The Voyage: An Official Minecraft Novel by Jason Fry

Author:Jason Fry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

Who is the Champion? * Stax makes a proposal * Osk’s inventions are found wanting

During his time working for The Tumbles Extraction Company, Stax had made it a habit to visit the general store every three or four days. It was a relief to see something other than the miners’ dormitory and hear discussions that weren’t about ore and gems, and he enjoyed Brubbs’s ready supply of news and gossip.

Every time he visited, Stax asked if Brubbs had heard from a traveler who knew the lands beyond the Sea of Sorrows. Every time, the answer was no. Until finally, standing in the general store and hearing this disappointing news yet again, Stax realized that the answer was always going to be no. If he was going to get home, he couldn’t wait for some knowledgeable ship captain to get him there. He would have to find some other way.

And the only answer Stax could think of was the one that frightened him: He had to find Fouge Tempro. Fouge knew how to get from the eastern end of the Sea of Sorrows to the Stonecutter estate. And, of course, he deserved to answer for what he’d done to Stax.

But while Stax fantasized about having his revenge, brooding over the compass Fouge had dropped, he couldn’t imagine confronting the pitiless raider. Over the last few weeks Stax had proved to himself that he could survive difficulties and dangers, and he’d remembered the craft of mining and adjusted to long days of hard work belowground. But those successes hadn’t transformed him into a warrior. He still had no weapons except a wooden sword and a pair of scavenged arrows, and he knew it would take more than that to survive against Fouge.

So it felt like a stroke of good fortune when Stax overheard Brubbs chatting with a leather trader about someone they called the champion. Listening to their conversation, Stax sensed that whoever this mysterious entity was, he or she deserved a capital letter—not the champion, but the Champion.

As Brubbs and the leather trader moved on to negotiating the price of a shipment of hides, Stax realized he’d heard the Champion mentioned before a time or two, overhearing that name spoken by miners, customers in the general store, or locals at the caravanserai. When the leather trader left, Stax sidled up to the counter.

“You were just talking about someone called the Champion,” Stax said. “Who is that?”

“You don’t know about the Champion?” Brubbs looked surprised. “The man who brought Dark Ulric to justice? Who cleared out the creeper nest below the Splinter? Who sent the Mulraven Bandits fleeing into the wilderness?”

Stax had to shake his head.

“Oh, he’s quite the local hero,” Brubbs said. “Lives a week or so out of town, in the mountains to the east. Though I doubt he’s journeyed beyond the Sea of Sorrows, if that’s what you’re asking.”

“No, nothing like that,” Stax said. “So he’s an experienced warrior, then?”

“Greatest swordsman of the realm, if the stories are true,” Brubbs said.

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