With a stone pickaxe and a shovel, the digging speed was much faster than before. When he reached another layer of stone, Mason didn't hesitate and prepared to continue digging downward.
However, this time he was a bit more cautious. He didn't use the "true mining method." He only dug out half a backpack full of stones before stopping to start mining for fishbone ore.
Time passed quietly. Mason looked at the backpack full of stones and fell into contemplation.
Was he too naive? The game was a game, reality was reality.
In the game, iron ore was square-shaped, but in reality, iron ore was very fine and scattered evenly throughout the rocks, requiring purification, and requiring an ore filtering machine from the tech mod.
But setting aside the tech mod for now, even if he could make an ore filtering machine, it would require iron ore and other ores. He couldn't even get iron ore now, let alone the others.
After some thought, Mason decided to try again, but this time he decided to use vein mining. After a simple adjustment, he set the stone as the mining target with a range of 12 * 3.
This time, the digging speed was very slow. His hunger bar seemed to drop by half a bar.
Whoosh. Thirty-six stones appeared on the ground.
There was nothing but stones. He continued to expand the area.
His hard work paid off, and Mason finally saw ore. It was only coal ore when he approached, but it was enough to excite Mason.
He walked with enthusiasm and started digging. With a "bang," the stone pickaxe in his hand broke.
Countless pieces of coal ore exploded in front of his eyes. "Holy moly, I forgot to turn off vein mining!" Looking at the dark area in front of him, Mason took a few pieces of coal ore from the ground and made a torch.
There was a large amount of coal ore. As far as his eyes could see, it was all coal ore.
However, Mason didn't focus on that; he looked at his experience bar. However, he didn't level up from mining.
This was slightly different from the game. He didn't quite understand, but it didn't matter; there were many ways to level up in Minecraft.
Having coal ore also meant that other ores existed; he just hadn't found their veins yet. He took out a new stone pickaxe and continued mining coal ore.
Since he was already here, he might as well fill his backpack before leaving. He synthesized the coal into coal blocks, and in the end, Mason dug out a backpack full, and he still wasn't finished; there was still a lot of coal ore left.
When he returned to the surface, the sun was already setting. A pink-colored boat was docked on the shore.
Although it wasn't big, long-distance sailing was no longer a problem. "I thought you had escaped." Alvida sat on a chair on the deck, her legs crossed, looking at Mason.
"Did you make this yourself?" "You think too much of me." Alvida patted the bench beside her, signaling Mason to come over.
Mason didn't think much of it and walked over. "This is my boat from when I first set sail. Yeah, I worked on it all afternoon, and it's almost unusable now." As he spoke, he stepped on the wooden deck, which now creaked.
Obviously, its quality was questionable. "OK, hand it over to me. I'll help you modify it." The night fell quietly, and Alvida watched as her small boat gradually transformed into a large, angular ship.
On the shore, Mason looked at his masterpiece, quite satisfied. After playing Minecraft for years, although he wasn't a master builder, he had made many things when he was bored.
"Your Devil Fruit is amazing," Alvida exclaimed.
She stepped onto the deck, touching the smooth and flat boards that had no nails for fixation, finding it quite amazing. "Of course." "If I had more materials, I could do even more tricks." "This torch shrinks when I hold it, doesn't have heat, and can burn continuously.
Heh heh, is this the power of a Devil Fruit?" Alvida admired the torch in her hand.
It could be touched, wasn't hot, and kept burning and giving light since Mason started modifying it, without going out. It was just inexplicable.
Watching Alvida play with the torch with great joy, Mason focused on another point. Although he had finished the modification, the Minecraft boat couldn't move, after all, it was Minecraft.
However, a moment later, he relaxed. Watching the boat sway with the waves, Mason no longer thought about it.
"Try the floor's defense." Alvida, without thinking, took a spiked club and smashed it directly onto the wooden board.
The result was a small crack that appeared in the middle of the floor block, but it disappeared in an instant. It repaired itself.
This was extremely surprising to Alvida, and she continued to increase her strength. But no matter how hard she tried, the wooden floor would only show a small crack, then recover the next second.
"This?! It's too strong." "Try hitting it continuously, without much strength, and see." Bang, bang, bang, bang.
Under the continuous strikes, the wooden floor finally couldn't withstand it and eventually turned into powder and disappeared amidst countless cracks. It didn't bring down the wooden stairs.
Mason witnessed this scene, lost in thought. It took ten continuous attacks to break one block completely.
And if the interval between attacks exceeded one second, it would directly repair itself. This was just a wooden step.
He placed the entire round stone block on the deck. Alvida looked silent but still began her actions.
The result was that it took twenty hits, and even then, it was barely destroyed with great force. If the attack interval exceeded one second, the round stone would repair itself at the next moment.
As for the possibility of destroying the round stone directly with brute force, it was possible, like Alvida could destroy a wooden stair with eight full swings of her club. Clearly, brute force was also effective.
And Mason, looking at Alvida who wasn't flushed or panting, once again felt the strong physicality of people in this world. Speaking of which, Alvida was directly sent flying by Luffy with one punch.
If that happened in modern society, flying that far would probably mean she would be gone forever. And after eating, Alvida had already recovered, although it also had to do with the properties of her Minecraft food, but clearly, her physical body was definitely the main factor.
"What? Looking at my beautiful face makes you uneasy?" Alvida, seeing Mason staring at her, leaned her spiked club against the ground and charmingly combed her hair back.
If it were before, it would have only made people feel uncomfortable. But with the increase in her beautiful appearance, it was indeed very captivating.
Night fell, the stars twinkled, moonlight spilled onto the deck, and the firelight flickered. A lone man and woman.
Mason rolled his eyes. Although Alvida was beautiful now, they hadn't known each other for long, plus Alvida's previous appearance as a chubby aunt.
Honestly, he felt a bit difficult in maintaining his calmness. Of course, it was absolutely not a feeling of shame or embarrassment to speak, not at all.
Seeing Mason's reddened face and embarrassed expression, Alvida was very pleased. She stopped teasing Mason and walked to the chair.
"It's time for us to talk about our future plans."