10 Episode 9: Improvements 3 (1/2)

I killed about 15 skeletons.

I started to panic that they might be still quite a lot of them but I just keep swinging my sword to whoever comes to me.

I am not retreating and leave this cave empty-handed.

The ground is now littered with skeletons in pieces.

”Oooh!” I suddenly hear a loud and deep voice.

A giant skeleton appeared holding a really big stone mace.

It is about 2 meters tall. He is about to hit his head in the ceiling of the cave.

How tall is this guy when he was alive? I assumed even skeletons come from dead humans like zombies and they don't just pop out in the ground.

Even though he is menacing in look, I don't feel afraid. My fears and anxieties went down with the last skeleton I killed. There are only me and him now.

The giant skeleton charged and started to swing his mace.

There is no room to evade so I just raised my shield to block it.

The force of the swing was so strong that I managed to fly for about 10 blocks and rolled over the ground.

It hurts but I only receive 1 heart of damage. Thank god for the armor.

I quickly got up on my feet and readied my sword.

I have no idea how to kill this guy but I just charge him head on.

He started to swing his mace again but this time instead of blocking with the shield, I tried to block it with a swing of the sword. My plan is to lower the durability of his weapon until it gets destroyed.

The stone mace was suddenly cut into two pieces. I was surprised that I have this kind of strength.

I thrust my sword to his chest. He tried to block it with the remaining piece of his mace but the sword still went through.

I pulled back my sword and he suddenly went down. I approach the giant skeleton and stab my sword on his skull. I need to be thorough about this. He might still be alive and attack me from the back when I turn around.

As a moment passed, there nothing but silence in this cave.

I look around and see tons of dead skeletons on the ground.

I pulled my sword out on the head of the skeleton and resumed my exploration. I know I need a little bit of rest but I don't know if this is the last of them so I need to make sure.

After exploring the entire cave, I didn't see any more monsters.

I went back to the place where I fought all the skeletons.

Damn. As I stare at the carnage, I realized that I'm the one who did this.

I didn't expect to fight these many monsters. I was hoping to fight a couple of monsters but I'm glad that I managed to defeat them all.

I only received 1 heart of damage so it probably takes only one day for me to recover.

I'm lucky that there are only skeletons here and there were no zombies. Otherwise, there will be lots and lots of blood all around here. I was lucky too that there were no other types of monsters.

I should start inspecting my loot though I don't know if the skeleton inventory can be accessed if there are in pieces.

I picked up the nearest skull and tried to open his inventory but nothing happens. It seems you can't access them if there are not whole or skeletons don't have inventories. I hope it's the former.

I began looking for the body of this head but I don't know which one is it since all of them looks the same so I just put it down and tried accessing the giant skeleton's inventory since he is still in one piece.

Luckily, I managed to open the inventory of the giant skeleton. There a lot of useful things here like journals, research documents, and other things. This guy seems to be a researcher of some kind but how did he get big like this. Is he already like this or did he get big for other reasons? I don't really know the answer so I just empty his inventory and proceed on assembling the other bodies.

It took a little while of collecting my loot because I have to trial and error which body parts belong to whom. I learned that they don't need to be whole to access their inventory but you have to make sure that majority of their body is still intact. I wonder if undead monsters burn in the sunlight, where will the items they are holding go?

The loot was quite a lot and I'm not leaving anything behind no matter how useless it is so I just built a chest outside the cave to store the items and just have to make trips on transferring them to the storage back home. It is really great to have shulker boxes right about now or an ender chest though I wonder how ender chest works here.

I saw lots of iron ores and coals in the cave so I quickly mined them too. Some of the torches that I placed burnt out so I just used my lantern to see while mining.

I also picked up all the weapons and armors of the dead. They are a lot of variety of weapons. Most of the skeletons I fought used swords or bows but some of them have spears, axes and the giant one has a mace.