Greetings.
I am a man in a suit who has fallen into the world of Minecraft.
To face the Ender Dragon, the master of the Minecraft world, I need to reach The End.
To reach The End, I need to find the stronghold that contains the End portal.
I followed Eyes of Ender across the world and arrived, of all places, at a village.
Apparently, the stronghold is beneath that village.
I set up a temporary base there.
This time, I entered from a cave opening in the village and went looking for the stronghold and its End portal.
It is my first stronghold in OjiCra.
A nervous, exciting exploration begins.
The Eye of Ender Points Beneath the Village
In the previous episode, I searched for the stronghold by throwing Eyes of Ender and following them.
I traveled a long way before finally reaching a village.
By that point I was running low on torches and other supplies.
The Eye of Ender kept dropping near a hole in the village.
That seems to mean the stronghold is somewhere underneath.
A village sitting above a stronghold feels like a perfect base for reaching The End.
This old man is pleased.
### Setting Up a Temporary Base and Going Underground
I borrowed one of the village rooms and made it into a temporary base.
I had run out of torches, so I prepared properly before starting the search.
The Eye of Ender dropped near a hole by the village well.
So I entered the cave from that hole and began searching for the stronghold.
The cave was wider than I expected.
If I wandered around carelessly, I would get lost.
I placed torches carefully as markers and headed downward.
After moving lower for a while, I found a wall made of stone bricks, different from the surrounding cave.
This must be the stronghold.
I broke into the stone brick wall and looked inside.
There were stairs.
That is definitely a structure.
It looks like I am entering from above, so I went down the stairs and began exploring the stronghold.
### A Complicated Stronghold Mixed With a Mineshaft
My first stronghold.
I do not understand its layout yet, and the dim light makes it feel as if something could jump out at any moment.
The combination of stone bricks and iron bars has a rather ominous feeling.
The stronghold was larger than I expected, and searching it took quite a bit of work.
I checked each hallway to its end, placed torches, returned, and repeated the process.
The real trouble was that this stronghold was mixed together with a mineshaft.
The mineshaft seemed to cut through the stronghold, breaking up the passages in several places.
Every time I followed a corridor, I seemed to run into the mineshaft.
No matter how much I searched, I could not find the End portal.
Eventually, I had checked every stronghold passage I could reach from the first entrance.
### Breaking Through the Wall to Find the End Portal
Where is the End portal?
After checking all the connected corridors, I decided to inspect the stronghold from the outside.
As I moved around the stronghold, I noticed a room with iron bars like a window.
When I looked inside, I saw something familiar.
Wait.
Is that the End portal?
There did not seem to be an entrance, so I broke through the wall.
After breaking the wall in front of me, it was clear.
This was the End portal room.
And it was actually very close to the place where I first entered.
Maybe because of the mineshaft, the entrance had been sealed behind a wall.
No wonder I could not find it.
The moment I opened the wall, a swarm of silverfish came out.
They do not hit very hard, but they are small and annoying to fight.
The End portal room looked like this.
There was a silverfish monster spawner in the middle of the room.
There was also lava in part of the room, and if I underestimated the silverfish, I could easily end up diving into it.
That is terrifying, so I filled in all the lava.
Here is the End portal.
One Eye of Ender was already set.
When Eyes of Ender are placed in every slot, the End portal activates.
Now all that remains is to activate the End portal, travel to The End, and defeat the Ender Dragon.
But the Ender Dragon is said to be a powerful enemy.
I will prepare properly before going.
That is all for this time.
Greetings.