Mark and Jett still couldn't find a single trace of diamonds.
Instead, they collected quite a bit of gold ore, and soon their whole bodies were covered in golden equipment.
As he handed in the day's resources into the hopper, Mark heard a sound in the distance.
"Oh my god, Jett, look at that!"
They hadn't seen the Iron Golem fighting, but by the time they came out,
Gu Yu had already finished the transformation and left, leaving only a scene of utter devastation behind.
There was no shortage of Rotten Flesh or other food. The key was the Iron Golem!
After the battle, it was in terrible shape, with cracks in several places. It had sustained moderate damage.
"This is our best chance to strike!"
They would be forcibly teleported in half an hour. The two exchanged a glance.
They stopped searching for diamonds and set their sights on the Iron Golem.
"That big guy's bound to have something good on it!"
The stronger the monster, the better its drops. That was common knowledge.
Having fought the Iron Golem themselves, Mark was certain:
This thing was one of the strongest creatures on the surface!
He didn't know why it was in such bad shape, and he didn't need to.
As long as they killed the Iron Golem, the good stuff would be theirs!
Noticing the Free Nation players' move, the Jiuzhou viewers spat their contempt.
"Those disgusting rats are at it again!"
"After fighting zombies for so long, the big guy's got to be in bad shape!"
"Damn it, you weren't anywhere to be seen before, but now you're here to pick off a weakened opponent?"
"You're just as worthless as the Big Stick Nation!"
"What shameless scumbags. Why didn't you die in the mine?"
After a fierce battle, they waited until Gu Yu left before moving in to reap the benefits. In the viewers' eyes, the pair's behavior was utterly disgusting.
But the Bullet Comments couldn't influence the players' actions.
Keeping low, Jett slowly approached the Iron Golem.
As long as he didn't enter the chunk, he wouldn't trigger its targeting mechanism, so Jett stopped just outside its range.
Then he took out his bow and nocked an arrow.
Whoosh!
The arrow struck the Iron Golem and bounced off, sparks flying where it hit.
"Bullseye!"
The arrow dealt damage, and the Iron Golem turned to look in Jett's direction.
Realizing it was an intruder, it ran toward him as fast as it could, preparing to attack.
Jett found an opening and shot another arrow, dealing damage. By the time the Iron Golem reached them,
Mark leaped out from the side and swung the golden sword in his hand.
Clang!
Metal rang against metal. The Iron Golem took damage, and the cracks across its body deepened.
"There's a chance!"
Seeing this, Mark raised his shield to block the Iron Golem's attack.
When the shield's cooldown kicked in, Jett immediately drew his bow to draw its aggro, then used his shield to block its attacks.
The two worked together perfectly. In just one exchange, they had taken off more than ten hearts from the Iron Golem!
With their experience and the damage from their ranged arrows, the fight became much easier.
Sometimes the Iron Golem sent them flying while their shields were on cooldown, but their golden armor gave them room for error, and they quickly recovered.
"It's almost done for!"
As its injuries worsened, the Iron Golem's movements and attacks grew slower and slower.
An arrow flew, and the cracks across its body reached their limit.
Mark tanked the damage and swung his final blow.
Falling from the sky once more, the white iron monster finally collapsed!
"That was close!"
Mark hurriedly took out some food and rested, panting.
After the battle, his golden equipment had lost more than half its durability.
He had only four hearts left. He'd nearly met his maker.
Jett wasn't doing much better. He had used almost all the arrows he'd painstakingly saved up.
"Good thing it was already low on health!"
If the Iron Golem had been at full health, they might not have beaten it.
Luckily, it had already been weakened, leaving them an easy score!
Seeing the Iron Golem die with their own eyes, the Free Nation viewers were proud of the two.
"Mark, you did it!"
"The Jiuzhou guardian is dead. Their chunk is completely defenseless now!"
"All the resources will be ours! Hahaha!"
"The Iron Golem must've taken a lot of resources to make. Doesn't it piss you off that we killed it?"
"Trash belongs in the trash heap. The Free Nation is the undisputed number one!"
The Jiuzhou viewers watching Mark's perspective fell silent for a moment.
The Iron Golem was indeed very strong, but
they had seen Gu Yu make it. It had taken just a few iron blocks and a Pumpkin Head, so it wasn't all that valuable.
Even its drops were nothing special.
Once Mark had recovered a few hearts, he eagerly went to the spot where the Iron Golem had died.
A few iron ingots and a little red flower.
That was everything the Iron Golem had dropped.
"Jett, did you pick up any valuable resources?"
Iron ingots weren't worth much. Thinking someone had picked up the good stuff, Mark turned and asked.
"Didn't you pick them up? I just recovered too, and only just got here."
Jett looked bewildered by the question and cautiously pointed at the iron ingots.
"Those are all the big guy dropped?"
After confirming Jett hadn't picked anything up, Mark's expression darkened.
So after all that hard work, all that time spent thinking—
After going several days without sleep to figure out how to fight it, all they'd gotten were a few iron ingots and a flower?
It wasn't even worth as much as a gold ingot!
"Maybe we were just unlucky and didn't get its most valuable drop. Whatever."
"Let's look inside the house!"
Mark pointed toward the little shack in the Iron Mine and regained his composure.
The Iron Golem was there to protect the chunk. The resources had to be in the house!
It hadn't been renovated, and the little wooden house still had its most basic wooden door. Anyone could open it.
They opened the door and hurried inside to search.
But there were no chests filling the room like they'd imagined.
There was only a bed, along with the most basic tools: a Crafting Table, a furnace, and so on.
There wasn't a single chest!
"It's definitely hidden away in that extra space they built over there!"
After watching the place every day, Mark was certain this part hadn't been there before.
They had to have built it specifically for storage. There'd definitely be plenty of stuff inside!
It was sealed off with stone, so Mark started digging.
He'd only removed one block when a strange sound came from inside.
"Hmm?"
Splut!
A Damage Potion flew out and hit Mark right on the head.
His health hadn't fully recovered, and he'd been in a hurry to loot the treasure. The damage left Mark with only two hearts.
He was truly one step away from death!
Jett reacted quickly, replacing the stone and helping the fallen Mark back to his feet.
"How are you? Are you okay?"
With all kinds of negative effects weighing him down, Mark could only make it out of the room with Jett supporting him.
"I'm not dead yet!"
He ate something and brought his health back above three hearts, then gasped for breath.
Though time was short, he'd clearly seen there were no chests inside the space. There was only one thing there.
A monster!
Two monsters sitting in boats!
He really couldn't understand it.
They could've left even half a chest's worth of resources in there, but the room was completely empty.
Instead, they'd gone and built a whole room just to raise zombies?
Raising pigs or sheep made sense, but what was the point of raising zombies and witches?
Could you really raise monsters?
The viewers who had just been cheering Mark on were stunned too.
They'd gone through all that to kill the Iron Golem, nearly sacrificing two sets of golden armor in the process.
But the Iron Golem dropped nothing, and there were no supplies in the room either!
The witch's potion had nearly killed Mark.
After all that effort, had they made fools of themselves?!
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