said in a very low voice.

But as Alex had been training Elven Breath for some time, he could hear what she said and quickly made the magic circle in his left hand and held her hand again.

"Then I'll train hard." He said in a low voice with his mouth very close to her ear.

Anna felt Alex's warm breath tickling her ear and felt goose bumps creep up her body.

Alex saw those beautiful white legs with the short ruffled hair and laughed, making Anna hit him and turn her head in mock anger.

But seeing her hand that didn't let go of his, Alex smiled even more, feeling that it was fun teasing this girl.

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"Dude, I felt like my heart was going to come out of my mouth!" Kurt said as he sat up with a scared expression.

Scott next to Kurt wasn't much better, as his hand holding the glass with a Drink was also shaking a lot.

Alex looked at this with grace and asked. "What was the top speed?"

Kurt just shook his head. "I was too scared to notice."

Scott who directed Bee showed a blank expression. "The most I dared to accelerate was 230 mph (360 km/h), after that I felt that my arms were getting weak and I was afraid to accelerate further."

Alex nodded, if he didn't know that Bee was a Transformers with much more advanced technology than current cars and didn't have Toretto's driving skills, he wouldn't have the courage to go so fast either, since at such speeds high, a slight error is fatal.

"And you, Alex, what was your highest?" Anna who was next to Alex holding his hand asked curiously.

"I think it was 300 mph (480 km/h)." Alex responded matter-of-factly, which made Kurt and Scott's expressions freeze.

If they were already so scared at 230 mph, at 300 mph they would have passed out.

"Sounds like fun." Anna commented.

Alex waved. "It's a lot of fun. Since our bet was canceled because the game stopped after the fight, how about we consider it a win for both of us?"

Anna thought about it and nodded with a smile. "I think it's fair."

"Argument?" Kurt asked confused as Scott frowned.

After listening to Anna's explanation, as the leader of the X-men, Scott was quite disappointed with Bobby's attitude in using his powers on Alex while not knowing that Alex also had powers.

"Sorry about that." Scott said with a serious expression to Alex.

Seeing how serious and polite Scott was being, Alex couldn't help but comment. "You and Jean are a great match, right?"

"You think?!" Scott asked excitedly as his voice got louder, attracting the curious attention of the other people around, making him a little embarrassed.

"It's because you don't know Scott yet, he's too straight for Jean." Anna sighed a little disappointed, knowing why her friend didn't date Scott.

Hearing this, Scott was a little embarrassed, but he didn't deny it.

Thinking about what he knew about the X-men, Alex agreed with what Anna said, but thinking about the people who associated with Jean, Scott was probably the best boyfriend she could have, disregarding his straight personality.

Since thinking about that idiot who was portrayed in her school, or Logan who is old enough to be her grandfather, Scott is the best fit for this, especially considering how much he cares for her.

"At least you already know what to change." Alex smiled at Scott. "And considering how you act when you talk about Bee, I believe that if you treat her from that side as well, everything will be easier."

Hearing this Scott was surprised. Alex was right, he normally acted very serious when he was dealing with the other X-men, and when he went to talk to Jean, his nervousness made him act even more serious, to cover up the embarrassment.

If he tried to be more natural with her, the way he does when talking about cars, wouldn't that be easier?

As if she knew what they were talking about, Jean walked towards them.

"So you're a wizard!" Jean commented as she looked at Alex curiously. "I thought you were a mutant the first time we met."

"Due to my mind?" Alex points to his head with his left hand, which still glows with the magic circle. "I felt your intrusions when we first met, but when I realized they were involuntary I didn't pay much attention to the matter."

Jean was taken aback by Alex's revelation. "So you always felt it?"

Alex nodded.

"And do you have any tips on how to deal with this?" She asked a little frustrated.

"Honestly? Some." Alex said, earning a surprised expression from Jean. "I believe that the best short-term solution is to spend your mental energy to get rid of the excess you have overflowing in your head, this excess is responsible for invading the minds of others unconsciously."

After hearing this, Jean was disappointed again. "But who would let me invade their minds willingly? Everyone has secrets they want to keep, I wouldn't even want to know anyone else's secret."

"Someone with good mental defenses who could protect their memories while you expend your energy." Alex responds with a smile.

Seeing Alex's smile, Jean quickly understood. "You can?"

Nodding, Alex agreed. Despite knowing how powerful Jean was due to the Phoenix Force in her body, it was currently in a dormant state, or perhaps sealed away by Professor Xavier, so Alex had confidence in his Occlumency to deal with it.

"But that will be a little painful." Alex commented. "My defenses are for offense, so they fight back a little bit."

"How long do you think this will last?" Jean asks.

"I think a week." Alex deduces with his knowledge of Occlumency.

"It is worth it!" Jean thought excitedly. She was so tired of having to listen to others' thoughts for so long that she really felt it was worth it.

Nodding, Alex let go of Anna's hand, much to her chagrin, for him to recover some Mana before Jean attacked, just in case.

Upon learning what Jean was going to do, Professor Xavier also came to keep an eye on her, aware of the power of Alex's defenses, he also thought that this could be useful.

To everyone's surprise, after 5 minutes with her brow furrowed trying to invade Alex's mind, Jean opened her eyes with a slightly tired expression, but not hearing anyone's thoughts, she felt at peace.

"Thanks Alex." She thanked her in a slightly weak voice, which Alex just nodded.

Her attack was pretty potent, he would have to spend some Mana on Occlumency to recover the traps that were activated or destroyed by her, but nothing that was so exhausting.

If it was Professor Xavier attacking, then Alex would have to deal with it for a long time, due to the difference in mental power between the two.

The rest of the afternoon passed very peacefully. Everyone was shocked at how delicious the meat Alex had brought was, even Logan who was furious with Alex holding Anna's hand, grunted a little at the great taste of the meat.

Beside Bee, Alex and Anna were holding hands.

"How about, what did you think of the barbecue?" Anna asked expectantly.

"I had a lot of fun, and I loved my new training method even more." He said as he lifted her hand that was holding his, making Anna smile.

"So... when are you going to pay me your share of the bet?" She asked as she looked at Bee excitedly.

"I think we can do something this week, I don't know much about the area so you'd have to show me somewhere nice." He replied.

"Hmm, okay, I'll think of something then!" She got excited, trying to think of what they could do together.

Without her noticing, Alex lifted their clasped hand and used his fingers to tuck her hair behind her ear as he closed the distance between them.

Looking forward, Anna was shocked to see Alex approaching her.

Suddenly, her heart started to race a lot, but the anticipation grew more and more when looking at his mouth.

Realizing that very close there was a thin layer of ice appearing on his lips, Anna didn't hesitate anymore and approached him too, making their lips meet!

Despite Alex's icy lips, Anna felt Alex's skin perfectly, really giving her the feeling of a kiss, which was always a great trauma in her heart.

Anna has only kissed her life, and that's when her powers awaken, sending the boy she kisses into a coma.

When that happened, Anna was traumatized, never again having the courage to get that close to someone of the opposite sex, much less the thought of kissing someone.

But Alex broke down her defenses from other guys a little bit, and when she saw that he managed to hold her hand, the great walls she'd made came crashing down as well.

Feeling Alex's kiss, Anna wanted to cry, but she held back so as not to spoil the mood.

Although the kiss was just a peck, since if their tongue touched her powers would activate in Alex, he still put his hand around her waist and pulled her body closer to him, being careful not to touch her legs. on his skin.

Anna's legs were beautiful, but they were deadly for his current level of control in Occlumency.

And since he had closed the buttons on his shirt, even if it touched his chest, he would be protected by the shirt.

Even if it was just a peck, feeling Alex hugging her so close as their lips touched made Anna's legs go weak as her heart warmed.

The two stayed like that for a few minutes, just holding each other as they kissed nonstop.

Unfortunately Alex had to put an end to it. "I think we should stop, otherwise I won't be able to control myself to just keep kissing."

Anna flashed a mischievous smile at him, as she was feeling something hard on his waist during the hug after they started kissing.

This wasn't something just with Alex, as she also knew that if they continued she wouldn't be able to take the fire she was feeling and would attack him, as she also had a little change in her waist, mostly feeling the hard part of him rubbing against her.

Fortunately the bathing suit covered wet spots.

After Alex left, Anna didn't speak to anyone and ran to her room, both to not let anyone notice anything was wrong, and to take off Jean's bathing suit and not let it get any more wet.

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Alex's motivation to develop games was even greater now, as he saw that Voldemort's Occlumency cost 1 million GP, which would probably be enough for him to be able to have longer touches with Anna.

It probably wouldn't be enough for them to have sex, since he doesn't know if that level of Occlumency would be enough for him to last for more than a few minutes, but for more intense kisses and bolder touches that would be enough, after all, he didn't want to. touching certain parts of it with an ice-covered hand, as ice is quite numbing, which would probably get in the way a lot.

Curious, Alex glanced at his dashboard.

[Minecraft]

[65,000,000 Games Sold - $1,300,000,000]

[Average time played: 6 hours.]

[Available Gaming Points: 5.000.000]

Looking at the 1 billion dollars earned from Minecraft sales alone, Alex already started losing the sense of seeing the money number going up, but seeing the 5 million GP got Alex excited.

It took a lot of restraint not to spend 1 million GP to buy Voldemort's Occlumency while kissing Anna, but he knew better than to save that for just in case there was ever a need.

While he ate, he and Anna exchanged many messages.

Alex felt that after today's barbecue, their relationship had risen to another level, so he intended to prepare a present for the next time they went to see each other, as he intended to ask her to date.

Taking advantage of some of the early hours to develop more Fortnite, Alex saw that the game was practically ready, so he had an idea.

"I think releasing some beta-keys can help hype the game." Alex thought interested.

Curious, he went to the Twitch website and saw that Minecraft had 4 million viewers while over 3,000 people were streaming the game, due to how easy it was to livestream while playing it.

Observing the Top 50 Streamers with the most Viewers, Alex decided that these would be the lucky ones to participate in the beta game that would take place tomorrow, with each one having an invitation to a friend, since the tournament would be in pairs.

'I think a prize for the winner might be nice, right?' Alex thought interested and decided to make a custom backpack for the first place.

Ned had managed to become the Mayor of Hypixel, and with the ideas he had, players really felt that the game had become even better, which gave him a lot of satisfaction.

Beside him was Petter, looking at the items listed on the auction and looking for something that might interest him, but unfortunately he had already bought everything he wanted.

Hulk was fighting monsters in the dungeons, since that was what he enjoyed the most there.

"Then I guess we can..." Ned was talking to the livestream audience, when suddenly a screen appeared floating in front of him.

[You have been invited to participate in the Fortnite Closed Beta.]

[Do you want to accept?]

Ned was shocked to see this and didn't think twice before saying yes!

[You have received 01 invites to Fortnite.]

[Your access to Fortnite has been released.]

Suddenly, two paper invitations with the Fortnite symbol appeared in Ned's hand. On the paper was written "Tear here to start Download."

Upon seeing the invitations in Ned's hand, the audience took a while to react, but soon they were very excited!

[Woaaah, now you can play Fortnite!]

[So jealous! I also want to be able to play Fortnite! TˆT]

[Hey Ned, I buy your other invite!]

[I buy too, just name a price!]

[...]

Seeing that more and more people wanted to buy his invitation, Ned apologized to the audience and handed the other invitation to Petter.

Since Petter didn't receive the notice of the Fortnite Beta, he didn't know what the invite was.

"Just tear it down the middle." Ned said to Petter as he did the same thing.

Petter didn't ask much and tore up the invitation in confusion.

Unbeknownst to them, a small file downloaded onto their computer shortly after they ripped up the invitation.

[Do you want to go to Fortnite?]

Seeing this message, Petter was confused before he understood exactly what was going on.

"Will we be able to play Fortnite?" Petter asked excitedly.

"Yes!" Ned also got excited and said. "Come on quick Pette, I'm really curious to see what it's like over there!"

Without waiting for Petter's response, Ned soon clicked on accept and saw his vision change.

From the square world of Fortnite, he was now in a place like a military firing range with a small open field behind.

Looking around, Ned soon saw a tall, blond man appear beside him, with a confused expression as he tried to understand what was going on.

"Hi..." The man said a little shyly, as he looked at Ned, but to Ned's surprise, the voice that came out of the man was Petter's voice!

"Peter?!" Ned asked confused.

When Petter heard Ned's voice, his shy expression quickly faded, making him even more uncomfortable as he stared at Ned in disbelief.

"Ned?! Why are you like this?" Petter asked shocked.

"Like this? Like what?" Ned didn't understand what was happening until he looked down.

Unlike Minecraft, here in Fortnite his body is not square, but very realistic.

The problem is that Ned didn't imagine that when he looked down, what he would find would be a female body!

Down: ??????????

Meanwhile, in a large Malibu mansion, Tony Stark lay in bed while hugging two models.

After a night of very active activities, Tony was sleeping very comfortably, until Jarvis sounded an alarm, waking up Tony and the two models.

"Jarvis, stop, what is this?" Tony asked confused.

Jarvis answered in a robotic voice. "You asked me to let you know if there was any news about Fortnite, sir. According to news on the internet, 50 streamers were selected to test the game and received an invite a friend ticket, of these 50 streamers, 3 of them decided to hold online auctions to sell the ticket they received. What do you want to do?"

Hearing it was about Fortnite, Tony soon lost sleep and got up, much to the dismay of the two models lying on his bed.

"Secure me a ticket, Jarvis." Tony ordered as he headed to the lab.

He had lost sleep, and now he intended to research Fortnite, both for the virtual reality technology and to find out if this company "Mojang" was crazy enough to actually use his armor in the game.

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"So... what should we do here?" Petter asked Ned, confused as he looked around.

Ned was also quite confused, not knowing very well what he would have to do. Fortunately, a few seconds later a screen appeared floating in front of them.

[Welcome to Fortnite, this location is the Hub where you can invite up to 3 friends to form a team. With the team formed, you will be able to join the queue to play with other players.]

[Since you are participating in the Beta version of the game, online game functions will be temporarily disabled.]

"We won't be able to play?" Ned was confused as he wondered what was the point of inviting him to the game if he couldn't even play.

But imagining this doubt, another screen appeared next.

[Here the player can participate in training on Fortnite features and game mechanics.]

[In: 13 hours, 57 minutes and 21 seconds a tournament will start between the 100 participants of the Closed Beta. Take your time to learn about the game, limited prizes will be awarded.]

"So there's going to be a tournament?!" Peter was excited.

But Ned noticed something else. "Apparently the tournament prize will be a limited item, meaning this will probably be as rare for Fortnite as the Ender Dragon skin is for Minecraft!"

Hearing this, not only was Petter shocked, but the millions of people watching the livestream were stunned as well.

They knew how important the Ender Dragon skin was in Minecraft, so seeing that they missed out on getting that award in Fortnite left a lot of people a little disappointed.

[Do you want to start the tutorial?]

A window appeared for Ned and Petter.

With nothing much to do, the two accepted.

After a second, the two found themselves on a school bus.

"What is this? Are we going to the battlefield by bus?" Ned asked confused.

But soon Petter replied shocked. "Ned, look out the window..."

Ned looked at the window and froze.

Unlike Minecraft where they saw the world as blocks, even though the graphics were a little realistic, it still looked like an animated world, but Fortnite was different, although it still looks a little cartoony, Alex made it very realistic using the Game Engine Battle Royale Triple A.

So when Petter and Ned were talking, it was like there really was a person in front of them.

This was a little weird for Ned, who was looking at a tall blond man with Petter's baby voice, but it was even weirder for Petter, who was seeing a pretty woman with brown hair talking with the voice of his friend Ned. .

When Ned looked out the window, in his mind what he was seeing was the real world!

A small one full of little dots like cities, jails, for some reason a giant wooden chair and various other things.

[This is the bus that will take players into battle.]

[You and your companions can make marks on the map just by thinking about it, thus forming a pillar of colored light where you have marked it, so that communication about locations is facilitated. Try to mark it on the map.]

Upon reading this, Ned looked at the strange giant chair and thought of marking it there.

In just a second a red symbol appeared, and at the same time a blue symbol appeared elsewhere, indicating that Petter had also succeeded.

[Very good. On the bus you will have 60 seconds to decide to jump, if the 60 seconds are up and you are still on the bus, all the windows will open at the same time sucking all the remaining players out to be ejected.]

[You have 20 seconds to jump...]

[You have 19 seconds to jump...]

Watching the countdown, Ned was startled to look down, while Petter was still a little better, as he wasn't too afraid of heights.

"Come on Ned, looks like fun!" Petter said excitedly as he moved to the front door of the bus, which had a light indicating they could jump.

Ned tried to calm down as he took shaky steps towards the bus door.

[Lol, stop being scared Ned, jump!]

[Damn, I wouldn't dare to jump from there ever, it's too realistic!]

[I think I don't need to bungee jump anymore and I can just have fun in this new game lmao.]

[...]

Seeing the onlookers mocking him, Ned took a deep breath and started running towards the door, even surprising Petter, who soon went with Ned and jumped right away.

"Woaaaaaahhhhh!!!" Ned screamed in fright as he felt the wind in his face and gravity pulling him down faster and faster.

"Hahahaa!" Ned heard Petter's voice laughing in his ear, as if he were wearing AirPods.

"Stop laughing, Petter!" Ned yelled angrily.

[While free-falling, you can use your body to control where you want to go by leaning over, slowing your fall by staying parallel to the ground, or speeding it up by staying vertical.]

[On your left waist is a Glider that will expand when the button is pressed, this will slow your fall speed, allowing you to fly farther.]

[When you reach 100 meters from the ground, the Glider will automatically open and attach itself to your body, only closing when you hit the ground, so control your falling speed well so as not to be shot before hitting the ground by players who have fallen further fast.]

After this initial surprise, Ned and Petter learned that there are weapons on the ground, chests with random weapons, learned how to use healing and shield items, even learned that they can drive cars they find on the street.

But their biggest surprise was a blue piece of paper with a pencil on their waist, that if they used this magic paper, they could use resources like wood, bricks or metal to build!

Petter spent some time building a wooden house, while Ned used his time to build a brick castle.

When they first learned that you could take resources and build them, they thought this Fortnite looked a bit boring since it wasn't that much different from Minecraft, apparently.

Until when they were in their houses, shots were heard outside, scaring both Ned and Petter!

When they looked out, two people were running while shooting at their houses, running away from a strange purple mist!

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"Damn it, shoot them back Petter!" Ned screamed furiously when he saw that one of his castle walls was destroyed, ignoring that purple mist a little.

Petter was also angry, since his house was made of wood, which was even more destroyed than Ned's castle, so he also took his machine gun and started shooting.

To their shock, as soon as they fired, the two opposing players started to build a ladder up!

"What are they doing?" Ned was confused as he looked at this ladder.

But soon he understood.

At the bottom of the stairs, the two opposing players were only with the tip of their heads out and with the beaks of their guns aiming and started shooting at Ned and Petter.

"Damn it, they did it to take advantage of HighGround!" Ned was furious and also took the magic paper around his waist and started building walls around it to defend himself.

But before any of the four died, the purple mist finally reached them, causing the two opposing players to ignore Ned and Petter and run back, while Ned and Petter felt their breathing getting heavier, and saw that the health bar of them was decreasing.

"Petter, this fog is poisoned, run!" Ned yelled as he broke into a run, leaving his castle behind.

Petter also understood this, but instead of running out of the mist, he went back to where they were before!

Ned was confused by what Petter was doing, but he trusted his friend and didn't ask any more questions as he continued to run.

Soon he heard an engine noise from behind, and in the driver's seat of a pickup truck was Petter, scared as he drove like a madman!

"Come in, Ned!" Petter gritou.

Ned didn't think twice and jumped into the truck bed, while holding a machine gun and looking for those two opponents.

His heart was beating so fast that he remembered the Hypixel war.

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"The last time I felt so much adrenaline was when I saw Notch and Herobrine battle... damn, this is so much fun! Hahahaha!" Ned started laughing like a maniac in the back of the truck.

[This actually looks like a lot of fun...]

[I also want to play!]

[Ned looks like the protagonist of an action movie!]

[...]

The livestream's comments were also shocked by what they were seeing.

The amount of viewers on Ned's live rose from 1.2 million to 2.6 million in a short time.

Not only on Ned's livestream, but on the other 50 livestreams of the participants invited by Alex the amount of viewers was also rising in an abnormal way!

Minecraft in total has doubled the amount of Viewers within minutes of launching the Fortnite beta.

News sites were reporting on Fortnite while pundits were analyzing this new game, trying to make sense of all the new things they were seeing.

The most excited watching the livestreams were Hypixel's Hunger Games players, as they saw that Fortnite looked like an improved version of the Hunger Games! With weapons, cars, construction and many new features!

[I want to play Fortnite!!!] One of the top 100 ranked players in the Hunger Games made an emotional tweet.

Watching livestreams of players playing the Fortnite tutorial, Alex saw that the Hype was growing a lot.

The enemies the players were facing were bots that Alex made to show players that buildings can be used in battle to gain terrain advantage, both for cover and for a better view.

Thinking of those professionals who did several builds per second, Alex just shook his head.

Fortunately most of the players were having fun trying out Fortnite, only a few players got too scared and managed to die to the bots Alex made, even though he set the aim of these bots to be terrible, the players managed to be worse.

Reminding Alex of a famous quote from his previous world. "Don't doubt a player's ability to do shit."

Words that Alex considers very wise nowadays.

He also found out about the Fortnite invite auction, but he didn't worry about that, as it didn't matter to him who was playing tomorrow.

But while that didn't matter to him, Tony Stark managed to corner the auction on one of the tickets, while there was someone very important looking at one of the two tickets left over.

"Hill, keep an eye on the auction for this ticket and make sure you get one for us. As for the other one, just try your luck, if possible, get both, but we only need one." Nick Fury said seriously to Maria Hill, in front of him.

"Yes sir." Maria confirmed before leaving the office.

Fury intended to give the ticket to Clint Barton or Natasha Romanoff, as they were both great marksmen and were his best agents, who could guarantee the prize of the tournament tomorrow.

Seeing how this game worked, Fury had to admit that it looked pretty good for more than just fun.

"If I put my agents to train playing Fortnite every day for two hours, wouldn't that be the same thing as them participating in life and death battles every day? The improvement in each one's strength would be amazing..." Nick started to think on this and felt that his idea was increasingly plausible.

Unfortunately the Golden Apple studies were useless.

Whenever a scientist removed a part of the apple, after 5 seconds that part would dissolve and go back to the apple as if nothing had happened.

Even if a guinea pig ate the apple, within seconds it would reappear intact.

What made them realize that the apple had a connection with Clint was that he could summon the apple back, that is, everything indicated that only he could eat this Golden Apple and receive the benefits that it provided.

After some time of fruitless testing, SHIELD finally gave up on trying to replicate or clone this Golden Apple and decided to just study the results of eating it into Clint's body.

Luckily nothing went wrong, and the results proved that apple actually doubled his power!

Unfortunately for Nick, they failed to learn anything from studying Clint, making all that effort futile.

"Maybe with the rewards from these games we can make another Super Soldier?" Nick was surprised to think about it and remember Clint's strength.

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Clint was unaware of his boss's idea of turning him into a Super Soldier like Captain America, but if he had known he wouldn't have been so affected by it, as the shock he received from eating the Golden Apple has already completely changed his cognition from the start. what should be possible or impossible in the world.

Despite training a lot, Clint's body was still a little thin, but after eating the Golden Apple, his body received a lot of muscle, making his appearance much more intimidating.

Surprisingly, this didn't affect his flexibility, which meant that his arrows remained as agile as ever, but also received a huge boost in the maximum force they could achieve, doubling his attack power!

If this Golden Apple was given to an agent who uses firearms, perhaps the improvement in his combat power would be great, but not as noticeable as Clint, who used his muscles to pull the bowstring.

"Maybe I should order another bow..." Clint gave an embarrassed smile as he looked down at the bow in his hand.

This bow was developed by Shield scientists using very advanced engineering concepts, so that with the same amount of force as an Olympic athlete, it could produce 2x more output.

All the bow material was expensive and resistant, but in Clint's hand, the line he used to shoot the arrow had burst, causing the rest of the pieces to also suffer the impact and destroy themselves.

Woosh

Suddenly Clint heard the sound of the metal door opening, and he stood up, knowing that to enter his training environment without asking permission it would have to be someone of equal or higher status than him.

Seeing the broken bow in Clint's hand, Nick squinted at his eye and sighed. "Did you receive this bow 2 weeks ago?"

Clint was a little embarrassed and scratched the back of his head with a smile.

"I'll order a better one next, now I have another task for you." Nick got serious.

Clint was surprised that Nick would come to him personally to tell him the task, as he was normally the one who should go to Nick.

"Have you heard of Fortnite?" Nick asked as he sat down, making Clint shake his head in confusion.

As Nick explained Fortnite to Clint, Ned and Petter finally managed to beat the game!

Even though they were playing against Bots, the thrill of killing the last pair and feeling time slow down as big golden words floated in front of them made their hearts race.

Not only Ned and Petter, but also 35 other Streamers managed to beat the bots, while the remaining 15 had some accident and lost the game.

To the shock of viewers around the world, after the tutorial was completed, players could play no further.

Only a message appeared on the screen.

[Beta Championship in: 13 Hours, 27 Minutes and 09 Seconds.]

Realizing that they could only play in the Championship the next day, the players just hung out in the training area, getting used to the weapons, or the building that the game made available after the tutorial for them to use in the Lobby, as this still kept a lot of audience on livestreams.

In a short time the three auctions ended and the winners were decided.

Even though their identity was secret, Alex still knew who he was after they used the invitations for the first time.

Tony Stark obviously got one of the invites, as few in the world could compete with him for that.

Clint Barton also got an invite with government help.

While the latter was a bit surprising for Alex, T'Challa, or better known as the Black Panther. Shuri's older brother.

Alex thought that maybe Shuri was the third person to get the ticket, since she played a lot of Minecraft, but she probably wasn't very interested in the gun battles so overdue while she had access to so many weapons in Wakanda that it seemed like child's play.

Her brother, on the other hand, probably came just to test with political interest.

A great weapons developer, a secret agent and a king of a country.

That was a combination that didn't even give Alex any doubt that any of them would fail the Tutorial, so Alex thought he'd have a little fun, especially when he saw that Tony Stark's Narcissist opened a Fortnite Livestream while in the Tutorial Lobby. game and said it would sue the game's developers.

With a mischievous smile on his face, Alex also logged into Fortnite and soon found Tony's IP, while watching Tony's Livestream waiting for him to start the Tutorial.

Above Alex's head there was no name, as this was not Minecraft, which showed the name above enemy players' heads, but seeing Alex's appearance, 99% of Minecraft players would recognize this Skin immediately!

With black shoes, gray pants, a slightly baggy brown shirt. The clothes were quite simple, but what made this iconic was a red cape on this player's back, which instead of a Creeper's face, had changed to a golden logo that became extremely famous in the world.

The logo of Mojang, the company that developed Minecraft and Fortnite.

The cape swayed in the wind with much more realistic physics that Minecraft could provide players with, looking like real life.

On his face was a neatly trimmed black beard, which matched the long black hair above that person's head.

Each of these features were very common, but when you put them all together you became one of the most famous characters in the world of Minecraft, Notch!

Unlike Minecraft's boxy look, Notch in Fortnite looked like a real person, with real proportions and appearing to be in his 30s, the age Minecraft players imagined him to be.

Alex made Notch's Skin while developing the other Skins in the game, but only Notch's Skin would never be available for other players to buy, as it would be exclusive to him.

As for Herobrine's Skin, Alex already had plans for it in the future.

Now yes, with Notch's true appearance, Alex noticed that Tony started the Fortnite Tutorial and went to watch.

"Let's have fun, Tony!" Alex chuckled as he joined Tony's tutorial server.

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[Hey, Tony is going to play the Fortnite Tutorial but he doesn't have any friends to play the Tutorial with him, is he going to play this alone?]

[I don't think so, don't you remember that the streamers who sold the invites played with bots on their team, to help with the tutorial on how to revive players?]

[True, so Tony is probably going to play with a bot, right?]

[I think so.]

Comments like that surfaced in Tony's livestream chat.

As he used his Twitter to announce that he was going to do a Fortnite livestream, his number of viewers had already reached 3 million people in less than 10 minutes of Livestream.

Seeing that he had appeared on a bus, Tony began to criticize.

"How uncomfortable, if I'm going to play this wouldn't it be better if this bus was better? With a chair this bad, it won't surprise me if people don't like this game after playing it." Tony complained as he tried to sit in another position on the bus seat, pretending it was very uncomfortable.

His idea was to make Fortnite look much worse to players, so that fewer people would buy the game, and at the very least make Mojang a loss, since he couldn't find that company at all.

"Seriously, I think the bus seat is really comfortable." An unfamiliar voice came from the backseat where Tony was sitting.

Looking back, Tony saw that there was a man with long black hair and a neatly trimmed beard. Tony had to admit that this man's appearance was very good, in his mind maybe this man's appearance was even a little close to his appearance.

"Who are you?" Tony asked with a furrowed brow, as he didn't think anyone else would show up with him in the game.

"I'm your teammate for this tutorial." The man answered as he shrugged.

Tony looked suspiciously at this other player and asked. "You know who I am?"

The man looked Tony up and down and shook his head. "No, you just look like a random player."

Tony looked down and realized he was wearing a random generic skin, so it really would be impossible for this man to know who he was.

As Tony didn't follow much of the things that happened in Minecraft, he didn't connect this man with the creator of Minecraft, the protagonist of the story that happened in Hypixel and shook the world.

If he could hear Jarvis, the AI would probably be beeping wildly to warn him who this person was.

But even though he didn't know who it was, his livestream chat went crazy.

[Damn, isn't that Notch?]

[My God, it's Notch's voice!]

[Hey, am I the only one who found Notch very handsome in Fortnite?]

[Will you be able to use Notch's Skin in Fortnite?]

[Notch saw that Tony Stark was trashing Fortnite and came to join his Livestream?]

[Holy shit, didn't Tony realize that the owner of the game he was trashing is on his side now?! LMAO]

[I'm going to fall out of my chair laughing, Tony was so mad a few minutes ago at the Fortnite creator and now that the man is in front of him he doesn't even know! LMFAO]

[...]

Tony had access to the Livestream comments at any time, but since he wasn't used to doing that, he also wasn't used to reading the Chat all the time, to the point that he forgot he could do that!

"What a delay, why hasn't the game given us instructions on what to do yet? I'm getting bored." Unaware that it was Notch next to him, Tony started complaining again about Fortnite to try and affect the game's reputation for the livestream, but little did he know that his and Notch's presence together was attracting even more of an audience to the game.

As soon as Tony finished complaining, the window explaining about the game's mechanics appeared in front of him and Notch.

"I think it was fast, maybe this is so that people can enjoy the surroundings before they receive more information, don't you think the landscape is beautiful?" The man asked Tony as he looked out with an expression of wonder.

Tony heard the man's question and looked at the window and had to admit that the view of it was very good, after all, unlike in real-life where people can't see that far, here in Fortnite nobody had myopia, so everything had a beautiful resolution even in the distance.

But he wouldn't admit it. "Hmph, just that view? In my armor I've seen much better things, maybe the game developer just doesn't know what a good view really is, if Mojang emailed me asking for help maybe I could help them out think of a better landscape for players to see from up here."

"Really? I still really like this view." The man just ignored what Tony said and confirmed again that the view was very good.

[The view really is very good, look how cool that giant chair is!]

[I liked those big mountains with snow, is it cold in that place?]

[LOL, look how angry Tony is getting, Notch must be doing this on purpose!]

[Yes! I also think he's doing it on purpose! Hahahahaha!]

[...]

Tony actually got a little frustrated with this partner of his, as this man wouldn't let him criticize Fortnite in peace.

Because of that Tony didn't say much and just jumped from the front door of the bus before not wanting to talk to this man anymore.

As he had been flying in his armor for some time, Tony wasn't afraid of heights, especially knowing that this was just a game.

But to Tony's disappointment, as soon as he jumped, the man also jumped after him, staying very close to him as they fell.

"Hey, isn't this free fall fun?" The man asked with a smile as he amused himself by falling through the air.

Tony snorted without answering this time, as he also liked the feeling of free fall with just his body, without any parachutes.

He hadn't yet developed a mechanism for the armor to fly to him by itself, but feeling that it might be cool to fly high out of the armor and have the armor fly to him later, Tony planned to develop something like that as well.

But he didn't admit it was fun.

"Hey, talk to me!" The man said smiling.

What Tony ignored and stayed upright to fall faster and get away from this irritating man.

[Lol, Notch really looks like he came to play with Tony specifically to piss him off!]

[I'm going to die laughing, the mighty genius, billionaire, philanthropist, CEO of Stark Industries, was being pissed off by Notch in front of millions of people because of such silly words!]

[Notch is pretty mean, lol!]

'Tony looks like a tsundere!' Alex amused himself thinking.

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"Hey buddy, stop ignoring me!" The man said to Tony as he followed him and continued praising all the things he saw in Fortnite.

Tony had already reached the limit of his patience, he was already tired of dealing with this annoying and clueless man.

As Tony turned towards the man, he was a little confused, that unlike the excited expression the man had all along, it suddenly changed to a serious expression as he looked up at the sky.

Despite his anger, Tony's curiosity got the better of him and made him ask.

"What is happening?"

"Iron Man." The man replied, his voice heavy.

Tony froze when he heard the man's response. Despite asking if the man knew him, after the man said he didn't know who he was due to Skin, Tony hadn't said his name yet, so how did the man know he was Iron Man?

"How do you know?" Tony asked confused.

"Because I saw it." The man replied, still serious. But before Tony could answer anything else, the man continued. "I swore to kill Iron Man..."

Tony felt this was getting scary and without thinking twice he raised the machine gun in his hand and pointed it at the man.

He still didn't know if he could damage his allies, but it was better to be sure than to regret it later.

[Hey... that was a little scary.]

[Notch really wants to kill Iron Man?]

[It was kind of creepy the way he said it...]

[Should I call the police?]

[...]

Concerned comments began to fill the livestream screen. The amount of viewers had already risen to almost 9 million people and that number was only rising.

Not only was the public concerned, but very important people were shocked when they saw that Notch apparently wanted to kill Tony Stark.

"Jarvis... get Tony out please!" Pepper was scared as she got up from her office chair scared.

She was still working late into the night, and in order not to get bored with so much work, she was also watching Tony's Livestream with the volume a little low.

As much as she hadn't been paying much attention to their conversation, when she heard Notch saying that he wanted to kill Iron Man, she got very worried and yelled at Jarvis.

"Ms Potts, Mr Stark is not stuck in Fortnite, from my readings on his physical and mental state, he just didn't want to leave the game." Jarvis replied in a calm voice, which relaxed Pepper a bit.

But with that feeling in her chest and in such a dangerous situation, she lost all desire to work and ran to her car, on the way to Tony's mansion, to be on standby in case something happened.

"Why do you want to kill Iron Man...?" Tony asked tensely, still not knowing how to handle this.

The man finally stopped looking at the horizon and looked at Tony with a small smile, without answering his question. "Are you listening to this?"

Tony was a little annoyed that the man ignored his question, but listening carefully, Tony began to hear a very familiar noise.

Despite being quite low, Tony was able to identify this noise quickly.

"How is that noise so realistic?" He asked shocked!

"It must have been dedication..." The man replied with a bit of pride as he looked back at the horizon.

Tony still had the gun pointed at the man, but his eyes were also looking towards the horizon where the man was looking.

The audience was very confused when they saw the two looking at the horizon, as the Livestream quality was not that realistic, so they had to wait a few seconds to understand.

But soon after they too saw and heard, in the sky on the horizon there was a figure flying!

And of the nearly 10 million people watching the livestream, only a few didn't know what it was, but everyone else soon understood.

Flying in the sky of Fortnite, just like in the trailer they watched for the game, there was a red and gold armor flying, it was Iron Man!

The noise they were talking about was the noise of the thrusters that Iron Man had in his hands and feet!

Tony was shocked because the noise was exactly the same as in real life.

To Tony's surprise, the man next to him looked at him excitedly and said, "I saw someone saying on the Hypixel that if you killed Iron Man you might get some special item! When I heard that, I swore I was going to kill that one. Iron Man and get the special item for me, how about it, let's kill Iron Man!"

This time, unlike the usual where the man said things and stayed close to see Tony's reaction, the man went to get a motorbike and quickly stopped beside Tony as he spoke. "Come on, hop on the back, today we're going to kill Iron Man!"

Tony was still having trouble understanding what was going on and by involuntary reflexes he just climbed onto the back of the motorcycle the man was driving and watched as the man drove like a maniac through the trees.

Despite driving at top speed, this man's control of the bike was so high that they didn't hit anything once, some people even noticed that the man didn't even brake once, showing how precise the man's control was when riding. that bike.

Unbeknownst to people, Alex who was riding the bike for the first time felt that it was also a lot of fun!

'Hey, what if in the future I buy a motorcycle too? Maybe Bee likes me to summon Arcee too?' Alex smiled as he rode the motorcycle and thought of the female Autobot who had the ability to transform into a motorcycle.

As Alex thought about the bike, both Tony and the current 10 million viewers were shocked by the turn of events.

Notch really was serious about wanting to kill Iron Man, but apparently it was just the Fortnite NPC he did, which made onlookers burst out laughing.

Even Pepper breathed a sigh of relief and felt that the situation was a little funny.

Mainly seeing that the confused Tony really was on the back of that man's motorcycle on his way to kill Iron Man.

Who would be crazy to send Iron Man himself to go kill Iron Man?!

Tony's confusion was very strong, not believing that he was really going to kill Iron Man...

Tony Stark: "WTF????????????????????"

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[Woah, look how realistic the armor is!]

[Wow, it looks like Iron Man really is there!]

[Bro, how did Notch manage to make such a realistic game?]

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Audiences were shocked when they saw how realistic Iron Man's armor was flying from afar.

Not only was the audience shocked to see this, Tony Stark himself was shocked as well.

As the creator of the armor, he could see that this version of the armor in Fortnite was indeed a perfect replica of his Mark III armor.

"Damn, the developer of this game is so shameless..." Tony complained in frustration as he sat on the back of Notch's motorcycle and looked at the Mark III they were getting closer and closer.

Notch heard that and just smiled with the corner of his mouth. "If I'm not mistaken, they intend to get in touch with the creator of the armor to pay a part of the Royalties that this generates in profit for the game."

Was this really Alex's idea, did he just use Iron Man's armor so he could generate Hype for the game, as for the money? For Alex who had over a billion dollars in the account, he didn't have to worry about it anymore.

Not to mention that he could buy whatever he wanted just using GP, as the more mundane things weren't that expensive.

It wouldn't be worth it for him to befriend Iron Man when he could just give a large amount of money for the use of the armor's image, making both of them happy.

Even if Tony was one of the richest people in the world, with a few hundred million dollars more in his bank account he could happily make other armors.

But Tony was quite surprised to hear that.

"Really? Because it looks like it's not possible to contact the creators of this game." He tried to find out something.

Notch just shook his head. "Really, if the creator of Minecraft and Fortnite doesn't want to be found, it will be mission impossible to get any information. But if he wants to, it's not a problem."

Tony had to admit that this man was right, the things this Mojang could do were very magical, not only could it take the player's consciousness into a virtual world, it could also bring things from the virtual world into the real world, like the capes of the players, or the golden apples.

Unfortunately for Tony, his gaze was too focused on the sky, on the flying armor, since if he looked down, he would see that on the red cape of the player riding the motorcycle in front of him, there was the golden Mojang logo.

When they finally got close enough, Notch stopped the bike and got off, leaving Tony confused.

"We're still a little way off, won't he run away?" Tony asked.

Notch just shook his head. "Have you ever seen Iron Man run away?"

This phrase from Notch made a proud smile appear on Tony's face, finally feeling that this annoying man had said something useful, which made Tony's impression of Notch improve a little.

Without explaining too much, Notch took his gun and pointed it at Iron Man.

Bang!

Notch's sniper rifle made a very loud noise, and the flash of ammunition hit Iron Man's armor a second later, causing an HP bar to appear above the flying armor's head.

As soon as the shot landed, Iron Man looked to where he was hit and turned towards them for a second, before starting to fly at high speed and pointing his hands at the two.

Pew, Pew

Lasers began to come out of Iron Man's hands aiming at Notch and Tony who were in sight, which made Tony run and hide, while Notch took the magical BluePrint and started building a turret around him, to give protection while shooting.

Tony was shocked to see how Notch had built a brick house in a few seconds and felt insecure, since while Notch was protected in that house, he was just behind a tree, much more exposed.

Notch was editing the build all the time to have protection when he needed it and to be able to fire when his guns were loaded.

[Wow, so you can use the game's buildings like this!]

[My god, Notch built a building in a few seconds, it's like he had the best cover for a battle in his pocket!]

[Seeing the comparison between how well the game creator and ordinary players use building in battle, it's clear that he already made this building system with the purpose of serving as a mobile fortress.]

[I don't think anyone could think of doing something like that in the tutorial, right? The streamers I've watched at most have made some ramps to protect themselves, but no one has made a house like Notch.]

[...]

The speed that Iron Man's life was descending was high, but not enough.

In a short time he got close to Notch and Tony and his shots got even faster.

With so many lasers fired, Notch was safe, but Tony who was running felt that this was unfair, why was Iron Man focusing on Iron Man?!

"Hey, why don't you build it too?" Tony heard Notch's voice on his ear communicator and was startled.

'Yes, I can build too, why didn't I think of that before?' Tony was quick to switch the gun in his hand to the magical BluePrint, and without changing the material he started desperately putting wooden walls around him, and then switched to floors and filled in the roof, finally feeling safe.

But to the players' surprise, when Iron Man saw that the two players were protected inside their buildings, a small compartment popped up on the armor's shoulder.

A lot of people on the livestream didn't pay much attention to this little compartment, but when Tony saw it coming up he was shocked.

"Holy shit!" He screamed as he tried to get out of the wooden house he made, but he put so many layers of wooden walls around it and he didn't have enough practice to be able to edit it fast enough, so he was trapped inside the building for a few seconds, desperately trying to get out of there.

Meanwhile, Notch just opened a door in the 2-story tower he made and jumped in as he ran away, already knowing what was going to happen, as did Tony.

Livestream's audience was confused. What was that little thing that opened on Iron Man's shoulder that made Tony and Notch so desperate to get away?

Since they were watching the livestream through a screen, it was difficult to see as many details as if they were there in person.

But soon the answer came to them.

Swoosh

Two things that looked like small pens started flying towards Notch and Tony's buildings.

Hearing the noise of the rocket, Tony became even more desperate as he tried to leave, but his desperation got in the way of editing the walls he made to the point that he gave up, took the pickaxe and tried to break it with his hands.

Unfortunately time was not enough for Tony, who finally felt the explosion.

Boooom!

A huge explosion completely destroyed Tony's building, sending his body flying several meters and causing a message to appear on his screen.

[You died to Iron Man.]

Tony: BUT I AM THE IRON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Tony was so furious about dying to the missile he invented for his armor that he didn't even wait to see the result and stormed out of the game.

As he left, the livestream closed, but Tony didn't care about that.

The first thing he did was go to his lab and develop restrictions on the armor so that no one would ever use it against him, as he felt firsthand how bad it would be to have to deal with the armor.

On the way to the lab, Jarvis warned.

"Mr. Stark, Mrs. Potts has called you 6 times and is on her way here, I believe that in 5 minutes she will be in the garage."

"What happened?" Tony asked confused.

"She worried about her safety when Notch said he wanted to kill Iron Man." Jarvis answered.

"Notch? Isn't Notch the creator of Minecraft?" Tony asked, even more confused.

"According to the reaction of livestream viewers and some news sites, the probability that the player who was with you in that game is Notch, the creator of Minecraft and Fortnite is greater than 90%." Jarvis warned in his robotic voice.

Hearing this, Tony became sluggish. Remembering everything that happened, the way the irritating man was acting, and the man taking him to go kill Iron Man, it was obvious to Tony.

"Motherfucker, was this all something he did to piss me off?!" Tony was furious as he remembered that man's smile while praising Minecraft on his livestream.

Before Tony gave any orders, Jarvis kept saying. "Shortly after the alleged Notch in the video said that he would contact Iron Man to pay Royalties, an email from the recipient [email protected] arrived in your personal account, sir, and the email content explained that portions of the profits received from Fortnite this month would be transferred to your account if you were interested."

Tony was quite pleased to hear this, as finally Mojang was showing how much they respected him, although they never asked permission to wear the armor, at least they were willing to pay.

He knew that if Mojang didn't want to pay anything, he would be forced to just take it quietly, since he couldn't even figure out the company's email address. "Were you able to find anything out of his email?"

"No sir, despite trying every way to trace this email, I couldn't even figure out the domain this email was created from." Jarvis answered.

Tony nodded, as he already imagined this outcome. "And what will my share of the profits be?"

"They didn't specify in the email, sir." Jarvis answered.

Tony frowned, knowing how irritating Notch was, if he didn't say how much he'd get paid for it, Tony already started to imagine the worst.

"This man can only pay me 0.1% and say that counts as Royalties..." Tony got frustrated again, but at least now he was getting something for it. "Don't give up on finding Mojang, Jarvis, and if you get any news about Notch, notify me immediately. Try to reply to the email and arrange a face-to-face meeting with Notch."

Jarvis just agreed to it and Tony went back to focusing on the armor before Pepper arrived.

After Tony left, Alex also logged out of Fortnite, but even though the Livestream was over, the 14 million viewers were still talking a lot about what they saw, news sites were talking about it in dozens of different languages, while people from all over the world paid attention to this strange game that even Tony Stark played.

Especially the scene where Stark dies for Iron Man, it soon became a meme around the world.

What Alex didn't know is that not only were people all over the world interested in Fortnite, people from another world were interested in it.

"Hey Heimdall, tell us about that Hypixel war in the mortal world!" Thor said excitedly as he returned from a mission to another planet.

Heimdall looked at Thor and his group of friends and sighed. "It was a great war. Millions of mortals participated in it, the amount of defeated enemies was countless, even two gods joined this battle."

Hearing this, Thor and their group were stunned. "What Gods joined? Do I know?"

Heimdall just shook his head. "Not even I know them, I couldn't identify if these beings are gods in reality or just gods in that world called Minecraft, but with the strength they showed, I would say that their power can compare to the best warriors of Asgard."

It made Thor's blood boil! He loved to fight, but the gods of other pantheons he knew were pretty peaceful, just enjoying drinking and fucking, so knowing that two powerful gods had arisen made Thor's blood boil, even if maybe it was just in that world.

"Tell us the details of this war, Heimdall!" Siff said excitedly, as she also loved a good battle.

Heimdall nodded and without looking at them, he started to tell what he saw, as he was still working and had to keep an eye on the 9 realms. "After what I told you mortals..."

Hearing Heimdall's explanation, the young warriors became more and more excited, even more so when they heard about the green warrior fighting a giant monster, and about the dragons trying to destroy the city before the mortals dealt with them!

"Bloody hell, too bad there aren't wars like this for us to participate in..." Thor sighed in disappointment.

But Heimdall said something that got the warriors excited.

"Apparently, the God who created that world is now developing a world like a mortal battlefield. A place where 100 mortals will compete for resources and only the last one standing will emerge as the great champion." Heimdall talked about Fortnite, and how it worked.

Thor and the warriors were shocked to hear this. A place where you can go without worrying about death, where only the most powerful out of 100 fights will emerge victorious, even with a ranking system of the most powerful among all competitors in history?!

Facing his friends, Thor said in a serious manner. "We must participate in this!"

Which was met by the rather excited nods of his companions, who despite returning from a mission where they had to deal with some enemies, it wasn't even enough to make them sweat.

Unbeknownst to Alex, Asgard's most inconsequential warriors had their destiny changed, as they now wanted to go to Midgard and fight other mortals for the title of champion.

Especially Thor, who once had a plan to cause some trouble in Jotunheim, now just wanted to go to Midgard and have some fun.

Only one person noticed this change, Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, who noticed that the timeline was shifting into something else entirely.

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Alex didn't know that the Asgardians intended to come to Earth, but even if he did, he wasn't too worried about it.

Since Fortnite was announced, Alex noticed that the amount of daily Minecraft viewers was going up a lot, while there were people who put her livestreams on as if they were playing Fortnite, while actually dedicating their time to be able to analyze what was released from Fortnite in the trailer or Beta that other players were able to play.

Unfortunately, after the tutorial was completed, players could no longer play, so they would have to wait for the tournament to take place in a few hours.

[70,000,000 Games Sold - $1,400,000,000]

[Available Gaming Points: 5.800.000]

This large amount of news also made Minecraft sales also increase a lot in a short time. Every hour at least 1 million units were being sold.

And Alex's profits weren't limited to that, as he also received GP and money through players' VIPs and Private Servers, which despite being quite cheap for each player, but when everyone paid Alex's current income just from that it was already at 400 million dollars!

Adding to Minecraft sales revenue, Alex was already at almost 2 million.

Thinking about how he had been thrifty when buying things to leave the house the first time, worried that there wasn't enough GP for him to be able to develop the things he intended in the future, finally Alex became more relaxed, since imagining the income of Fortnite which was far superior to Minecraft, with the release of the game he could take it easy and make a lot more games at a time.

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With Fortnite Hype growing, the time for the Tournament was finally upon us.

But despite the curiosity, even with just over an hour left for the tournament to start, there were still millions of people in Minecraft, as it started to be part of people's routine.

In front of what looked like a coffee shop in the center of Hypixel, a group of strange players were looking around as they walked on the street of Hypixel.

Because of this group's Skin, the surrounding players soon deduced that they were newbies, since among the group there were four players with Steve's Skin and one player with Alex's Skin.

The four were looking around with a lot of curiosity.

"Hey Thor, looks like we won't be able to participate in the tournament?" One of the Steves asked the Steve who looked like the leader.

The Steve with the name [Thor] above his head turned to the Steve he was talking to now, who had the name [Hogun] and replied a bit disappointed after hearing a random player's answer when they asked about the tournament they were playing. would happen. "It looks like we'll only be able to watch this current tournament, as all seats are full, but the next ones will apparently be public, so we'll be able to prove ourselves!"

Hearing Thor's explanation, the other Asgard warriors got excited again. "That's good, haha, I'm really excited for this! I'm glad the God King arranged this good stay for us, so we can enjoy this great training in the future!"

Thor nodded, also quite satisfied. Although his father placed a condition on him, which was that they must come back strong enough to deal with whatever opponents he chose, to prove that they were worthy of this training.

So when they weren't playing, they would have to practice together with the other disciples where they were.

Odin told Thor that this place was a training point for Midgardian sorcerers, where the leader of this place was a woman almost as powerful as he was, which caused Thor to be shocked, luckily the woman was very understanding about them wanting to experience the tournament that would happen, and said that their training would not take place until the next day.

So, with her help, they managed to buy Minecraft and get into this magical world to get acquainted.

Suddenly, Thor saw a window floating in front of him.

[Do you want to participate in the First Fortnite World Tournament Live Event?]

Thor saw that his companions also received this window and the five of them decided to click on the accept button.

As soon as their finger touched the button, they felt their surroundings change, changing from a place like a big city, to a gigantic stadium with the appearance of a Roman arena!

Thor looked to the side and saw that his companions had also been teleported with him, and besides them, there were thousands of people appearing around as well.

Some people were confused, while others were confident and just walked forward, confidently entering the stadium, which made the confused ones just follow these people as they looked around curiously.

Thor and his friends weren't afraid of anything, so they just walked on observing the surroundings with even more curiosity.

To their surprise, some people lined up in a line and bought some very interesting things.

"Hey buddy, what's that?" Volstagg curiously asked another player who was holding a few different items.

The player looked at the five rookies in front of him and felt that he could help these people.

"These things are souvenirs that people can buy! Here are some special t-shirts you can buy to wear to your characters in the future, different from the t-shirts that are available." He said as he pointed to the t-shirt he was wearing, then added. "These things here are just consumables, we don't really feel hungry in the Hypixel, but since we are going to watch the tournament, then it seems that we can also buy food and drinks to consume while watching, which makes it much more fun, not to mention it's pretty cheap, hehe."

Hearing this explanation, the eyes of the 5 lit up, since if there's one thing that Asgardians are good at, it's eating, and the only thing better than eating, is drinking!

"They have Mead?!" Volstagg asked excitedly.

The player smiled as he lifted his glass. "You can buy this self-filling cup. You only have to pay once and whenever you want it will be filled with whatever drink you want! Magical, right?! Though after the tournament the cup's magical effect will disappear."

The eyes of the 5 Asgardians shone even brighter. Could they drink any beverage with just a thought after buying this magic cup? This is amazing! Even if it was just during the tournament, for good drinkers like them, it wouldn't be a problem at all, they could easily drink several barrels of Mead, or even Odin's special wine, before the tournament was over!

"Let's go!" The excited Thor pulled his friends into line and they began to wait to buy their stuff too.

Despite Hypixel having a lot of technology, the attendants at these stores were all Villagers. There were dozens of Villagers serving the players, but there were still a lot of queues.

After a few minutes, the five Asgardians were heading towards the stadium seats while carrying several bags of food and a large purple cup that they couldn't stop drinking.

"Thor, coming to Midgard was the best decision we've ever made!" Sif said excitedly with a big foam mustache above her mouth, after drinking a delicious drink that she had tasted once from her father's hidden collection.

Even though that was over 500 years ago, it tasted just as good as she imagined, which made the Asgardians' admiration for the God who created this world even greater.

"Yes haha!" Volstagg said laughing as he popped two hot dogs in his mouth at the same time.

When they had to pay for these things, the Villager just asked if they wanted to use the credit card on the account to buy this, which they didn't even think about and said yes, despite not knowing what a credit card was.

Choosing a seat towards the middle of the stadium, the five Asgardians looked around and were in awe of how beautiful this Midgardian arena was.

Despite being made using the square shapes just like Minecraft, somehow the builder of this managed to represent incredible beauty, with Ender Dragons intertwining all around the stadium, while the seats were separated by biomes, and the Asgardians were currently sitting. in The End biome, where all the decoration was made with white marble, making everything look quite luxurious and with some purple plants that glowed from time to time as decoration, very beautiful.

Other places had different atmospheres, like the jungle biome was much greener, with the benches made from trees and all the wood and leaf decorations, which was also beautiful, just with a different aesthetic.

Each player managed to find a spot he was enchanted with, and every seat had good enough views to see the center of the arena well.

In the center of the arena, there was a large clock with a countdown to when the tournament would start, indicating that there were still 40 minutes left.

As the Asgardians were so welcoming as they ate and drank, other players around Thor and his party gathered to chat, sampling drinks from each other's glasses as they talked about where each drink came from.

When the players heard the Asgardians' stories of where they got their drinks, they initially thought it was a lie, but on second thought, they felt that it was much more fun to come up with a magical story for their favorite drink since they thought that's what it was. they were making, so they also started to invent everything, which made the atmosphere much livelier.

The Asgardians didn't know that the players were making up stories, and they really believed that a very sweet and tasty black drink was made by a great alchemist who mixed the acid of a powerful serpent with the poison of one of the most addictive plants in the world, creating this drink that despite being dangerous and deadly, was a favorite of the Midgardians.

When they tasted this drink, the Asgardians had to admit that this snake's acid was so powerful that they even felt their tongues tingling, although the sweet taste was also very good.

As people laughed and played in the stands, the last people finished getting into their seats, when the players looked around, they felt that there were at least 100,000 people in this stadium, and when they received messages from their friends, they found that there were yet several other stadiums.

For now, only Alex knew that there were currently 48 million divided into 500 stadiums!

If Alex only charged $1 per ticket, he could earn $50 million in a few seconds, but he preferred to adopt a different monetization choice.

Admission to participate was free, but consumables at the stadium were paid.

The infinite drink cup cost $1, the tray with infinite food also cost $1, while the championship exclusive T-shirt also cost $1.

All in all, in order to have the best experience and walk away with the goodies they wanted, players would only need to shell out $3, which players felt was very fair, causing approximately 95% of players to purchase all three items.

Altogether, with these three items Alex received 136 million dollars, or 684,000 GP, all in less than an hour!

"That's why so many companies invest in e-sports, it's very lucrative!" Alex got excited as he looked at the numbers going up.

There were still millions of people watching the livestream he opened on Twtich, which filmed everything around him with a drone controlled by an AI he developed for 40 GP to provide the best experience also for people who didn't have Minecraft or who couldn't join in the game.

When these people saw the Minecraft players at the stadium, Minecraft sales soared even more as even more people wanted to be a part of it in person.

The moment the timer showed that there were only 10 seconds left, the players in the stadiums started counting along with the timer.

[10...]

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When the countdown finally reached 0, players in the stadium soon saw the beginning of the first Fortnite tournament.

In the center of the arena that players were sitting in Minecraft, an extremely realistic projection of a purple bus appeared.

On this purple bus, there were 100 people sitting while looking at a map projected in front of them.

Spectators could see the names of all the players on the bus, but the players could not name anyone who was there with them.

Even though there were players' names above their heads, many viewers didn't know most of the participants in this championship, as only 50 of the competitors were famous streamers, and it was impossible for those millions of people to know exactly who everyone was, so to help with that, a voice has emerged for both viewers who were watching this in the arena and those watching this on Twitch.

"Welcome everyone to the world's first Fortnite tournament!" A very familiar voice came to the players' surprise.

For those watching in person, they saw a person sitting on a bench while being projected in the corner of the arena, while for Twitch viewers, they saw a small screen appear in the corner of the stream.

The person there was known to everyone, Notch!

"To the surprise of many, today we have an incredible 200 million viewers for this incredible tournament! With over 48 million people watching in person in our fabulous Minecraft arena, and another 150 million more viewers on Twitch around the world. world!" Notch's words were shocking to viewers, who never imagined there were so many people watching this!

What made it a lot easier for Notch was that he could spend a small amount of GP to translate everything that would be said simultaneously to the viewers, so no matter what language the person spoke in the broadcast, the viewers would hear it with the same voice as the person, but in the language of the country the person was watching!

"Thanks everyone for your support, now let's see our teams of players in a frenetic battle for the world's first Victory Royal!" Notch started to cheer people up as he slowly explained how Fortnite worked, as he knew that most viewers were just curious and had never seen anything about it.

With Notch's explanation, people started to understand why players were jumping off that bus, and they got excited when they saw that some players got weapons and were already looking for other players.

Even groups of favorites have already been created, whether it's Ned and Petter fans, or Tony Stark fans, everyone was screaming in the stadium when they saw their favorites appearing.

Alex could configure it so that each viewer only saw the players they were interested in, but he thought it best that only the scenes where there was a confrontation were shown, to make the broadcast less boring, since he knew that many people would spend minutes walking from one place to another without doing anything.

Thus, viewers finally got to see the first confrontation taking place between the participants!

"Come on Tony!" Thor heard one of the friends he'd made in the stands rooting for a warrior named Tony.

Not having any favorites, Thor thought it would be interesting to also cheer for his new friend's favorite and he also cheered along, which made the other Asgardian warriors cheer along and look at the projection in the center of the stadium.

"Tony Stark and StagDragon are getting closer and closer to the group of Aasher and AdamLopez! Observing the weapons of the two groups, their chances of victory are pretty even!" Notch narrated what made the audience excited for what the first confrontation would be like.

Thor was one of the people excited about the impending showdown. In the projection he saw that Tony and Stag were riding a motorcycle, while Tony was driving, Stag was pointing the gun around very concentrated trying to find enemies.

Aasher and Adam had already heard the noise of Tony's motorcycle and started to point their guns at where it was coming from.

Bang!

The first shot was fired by Aasher when Tony's motorbike came into view! Unfortunately Aasher was a little nervous as it was practically his first confrontation with other players and he shot too early, without managing to hit the players on the bike.

Tony was quick to get off the bike and point the gun at where the gunshot came from, while Stag, who was pointing the gun around and hadn't seen anyone yet, thought of something that could be more useful.

Thor, who was watching the battle excitedly, was surprised that next to Tony, his companion was doing construction.

"Uh, why is he building instead of fighting like his mate?" Thor asked confused as he tried to understand.

Fortunately, Notch was narrating and quickly explained to the confused audience as Thor.

"Well done! StagDragon was quick to understand the true magic of battles in Fortnite, while Tony, Aasher and Adam are confused about where the opponent is, Stag was quick to build a structure to protect him and try to secure the HighGround!" Notch was excited to see Stag using the strategy he made to deal with Iron Man's armor.

When Thor heard this he was surprised, like a good warrior, he understood the advantage of being able to battle with the advantage of terrain.

"Wow, and to think that the first time Stag saw someone doing this was yesterday! I didn't even remember that it was possible to build in this game..." One of the friends Thor made commented while laughing when he realized that he also didn't remember that he could build in this game .

Thor and the warriors of Asgard were surprised by this information, but it didn't make them as excited as other people, since they didn't care so much about such advanced thoughts, they were more muscle warriors than great generals.

Seeing the building that StagDragon was building, Tony didn't think too much and climbed the wooden structure together with his companion.

With the HighGround secured, they soon found opponents Aasher and Adam.

Despite having good coordination to build the structure quickly, Stag's aim was very poor, as he was just an ordinary Gamer in real life, on the other hand, Tony had very accurate aim, to the point of surprising players with the 4 headshots in a row he landed on both players!

"Stag made great use of Magic BluePrint's builds while Tony used his vast experience as a weapons developer to abuse his absurd aim to eliminate the two opposing players!" Notch yelled excitedly declaring the first eliminations in Fortnite history!

Players around the arena excitedly shouted Tony and Stag's names, quite amazed at the difference in skill these players showed to their opponents!

Katchaa...

After Tony's battle was going on, a mighty thunderclap erupted in the Fortnite sky, which made Thor's brow furrow, confused by it, before shaking his head and thinking that it probably meant nothing.

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"And in all we've had 50 kills! Who would have thought that players would learn the usefulness of buildings so quickly?!" Notch narrated excitedly as he commented on the 50th player who died in the tournament.

It had already been 10 minutes and the fog on the map had already reduced to half of the map, players were already meeting a lot more with opponents, which caused a lot more eliminations to happen at the same time.

"Damn, these warriors are so cowardly..." Hogun commented in frustration as he tipped a large glass of beer into his mouth, then refilled the glass with more beer and drank another glass again.

He was thinking that these battles were a little disappointing, he initially thought that these battles would have a lot of emotion and blood, but in the tournament these participants were only using ranged weapons, which was very boring for him to watch.

Fortunately, as long as he wanted alcoholic beverages, he could feel the sensation of getting drunk, so despite feeling a little bored with what he was watching, the drink and food were very tasty, which was worth it.

"Yes, I thought this tournament was supposed to be fought with cold weapons, not using those boring weapons." Fandral also got a little bored while drinking a Whiskey from his glass.

Thor and Siff were still finding the battle interesting, so they didn't care much for their companions, although they agreed that if these battles were fought with cold weapons, it would be much more fun.

Katchaaa

Another thunderclap lit up the Fortnite sky, which made Thor frown again, confused as to why he felt something weird about that again.

He was feeling that these thunders were appearing more and more frequently, which made him feel that there was something hidden going on without the onlookers knowing.

"Look, Iron Man has appeared!" One of the spectators commented excitedly when he saw a red and gold armor flying in the sky heading towards a player.

"Look! Muhd ​​just eliminated a pair of players, but KickedElmo, his duo just got eliminated with both opponents. Fortunately, Muhd ​​took Elmo's dogtag to revive his teammate in the respawn van next to where they are! " Notch said excitedly, but soon his voice became tense. "But since Muhd ​​just killed a player, Iron Man has realized this and is treating him like a villain, ready to go kill that player to save the day!"

"Iron Man!"

"Iron Man!"

"Iron Man!"

The audience was screaming with excitement as they looked at the armor flying towards Muhd, who became desperate when he realized that he was Iron Man's target.

When they saw Iron Man killing Tony Stark, they were shocked at how strong this armor was, but soon Notch's words came.

"They say you can receive a powerful reward if you defeat Iron Man..." Notch said while smiling at the scared Tony the day before.

With that in mind, Muhd ​​kept his partner's dogtag and ran towards Iron Man.

He knew that his aim was not the best, nor that he was the fastest builder among the 100 players, but thinking that with the prize he received from Iron Man he could win this, Muhd ​​got excited and felt that he was able to defeat this mighty foe.

But he wasn't the only one heading towards Iron Man.

"Wow! Muhd ​​wasn't afraid of Iron Man, in fact he intends to kill our favorite hero!" Notch said excited about this player's reaction.

"Boooo!!!" The audience started to boo while laughing at the attitude that the player took. But from the laughter of the players, you could see that the booing was just a joke.

Muhd imagined that something like this could happen, if he killed Iron Man, he would be famous around the world as the first player to do so, but if he died, he would become a meme just like Tony Stark.

"Not only is Muhd ​​excited to kill Iron Man, the duo of Cmols and KingSpy are also heading towards Iron Man! Will the three of them try to deal with Iron Man together, or will they try to eliminate each other before destroying the Iron Man?!" Notch said excited seeing this.

Katchaaa

Another thunder roared in the sky, but something almost none of the players noticed.

Spectators were very excited seeing the three players going in the same direction and wondering what attitude they would have when dealing with Iron Man.

Even Hogun and Fandral were excited about this, as seeing three weak people dealing with a strong opponent was a very interesting and brave thing to do.

In the middle of the way, Cmols and KingSpy found another pair of players, but they soon dealt with the opponents and ran back towards Iron Man, only as they killed other players near Iron Man, the focus of the armor was now divided between Muhd ​​and the duo.

Just before the armor came into Muhd's firing range, he didn't think twice about building a reinforced base with iron bars he got from destroying some cars.

As his construction speed wasn't as fast as Notch's, he decided to make his base in advance since he knew Iron Man would come to him anyway.

At the top of the tower, Muhd ​​grabbed his epic Scar-H and started shooting at the armor without a second thought.

Bang Bang Bang...

Being targeted by gunfire, Iron Man didn't go vegetarian and also fought back, shooting lasers at Muhd ​​whenever the player showed their head above his turret.

Pewww

Muhd managed to dodge a few shots, but when one of Iron Man's lasers landed, his total HP was halved!

Fortunately, the duo of Cmols and KingSpy also appeared in Iron Man's range, causing his target to switch from Muhd ​​to the two, as they hadn't built anything.

Peww

The shot hit King quickly, leaving the player scared to realize that he only had 10% of his total HP left, as he lost a little when dealing with the duo they eliminated a little while ago.

Cmols was quick to make a wooden barrier, although he wasn't as quick to build as Notch either, he could put up some walls with ease.

While King was healing, Cmols also started shooting at Iron Man, he saw that another player was shooting at the hero and that the damage done to the armor was too little, so he would need to shoot too, or he would be eliminated right away.

Muhd also saw the shots hitting Iron Man coming from another direction, which made him a little less nervous and he fired as well.

With that, the speed with which Iron Man's life was decreasing was much greater.

Unfortunately KingSpy was killed during the confrontation, leaving only Cmols and Muhd ​​to deal with the hero.

In one minute the two spent at least 120 ammo each, and the total amount of armor health was only at 5%.

Feeling that it was enough for them to be able to kill the armor alone, as if the two had a tactical understanding, their target was switched from Iron Man to each other.

"That's amazing, they didn't even have to say anything and the target of the two was changed from Iron Man to one trying to kill the other! But unfortunately Cmols doesn't have much of a chance, since Muhd ​​has the advantage of the Highground..." Notch said a little sadly by the player. "Wait! What is that?!"

Confused viewers didn't understand what Notch was talking about until they saw the screen zoom in on a mountain close to where the confrontation was taking place.

There were two players there. One was lying on the ground with a sniper rifle pointed at the confrontation, while the other player had an SMG pointing around a little nervously, but apparently serving as a guard for the other player.

Above the heads of these players, the audience could see two very well-known names.

[NedTheKing] e [PParker]!

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"Wow, who would have thought that while Cmols and Muhd ​​were fighting each other, Ned and Parker were prepared to kill the winner of the confrontation!" Notch narrated excitedly, which made the stadium audience scream excitedly.

Even Hogun and Fandral were excited to see this turn of events, and with how excited the other spectators in the stadium were, they were infected by it and also began to shout excitedly.

That was why Alex decided that it would be possible to watch the tournaments in the stadium, since the feeling of cheering with teammates at his side was much more contagious and fun than watching alone.

"Ned, I'm your fan!" One of Thor's friends squealed excitedly as he jumped at the sight of Ned pointing his gun at Muhd.

Thor didn't know who Ned was, but he was also excited as he saw this player taking advantage of the chaos to defeat the other two players.

"Blimey, Loki would like this Ned guy!" Thor laughed excitedly after taking a bite of the large ham he was holding.

Siff nodded in agreement with Thor's statement. With Loki's personality, the likelihood of him staying hidden the entire game and only killing unsuspecting players was very high, he would probably want to see the way Ned was playing.

Ned, who had perfect aim from Muhd ​​had a small smile on his face. "That's it Peter, we'll get to kill Iron Man!"

[PParker] was a little nervous about holding a gun, as he thought only villains used guns, even more so when he had to go kill Iron Man.

Fortunately he saw that Tony Stark had also tried to kill Iron Man the day before, which made his conscience a little less heavy.

Bang!

Muhd had finally killed Cmols, but before he could celebrate, another gunshot erupted.

Bang!

Ned's shot was accurate, hitting Muhd's head perfectly, causing various items with colored glows to appear from the player's body, while a small drone scanned his body and made it disappear.

Bang

Ned didn't even celebrate and fired another shot, this time perfectly hitting Iron Man's head, who was looking for his location after he killed a player so close to him.

"Is Tony Stark inside the suit?" A player asked in the stands, which made the other players curious as well, since they knew that the real Tony Stark was in the tournament, would it be strange for someone to use the Tony Stark Skin while the real Tony Stark used a standard Skin.

But much to the frustration of some players, the armor started to fall apart after HP reached zero, but the inside was empty.

"Ned, look! Two shiny items!" Peter squealed excitedly as he pointed at the items that fell from the armor.

Ned's eyes widened as he mounted the bike beside them and started riding towards the items the armor dropped.

"You can see that these items that dropped from the armor are not even golden, but rainbow-colored, as they are one level above legendary items, these are mythical items!" Notch explained to the confused onlookers. "Mythic items only appear in special events, and can only be obtained through special methods, like killing Iron Man, let's see what these items can do!"

Katchaaa

Another thunder rumbled, but this time Thor apparently understood something by that thunder and was a little shocked by its assumption.

"That's not possible..." He said in a low voice only he could hear as he looked in the direction the thunder fell, which was perfectly in the center of the map.

Apparently no one else noticed it, but as the gas mist was closing in that direction, it was only a matter of time before someone found this abnormality.

"It's a boot and a glove!" Ned squealed excitedly as he looked at the items!

"But you can only equip one at a time, it's not possible to fly and shoot with the gloves at the same time like Iron Man..." Peter sighed as he imagined himself flying and shooting lasers like Iron Man, how cool would that be.

"Which one do you want?" Ned asked as he looked at Petter.

Petter thought for a while, before finally choosing the gloves that fired lasers, since he felt that holding a gun made him look too much like a bandit, shooting lasers was something more heroic.

Ned nodded and grabbed the boots, not thinking twice before equipping them and starting to fly around Peter with a smile on his face. "I can fly! Hahaha!"

Peter was looking at the gloves on his hand and tried to shoot a nearby tree.

Peww

The shot was as powerful as it looked, making Peter's smile grow very wide as well.

"Damn, this is really cool!" A player in the stands said in frustration as he looked at the two boys playing with Iron Man's armor, something most people around the world have dreamed of doing but never could.

"I want to fly with Iron Man's boot too!" Another player complained, also frustrated that he couldn't shoot lasers out of his hands like Peter.

Seeing the reaction of the players, Alex had an idea.

'What if I release a pre-order? Maybe we can raise a few million GP before the game launches?' Alex was excited by the idea and considered announcing it at the end of the tournament.

With the new equipment, Ned and Petter went out looking for other players to kill, now that they felt powerful enough to kill everyone.

The two were divided into different functions, as Ned could fly, he would be in charge of reaching a Highground and using his Sniper to cover Peter, while Peter, who had little range because of the Laser, had to go to the ground, he it would listen to Ned's information and move according to his friend's commands.

This tactic was enough to make their team's kill count go up from 4 Kills to 9 Kills in just a few minutes!

Around the map there were other promising players who also had at least 10 kills, being the team with the player [HawkEye] and the team with the player [BPanther].

Meanwhile, in the center of the map were two players who found something unusual.

"Hey, is that a hammer?" Tony asked confused as he looked at a large crater in the center of the map.

In the middle of this crater there was a strange hammer that released some electrical discharges from time to time.

Tony's partner StagDragon was looking at the hammer in confusion and replied. "How about we try to get this?"

Tony felt that the idea made sense and went down into the crater to try to get the hammer, while Stag kept looking around to protect Tony from other players that might appear.

When the arena camera showed what was happening to Tony, Thor and the warriors of Asgard were shocked to recognize the appearance of that hammer.

"Damn, isn't that Mijonir?" Thor was shocked to see the familiar hammer in the crater.

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